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The study, published in Science Express by Jessica Tierney '04 GS in conjunction with researchers from Brown, the University of Arizona and the Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research, counters scientists who believed climate in this part of the world was determined by the low pressure system around the equator known as the inter-tropical convergence zone, according to the study.

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  1. transitive verb To place in a grave or tomb; bury.

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  • The study, published in Science Express by Jessica Tierney '04 GS in conjunction with researchers from Brown, the University of Arizona and the Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research, counters scientists who believed climate in this part of the world was determined by the low pressure system around the equator known as the inter-tropical convergence zone, according to the study. —  The Brown Daily Herald RSS
  • Benefits also included the subsidy on gasoline and the $200 million plus a year in subsidy for the inter island ferry service as well as the subsidised airfare and free travel on the ferry service for persons 65 years and over. —  TrinidadExpress Today's News
  • As it headed into the stormy area, known as the inter-tropical convergence zone, it is possible the radar which is designed to pick up water droplets was blinded. —  Latest News - Yahoo!7 News
  • Presently another went up, and then another, and still another, the singers behaving in every respect as they do by the Avon and the Tweed, and for a moment I seemed to be breathing the air that Wordsworth and Shelley breathed If our excursion had taken us only to the island of Oahu and its beautiful city, it would have been eminently worth while, but the last week in May we took what is called the inter-island trip, a six days' voyage among the various islands, when we visited the great extinct crater of Haleakala on Maui, and the active volcano Kilauea on Hawaii. —  Time and Change
  • Thus the seeds of long term inter-ethnic, inter-cultural, social and religious conflicts were sown, soon to blossom into full-fledged rifts. —  After the Rain : how the West lost the East
 

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  1. Middle English enteren, from Old French enterrer, from Medieval Latin interrāre : Latin in-, in; see in-2 + Latin terra, earth; see ters- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. Formerly enter; from Middle English enteren, from Old French enterrer, French enterrer = Provencal Spanish Portuguese enterrar = Italian interrare, from Middle Latin interrare, put in the earth, bury, from Latin in, in, + terra, earth: see terra.
  2. Latin, in the midst, between, during, among (in comp. also under, down: see inter-) (= Sanskrit antar, within), from in, in, within, + -ter, a comparative suffix, = English -der, -ther, -ter, in under, other, after, etc. Cf. under.
 

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