* Gelato, slowly frozen milk and water, lesser fat than ice cream

Very transparent gems are considered " first water ", while " second " or " third water " gems are those of a lesser transparency.

It accelerates soil warming and water evaporation in spring because of the lesser quantity of residues on the soil surface.

Sulfur is insoluble in water but soluble in carbon disulfide and, to a lesser extent, in other nonpolar organic solvents, such as benzene and toluene.

The existence of liquid water, and to a lesser extent its gaseous and solid forms, on Earth are vital to the existence of life on Earth as we know it.

Isolated water molecules, and silanols, structures such as Si-O-H, generally form a lesser proportion of the total and can reside near the surface or in defects inside the opal.

During lesser water flow, the falls often don't reach the ground.

As the cognac interacts with the oak barrel and the air, it evaporates at the rate of about three percent each year, slowly losing both alcohol and water Because the alcohol dissipates faster than the water, cognac reaches the target 40 % alcohol by volume in about four or five decades, though lesser grades can be produced much sooner by diluting the cognac with water, which also makes its flavor less concentrated.

After release, isoprene is converted by free radicals ( like the hydroxyl ( OH ) radical ) and to a lesser extent by ozone into various species, such as aldehydes, hydroperoxides, organic nitrates, and epoxides, which mix into water droplets and help create aerosols and haze.

In addition to its property of slowing down neutrons when serving as a moderator, water also has a property of absorbing neutrons, albeit to a lesser degree.

Reed failed to make the Harvard teams for football and crew, but excelled in other sports of lesser prestige, swimming and water polo.

Volcanos had a minor effect, modifying the continents and adding more sediment as well as some volcanic rocks, and successive lesser floods added more layers, so that most rocks resulted from precipitates settling out of water.

Only at the greater depths does water with a higher salinity ( 3. 4 %) flow into the gulf from the South China sea and fills the central depression below a depth of 50 m. The main rivers which empty into the gulf are the Chao Phraya ( including its distributary Tha Chin River ), Mae Klong and Bang Pakong Rivers at the Bay of Bangkok, and to a lesser degree the Tapi River into Bandon Bay in the southwest of the gulf.

They are similar to Notonecta glauca, the water boatman or back swimmer by appearance, although these lesser waterboatman are herbivores and swim on their fronts.

As graphite already moderated neutrons, light water had a lesser effect in slowing them down, but could still absorb them.

They prefer hunting large ungulates such as chital, sambar, gaur, and to a lesser extent also barasingha, water buffalo, nilgai, serow and takin.

It is not to be confused with the lesser bulldog bat, which, though belonging to the same genus, merely catches water insects, such as water striders and water beetles.

The extent of the damaged area continued downstream through Scio and Amity until the valley widened to accept the large flow of water in the lesser populated area.

In both cases the principle is the same: cold dense seawater sinks into the basalt of the seafloor and is heated at depth whereupon it rises back to the rock-ocean water interface due to its lesser density.

Members of the Corixidae are known in the United States as water boatmen, a term that is used in the United Kingdom for Notonecta glauca, a bug of a different family, Notonectidae, and Corixa punctata is the " lesser water boatman ".

Milton himself, uncommunicative as he is about his lesser and nonliterary activities, at least gives us some evidence that he was a great walker, under any and all conditions.

In the case of taxpaying corporate stockholders, the measure would be the lesser of the fair market value of the shares or Du Pont's tax basis for them, which is approximately $2.09 per share.

Most of the grain is fed to swine and dairy cows and lesser amounts to beef cattle and poultry.

If an evil which is certain and extensive and immediate may rarely be compensated for by a problematic, speculative, future good, by the same token not every present, certain, and immediate good ( or lesser evil ) that may have to be done will be outweighed by a problematic, speculative, and future evil.

"' The only exception to this is that if a defendant appeals a conviction for a crime having multiple levels of offenses, where they are convicted on a lesser offense, the appeal is of the lesser offense ; the conviction represents an acquittal of the more serious offenses.

The general consensus amongst scholars is that Luwian was spoken — to a greater or lesser degree — across a large area of western Anatolia, including ( possibly ) Wilusa (= Troy ), the Seha River Land ( to be identified with the Hermos and / or Kaikos valley ), and the kingdom of Mira-Kuwaliya with its core territory of the Maeander valley.

As an example, heavier halogens are darker than are halogens of lesser atomic weight – fluorine is nearly colorless, chlorine is bright green, bromine is brown, and iodine is dark gray / violet.

For example, a common claim is that individuals who are diagnosed with one of the so-called " lesser disabilities " are being " accommodated " when they should not be.

When the grammatical dual form of Ajax is used in the Iliad, it was once believed that it indicated the lesser Ajax fighting side-by-side with Telamonian Ajax, but now it is generally thought that that usage refers to the Greater Ajax and his brother Teucer.

Alberta's economy is one of the strongest in Canada, supported by the petroleum industry and, to a lesser extent, agriculture and technology.

Afrikaans is a West Germanic language, spoken natively in South Africa, Namibia and to a lesser extent in Botswana and Zimbabwe.

