(n.) A small foxlike animal (Vulpes cama) of South Africa, valued for its fur.
Example Sentences:
(1) I ask a friend to have a stab at, “down at cafe that does us butties”, and he said: “Something to do with his ass?” “Whose arse?” He looked panicked.
(2) Liver growth responded positively to the combined rGRF and ASS treatments whereas the pancreas exhibited loss of weight; on both of these organs, GH may act directly.
(3) "But I suspect that some of my fellow Americans are indeed wondering who Buridan is, and what's up with his or her ass?
(4) Another officer grabbing Mann by the collar and threatening his family – to arrest his wife’s “black ass” and ensure he would not see his young son grow up, Mann recalled in an interview – if he did not snitch on a heroin dealer.
(5) After application of 3 x 0.5 g of ASS frequency of DVT decreased only to 15.3% and shows poor prophylactic efficacy.
(6) As a result of this antithrombotic prophylaxis with ASS is not indicated in polycythemia even in predominance of vascular complications and absence of bleeding tendency.
(7) In order to asses accuracy and consistency of diagnostic opinion in suspected pancreatic disease, using available diagnostic procedures 74 patients, subjected to selective angiography, pancreatic function test (Lundh test), and scintigraphy, were studied retrospectively.
(8) Whittingdale said the use of social media such as Twitter to breach injunctions was in danger of making "the law look an ass".
(9) Cartoons that talk about fucking each other in the ass.
(10) When that phrase first flew across the Atlantic, we didn't know how to pronounce it: ha rassment or har ass ment?
(11) The experiences of 217 volunteers fitted with the cervical cap were analyzed to asses the cap's effectiveness.
(12) The trade-off begins to look like a real pain in the ass if one has been here for years and years and is barely eking out a living.
(13) Bateman insists that he “loved” working as a child actor and that it was the perfect path for someone who was “a disruptive smart ass” at school.
(14) This questionnaire was designed to asses an in-hospital teaching program for post-MI patients in these areas.
(15) The origin and course of the collateral sesamoidean (suspensory navicular) ligament of the horse and ass and its attachment to the distal sesamoid bone were studied by means of dissection.
(16) "And if you come back here by the telephones where the press can't see it, I will kick your ass right now."
(17) A prospective study has been made in order to asses the efficacy of subcutaneous salbutamol as acute treatment for asthmatic crisis, comparing the results with those of adrenaline.
(18) Rheoophthalmography permits to assess indirectly the degree of compensation of hemodynamic disturbances and can be used to asses clinical evolution of diabetic retinopathy.
(19) The effects of acute ethanol treatment and dietary folate deficiency on maternal-fetal folate transfer were studied to asses the hypothesis that the potentiation of ethanol's toxic effect on the fetus during ongoing folate deficiency was due to the impairment of folate transfer.
(20) After months of simpering, “some old-fashioned ass-kicking” may be back on the cards.
Fox
Definition:
(n.) A carnivorous animal of the genus Vulpes, family Canidae, of many species. The European fox (V. vulgaris or V. vulpes), the American red fox (V. fulvus), the American gray fox (V. Virginianus), and the arctic, white, or blue, fox (V. lagopus) are well-known species.
(n.) The European dragonet.
(n.) The fox shark or thrasher shark; -- called also sea fox. See Thrasher shark, under Shark.
(n.) A sly, cunning fellow.
(n.) Rope yarn twisted together, and rubbed with tar; -- used for seizings or mats.
(n.) A sword; -- so called from the stamp of a fox on the blade, or perhaps of a wolf taken for a fox.
(n.) A tribe of Indians which, with the Sacs, formerly occupied the region about Green Bay, Wisconsin; -- called also Outagamies.
(n.) To intoxicate; to stupefy with drink.
(n.) To make sour, as beer, by causing it to ferment.
(n.) To repair the feet of, as of boots, with new front upper leather, or to piece the upper fronts of.
(v. i.) To turn sour; -- said of beer, etc., when it sours in fermenting.
