(n.) An insect of the order Hymenoptera, and family Apidae (the honeybees), or family Andrenidae (the solitary bees.) See Honeybee.
(n.) A neighborly gathering of people who engage in united labor for the benefit of an individual or family; as, a quilting bee; a husking bee; a raising bee.
(n.) Pieces of hard wood bolted to the sides of the bowsprit, to reeve the fore-topmast stays through; -- called also bee blocks.
Example Sentences:
(1) Urban hives boom could be 'bad for bees' What happened: Two professors from a University of Sussex laboratory are urging wannabe-urban beekeepers to consider planting more flowers instead of taking up the increasingly popular hobby.
(2) The mean of the total daily energy intake was 104% of basal energy expenditure (BEE), and 70% of patients lost their weight.
(3) The hypothesis that metabolic rate, as well as foraging and recruiting activities, depend on the motivational state of the foraging bee determined by the reward at the food source is discussed.
(4) The public must have confidence that the government is doing all it can to safeguard Britain's threatened bees.
(5) We used two experimental paradigms inspired by developmental biology to study how bees obtain information on changing colony needs that results in precocious foraging.
(6) Differential and sucrose gradient centrifugation of honey bee thoraces, disrupted by gentle methods and using mannitol-triethanolamine-EDTA buffer at pH 6.5, showed that in the honey bee thorax 92-94.8% of the trehalase was mitochondrial.
(7) Pure honey bee cytochrome c was isolated from workers and used to produce antibodies in rabbits.
(8) In contrast, the bee-venom toxin melittin, which is also cytolytic, increased intracellular cyclic AMP in whole cells, but inhibited adenylate cyclase in isolated membranes.
(9) In subsequent dual-choice tests, the bees' discrimination between the various shapes was measured.
(10) The typical synanthropic species Glycyphagus domesticus is totally absent from dwellings but occurs in 90% of honey-bee hives.
(11) Under in vitro inhibition of alpha-glucosidasic activity by glucose in hemolymph of Bee prenymphas, the reaction order (n) (predetermined according to the initial natural glycemia) decreases with increasing inhibitor concentration and the affinity constant between enzyme and substrate undergoes lower variations than in other cases where (n) does not change.
(12) Using 5' deletion assay, we found three basal expression elements (BEE) in the BiP670.
(13) Honey bee mitochondrial trehalase was significantly activated by Lubrol WX treatment (30.0-fold), by high pH treatment (20.8-fold), and by a treatment consisting of 10 passes through a French press (37.9-fold) but not by the other treatments tried (salt, proteases, Waring blender, and sonication), despite the fact that these treatments also disrupted the mitochondria significantly.
(14) Also, the clinical pattern and treatment of the acute renal failure secondary to bee stings are discussed.
(15) Though the starlings looked like a dark swarm of bees, they had two inky blobs in their midst, for they had acquired a pair of crow interlopers.
(16) What the study shows is that "the spillover for bees is turning into [a] boilover," said University of Illinois entomology professor May Berenbaum, who wasn't part of the study.
(17) Now I’ve got this bee in my bonnet and want to tell people “Roast it whole until the skin’s soft, take it out of the Aga, cool it a bit and it will be just lovely”.
(18) Fifty nine patients (30%) with RXN3 responses to wasps failed to react to either test, while this applied to only 19 (6%) of the patients with RXN3 responses to bee stings.
(19) On returning to the courtyard you can take an optional loop through the bee and butterfly wildflower meadow – the start of the path is just behind the engine shed building.
(20) In short, SBP rise during TI and DBP rise during BEE may be the markers of an enhanced cardiovascular reactivity of hypertensive subjects.
Pee
Definition:
(n.) See 1st Pea.
(n.) Bill of an anchor. See Peak, 3 (c).
Example Sentences:
(1) When you are not able to find a new [job], it might be challenging to put together resources to undergo the surgery if you do want it.” ‘What are they going to do at the door of every bathroom?’ What really worries activists is the enforcement of these “papers-to-pee” bills.
(2) In case the tidal volume was kept constant, increase of ventilatory rate resulted in a tremendous increase of lung volume, together with considerably higher levels of PEE.
(3) We describe a case of spontaneous perforation of the esophagus (PEE) that was satisfactorily treated by thoracotomy, primary closure and reinforcement of the suture with a gastric fundal patch (Thal plasty).
(4) But in all my travels up the M6 over the years I have never happened to need a pee between junctions 38 and 39, until last week.
(5) However often its members drop elderly patients or leave them to stew in their own pee, the RCN gracefully embraces the public's image of them as the National Union of Angels.
(6) After a few minutes I got the sense that this wasn't a good place for me to be hanging around, but I had to pee urgently.
(7) Because it is self-inflicted, hydra-headed and increasingly beyond our control, both politically and economically, at a time when Britain is losing friends fast by peeing on their chips.
(8) The next stage is that some owners will ban people from swimming, on the grounds that all that sweat, suntan oil and children's pee will ruin the Ph balance.
(9) "It's not true that girls can't pee," said Nora Dore, whose son Abdinasir runs the centre.
(10) As a further deterrent to potential anti-social tourists, the community group also placed signs around the city warning guests against urinating in the street – and threatening to “pee back” if they did.
(11) Community surveillance shows a 22.7% (p = 0.0008) decline in fatal and nonfatal acute myocardial infarction (AMI) rates during the period 1978 to 1985 in the Pee Dee area.
(12) I woke in the middle of the night to pee and thought I should use the opportunity to find out.
(13) It be like, at first, damn that is warm, and then I forget about it, because it just pee.” She could be lost to rage, but a rage every other New Yorker understands, one that comes from not suffering fools, especially people who take themselves far too seriously.
(14) High levels of PEE appear to damage the lung by favoring accumulation of liquid in the extravascular spaces of the lung.
(15) The reality for many disabled people is it’s a muddle and a minefield to have an easy pee.
(16) Instead, a predicted energy expenditure (PEE) is derived based on weight, heat loss, activity, growth requirements, and degree of stress.
(17) The idea is they will think twice next time about urinating in public.” She said the super-hard coating made the “bounce back” effect much stronger than when peeing on a regular wall.
(18) Our aim was to test this hypothesis by determining if resting energy expenditure (REE) measured by indirect calorimetry was greater than the predicted energy expenditure (PEE) calculated from the Harris-Benedict formula (variables--sex, age, height, and weight) in each patient.
(19) I would carefully arrange a coat over my knees under the train table and pee into a bottle held underneath my coat.” 'As the train empties, I worry I'll be forgotten': UK disability facilities Read more He said that he endured one particularly agonising train journey after returning from filming in India in 1999 suffering from a stomach upset only to discover there was no working disabled toilet.
(20) However, when this parameter was expressed as a ratio to the predicted energy expenditure (PEE), the ratio was significantly correlated with the postoperative excess weight loss at 2, 6, and 12 months.