(n.) A deity among the Greeks and Romans. He was the god of light and day (the "sun god"), of archery, prophecy, medicine, poetry, and music, etc., and was represented as the model of manly grace and beauty; -- called also Phebus.
Example Sentences:
(1) Here's a tribute from the historic Apollo theater in Harlem, New York City: Touré (@Toure) Photo: The Apollo Theater in Harlem remembers Nelson Mandela.
(2) Recently, two US congressmen proposed a bill known as the Apollo Lunar Landing Legacy Act that would declare a national park on the surface of the moon to protect the Apollo landings.
(3) "Replaying the glory days of Apollo will not advance the cause of American space leadership or inspire the support and enthusiasm of the public and the next generation of space explorers," he wrote.
(4) Sure, America did it almost 50 years ago but with each passing year Apollo seems to have less relevance to the modern exploration of space.
(5) Haydock spoke to a colleague who was living on a boat, stayed there to see whether she liked it, then started looking on a website called Apollo Duck .
(6) The test protocol was identical to that used in the first manned Skylab mission and the latter Apollo flights.
(7) Measurements of urinary hydroxylysine glycosides indicate that considerable collagen degradation occurred during the reentry into the earth's atmosphere of the American astronauts of the Apollo-Soyuz mission.
(8) The postflight phase of the Apollo MEED mycology attempts to identify survival according to exposure to specific quantitative space flight factors, while the second phase of studies identifies qualitative change other than cell survival [57].
(9) On Saturday, the National Theatre's production of The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night-Time will be performed at the Apollo Theatre in London, modified for people with autism, learning disabilities and sensory or communication needs.
(10) The Apollo guys , some of them hadn't had time to think about what this was going to be like.
(11) "Apollo 13 [the unsuccessful third mission to the moon in 1970] did not stop the space race," he said.
(12) Kate Bush plays 22 nights at the Hammersmith Apollo, London in August and September.
(13) On the Apollo missions, lunar dust got everywhere – the crews inhaled it and got it in their eyes, and it wreaked mechanical havoc – and on Mars the dust is even more problematic, because it is highly oxidised, chemically reactive, electrically charged and windblown.
(14) Edgar Mitchell, the Apollo 14 Lunar Module Pilot, said that walking on the Moon gives you an instant global consciousness, an intense dissatisfaction with the state of the world, and a compulsion to do something about it, that international politics look so petty.
(15) Tests were carried out on pocket mice to ascertain their tolerance to elevated oxygen pressures alone and to a combination of hyperoxta and heat in excess of that expected during the flight of the mice on Apollo XVII.
(16) Unlike the quick three-day Apollo flights to the moon, Ladee will need a full month to reach Earth's closest neighbour.
(17) Nasa showed how a stupendous goal could be achieved, amazingly fast, if the will and the resources are there,” said Professor Martin Rees, former head of the Royal Society and another member of the Apollo group.
(18) We constantly upgrade our phones, connect with each other through Facebook, pay our bills online, demand the most advanced medical treatments available when we get sick and drive cars that have more computing power than the system that guided Apollo astronauts to the moon .
(19) Global Apollo programme seeks to make clean energy cheaper than coal Read more The backers of the Global Apollo Programme , who also include Unilever CEO Paul Polman, economist Lord Nicholas Stern, MP Zac Goldsmith, former chair of the Financial Services Authority Lord Adair Turner and former cabinet secretary Lord Gus O’Donnell, urge the world’s nations to back the plan ahead of a crunch climate summit in Paris in December.
(20) Neil Armstrong , the Apollo 11 commander and first human to walk on the moon, died last August.
Swallowtail
Definition:
(n.) A kind of tenon or tongue used in making joints. See Dovetail.
(n.) A species of willow.
(n.) An outwork with converging sides, its head or front forming a reentrant angle; -- so called from its form. Called also priestcap.
(n.) A swallow-tailed coat.
(n.) An arrow.
(n.) Any one of numerous species of large and handsome butterflies, belonging to Papilio and allied genera, in which the posterior border of each hind wing is prolongated in the form of a long lobe.
Example Sentences:
(1) Krka also plays host to a life-enhancing variety of butterflies, including swallowtails and clouded yellows, which appear to jostle for your attention along the paths.
(2) We have isolated and sequenced cDNA clones encoding a P-450, CYP6B1, from larvae of Papilio polyxenes (Lepidoptera: Papilionidae), the black swallowtail butterfly.
(3) Insect species examined were lepidopterous larvae of the cabbage looper (Trichoplusia ni), southern armyworm (Spodoptera eridania), and black swallowtail (Papilio polyxenes).
(4) Two of these stages unfold in the structural axis of the swallowtail model.
(5) Response properties and spectral sensitivities of a functional class of medulla neurons that received dominant input from a single stemma in the swallowtail butterfly larva were examined with regard to neutral and chromatic backgrounds.
(6) Many neurons exhibiting an antagonistic interaction between signals from one particular stemma (center) and neighboring stemmata (surround) were found in the second optic neuropil (medulla) of the larval swallowtail butterfly.
(7) In this model called swallowtail bifurcation set, the structural state of a biomembrane was within the control of two structural attractors.
(8) On Northern blots, mRNAs crossreactive with CYP6B1 were detected in three Papilio species that, like the black swallowtail, have high levels of xanthotoxin-metabolic P-450 activity and encounter xanthotoxin or related compounds in their host plants; in contrast, no crossreactive mRNAs were detectable in three papilinid species that never encounter xanthotoxin in their host plants and lack detectable xanthotoxin-metabolic activity.
(9) The swallowtail hypothesis was upheld for three criteria: color matching time (R2 = .55), printing press time (R2 = .55), and printing paper conserved or wasted (R2 = .83).