(n.) That upper stratum of earth and vegetable mold which is filled with the roots of grass and other small plants, so as to adhere and form a kind of mat; sward; sod.
(n.) Peat, especially when prepared for fuel. See Peat.
(n.) Race course; horse racing; -- preceded by the.
(v. t.) To cover with turf or sod; as, to turf a bank, of the border of a terrace.
Example Sentences:
(1) Total body dose of 2,4-D was determined in 10 volunteers following exposure to sprayed turf 1 hour following application and in 10 volunteers exposed 24 hours following application.
(2) Eighty-three percent reported their initial injury on artificial turf (P less than 0.05).
(3) But to leave with the result 1-0, I don’t believe too much that he can play.” Mourinho had actually walked on to the turf while his players celebrated their opening goal to stamp in some of the divots.
(4) José Mourinho ended this breathless contest on his knees with a sliding, turf-surfing celebration that was fuelled by relief as much as joy.
(5) But even so, EA’s latest football offering promises a Yaya Toure-strong accompaniment to the greatest show on turf.
(6) Visit Narvik (as above) is great for finding budget accommodation ranging from eco-hotels, such as turf-roofed Fjellkysten eco-lodge (doubles from £94 room only, ), to traditional Sami camps such as Pippira Siida (cabin for two from £33, ).
(7) Instead, having already gestured to the crowd after shooting wide, the 19-year-old threw his jersey to the turf and marched angrily towards the tunnel at full-time.
(8) Southampton must be optimistic for the rest of the season too, after nervelessly outplaying Liverpool on their own turf.
(9) The southern stretch of London Road, a down-at-heel strip containing pound shops and amusement arcades, became the gang’s turf.
(10) Back on home turf, Chelsea fans condemn club’s Paris racism shame Read more Burnley continued to pose problems but were kept mostly at arm’s length by Chelsea.
(11) Southampton 3-0 Vitesse | Europa League third qualifying round match report Read more Even more damagingly for West Ham, they lost Enner Valencia to a potentially nasty knee injury in the first half after he caught his leg in the turf.
(12) His players paraded the Europa League trophy on the pitch after securing third place here, both achievements that would normally merit acclaim, but the interim manager remained inside while his coaching staff joined the joyous throng out on the turf.
(13) A sense of a common enemy, a common cause, brought members of gangs from different territories – gangs partly defined by their defence of territory and hostility to those from other turfs – to co-operate for as long as the disturbances lasted.
(14) While the player will earn around £1.5m per season at Turf Moor – his biggest ever salary – Jazira offered markedly more.
(15) She’s keen on promoting bike culture and, once she’s ridden to work at the museum, the bike sits idle on prime tourist turf for the rest of the day.
(16) The bodies of 23 people have been found hanging from a bridge or decapitated and dumped near city hall in the Mexican border city of Nuevo Laredo, where drug cartels are fighting a bloody and escalating turf war.
(17) At full-time, he crouched on to his haunches and stared blankly at the turf.
(18) Amid the duck islands and dodgy mortgages, the turfing out of rogues might have been expected to top the wish list.
(19) In last Saturday’s 2-0 win over Liverpool at Turf Moor he made a bright start, creating Andre Gray’s second.
(20) In the end the Chelsea players who had hoped to conquer the world were left slumped on the turf as the Brazilian drums pounded and the raucous hordes of Corinthians supporters bellowed their celebration into the night sky.
Turm
Definition:
(n.) A troop; a company.
Example Sentences:
(1) Claude Turmes, vice chair of the Green Group of MEPs, said: "It is important that we ensure ambitious and coherent binding targets for greenhouse gas reductions, renewables and energy savings.
(2) Luxembourg MEP Claude Turmes, who denied that the leaked documents came from his office, said: "Britain is leading the attempt to undermine the climate change directive.
(3) Claude Turmes, the Green MEP who was the European parliament draftsman for the original renewable energy directive, warned that the UK government's stance would imperil efforts to tackle climate change.
(4) Claude Turmes, a Green MEP who helped negotiate the original efficiency package, said the fear of bad headlines had stalled the measures.
(5) Claude Turmes, the Luxembourg Green MEP who led the negotiations for the European parliament, said he had "mixed feelings" about the biofuels factor.
(6) Claude Turmes, a leading Green in the European parliament, told the Guardian: "We think these plans for feed-in tariffs for nuclear are state aid for nuclear power, which would not be allowed.
(7) Ariel Brunner, the head of EU policy for Birdlife , a conservation organisation disputed Turmes and de Jaeger's arguments head on.
(8) Unlike the situation in some other rodents, maternal blood draining from the trophospongial layer was always contained in channels lined by a layer of squamous cells which, in turm, was separated from the trophospongial cells by a basal lamina.
(9) The air quality directive really is a good package of legislation intended to improve the air that we all breathe.” “It is clear that Timmermans wants to kill the packages but we still have a week left to organise maximum pressure and ensure that stupid decisions are not taken,” the Green MEP Claude Turmes said.
(10) But Filip de Jaeger, the secretary general of the European Confederation of Woodworking Industries echoed many of Turmes points.
(11) Claude Turmes, the vice-chair of the Green Party in the European Parliament , was instrumental in negotiating the original Renewable Energy Directive, which included biomass.
(12) Ecodesign measures are one of the most cost-effective ways of reducing emissions and have been strongly supported by successive UK governments, including David Cameron’s, Turmes added.
(13) "We hear all the time that government is the problem but it turms out we really need it in lots of different ways."
(14) The question of the origin of the potential changes is discussed and it is proposed that the lasting hyperpolarization results from an effect on the passive permeabilities to Na+, K+ and Cl- ions inducing in turm a secondary readjustment (stimulation) of the Na+ active transport while the depolarization at high pressures reflects a direct inhibition of the Na+ pump.
(15) Claude Turmes, green energy spokesperson, said: "Shale gas is not the silver bullet for Europe's energy policy but rather a dangerous Trojan horse.