(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.
Goldfinch
Definition:
(n.) A beautiful bright-colored European finch (Carduelis elegans). The name refers to the large patch of yellow on the wings. The front of the head and throat are bright red; the nape, with part of the wings and tail, black; -- called also goldspink, goldie, fool's coat, drawbird, draw-water, thistle finch, and sweet William.
(n.) The yellow-hammer.
(n.) A small American finch (Spinus tristis); the thistle bird.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Pulitzer for fiction writing went to Donna Tartt for The Goldfinch, while Annie Baker won the prize for drama for her play set in a cinema, The Flick.
(2) I walked through flocks of goldfinches and starlings and watched mistle thrushes warble and wrens gobble berries.
(3) We watched the volunteers ringing and measuring goldfinches and warblers – a fascinating way to see wild birds very close up – then saw them fly off.
(4) Rights for The Goldfinch are currently under negotiation in the UK, according to the Bookseller .
(5) Dale, G., Goldfinch, M. E., Sibert, J. R., and Webb, J. K. G. (1975).
(6) At the start of the year, everyone was convinced Donna Tartt's The Goldfinch would win; things turned out to be not so predictable.
(7) I know we’re all supposed to be obsessed with The Goldfinch this summer, but I’m planning to reread The Secret History by Donna Tartt in the tub instead.
(8) The retailer is in a long-running dispute with Hachette about the price of e-books that has led to it delaying shipments of books from best selling authors including JK Rowling, Stephanie Meyer, David Foster Wallace, and Donna Tartt, author of this year's Pulitzer Prize winner, The Goldfinch.
(9) The experience led me to conclude that although we love to argue about books, acquire them, express strong opinions about The Goldfinch , etc, etc, more than ever we seem to be losing the knack of reading them.
(10) "The Goldfinch is a haunted odyssey through present-day America.
(11) Some birds in the UK have increased since the 1970s, namely stock doves, wood pigeons, goldfinch, greenfinch and jackdaws.
(12) Regulation of glycolysis was assessed in winter- and summer-acclimatized goldfinches (Carduelis tristis).
(13) The Goldfinch is due out in the US on 22 October this year, and according to a description from its publisher on Amazon.com will tell the story of a young boy in New York City, Theo Decker, who "miraculously" survives an explosion that kills his mother.
(14) The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt The Secret History author may not be prolific , but she's regular.
(15) David Goldfinch, Folkestone, Kent, parent and ex-Lib Dem voter The Liberal Democrats won only 8% of the seats in parliament – and both the larger parties were committed to tuition fees.
(16) Filled with long-tailed tits or goldfinches or cackling green woodpeckers, many are as thick as houses, a coalition of holly, rowan, hazel, dogwood and bramble, with oaks permitted to grow into grand trees.
(17) It would be a day of spiders’ webs, drifting thistledown shredded by goldfinches , ripening berries and lethargic bumblebees clinging to the last of the knapweed flowers .
(18) These include the linnet , Dartford warbler , stonechat , meadow pipit , skylark , goldfinch , bullfinch, hedge sparrow , grey partridge and yellowhammer .
(19) He was recently asked by the New York Times to review Donna Tartt 's new novel, The Goldfinch.
(20) Goldfinch-arm The specific ache you get from Donna Tartt's excellent but heavy hardback .