Definición & Significado | Palabra Inglés BLIGHT
BLIGHT
Definiciones de BLIGHT
- Plaga, roya.
- Deterioro urbano.
- Desgracia, maldición, infortunio.
- Tener plaga.
- Arruinar, destruir
Número de letras
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Es palíndromo
No
Ejemplos de uso de BLIGHT en una oración
- One theory is that the Fomorians were supernatural beings representing the wild or destructive powers of nature; personifications of chaos, darkness, death, blight and drought.
- Mechanization of agriculture and the blight of the boll weevil both reduced the need for farm workers; they left the area and often the state.
- By the late 1990s however, urban blight, financial decay, and violence had already plagued Birmingham's eastern neighborhoods such as Woodlawn and East Lake, which soon began to spill into still unincorporated Center Point.
- Oxford Energy officials heard about it causing an eyesore and environmental blight and in 1984 approached both Filbin and the county, proposing the tire-to-energy project.
- A series of droughts, attacks of blight, competition from growers in other states (particularly Michigan), and finally a killer freeze destroyed the industry.
- In response to years of neglect and blight, several revitalization efforts are currently underway in the community bringing results.
- Chinquapins (Castanea pumila) grew abundantly in the surrounding prairie until the chestnut blight wiped them out.
- When steam-powered ships arrived, Robbinston returned to fishing and farming potatoes, which escaped the blight found in warmer areas.
- After World War II, a potato blight combined with the desire of many returning GIs to leave New York City for the more rural Long Island, convinced many farmers to sell their property, leading to massive development in the area, giving rise to so-called suburban sprawl.
- Incorporated in 1903, Wendell was settled in the 1850s, when farmers in Granville County were victims of a blight that came to be known as the Granville County Wilt.
- Elsinore was home to a Utah-Idaho Sugar Company factory for processing sugar beets into sugar from 1911 to 1929, but was closed due to a sugar beet blight.
- Fusarium ear blight (FEB) (also called Fusarium head blight, FHB, or scab), is a fungal disease of cereals, including wheat, barley, oats, rye and triticale.
- Phytophthora infestans is an oomycete or water mold, a fungus-like microorganism that causes the serious potato and tomato disease known as late blight or potato blight.
- In the late 19th century, the entire species was nearly destroyed in an event known as the Great French Wine Blight, in which the grape pest phylloxera, an insect related to aphids, was accidentally introduced to Europe from North America.
- It was his opinion that viewing the problems of humankind—environmental deterioration, poverty, endemic ill-health, urban blight, criminality—individually, in isolation or as "problems capable of being solved in their own terms", was doomed to failure.
- Blight is a rapid and complete chlorosis, browning, then death of plant tissues such as leaves, branches, twigs, or floral organs.
- In the 1990s, the Blight Committee was formed to enforce appearance laws, and even demolish properties which it deems are unsightly and unkempt.
- Fire blight, also written fireblight, is a contagious disease affecting apples, pears, and some other members of the family Rosaceae.
- From 1925 to 1928 he shared a cottage with the composer Peter Warlock; the bohemian lifestyle and heavy drinking during this period interrupted his creativity for a while, and sowed the seeds of the alcoholism that would blight his later life.
- In 1848 he published his Life of Shakespeare, illustrated by John Thomas Blight (1835–1911), which had several editions; in 1853–1865 a sumptuous edition, limited to 150 copies, of Shakespeare in folio, with full critical notes.
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