(n.) A tract of low ground, or of land between hills; a valley.
(n.) See 2d Vail, 3.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Wales international and Port Vale defender Clayton McDonald both admitted having sex with the victim, – McDonald was found not guilty of the same charge.
(2) Phil Barlow Nottingham • Reading about the problems caused by a lack of toilets reminded me of the harvest camps my father’s Birmingham school organised in the Vale of Evesham during the war, where the sixth-formers spent weeks picking fruit and vegetables on farms.
(3) Port Vale are in deep financial trouble and their administrators will not let him pay half the player's wages.
(4) Seethetree Kingley Vale, Sussex Forget the colours of autumn; this place is sombre in colour and atmosphere but you will be walking among probably the oldest living organisms in Britain.
(5) Miliband, speaking in the Vale of Glamorgan, justified his involvement with Brand.
(6) Later, when Leven moved to another squat, in Maida Vale, London, he suggested they bring in a bass player and percussionist to form a band, and they started rehearsing "with mattresses around the walls to deaden the sound, but still annoying the neighbours".
(7) Burros & Artes offers tailormade tours from two to eight days from an idyllic base in the Vale das Amoreiras near Aljezur, just over the border in the Algarve.
(8) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Coral bleaching on the Great Barrier Reef worse than for decades The photos were taken from around Lizard Island by Lyle Vale from Coral Watch at the University of Queensland .
(9) Fifty-eight households were studied in the Red Pond community, the site of the established smelter and several backyard smelters, and 21 households were studied in the adjacent, upwind Ebony Vale community in Saint Catherine Parish, Jamaica.
(10) In addition to the financial costs due to lost output and repairs at the mine, which accounts for about 10% of Brazil’s iron ore exports, BHP and Vale are expected to face steep fines as well as lawsuits at a time when iron ore prices are at their lowest point in a decade.
(11) Facebook Twitter Pinterest BHP Billiton and Vale chief executives at a press conference in Mariana.
(12) vale (@r4ulsonfeels) IM GOING TO SELL MY SOUL TO SATAN FOR GILLIAN AS THE FIRST FEMALE BOND HAPPEN May 21, 2016 charlotte✨ (@bensonscully) @GillianA OK BUT ALSO IDRIS ELBA CAN BE JAMES BOND AND YOU CAN BE JANE BOND AND YOU CAN SLAY EVERYONE May 21, 2016 Kelley Sublett (@Kel_Sub) @felishacarolle And now that someone has put the idea out there...GIVE ME A FEMALE BOND STAT!
(13) A two stage health promotion programme is in progress in the Vale of Leven in Dunbartonshire.
(14) The corticotropin-releasing factor (CRF) test has been described from research work carried out by Vale et al.
(15) Jackson Moulding, who helped set up Ashley Vale, is a passionate supporter of self-build, but acknowledges the challenges.
(16) Jessica Khoshooee (Unison) Penarth, Vale of Glamorgan • To complement the government’s proposed reforms, would it not be only fair for them to extend the legislation to shareholders in public companies?
(17) It’s not Canary Wharf, though, it’s Ebbw Vale, a former steel town of 18,000 people in the heart of the Welsh valleys, where 62% of the population – the highest proportion in Wales – voted Leave.
(18) The Anglo-Australian mining company BHP Billiton and its Brazilian partner Vale have been fined almost £50m by the Brazilian government after a deadly mudslide at their jointly-owned mine.
(19) Professor Raymond Crozier Dinas Powys, Vale of Glamorgan • I am increasingly concerned about the quality of maths teaching in some of our venerable public schools such as St Paul’s and Eton.
(20) BHP and Vale have also pledged to help Samarco set up an emergency fund for community support, rebuilding works and minimising environmental impacts.
Vane
Definition:
(n.) A contrivance attached to some elevated object for the purpose of showing which way the wind blows; a weathercock. It is usually a plate or strip of metal, or slip of wood, often cut into some fanciful form, and placed upon a perpendicular axis around which it moves freely.
(n.) Any flat, extended surface attached to an axis and moved by the wind; as, the vane of a windmill; hence, a similar fixture of any form moved in or by water, air, or other fluid; as, the vane of a screw propeller, a fan blower, an anemometer, etc.
(n.) The rhachis and web of a feather taken together.
(n.) One of the sights of a compass, quadrant, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) One significant concern involves the rotary vane aspirators used to provide the suction required for the procedure.
(2) Indicators for use of variable-width multi-vane electron arc collimators include the following: (1) Mechanical constraints of the therapy equipment may limit the placement of isocenter to an inadequate depth which causes large variation in the SSD around the arc; (2) Out of the central plane, the shape of the chest wall may change dramatically across the limits of the arc, creating large variations in the dose distribution; (3) Clinical definition of the treatment surface to include surgical scars or other at-risk volume may create an irregularly shaped treatment surface, thereby changing the fraction of the arc included in the treatment surface from one plane to the next.
(3) The appendages consist of a delicate bilateral vane 2 mum wide on either side of the axis, composed of extremely fine overlapping or interwoven fibrils.
(4) As a result, they presented such symptoms as abnormality in the vane of remiges, undergrowth, anemia, and leg paralysis.
(5) Experimental studies also showed that the vanes of the bolt (arrow) may be a source of trace material found in the wound.
(6) Biologically active substances circulating in the blood after administration of noradrenaline (NA) into the left lateral brain ventricle of the dog were detected using the blood bathed organ technique of Vane.
(7) Innovative techniques in motion control technology have been applied to the design and implementation of a portable computer-controlled multi-vane collimator for use in electron arc therapy.
(8) In the first animal experiment using nonoptimized vanes, there was no thrombus at the back plane or the seal, and only a small thrombus at the transition between axle and rotor.
(9) Both mathematic computation of velocity distribution in the impeller and geometric illustration of the velocity triangle at the top of the vane have demonstrated that the peripheral velocity variation of blood cells in a twisted impeller will be less than that in an untwisted impeller.
(10) His father, Samuel, was a lay preacher and art metal worker, who designed a weather-vane for one of the civic buildings in Blackpool.
(11) The background was either a static homogeneous disk, a flickered homogeneous disk, a static radially-vaned disk, or a rotating vaned disk, all of equivalent space- and time-averaged luminance.
(12) Rabbit aortic strips were arranged in a Vane's cascade and superfused with Krebs buffer which contained phenylephrine hydrochloride (100 nM) and indomethacin (5 microM).
(13) The key to the question is to design a three-dimensional impeller with twisted vanes, compacted by an axial helical spiral and a radial logarithmic spiral so as to reduce the turbulent shear in the pump as the impeller changes its rotations per minute periodically to generate a physiologic pulsatile flow.
(14) Vane's hypothesis is supported by this study of PG induced experimental arthritis.
(15) With adequate dosage, there may even be a slight increase in diastolic pressure, an effect eventually vaning in chronic therapy.
(16) The coronary effluent was continuously bioassayed for prostaglandin-like substances (PLS) using the cascade technique of Vane.
(17) His weather vane politics are not in the national interest.
(18) To reduce the effects of backstreaming oil from the vacuum system, a turbomolecular pump backed by a two-stage rotary vane pump was connected to the drying-coating chamber.
(19) Vanee Vines, an NSA spokeswoman, declined to comment on Monday on the Wyden-Udall letter.
(20) The effect of such vanes was studied in videographic and ultrasound studies.