(n.) A foul back street of a city, especially one filled with a poor, dirty, degraded, and often vicious population; any low neighborhood or dark retreat; -- usually in the plural; as, Westminster slums are haunts for theives.
(n.) Same as Slimes.
Example Sentences:
(1) This week, Umande broke ground on the first of a series of toilet block biocentres in a slum in Kisumu, near Lake Victoria.
(2) Age specific prevalence rates of leprosy after examining more than 80% of population from these colonies are compared with data derived from normal slums situated elsewhere in the city.
(3) The project is divided into units which cover a community block either in a rural or tribal village area or an urban slum.
(4) In others, Delhi’s slum-dwellers were left unacknowledged.
(5) After visiting the H-blocks, the Catholic archbishop Cardinal Tomás Ó Fiaich compared the conditions to "the sewer pipes in the slums of Calcutta".
(6) St Pancras himself, of whom precious little is known, is buried in Rome, a long way from the charred and soiled remains of the 19th-century slums of Agar Town that were demolished to make way for the Midland Railway's steamy entrance into London.
(7) Meanwhile, millions of Ugandans suffer from malnutrition, slum housing, illiteracy, preventable diseases and a lack of clean drinking water.
(8) How dare this unqualified mother of three challenge RGCB orthodoxy or attack the hypocrisy of those who condemned viable neighbourhoods as slums in order to build their own golden city from which anyone with choice escaped?
(9) I managed to raise eight grand.” Les Rencontres d'Arles 2016 review – twin towers and sub-Saharan slums Read more Soon, he was running his own independent techno label, Dead Elvis Records, and organising Deaf, an annual electronic music and arts festival in Dublin.
(10) A total of 106 rodents sera from slum Wat Phai Ton and slum Klong Toey were examined by immunofluorescent antibody assay during May to August 1990.
(11) The family lived near the Cité Soleil slum where hundreds, possibly thousands, have been stricken.
(12) There are families from Kutubdia who were once rich, with land and cows and boats, and now are living in slums and are beggars.
(13) It’s not enough at all,” said Araceli Belaez, 40, lining up for groceries at a supermarket in the Caracas slum of Catia.
(14) It was built by respecting highly restrictive norms that regulate construction activity in slums and for less than the average cost of construction in the area.
(15) The slums will be easier to shift out than the formal leaseholders, according to sources on the panel.
(16) At any rate, in 1984 the Israelis discovered an arms cache in the mosque he had built in the Jaurat slum where he now lived.
(17) Trained nutritionists visited 5 slum centers within 48 hours of the completion of the monthly weighing of the children.
(18) Point prevalence of 'High Risk' factors was assessed in 450 mothers of reproductive age group residing in two urban slum communities.
(19) A community-based family planning operations research project was undertaken in selected low income communities of Rio de Janeiro; this activity represented the 1st attempt to obtain contraceptive prevalence data in fanelos (slums) of Rio.
(20) Another member of her circle, the rapacious slum landlord Peter Rachman, had himself become a symbol of the greed and materialism of the affluent society, adding more spice to the mix.
Stum
Definition:
(n.) Unfermented grape juice or wine, often used to raise fermentation in dead or vapid wines; must.
(n.) Wine revived by new fermentation, reulting from the admixture of must.
(v. t.) To renew, as wine, by mixing must with it and raising a new fermentation.
Example Sentences:
(1) In 6 baboon hamadryads, in 4 Stum-tailed macaques and in one macaco rhesus they were diagnosed as the so-called polypous gastritis.
(2) These findings indicate that methylprednisolone has a profound inhibitory effect on lymphoid cells' response to allogenic stumli in the MLC system.
(3) Among imported monkeys the incidence of polyps was in macaques rhesus--0,31% and in Stum-tailed macaques--9,2%.
(4) Incidence of polyps among local monkeys was 0.48% in macaques rhesus and 2.3% in Stum-tailed macaques.
(5) In 5 Stum-tailed macaques there were noted gigantic folds of the pylorus.