(n.) A variety of small barnyard fowl, with feathered legs, probably brought from Bantam, a district of Java.
Example Sentences:
(1) Analysis of the videotapes revealed that the coaches (n = 11) at the bantam level often exhort their players to put more intensity in their physical contacts (legal body checking), but they more often encouraged them to control themselves and avoid penalties.
(2) At least if he had to join the Army, he decided, he would apply for the Royal Army Medical Corps, but his diminutive stature (he was just over five feet tall) disqualified him from anything but the Bantam units, "a horrible rabble - Falstaff's scarecrows were nothing to these", he wrote.
(3) Body temperatures, metabolic rate, haemostatic parameters, and cardiovascular reactions to thoracic skin cooling were compared between incubating (broody) and non-broody Bantam hens.
(4) 'Paul Oakenfold: the Authorised Biography' by Richard Norris (Bantam Press) is published on 24 September Back to the old house: then and now Danny Rampling On return from Ibiza started Shoom.
(5) Wilton’s 23-year-old Belfast colleague Ryan Burnett, unbeaten now in 13 fights and tutored by Adam Booth, won the same prize (without the silver) at bantam, putting Anthony Settoul over in the fifth with a right, but the 25-fight Frenchman took his licks all the way to the final bell in round 10.
(6) The Bantams, beaten League Cup finalists two years ago, completed an historic win a little over 60 seconds later when Gary Liddle’s cross fell into the path of Hanson, who had the easiest of finishes to condemn their bitter rivals to a fourth defeat in six outings.
(7) Thirteen isolates from one golden pheasant and three white silky fowls, three black silky fowls, three Japanese long crowers, and three Japanese bantams produced herpes-like cytopathic effects (CPE) in the CEF cultures.
(8) Blood eosinophilia was seen in 36 per cent of 115 adult bantams naturally infested with Trichostrongylus tenuis; the maximum individual count was 56 per cent eosinophils.
(9) Meanwhile their two sons were trying out their own trash-talking skills in this rather bizarre green screen face off (presumably allowing chroma key footage of dinosaurs and car chases to be added in later): Facebook Twitter Pinterest Share Share this post Facebook Twitter Pinterest close Though by the time Mayweather had endured that final bout of dad-dancing at the press conference, even the man who lives for showmanship seemed to have lost his appetite for it: Facebook Twitter Pinterest Share Share this post Facebook Twitter Pinterest close 3.38am BST Kevin is back All those knockdowns in the last fight were probably rather avoidable, as Kevin is quick to point out in his latest missive: The referee in the junior-feather (super-bantam in our argot) fight between Leo Santa Cruz from LA and the old Venezuelan Alexander Munoz was one Vic Drakulich.
(10) Vasoactive intestinal polypeptide (VIP)-like material was localised immunohistochemically in the hypothalamus of the bantam hen.
(11) The glands from incubating bantams were more responsive to the prolactin-releasing effects of VIP than were the glands from laying birds.
(12) Since the major component of muscle is protein, the grouse obtain a larger proportion of acloric needs during fasting from protein than do the Bantams.
(13) An investigation was conducted among the progeny from crosses between Exchequer Leghorn and Ancona bantams into the relationship between two plumage phenotypes, pied and mottled, both of which are arrangements of non-pigmentation expressed on a background of eumelanin.
(14) As previously established for the Sebright Bantam, the trait is transmitted in the Campine by an autosomal, incomplete dominant mechanism; heterozygous offspring express half the levels of extraglandular aromatase as do homozygous Campines on average.
(15) Cell surface carbohydrates in the neurulating ectoderm of bantam chick embryos of stage 6-11 were examined using the fluorescein isothiocyanate-labeled and ferritin-labeled peanut lectin, Arachis hypogaea agglutinin (PNA), which is Gal beta 1----3GalNAc specific.
(16) In the quail only 'en plaque' endings are found, while in the bantam and the starling both 'en plaque' and 'en grappe' endings are present.
(17) The purpose of this study was to verify if, during games, the behavior of ice hockey coaches at the bantam level tends to incite players to use roughness and to infringe upon the rules of the game, as the Néron report (1977) states.
(18) Crosses between Blue Andalusian and Gold-Laced Wyandotte bantams were made in an effort to determine the inheritance of the black-laced blue plumage pattern of the former.