Example Sentences:
(1) Fox was 30 years old - 70% of Parkinson's sufferers are over 50.
(2) Alec played a role in the resignation of the UK defence secretary Liam Fox last year over his close ties to his friend Adam Werritty.
(3) When Fox woke up one morning in 1990 and noticed his little finger shaking, he thought it was a side effect of a hangover.
(4) Gerson Zweifach, general counsel for both News Corp and 21st Century Fox , Murdoch’s film and TV business, said: “We are grateful that this matter has been concluded and acknowledge the fairness and professionalism of the Department of Justice throughout this investigation.” It is understood there has been no background settlement with the Department of Justice in order to avoid a full-blown investigation, contrary to speculation in New York over a year ago that the company was looking at a possible payment of over $850m.
(5) Cable news channels like Fox News and CNN carried the address, and some of the networks carried it on their digital platforms, but a network insider told Politico on Thursday the speech’s content was too “overtly political” to broadcast.
(6) After distribution, 81% of foxes inspected were positive for tetracycline, a biomarker included in the vaccine bait and, other than one rabid fox detected close to the periphery of the treated area, no case of rabies, either in foxes or in domestic livestock, has been reported in the area.
(7) Asked if France had “jumped the gun and didn’t tell us”, Fox said he was notaware of anyone in government who knew about the impending airstrikes.
(8) Whenever Fox meets someone for the first time, he slips on this look as instinctively as others shuck on a jacket when they leave the house.
(9) Educated at Imperial College London, he trained at the contractors Freeman Fox, but in 1978 he turned freelance as a transport consultant, setting up his own firm: Steer Davies Gleave.
(10) Sanders, the Vermont senator and self-described democratic socialist, first answered questions from Fox News anchor Bret Baier over his comments in Sunday’s debate that white people “don’t know what it’s like to be living in a ghetto”.
(11) These results combined with absorption studies suggested a close relationship between fox and dog, but different number and morphology of chromosomes, immunoelectrophoretic patterns of serum proteins, and disparities of the transplantation antigens proved that the fox is a species quite separate from the dog.
(12) 4.28pm ET: Oh hey, Fox News finds time in its busy schedule to cover the rally.
(13) Fox will be accompanied by the sporting director, Hendrik Almstadt, on the back of the 1-1 draw against Wycombe Wanderers in the FA Cup on Saturday, when their failure to beat a League Two side culminated in angry scenes involving the away supporters.
(14) Fox met his wife, Tracy, on the set of Family Ties, the 80s sitcom that launched his career and in which she played his on-screen girlfriend.
(15) Werritty, 33, a Scottish Tory who first met Fox when the defence secretary went to speak at Edinburgh University – where Werritty was a student of public policy – had arrived in the emirate a few days earlier to set up meetings for his "boss".
(16) Kelly reportedly spoke with lawyers investigating claims of sexual harassment by former Fox chairman Roger Ailes, who left the network following allegations by several women of years of abuse.
(17) The highest 3H-thymidine incorporation in cultures of dog lymphocytes was observed at day 3, while in those of fox at day 2, incubated either at 37 degrees C or at 39 degrees C. Lymphocytes cultured at 39 degrees C incorporated more tritiated thymidine than did cells cultured at 37 degrees C. The stimulation index (SI) of dog peripheral blood lymphocytes to both mitogens concanavalin A (Con A) and leucoagglutinin (LA) was in a similar range, while pokeweed mitogen (PWM) showed a weaker but significant stimulatory action.
(18) The Republican presidential candidate then told Fox News that Amazon is “getting away with murder tax-wise” and has a “huge antitrust problem because he’s [Bezos] controlling so much”.
(19) Although antibodies against selected pathogens were present, no clinical indications of disease were observed in these fox populations.
(20) In a speech to Atlantic Bridge members in New York in November 2002, Fox warned "the natural desire to avoid conflict has been reinforced by an innate pacificism in many sections of western society, especially in continental Europe".