(n.) The uncastrated male of swine; specifically, the wild hog.
Example Sentences:
(1) [5alpha-(3)H]5alpha-Androst-16-en-3-one (5alpha-androstenone) was infused at a constant rate for 180min into the spermatic artery of a sexually mature boar.
(2) The group of animals with sexual disorders included boars with inferior ejaculate quality and low fertility (24 animals) and cases with disturbed sexual potency (33 boars).
(3) Incubation of normal pig lymphocytes in serum samples collected from 10 sows immediately before, and at daily intervals after mating with a vasectomized boar significantly elevated the rosette inhibition titre (RIT) of a standard antilymphocyte serum in 6 animals on the first but not on the 2nd and 3rd day after copulation.
(4) The nuclei were isolated from boar spermatid or sperm cells at three distinct stages of spermatogenesis: just before the completion of a maturation process in the testis (late spermatid), immediately after a subsequent transformation into spermatozoa (caput spermatozoon), and after full maturation (cauda spermatozoon).
(5) In addition, prior saturation of the substrate layers with acrosin inhibitor (SSPI-I, II) from boar seminal plasma prevented the lysis reaction.
(6) E. coli from wild boars in a zoological garden has less sensitivity than from domesticated animals.
(7) This study investigated the applicability of the method to boar sperm motility measurement.
(8) In the same boar, the lengths of the fully synapsed arms of the quadrivalent varies from one quadrivalent to the other and heterosynapsis was obvious.
(9) Using the indirect immunofluorescent technique, the occurrence and distribution of the low molecular weight acid-stable acrosin inhibitors from boar seminal plasma (BSAI) in the boar genital tract was studied applying specific inhibitor-directed rabbit-immunoglobulins.
(10) Type 2 abnormalities were seen in only two boars, at 0.66 and 1.33 per cent.
(11) The stepwise freezing procedure A appeared as the best alternative for boar semen, considering this in vitro evaluation.
(12) In the domestic pig seasonal influences on prolificacy still exist: for example, AI boars not only show decreased steroid synthesis, sperm counts and libido in summer compared with the optima which occur in winter but also a biphasic pattern with a transient increase in spring.
(13) Sperm extracts prepared from directly frozen-thawed sperm suspension and 0.1-10 mM of taurine or hypotaurine had no effect on the fertilizing ability of boar spermatozoa.
(14) Furthermore, cross-hybridization to the M53 cDNA revealed homologous mRNA species in rat, human, rabbit, ram and boar epididymal RNA.
(15) Performance test records collected from 1978 to 1987 from on-farm tests of young Polish Large White boars from 94 herds and reproductive records of Polish Large White sows from 81 nucleus farms were used to estimate the phenotypic, environmental, and genetic trends.
(16) A simple, cheap and rapid method for the quantitative determination of the boar taint substance, 5 alpha-androst-16-en-3-one, in pig adipose tissue is described.
(17) High-resolution two-dimensional polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis analyses have indicated that several major boar sperm plasma membrane polypeptides (PMPs) increased in concentration during maturation in the epididymis.
(18) Homogenates of boar Cowper's gland contain both factor and mucin; thus direct-reading non-diffusible N-acetylneuraminic acid appears when such homogenates are stored.
(19) The importance of rank changes coupled with the increased accuracy of these more complex evaluation methods strongly suggest that best linear unbiased predictors of genetic value be utilized in comparing boars in central test stations.
(20) Serological results obtained in badgers and wild boars also demonstrates the absence of direct or indirect horizontal transmission of the recombinant virus.
Hoar
Definition:
(a.) White, or grayish white; as, hoar frost; hoar cliffs.
(a.) Gray or white with age; hoary.
(a.) Musty; moldy; stale.
(n.) Hoariness; antiquity.
(v. t.) To become moldy or musty.
Example Sentences:
(1) Hoare was subsequently interviewed under caution by the Metropolitan police.
(2) Only one country – China – could apply serious leverage – because it is North Korea's major supplier of oil and food and main trading partner, Hoare said.
(3) You could fire a rocket or two somewhere near Incheon airport, just to show you could do it … or push ships south of the [disputed] Northern Limit Line ," said Dr James Hoare, the former British chargé d'affaires in Pyongyang.
(4) • Philip Hoare will be speaking at the Bournemouth Natural Sciences Society on 8 October at 7.30pm.
(5) [The call] is encouraging people to break their country’s laws, with no consideration of the possible consequences,” said James Hoare, a former British Charge D’affaires to Pyongyang.
(6) He had been in Iraq for just 36 hours when he shot dead two colleagues , Scottish security guard Paul McGuigan and Australian Darren Hoare, after a night of heavy drinking.
(7) Dr J E Hoare was Britain’s first diplomatic representative in North Korea from 2001-2002 Facebook Twitter Pinterest North Korean workers pack vitamin-and mineral-enriched biscuits at a factory in Sinuiju city.
(8) Today assistant commissioner John Yates took to the airwaves to defend the force but said the new allegations in the New York Times from a former tabloid reporter, Sean Hoare, would be examined.
(9) One former journalist, Sean Hoare, has said Coulson "actively encouraged" phone hacking and an executive, Paul McMullan, claimed that the former editor must have been aware of it.
(10) Exposures previously suspected of being associated with CLL were examined using a job-exposure matrix developed by Hoar et al and a linkage between observed occupational exposures and specific occupations, by industry, based on data collected in the National Occupational Hazard Survey (NOHS).
(11) In a BBC radio interview, Hoare accused Coulson of lying.
(12) The piece in the New York Times quoted a former News of the World reporter, Sean Hoare, who said Andy Coulson, the former editor, was aware of the practice.
(13) But one of his former reporters, Sean Hoare, reignited the row last week by publicly claiming his boss had been aware of the activities.
(14) But former reporter Sean Hoare reignited the row last week by publicly claiming his boss was aware of the activities.
(15) Labour peer Baroness Morgan was removed as chair of Ofsted in May to be replaced by David Hoare , a trustee of the UK's largest academy chain, AET.
(16) Police and the Crown Prosecution Service will have to decide whether Hoare is interviewed as a witness, or under criminal caution as a potential suspect.
(17) Someone went a bit too far," said James Hoare, a former British charge d'affaires in Pyongyang.
(18) Hoare claimed Coulson "actively encouraged" him to hack into people's voicemail messages.
(19) Sprouting broccoli, the thin-stemmed variety with the deep purple heads, will withstand the winter cold, a hoar frost or even deep snow.
(20) Danny Fitzsimons, 31, a former paratrooper from Middleton, Manchester, shot dead Briton Paul McGuigan and Australian Darren Hoare, colleagues at the UK security firm ArmorGroup, now part of G4S, and injured an Iraqi security guard 36 hours after arriving in Iraq in 2009.