(n.) A pebble; a stone; also, a heap of stones or rocky debris.
Example Sentences:
(1) This object was at precisely the point where Mallory and Irvine would have fallen had they rolled on over the scree slopes."
(2) Even as bits of the science lab were claimed by the waves, he would have been insisting on the impending success of his facilities renewal plan, or blaming a lack of commitment in the scree.
(3) Then the anti-depressants wear off and it's scree slopes, boulders and cloud, up to the huge golden Madonna statue at the top of the pass, where walkers start saying buon giorno!
(4) That’s a boat of refugees, and it’ll arrive on this side in about 15 minutes.” And sure enough, it does, leaving its 50-odd Afghan and Pakistani passengers to haul themselves up a craggy scree to reach the road above.
(5) From her viewpoint, David Davis, Liam Fox and Mr Johnson are all satisfactorily engaged in jousting among themselves and trying to run up a political scree slope rather than plotting to bring her down.
(6) The first mass blood pressure screeing in a major metropolitan area was conducted in New Orleans on Aril 28 and 29, 1973.
(7) The lifeless lunar surface (“tod” is German for “dead”) is bare but for heaps of building material and the wooden deck of a ski bar which lies marooned amid the scree.
(8) The scree test was applied to decide on the number of factors to extract.
(9) The quality of care rendered in the screeing clinic was assessed through patient interviews, physician interviews, and record reviews.
(10) As judged by the scree test, seven factors accounted for the personality disorder items, and five factors accounted for the symptom items.
(11) The final length of the ridgeline stands as a rocky comb of shale against the sky, dropping down on either side to wide scree slopes and rocky bluffs and nothing.
(12) The factor analysis in particular revealed that the scree test by Cattell (1966) demonstrated a large, dramatic discontinuity in eigen-values and suggested that there was only one systematic factor.
(13) The drawings are still accurate: the rocks and screes, barns and walls are all still there.
(14) Guidelines and suggestions for mass screeings are described for use by medical groups or agencies.
(15) The heavenly scent of wild sage, thyme and spring flowers tempered the descent along tricky scree.
(16) As the daylight ebbed, the road became more and more terrifying – grey scree crumbling away at the edges, as we climbed up the mountain.
(17) The scree test was applied to decide on the number of factors to retain.
(18) The same data were collected during a screeing phase in which all patients presenting with a complaint of low back pain were referred directly to the physical therapist for primary evaluation.
(19) Therefore, all items had to be analyzed using the method of analysis of factors (mean components, varimax rotation, Scree-test).
(20) "I was scanning the face from base camp through a high-powered telescope last year," his letter read, "when I saw something queer in a gully below the scree shelf.
Spree
Definition:
(n.) A merry frolic; especially, a drinking frolic; a carousal.
Example Sentences:
(1) Qatar’s royal family may have snapped up Canary Wharf for £2.6bn this week, adding to its London portfolio of Harrods and the Shard skyscraper, but the Gulf billionaires’ property spree has finally run into a dead end – a humble town hall bureaucrat.
(2) When Google bought Boston Dynamics, it was in the midst of an acquisition spree spearheaded by Andy Rubin, the former head of Android.
(3) In a sign that the killing spree has left no sector of Norwegian society untouched, the royal court has announced that the 51-year-old was the stepbrother of Mette-Marit, Norway's crown princess.
(4) Stephen King, the chief global economist at HSBC, the former Goldman Sachs economist Gavyn Davies and Roger Farmer, a professor of economics at the University of California, told MPs on the Treasury select committee that it would be unwise to embark on a large-scale spending spree to boost growth while government debt remained high.
(5) Things start getting out of control when Rocket's younger gang target the clients of a sleazy motel and the raid, intended to be bloodless, becomes a killing spree.
(6) The banks, whose irresponsible lending spree did much to produce the crisis in the first place, are raking in squillions, the bulk of the hundreds of billions in bailout funds lent by the eurozone since 2010.
(7) By the time a second, more explicit warning was sent, Cho was near the end of his shooting spree.
(8) The Emir, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani, ascended to power last year after his father, who oversaw the World Cup bid and set in train the huge spending spree, handed over power.
(9) In what appeared to be a planned spree – Rodger uploaded YouTube videos in which he denounced women for spurning him and vowed to take “great pleasure in slaughtering all of you” – he allegedly started by stabbing three men repeatedly in an apartment some time before 9.30pm on Friday.
(10) The pattern of consumption (e.g., amount consumed per occasion, spree drinking) was also unrelated to impairment, and the critical neuropathological factor appeared to be the total amount of lifetime alcohol consumption.
(11) Apartment building spree: will it lead to a glut, or transform the way we live?
(12) I n March 2012, a 23-year-old petty criminal named Mohamed Merah went on a shooting spree – a series of three attacks over a period of nine days – in south-west France, killing seven people.
(13) But it was there in the resolve of Liverpool’s players, confidence drained and playing before an anxious audience, in the pragmatism of a manager prepared to omit from his starting line-up £113m of a £117m summer spending spree and in Johnson’s match-winning goal.
(14) Twenty minutes into the spree he took the bizarre step of making a 911 call in which he reportedly referred both to Islamic State and the Tsarnaevs, the brothers who carried out the Boston Marathon bombings in April 2013.
(15) It is too soon to deliver a verdict on the value for money achieved in the spree but flair is insufficient.
(16) He was arrested on Sunday after a shooting spree that killed a 14-year-old boy and his grandfather outside a popular Jewish community center, and a third victim outside a nearby Jewish retirement home in the Kansas City suburb of Overland Park.
(17) Soldiers went on looting sprees, and 1 victim of their marauding became a 12-year old boy who got shot for refusing to part with his bike.
(18) Most of the woes can be traced to businesses bought during a massive acquisition spree after 1999, when Sir John Bond was chairman.
(19) There are about 400,000 Nepalese workers in Qatar among the 1.4 million migrants working on a £137bn construction spree in the tiny Gulf state.
(20) The spree in summer clothes buying in April means fewer shorts, sandals and other seasonal items will be bought in coming months.