(n.) A wall of brick, stone, or cement, used as a lining, as of a well, cistern, etc.; a steening.
(v. t.) To line, as a well, with brick, stone, or other hard material.
Example Sentences:
(1) The closest town of any size is Burns, population 2,806, where you should stock up on petrol, food and water before heading south into the wilderness on the 66-mile Steens Mountain Backcountry Byway.
(2) Sixteen gerontopsychiatric inpatients were compared with 33 residents in a somatic nursing home by Gottfries-Bråne-Steen scale.
(3) That's the view of Steen Jakobsen, chief economist at Saxo, who said: I remain of the opinion that Greece will “break from the euro” – but in an orderly fashion, meaning with consent of EU and with its support.
(4) The Hamilton Rating Scale for Depression, Gottfries-Bråne-Steen Rating Scale, Nurse's Observation Scale for Inpatient Evaluation and Buschke Selective Reminding Test were administered before and after placebo and after BC-PS therapy, to monitor changes in depression, memory and general behaviour.
(5) The efficacy was evaluated with a dementia rating scale by Gottfries, Bråne and Steen (GBS), selected items from the Comprehensive Psychopathological Rating Scale (CPRS), a rating scale for dementia adapted for nurses, and by clinical global evaluations.
(6) Co-directed with Steen Johannessen and shot in high-risk conditions in the decimated Syrian capital between 2015 and 2016, it’s a study of the rescue work done by the White Helmet volunteers of the Syrian Civil Defence Force, focusing principally on Khaled Harrah, who has since been killed in action I studied art and film-making in Paris, but after three years of working in television drama, I hated the connection with a fake life – I needed to do something connected with reality, with real people.
(7) Michael Steen of Financial Times reports that journalists were briefly barred from entering the building, but that the engine is now departing.
(8) There are many appalling scenes, but these are adeptly shaped by Danish co-director and editor Steen Johannessen into aesthetic coherence.
(9) So the ECB is not on fire #phew Michael Steen (@michaelsteen) Ok.
(10) Steen Jakobsen, Saxobank This was totally expected because of austerity policies combined with world growth slowing down and a dramatic fall in activity in Germany and the Netherlands.
(11) Clinical evaluation by the Gottfries-Brane-Steen (GBS) scale demonstrated a significant superiority of propentofylline over placebo in the total score and the four GBS factors (motor, intellectual, emotional functions and other symptoms) as well as in the clinical global impression and Mini-Mental State.
(12) Under pressure from Cameron, Steen "unreservedly apologised".
(13) "It is a very large deficit to look forward to in 2012," said Danske bank chief economist Steen Bocian.
(14) Steen said Floyd had reduced his notoriously large alcohol intake before he died.
(15) Primer extension analysis was employed to identify a promoter upstream from the spaE gene, which appears to define the 5' end of the spa operon, which contains four other ORFs (Y. J. Chung, M. T. Steen, and J. N. Hansen, J. Bacteriol.
(16) I’ve told you before about Florence Steen of South Dakota who was 88 years old and insisted that her daughter bring an absentee ballot to her hospice bedside.
(17) Los Angeles County Museum of Art , opens 4 October Class Distinctions: Dutch Painting in the Age of Rembrandt and Vermeer With more than 70 paintings, from portraits by the titular superstars to lesser-known works by Pieter de Hooch and Jan Steen, this years-in-the-making show examines the Dutch Golden Age through the lens of social standing.
(18) Steen also asks Draghi to elaborate on his comments about how governments should not "unravel" their progress on deficit reduction ( see 1.48pm ).
(19) From 1974 to 1977, 62 wild mule deer (Odocoileus hemionus) fawns from Steens Mountain, Ore were euthanatized in autumn (23 deer), winter (21 deer), and spring (18 deer).
(20) One hundred people applied for the job of replacing the sitting Tory MP, Anthony Steen, who is standing down following controversy about his expenses.
Steer
Definition:
(a.) A young male of the ox kind; especially, a common ox; a castrated taurine male from two to four years old. See the Note under Ox.
(v. t.) To castrate; -- said of male calves.
(n.) To direct the course of; to guide; to govern; -- applied especially to a vessel in the water.
(v. i.) To direct a vessel in its course; to direct one's course.
(v. i.) To be directed and governed; to take a direction, or course; to obey the helm; as, the boat steers easily.
(v. i.) To conduct one's self; to take or pursue a course of action.
(v. t.) A rudder or helm.
(n.) A helmsman, a pilot.
Example Sentences:
(1) Steroid-treated steers showed a slight decline in synthesis which was significant (P less than 0.05) at week +5 post-implant while amino acid oxidation was significantly lower at weeks +2 (P less than 0.01) and +5 (P less than 0.05) compared with control animals.
(2) The only thing Michael Fabricant could reasonably be vice-chairman of is the steering committee of Nurse Ratched 's ward fete.
(3) Holstein steers gained 11% faster (P less than .005) and consumed 8% less (P less than .025) dry matter per unit gain than the average of Angus and Polled Hereford steers.
(4) "We are probably steering towards Russia turning off its gas provision," he was quoted as saying.
(5) I tried desperately hard not to influence her, but I did steer her away from a baby that I've already bought her for her Christmas present.
(6) A detailed account of the progress of a preschool child learning to steer a powered wheelchair via a mouth-operated joystick is described.
(7) Educated at Imperial College London, he trained at the contractors Freeman Fox, but in 1978 he turned freelance as a transport consultant, setting up his own firm: Steer Davies Gleave.
(8) Flying in Soyuz was “ real teamwork ” she said, adding: “Tim will have no trouble with that.” David Southwood , a senior researcher at Imperial College, and a member of the UK space agency steering board, has known Tim since he joined the European Space Agency in 2009.
(9) Postweaning growth and carcass characters of 110 steers from a complete two-breed diallel of the Devon and Hereford breeds were examined under two environments.
(10) A fired-up Lleyton Hewitt just fell short in his bid to steer Australia to an upset victory in their Davis Cup doubles showdown with the United States.
(11) As a parent himself, he steered a deliberate course on discipline (neither he nor his wife ever smacked their girls) and on external influences - the family did not have a television while the children were young, preferring to read.
(12) A mixture of (1-14C)-labeled free fatty acids (FFA), complexed in bovine plasma, was infused into the abdominal aorta of conscious young steers exposed to thermoneutral or moderately cold conditions for several hours and fed 6 or 22 h before the experiment.
(13) But on Tuesday the White House steered the conversation toward the website.
(14) Previously, Hotel Chocolat has steered clear of raising money through the traditional channels.
(15) These functional specializations of the different steering muscles in mediating different behavioral response components are related to the properties of two parallel visual pathways that are selectively tuned to large-field and small-field motion, respectively.
(16) Motor vehicle occupants may suffer severe cervical airway injuries as the result of impaction with the steering wheel, dashboard, windshield, backseat, and seat belt.
(17) A comparison was made of the effect of providing or denying water to steers during the last 20 h before slaughter on carcase weight, bruising, muscle pH, and during the dressing process on the numbers of rumens from which ingesta was split and the number of heads and tongues condemned because of contamination with ingesta.
(18) In 1987, the Educational Steering Committee for Cancer Care at The Washington Hospital was established to meet this need.
(19) Since 2010, he has worked for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (Darpa), the wing of the US defense department devoted to funding and developing new technologies, from a self-steering bullet called Exacto to the packet-switching system, Arpanet, that became the internet.
(20) The role of steering wheel design in maxillofacial trauma is discussed and new solutions briefly reviewed.