(n.) A nest of wild bees, wasps, or ants; a swarm.
Example Sentences:
(1) I felt a much stronger connection with the kids on my home block, who I rode bikes with nightly.
(2) In a Bloomberg article last week, for example, one Stanford student compared women who get raped to unlocked bicycles : ‘Do I deserve to have my bike stolen if I leave it unlocked on the quad?’ [Chris] Herries, 22, said.
(3) There was praise for existing programmes such as the Ferguson Youth Initiative, which gives young people the chance to earn a bike or a computer.
(4) Big musical acts (such as BB King, Keith Urban and Queens of the Stone Age) appear during the summer concert lineup but there are also drop-in yoga sessions, and hiking and biking trails wind through sculpted rocks and wildflowers.
(5) He was on more certain statistical ground when he said that, since 2010, more than half the bike deaths in London have happened when lorries turned left across cyclists.
(6) There weren't many people out on their bikes in Harrogate over the weekend: the weather was too poor even for hardy Yorkshire folk.
(7) Raj Janagam co-founded Cycle Chalao in 2009, and the project ran for a little over a year – between Mulund train station and a nearby college – with 30 bikes and a user base of around 750.
(8) But if you provide a street environment where it’s much more egalitarian, where your granny can cycle to the shops safely and have somewhere to park her Dutch-style bike – that’s when we’ll get those kind of cyclists.
(9) A camera located in Downing Street shows Mitchell leaving 9 Downing Street and approaching the main double gates on his bike at 19.36:14 and as he stops to talk to police officers, a woman crosses on the pavement proceeding towards Trafalgar Square.
(10) A " bike for the strike " event is scheduled in Oakland on Friday.
(11) Control data were compared to data derived from a simulated triathlon (0.8-km swim, 75-min bike, and 40-min run).
(12) Matthew Golby, prosecuting, said Antwi was part of a group which surrounded the police car off Brixton Hill and he was captured on CCTV aiming his bike at the car.
(13) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Passengers arriving at the main bus station can borrow a bike all day for free.
(14) The claim has stunned a community who knew him not as a pale spectre in Taliban videos but as the tall, affable young man who served coffee and deftly fended off jokes about Billy Elliot – he did ballet along with karate, fencing, paragliding and mountain biking.
(15) Visiting an exercise class, Mr Blair, without changing out of his suit, spent some minutes pedalling on an exercise bike for the benefit of cameramen.
(16) But the increase in people cycling does seem to be boosting bike awareness and challenging the car mentality.
(17) Cycling is a mainstream form of active transport and recreation, but the human trauma costs of bicycle riding are unacceptable,” said Tracey Gaudry, CEO of the Amy Gillett Foundation , a bike safety awareness group set up in honour of the Australian athlete who was killed in a cycling accident in Germany.
(18) A 2014 report by the US Public Interest Research Group found that young people were driving less , driving shorter distances and using more transit, biking and walking to get around.
(19) Then I tried out a fold-in-half bike called the Bickerton .
(20) Bike Nation: How Cycling Can Save the World by Peter Walker is out now.
Hornet
Definition:
(n.) A large, strong wasp. The European species (Vespa crabro) is of a dark brown and yellow color. It is very pugnacious, and its sting is very severe. Its nest is constructed of a paperlike material, and the layers of comb are hung together by columns. The American white-faced hornet (V. maculata) is larger and has similar habits.
Example Sentences:
(1) Moderate to severe SRs were equally likely after stings of yellow jacket, white-faced hornet, and yellow hornet (65%), honeybee (67%), or wasp (70%), although historical SRs were reported more often after stings of yellow jacket, white-faced hornet, or yellow hornet (30%) than after honeybee (19%) or wasp (14%) stings.
(2) Josh King restored the lead moments after coming off the substitutes’ bench, but the Hornets levelled for a second time through Isaac Success three minutes later.
(3) The hornet investigated is the one ubiquitous in Israel - Vespa orientalis.
(4) We usually only hear scary stories about invaders such as the Asian hornet , a lethal predator of honeybees.
(5) Nine cats were given an intravenous injection of the Oriental hornet (Vespa orientalis, Vespinae; Hymenoptera) venom sac extract (VSE) and seven cats had the same VSE administered as eye drops.
(6) And when the US president pokes his finger in this one, it is a hornets nest.” Shen Dingli, a prominent Chinese foreign policy expert from Shanghai’s Fudan University, told the New York Times such behaviour from Trump could not be tolerated once he reached the White House.
(7) The hepatotoxic effect of venom sac extract (VSE) of the Oriental hornet has already been demonstrated using the well-known models of experimental toxicology: in vivo, isolated in situ and in vitro.
(8) The Hornets wish all three men well for their future careers.” Jokanovic also sent a message to Watford following confirmation of his departure.
(9) The allergic reactions are mediated by IgE antibodies directed at constituents in honeybee, yellow jacket, hornet, and wasp venoms.
(10) Anti-bald face hornet venom serum suppressed the activity of phospholipase A2 present in the four insect venoms with the inhibitory effect decreasing in the order: bald face hornet greater than yellow hornet greater than yellow jacket greater than honeybee.
(11) SDS-PAGE data demonstrate that the venom of young hornets contains a unique component (82 kD), nonexistent in adult venom.
(12) The European hornet, Vespa crabro, is a very large insect native to much of Europe and Asia and introduced into eastern North America.
(13) A combination of immunoelectrophoresis and immunodiffusion techniques gave indication of common antigenic sites in a component of yellow hornet venom and a component of bald face hornet venom.
(14) Venom sac extract from young hornet workers had the same influence on the blood pressure, did not affect thermoregulation and the effect on the auditory and somato sensory pathways were less consistent.
(15) In the hornet nest of the species Vespa orientalis, there is transmission of information by acoustic means between the larvae and the adults.
(16) An enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) was developed that could measure titres of human IgG antibodies to five different venoms (honeybee, yellow jacket, yellow hornet, white-faced hornet, and wasp), and to honeybee phospholipase A.
(17) Look to recent coverage: "Hornet's Nest" declares this week's Economist; "The Ally from Hell" proclaims the Atlantic.
(18) Venom from young and adult hornets inhibit protein synthesis in human lymphocytes and platelets, but does not affect the synthesis of DNA and RNA.
(19) The Sheffield-Batley game is the last of a triple-header that begins with the very local rivalry between Leigh Miners and Wigan St Patrick's, two of British rugby league's most prolific junior nurseries, in the amateur Challenge Trophy final, and is followed by another pair of neighbours, Oldham and Rochdale Hornets, bidding to secure promotion to the Championship with the North Wales Crusaders, who were crowned the Kingstone Press Club of the Year on Thursday.
(20) The Hornets, who went into the last international break with the charismatic Italian Beppe Sannino still in charge, are now set to end this one six weeks later under the control of his third replacement.