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Antelope


Definition:

  • (n.) One of a group of ruminant quadrupeds, intermediate between the deer and the goat. The horns are usually annulated, or ringed. There are many species in Africa and Asia.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Species whose embryos have been successfully preserved include mouse, rat, rabbit, sheep, goat, cattle, horse, antelope, baboon, and human.
  • (2) Dik-dik antelopes lost about 50% more heat evaporatively when exposed to the sun compared to the shade at an ambient temperature (Ta) of 28 degrees C or a Ta of 40 degrees C in a climatic chamber.
  • (3) The maintenance crude protein (CP) requirements of subadult nilgai antelope (Boselaphus tragocamelus) were determined by nitrogen balance.
  • (4) The course of experimental infection of a type SAT 1 FMDV strain was studied in buffalo, sable antelope and eland following tongue inoculation and contact and has been compared with that in cattle.
  • (5) The Antelope Valley Hospital Medical Center Family Practice Program has initiated an innovative project which involves residents serving as team physicians for local college athletic teams.
  • (6) Proteinaceous extracts of deer and antelope antlers and bovine and rhinoceros horn were prepared by solubilizing 10 mg of horn sample in 200 microL of a solution containing 12M urea, 74mM Trizma base, and 78mM dithiothreitol (DTT).
  • (7) This report describes a study of goiter in a nondomesticated bovine species, bongo antelope (Tragelaphus eurycerus), an African bovid.
  • (8) The Antelope on Mitcham Road has a choice of three open fires where you can affix your undergarments.
  • (9) Twelve species of ixodid ticks were recovered; the antelope each harboured 9 species and the hares 11.
  • (10) Animal species included black-tailed deer (Odocoileus hemionus columbianus), mule deer (Odocoileus hemionus), sika deer (Cervus nippon nippon), fallow deer (Dama dama), and pronghorn antelope (Antilocapra americana).
  • (11) Alkaline phosphatase values in the 4 cervid species were higher than in the pronghorn antelope.
  • (12) He suffered several injuries in the crash and was being treated at Antelope Valley hospital, the sheriff’s office said in a statement.
  • (13) A trio of antelope species found in Africa are also now near threatened for the same reason.
  • (14) These DNA probes distinguish among deer, elk, and antelope, although not between different species of deer.
  • (15) Under controlled conditions, the rate of oxygen consumption (VO2) respiratory frequency, evaporative water loss, heat balance, rectal (Trec) and surface temperatures were determined in the dik-dik antelopes at ambient temperatures (Ta) ranging from 1 to 44 degrees C. 2.
  • (16) The parasite was recovered from the subdural space of one reindeer and was seen histologically within the neuropil of another reindeer and a sable antelope.
  • (17) Eagle-eyed viewers noticed that two male antelopes in last year’s Zootopia – which won the best animation Oscar at the 2017 awards – shared a double-barrelled surname, but their exact relationship was never made explicit.
  • (18) ), tule elk (Cervus elaphus nannodes), Roosevelt elk (C. e. roosevelti), pronghorn antelope (Antilocapra americana), California bighorn sheep (Ovis canadensis californiana), Peninsular bighorn sheep (O. c. cremnobates) and desert bighorn sheep (O. c. nelsoni) and analyzed them for agar gel precipitating (AGP) antibodies to bluetongue (BT) virus (BTV).
  • (19) In addition, blood from 36 of the above antelope and from a further 48 buffalo was inoculated into rodents to test for the presence of trypanosomes.
  • (20) A 10-week-old, black buck antelope calf, from the Mesker Park Zoo in Evansville, Indiana was found dead without observed signs of illness.

Buck


Definition:

  • (n.) Lye or suds in which cloth is soaked in the operation of bleaching, or in which clothes are washed.
  • (n.) The cloth or clothes soaked or washed.
  • (v. t.) To soak, steep, or boil, in lye or suds; -- a process in bleaching.
  • (v. t.) To wash (clothes) in lye or suds, or, in later usage, by beating them on stones in running water.
  • (v. t.) To break up or pulverize, as ores.
  • (n.) The male of deer, especially fallow deer and antelopes, or of goats, sheep, hares, and rabbits.
  • (n.) A gay, dashing young fellow; a fop; a dandy.
  • (n.) A male Indian or negro.
  • (v. i.) To copulate, as bucks and does.
  • (v. i.) To spring with quick plunging leaps, descending with the fore legs rigid and the head held as low down as possible; -- said of a vicious horse or mule.
  • (v. t.) To subject to a mode of punishment which consists in tying the wrists together, passing the arms over the bent knees, and putting a stick across the arms and in the angle formed by the knees.
  • (v. t.) To throw by bucking. See Buck, v. i., 2.
  • (n.) A frame on which firewood is sawed; a sawhorse; a sawbuck.
  • (n.) The beech tree.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A few days later he tweeted : "People don't usually wanna kill me for one of my movies until after they've paid 12 bucks for it.
  • (2) He laughs: "I've had a few guys buck up against me, but that's all right because some of us enjoy the bucking."
  • (3) Social prescribing schemes, by their nature, vary considerably but generally provide a way for GPs and other primary care professionals to offer or signpost to non-clinical referral options instead of, or alongside, clinical ones,” says the report’s author, David Buck.
  • (4) The dispersion pattern of ticks on deer was aggregated, with twice and three times as many ticks collected from bucks as from does and from fawns, respectively.
  • (5) Others bucked, including a Dallas County clerk who bluntly remarked that Paxton’s office “does not trump the highest court in the land”.
  • (6) However, our airports are unable to serve the young bucks that are set to drive the world forward.
  • (7) For too long the profession has been locked into a ritualistic, buck-passing processing frequently resulting in unorganized efforts on behalf of objects rather than subjects.
  • (8) He said to me that he would not grow old, both in discussions of his paper on senescence ("I feel bucked when anyone refers to that paper") and discussions touching on personal safety.
  • (9) The ETU whistleblower who drew the whole matter to the ETU and Turc’s attention said he did so, in part, because he had “always had a concern [the union] didn’t get much bang for our buck”.
  • (10) The subsequent post-rut profiles of treated bucks were characterized by lower basal plasma LH concentrations, and reduced frequency and amplitude of plasma testosterone surges.
  • (11) Sexual behavior of the buck, onset of puberty, techniques for semen collection and evaluation, the production of teaser animals, and methods of castration are also discussed.
  • (12) People moved in who wanted to make a buck out of it all, especially the drugs.
  • (13) As Buck is not challenging his guilt, the most he could hope for is life without parole, said Radelet.
  • (14) There’s just inertia and a lack of looking into ourselves to find the solutions.” Recently, Buck had told her brother about fuel money for ambulances being diverted.
  • (15) The Harris County district court is now considering whether or not to grant Buck a new sentencing hearing.
  • (16) As Fox caller Joe Buck just said to new viewers "we know where you've been"."
  • (17) Pratchett left school one year into his A-levels, after he was offered a job on the local paper, the Bucks Free Press , aged 17.
  • (18) But the buck does not stop with the commission, and it is not an invention of the US trade deal.
  • (19) It is concluded that Buck screw fixation is a safe and reliable method of treatment for painful Grade I spondylolisthesis due to isthmic spondylolysis in the young active adult with a low complication rate.
  • (20) Bevan was equally unimpressed and told BBC Radio 5 Live's Sportsweek programme: "The buck stops with Alan.