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grume

(ɡruːm)
n
(Medicine) med a clot of blood
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Noun1.grume - a thick viscous liquid
liquid - a substance that is liquid at room temperature and pressure
2.grume - a semisolid mass of coagulated red and white blood cells
blood - the fluid (red in vertebrates) that is pumped through the body by the heart and contains plasma, blood cells, and platelets; "blood carries oxygen and nutrients to the tissues and carries away waste products"; "the ancients believed that blood was the seat of the emotions"
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Markus Helftewes, managing director for Der Grume Punkt, meanwhile, praises the strong cooperation between all five of the project's partners, suggesting it provides "a good example of the progress that can be made" toward closing the circle and reducing product waste.
Une grume longue d'environ 7,50 m a ete placee sur la remorque d'un camion pour etre presentee aux autorites francaises comme piece a conviction.
An engineer working with this piping configuration provided the above measurements along with some example calculations to give an idea of how the methodologies and results differed and arrived at the coaclusioa dial the Grume 11 and deflected cantilever methods agreed fairly closely while the ASHRAE method was much larger by a factor of 5.
Likewise, Parkinson, editing Gavin Douglas's The Palice of Honour, saw the poet's description of himself as 'maist lyk ane elrych grume' in line 299 to allude to the Host's observation in line 13 of The Prologue to Sir Thopas that Chaucer 'semeth eluyssh by his contenaunce' ('seems from his expression to be elvish').