(v. i.) Any substance, esp. food, used in catching fish, or other animals, by alluring them to a hook, snare, inclosure, or net.
(v. i.) Anything which allures; a lure; enticement; temptation.
(v. i.) A portion of food or drink, as a refreshment taken on a journey; also, a stop for rest and refreshment.
(v. i.) A light or hasty luncheon.
(v. t.) To provoke and harass; esp., to harass or torment for sport; as, to bait a bear with dogs; to bait a bull.
(v. t.) To give a portion of food and drink to, upon the road; as, to bait horses.
(v. t.) To furnish or cover with bait, as a trap or hook.
(v. i.) To stop to take a portion of food and drink for refreshment of one's self or one's beasts, on a journey.
(v. i.) To flap the wings; to flutter as if to fly; or to hover, as a hawk when she stoops to her prey.
Example Sentences:
(1) Features of barrier island physiography and ecology were studied relative to selective bait deployment and site biosecurity.
(2) 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.
(3) Four of the eight arms were baited on all trials of a given session.
(4) Reasoning ability in crows was investigated by means of the Revecz-Krushinskiĭ test, in which the bird has to apprehend the rule of stimulus (food bait) displacement: "In each next trial the food bait is hidden in a new place--one step further along the row".
(5) Rats were trained to make various head movements to get water at a 3 x 3 array of holes, each with a recessed water-baited dipper.
(6) Direct cultivation of the clinical material in Czapek liquid culture medium without carbon source and containing a paraffin rod (pariffin-bait technic), as well as the routin T.B.
(7) Specific methods, utilizing thin-layer and high-performance liquid chromatography, were developed for determining the compound in stomach contents and corn bait.
(8) Fungi were isolated from the samples by the method of hair baiting (To-Ka-Va).
(9) Presence, absence, color and perforations of plastic bags did not alter bait acceptance.
(10) The toxicities of Raid Max Roach Bait (sulfluramid) and COMBAT Roach Control System (hydramethylnon) to susceptible and field-collected German cockroaches were examined.
(11) When battery operated CDC miniature incandescent and black light traps (with and without light bulbs) were operated with and without CO2, the rank of trap effectiveness for total numbers of female Culicoides variipennis caught was: black light plus CO2; CO2-baited trap without light bulb; black light without CO2; incandescent light plus CO2 and incandescent light without CO2.
(12) Diurnal human bait catches yielded 1,427 female mosquitoes in 27 species.
(13) And as a large number of schools did not take the bait, the government now says it will require all schools to become academies, regardless of the wishes of parents and communities.
(14) One of the chickens in the traps was positive for microfilariae of Cardiofilaria four weeks after exposure as bait.
(15) A s Michael Howard’s flag-waving, sabre-rattling, Madrid-baiting intervention made clear, Gibraltar can occupy an oddly atavistic place in some corners of Britain’s collective psyche.
(16) During 70 all night bait collections from January to December 1989, a total of 2290 An.
(17) By contrast, ticks were attracted to CO2 baits during daytime only between May and mid-December.
(18) These days, rat poison is not just sown in the earth by the truckload, it is rained from helicopters that track the rats with radar – in 2011 80 metric tonnes of poison-laced bait were dumped on to Henderson Island, home to one of the last untouched coral reefs in the South Pacific.
(19) Fluoroacetic acid from tissue (1 g) and bait (10 g) extracts was first partitioned into ethyl acetate and then into 0.5 M benzyldimethylphenylammonium hydroxide.
(20) After a 1-week dispersal period 69 baited blow-fly traps were placed in different habitat types and at varying distances around the release point.
Gait
Definition:
(n.) A going; a walk; a march; a way.
(n.) Manner of walking or stepping; bearing or carriage while moving.
Example Sentences:
(1) Clinical signs of disease developed as early as 15 days after transition to the experimental diets and included impaired vision, decreased response to external stimuli, and abnormal gait.
(2) Gains in gait pattern, ease of bracing, and reduced pelvic obliquity were noted.
(3) In the improved group, the families reported that the gait abnormality preceded the dementia in 11 patients and occurred at the same time in five.
(4) Candidates for a counselor-training program (136 Ss; 86% women; average age 44 yr.) took the GAIT in 18 groups and completed written forms for staff screening.
(5) On admission, neurological examination revealed staggering gait and the right cerebellar ataxia showing dysmetria and dysdiadochokinesis.
(6) In the gait initiation protocol, the amplitude and synchronization of the TA burst were directly correlated with velocity of movement, while the relative delay between soleus inhibition and TA activation was inversely correlated.
(7) No significant improvements or losses were found in a large series of gait parameters.
(8) Asymmetrical gait pattern with mild gait disturbance was found more often in infants lying in supine than in prone.
(9) In this paper, the authors reported a case of 6-year-old girl who complained of the progressive gait disturbance.
(10) The data suggest that throughout most of the gait cycle and normal stair climbing, the passive structures contribute a small portion of the total moment, usually well less than 10%.
(11) The function of the prosthesis was assessed through clinical assessment and force plate gait analysis.
(12) A 52-year-old female was admitted with a chief complaint of progressive gait disturbance over the previous 16 months.
(13) Mean tandem gait speed improved 48% after training.
(14) Normal gait was associated with flexor contraction only when the foot was lifted and placed on the ground, whereas during ischaemic blockade flexor contraction continued during the interval between foot lifting and foot placement.The `freezing' or `blocking' gait in Parkinson's disease was found to be associated with coactivation of flexor and extensor muscles and this phenomenon occurred only in patients with features of flexion dystonia in the electromyographic recordings of their tonic stretch reflexes.
(15) Moreover in the symmetrical gaits spatial phase shifts between unilateral limbs were equal to zero, which means that hind and fore limbs were placed in the same point during successive steps.
(16) Also, the FES antigravity action obtained raises hopes for substantially improving FES induced reciprocal gait.
(17) Clinical gait analysis is a term that can be applied to numerous methods of evaluating a subject's walking pattern.
(18) Six children with low-level myelomeningocele underwent gait analysis.
(19) The functional recovery of the patients was assessed every week by using the Barthel Index and the Action Research Arm test, by registering walking velocity, and by performing gait analysis.
(20) These changes were considered to be the result of talipes equinus and waddling gait, which are commonly demonstrated in patients with DMD.