(n.) A city of Asia Minor (or Anatolia) which has given its name to a goat, a cat, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) The majority of Angora goats in the United States are in Texas, although several other states have significant populations.
(2) Despite physiological differences, acidified milk replacer can be used successfully to raise Angora kids.
(3) The animals were of various breeds including Angora, New Zealand feral, Angora x feral, Saanen and Toggenburg.
(4) Mineral requirements and plant toxicities may vary between regions where Angora goats are raised.
(5) In the first of two experiments, four wether lambs (BW = 26.8 kg) and four wether Angora goats (BW = 31.7 kg) were used in two simultaneous 4 x 4 Latin squares to study the influence of condensed tannins (CT) on nutrient usage and concentrations of serum urea N, somatotropin (GH), and insulin (INS) when the animals were fed low-quality diets containing mountain mahogany (MM; Cercocarpus montanus) leaves.
(6) Adult ixodid ticks were collected at 2-weekly intervals for a period of 23 consecutive months from 15 to 20 Angora goats on a farm in the south western Orange Free State.
(7) Faecal egg counts and serum prolactin concentrations in 13 pregnant and five non-pregnant Angora goats were monitored over a period of 20 weeks.
(8) Helminth parasites were collected from 13 grysbok, Raphicerus melanotis, 12 common duikers, Sylvicapra grimmia, 24 Angora goats and 24 Boer goats killed on a farm in Valley Bushveld in the eastern Cape Province.
(9) Because of the high protein requirement, the marginal dietary protein in many Angora diets, and the traditional raising of Angoras in arid regions where browsing of plants off the ground is typical, Angoras in wet regions that are forced to graze seem to be especially susceptible to internal parasitism with Haemonchus contortus.
(10) Young and adult Angora goats were exposed to infestation during two paralysis tick seasons.
(11) These results suggest that artificial insemination may be utilized to improve reproductive performance in French Angora rabbits.
(12) Natural bluetongue infection has not been observed in Angora or dairy goats.
(13) In Angora goats three different phenotypes have been recognized: F, S, and FS.
(14) In the eastern Cape Province every helmeted guinea fowl (Numida meleagris), scrub hare (Lepus saxatilis) and kudu from the Andries Vosloo Kudu Reserve; all but 1 of the 22 domestic cattle examined on the farm "Bucklands"; and all Angora goats plus nearly all Boer goats examined on the farm "Brakhill" were infested with this tick.
(15) Eight castrated male Angora goats were used in a repeated, simultaneous 4 x 4 Latin square designed experiment to evaluate metabolic and mohair responses of Angora goats to sulfate supplementation.
(16) Angora kids were blocked by birth weight and sex and assigned randomly to goat milk or acidified milk replacer.
(17) Angora goat farmers experienced the same, but with higher mortalities, probably due to the apparently high susceptibility of Angora goats to heartwater.
(18) GCC was found only in Australian Angora and Cashmere animals.
(19) Coccidiosis can also be a severe problem in young Angoras that are congregated in small areas.
(20) Fresh blood from nine mature non-pregnant angora goats was found to contain a varying proportion of spindle-shaped, fusiform, triangular, pear-shaped, and other bizarre forms of erythrocytes in addition to normal discoid biconcave erythrocytes.
Fabric
Definition:
(n.) The structure of anything; the manner in which the parts of a thing are united; workmanship; texture; make; as cloth of a beautiful fabric.
(n.) That which is fabricated
(n.) Framework; structure; edifice; building.
(n.) Cloth of any kind that is woven or knit from fibers, either vegetable or animal; manufactured cloth; as, silks or other fabrics.
(n.) The act of constructing; construction.
(n.) Any system or structure consisting of connected parts; as, the fabric of the universe.
(v. t.) To frame; to build; to construct.
Example Sentences:
(1) Both condemn the treatment of Ibrahim, whose supposed offence appears to have shifted over time, from fabricating a defamatory story to entering a home without permission to misleading an interviewee for an article that was never published.
(2) Gastric reservoir reduction, wrapping the stomach with an inert fabric, is one such procedure.
(3) It put on the agenda the need to upgrade the existing urban fabric, and to use the derelict and brownfield sites in our cities before encroaching on the countryside.
(4) In mitigation, Gareth Jones, defending, said: "The first comment [he] wrote was in relation to Fabrice Muamba.
(5) But most instances are more mundane: the majority of fraud cases in recent years have emerged from scientists either falsifying images – deliberately mislabelling scans and micrographs – or fabricating or altering their recorded data.
(6) Provisional restorations were fabricated for the prepared teeth using conventional direct techniques, and the intrapulpal temperature rise was recorded.
(7) Problems associated with cloth wear and the unexpectedly slow rate, in man, of tissue ingrowth into the fabric of the Braunwald-Cutter aortic valve prosthesis have been discouraging, although this prosthesis has been associated with a very low thromboembolic rate in patients receiving anticoagulant therapy.
(8) The only thing Michael Fabricant could reasonably be vice-chairman of is the steering committee of Nurse Ratched 's ward fete.
(9) Designing and fabricating the metallic framework for a fixed partial denture requires planning and an understanding of what is desired in the final form.
(10) Dissociated culture of adult mouse dorsal root ganglion cells on glass plates, on which grating-associated microstructures (a repetition of microgrooves [mGRV] and microsteps [mSTP] of 0.1-10 micron) are fabricated by the conventional lithographic techniques, represents a remarkable bi-directional growth of their nerve fibers in the axial direction of the grating.
(11) A prospective study of six cases fabricated from CT computer-generated models of challenging cranial defects appears to show significant improvements in plate design, resulting in better plate adaptation, stability and aesthetic contour.
(12) The fabric protection factors (FPF) of 5 metal meshes, to simulate the weave pattern and yarn dimensions of typical fabrics, and 6 textiles with variable construction (woven and knitted), fibre type and dye were determined using a spectrophotometric assay and human skin testing.
(13) In addition, there are basic differences in the PNI formation on aldehyde-treated pericardium and natural aortic valves as compared to the Dacron fabric.
(14) It claims that reports of civilians being killed by security forces are fabrications cooked up by activists and the international media, while the official news agency talks constantly about "armed criminal groups" trying to destabilise the country.
(15) Lt Gen Khan told the Washington Post that the documents were "a fabrication".
(16) The forehead flap covers fabricated composite flaps of intravasal lining and primary cartilage grafts that create the subsurface architecture of the external nose.
(17) A technique for fabricating dies without using a die saw has been described.
(18) There is effective use of a scuba-like neoprene fabric which is slickly practical and gives a bold, shell-like silhouette to hooded coats and to sweatshirts which seems to reference the balloon and cocoon shapes that Cristobal Balenciaga invented to great acclaim in the 1950s.
(19) The second technique is the fabrication of a cast post and core restoration that fits an abutment root as well as the existing crown of a four-unit fixed restoration.
(20) Computer-designed and fabricated inlays and onlays are now an available treatment modality, with a reported 3-years follow-up looking very promising.