(n.) An unexpected gain or acquisition; a casual advantage or benefit; a windfall.
(n.) Money given to servants by visitors; a gratuity; -- usually in the plural.
(v. t.) To let fail; to allow or cause to sink.
(v. t.) To lower, or take off, in token of inferiority, reverence, submission, or the like.
(v. i.) To yield or recede; to give place; to show respect by yielding, uncovering, or the like.
(n.) Submission; decline; descent.
Example Sentences:
(1) Recently, La Vail (1976) demonstrated that the shedding of disks from the tips of rod outer segments followed a circadian rhythm in rats.
(2) With the telephone it was Theodore Vail of AT&T, offering a unified nationwide network and a guarantee that when you picked up the phone you always got a dial tone.
(3) In a previous study (M. S. Lantz, R. D. Allen, T. A. Vail, L. M. Switalski, and M. Hook, J. Bacteriol.
(4) The vice-chair of the Australian Privacy Foundation, David Vaile, has called into question the effectiveness of these safeguards because the authorisations are issued by the defence minister and not a judge.
(5) A week’s ski pass in the Rocky Mountains resort of Vail now costs British visitors £609, with ski hire another £200.
(6) Pollen patterns were compared between Vail, CO (8,200 feet elevation), Aspen, CO (7,900 feet) and Denver, CO (5,280 feet) from 1984 through 1988.
(7) These observations allow the following conclusions: (1) All genetic mutants which cause a reduction in ocular melanin, regardless of the molecular or cell-biological mechanism underlying the pigment reduction, result in decreased uncrossed projections; this confirms previous reports (La Vail et al., 1978, Sanderson et al., 1974).
(8) Perched on a hillside six miles west of Vail Pass, at 3,500m, the 16-person cabin is available on a per-person basis with shared accommodation, or as a full booking.
(9) Calcitonin, another potentially phosphaturic hormone, also vailed to increase phosphate excretion but markedly elevated urinary excretion of cyclic AMP.
(10) "With the vast amount of information that's exposed online there is a greater need for more protection," Vaile says.
(11) This study examined the preferences of Division 12 members (N=442) for doctoral training models (Boulder,Vail, equally Boulder and Vail) as a function of the respondent's own training program and current professional activities.
(12) However, as expected, preferences varied reliably according to one's doctoral training: Only 7% of the psychologists trained in a strong Boulder tradition preferred the Vail model, while only 10% of those trained in a strong Vail tradition favored the Boulder model.
(13) Aspen and Denver were compared in 1984, and Vail and Denver from 1985 through 1988.
(14) Between 1975 and 1982 a total of 47 cases of high-altitude pulmonary edema occurred in Vail, Colorado, elevation 2,500 m (8,200 ft).
(15) In albinos, the retinofugal projections to the ipsilateral side of the brain are reduced (e.g., see Guillery, 1969; La Vail et al., 1978; Lund, 1965).
(16) Tang, Chan and the former deputy prime minister and Nationals MP Mark Vaile are the three directors of 123 AustChina Education Consultancy, which according to its website is operating and setting up childcare centres across China.
(17) Ski towns in the area, including world famous resorts like Vail and Aspen, have tried to minimise marijuana suppliers to control any influx of stoned tourists.
(18) The concept of a ministerial warrant poses a number of problems because it does not provide any form of judicial oversight,” Vaile said.
(19) Ragweed was essentially absent from Aspen and Vail, and chenopod-amaranth counts were very low.
(20) +41 81 911 5848, startgels.ch , open when the Weisse Arena ski lifts and cable cars are in operation harryandsally US Game Creek restaurant, Vail, Colorado It's not cheap but then Vail isn't, really, and we had saved for 18 months so decided to just enjoy ourselves.
Veil
Definition:
(n.) Something hung up, or spread out, to intercept the view, and hide an object; a cover; a curtain; esp., a screen, usually of gauze, crape, or similar diaphnous material, to hide or protect the face.
(n.) A cover; disguise; a mask; a pretense.
