(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.
Stree
Definition:
(n.) Straw.
Example Sentences:
(1) Building societies such as Nationwide and the Coventry feature heavily in the Move Your Money list, as does Metro Bank – a relatively new arrival with branches in the London and M25 area; Handelsbanken, the UK arm of the Swedish bank of the same name, and the Islamic Bank of Britain, which calls itself the UK's only wholly sharia compliant retail bank but is keen to strees it is "an inclusive, ethical organisation, and welcomes customers of all faiths".
(2) We conclude that the synthesis of chloroplast-localized HSPs is an important component of the stree response in all higher plants and that chloroplast HSPs from dicotyledonous and monocotyledonous plants have a conserved carboxyl-terminal domain.
(3) We Were Making History: Life Stories of Women in the Telangana People’s Struggle by Stree Shakti Sanghatana (1989) This is an impressive piece of oral history by six members of an Indian women’s group.
(4) The variant pattern was not associated with any detectable change in the color, shape, stree-strain characteristics, X-ray diffraction pattern, or amino acid composition of the hair.
(5) We stree here the occurrence of extrapyramidal fits with exceptionally severe hemiballic movements and torsion spasms.
(6) The experiment has proved the good immunogenic potency of vaccine against inactivated tissue rabies and its ability to induce the protection of vaccinated dogs from the strees infection with street rabies virus.
(7) Comparative analysis showed that typhoid vaccine produced a more pronounced stree on the adrenal gland function.
(8) The effect of film thickness on the measured adhesion is complex with an initial decrease with thicknesses up to 35 micron and then a gradual increase with thicknesses up to 140 micron dut to differences in the strees distribution within the film during testing.