(19) An investigation was conducted among the progeny from crosses between Gold-Pencilled Hamburgh and Partridge Wyandotte bantams into the relationship between two plumage pattern phenotypes, pencilling and autosomal barring, both of which are arrangements of eumelanin expressed on a background of phaeomelanic pigmentation.
(20) Following a previous comparison of the peroneus longus muscle of the quail and the starling, the present paper deals with a comparative study of this muscle in two birds of the order Gallinaceae, the quail and the bantam, bearing in mind certain data found in the starling.
Coach
Definition:
(n.) A large, closed, four-wheeled carriage, having doors in the sides, and generally a front and back seat inside, each for two persons, and an elevated outside seat in front for the driver.
(n.) A special tutor who assists in preparing a student for examination; a trainer; esp. one who trains a boat's crew for a race.
(n.) A cabin on the after part of the quarter-deck, usually occupied by the captain.
(n.) A first-class passenger car, as distinguished from a drawing-room car, sleeping car, etc. It is sometimes loosely applied to any passenger car.
(v. t.) To convey in a coach.
(v. t.) To prepare for public examination by private instruction; to train by special instruction.
(v. i.) To drive or to ride in a coach; -- sometimes used with
Example Sentences:
(1) Both Ken Whisenhunt and Lovie Smith were fired as head coaches after the 2012 season.
(2) Uruguay's coach, Oscar Tabárez, had insisted yesterday that his player should face only a one-match ban.
(3) You just have to be the first person to spot a coach.
(4) The Ajax coach Frank de Boer has confirmed that Tottenham Hotspur have approached the Amsterdam club to test his interest in coaching the club.
(5) Massive pay packets are being used to lure foreign coaches and players from footballing nations such as Brazil in order to beautify the still dismal Chinese game.
(6) Thank you to Manchester United, not just the directors, coaching staff, medical staff, the players, the fans, all of you – you have been the most fantastic experience of my life, so thank you.
(7) Undeterred, the new coach, who also had the expanded recruitment role of general manager, began to exploit Beckham’s strengths, particularly his long passing, while compensating for his increasing loss of mobility by pairing him deep in midfield with the industrious, ball-winning Brazilian Juninho.
(8) They arrived on the second coach to carry unaccompanied refugee children from Calais to Britain in two days .
(9) Baker was proud of having fired her dramatic coach from the set and needing a maximum of only five takes for the difficult actress.
(10) Following a run which included eight straight draws in the Premier League and a 3-0 defeat at Tottenham last Wednesday, Mubarak had reached the conclusion that Hughes and his coaching staff were not realising the potential of the players City had assembled.
(11) Campbell said that for the new initiative to succeed there needed to be a fundamental overhaul in the way sports clubs were organised and a determined move to professionalise coaching.
(12) New offensive coach Tony Sparano was also a fan of Wildcat packages when he was head coach in Miami.
(13) If you go by 2014 alone, most wouldn't think of Johnson, but the little things a coach loves may have led to a biased choice.
(14) Anyone still imagining that it was only the defender’s recovery from injury rather than his form that was preventing him from starting (and it’s been clear for a while that’s not the case) might have noted the coach’s instructions to Gonzalez to be ready to play a few minutes when needed, either as an extra defender or even in a pinch as an extra forward.
(15) Katie has her benefits frozen, leaving her penniless, while Daniel, a man whose doctor says he is too ill to work, has to spend 35 hours a week applying for jobs he can’t take, on the orders of the jobcentre “work coach”.
(16) He was appointed head coach of the Ligue 2 club Metz in June 2015 but left in December with them in sixth place.
(17) Statistical analyses (p less than .001) indicated that female coaches were (a) more qualified than their male counterparts with respect to coaching experience with female teams, professional training, and professional experience; (b) as qualified as male coaches with regard to intercollegiate playing experience; and (c) less qualified than male coaches with respect to high school playing experience and coaching experience with male teams.
(18) These cases fall into two categories: situations where offspring are provided with opportunities to practice skills ("opportunity teaching"), and instances where the behavior of young is either encouraged or punished by adults ("coaching").
(19) But somewhere along the way, his passion for good, fresh food – admirable and infectious in every respect – appears to have transformed into evangelical life-coaching.
(20) Beckham has fallen out of favour at Real this season under new coach Fabio Capello, and had previously been linked with a number of major English and European sides, including Bolton, Newcastle, Internazionale and AC Milan, as well as various Major League Soccer sides.