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Bemused


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) September 20, 2015 There were bemused reactions from some politicians.
  • (2) He shrugs in bemusement at what is, to him, a meaningless compliment.
  • (3) Adoption and fostering: ‘The best thing you have ever done’ Read more The process of adopting disabled children was much harder when she first did it in the 1980s, Thorn says, adding that people tended to be bemused as to why any parent would volunteer for the additional work involved in bringing up children with varying needs.
  • (4) Back in Slovenia, Velikonja's situation is viewed with a degree of bemusement.
  • (5) I was bemused when Lord Bell suggested the police should interest themselves in the case of a fictional assassination of a person who was already dead.
  • (6) But the attack on TalkTalk has left researchers bemused.
  • (7) In Brussels, the reaction was more bemusement than amusement.
  • (8) Klitschko and a bemused audience watched on as Fury stalked the ring in full song, most of those present presumably wishing for it to stop.
  • (9) Twenty years ago, diaspora organisations such as Afford were among the first to draw attention to African diasporas' important roles in Africa's development, to bemused and sceptical audiences.
  • (10) Zile, a US-educated former finance minister generally seen as competent and moderate, is bemused.
  • (11) But Ian Gordon, banks analyst at Investec, said: "We were quite bemused listening to RBS management describe the business as 'ready for privatisation in 12 months'.
  • (12) It has a slightly bemused expression and wears its underpants over its trousers.
  • (13) Budd is bemused but not, you sense, displeased at the renewed media attention, despite the pain it caused before.
  • (14) Granted, there was the odd person who just didn’t get it, who asked bemused questions such as: “Who makes decisions?” (both of us), “Who should we email?” (try both of us), or “Who’s in charge?” (erm, both of us).
  • (15) Salmond refused to sit down, bringing proceedings to a halt, and looked bemused by the chaos he had created.
  • (16) The German chancellor, Angela Merkel, appeared bemused when asked about the use of French as the language of Brexit: “If I am correctly informed, we are all entitled to speak in our native tongue.” Some EU officials were amused that French could be the language of Britain’s EU divorce.
  • (17) I’ve noticed on a number of occasions after leaving a snarky remark that they’ll comment again, not just bemused by the fact that I’ve taken offence, but wanting me to know that they like me.
  • (18) The Kazakh-stand sings a little louder and Kyrgios shakes his head in bemusement.
  • (19) After a lap of honour with her 11-month-old daughter in her arms, Pavey sounded almost bemused at her success.
  • (20) Part of their appeal was their apparent nonchalance, which tended to be mistaken for cool but was really, she says, just gauche bemusement.

Cow


Definition:

  • (n.) A chimney cap; a cowl
  • (n.) The mature female of bovine animals.
  • (n.) The female of certain large mammals, as whales, seals, etc.
  • (v. t.) To depress with fear; to daunt the spirits or courage of; to overawe.
  • (n.) A wedge, or brake, to check the motion of a machine or car; a chock.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Increased plasmin activity was associated with advancing stage of lactation and older cows after appropriate adjustments were made for the effects of milk yield and SCC.
  • (2) Abruptly changing cows from one feeding system to another did not influence milk yield, milk composition, or body weight gain.
  • (3) Angus (A), Charolais (C), Hereford (H), Limousin (L), and Simmental (S) breeds were included in deterministic computer models simulating integrated cow-calf-feedlot production systems.
  • (4) Ernst Reissner studied the formation of the inner ear initially using the embryos of fowls, then the embryos of mammals, mainly cows and pigs, and to a less extent the embryos of man.
  • (5) The relative effect of the intramammary infections and of different factors related to the cow (parity, stage of lactation, milk yield) on the individual cell counts, were studied for 30 months on the 62 black-and-white Holstein cows of an experimental herd.
  • (6) Sires of the cows had been divergently selected on yearling weight (YW) and total maternal (MAT) EPD to form four groups: high YW, high MAT EPD; high YW, low MAT EPD; low YW, high MAT EPD; and low YW, low MAT EPD.
  • (7) The surface phenotypes of bovine intestinal leukocytes isolated from the intraepithelium (IEL), lamina propria (LPL) and Peyer's patches (PPL) of the small intestinal mucosa of normal adult cows were determined using monoclonal antibodies (mAb) specific to adult bovine peripheral blood leukocytes (PBL).
  • (8) To evaluate B cell percentage as a means of detecting subclinical progression of bovine leukemia virus infection, an index was developed based upon the distribution of B cell percentages in seronegative cows.
  • (9) This indicates a potential use for 1,25(OH)2D3 to prevent and treat hypocalcaemic cows with or without concurrent hypomagnesaemia.
  • (10) It was also established that the Y. enterocolitica strains isolated from raw cow milk did not refer to the European serotypes 0:3 and 0:9 that were pathogenic for humans.
  • (11) During a single reversal trial of two 2-wk experimental periods, teats of all glands of 12 Holstein cows were subjected to a milking routine conducive to large vacuum fluctuations and flooded teat cups.
  • (12) Total white cell counts were reviewed in paediatric in-patients with viral gastroenteritis, bacterial gastroenteritis, delayed recovery following acute gastroenteritis, viral lower respiratory tract infections and cow's milk protein intolerance.
  • (13) In experiment II, RS cows had a higher pregnancy rate (87.6% vs 66.0%, P less than 0.05) and a shorter postpartum interval (83 vs 101 days, P less than 0.05) than did NS cows.
  • (14) Combining data on cows with productive and salvaged outcomes as satisfactory outcome, and terminal as unsatisfactory outcome, total correct classification was 90.7% for the admission model and 93.2% for the surgical model.
  • (15) [3H]-oxytocin was specifically bound to the 105,000 X g particulate fractions from 5 lactating cows and 5 non-lactating cows.
  • (16) One hundred and forty six calving interval records were built up from 64 N'Dama cows maintained for 3.5 years under a high natural tsetse challenge in Zaire.
  • (17) Following parturition, NONLAC cows averaged 4.0 d to negative EB nadir and 14.3 d to first ovulation.
  • (18) Eight periparturient cows were on a high Ca diet prepartum.
  • (19) The effect on milk yield, milk leucocyte concentration, and milk prolactin of dominance rank and introduction of "strange" cows into a group was studied.
  • (20) Preserving alfalfa as silage and feeding in a TMR to cows in early lactation resulted in greater milk production via increased DMI or improved feed efficiency compared with preserving alfalfa as hay and feeding grain separately.

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