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Shingly


Definition:

  • (a.) Abounding with shingle, or gravel.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The beach, less than two miles away, is small and shingly at high tide but the sea recedes to reveal a sandy stretch.
  • (2) In May the prime minister announced that £10m from this fund would be used to match the Chinese billionaire Li Ka-shing's £20m donation to Oxford University's big data healthcare centre, which plans to analyse NHS patient records, DNA sequencing and clinical trials in an effort to improve detection and treatment of a range of conditions.
  • (3) Morrison blocked the sale to both of the two bidders , China’s largest state-owned company, the State Grid Corporation of China, and the privately owned, Hong Kong-listed Cheung Kong Infrastructure, controlled by the billionaire Li Ka-shing.
  • (4) Chisholm’s letter reinforces the UK authorities’ unhappiness about the takeover, which would give Hutchison, owned by Hong Kong’s richest man, Li Ka-shing, about 40% of UK mobile phone users with more than 30 million customers.
  • (5) The level and pattern of contamination by polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) were investigated in tilapia, Oreochromis mossambicus (Peters), sediment, and water from the Shing Mun River.
  • (6) But mobile and online service provider Tom.com – controlled by Hong Kong tycoon Li Ka-shing – has already dropped the Google search box from its portal, switching to Chinese rival Baidu.
  • (7) The publicity from the Apple award attracted the attention of Hong Kong investor Li Ka-shing and his venture capital firm, Horizon Ventures.
  • (8) Asian tycoon Li Ka-Shing looked to have won the battle for Northumbrian Water on Tuesday, after the board of the utility recommended his £2.4bn offer .
  • (9) According to its records, Moricrown was part-owned by the Cheung Kong Investment Company Limited, a subsidiary of Cheung Kong Holdings – a flagship company of Hong Kong’s richest man, Li Ka-shing.
  • (10) Li Ka-shing, the Hong Kong billionaire, has agreed terms to buy Northumbrian Water at an all-time high for the share price.
  • (11) But the field of potential buyers has thinned to just two – the State Grid Corporation of China , which is China’s biggest state-owned company, and the privately owned, Hong Kong-listed Cheung Kong Infrastructure, controlled by billionaire Li Ka-shing.
  • (12) Also on Wednesday, Hong Kong’s most prominent tycoon, Li Ka-shing, broke his silence over the protests to urge the demonstrators to go home.
  • (13) Li Ka-Shing – Hong Kong’s most prominent tycoon, apparently worth over $USD31 billion and whose every word is treated with the veneration normally accorded to oracles – barked that Occupy Central would contribute to eroding Hong Kong’s prospects.
  • (14) The intention to play in the mobile market is going to necessitate that investment.” Li Ka-shing’s UK empire From smartphones to sewage treatment, perfume to power lines, 86-year-old Li Ka-shing has a long list of business interests in the UK.
  • (15) A few hours after Trimit appeared on Techcrunch , the tech news site, D'Aloisio received an email from a venture capital firm led by Li Ka Shing, the Hong Kong billionaire.
  • (16) Hong-Kong based Hutchison, run by Asia’s richest man, Li Ka-shing, already owns the 3 mobile network and combining it with O2 would create the UK’s biggest mobile group.
  • (17) Li Ka-shing has an estimated fortune of $34.1bn (£25.5bn) from his sprawling empire of ports, utilities and property, according to Forbes.
  • (18) How do you feed the planet, and not wreck it in the process?” Modern Meadow’s solution has attracted investments from the Thiel Foundation, run by billionaire libertarian and PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel; Sequoia Capital , which has backed some of the world’s biggest technology companies; Artis Ventures ; Iconiq Capital; and, most recently, Horizons Ventures , the venture fund of Li Ka-shing.
  • (19) SA Power Networks is already majority owned by billionaire Li Ka-Shing’s companies.
  • (20) Elsewhere, Hong Kong resident Li Ka-shing, whose interests span from shipping to the Three mobile network in the UK, lost $1.5bn in Monday’s selloff.

Singly


Definition:

  • (adv.) Individually; particularly; severally; as, to make men singly and personally good.
  • (adv.) Only; by one's self; alone.
  • (adv.) Without partners, companions, or associates; single-handed; as, to attack another singly.
  • (adv.) Honestly; sincerely; simply.
  • (adv.) Singularly; peculiarly.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The influence of the various concepts for the induction of lateral structure formation in lipid membranes on integral functional units like ionophores is demonstrated by analysing the single channel current fluctuations of gramicidin in bimolecular lipid membranes.
  • (2) Renal micropuncture and microdissection techniques with ultramicro fluid analysis have been applied to evaluate single nephron function in the skate, Raja erinacea.
  • (3) Single-case experimental designs are presented and discussed from several points of view: Historical antecedents, assessment of the dependent variable, internal and external validity and pre-experimental vs experimental single-case designs.
  • (4) Microionophoretically applied excitatory amino acids induced firing of extracellularly recorded single units in a tissue slice preparation of the mouse cochlear nucleus, and the similarly applied antagonist 2-amino-5-phosphonovalerate (2APV) was demonstrated to be a selective N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptor antagonist.
  • (5) The coefficient of variation in the integrated area of a single peak is 16%.
  • (6) The diffusion of Myocamicin in the prostatic tissue of patients undergoing prostatectomy after a single oral dose of 600 mg has been studied.
  • (7) Infection with opportunistic organisms, either singly or in combination, is known to occur in immunocompromised patients.
  • (8) Radioligand binding studies revealed the presence of a single class of high-affinity (Kd = 2-6 X 10(-10) M) binding sites for ET-1 in both cells, although the maximal binding capacity of cardiac receptor was about 6- to 12-fold greater than that of vascular receptor.
  • (9) Pituitary weight, mitotic index and chromosomes were studied in male rats following a single or repeated dose of estradiol-benzoate for a total period of 210 days.
  • (10) The manufacturers, British Aerospace describe it as a "single-seat, radar equipped, lightweight, multi-role combat aircraft, providing comprehensive air defence and ground attack capability".
  • (11) Cop rats, however, possess a single 'suppressor' gene which confers complete resistance to mammary cancer.
  • (12) Comparison if single injections of MSB and atropine in normal subjects also demonstrated a more reliable dose-response relationship with MSB.
  • (13) Since interferon alfa-2b (Intron A) is useful as a single agent, it is important to determine if interferon can be combined with standard chemotherapy to improve both response and survival in patients with cancer.
  • (14) This suggests that Mg2+ accelerated both reactions from a single class of site.
  • (15) In crosses between inverted repeats, a single intrachromatid reciprocal exchange leads to inversion of the sequence between the crossover sites and recovery of both genes involved in the event.
  • (16) Median effect analysis was applied for the evaluation of in vitro effect by the growth inhibition, and the in vivo effect by comparison of the increase of life span (ILS) in a combined group with the sum of ILS's in 2 single agent groups.
  • (17) Certainly, Saunders did not land a single blow that threatened to stop his opponent, although he took quite a few himself that threatened his titles in the final few rounds.
  • (18) The results indicated that roughly 25% of patients treated in this way will become hypothyroid after 5 years and that 85% are cured (need no further therapy during the follow-up period) using a single dose of iodine-131.
  • (19) In the triploids, the 40 female chromosomes present (mouse, n = 20) were derived from a single diploid pronucleus formed after the extrusion of a first polar body, and following the monospermic fertilization of primary oocytes.
  • (20) Such an approach to investigations into subclinical mastitis is not feasible by means of either single- or double-parameter techniques.

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