Heath
noun
A wide area of open, uncultivated land, often with shrubs and small plants.
They went for a hike across the heath.
Often appears as...
- walk across the heath
- overgrown heath
noun
A small, shrubby plant with small flowers, usually found on uncultivated land.
She noticed a patch of heath growing near the stream.
Often appears as...
- patch of heath
- heath plant
noun
A wide area of open, uncultivated land, often with shrubs and small plants.
They went for a hike across the heath.
Often appears as...
- walk across the heath
- overgrown heath
noun
A small, shrubby plant with small flowers, usually found on uncultivated land.
She noticed a patch of heath growing near the stream.
Often appears as...
- patch of heath
- heath plant
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Pro Tip 1/3Natural Setting
Use 'heath' to describe open, wild landscapes, often in British English contexts.
They camped overnight on the misty heath.
Pro Tip 2/3Literary Scenes
'Heath' often appears in literature to evoke bleak or solemn moods.
The novel's climax took place on a desolate heath.
Pro Tip 3/3Not a Garden
A heath is wild and untouched, unlike a garden or park that's maintained.
Wildflowers thrived on the untended heath.
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barrenmoorpampasplainsteppetundrawasteland
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Stewart Brand: The dawn...
that can be raised by band-tailed pigeon parents, and then from then on, it's passenger pigeons all the way, maybe for the next six million years. You can do the same thing, as the costs come down, for the Carolina parakeet, for the great auk, for the heath hen, for the ivory-billed woodpecker,
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For more wonder, rewild...
it means blocking the drainage ditches, it means preventing commercial fishing in some large areas of sea, but otherwise stepping back. It has no view as to what a right ecosystem or a right assemblage of species looks like. It doesn't try to produce a heath or a meadow
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From the top of the food...
reestablishing species which have been driven out, and then stepping back. There is no attempt to create an ideal ecosystem, to produce a heath, a rainforest or a coral reef. Rewilding is about bringing back the species that drive dynamic processes
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Hans Rosling: Let my...
And on this axis, GDP. And on this, heath, child survival, and it doesn't come as a surprise that Africa south of Sahara is at the bottom. But when I split it, when I split it into country bubbles, the size of the bubbles here is the population.
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How motivation can fix...
drug stock-outs or poor quality of care. Where would you start then? I'm a management consultant, and for the last three years, I've been working on a project to improve the public heath system of Rajasthan,
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UK National Parks in 100...
they have the potential to provide homes for a rich variety of plants and animals we explore heaths and moors for 22 seconds of our walk stepping over heather bilbrey cowberry
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Meet the World's Tiniest...
include lodgepole pine eucalyptus Banksia some cypress trees sequoia trees some species of spruce and green heath in some forests the species have adapted
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Beautiful Butterfly...
it also disappears with neglect the heath for tillery was known as the woodman's friend thriving where trees were cut down and
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Heath Fritillary...
neglect the heath fritillary was known as the Woodman's friend thriving where trees were cut down and light flooded in
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Peek Inside the Strange,...
onto the heath where the woodland has been kept at bay for centuries equine teeth have shaped this world but the
Video examples
Stewart Brand: The dawn...
that can be raised by band-tailed pigeon parents, and then from then on, it's passenger pigeons all the way, maybe for the next six million years. You can do the same thing, as the costs come down, for the Carolina parakeet, for the great auk, for the heath hen, for the ivory-billed woodpecker,
Video examples
For more wonder, rewild...
it means blocking the drainage ditches, it means preventing commercial fishing in some large areas of sea, but otherwise stepping back. It has no view as to what a right ecosystem or a right assemblage of species looks like. It doesn't try to produce a heath or a meadow
Video examples
From the top of the food...
reestablishing species which have been driven out, and then stepping back. There is no attempt to create an ideal ecosystem, to produce a heath, a rainforest or a coral reef. Rewilding is about bringing back the species that drive dynamic processes
Video examples
Hans Rosling: Let my...
And on this axis, GDP. And on this, heath, child survival, and it doesn't come as a surprise that Africa south of Sahara is at the bottom. But when I split it, when I split it into country bubbles, the size of the bubbles here is the population.
