(n.) The pole or other support on which fowls rest at night; a perch.
(n.) A collection of fowls roosting together.
(v. i.) To sit, rest, or sleep, as fowls on a pole, limb of a tree, etc.; to perch.
(v. i.) Fig.; To lodge; to rest; to sleep.
Example Sentences:
(1) These chemical body burdens were obtained naturally under free-living conditions at the maternity roost.
(2) By exploiting this bat's preference to roost in crevices, we could separately measure O2 uptake during ventilatory bouts and apneic periods using a flow-through metabolic chamber with a small dead space volume and short time constant.
(3) Nevertheless I am thankful that Elizabeth Windsor has ruled the roost rather than some of those likely to have become president in her place.
(4) Facebook Twitter Pinterest An example of a rare Bechstein’s bat roost in a partially hollow oak tree, Finemere Wood, Buckinghamshire, ancient wood and nature reserve next to HS2 Photograph: Patrick Barkham for the Guardian After Prideaux dropped me off in a neighbour’s muddy farmyard, I climbed a hill into Finemere Woods, an ancient woodland owned by Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire Wildlife Trust .
(5) A survey was made by serology and virus isolation techniques on 387 wild free-flying birds that fed and roosted in the area.
(6) The improved performance with water-cooled over air-equilibrated roost treatments, especially during heat-stress periods, indicates that the water-cooled roosts minimized the deleterious effects of heat stress through conductive heat loss from the birds to the roost.
(7) The Tories had previously always been the very clear second place challengers in Brent East, particularly when Ken Livingstone ruled the local roost.
(8) Collections of this tick were associated with bat roosting sites in attics of houses.
(9) Birds roosting on the floor tended always to be the same individuals.
(10) Turnbull had “consistently talked down” the cost of the Coalition’s fibre to the node model “and now the chickens are coming home to roost”, Quigley wrote in the paper.
(11) A split-plot experiment was conducted in thermally controlled chambers using Columbian Plymouth Rock chickens to determine the effect of water-cooled roosts on performance in hot ambient conditions.
(12) Brains of juvenile gray bats, Myotis grisescens, found dead beneath maternity roosts in two Missouri caves contained lethal concentrations of dieldrin.
(13) Decreases in performance during the heat-stress period from the thermoneutral control values were: 5.95 and 13.1 percentage points for hen-day egg production, 22.2 and 34.8 percentage points for average daily feed intake, and 5.17 and 15.38 percentage points for hatchability in water-cooled and air-equilibrated roost treatments, respectively.
(14) Seven species of mites were recovered from 133 Brazilian free-tailed bats, Tadarida brasiliensis, and 94 big brown bats, Eptesicus fuscus, from February through November 1990 in colonies that shared roosting space in east-central Alabama.
(15) Plater's agent for many years was the terrifying Peggy Ramsay, whom he memorialised in his Hampstead theatre play, Peggy for You (1999), with Maureen Lipman giving one of her greatest performances, ruling the roost in her St Martin's Lane eyrie with the eccentric hauteur of a mad Russian empress.
(16) But four years after Greece went hypercritical, triggering a eurozone sovereign debt crisis and a reshaping of how the EU works, the social, economic and political costs of the upheaval are coming home to roost.
(17) Hens were housed in an apparatus consisting of an upper roosting chamber connected to two descending passages which led to separate identical feeding chambers.
(18) It is concluded that the water-cooled roost partially alleviated heat stress by lowering metabolic rate.
(19) Birds subjected to the water-cooled roost treatment had consistently higher performance than birds using the air-equilibrated roost under all three ambient temperatures.
(20) On top of that the SNP, which would doubtless rule the roost in the aftermath of a vote for independence it would rightly be seen to have brought about, is still no party of the centre-left.
Settle
Definition:
(n.) A seat of any kind.
(n.) A bench; especially, a bench with a high back.
(n.) A place made lower than the rest; a wide step or platform lower than some other part.
(n.) To place in a fixed or permanent condition; to make firm, steady, or stable; to establish; to fix; esp., to establish in life; to fix in business, in a home, or the like.
(n.) To establish in the pastoral office; to ordain or install as pastor or rector of a church, society, or parish; as, to settle a minister.
(n.) To cause to be no longer in a disturbed condition; to render quiet; to still; to calm; to compose.
(n.) To clear of dregs and impurities by causing them to sink; to render pure or clear; -- said of a liquid; as, to settle coffee, or the grounds of coffee.
(n.) To restore or bring to a smooth, dry, or passable condition; -- said of the ground, of roads, and the like; as, clear weather settles the roads.
(n.) To cause to sink; to lower; to depress; hence, also, to render close or compact; as, to settle the contents of a barrel or bag by shaking it.
