(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.
Swarm
Definition:
(v. i.) To climb a tree, pole, or the like, by embracing it with the arms and legs alternately. See Shin.
(n.) A large number or mass of small animals or insects, especially when in motion.
(n.) Especially, a great number of honeybees which emigrate from a hive at once, and seek new lodgings under the direction of a queen; a like body of bees settled permanently in a hive.
(n.) Hence, any great number or multitude, as of people in motion, or sometimes of inanimate objects; as, a swarm of meteorites.
(v. i.) To collect, and depart from a hive by flight in a body; -- said of bees; as, bees swarm in warm, clear days in summer.
(v. i.) To appear or collect in a crowd; to throng together; to congregate in a multitude.
(v. i.) To be crowded; to be thronged with a multitude of beings in motion.
(v. i.) To abound; to be filled (with).
(v. i.) To breed multitudes.
(v. t.) To crowd or throng.
Example Sentences:
(1) Swarming is a requisite for mating in populations of Aedes communis and Ae.
(2) They could be playing these people – Morales, Chesimard – off as pawns.” While Cuba was once an attractive destination for criminals, revolutionaries and skyjackers – 34 of 62 American plane hijackers flew to Cuba in 1969 – Fidel Castro lost patience with the swarm as early as the 70s.
(3) Although only a small fraction of the yield of that of the murine Engelbreth-Holm, Swarm (EHS) sarcoma, the yield of the human basement membrane-producing tumors could be increased by rendering the mice lathyritic.
(4) Pronase-released glycopeptides of isolated laminin, from a mouse Engelbreth-Holm-Swarm tumor, were fractionated using a combination of gel permeation chromatography and Con A-Sepharose affinity chromatography.
(5) 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.
(6) The viability and morphology of RPE was improved by using a serum-free medium containing a bovine pituitary extract in conjunction with an extracellular matrix coating derived from Engelbreth-Holm-Swarm tumors.
(7) The Heat come out with some swarming defense and Indiana can't get a shot off in time, giving the ball back to Miami.
(8) After a dramatic day which saw police swarm Seven properties across Sydney searching for proof Schapelle Corby had been paid for an interview, Seven West Media boss Tim Worner said that the police action had come as a total surprise because the Seven had cooperated with the inquiry fully.
(9) The fire extinguisher was thrown after protesters swarmed into Millbank Tower, the Westminster building that houses the Conservative party's headquarters.
(10) An LSC colony spreads on the surface of solid 100:10 medium as a monolayer of cells in a fashion resembling that of certain swarming or gliding bacteria.
(11) In some instances swarming is stimulated at very low toxin doses.
(12) Swarm cells of Thiothrix nivea were found to possess a group of fimbriae at one pole.
(13) Monoclonal antibodies that recognize epitopes in these domains were raised against Swarm rat chondrosarcoma aggrecan that was either denatured through reduction and alkylation or partially deglycosylated through chondroitinase ABC digestion or alkali elimination, the latter with or without sulfite addition.
(14) The rhetoric that sees innocent people labelled “marauding,” “swarms” and “cockroaches” is what makes it permissible for society to imprison them, and it should come as no surprise that women and children are at particular risk from punitive immigration laws.
(15) It was established that coupling took place in swarms with swarming males and out of swarms with freely flying males.
(16) But much worse things are happening here.” The UK prime minister, David Cameron, drew widespread criticism on Thursday for saying that the 185,000 men, women and children who have risked their lives to flee poverty, persecution and war in search a better life were “swarming” across the Mediterranean .
(17) Richard Dunne clatters into him late, the goalkeeper goes down and several France players swarm around Dunne to voice their displeasure at the Ireland defender.
(18) David Cameron used ‘swarm’ instead of ‘plague’ in case it implied that God had sent the migrants | Frankie Boyle Read more David Cameron recently spoke of a “swarm of people coming across the Mediterranean”.
(19) In a speech in July, prime minister David Cameron referred to migrants and refugees trying to reach Britain as a “swarm” .
(20) If the concentration is increased the swarming ceases, and at still higher concentrations the bacteria are inactivated.