Defendants can take advantage of the ability to use the Alford guilty plea, by admitting there is enough evidence to convict them of a higher crime, while at the same time pleading guilty to a lesser charge.

There is evidence of Neolithic and even Paleolithic paintings in caves on Levanzo, and to a lesser extent on Favignana.

Agaropectin is a heterogeneous mixture of smaller molecules that occur in lesser amounts.

Lifted serves may be either high serves, where the shuttlecock is lifted so high that it falls almost vertically at the back of the court, or flick serves, where the shuttlecock is lifted to a lesser height but falls sooner.

Bambara, also known as Bamana, and Bamanankan by speakers of the language, is a language spoken in Mali, and to a lesser extent Burkina Faso, Senegal by as many as six million people ( including second language users ).

In the United States ( US ), discharge is conditioned to a lesser extent.

It also is cultivated as a medicinal herb, as a condiment, and to a lesser extent as an insect repellent.

In the case of an order of summary punishment ( Strafbefehl ), which can be issued by the court without a trial for lesser misdemeanours ( German: Vergehen ), there is a further exception:

Pope Pius XI, in Quadragesimo Anno, provided the classical statement of the principle: " Just as it is gravely wrong to take from individuals what they can accomplish by their own initiative and industry and give it to the community, so also it is an injustice and at the same time a grave evil and disturbance of right order to assign to a greater and higher association what lesser and subordinate organizations can do.

Conquest says that the application of party theory to the Kazakhs, and to a lesser extent to the other nomad peoples, amounted economically to the imposition by force of an untried stereotype on a functioning social order, with disastrous results.

Instead, he maintained, " the British fleet should be as compact as possible, in order to take the critical moment of an advantage opening ..." Others criticise Hood because he " did not wholeheartedly aid his chief ", and that a lesser officer " would have been court-martialled for not doing his utmost to engage the enemy.

The Convention divides drugs into four groups, or schedules, in order to enforce a greater or lesser degree of control for the various substances and compounds.

Jewish actor John Garfield agreed to play a lesser role in the film in order to be a part of the film.

This is concordant with the European pagan tradition, which named the days of the week after the seven Classical planets ( in order Sun, Moon, Mars, Mercury, Jupiter, Venus, Saturn ), naming the first day of the week for the Sun, perceived as most important, and moving to those perceived as lesser.

Sometimes the cutters compromise and accept lesser proportions and symmetry in order to avoid inclusions or to preserve the weight.

Mulroney entered 1993 facing a statutory general election ( under Canadian law, Canadian federal governments can have a maximum duration of five years, but they often have lesser duration as they must enjoy the confidence of the Parliament of Canada in order to continue to exist ).

* The royal flag with the lesser national coat of arms is hoisted at the Royal Palace, if by reason of illness, foreign travel or for any other cause, the King is unavoidably prevented from performing his duties ; a member of the Royal House under the valid order of succession who is not prevented there from, assumes and performs the duties of the Head of State in the capacity of Regent ad interim.

( There are two lesser orders, the stocky Tuscan order and the rich variant of Corinthian, the Composite order, added by 16th century Italian architectural theory and practice.

The examinations were carefully structured in order to ensure that people of lesser means than what was available to candidates born into wealthy, landowning families were given a greater chance to pass the exams and obtain an official degree.

He had only passed one basic exam, and later was found to have forged character references in order to receive a lesser sentence.

In order to prevent its semi-open heathland from being repopulated by trees, especially pines and, to a lesser extent, silver birches, which would cause the loss of this millennia-old environment and its many inhabitants, including often very rare animal and plant species, sheep are allowed to graze it regularly ; these are almost exclusively the local German moorland sheep, the Heidschnucke.

Rome's officials and priests reclined in order of precedence alongside and ate the meat ; lesser citizens may have had to provide their own.

Vegetable farming persisted, but to a much lesser extent, because urbanization enveloped vast tracts of land in short order.

Many of the Anglo-Saxon nobles lost lands and titles ; the lesser thegns and others found themselves lower down the social order than previously.

Moreouer, vpon the Hawe at Plymmouth, there is cut out in the ground, the pourtrayture of two men, the one bigger, the other lesser, with Clubbes in their hands, ( whom they terme Gog-Magog ) and ( as I haue learned ) it is renewed by order of the Townesmen, when cause requireth, which should inferre the same to bee a monument of some moment.

" However, the correct interpretation of fratres minores is " lesser brothers ," because the Franciscan order stresses minority or humility.

A general order has the force of law ; it is an offense punishable by court martial or lesser military court to disobey one.

In 1944, Germans clandestinely armed a few regional Armia Krajowa ( AK ) units operating in the area of Vilnius in order to encourage them to act against the Soviet partisans in the region ; in Nowogrodek district and to a lesser degree in Vilnius district ( AK turned these weapons against the Nazis during Operation Ostra Brama ).

Haggard maintained that it was Britain's " mission to conquer and hold in subjection " lesser races, " not from thirst of conquest but for the sake of law, justice, and order ".

In justified text, the spaces between words, and, to a lesser extent, between glyphs or letters ( kerning ), are stretched or sometimes compressed in order to make the text align with both the left and right margins.