(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.
Tait
Definition:
(n.) A small nocturnal and arboreal Australian marsupial (Tarsipes rostratus) about the size of a mouse. It has a long muzzle, a long tongue, and very few teeth, and feeds upon honey and insects. Called also noolbenger.
Example Sentences:
(1) Experimental work has established that a sexual process can occur in African trypanosomes (Jenni, Marti, Schweizer, Betschart, Le Page, Wells, Tait, Paindavoine, Pays & Steinert, 1986; Paindavoine, Zampetti-Bosseler, Pays, Schweizer, Guyaux, Jenni & Steinert, 1986; Tait, personal communication).
(2) Robert Tait is a senior correspondent for Radio Free Europe.
(3) Awards: 1954 Somerset Maugham Award (for Five, a collections of short stories); 1985, WH Smith Literary Award and the Mondello Prize for The Good Terrorist; 1994 James Tait Black Prize for Under my Skin; nominated for the 1996 Bad Sex Award iin the Literary Review.
(4) The statement was signed by Clare Solomon, president of the University of London Union, Cameron Tait, president of Sussex University's student union and Lee Hall, author of Billy Elliot, among others.
(5) Taite argues that just because it's luxurious doesn't mean clients always get their way.
(6) Tait described four categories of binocular disorders including convergence excess, convergence insufficiency, divergence excess, and divergence insufficiency.
(7) "I've had very influential people here," Taite says.
(8) I get about £130 a week once everything is added on, so this rise is very good,” Tait says.
(9) "These proposals offer countries the chance to buy their way out of reducing emissions through forest protection," said Greenpeace's head of biodiversity, Andy Tait.
(10) We recently identified residues 185-224 of the light chain of human high molecular weight kininogen (HMWK) as the binding site for plasma prekallikrein (Tait, J.F., and Fujikawa, K. (1986) J. Biol.
(11) Finally, if in doubt, all surgeons should recall the words of Halsteads in 1898 "No drainage at all is better than the ignorant employment of it" rather than the advice of Lawson Tait.
(12) Yesterday talks with the government were being led at the BBC by Thompson, chief operating officer Caroline Thomson, strategy chief John Tait and Lyons.
(13) Photograph: Christopher Thomond for the Guardian Valerie Tait reached state pension age 10 years ago but, at the age of 70, is still working part-time as a civil servant.
(14) But Tait is being replaced by a former BBC news executive, Richard Ayre, who was a member of Ofcom's content board until being appointed as a trustee.
(15) In a conventional protein fragmentation approach, the prekallikrein-binding site was mapped to positions 556-595 of the human H-kininogen sequence (Tait, J. F., and Fujikawa, K. (1986) J. Biol.
(16) By reporting successful treatment of tubal pregnancy with salpingectomy in 1884 Robert Lawson Tait (1845-1899) started an era of almost 70 years of exclusively extirpative treatment of ectopic pregnancy.
(17) To have crossed that line would, as Richard Tait and his sub-committee said clearly, amount to a very serious threat to the BBC's independence.
(18) Tait Coles, vice-principal, Dixons city academy, Bradford Facebook Twitter Pinterest Tait Coles If students asked me, I would turn the question around and ask them what they’d do.
(19) Taite has close-cropped grey hair, a goatee and a pair of black-rimmed glasses that automatically tint when he walks out into the southern California sunshine.
(20) It won the James Tait Black Prize, but was still received by some critics as almost hurtfully factual: the tone snappish, the refusal to flirt with the reader's expectations of personality taken as a snub.