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Sylva


Definition:

  • (n.) Same as Silva.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) 74 mins France win another corner which goalkeeper Sylva collects no problem.
  • (2) He shoots an excellent chance straight at Sylva again.
  • (3) Djorkaeff shoots and Tony Sylva gathers confortably.
  • (4) 90 mins Sylva saves well from a thumping point-blank shot from Henry.
  • (5) Sylva organises a wall and Djorkaeff and Petit stand over the ball.
  • (6) "There is a clear consensus in the research that staff qualifications and training are important for quality," said Kathy Sylva, professor of educational psychology at Oxford University.
  • (7) Senegal: (5-4-1) 1-Tony Sylva; 2-Omar Daf, 13-Lamine Diatta, 6-Aliou Cisse, 17-Ferdinand Coly, 4-Pape Malick Diop; 10-Khalilou Fadiga, 15-Salif Diao, 19-Pape Bouba Diop, 14-Moussa Ndiaye; 11-El Hadji Diouf.
  • (8) Timipre Sylva, the former governor of Bayelsa State, was arraigned this month by Nigeria's economic and financial crimes commission on charges including fraud and money laundering.
  • (9) From the resulting corner, Vieira misses with a great header when Sylva pulls off a great save.
  • (10) Henry sets up Leboeuf for a shot and he strikes crisply from outside the box, but straight at Sylva.
  • (11) 19 mins Trezeguet squanders a good opportunity when he goes one on one against Sylva nad knocks the ball against the on-rushing goalkeeper.
  • (12) Trezeguet heads it wide and Sylva is in no hurry to take a goal-kick.

Sylvan


Definition:

  • (a.) Of or pertaining to a sylva; forestlike; hence, rural; rustic.
  • (a.) Abounding in forests or in trees; woody.
  • (a.) A fabled deity of the wood; a satyr; a faun; sometimes, a rustic.
  • (n.) A liquid hydrocarbon obtained together with furfuran (tetrol) by the distillation of pine wood; -- called also methyl tetrol, or methyl furfuran.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Out of 87 opossums, Didelphis albiventris, captured in the Bambuí area (Minas Gerais State), 32 (36.7%) were found infected by Trypanosoma cruzi; the rates varied according to whether the specimens originated from sylvan, rural peridomiciliar or urban surroundings, being 34.9, 81.8 and 7.7 respectively.
  • (2) Age composition, seasonal abundance and diel patterns of landing activity of the sylvan vector of yellow fever Haemagogus janthinomys Dyar were monitored weekly during 1981-82 by human collectors on the ground at Point Gourde in Chaguaramas Forest, 16 km west of Port of Spain, Trinidad.
  • (3) The festival includes the British premiere of The Death of Klinghoffer, performed by the BBC Symphony Orchestra under Leonard Slatkin, with Sanford Sylvan in the title role.
  • (4) Hampstead Heath, as he doesn't mind telling you, was a kind of sylvan sweetshop so far as he was concerned, a Swizzles lolly behind every tree.
  • (5) Shortly before Stephen Ward scored his first Premier League goal, Pepe Reina had , for reasons best known to himself, passed straight to Sylvan Ebanks-Blake.
  • (6) These results indicated that there is a sylvan cycle which is maintained by mammal species, which are plundering this geographic area.
  • (7) All patients had encephalopathy and prior exposure to both a sylvan environment and flea-infested animals.
  • (8) Diel patterns of oviposition of sylvan Haemagogus equinus in the field in Trinidad, West Indies, were monitored weekly for 53 consecutive weeks using standard ovitraps.
  • (9) This article reports four observations of sexual criminals, sylvan and nocturnal rovers, with different personalities.
  • (10) It was a sylvan scene – a tent, a new wooden bench, a pile of neatly stacked logs, and the smell of dinner cooking on a fire.
  • (11) This note documents the first record of LAC antibodies in sylvan rodents from Indiana, the presence of LAC virus in the vicinity of Ae.
  • (12) The diel oviposition periodicity of sylvan Haemagogus janthinomys Dyar in the Pt.
  • (13) Phenomena associated with suburbanization, primarily the association of domestic and sylvan animals and their exposure to infected vector populations, may be instrumental in explaining the increased transmission of RMSF.
  • (14) The pattern of gene frequency variation suggests that these mosquito samples do not constitute a single panmictic population, but there are no large consistent differences between rock hole and domestic forms to parallel the East African sylvan-domestic dichotomy.
  • (15) The seasonal incidence and diel oviposition patterns of sylvan Haemagogus celeste and Hg.
  • (16) The potential public health importance of this sylvan disease in flying squirrels and in its ectoparasites, particularly the non-host specific, wide ranging squirrel flea, is noted.
  • (17) An ecological survey of triatomines in the sylvan ecosystem of the Canal Zone and selected sites in Panama disclosed for the first time a close association of Rhodnius pullescens and Triatoma dimidiata, the two most important vector species of Chagas' disease in Panama, with a single species of a widely distributed palm tree, Scheelea zonensis.

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