(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.
Stinker
Definition:
(n.) One who, or that which, stinks.
(n.) Any one of the several species of large antarctic petrels which feed on blubber and carrion and have an offensive odor, as the giant fulmar.
Example Sentences:
(1) We were immediately sure he despised the movie more than any of the other Hollywood McCarthy adaptations – and there had been a few stinkers.
(2) Instead, it was a stinker, at least for countries in the developed world.
(3) Remember, for example, that everyone was doing excitable discharges about 2006 after the first week, and it turned out to be a stinker.
(4) 9.12am BST Michael Cox gets forensic to explain why last night's match was such a stinker.
(5) Stones is another player whose performances have impressed Hodgson recently but the jittery young Everton defender picked the wrong time to have a stinker.
(6) It was this break with reality that sunk the genre in the nineties, causing big-name stars to turn in a series of stinkers, including Body of Evidence starring Madonna and the plain uncomfortable Bruce Willis vehicle Colour of Night.
(7) Every class has a stinker; mine doesn't believe in deodorant.
(8) Politics is like getting a really bad review: a stinker that you know all your friends are reading."
(9) As Jack Nicholson's con-man brother in The King Of Marvin Gardens , he embodies the self-delusion of the American dream of success and wealth, while his brutish Tom Buchanan in the 1974 version of The Great Gatsby is one of the few worthwhile things about that stinker.
(10) And he has lifted them up.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Hillary Clinton: ‘half of Trump’s supporters go into the basket of deplorables’ And so the “basket of deplorables” has found its place alongside other debris in the gaffe sewer of recent elections, including this stinker from a fundraiser in San Francisco in 2008: “You go into these small towns in Pennsylvania and, like a lot of small towns in the midwest, the jobs have been gone now for 25 years and nothing’s replaced them.
(11) Walsh has pointed to the financial crisis and downturn that hit Spain harder than many countries in Europe as one reason why BA's deal was starting to look a potential stinker.
(12) There have been some fantastic ones in the CoD lifeline – Crash, Terminal, Crossfire – but also some stinkers that somehow made it though; maps with horrible camping spots and site lines that strafe the whole arena.
(13) And with Giround having such a stinker, they only really threaten when a midfielder runs forward from deep, something that Ramsey is doing with curious infrequency.
(14) Only I had two genuine stinkers, Algeria v Slovenia and Paraguay v Japan, which is a pretty good return, all told.
(15) His chief pleasure, he noted, was "writing stinkers to people who attack me in the press".
(16) In case you missed it, The Sun called Cameron’s deal “a steaming pile of manure” , “a derisory offer” and “a stinker” that’s “an abject defeat on immigration”.
(17) Seriously, there were too many stinkers, but losing 3-1 against Philadelphia was particularly rough, because Chivas went ahead before a terrible refereeing decision torpedoed any hopes of getting a result.