(n.) The calyptra of mosses.
(n.) A membrane connecting the margin of the pileus of a mushroom with the stalk; -- called also velum.
(n.) A covering for a person or thing; as, a nun's veil; a paten veil; an altar veil.
(n.) Same as Velum, 3.
(n.) To throw a veil over; to cover with a veil.
(n.) Fig.: To invest; to cover; to hide; to conceal.
Example Sentences:
(1) He argued that it was vital that we “should give the people of this country a chance to decide”, and that “[the nation was witnessing] a continuation of that old and disastrous system where a few men in charge of the state, wielding the whole force of the state, make secret engagements and secret arrangements, carefully veiled from the knowledge of the people…” This, and a lot more little-known information on the road to the first world war is given in Douglas Newton’s book The Darkest Days .
(2) Isis cannot just be contained – it must be defeated,” Clinton began, in veiled criticism of Barack Obama’s claim just before the attacks that Isis was contained in Syria and Iraq.
(3) The surface antigens of veiled cells (VC) isolated from the thoracic duct of mesenteric lymphadenectomized (MLNX) mice have been analyzed by means of monoclonal antibodies and compared with those of dendritic cells (DC) from the spleen, lymph node dendritic cells (LNDC) and peritoneal macrophages (PMO).
(4) A boss on some astronomic pay packet may be held back by shame from paying his cleaners too little relative to that, but emotion will not get in the way of ruthlessness if the process all takes place behind the veil of some corporate contract.
(5) Gas will be a very economic option [for decades] unless there are new government policies and new fiscal measures to change the balance.” Birol issued a veiled warning to Trump that policy should be based on the realities of the energy sector: “We give the same advice to all leaders across the world: making decisions about the energy sector needs good information and an overview of developments, including technological improvements.
(6) The term comes from the Urdu ( parda ) and Persian ( pardah ) word meaning veil or curtain and is also used to describe the practice of screening women from men or strangers.
(7) In studies involving nearly intact animal preparations, neurons were identified which control specific movements of the dorsal cerata, the oral veil tentacles, and the margins of the foot.
(8) An investigation by the Israeli human rights group B’Tselem concluded that while she did have a knife under her niqab veil she posed no threat to soldiers at the time she was shot and could have been subdued without being fatally wounded.
(9) The Liberal Democrat culture spokesman, Don Foster, added: "The veil must be lifted even further so that the public can judge whether they are getting good value for money."
(10) The ruling followed calls by the Home Office minister, Jeremy Browne, for a national debate on whether the state should step in to prevent young women having the veil imposed upon them.
(11) These features included cell flattening with the formation of thin, veil-like structures into the eroded area by cells at the edges of the erosions.
(12) • Apple has been able to draw a secrecy veil over its Irish operations by making extensive use of unlimited companies, which are not required to file company accounts.
(13) He was told to wait his turn then, and the political establishment has again told him to wait to run for president out of deference to party elders, Rubio recalls in a thinly veiled reference to Bush.
(14) But in a veiled reference to those in the Conservative party and their backers in the rightwing press pushing for a hard Brexit, he implied that there were people in the UK who still had to catch up.
(15) For many of his generation, the growing of long beards and women wearing face veils is as much a sign of a higher economic status achieved from working abroad as piety.
(16) In his speech in London, Garcia called for a culture change among Fifa’s leadership and called for an end to the prevailing veil of secrecy at the Zurich-based governing body.
(17) "I really believe in a society where if someone wants to walk in the street completely naked they will be able to, and if someone wants to wear a veil they will also be able to."
(18) But most of them were the first members of their family to adopt the veil, the majority had no niqab-wearing peers, their attendance at their mosque was minimal, and their affiliation to any Islamic bodies almost nonexistent.
(19) That solace, however, is hard to sustain when a new veil of secrecy is about to be thrown over another element of state power.
(20) At a “victory party” for Clinton supporters, under the veil of a glass ceiling that was meant to be an epic symbol of a historic night when gender barriers were swept aside, there was a bleak mood.