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Synonyms for rut

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Synonyms for rut

a habitual, laborious, often tiresome course of action

a regular period of sexual excitement in female mammals

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Synonyms for rut

a groove or furrow (especially one in soft earth caused by wheels)

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a settled and monotonous routine that is hard to escape

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applies to nonhuman mammals: a state or period of heightened sexual arousal and activity

be in a state of sexual excitement

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hollow out in the form of a furrow or groove

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I suppose that over the last 40 years few other whitetail hunters have spent as many days or hours in the woods during the November rut as I have.
Since mature whitetail bucks, especially those 4 1/2 years of age and older, expand their ranges outside small core areas during the rut, it's easy to see why they are vulnerable on the roads.
Mrs <B Symptom of The Symptoms, who will be supporting The Ruts DC at The Cluny in Newcastle
For load ratios of 0.2 and 0.4, rut depth in reinforced specimens is reported 40% less than that of unreinforced specimens.
With reference to available literature (Kannemeyer 2003), the majority of the developed models of the ruts observed in asphalt base pavements evaluate materials not acceptable producing such types of pavements within the existing HDM-III models.
The Ruts DC support Biteback on Monday March 18 at Eric's.
According to the Catalogue of Reinforcements for Flexible and Semi-Rigid Pavements (2001) Poland uses the Road Surface Assessment System (SOSN), which remains in effect since 1989, the rut depths are measured on the yearly basis and they are the essentials in the assessment of road maintenance class.
Yet despite what we might like to believe, the rut does not occur in neat, precisely timed phases.
The "debt cycle" is really just a combination of other cycles of ruts: the "doing the same thing over and over" rut of the "I don't care--I deserve it" rut or the "I'm never going to dig myself out of this hole" rut.
I call myself the "rut control officer." We're in these ruts and we're trying to get ourselves out of these ruts.
SAGITTARIUS November 22-December 21 Early in May, new exercise routines get you out of personal ruts and into rutting form.
The single/RAP mixes were tested in the APA using the above described procedure, but it was found that most of the mixes developed deep ruts very rapidly.
Rather than give in to madness, we need to approach trickle ruts methodically.
Edward de Bono, the Father of lateral thinking, believes that because the world is too much with us, when we attempt to do some creative thinking there is a tendency For us to be so deeply within the ruts that we have worn down through our daily living that we often can't manage to see beyond the walls of our own devising.