(n.) An organized living being endowed with sensation and the power of voluntary motion, and also characterized by taking its food into an internal cavity or stomach for digestion; by giving carbonic acid to the air and taking oxygen in the process of respiration; and by increasing in motive power or active aggressive force with progress to maturity.
(n.) One of the lower animals; a brute or beast, as distinguished from man; as, men and animals.
(a.) Of or relating to animals; as, animal functions.
(a.) Pertaining to the merely sentient part of a creature, as distinguished from the intellectual, rational, or spiritual part; as, the animal passions or appetites.
(a.) Consisting of the flesh of animals; as, animal food.
Example Sentences:
(1) These variants may serve as useful gene markers in alcohol research involving animal model studies with inbred strains in mice.
(2) This trend appeared to reverse itself in the low dose animals after 3 hr, whereas in the high dose group, cardiac output continued to decline.
(3) It is supposed that delta-sleep peptide along with other oligopeptides is one of the factors determining individual animal resistance to emotional stress, which is supported by significant delta-sleep peptide increase in hypothalamus in stable rats.
(4) The animals were sacrificed every 12 hr from D12.0 through D17.0.
(5) Nutritionally rehabilitated animals had similar numbers of nucleoli to control rats.
(6) After two weeks all animals were killed and autopsies of the animals were performed.
(7) Spectrophotometric determination of the sulfhydryl content in the animal tissue before (control) and after using 6,6'-Dithiodinicotinic acid is applied.
(8) When chimeric animals were subjected to a lethal challenge of endotoxin, their response was markedly altered by the transferred lymphoid cells.
(9) Increased dietary protein intake led to increased MDA per nephron, increased urinary excretion of MDA, and increased MDA per milligram protein in subtotally nephrectomized animals, and markedly increased the glutathione redox ratio.
(10) Measurement of the intraspinal monoamine level revealed a decrease in the intraspinal norepinephrine level in the treated animals.
(11) Pretraining consumption did not predict (among animals) post-training consumption.
(12) A group I subset (six animals), for which predominant cultivable microbiota was described, had a mean GI of 2.4.
(13) As the percentage of rabbit feed is very small compared to the bulk of animal feeds, there is a fair chance that rabbit feed will be contaminated with constituents (additives) of batches previously prepared for other animals.
(14) Using mini-pigs with an indwelling vascular catheter, the pharmacokinetics of chloramphenicol were investigated in healthy and liver-damaged animals.
(15) Tests showed the cells survive and function normally in animals and reverse movement problems caused by Parkinson's in monkeys.
(16) Neuroleptics (chlorpromazine, reserpine and haloperidol) had not such an influence, though they somewhat increased the general activity of the animals.
(17) To examine the central nervous system regulation of duodenal bicarbonate secretion, an animal model was developed that allowed cerebroventricular and intravenous injections as well as collection of duodenal perfusates in awake, freely moving rats.
(18) Since 1987, it has become possible to obtain immature ova from the living animal and to let them mature, fertilize and develop into embryos capable of transplantation outside the body.
(19) In the present investigation we monitored the incorporation of [14C] from [U-14C]glucose into various rat brain glycolytic intermediates of conscious and pentobarbital-anesthetized animals.
(20) In animal experiments pharmacological properties of the low molecular weight heparin derivative CY 216 were determined.
Jinn
Definition:
(n.) See Jinnee.
(pl. ) of Jinnee
Example Sentences:
(1) The classic Jedi response to subservience can be seen in the contrast between Luke’s first meeting with C-3PO – “I see, Sir”; “You can call me Luke”; “I see, Sir Luke,”; “No, just Luke” – and Qui-Gon Jinn meeting Jar Jar Binks: “Mesa your humble servant”; “That won’t be necessary”.
(2) Forest Whitaker has a warning for Jinn Forest Whitaker Photograph: YouTube He’s not playing Darth Vader, despite the rumours.
(3) Jinn reportedly secured a $7.5m (£6m) investment last year, partly to expand its service to cities outside London.
(4) I didn’t actually come here to free slaves,” says Liam Neeson as Jedi Master Qui-Gon Jinn in The Phantom Menace , like a person to whom a huge number of vexing tasks has been subcontracted.
(5) It is better than going on the dole, which I have never been on in my life.” Asked about the complaints of low pay, Jinn’s co-founder and chief operating officer, Leon Herrera, said couriers were free to take or refuse work and were not exclusively contracted to Jinn.
(6) But they have complained after Jinn, which is based in east London, scrapped a minimum hourly rate of £8 an hour in January.
(7) Dhiab attributes his condition to Jinns, or “nefarious spirits”.
(8) He had expected to earn £759.60 for two weeks’ work in Leeds, but when Jinn removed the minimum hourly payment he was paid just £264.
(9) Couriers on our platform are 100% free to log in at their own schedule, accept or reject proposed drops, and do all of this on a completely non-exclusive basis.” He said Jinn shared with couriers “spaciotemporal data” about when and where there was demand “so that they can make informed decisions regarding log-in days, times and locations.” Jinn is one of several “gig economy” companies to have been criticised by workers for low pay.
(10) A courier in Leeds self-employed through Jinn, an app that allows customers to have meals and groceries delivered to their homes from outlets such as McDonalds, KFC and Sainsbury’s, provided evidence to the Guardian that he had been paid just £125 for 72 hours’ work.
(11) Jinn promises its customers: “We can get you anything you desire, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week … as long as it’s legal.” Couriers wait on bicycles or mopeds for orders that come through on their phones and can range from collecting a full meal for 10 from a branch of Nando’s to picking up a couple of chocolate bars from Sainsbury’s for a customer who would rather not leave their sofa.
(12) Stephen Xenakis, a retired army brigadier general and psychiatrist who also recently examined Dhiab, declined to offer a diagnosis, saying Guantánamo has insufficiently examined him neurologically, and considered Dhiab’s “Jinns” explanation metaphorical.
(13) Their rabbi-healers, however, are predisposed towards molding these events into a covert-demonic pattern, the core of which involves a human injuring a jinn and the latter's retaliation.
(14) One Jinn courier Riz Ali, 33, said he had fallen into debt as a result of the fall in earnings.
(15) How to contact the Guardian securely Read more Last month angry Jinn couriers in London surrounded Herrera outside the company’s head office.
(16) Qui-Gon Jinn is impatient, imperious and patronising, while Luke is, above all, humble.
(17) Jinn is a delivery marketplace that aggregates demand and supply for collection and delivery services,” he said.