(n.) Orig., a chicken; the young of a fowl; a young eaglet; a nestling; and hence, a feathered flying animal (see 2).
(n.) A warm-blooded, feathered vertebrate provided with wings. See Aves.
(n.) Specifically, among sportsmen, a game bird.
(n.) Fig.: A girl; a maiden.
(v. i.) To catch or shoot birds.
(v. i.) Hence: To seek for game or plunder; to thieve.
Example Sentences:
(1) The birds were maintained at a constant temperature in, dim green light.
(2) Unlike most birds of prey, which are territorial and fight each other over nesting and hunting grounds, the hen harrier nests close to other harriers.
(3) No vaccination reactions were noted, although most birds involved in the trials were carrying Mycoplasma spp.
(4) Precipitating antibodies were found in both lines; they first appeared 7 days after inoculation in P-line birds and 14 days after inoculation in N-line birds, but thereafter there was no difference between the two genetic lines.
(5) The results indicate that, regardless of the photoperiod, no clear functional relationship can be found between the avian pineal gland and thyroid function, although a transitory increase in T4 levels was seen in both pinealectomized and sham-operated birds shortly after the operations.
(6) Differences between parental and nonparental birds in VIP profiles were detected in the ventral portion of the infundibular region.
(7) The enterococcal population of the 'dosed' birds contained a greater proportion of Enterococcus faecium than did that of the control birds while the converse was true for Ent.
(8) Somewhat surprisingly then, in view of the mechanisms in mammals, birds do not seem to use this seasonal message in the photoperiodic control of reproduction.
(9) After 32 days of feeding, body weight, liver weight and egg production decreased in birds fed lead while kidney weights increased.
(10) Phyla as diverse as insects, birds, and mammals possess distinct HRAS and KRAS sequences, suggesting that these genes are essential to metazoa.
(11) Changes in brain size are compared with observations found in other domesticated birds.
(12) The presence in lamprey kidney of a loop which is similar to Henle's loop in mammals and birds indicates that the development of the system of osmotic concentration conditioned by the formation in the kidney of the medulla and from a sharp increase in renal arterial blood supply.
(13) We simply do whatever nature needs and will work with anyone that wants to help wildlife.” His views might come as a surprise to some of the RSPB’s 1.1 million members, who would have been persuaded by its original pledge “to discourage the wanton destruction of birds”; they would equally have been a surprise to the RSPB’s detractors in the shooting world.
(14) Water restriction of HYD birds for 5 days as adults stimulated tubule hypertrophy but not to the same extent as the chronic regimen and with no evidence for hyperplasia.
(15) Thus, the possibility exists that androgen secretion in some chelonian systems may exhibit a high degree of LH specificity like that of mammals and birds.
(16) 1 After the injection of labelled procaine and lidocaine in mice, the location and concentration of radioactivity was demonstrated by autoradiographical methods.2 An accumulation in some endocrine cells such as the pancreatic islets, the hypophysis, the adrenal medulla and certain cells of the thyroid (probably representing the calcitonin-producing parafollicular cells) was shown.3 After the injection of [(14)C]-procaine in chicks, an accumulation of radioactivity was observed in the ultimobranchial gland (which produces calcitonin in birds), but not in the thyroid.4 Radioactivity was also shown to be strongly concentrated in structures containing melanin, such as the pigment of the eye, skin and hair and in some organs involved in the metabolism and excretion of these drugs.
(17) Respiration frequency increased during exposure to 35 (four birds) and 40 degrees C (six birds) in the normally hydrated quail, while in the dehydrated quail, respiration frequency increased only in three birds during exposure to 35 degrees C, and four birds during exposure to 40 degrees C, the frequencies were lower during dehydration.
(18) A man in New Zealand suggested that they need to rid the country of cats to protect their native birds.
(19) Birds showed evidence of increased tolerance, with age, to phenylpropanolamine but not to monensin.
(20) Again, changes in birds fed CTN + OA for 7 days were similar but milder.
Birt
Definition:
(n.) A fish of the turbot kind; the brill.
Example Sentences:
(1) We describe a patient with multiple fibrofolliculomas (FF), tricodiscomas (TD) and acrochordons (Birt-Hogg-Dubé) associated with intestinal polyps.
(2) Later, Lord Birt said he admired the "bold, buccaneering spirit" of Rupert Murdoch but warned that Sky was "a financial behemoth now dwarfing other players, including the BBC, financially".
(3) "When I joined I took the salary I was offered, which happened to be exactly the same as my predecessor [Birt] and when I left my basic salary was something like half what the current director general [Thompson] is now receiving," he said.
(4) After the John Birt regime, however, his ebullient leadership style involving "cut the crap" and "let's make it happen" initiatives was welcomed by staff,who had felt creativity had been repressed for far too long under the weight of bureaucracy.
(5) Birt recalled how Frost only got the interview with Nixon because he raised the money personally, outbidding a US broadcaster.
(6) Or the Russian model: outgoing president picks incoming president (President Birt or President Levy)?
(7) Hall became director of news and current affairs in 1990 and was regarded as one of Birt's key lieutenants after he became director general in 1992.
(8) Birt became Frost's protege and went on to produce the Nixon interviews in 1977.
(9) In 1996, a former World Service US affairs analyst Michael Moran wrote after the Birt coup, that what had been "a journalist's dream, one where more than any other organisation on this planet the inherent value of the story is what counted", had became dominated by "new-age management consultancy", managers who spoke in the jargon of producer's choice and delayering.
(10) In late 1969 or early 1970, John Birt, then an editor for Granada's World in Action (and later the director general of the BBC), interviewed Frost at the Algonquin Hotel in New York.
(11) The BBC has been sensitive to the tax status of its staff since the so-called "Armanigate" scandal in 1993, when it was revealed that then director general John Birt was actually employed on a freelance basis, through his own company, John Birt Productions.
(12) Frost's second legacy, Birt said, was he inventing the modern interview.
(13) After Alasdair Milne resigned and John Birt achieved power, this centralisation was accelerated.
(14) Hodgson was described in her former boss John Birt's memoirs as an "extraordinarily smart operator" and has the advantage that she already has experience of working within the BBC and the trust.
(15) And my anxiety is that if [the government] are going to keep on treating the chair of the BBC Trust like this through charter renewal, you’re not going to have a robust discussion, you’re going to have a caving in.” On Monday, it emerged that the BBC had agreed to shoulder the £700m cost of providing free TV licences for the over-75s from 2020 – a deal negotiated in secret, It was subsequently criticised by several former senior BBC figures including the former director general Lord Birt and the former chair Sir Christopher Bland.
(16) Two familial observations of Birt-Hogg-Dubé syndrome are reported.
(17) Now, Birt, a fellow Catholic Liverpudlian, was persuaded that Black would “keep it clean”.
(18) In fact Birt has been unfairly turned into a wicked uncle.
(19) Does £145.50 a year until 2016 fit that crucial Birt bill?
(20) It is no accident that Birt's two jobs since have been at number 10 and at McKinsey's.