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Tarn


Definition:

  • (n.) A mountain lake or pool.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Similarly, increases in HK activity were seen in sADN-tARN rats in all the above structures except MS, Nc, and DMH, where no changes were observed, and dArc, where an increase in HK activity was noted.
  • (2) This unexpected result was followed by the more surprising finding that the incidence of resistance was even higher in the bacterial populations of two remote upland tarns.
  • (3) Sticking to low levels, you meander along tracks, paths and across pretty bridges while admiring the peaks and scattering of mountain lakes, known as tarns.
  • (4) It is hoped the animals will recolonise the tarn and its surrounding streams, and play an important part in the ecosystem, grazing and burrowing into areas of the riverbank and allowing rare plants to grow, including mosses and liverworts that need patches of open habitat.
  • (5) This study was based on the examination of 26,374 salaried adult patients during a 12 months period in the Tarn-et-Garonne Regional Industrial Medecine Service.
  • (6) Little Molas Lake Campground, San Juan national forest People flock to Little Molas ostensibly for its proximity to Andrews Lake, a high-altitude tarn stocked with rainbow and brook trout.
  • (7) +33 4 6743 8734, lesdemoisellesdupuy.fr brightsue Les Chalets du Tarn, Réquista Before you've pitched your tent at this campsite, the friendly owner invites you to dine.
  • (8) Britain’s endangered water voles will reach new heights when they are returned to Yorkshire’s Malham tarn for the first time in 50 years.
  • (9) As a child, my parents would often take me on treks among the ethereal alpine forests of Tasmania’s central highlands; where ragged pencil pines sit beside bogs and tarns.
  • (10) Roisin Black, a National Trust ranger at Malham tarn, said: “In the rest of Europe, water voles are common.
  • (11) Protesters opposed to the Sivens dam project in the Tarn region say it will destroy a reservoir of biodiversity and will benefit only a small number of farmers.
  • (12) According to the property website seloger.com, Albi in the south-west Tarn region takes the prize for France's biggest price drop – a massive 18%.
  • (13) The bed nucleus of the stria terminalis was observed to have a significant decrease in hexokinase activity in the tARN groups, as were the caudal and medial aspects of the nucleus of the solitary tract.
  • (14) In contrast, the increased HK activity after either tADN or tARN alone was returned to levels not different from sADN-sARN rats in all structures in the tADN-tARN rats, except MnPO, mpPVH, and dArc, where the level of HK activity was only attenuated, and MS, POA, and vArc, where it remained elevated.
  • (15) The incidence of antibiotic resistance in aquatic bacteria isolated from Windermere was, however, lower than in those isolated from two remote upland tarns.
  • (16) The upland tarns were not totally isolated from man and other animals but did not receive any sewage or other effluents and therefore the results were surprising.
  • (17) Here is a section from his exploration of the streams and lakes of the Rhinogs, a remote mountain group in North Wales: Searching the map, I had seen some promising upland streams, a waterfall, and a tarn, so I hiked off uphill through the bracken.
  • (18) Scales Fell was the popular Boxing Day choice, the splendid ridge that soars to the 2,848ft summit above its tarn, deep in the bosom of Blencathra.
  • (19) In the 3-day tARN group only, a significant decrease in hexokinase activity was observed in the region of the brainstem containing the A5 cell group, compared with sARN animals.
  • (20) The design of the Millau Viaduct, the superb new motorway bridge across the Tarn Gorge in the south of France, is credited to Norman Foster.

Torn


Definition:

  • (p. p.) of Tear
  • () p. p. of Tear.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The logistics of maintaining and supplying underground clinics located in war-torn rural Afghanistan are presented.
  • (2) Never had I heard anything about what I saw documented so unsparingly in Evan’s photographs: families sleeping in the streets, their clothes in shreds, straw hats torn and unprotecting of the sun, guajiros looking for work on the doorsteps of Havana’s indifferent mansions.
  • (3) The shredded fibres were trimmed in most cases and this allowed better definition of the amount of ligament considered to be torn.
  • (4) This 90s pop confection had torn tights, a sulky attitude and high regard for Quentin Tarantino.
  • (5) Plibersek on Thursday ruled out supporting sending ground troops into Syria, after the government announced on Wednesday that it would extend airstrikes into the war-torn country .
  • (6) We hurtled into Barcelona at speeds that should have torn Eglantine's juddering Peugeot 205 apart.
  • (7) Some of these are functions that would once have been taken on through squatting – and sometimes still are, as at Open House , a social centre recently and precariously opened in London's Elephant & Castle, an area torn apart by rampant gentrification, where estates are flogged off to developers with zero commitment to public housing and the aforementioned "shopping village" is located in a derelict estate.
  • (8) The capsule is reattached to the boney rim of the anterioinferior glenoid deep to and lateral to the torn cartilagenous labrum, thus excluding the labrum from the joint anteriorly.
  • (9) Nine pedunculated benign synoviomata causing mechanical symptoms similar to those of a torn meniscus are described.
  • (10) The UNHCR estimates there are more than 60 million forcibly displaced people worldwide, with over 4 million Syrians alone leaving their war-torn country to seek safety in neighbouring countries and Europe.
  • (11) David Cameron has attacked Labour's "rank hypocrisy" in calling for him to boycott the Commonwealth summit in Sri Lanka as he claimed his visit to the country's war-torn north will help give a voice to the dispossessed.
  • (12) 'I am all the African chiefs who have sold their continent to the white men' … Samuel Fosso's self-portrait as an African chief The life work of one of Africa's most important living photographers and contemporary artists, Samuel Fosso , has been rescued from destruction after his studio and home were attacked by looters in war-torn Central African Republic .
  • (13) Arthroscopic operative procedures include the inspection of a torn glenoid labrum and certain lesions of the biceps tendon, viewing a torn rotator cuff, locating loose bodies in the shoulder, surgery for recurrent dislocations, and division of the coracoacromial ligament.
  • (14) Although not within the scope of this article, acute arthroscopic repair of a torn meniscus, evaluation of the degree of tear of the anterior cruciate ligament, and arthroscopic repair of osteochondral fractures are all benefited by acute arthroscopic examination.
  • (15) Jelacic's plans are to impact the tribunal's work in a country more torn than at any time during the war: "They involve entrenching the current outreach offices and moving the operation and the defence lines from The Hague to the Balkans: not just to Sarajevo, Zagreb, Belgrade and Pristina - but to the municipalities, the villages themselves.
  • (16) The quality of ultrasound image obtained from the patients in vivo proved similar to that obtained during the in vitro studies, and in addition six ulcerative lesions including two with torn intima were detected with transesophageal echocardiography.
  • (17) Those that do exist bear Saudi Arabia's logo, but they are torn and thin – leftovers from a huge aid donation during cyclone Nargis.
  • (18) In the marginal area, bone can be found lying open with torn remnants, which are lying free in the coagulum.
  • (19) The torn segment was mobile, the remainder of the meniscus stable.
  • (20) They also plan to disrupt the work of the crews by calling the Libyan coastguard and asking them to take migrants and refugees attempting to cross the Mediterranean back to war-torn Libya.

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