A surname from Spanish.
loma
Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for loma.
Editorial note
You can see that in action if you look at photos of the Bay Bridge after Loma Prieta.
Quick take
A surname from Spanish.
Meaning at a glance
The clearest senses and uses of loma gathered in one view.
A people of Liberia and Guinea.
The Mande language of these people.
Definitions
Core meanings and parts of speech for loma.
noun
A surname from Spanish.
noun
A people of Liberia and Guinea.
noun
The Mande language of these people.
noun
A census-designated place in Mesa County, Colorado, United States.
Example sentences
You can see that in action if you look at photos of the Bay Bridge after Loma Prieta.
The 20 seconds of shaking during the Loma Prieta Quake certainly felt like minutes to me!
There's good stuff in John McPhee's Assembling California [1] about the '89 Loma Prieta earthquake, and about earthquakes in general.
At the time of the Loma Prieta earthquake we lived in a forest of 100 foot pine trees.
Born SDA myself, I can tell you that Loma Linda is not a hotbed of exercise and caloric restriction.
So does it apply to all SDA's or just in Loma Linda.
I've lived in California all my life and was in San Mateo during Loma Prieta.
It was the most powerful earthquake to hit the Bay Area since the Loma Prieta earthquake of 1989, which collapsed a section of the Bay Bridge.
I lived through the Loma Prieta earthquake 6.9 and the San Simeon earthquake 6.5.
Among the lifestyle characteristics shared among the Okinawa, Sardinia, and Loma Linda Blue Zones are the following:[4] Family - Family is put ahead of other concerns.
The 1989 Loma Pietra earthquake was a bigger deal.
(And the benefits are not localized to Loma Linda; the researchers hit upon SDAs there because the concentration in Loma Linda was high enough to show up on zip based data).
Quote examples
Sprout Systems (the original one at sproutit.com, thank you very much, not the one Clustrix merged with) lived in Prague for ten months when developing Mailroom: "The three of us met in school at Point Loma Nazarene University in San Diego.
The Bay Area is an area of "tectonic activity" (as evidenced by Loma Prieta in 1989, and now the the 6.0 from yesterday) - but I"m willing to wager fewer than 1 in a thousand people anchor their fridge to the wall.
As this article noted before even the first of so many page breaks: "And in Loma Linda, Calif., we identified a population of Seventh-day Adventists in which most of the adherents’ life expectancy exceeded the American average by about a decade." A full decade, within the same American safety net, is a tremendous difference.
Proper noun examples
Loma Linda is the only blue zone in the USA, and it is dominated by adventists who are predominately vegetarian.
Loma Prieta, the earthquake, removed some freeways and opened up the Embarcadero, which was an industrial zoned ringed by a double decker freeway.
A floating metropolis off the coast of Point Loma!
Frequently asked questions
Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.
How do you use loma in a sentence?
You can see that in action if you look at photos of the Bay Bridge after Loma Prieta.
What does loma mean?
A surname from Spanish.
What part of speech is loma?
loma is commonly used as noun.