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The Wheeler–Kenyon method is characterised by intact baulks (pictured here topped with white sandbags) between each excavation unit. backfill 1. To re-fill a trench once an excavation has been completed. 1A. To re-fill a cut and cover tunnels 1B. To re-fill unused canals 1C. To re-fill trenches for gas, water, power and communication lines 2.
A fossil word is a word that is broadly obsolete but remains in current use due to its presence within an idiom or phrase. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] An example for a word sense is 'ado' in 'much ado'. An example for a phrase is ' in point ' (relevant), which is retained in the larger phrases ' case in point ' (also 'case on point' in the legal context) and ...
Intact may refer to: Intact (group of companies), a Romanian media trust; Intact (album) and "Intact" (song) by Ned's Atomic Dustbin; Intacto, a film; Entire (animal), describing an animal that has not been spayed or neutered; Genital integrity; Intact Financial, a Canadian insurance company
Thus one may refer to "three cattle" or "some cattle", but not "one cattle". "One head of cattle" is a valid though periphrastic way to refer to one animal of indeterminate or unknown age and sex; otherwise no universally used single-word singular form of cattle exists in modern English, other than the sex- and age-specific terms such as cow ...
Synonym list in cuneiform on a clay tablet, Neo-Assyrian period [1] A synonym is a word, morpheme, or phrase that means precisely or nearly the same as another word, morpheme, or phrase in a given language. [2] For example, in the English language, the words begin, start, commence, and initiate are all synonyms of one another: they are ...
Cultural property includes the physical, or "tangible" cultural heritage, such as artworks. These are generally split into two groups of movable and immovable heritage. Immovable heritage includes buildings (which themselves may include installed art such as organs, stained glass windows, and frescos), large industrial installations, residential projects, or other historic places and monum
Cranmore Castle in Devon is an Iron Age earthwork.Like many scheduled monuments, it blends into the landscape, and may not be evident even to those crossing over it. In the United Kingdom, a scheduled monument is a nationally important archaeological site or historic building, given protection against unauthorised change.
In situ [a] is a Latin phrase meaning "in place" or "on site", derived from in ('in') and situ (ablative of situs, lit. ' place '). [3] The term refers to the examination of phenomena or objects within their original place or context. This methodological approach, used across diverse disciplines, maintains contextual integrity essential for ...