Sentence examples for water shield from inspiring English sources

Aquascutum is Latin for "water shield" — for those who needed a translation or had just stepped in from London's pouring rain.

Brasenia schreberi (water shield) and the seven species of Cabomba constitute a basal offshoot of Nymphaeaceae, which may also be split off as the family Cabombaceae.

Bamboo grows in the hills, and rice in the paddy fields; other specialties include water shield — an aquatic herb, from Taihu Lake, near the city of Suzhou — and intensely flavored cured ham from Jinhua.

These are protesters who, while calling for freedom, hand out biscuits and bottles of water, shield policemen from the rain and hang up notices apologising to local residents for "any inconvenience caused".

In the fourth century, a Chinese official, Zhang Han, is said to have abandoned his post in the north of the country, unable any longer to endure his craving for the water shield soup and sliced perch of his hometown in Jiangnan, a region to the south; ever since, "thinking of perch and water shield" (chun lu zhi si) has been the Chinese shorthand for homesickness.

The water shield, and the machine's location deep underground, are designed to protect it from cosmic rays, solar radiation and anything else that could cause false alarms.That LUX has so far failed to find anything is important, because it runs against a promising line of evidence.

Two aquatic families related to the water lilies are the water shields and the fanworts, making up the family Cabombaceae.

Cabombaceae, or the water shields and fanworts, is a closely related family with 2 genera, Cabomba and Brasenia, that is sometimes included in Nymphaeaceae.

Cherenkov radiation, produced by rapidly moving charged particles, is responsible for the eerie luminescence in pools of water shielding nuclear reactors.

For this study, more water shields oil from contacting CO2 occurred in the presence of different water saturations.

Shyeh-Yung (1991) attributed the increase of oil recovery in secondary mode application to less water shielding.