Video examples
How motivation can fix...
drug stock-outs or poor quality of care. Where would you start then? I'm a management consultant, and for the last three years, I've been working on a project to improve the public heath system of Rajasthan,
Video examples
UK National Parks in 100...
they have the potential to provide homes for a rich variety of plants and animals we explore heaths and moors for 22 seconds of our walk stepping over heather bilbrey cowberry
Video examples
Meet the World's Tiniest...
include lodgepole pine eucalyptus Banksia some cypress trees sequoia trees some species of spruce and green heath in some forests the species have adapted
Video examples
Beautiful Butterfly...
it also disappears with neglect the heath for tillery was known as the woodman's friend thriving where trees were cut down and
Video examples
Heath Fritillary...
neglect the heath fritillary was known as the Woodman's friend thriving where trees were cut down and light flooded in
Video examples
Peek Inside the Strange,...
onto the heath where the woodland has been kept at bay for centuries equine teeth have shaped this world but the
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Frans van Houten
Dutch Businessman
Certain product categories become less attractive for us because, as they become mature, they become low-cost, and hence, there is less to invent. There is less to invent in a television, whereas in heath technology, there is a lot to invent. So we wanted to put our innovative power to work where it really matters.
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Martin Henderson
New Zealander Actor
Heath, I believed in him when I first met him, and helped and supported him. He went on to obvious success in the States and then I had him support me. It can be a lonely, horrible, hard place. It's great just to have someone to call to say 'I know, man, I was there
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Claire McCaskill
American Politician
Being a new mother was a joyful and sometimes overwhelming experience - and as the first Missouri female state legislator to have a baby while in office, having heath care for myself and my son gave me some needed peace of mind.
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Mary Wollstonecraft
British Writer
Independence I have long considered as the grand blessing of life, the basis of every virtue; and independence I will ever secure by contracting my wants, though I were to live on a barren heath.
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Shaheer Sheikh
Indian Actor
It's amazing when people who don't even know you pray for your good heath and success. But being a private person, sometimes I don't know how to handle the adulation that comes my way.
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Barbie Ferreira
American Model
I just think dieting is something that is run by a billion dollar - a multi-billion dollar - industry that isn't always looking out for your heath. There's healthy ways to do it.
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Alex Ebert
American Musician
Heath Ledger was supposed to put our album on what would have been a new record label. I still feel a little dead after losing him.
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Shekhar Kapur
Indian Actor
Heath Ledger is someone I know and would like to do a film with.
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Cain Velasquez
American Athlete
Heath Herring is tough as nails, and he fights hard.
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Declan Rice
English Athlete
Everyone knows Chadwell Heath; it's historic.
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Frans van Houten
Dutch Businessman
Certain product categories become less attractive for us because, as they become mature, they become low-cost, and hence, there is less to invent. There is less to invent in a television, whereas in heath technology, there is a lot to invent. So we wanted to put our innovative power to work where it really matters.
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Martin Henderson
New Zealander Actor
Heath, I believed in him when I first met him, and helped and supported him. He went on to obvious success in the States and then I had him support me. It can be a lonely, horrible, hard place. It's great just to have someone to call to say 'I know, man, I was there
Quote examples
Claire McCaskill
American Politician
Being a new mother was a joyful and sometimes overwhelming experience - and as the first Missouri female state legislator to have a baby while in office, having heath care for myself and my son gave me some needed peace of mind.
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Mary Wollstonecraft
British Writer
Independence I have long considered as the grand blessing of life, the basis of every virtue; and independence I will ever secure by contracting my wants, though I were to live on a barren heath.
Quote examples
Shaheer Sheikh
Indian Actor
It's amazing when people who don't even know you pray for your good heath and success. But being a private person, sometimes I don't know how to handle the adulation that comes my way.
Quote examples
Barbie Ferreira
American Model
I just think dieting is something that is run by a billion dollar - a multi-billion dollar - industry that isn't always looking out for your heath. There's healthy ways to do it.
Quote examples
Alex Ebert
American Musician
Heath Ledger was supposed to put our album on what would have been a new record label. I still feel a little dead after losing him.
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Shekhar Kapur
Indian Actor
Heath Ledger is someone I know and would like to do a film with.
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Cain Velasquez
American Athlete
Heath Herring is tough as nails, and he fights hard.
Quote examples
Declan Rice
English Athlete
Everyone knows Chadwell Heath; it's historic.
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