Word Finder - summers

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One of four seasons, traditionally the second, marked by the longest and typically hottest days of the year due to the inclination of the Earth and thermal lag. Typically regarded as being from June 21 to September 22 or 23 in parts of the USA, the months of June, July and August in the United Kingdom and the months of December, January and February in the Southern Hemisphere.

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the heat of summer

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Year; used to give the age of a person, usually a young one.

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He was barely eighteen summers old.

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Someone with light, pinkish skin that has a blue undertone, light hair and eyes, seen as best suited to certain colors of clothing.

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A pack-horse.

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A horizontal beam supporting a building.

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A person who sums.

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A machine or algorithm that sums.

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In the summer.

The demon is too strong for a boy under the age of five summers.

After summers of waiting and years of agony underground, he had his tool to use against Memon.

In the east the winters are often long and very cold, and the summers dry and hot.

The climate is essentially of a moderate character; the winters are rarely very cold, and the summers are seldom of the intensely hot and dry nature which is characteristic of most southerly wine countries.

The northern summers find compensation for brevity in duration of sunshine and light.

In general terms it may be said that the extremes of temperature are not so great as in corresponding latitudes of the northern hemisphere, because of the greater expanse of water in comparison with the land areas, the summers being cooler and the winters warmer.

Formerly wheat was grown chiefly in the region of long rainless summers, and the ripened grain was thrown upon uncovered earth floors and threshed by horses driven about over the straw, but this antiquated process was not suited to the climate and enterprise of the more southern provinces, and the modern threshing-machine has been introduced.

There are some districts in central Chile where cattle-raising is the principal occupation, but the long dry summers limit the pasturage on the open plains and prevent the development which perhaps would otherwise result.

The island is ill supplied with fresh water; there are few permanent streams except the Rakli, and springs are apt to fail in dry summers.

The summers are much cooler than on the mainland at Sitka, but the winter temperature of the islands and of south-eastern Alaska is very nearly the same.

After one of the hottest European summers on record, how will ski resorts shape up this winter?

Bikini competitions are what youthful summers are all about.

In the farther interior, in the valleys of the Yukon, the Tanana, the Copper and the Sushitna the summers are much the same in character, the winters much more severe.

These lowland plains and valleys comprise the climatic tropical zone of Colombia, which is characterized by high temperatures, and by excessive humidity and dense forests, an exception to the last-named characteristic being the open llanos where dry summers prevail.

Farther south, at elevations between 800 and 9500 ft., the year is divided into four distinct seasons - two wet and two dry - the former called inviernos (winters) and the latter veranos (summers).

But this is evidently only the case when the reservoir impounding the water from such an area is of just sufficient capacity to equalize that flow without possible exhaustion in any one of the three summers.

A large section of the cabinet shared the queens hesitation, and Lord Palmerstonwith the weight of nearly eighty summers upon himwas not strong enough to enforce his will against both his sovereign and his colleagues.

The winters, especially in the central and north-western sections, are long and severe, and the summers in the central and south-western sections are very warm; but the air is so dry that cold and heat are less felt here than they are in some humid climates with less extreme temperatures.

A succession of wet summers told against all farmers, and in mountainous districts it was difficult to dry the turf on which the people depended for fuel.

Here the seasons are mild and equable, the winters are short (snow seldom falling), and the summers last for five months.

It has long winters, with an abundant snowfall, short and wet springs, hot summers and long and steady autumns.

In this zone the extremes of temperature are less, though the summers here also are warm, and the winters decidedly cool, especially in the north-east.

In this zone there prevails a genuine sub-tropical climate, with extremely warm and almost rainless summers and mild winters, the temperature hardly ever sinking below freezing-point.

But he turned his attention at an early date to literature, and for many years he appears to have spent his summers in the scriptorium.

We'll kill him when my heir, the second Tiyan ruler of my bloodline, reaches six summers in age.

Her father ruled a full thirty summers before the demon spoke to him and drove him mad.

The rather Bohemian family spent their summers on the coast of northern France.

His Bracken Ring and Bracken Knot lasted no more than two summers, changing from bright green to brown before their eventual disintegration.

Two summers ago, we had to replace the cylinder head gasket on Rosy's engine.

There are some small hotels, trattorias and cafes but little to mar a summers day idyll.

During hot damp summers when it is warm outside and cooler inside, wood tends to expand.

Railtrack announce they wish to shut down the entire west coast mainline for the next three summers.

Auckland, New Zealand In Auckland, the climate is almost subtropical with very mild winters and warm, rather humid, summers.

The recent hot summers have been good for breeding with the largest ever number of burrows recorded in 1996.

With dry summers, exposure of the litter can stop decomposition completely.

Climate change and warmer summers encourage them to breed.

Water shortages and droughts will also become more common as global climatic changes leave us with wetter winters and drier summers.

In this manner, I squeezed in three cigarettes and a few photos of the Texas I remember from my childhood summers.

According to James Red Sky, an Ojibwa Indian of Ontario, Canada. 'We saw a thunderbird a few summers ago.

I bought some underwear from Ann Summers sex shop in Brewer Street which is where I live.

Climate change is affecting and will continue to affect London, as our summers become hotter and drier and our winters wetter.

They granted only half the subsidies asked from them, pleading that three summers more of such taxation as the cardinal demanded for his master would leave the realm drained of its last penny, and reduced to f all back on primitive forms of barter, clothes for victuals and bread for cheese, out of mere want of coin.

The whole of my winters, as well as most of my summers, I had free and clear for study.

Actually, the only time I 've ever seen an Ann Summers catalog is the time I went to give a sperm donation.

Eurostop 's RF system will enable Ann Summers to bring its stocktaking operation in house, cutting cost, due to increased efficiency.

Warm and temperate with long hot summers, short mild winters and low rainfall.

She toured Britain for two summers with the Circus Space 's outdoor flying trapeze rig as both performer and production manager.

Summers are hot and dry, winters are relatively wet with most rain falling in November and December.

Climate models predict that Northern Ireland will see warmer wetter winters, with drier summers.

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