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cold frame
cold frame in horticulture, sun-heated board frame covered with a removable top of glass or other transparent material and sunk into the ground. The top may be solid or slatted or screened for shade. The cold frame is used to start seedlings in early spring (four to six weeks before the average... Read more |
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Weston-super-Mare
Weston-super-Mare , city (1991 pop. 60,821), North Somerset, SW England, on the Bristol Channel. It is a seaside resort with attractions that include Worlebury Hill, with its Iron Age hill fort and beautiful view of the opposite coast of Wales; a long esplanade; and Brean Down, a bird sanctuary. The... Read more |
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Frame of Reference
FRAME OF REFERENCE CONCEPT Among the many specific concepts the student of physics must learn, perhaps none is so deceptively simple as frame of reference. On the surface, it seems obvious that in order to make observations, one must do so from a certain point in space and... Read more |
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Dugout
DUGOUT DUGOUT, a temporary home of the prairie settlers. Lumber was scarce and expensive for settlers moving out to the plains in the late nineteenth century, so they erected these structures to provide immediate shelter for themselves and their families. Built into the side of a hill or ravine,... Read more |
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hotbed
hotbed low, glass-covered frame structure for starting tender plants. It differs from a cold frame only in that the soil is heated—either artificially as by underground electric wiring or steampipes, or naturally with partially fermented stable manure, which is mixed with dead leaves or... Read more |
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Reading Frame
Reading Frame Almost all organisms translate their genes into protein structures using an identical, universal codon dictionary in which each amino acid in the protein is represented by a combination of only three nucleotides. For example, the sequence AAA in a gene is transcribed into the... Read more |
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furniture
...with removable tops, collapsible bed-frames, portable chests); ‘fixed’ furniture...Horace Walpole's neo-Gothic Strawberry Hill innovatively created an environment to express...metal was used structurally for bed-frames (eliminating bed-bugs) and cast-iron... |
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Lancashire
...the soft water and mild, moist climate, since the Pennine hills entrap east-moving clouds; linen (west) and wool (east...spinning (Hargreaves's spinning jenny, Arkwright's water frame, Crompton's mule) and development of steam-power in the... |
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Bellamy, Ralph
...man made his debut in a 1922 production of The Shepherd of the Hills on the Chautauqua Circuit and after many seasons in stock first...before he returned to New York to create the role of Michael Frame, who helps reeducate a young Nazi, in Tomorrow the World... |
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flat
...the cake to make it completely flat. ∎ (of land) without hills: thirty-five acres of flat countryside. ∎ (of an expanse...flats) an upright section of painted stage scenery mounted on a frame. ∎ inf. a flat tire. ∎ a shallow container in which seedlings... |
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Oisín
...encountered Scottish Gaelic ballads constructed on this rhetorical frame, with Oisín as narrator, he fabricated a series of prose...druid. When the hounds Bran and Sceolang chase the doe to the Hill of Allen, Fionn gives her protection, and is delightfully... |
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Part 1 Animal science.(Part 5: S-Z)(Definition)
...types but are usually made of heavy leather over a well-padded frame. They are often raised in the rear to hold the body in place...loops which fit under the wings. (5) The uncut stalks of four hills of corn from two rows, tied together, around which corn is... |
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Fionn mac Cumhaill
...brave and admirable, especially in stories told in Ossianic frame (i.e. conventionally narrated by Fionn's son Oisín or compatriot...Ireland; Fionn's customary fortress or ‘palace’ is the Hill of Allen [OIr. Almu; ModIr. Almhain] in Co. Kildare... |
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Part 3 Forestry and natural resources management.(Part 4: S-Z)(Definition)
...types but are usually made of heavy leather over a well-padded frame. They are often raised in the rear to hold the body in place...loops which fit under the wings. (5) The uncut stalks of four hills of corn from two rows, tied together, around which corn is... |
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glass
...from: a beer glass. ∎ glassware. ∎ greenhouses or cold frames considered collectively. ∎ chiefly Brit. a mirror. ∎ archaic...with binoculars: the first day was spent glassing the rolling hills. 3. poetic/lit. reflect in or as if in a mirror: the opposite... |
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set
...informal stick, dump, park, plunk. 2. the cottage is set on a hill synonyms: be situated, be located, lie, stand, be sited...down some rules synonyms: formulate, draw up, establish, frame; lay down, determine, fix, stipulate, specify, prescribe... |
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Squirrel Hill frame-maker's work popular in scientific communities
...Leon Semins of Squirrel Hill, owner and operator of the former Keystone Picture Frame Co., Downtown, died Monday...Born and raised in the Hill District, Mr. Semins was...Dorothy Greenfield of Squirrel Hill, five grandchildren and one... |
 "The Birmingham Post (England)")
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RUGBY UNION WORLD CUP 2003: Delay leaves Hill in frame for England.(Sport)
...delivered another upbeat injury bulletin, headed by flanker Richard Hill's probable return to action after a month out. Woodward had...injuries that are long-term, and I have been told that Richard Hill will be training full-on today. That is the first time that... |
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Motor racing: Stewart puts Hill in the frame
...25m which could have a bearing on Damon Hill's future. The Hong Kong and Shanghai...number of teams, are awaiting signs of Hill's intentions. With the money now in...reiterated that he would like to have Hill in the team. "It would be a dream come... |
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Rugby Union: Hill in the frame for Bristol post.(Sport)
NEWPORT assistant Richard Hill is being lined up to take charge at crisis-hit Bristol. The former...and have had to cope with a massive player exodus this summer. But Hill, who only spent a season at Rodney Parade as deputy to Leigh Jones... |
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Court storms the hill.(Freeze Frame)
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Caption: At Court TV'S Capitol Hill luncheon on mandatory minimum sentencing (l. to r.): former Solicitor General Ted Olson; Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y... |
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Silver lining at blue hill.(Freeze Frame)
Comcast's Boston system and The Weather Channel sponsored a stamp-design contest that sent winners to Blue Hill Observatory in East Milton, Mass., for the unveiling of the Postal Service's "CIoudscapes" eeries. On hand (1. to r... |
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Tower block is demolished in Old Hill; Freeze frame August 19, 1996.(Features)
...Country was blown up as part of a pounds 13.6 million rejuvenation project. The tower block in the Riddins Mound estate in Old Hill, was demolished in August 1996. Built in the late 1960s, the estate housed 547 families in three tower blocks, seven three... |
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TV HILL'S IN THE FRAME.(News)
...Byline: JAMES DESBOROUGH MADCAP comic Harry Hill is the new host of TV's You've Been...introductions from an on-screen frontman. Hill, star of TV Burp, replaces Jonathan Wilkes...failed to set the schedules alight. Harry Hill told The People: "I always say You... |
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Down from the Hill. (Freeze Frame).(United States Republican Darrell Issa...
U.S. Rep Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) recently visited The Outdoor Channels Temecula, Calif., headquarters. Pictured (I. to r Outdoor general counsel Rick Dicksen and president/CEO Andy Dale; Issa; and network chairman Perry Massie and controller Mark Corcoran. |
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Cable on the hill. (Freeze Frame).
Mediacom mid-Atlantic senior manager, government relations Maggie Blythe (l.) bends the ear of U.S. Rep. Richard Burr of North Carolina during the American Cable Association's Washington Legislative Summit. |
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