(n.) A regimental staff officer, who assists the colonel, or commanding officer of a garrison or regiment, in the details of regimental and garrison duty.
(n.) A species of very large stork (Ciconia argala), a native of India; -- called also the gigantic crane, and by the native name argala. It is noted for its serpent-destroying habits.
Example Sentences:
(1) Ridgway Adjutant General's Corps (Educational and Training Services Branch) Army Reserve.
(2) Adjutant General's Corps (Educational and Training Services Branch).
(3) Adjutant General’s Corps (Staff and Personnel Support Branch) WO Class 1 Andrew George Johnson.
(4) Adjutant General’s Corps (Staff and Personnel Support Branch) Acting Lt Col Alan Francis O’Flanagan.
(5) Adjutant General’s Corps (Educational and Training Services Branch) Maj Guy John Nathaniel Mason.
(6) In five cases, adjutant endoscopic procedures were performed.
(7) Cpl Michael Clark Adjutant General's Corps (Staff and Personnel Support Branch).
(8) "It ought to be asked at the start and recorded in documents, particularly because of things like PTSD [post traumatic stress disorder]," said the retired adjutant general.
(9) Older priests occasionally found the former adjutant slightly laughable and questioned his assumption that his way to holiness was the only way.
(10) I don’t think that is an immediate plan,” he said, “but I think anywhere in the world … I wouldn’t rule anything out.” In an attempt to defend his national security credentials, Walker also spoke of “risk assessments given to me by the FBI and my adjutant general” in his role as governor of Wisconsin .
(11) He's right that it is a problem for the Labour party that it is led by two former adjutants of Gordon Brown, one of whom was City minister.
(12) Nominally, the intention was for Anthony to perform as a sort of adjutant to the general and as a youthful link between the princes of Astor's court.
(13) Late Adjutant General’s Corps (Army Legal Services Branch) Maj Gen John Crackett, TD.
(14) Adjutant General’s Corps (Royal Military Police) Acting Maj Douglas Charles Muirhead.
(15) Adjutant General’s Corps (Staffand Personnel Support Branch) Lt Col Andrew Martin Hart.
(16) Although LAM-B is a common antigen of both mycobacterium tuberculosis and mycobacterium leprae, the low prevalence of leprosy in China makes little influence of the practicability of using this ELISA in epidemiological study and in clinic as a adjutant tool for tuberculosis diagnosis and differential diagnosis.
Bird
Definition:
(n.) Orig., a chicken; the young of a fowl; a young eaglet; a nestling; and hence, a feathered flying animal (see 2).
(n.) A warm-blooded, feathered vertebrate provided with wings. See Aves.
(n.) Specifically, among sportsmen, a game bird.
(n.) Fig.: A girl; a maiden.
(v. i.) To catch or shoot birds.
(v. i.) Hence: To seek for game or plunder; to thieve.
Example Sentences:
(1) The birds were maintained at a constant temperature in, dim green light.
(2) Unlike most birds of prey, which are territorial and fight each other over nesting and hunting grounds, the hen harrier nests close to other harriers.
(3) No vaccination reactions were noted, although most birds involved in the trials were carrying Mycoplasma spp.
(4) Precipitating antibodies were found in both lines; they first appeared 7 days after inoculation in P-line birds and 14 days after inoculation in N-line birds, but thereafter there was no difference between the two genetic lines.
(5) The results indicate that, regardless of the photoperiod, no clear functional relationship can be found between the avian pineal gland and thyroid function, although a transitory increase in T4 levels was seen in both pinealectomized and sham-operated birds shortly after the operations.
(6) Differences between parental and nonparental birds in VIP profiles were detected in the ventral portion of the infundibular region.
(7) The enterococcal population of the 'dosed' birds contained a greater proportion of Enterococcus faecium than did that of the control birds while the converse was true for Ent.
(8) Somewhat surprisingly then, in view of the mechanisms in mammals, birds do not seem to use this seasonal message in the photoperiodic control of reproduction.
(9) After 32 days of feeding, body weight, liver weight and egg production decreased in birds fed lead while kidney weights increased.
(10) Phyla as diverse as insects, birds, and mammals possess distinct HRAS and KRAS sequences, suggesting that these genes are essential to metazoa.
(11) Changes in brain size are compared with observations found in other domesticated birds.
(12) The presence in lamprey kidney of a loop which is similar to Henle's loop in mammals and birds indicates that the development of the system of osmotic concentration conditioned by the formation in the kidney of the medulla and from a sharp increase in renal arterial blood supply.
(13) We simply do whatever nature needs and will work with anyone that wants to help wildlife.” His views might come as a surprise to some of the RSPB’s 1.1 million members, who would have been persuaded by its original pledge “to discourage the wanton destruction of birds”; they would equally have been a surprise to the RSPB’s detractors in the shooting world.
(14) Water restriction of HYD birds for 5 days as adults stimulated tubule hypertrophy but not to the same extent as the chronic regimen and with no evidence for hyperplasia.
(15) Thus, the possibility exists that androgen secretion in some chelonian systems may exhibit a high degree of LH specificity like that of mammals and birds.
(16) 1 After the injection of labelled procaine and lidocaine in mice, the location and concentration of radioactivity was demonstrated by autoradiographical methods.2 An accumulation in some endocrine cells such as the pancreatic islets, the hypophysis, the adrenal medulla and certain cells of the thyroid (probably representing the calcitonin-producing parafollicular cells) was shown.3 After the injection of [(14)C]-procaine in chicks, an accumulation of radioactivity was observed in the ultimobranchial gland (which produces calcitonin in birds), but not in the thyroid.4 Radioactivity was also shown to be strongly concentrated in structures containing melanin, such as the pigment of the eye, skin and hair and in some organs involved in the metabolism and excretion of these drugs.
(17) Respiration frequency increased during exposure to 35 (four birds) and 40 degrees C (six birds) in the normally hydrated quail, while in the dehydrated quail, respiration frequency increased only in three birds during exposure to 35 degrees C, and four birds during exposure to 40 degrees C, the frequencies were lower during dehydration.
(18) A man in New Zealand suggested that they need to rid the country of cats to protect their native birds.
(19) Birds showed evidence of increased tolerance, with age, to phenylpropanolamine but not to monensin.
(20) Again, changes in birds fed CTN + OA for 7 days were similar but milder.