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Slatting


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Slat
  • () Slats, collectively.
  • (n.) The violent shaking or flapping of anything hanging loose in the wind, as of a sail, when being hauled down.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Calves were fed milk replacer twice daily while housed indoors in wooden-slatted floor box crates (metabolism cages).
  • (2) In a second experiment, 32 litters of pigs were farrowed in crates equipped with either solid, vertically slatted, horizontally slatted or diamond mesh creep partitions.
  • (3) For the fattening farm the following elements of confinement management were negatively correlated with pulmonary function: fully slatted floor, an automatic feeding system, natural ventilation, and the use of dust masks.
  • (4) The Grade II-listed scenic railway, devastated by an arson attack in 2008, has been rebuilt, wooden slat by wooden slat, back to its rickety, grinding glory.
  • (5) Feed and water were provided on the lower level only and lambs could move freely between levels by means of a slatted ramp.
  • (6) During lay, hens were housed in pens with partly-littered partly-slatted floors.
  • (7) Effects of N-alkyl-N,N,N-trimethylammonium ions with different alkyl substituents (hexyl, nonyl, dodecyl, and octadecyl) on the lateral packing of lipids in dipalmitoylphosphatidylcholine (DPPC) dispersions in H2O was investigated by Raman spectroscopy in a spectral region of 2800--3100 cm-1 at temperatures between 22--70 degrees C. The lateral order parameter Slat calculated by empirical equation reveals that the addition of the ions decreases the lateral ordering of lipid hydrocarbon chains in the gel phase, while in the liquid crystalline state the lateral ordering is increased.
  • (8) Higher slat concentrations (50 mM KCl or 200 mM NaCl) provided partial protection from lysis.
  • (9) Slatted fattening systems are the easiest to adapt to weekly modules of production which limits disease spread between batches and reduces the requirement for medication.
  • (10) Twenty cattle with induced infestations were randomly allocated to five groups of equal size based on the numbers of engorged female ticks which fell through the slatted floor of individual pens during the 3 days prior to treatments.
  • (11) The production results were significantly poorer (with the exception of carcass classification) and the number of culled animals was significantly larger in both slatted floor systems compared with the D-system.
  • (12) A questionnaire sent to 78 producers revealed that tail tip necrosis was seen only in units with fattening bulls housed on slatted floors.
  • (13) Keeping of piglets on slatted metal floor, without complementary iron supply, caused anaemia within seven days from parturition.
  • (14) At weaning, 162 sows were assigned randomly to six groups and housed in individual cages fitted on a slatted floor.
  • (15) There were marked rises in the glomerular filtration rate and calcium excretion but no significant change in slat and water excretion was observed with verapamil.
  • (16) What else is architecture if not a ray of light on a wall?” Below him, a tilted facade of wooden slats sweeps out in a broad arc, forming a streamlined front to the building, before colliding with another curving wall clad with gold-anodised aluminium.
  • (17) A second form of prothrombin is also described, which is not adsorbed into barium slats, and has less than 1% the activity of the normal protein, contains only four gamma-carboxy glutamic acid residues.
  • (18) It has been demonstrated that after experimental infection of pig slurry from the space under the slatted floor (infection dose of 10(6)PFU per ml), the Aujeszky's disease virus (ADV) survived for 72 hours at the temperature of 15 degrees C and at pH 6.5, but was inactivated after 96 hours.
  • (19) The evaporative cooling system, with its open shades and sand bedding, enhanced reproductive performance and milk production compared with that of cows cooled with a spray and fan system with slatted flooring in this hot climate.
  • (20) We then observed that although the number of organisms decreased by 99.8%, their number on slatted floors still ranged between 0.02 x 10(4) and 3 x 10(4) per cm2.

Violent


Definition:

  • (a.) Moving or acting with physical strength; urged or impelled with force; excited by strong feeling or passion; forcible; vehement; impetuous; fierce; furious; severe; as, a violent blow; the violent attack of a disease.
  • (a.) Acting, characterized, or produced by unjust or improper force; outrageous; unauthorized; as, a violent attack on the right of free speech.
  • (a.) Produced or effected by force; not spontaneous; unnatural; abnormal.
  • (n.) An assailant.
  • (v. t.) To urge with violence.
  • (v. i.) To be violent; to act violently.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Certainly not ones with young children accused of non-violent crimes.
  • (2) I haven't had to face anyone like the man who threatened to call the police when he decided his card had been cloned after sharing three bottles of wine with his wife, or the drunk woman who became violent and announced that she was a solicitor who was going to get this fucking place shut down – two customers Andrew had to deal with on the same night.
  • (3) The Nigerian government has been heavily criticised for failing to protect civilians in an increasingly violent conflict that left about 10,000 dead last year.
  • (4) When rates were covaried for prior violent crime arrests, White House Case subjects with prior arrests had a significantly higher rate of total posthospitalization violent crime arrests than the matched control sample.
  • (5) The Met said officers would be told to focus less on stopping people for small amounts of cannabis, and instead focus on those suspected of violent offences and carrying weapons.
  • (6) The home secretary, Theresa May, will attend a summit in Washington on tackling violent extremism, called by Barack Obama after the Charlie Hebdo murders in Paris.
  • (7) In five of the six cases a violent contusion in the trochanter region was involved as a result of a fall on a hard surface or a traffic accident.
  • (8) The Bolotnaya Square protest in May was the only one to turn violent in the nearly year-long wave of demonstrations that brought on to the streets tens of thousands of people opposed to Putin's return to the presidency.
  • (9) IPCC found a Gwent police control room operation had downgraded a call relating to her despite police knowing she was trying to escape a violent partner.
  • (10) A case of complete rupture of the pectoralis major after violent trauma is reported.
  • (11) But the president said that the rest of the country had relied for too long on police to do the “dirty work” of containing urban violence and bore responsibility for the violent spectacle in Baltimore.
  • (12) The effects of chronic use seem to be twofold: severe depression with suicidal thoughts and numerous violent, agitated behavioral patterns.
  • (13) Crisis engulfs Gabon hospital founded to atone for colonial crimes Read more At least seven people died and more than 1,000 were arrested in violent protests following the announcement of the election result earlier this month, which the leader of the opposition, Jean Ping, said Bongo, the incumbent, had rigged.
  • (14) Depending on who you talk to, these evictions were either violent or largely peaceful.
  • (15) Where demanded by justice and national security, we will seek to transfer some detainees to the same type of facilities in which we hold all manner of dangerous and violent criminals within our borders – highly secure prisons that ensure the public safety.
  • (16) Data from almost a third of hospital emergency departments found a 12% fall in injuries from violent incidents in 2013.
  • (17) The resulting disturbing, violent or disruptive behavior will severely detract from the quality of life the patient and family can share together.
  • (18) There is also the issue of fair sentencing – if a person has a violent fight in a bar and is sentenced to an IPP with a two year tariff, and then finds himself stuck in the system six years later he has received a punishment three times more severe than the crime he committed in the eyes of the court.
  • (19) Males who believe they consumed alcohol show increased arousal to deviant stimuli (rape, violent erotica) compared to males who are told to expect no alcohol.
  • (20) The long-running dispute over the Senkaku islands – known as the Diaoyu in China – intensified earlier this month after Japan nationalised the territories, resulting in violent anti-Japanese demonstrations in dozens of Chinese cities.

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