(v. t.) To seize with the teeth, so that they enter or nip the thing seized; to lacerate, crush, or wound with the teeth; as, to bite an apple; to bite a crust; the dog bit a man.
(v. t.) To puncture, abrade, or sting with an organ (of some insects) used in taking food.
(v. t.) To cause sharp pain, or smarting, to; to hurt or injure, in a literal or a figurative sense; as, pepper bites the mouth.
(v. t.) To cheat; to trick; to take in.
(v. t.) To take hold of; to hold fast; to adhere to; as, the anchor bites the ground.
(v. i.) To seize something forcibly with the teeth; to wound with the teeth; to have the habit of so doing; as, does the dog bite?
(v. i.) To cause a smarting sensation; to have a property which causes such a sensation; to be pungent; as, it bites like pepper or mustard.
(v. i.) To cause sharp pain; to produce anguish; to hurt or injure; to have the property of so doing.
(v. i.) To take a bait into the mouth, as a fish does; hence, to take a tempting offer.
(v. i.) To take or keep a firm hold; as, the anchor bites.
(v.) The act of seizing with the teeth or mouth; the act of wounding or separating with the teeth or mouth; a seizure with the teeth or mouth, as of a bait; as, to give anything a hard bite.
(v.) The act of puncturing or abrading with an organ for taking food, as is done by some insects.
(v.) The wound made by biting; as, the pain of a dog's or snake's bite; the bite of a mosquito.
(v.) A morsel; as much as is taken at once by biting.
(v.) The hold which the short end of a lever has upon the thing to be lifted, or the hold which one part of a machine has upon another.
(v.) A cheat; a trick; a fraud.
(v.) A sharper; one who cheats.
(v.) A blank on the edge or corner of a page, owing to a portion of the frisket, or something else, intervening between the type and paper.
Example Sentences:
(1) Some dental applications of the pressure measuring sheet, such as the measurement of biting pressure and balance during normal and unilateral biting, were examined.
(2) But do you know the thing that really bites?” he pointed to his home, which was not visible behind an overgrown hedge.
(3) Admission venom levels also correlated with the extent of local swelling and the occurrence of tissue necrosis at the site of the bite.
(4) The mosquitoes coming to bite in bedrooms were monitored with light traps set beside untreated bednets.
(5) The EMG silent periods (SP) produced in the open-close-clench cycle and jaw-jerk reflex were compared for duration before and after treatment with an occlusal bite splint.
(6) In Colchester, David Sherwood of Fenn Wright reported: "High tenant demand but increasingly tenants in rent arrears as the recession bites."
(7) To test the hypothesis that EAA agonists are involved in transmission of nociceptive information in the spinal cord, we tested the effect of various opioid, sigma and phencyclidine compounds on the action of NMDA in the tail-flick, hot-plate and biting and scratching nociceptive tests.
(8) The most reproducible instrument was the combination of Regisil, an elastic impression material, and a Rinn XCP bite block.
(9) Changes of mineral content in the approximal enamel of the teeth were determined in situ with quantitative bite-wing radiography.
(10) In contrast, large territories may reflect widespread motor-unit actions, advantageous in force development where fine movement control is less important, as in biting in the intercuspal position or opposing gravity.
(11) In the last 5 years, 29 children have been treated in our institution for snake bites, all with signs of envenomation.
(12) Forty patients with Crotalidae snake bites were evaluated and treated over a 7-year period.
(13) Considering the construction of the bite, beside the two usual procedures: a direct and indirect method with the different steps of the laboratory, we can realize a mixed one which all the advantages without the defects of both.
(14) The peak biting activity of the vector and peak appearance of microfilariae in the peripheral blood occurred at about 01.00 h, which accounts for the optimum infection of the vector population.
(15) The results of this study indicate that, with all other factors held constant, a patient's attrition score tends to: increase with age, increase with bite depth, decrease initially with overjet until a critical value and then increase, and be unaffected by sex, interincisal angle, U1 to NA angle, Angle classification, posterior or anterior cross bites.
(16) The charity Bite the Ballot , which persuaded hundreds of thousands to register before the last general election, is to set up “democracy cafes” in Starbucks branches, laying on experts to explain how to register and vote, and what the referendum is all about (Bite the Ballot does not take sides but merely encourages participation).
(17) Masticatory efficiency was measured by means of a spectrophotometer, using adenosine triphosphate (ATP) granules, the biting force and occlusal contact area.
(18) Wearing the bite plane mainly reduced activities of the temporal muscles.
(19) Flank marks, attacks, bites, and retreats were scored over a 15 min test period during which steroid-injected animals were paired in a neutral arena with vehicle-injected conspecifics.
(20) African children had significantly fewer prevalences of distal bite, lateral crossbite and crowding than Finnish children did.
Oestrus
Definition:
(n.) A genus of gadflies. The species which deposits its larvae in the nasal cavities of sheep is oestrus ovis.
(n.) A vehement desire; esp. (Physiol.), the periodical sexual impulse of animals; heat; rut.
Example Sentences:
(1) Basal 20 alpha DHP levels remained low until a sharp rise at mid pro-oestrus.
(2) Gilts that had already reached sexual maturity at the time of insemination showed a higher rate of oestrus and better litter size than immature animals.
(3) 2 Metabolism in vitro was high during met-oestrus and di-oestrus and low during pro-oestrus and oestrus; this variation in activity correlated with changes in Vmax of the enzyme without changes in Km.
(4) In spite of small corpora lutea and increased follicular activity, none of the prednisolone treated heifers showed signs of oestrogen influence, and the two animals slaughtered 26 days after the start of treatment, did not ovulate or show signs of oestrus.
(5) Serum concentrations of immunoreactive inhibin in oil-treated rats increased from metoestrus to pro-oestrus and decreased at oestrus.
(6) Only one inoculated goat became pregnant after the third oestrus.
(7) Two peaks of plasma FSH concentration were detected after the onset of oestrus.
(8) Pregnant cows showing oestrus were usually seen interacting with other oestrous cows in the sexually active group.
(9) The labelling index of rat mammary gland during oestrus, pregnancy and early lactation was studied in vitro.
(10) Ovarian activity was controlled for synchronization of oestrus by using progestagen-impregnated intravaginal sponges and multiple ovulations were induced by using exogenous gonadotrophin therapy.
(11) In the three E2 groups, 41.7, 62.5 and 37.5% of animals showed oestrus within 26 h of injection while in the control groups only one animal showed oestrus.
(12) When lergotrile mesylate was given on the morning of pro-oestrus, the LH surge was advanced.
(13) The kinetics of specific antibodies of the blood serum of sheep experimentally infested with 80, 160 and 1000 specimens of Oestrus ovis larvae was examined.
(14) On the basis of gained results it was concluded, that synchronized oestrus ewes on receiving PMSG in anoestrus season the ovarial response was more significant than in autumn breeding season.
(15) Rats were injected on D1 and killed at first oestrus.
(16) The oestrus cycle had no effect on levels of the three steroids measured.
(17) Granulosa cell responsiveness at an early (1-2 h) or late (14-16 h) stage of differentiation following the onset of oestrus [and presumably the LH surge] was studied in 16 cows.
(18) Second, the effectiveness of establishment of a cervical reservoir of spermatozoa, in ewes in which oestrus and ovulation have been controlled, has been re-examined.
(19) administered in a single dose at either 0900 h or 1800 h pro-oestrus, and on the morning of oestrus the rats were killed.
(20) Such transformation of steroid gestagens to oestrogens is likely to offer an explanation for the occurrence of oestrogen effects which had been observed during synchronised oestrus of cattle following oral application of 19-norgestagens.