(n.) A peculiar species of rhyme, in which the last acce`ted vow`l and tnose whioh follow it in one word correspond in sound with the vowels of another word, while the consonants of the two words are unlike in sound; as, calamo and platano, baby and chary.
(n.) Incomplete correspondence.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Tau model of phenotypic transmission has been used to analyze the familial correlations (nuclear families and extended families) of longevity at Arthez d'Asson (individuals born between 1686 and 1899).
(2) Specific analysis is focused on those stretches of speech which exhibit perseveration to the point where there is an excessive amount of alliteration and assonance.
(3) The always-problematic comparison between the marriage equality movement and the fight for black civil rights hits a point of assonance in just how difficult it would be for social conservatives to make any kind of national stand on the issue – and in the near-complete disinterest among Democratic gay marriage opponents in, you know, making a big deal about it.
(4) But it would be lovely to think frontier outlaws really did blurt out stanzas complete with carefully thought-out assonance and metre, so we'll let it pass.
Coo
Definition:
(v. i.) To make a low repeated cry or sound, like the characteristic note of pigeons or doves.
(v. i.) To show affection; to act in a loving way. See under Bill, v. i.
Example Sentences:
(1) Deviations from Michealis-Menten kinetics in the pig-heart citrate synthase (citrate-oxaloacetate-lyase(pro-3S-CH2-COO-leads to acetyl-CoA), EC 4.1.3.7) system have been characterized and analyzed in view of the kinetic theory described in the preceding paper.
(2) We conclude that both proprioceptive feedback and audio-feedback must be involved to yield maximal stimulation of follicular growth by the female's nest-coo display.
(4) The limited solubility of cholesterol in negatively charged phospholipids is found to be independent of the nature of the acyl chain residues, and independent of whether the negative charge resides on both COO- and PO- groups (as in phosphatidylserine) or on PO- only (as in phosphatidic acid).
(5) Like scores of men here, he spends hours in this rooftop retreat with his cooing companions.
(6) All these data suggest that the native polysaccharide possesses ordered secondary structure stabilized by nonionic interactions outweighing the repulsion between adjacent COO- groups.
(7) The antagonist GDEE had 90% of its whole population in folded conformations with a distance of about 3 A degrees between COO-...COO- groups.
(8) This difference in follicular growth suggests that the females' own cooing, not the males' cooing, stimulates the ovarian response.
(9) A NH3+(Ser1)-COO-(Arg4) salt bridge, as well as any form of turn stabilized by hydrogen bonds can be ruled out with certainty.
(10) Enterprise technology veteran Stephanie Buscemi, COO of Salesforce’s cloud business, knows all too well the challenges facing women in her industry.
(11) Together, these pH profiles provide sufficient information to suggest that only the minor zwitterionic species of ornithine, H2N(CH2)3CH(NH3+)COO-, binds the enzyme productively.
(12) Three cases with typical cooing murmurs in degenerated porcine valves at mitral positions were studied.
(13) Analysis of variance showed that (1) the mean spectral energy (MSE) levels of "pain-induced" cries were significantly higher than those of the other two types of cries and that the MSE of all three types of cries was significantly higher than that of cooing; and (2) that the mean spectral energy in any vocalization by 6-month-old infants of either sex was significantly lower than that in any vocalization of younger infants.
(14) The second partial ORF starts 67 bp downstream of cooS and would be capable of encoding 35 amino acids with an ATP-binding site motif.
(15) EDC reactive side groups other than COO- (e.g., tyrosyl-OH or sulfhydryls) can be discarded as candidates for the underlying chemical reaction.
(16) Molecular graphics analysis revealed that the propenoyl side chain of the spin-label exhibits an extended trans conformation and that the ethyl moiety of the ester group deviates significantly from coplanarity with the carboxylate--COO--atoms.
(17) Nest-coo (courtship) vocalization is an estrogen-dependent component of a sequence of behaviors leading to egg-laying in the ring dove (Streptopelia risoria).
(18) The torsion angles of the alpha-methyl group, NH3+ and COO- groups with respect to Cv are in molecules A and B respectively +67.2, +66.8, -174.3, -175.6, and -59.2 and -59.5 degrees.
(19) The distribution of spectral energy among four types of infant vocalizations was compared via computerized spectral analyses of "pain-induced," "fussy," and "hungry" cries and "cooing" of 30 2-6-month-old infants.
(20) The fatty acyl groups of these compounds, unlike those of usual phospholipids, were all saturated and were mixtures of even and odd numbered carbon chains; their [M-CnH2n+1-COOCH2]+ and [M-Cn+1H2n+3COO]+ peaks overlapped.