(a.) Consisting of many folds, coils, or convolutions.
(a.) Of great volume, or bulk; large.
(a.) Having written much, or produced many volumes; copious; diffuse; as, a voluminous writer.
Example Sentences:
(1) The existence of a voluminous literature on the placing, making, and closing of abdominal incisions suggests that no single ideal method exists.
(2) From ultrastructural point of view interstitial cells contain the organels proper to steroidogenetic cells (important smooth endoplasmic reticulum, many voluminous mitochondria with tubular cristae).
(3) The histologic exam revealed a proliferation of voluminous round lymphoid cells with 2 or 3 nucleoli often apposed to the nuclear membrane.
(4) It must be admitted: 2014 is looking voluminously rosy for those of us who love our lady gardens.
(5) The uterine artery has a voluminous branch to the uterine body and the cervix but does not anastomose with the vaginal artery.
(6) Considered by many to be a giant in the intellectual world, Judt chronicled his illness in unsparing detail in public lectures and essays – giving an extraordinary account that won him almost as much respect as his voluminous historical and political work, for which he was feted on both sides of the Atlantic.
(7) CT scan and angiography showed a voluminous intracerebral angiodysplasia and an aneurysm of the left anterior communicating artery.
(8) The investigations lead to the diagnosis of a voluminous plasma cell tumor involving the fossa infratemporalis, a part of the lateral orbit, as well as the middle and anterior cerebral fossae.
(9) The case of a 14-year old girl presenting with headaches, severe progressive hypertension and high plasma renin levels, in whom a voluminous epithelial liver hamartoma or adenoma was discovered at surgery is documented.
(10) Starvation resulted in extensive epithelial folds and a concomitant decrease in the crop volume, while the refed insects displayed an unfolded crop epithelium and a voluminous crop.
(11) During the differentiation of the infectious form into the reproductive form, the voluminous periplasm was gradually reduced and the cytoplasm expanded, until the entire bacterium was filled by the cytoplasm.
(12) An oral cholecystography showed that this formation corresponded to a voluminous choledochal cyst.
(13) But if you do dig into the voluminous polling studies and disaggregate, as the pollsters say, the results by gender, you find that what is troubling female voters is what is also troubling male voters – the future of health and education.
(14) Such factors include a specific syndrome the essential feature of which is that the mitral leaflets or part thereof, primarily the posterior one, are voluminous.
(15) Inoculation with K. pneumoniae mucoid strain DT-S into mice lung induced expansive, voluminous lethal pneumonia characterized with thickening of the alveolar septa caused by infiltration of inflammatory cell and packing of bacteria within alveolar spaces.
(16) Theresa May will recall her habit of dancing to Abba’s Dancing Queen in a pair of flared trousers and a yellow blouse with “huge voluminous sleeves” during a guest appearance on Desert Island Discs .
(17) His voluminous scientific oeuvre is appreciated, particularly with regard to his role as a pathfinder for the newly developing field of dermatovirology.
(18) The inner portion (between the nucleus and the ventricle) contains a voluminous Golgi apparatus, many mitochondria, RER cisternae which contain electron-dense material, SER, and many vesicles.
(19) A young 15 year old girl presented with a voluminous desmoid tumor of the calf.
(20) The principal nucleoli are more voluminous but their relations with the secondary constrictions and the satellites of the D and G chromosomes are not modified.
Winding
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Wind
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Wind
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Wind
(n.) A call by the boatswain's whistle.
(a.) Twisting from a direct line or an even surface; circuitous.
(n.) A turn or turning; a bend; a curve; flexure; meander; as, the windings of a road or stream.
(n.) A line- or ribbon-shaped material (as wire, string, or bandaging) wound around an object; as, the windings (conducting wires) wound around the armature of an electric motor or generator.
Example Sentences:
(1) The country has no offshore wind farms, though a number of projects are in the research phase to determine their profitability.
(2) One man has died in storms sweeping across the UK that have brought 100-mile-an-hour winds and led to more than 50 flood warnings being issued with widespread disruption on the road and rail networks in much of southern England and Scotland.
(3) Undaunted by the sickening swell of the ocean and wrapped up against the chilly wind, Straneo, of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, one of the world's leading oceanographic research centres, continues to take measurements from the waters as the long Arctic dusk falls.
(4) Because they generally have to be positioned on hills to get the maximum benefits of the wind, some complain that they ruin the landscape.
(5) Photograph: AP Reasons for wavering • State relies on coal-fired electricity • Poor prospects for wind power • Conservative Democrat • Represents conservative district in conservative state and was elected on narrow margins Campaign support from fossil fuel interests in 2008 • $93,743 G K Butterfield (North Carolina) GK Butterfield, North Carolina.
(6) Critics of wind power peddle the same old myths about investment in new energy sources adding to families' fuel bills , preferring to pick a fight with people concerned about the environment, than stand up to vested interests in the energy industry, for the hard-pressed families and pensioners being ripped off by the energy giants.
(7) It is shown that the combined effects of altitude and wind assistance yielded an increment in the length of the jump of about 31 cm, compared to a corresponding jump at sea level under still air conditions.
(8) The supporters – many of them wearing Hamas green headbands and carrying Hamas flags – packed the open-air venue in rain and strong winds to celebrate the Islamist organisation's 25th anniversary and what it regards as a victory in last month's eight-day war with Israel.
(9) While winds gusting to 170mph caused significant damage, the devastation in areas such as Tacloban – where scenes are reminiscent of the 2004 Indian ocean tsunami – was principally the work of the 6-metre-high storm surge, which carried away even the concrete buildings in which many people sought shelter.
(10) The workforce has changed dramatically since 1900 – just 29,000 Americans today work in fishing and the number of job titles tracked by the Bureau of Labor Statistics has grown to almost 600 – everything from “animal trainers” to “wind turbine service technicians” (and there are even more sub categories).
(11) At Weledeh Catholic School in Yellowknife, for example, it’s used to determine when to hold playtime indoors (wind chill below -30C, since you asked).
(12) A rather pessimistic wind is blowing over cancer chemotherapy, while a not very objective enthusiasm for second generation immunotherapy is raising its head.
(13) The scheme is available to those who have one or more of the following technologies: solar PV panels (roof-mounted or stand alone), wind turbines (building mounted or free standing), hydroelectricity, anaerobic digestion (generating electricity from food waste), and micro combined heat and power (through the use of new types of boilers , for example).
(14) The railway between Norwich and Ely was blocked when strong winds caused power lines to fall across the tracks.
(15) Eager to show I was a good student, the next time we had sex, I noticed that one of my hands was, indeed, lying idle – and started to pat him on the back, absently, as if trying to wind a baby.
(16) One in four British homes could be fitted with solar heating equipment and 3,500 wind turbines could be erected across Britain within 12 years as part of a green energy revolution to be proposed by the government next week.
(17) Big musical acts (such as BB King, Keith Urban and Queens of the Stone Age) appear during the summer concert lineup but there are also drop-in yoga sessions, and hiking and biking trails wind through sculpted rocks and wildflowers.
(18) They’re from every other source in the environment – from the wind, from transport,” he said.
(19) Nineteen members of the West Midlands Police Force, who qualified as PTSD sufferers, were offered the 're-wind' technique.
(20) Laura Sandys, Conservative MP and part of the ministerial team at the Department of Energy and Climate Change (Decc), highlighted the problem of public opposition shale gas is likely to face: "Onshore wind is a walk in the park, by comparison."