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Aquarius


Definition:

  • (n.) The Water-bearer; the eleventh sign in the zodiac, which the sun enters about the 20th of January; -- so called from the rains which prevail at that season in Italy and the East.
  • (n.) A constellation south of Pegasus.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) MSF Sea (@MSF_Sea) 112 men, women and children are now onboard #Aquarius .
  • (2) The images’ meanings are not always clear and Boyko is in little rush to explain, but the names of his parents – Alexander and Irina – can be made out along with the Aquarius zodiac sign and, for whatever reason, Dracula.
  • (3) I'm a woman, black, from New York, Aquarius – these are things that create who I am.
  • (4) Steve Wilson SAU executive committee member 1971-72 • Polly Toynbee is right, those of us fortunate to have been teenagers around the dawning of the age of Aquarius should show solidarity with young people reacting to having their dreams denied by austerity ( Thatcher's children can lead the class of 68 back into action , 27 November).
  • (5) It said more than 112 men, women and children had been taken on board the Aquarius, a search-and-rescue ship the charity runs in partnership with SOS Méditerranée .
  • (6) Facebook Twitter Pinterest This chart shows the stars visible to the naked eye in the constellation of Aquarius.
  • (7) Watch Metronomy's video for I'm Aquarius here People think Love Letters is going to be a big hit but Mount seems blithely indifferent to its commercial chances.
  • (8) We envisage that this algorithm, AQUARIUS, will be useful for finding solvent positions in electron density maps generated by protein crystallography and as useful starting positions for solvent molecules in computer simulation studies of macromolecules.
  • (9) This is the superb programme that succeeded Aquarius 30 years ago, and has been dedicated ever since to promoting the arts, whether it be fiction, biography, television documentary or studio performances such as the tremendous Shakespeare seminars of 1979.
  • (10) Libya is a vortex of chaos that is getting worse all the time,” Marcella Kraay, a coordinator with Doctors Without Borders, told the Guardian onboard the Aquarius, a ship chartered by SOS Méditerranée, last month.
  • (11) A car is waiting on the Tarmac to take us to the nearby Aquarius hotel.
  • (12) This ethereal eye in the dead of space is the remains of a star that once resembled our sun in the constellation of Aquarius, 650m light years from Earth.
  • (13) It's taking place at the quite down at heel-looking Aquarius hotel and casino.
  • (14) On the latter, Zrce beach is the focal point of the action, lined with open-air clubs – such as Aquarius Zrce , Papaya and Kalypso – with no noise restrictions.
  • (15) Tidy lines of classic blue-and-white or pastel pink beach huts called Calypso and Aquarius sit on sea defences at Chapel Point, a few miles from Skegness.
  • (16) Opening night film Café Society (Woody Allen, US) In competition The Salesman (Asghar Farhadi, Iran) Toni Erdmann (Maren Ade, German) Julieta (Pedro Almodóvar, Spain) American Honey (Andrea Arnold, UK) Personal Shopper (Olivier Assayas, France) The Unknown Girl (Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Belgium) It’s Only the End of the World (Xavier Dolan, Canada) Ma Loute (Bruno Dumont, France) Paterson (Jim Jarmusch, US) Rester Vertical (Alain Guiraudie, France) Aquarius (Kleber Mendonça Filho, Brazil) Mal de Pierres (Nicole Garcia, Algeria) I, Daniel Blake (Ken Loach, UK) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Ken Loach’s I, Daniel Blake.
  • (17) Three distant worlds that orbit a feeble star in the constellation of Aquarius are the most likely places discovered so far to find life beyond the solar system, astronomers say.

Taurus


Definition:

  • (n.) The Bull; the second in order of the twelve signs of the zodiac, which the sun enters about the 20th of April; -- marked thus [/] in almanacs.
  • (n.) A zodiacal constellation, containing the well-known clusters called the Pleiades and the Hyades, in the latter of which is situated the remarkably bright Aldebaran.
  • (n.) A genus of ruminants comprising the common domestic cattle.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) He is Taurus and I'm Pisces; my dad was Pisces and my mum was Taurus.
  • (2) It contains 64 amino acid residues including one phosphoserine and differs from its bovine (Bos taurus) B counterpart by 10 amino acid substitutions.
  • (3) Balanorchis anastrophus Fischoeder, 1901, from the reticulum of Bos taurus is reported for the first time in the State of Pará, Brazil.
  • (4) We measured baseline plasma cortisol concentration over a 44-day study in Bos indicus and Bos taurus calves.
  • (5) The claim made by astrologers that people can be characterized according to their sign of the zodiac (sagitarius, taurus, cancer, scorpion) must be refuted.
  • (6) Oestrus in domestic animals was synchronized satisfactorily during the normal breeding season by both of the standard treatments with prostaglandins or progestagens initially developed for use in Bos taurus cattle.
  • (7) 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).
  • (8) Studies have been made on the peroxidase activity of metmyoglobins in animals from various ecological groups--the horse Equus caballus, cattle Bos taurus, beaver Castor fiber, otter Lutra lutra, mink Mustela vison and dog Canis familiaris.
  • (9) The results were compared with the findings in 28 specimens of Bos taurus aged 1-4 years.
  • (10) Many of the European antisera, which are operationally monospecific in Bos taurus cattle, were multispecific in the African animals.
  • (11) Average log densities of nymphal and adult ticks on B. taurus cattle are significantly higher than on B. indicus cattle but neither cattle genotype differs in this regard from B. indicus X B. taurus cattle.
  • (12) WIM-8, an IgG2b monoclonal antibody, identified the 44,000 dalton protein of the bovine MHC class I molecule present on Bos taurus and Bos indicus animals.
  • (13) The arrangement, origin, course and opening of the ductuli efferents testis of the bull (Bos taurus) were visualized using scanning electron microscopy.
  • (14) Plasma haptoglobin (Hp) in cattle (Bos taurus) has a molecular mass so large that it is virtually unable to penetrate 4% polyacrylamide gels and is excluded from gel filtration media with an upper exclusion limit of greater than 1000 kDa.
  • (15) The chromosomes of five gaur (Bos gaurus hubbacki) domestic cattle (B indicus cross B taurus) hybrids (three females, two males) were studied using the leucocyte culture method and centromeric (C) banding technique.
  • (16) B. bigemina infection at 18 months and A. marginale infection at 13 or 24 months resulted in slightly less severe reactions in pure-bred Bos indicus cattle than in Bos taurus.
  • (17) In preliminary studies with Sarcocystis from bovine (Bos taurus) and mule deer (Odocoileus hemionus hemionus), a coccidia-free laboratory dog (Canis familiaris) and captive coyote (Canis latrans) were fed flesh from a local Sarcocystis-infected bovine and later flesh from an infected mule deer from Eastern Oregon.
  • (18) Bovine (Bos taurus) trypsin and trypsin activity in rat (Rattus norvegicus) pancreatic extract were inhibited by soybean trypsin inhibitor and by bovine basic pancreatic and colostrum inhibitors.
  • (19) The frequencies of the two alleles, which have been designated Bo5.1 and Bo5.2, in the cattle populations tested were 100% and 0%, respectively, in Bos taurus, and 10% and 90%, respectively, in Bos indicus.
  • (20) N-terminal analysis of the proteins extracted from ox (Bos taurus) erythrocyte membranes by dilute EDTA is used as a means of estimating the heterogeneity of the protein fractions.

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