(a.) Opposite to the northern or arctic pole; relating to the southern pole or to the region near it, and applied especially to a circle, distant from the pole 23¡ 28/. Thus we say the antarctic pole, circle, ocean, region, current, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) He then went on to contradict the claims made by Attenborough in his own Radio Times article by stating that the polar bear population is, in fact, rising, Antarctic sea ice is expanding, and there was "no global warming at all" in the last quarter of the 20th century.
(2) Measurements of serum freezing points in three Antarctic marine fishes indicated that they do not freeze in the -1.87 degrees C seawater because their blood is isosmotic to seawater.
(3) Maximum power output for the fast muscle fibres from the Antarctic species at -1 degree C is around 60% of that of the tropical fish at 20 degrees C. Evolutionary temperature compensation of muscle power output appears largely to involve differences in the ability of cross bridges to generate force.
(4) The virus used was apparently partly attenuated for man; at the dosage used its effects in England were similar to a smaller dose of an unattenuated strain, but in the Antarctic it caused relatively severe infections.
(5) If coastal ice shelves buttressing the west Antarctic ice sheet continue to disintegrate, the sheet could disgorge into the ocean, raising sea levels by several metres in a century.
(6) Despite Antarctica's simultaneous warming and cooling phenomena, the second lowest temperatures ever measured on Earth was recorded in July at Dome Argus in the centre of the Antarctic plateau.
(7) The complete amino acid sequence of the single hemoglobin of the Antarctic teleost Gymnodraco acuticeps has been determined.
(8) Japan has recalled its whaling fleet from the Antarctic following confrontations with activists from the Sea Shepherd marine conservation group, the government has said, in a move that has raised hopes that the hunts will be halted altogether.
(9) But Rapley, a leading climate scientist who was previously head of the British Antarctic Survey in Cambridge, confessed that current progress on climate change is slow.
(10) The Nasa researchers focused on melting over the last 20 years, while the scientists at the University of Washington used computer modelling to look into the future of the western Antarctic ice sheet.
(11) Serum total and free T4 levels fell slightly but not significantly after very prolonged Antarctic residence.
(12) It was shown that the chemical composition of the canned food "Natural Antarctic Krill Meat" is similar to that of the canned food manufactured from crabs.
(13) The ministry accused London of infringing the spirit of the Antarctic treaty, signed in 1959 in Washington DC by 50 nations including Britain and Argentina to preserve the Antarctic from territorial disputes by guaranteeing freedom of scientific investigation and banning military activity on the continent.
(14) "During this period when temperatures were 2-3C above pre-industrial levels, global sea level looks like it was very likely at least 6.6m higher than today, which implies significant melting of the Greenland and west Antarctic ice sheets."
(15) Circadian rhythms of plasma cortisol, aldosterone and testosterone levels were studied longitudinally in a member of the 21st Japanese Antarctic Research Expedition during periods of one year both in Antarctica and in Hokkaido, Japan.
(16) Indeed, lavish media approval of a scheme so fabulously harebrained as Fiennes's can't but suggest continued respect for a version of masculinity that will always reject domesticity and grandmothers in favour of all-male challenges in the Antarctic, or at the golf club, or, failing that, at the House of Commons.
(17) In the present study, 10 soil samples were collected aseptically from an equal number of areas of the Antarctic in the zone occupied by the 1986-1987 Italian expedition for research on keratinophilic fungi.
(18) A huge ice shelf in the Antarctic is in the last stages of collapse and could break up within days in the latest sign of how global warming is thought to be changing the face of the planet.
(19) To determine whether some of these adaptations may be present in a domain of tubulin that participates directly or indirectly in lateral contact between microtubule protofilaments, we have examined the energetics of the binding of colchicine, a drug thought to bind to such a site, to pure brain tubulins from an Antarctic fish (Notothenia gibberifrons) and from a mammal (the cow, Bos taurus).
(20) Thirteen men wintering on an Antarctic base were isolated from other human contact for 10 months.
Booby
Definition:
(n.) A dunce; a stupid fellow.
(n.) A swimming bird (Sula fiber or S. sula) related to the common gannet, and found in the West Indies, nesting on the bare rocks. It is so called on account of its apparent stupidity. The name is also sometimes applied to other species of gannets; as, S. piscator, the red-footed booby.
(n.) A species of penguin of the antarctic seas.
(a.) Having the characteristics of a booby; stupid.
Example Sentences:
(1) • Sustainable tourism company Sumak Travel offers tailor-made journeys to Veracruz, and other parts of Mexico Los Islotes , Sea of Cortez, Baja California, Mexico Steve Backshall , naturalist and TV presenter Facebook Twitter Pinterest Photograph: Alamy Stock Photo Just two hours from La Paz in Mexico’s Sea of Cortez, Los Islotes is a rocky California sea lion colony, peppered with resting blue-footed boobies, cormorants and pelicans.
(2) Friday night's attack came just hours a after police discovered a booby trap bomb device underneath a car also in west Belfast.
(3) She said she refuses to let anyone inside the room, and sweeps it for cameras and “booby traps.” She said she is taunted daily about the videos, which are still online.
(4) But they can at least lay booby-traps to confuse and deter – a concept known as “active defence”.
(5) Observations in 1969 and 1970 implicated the monkeys in a drastic decline of the nesting populations of brown boobies (Sula leucogaster) and red-footed boobies (Sula sula).
(6) Holmes, still clad in body armour, told police he had booby-trapped his apartment.
(7) So I invited my friends to my "Bye Bye Boobies" Party.
(8) Alan Boobis said: “My role in ILSI (and two of its branches) is as a public sector member and chair of their boards of trustees, positions which are not remunerated.
(9) The recent proliferation of articles linking fetal scalp or cord blood evidence of metabolic acidosis to birth asphyxia threatens to create another legal booby trap.
(10) There are several beaches near busy Padstow, including wide golden Booby's Bay – sure to make kids giggle, and a hit with advanced surfers.
(11) A succession of police and federal agents testified that Holmes spent weeks amassing guns and ammunition, concocted explosives to booby-trap his apartment, scouted the movie theatre before the attack and took a series of chilling photographs .
(12) The witnesses said that in late June he began equipping himself with a helmet, gas mask and body armour; and in July he began buying fuses, gunpowder, chemicals and electronics to booby-trap his apartment in the hope of triggering an explosion and fire to divert police from the theatre.
(13) "No," reassured Lynch, "Eigg's sea name is Isle of the Big Women, so most probably it will be an effigy of a woman with giant boobies."
(14) It's not an insurance policy, it is a potential booby trap," he said.
(15) These disgruntled republicans were responsible for murdering the Catholic PSNI constable Ronan Kerr with an under-car booby trap in April 2011.
(16) The walls and entrances were also booby-trapped, and two large plastic containers were put in the middle of the floor.
(17) An advisory position held by Boobis at Efsa was discontinued in 2012.
(18) We have seen letter bombs, under-car booby traps, blast bombs, hijackings.
(19) Thus, expression of this DNA construct generates a pool of CD4+ booby-trapped cells that, as a population, are resistant to HIV infection.
(20) It took several hours, and a bomb-disposal robot that checked Sonboly’s body for booby-trap explosives, to confirm that in fact there was only one attacker, and he had committed suicide early on in the evening.