(n.) To determine, as something which is exposed to doubt or question; to free from unscertainty or wavering; to make sure, firm, or constant; to establish; to compose; to quiet; as, to settle the mind when agitated; to settle questions of law; to settle the succession to a throne; to settle an allowance.
(n.) To adjust, as something in discussion; to make up; to compose; to pacify; as, to settle a quarrel.
(n.) To adjust, as accounts; to liquidate; to balance; as, to settle an account.
(n.) Hence, to pay; as, to settle a bill.
(n.) To plant with inhabitants; to colonize; to people; as, the French first settled Canada; the Puritans settled New England; Plymouth was settled in 1620.
(v. i.) To become fixed or permanent; to become stationary; to establish one's self or itself; to assume a lasting form, condition, direction, or the like, in place of a temporary or changing state.
(v. i.) To fix one's residence; to establish a dwelling place or home; as, the Saxons who settled in Britain.
(v. i.) To enter into the married state, or the state of a householder.
(v. i.) To be established in an employment or profession; as, to settle in the practice of law.
(v. i.) To become firm, dry, and hard, as the ground after the effects of rain or frost have disappeared; as, the roads settled late in the spring.
(v. i.) To become clear after being turbid or obscure; to clarify by depositing matter held in suspension; as, the weather settled; wine settles by standing.
(v. i.) To sink to the bottom; to fall to the bottom, as dregs of a liquid, or the sediment of a reserveir.
(v. i.) To sink gradually to a lower level; to subside, as the foundation of a house, etc.
(v. i.) To become calm; to cease from agitation.
(v. i.) To adjust differences or accounts; to come to an agreement; as, he has settled with his creditors.
(v. i.) To make a jointure for a wife.
Example Sentences:
(1) We found that when neutrophils were allowed to settle into protein-coated surfaces the amount of O2- they generated varied with the nature of the protein: IgG greater than bovine serum albumin greater than plastic greater than gelatin greater than serum greater than collagen.
(2) To settle the case, Apple and the four publishers offered a range of commitments to the commission that will include the termination of current agency agreements, and, for two years, giving ebook retailers the freedom to set their own prices for ebooks.
(3) Her speech suggested the kind of Republican who would truly "raise the conversation", and if it seems like settling to want an opposition party to simply not be so utterly vindictive, well, yes, I will settle for that.
(4) Twellman has steadily grown in confidence as he settles into his role, though whether as a player or as an advocate he was never shy about voicing his opinions.
(5) This causes a time lag, with money continuing to be taken until the SLC is made aware that the debt has been settled.
(6) The flattening of neutrophils occurred soon after settling, and was not followed by extension.
(7) Everton ended with 10 men after Seamus Coleman limped off with all three substitutes deployed but there was no late flourish from a visiting team who, with Fernando replacing Kevin De Bruyne after the Irish defender’s departure, appeared content to settle for 1-2.
(8) The issue of a beneficial effect of calcium channel blockers on human coronary atherosclerosis is however not yet settled.
(9) After the action-packed opening two innings the Cardinals, and particularly Wainwright, settled and the runs dried up.
(10) The ACT’s opposition leader, Jeremy Hanson, said during Tuesday’s debate that the uncertainty surrounding the new same-sex marriage regime created significant problems for couples, and he suggested the territory could be liable to compensation if it pushed ahead of the tolerance of the commonwealth, rather than waiting for the legalities to be settled.
(11) The angiographic aspect settle them to established correlation between functional and non functional tumors: the formers characteristic "blush", agreeding in fact with the initial phase of the growth, increase in a monstruous "pseudoangiomatous" aspect in the laters.
(12) Labor’s left faction is yet to settle its position on the politically controversial issue of turning back asylum-seeker boats , ahead of the party’s national conference at the end of the month.
(13) This might be because they have not been paid and are motivated by a desire to loot, as well as to settle old and new scores with the opposing force.
(14) Once they are settled and their roots are heading down to more secure sources of water, ease back.
(15) The starting premise of the remain campaign was that elections in Britain are settled in a centre-ground defined by aversion to economic risk and swung by a core of liberal middle-class voters who are allergic to radical lurches towards political uncertainty.
(16) Plasma HPL settled at a constant level during the last few weeks before labor.
(17) Mistakes in maternity care account for a third of the £1bn a year the NHS has to spend settling medical negligence claims.
(18) In 1995 8,000 people whose lives were ruined by the Montserrat volcano settled in Britain.
(19) According to spokesman Vladimir Markin, the murder was either a set-up by the opposition to use Nemtsov as a “sacrificial victim”, a personal issue, a settling of scores between radical groups fighting on either side of the Ukraine conflict, or an act of Islamic terrorism.
(20) Okay, that number 8 ranking isn’t incredibly impressive but it’s much better than, say, settling for a NIT bid and then (hilariously) losing in the first round .