(v. t. & i.) To produce sward upon; to cover, or be covered, with sward.
(n.) Skin; covering.
(n.) The grassy surface of land; that part of the soil which is filled with the roots of grass; turf.
Example Sentences:
(1) Referee Mark Clattenberg leads them out on to the Villa Park sward, where the match-ball is waiting on a bespoke Premier League plinth.
(2) To minimize the incidence of grass tetany, winter pastures should be established on soils containing Mg-rich minerals, drainage should be improved on five-textured soils, legumes should be included in the sward and soil pH should be at least 5.5.
(3) A sward is kept in a vigorous state by preventing repetitive defoliation at the one extreme, and avoiding excessive shading (mature growth) of photosynthetic material at the other.
(4) Read more Near the terminus, towering rock walls shelter a beautiful sward of yellow bird’s foot trefoil carpeting the inner quarry floor – and attracting the attention of a common blue butterfly.
(5) The health of the sward must be maintained while improving individual animal performance and simultaneously increasing stocking rate.
(6) But in tropical grass swards, leaf density and leaf:stem ratio have a greater influence on bite size than does leaf surface height.
(7) Sixty-four intact lambs and twenty-four lambs fitted with a duodenal cannula were weaned at 6 weeks of age and grazed pure species swards of either lucerne (Medicago sativa), white clover ((Trifolium repens), ryegrass (Lolium perenne) or prairie grass (Bromus catharticus) for 6 weeks.
(8) Biting rate values were similar for all treatment groups but lower than those previously reported on other grass swards.
(9) A single sward of perennial ryegrass (Lolium perenne cv.
(10) Sward type had a pronounced effect on serum and urine Mg concentrations and a slight effect on hair Mg concentrations (P less than 0.10) only during midsummer.
(11) The stocking rate in each paddock was adjusted by either adding or removing animals so as to maintain as uniform a sward and rate of grazing as possible.
(12) Pure swards of perennial ryegrass (Lolium perenne cv.
(13) Samples of switch hair, blood, and urine were obtained periodically over 5.5 months from 11 Angus and 13 Angus-Charolais cows grazing either all-grass or grass-legume swards.
(14) From one soap opera to another: Adrian Chiles is directing this one, with Lee Dixon, Gareth Southgate and Roy Keane making up the cast of pundits standing on the Allianz Arena sward.
(15) Their close grazing, in concert with that of sheep, reduced the short sward to a thin crust of roots over sand.
(16) Pure swards of perennial ryegrass (Lolium perenne L. cv.
(17) Durability of fixation of caesium-137 increases in a number of soils: sward-podzolic sandy, podzolic loamy soils, chernozem.
(18) A total of twenty Friesian steers were grazed on pure swards of either perennial ryegrass (Lolium perenne cv.
(19) Mobility of caesium-137, sodium and potassium in the natural environment in podzolic gray and chernozem medium-loamy, sward podzolic sandy soils and chernozem has been studied.
(20) In Britain during the last interglacial period, elephants, rhinos and other great beasts maintained a mosaic of habitats: a mixture of closed canopy forest, open forest, glade and sward .
Sword
Definition:
(n.) An offensive weapon, having a long and usually sharp/pointed blade with a cutting edge or edges. It is the general term, including the small sword, rapier, saber, scimiter, and many other varieties.
(n.) Hence, the emblem of judicial vengeance or punishment, or of authority and power.
(n.) Destruction by the sword, or in battle; war; dissension.
(n.) The military power of a country.
(n.) One of the end bars by which the lay of a hand loom is suspended.
Example Sentences:
(1) Everyone is expecting them to win and I think that’s a double-edged sword.
(2) Snipers fired from rooftops, and plainclothes Saleh supporters armed with automatic rifles, swords and batons attacked the protesters.
(3) The Broken King by Philip Womack Photograph: Troika Books The Sword in the Stone begins with Wart on a "quest" to find a tutor.
(4) In his book Swords and Ploughshares, Ashdown gives us two insights.
(5) Its sword-shaped columns tower up almost 100 feet, and grey concrete walls careen around its nearly half-mile circumference.
(6) This was a double-edged sword, for the futebol nation has displayed both the successes of the era and its limits.
(7) His charge sheet includes numerous assaults (one against a waiter who served him the wrong dish of artichokes); jail time for libelling a fellow painter, Giovanni Baglione, by posting poems around Rome accusing him of plagiarism and calling him Giovanni Coglione (“Johnny Bollocks”); affray (a police report records Caravaggio’s response when asked how he came by a wound: “I wounded myself with my own sword when I fell down these stairs.
(8) In a sign that Fox's decision to fall on his sword will not mark the end of the furore engulfing the Tories, both Liberal Democrat and Labour politicians stepped up their demands for the prime minister to explain why several senior members of his cabinet were involved in an Anglo-American organisation apparently at odds with his party's environmental commitments and pledge to defend free healthcare.
(9) If so, ministers may need to be prepared for a new breed of civil servants, who will no longer fall on their swords if they believe they have been stabbed in the back.
(10) This paper will give evidence of the exact wounds that Pizarro received in his final sword fight, as well as a facial sculpture of the skull now identified as that of the conqueror of Peru.
(11) Algeria deserved a better fate than an exit which inevitably will leave big regrets that they missed out on something monumental or unreal, but the national team left the Brazilian World Cup with sword in hand and head high.” In Germany most of the media were just thankful they had progressed.
(12) When you play music like that, it’s like being attacked with knives and swords,” he said.
(13) On the surface of course one can hardly blame them, given the difference in resources on either side – imagine, if you will, how much Arjen Robben or Van Persie would’ve enjoyed themselves had they played an open and adventurous system with designs on putting the Dutch to the sword.
(14) The European Union and the International Monetary Fund had handed enormous power to the Greeks, Parsons argued, just as Theseus handed power to Hippolyta by agreeing to lay down his sword.
(15) Long-term problems remain for new buyers looking to leave the rental market, and Funding for Lending is proving a double-edged sword.
(16) In the end the paper-clip turned out to be mightier than the sword.
(17) We really didn’t want to vote for it, but we made a mistake and now we’re trying to do what’s right and correct it.” But their letter also said while the intent of their vote “was to create a shield for all citizens’ religious liberties, the bill has been mischaracterized by its opponents as a sword for religious intolerance”.
(18) Police were ordered to apologise in person last year to an elderly blind man who was shot with a Taser electronic weapon after they mistook his white stick for a samurai sword.
(19) In subsequent years, armed with his trusty sword, Excalibur (a superannuated prop from John Boorman 's film of the same name), he persistently challenged the law against assembling at Stonehenge, while the site itself grew increasingly to resemble one of the military encampments on nearby Salisbury Plain.
(20) Swords IV was made by professional film-makers, al-Janabi also claims – and independent observers think he might be right.