(n.) A ravine through which a brook flows; the channel of a water course, which is dry except in the rainy season.
Example Sentences:
(1) 1 Forge the Malaqi Trail: Wadi Mujib, Jordan From its northern reaches in Syria, the Great Rift Valley cuts a swathe through Jordan, pushing up the mountains that define many of the country's beautiful and well-managed nature reserves.
(2) Within hours, federalist militias, backed by some units from Libya's small regular army, had set up a defence line at the Red Wadi, a natural feature that blocks the way to the oil ports.
(3) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Residents return to inspect their homes in the Wadi Al-Sayeh neighbourhood of Homs in May following the fall of the city to Assad forces.
(4) For an intimate encounter with this geology and the water that helped to form it, head to the canyon systems of Wadi Mujib to take on the Malaqi Trail, a sandstone assault course of rocky scrambles and dizzying waterfall rappels.
(5) We turned half-right in the plain, to get under cover of the low hills which screened it from Wadi Hamdh, in whose bed the railway lay.
(6) Winning tip Wadi Bani Khalid, Oman You might not imagine the Middle East as a swimmer's paradise, but Wadi Bani Khalid in Oman's Sharqiyah region is a lush oasis.
(7) They wandered for several months looking for help and accommodation, and ended up in the village of Knaisse in Wadi Khaled, only three miles from their Syrian home.
(8) The NNA report said that the explosion took place on the road between Sbouba and Wadi Abu Mousa.
(9) In the present paper the first record is made from Wadi Derna (= Darnah), East coast of Libya.
(10) Israeli police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said police clashed with hundreds of Palestinians in Ras al-Amud and Wadi Joz in the eastern part of the city.
(11) · Edward Wadie Said, writer and academic, born November 1 1935; died September 25 2003
(12) Jathran's rebels have vowed to hold the Red Wadi, in what some see as a de facto partition of Libya.
(13) He replaced the pope with a panel of five bishops and banished him to Wadi Natrun .
(14) The attack came as fighters seeking to remove the Assad regime attacked the president's forces around a large airbase in Idlib province and also around the Wadi Deif base in north-western Syria and as the international airport in Aleppo was once again closed to flights.
(15) As you come through the military checkpoints on the way into Wadi Khaled, local mobile phones bleep with an unsolicited text: "The Ministry of Tourism welcomes you to Syria ."
(16) From there I camped along New Zealand's coast, starting at Cape Reinga, went on to sleep out on beaches in Fiji and Tahiti, bedded down on ledges in America's national parks, slept by the fireside, Bedouin-style, in Wadi Rum and under a lavvu – a traditional Sami tent, a bit like a wigwam – in Finland in -40C.
(17) Populations from the five permanent Wadis Kabir, Rasyan, Al Barh, Zabid, and Surdud were genetically and morphologically very uniform.
(18) Wadie Said revealed little about himself or the source of his money, but certainly Edward and his sisters never wanted for anything, travelling with battalions of servants, summering (after 1947) in the cultivated comfort of Dhour el Shweir in Lebanon, enjoying sumptuous dinners on transatlantic liners.
(19) Light-induced fast transient absorbance changes were detected by time-resolved spectroscopy in 38 of 51 haloalkaliphilic isolates from alkaline salt lakes in Kenya and the Wadi Natrun in Egypt.
(20) Morsi was detained without charge during the initial days of the uprising and fled Egypt’s Wadi Natroun prison after it was stormed and the guards overpowered.
Waxy
Definition:
(a.) Resembling wax in appearance or consistency; viscid; adhesive; soft; hence, yielding; pliable; impressible.
Example Sentences:
(1) The aim of the trial was to determine the effectiveness of aspirin in preventing cardiovascular problems in people with asymptomatic atherosclerosis – the undetected build-up of waxy plaque deposits on the inside of blood vessels.
(2) He made his way to a spot on the cobblestones not far from the marble mausoleum housing the waxy corpse of Vladimir Lenin , and began to undress.
(3) The neuronal ceroid lipofuscinoses are clinical disorders associated with the accumulation of autofluorescent waxy pigments within cells of several different tissues.
(4) However, the cloned rice waxy gene contained base substitution mutations.
(5) The development of new heterowaxy or waxy sorghum hybrids may further increase sorghum feed efficiency.
(6) In the presence of both intact and disrupted amyloplasts an artificial preprotein (TP30), consisting of the waxy transit peptide plus the first 34 amino acids of the mature waxy protein fused in-frame to the beta-glucuronidase of Escherichia coli, is processed to the size expected when the transit peptide is cleaved off.
(7) The waxy exudates decreased in 11 patients (39.29%) and increased in 8 patients (28.57%).
(8) Based on these findings a hypothesis for the development of waxy degeneration is proposed: locally defects of the plasmamembrane cause segmental contracture, glycogen granules and water soluble enzymes are lost through holes in the plasma membrane, and finally the affected fibre segment becomes necrotic.
(9) Acid hydrolyzates of waxy-maize starch were separated to give Fractions I, II, and III [T. Watanabe, and D. French, Carbohydr.
(10) To study the effect of the degree of chain branching, waxy starch, containing 98% amylopectin, was compared with high amylose starch, containing 30% amylopectin, and normal crystalline starch, containing 74% amylopectin.
(11) Homology between the previously cloned maize waxy gene and the rice gene has facilitated our cloning of a 15-kb HindIII fragment that contains the entire rice gene.
(12) We report, however, the presence of maltose in waxy extracts, a disaccharide otherwise supposed to be absent in this genotype.
(13) In 3 cases additionally appeared: waxy pallor of optic disc, vascular narrowing, reflexless hypoplastic macula, pigmentless periphery, acquired blue-yellow blindness, concentric limitation of the visual field, reduced darkadaptation, abolished electroretinogram and myopic astigmatism.
(14) During oviposition, the inner cuticular layer unfolds and inflates into a pair of balloonlike structures that evert through the organ external aperture to receive and manipulate each egg as it is laid, coating it with a waxy layer that prevents desiccation.
(15) SDS-PAGE analysis of proteins bound to endosperm starch granules in the normal plants revealed a single band with a Mr of 60 kd, whereas waxy plants did not exhibit a similar band.
(16) The molecular basis for the unusual phenotype conditioned by the waxy(Wx)-m5 Ds allele has been elucidated.
(17) We demonstrate that these gene products are altered in rice strains containing mutant waxy genes.
(18) This tradition of what academics call "dark tourism" endures today: there is something morbid about peering at Amy Winehouse's skinny but healthily waxy arms.
(19) Eight patients developed a syndrome marked by features of catatonia (including posturing, waxy flexibility, withdrawal and regression) and parkinsonism (including bradykinesia and rigidity) while receiving high-potency neuroleptic drugs.
(20) Advanced cheiroarthropathy with shining waxy skin was diagnosed in 41 patients (group I).