(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.
Stork
Definition:
(n.) Any one of several species of large wading birds of the family Ciconidae, having long legs and a long, pointed bill. They are found both in the Old World and in America, and belong to Ciconia and several allied genera. The European white stork (Ciconia alba) is the best known. It commonly makes its nests on the top of a building, a chimney, a church spire, or a pillar. The black stork (C. nigra) is native of Asia, Africa, and Europe.
Example Sentences:
(1) I found swans and storks and all manner of seabirds but, again, no owls, because stuffing them is forbidden in France.
(2) Antisera raised against domestic fowl transthyretin (thyroxine-binding prealbumin) and quail albumin were used to identify thyroxine-binding proteins in the plasma of White storks (Ciconia ciconia) and to measure seasonal changes in these proteins.
(3) The application of the transformation technique of Stork and Falk [J. Opt.
(4) "It's outrageous and cruel that people are taken off to detention and the families hear nothing until the body shows up with signs of abuse," said Joe Stork, deputy Middle East director at Human Rights Watch.
(5) "The Lebanese government is bearing an incomparable burden with the Syrian refugees crossing its borders, but blocking Palestinians from Syria is mishandling the situation," said HRW's deputy Middle East and North Africa director, Joe Stork.
(6) "There is a lack of transparency and there is every reason to think there has been a shocking lack of due process," said Joe Stork, deputy director of the Middle East and North Africa for the campaign group.
(7) In experiments, adult marabou storks were fed with hydatid fluid of viable Echinococcus cysts obtained from sheep and goats.
(8) His call was condemned by the evolutionary biologist Professor Richard Dawkins , who said: "If the museum was to go down that road then perhaps they should bring in the stork theory of where babies come from.
(9) The distribution of delta5 3beta-hydroxüsteroid dehydrogenase (delta5 3beta-HSDH), 17beta-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase (17beta-HSDH), Glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G-6-PDH) and NADH-diaphorase enzymes has been histochemically studied in the interrenal gland and the ovary of the stork-billed kingfisher, Pelargopsis capensis (Linn.).
(10) Paddle across the delta, the sea winds at your back, spotting storks, herons and kingfishers along the shore (three hours from €25).
(11) I've since heard about a rafting trip from Thun to the capital, Bern, that serves up fast-flowing Alpine water, views of the Bernese Alps and the chance of spotting storks, from an inflatable boat or canoe.
(12) The uropygial gland of the white stork secrets mono- and diester waxes as well as triglycerides, all of which contain unbranched medium chain fatty acids.
(13) The plasma concentrations of transthyretin and albumin were measured in male and female storks exposed to the photoperiodic and climatic conditions experienced during an annual cycle at 46 degrees N, 11 degrees E. The storks were in four age groups, fledglings and 1-, 2- and 3-year-old birds.
(14) At rest, however, there was a significant decrease in storke volume (p less than 0.05) and an increase in heart rate (p less than 0.05).
(15) Finally, in "Act 3", a stork flies across the screen and drops a baby Pac-Person in front of them.
(16) Joe Stork , the deputy Middle East director at Human Rights Watch, said: “The claims of Bahrain and its allies that authorities have ended torture in detention are simply not credible.
(17) "Iraqi security forces and officials act as if brutally abusing women will make the country safer," said Joe Stork, deputy Middle East and North Africa director at Human Rights Watch.
(18) The birdwatching is fantastic: on my way down south this time, I saw storks, vultures, eagles and the odd falcon sitting on a pole.
(19) Her brother helped her find a job at an advertising agency, but she was pretty skint all the same, living on the potato crisps that were served at parties, and going through the bins round the back of the Stork Club, where she found "handbags and all sorts of lovely things".
(20) Macular stains are commonly seen in newborns, and they consist of faint vascular stains of the glabella, eyelids, and nuchal region called "nevus flammeus," "stork bite," "salmon patch," etc.