(n.) A city of Italy which has given its name to various objects.
(n.) A Bologna sausage.
Example Sentences:
(1) Riccardo Vastola, 28, studied marketing and communications but founded a music business in 2009, organising indie rock gigs, events, club nights in and around Bologna.
(2) | Amy Lawrence Read more Sampdoria have already expressed their interest in bringing Balotelli back to the league where he has represented both Internazionale and Milan, and now Bologna’s director of sport, Pantaleo Corvino, has hinted at a loan deal.
(3) A large series of patients submitted to cerebral angiography at the Bellaria Hospital in Bologna are presented in a preliminary report.
(4) The kidnap and execution of the then Christian Democrat leader Aldo Moro by the Red Brigades , the murderous bomb in Bologna station in 1980 and others in Milan, Brescia and aboard a train were, differently, expressions of what Italians call the “strategy of tension” by the state.
(5) Sunderland and Middlesbrough in Premier League peril Read more Karanka is not alone in observing that “when Gastón plays well, it makes a big difference to us” but acknowledges he has never quite fulfilled the hype which accompanied his £12m move from Bologna to Southampton four years ago.
(6) Ansa said that by monitoring mobile conversations between the two men, police were able to follow the suspect's movements, from England to Milan and Bologna and finally to Rome.
(7) The authors report their experience in the use of the Conseal (Coloplast S.p.A., Bologna, Italy) Colostomy Plug, a new device for the regulation of continence in patients with colostomies.
(8) The results of experiences carryed out at the "Istituto di Industrie Agrarie" of the University of Bologna in the last five years, applying the techniques of vinification by carbonic maceration (CM) and by heat treatment of the crushed in the production of Emilia-Romagna wines, are reported.
(9) The statements are explained by examples from the universities in Bologna, Paris, Padua, Vienna, Leipzig, Greifswald, Basle and Strasbourg.
(10) Growth of salmonellae in Bologna sausage ("frische Mettwurst") can be inhibited by adding of at least 2.5% nitrit curing salt, 0.3% glucono-delta-lactone, and lactic acid starter cultures, even if the product is stored at temperatures up to 25 degrees C. Likewise in spreadible and sliceable fermented sausage ("streichfähige und schnittfeste Rohwurst") no growth of salmonellae is to be expected, if a similar technology secures a sufficient microbiological stability during the ripening and smoking process.
(11) The radiation exposure of the medical team involved in 35 consecutive cardiac catheterisation procedures performed at the Istituto di Malattie dell'Apparato Cardiovascolare, University of Bologna, was calculated.
(12) We studied the pancreata of 280 (140 males and 140 females) olive-oil-treated and 240 (120 males and 120 females) untreated Sprague-Dawley rats of the breed used at the BT Experimental Unit of the Bologna Institute of Oncology.
(13) On loan at Watford from Chinese club Guangzhou Evergrande, Alessandro Diamanti ’s time at Vicarage Road also looks to be drawing to a close, with Udinese, Bologna and Livorno all being touted as likely destinations for the former West Ham striker.
(14) Jonathan Pearce Once best known for Robot Wars and a classic intro to 1993’s England v San Marino game where England conceded after eight seconds – “Welcome to Bologna on Capital Gold Sport for England versus San Marino with Tennent’s Pilsner brewed with Czechoslovakian yeast for that extra Pilsner taste and England are one down.” Now best known for shouting at goalline technology.
(15) "University has to be about developing our minds, too," says Caterina Moruzzi, 22, a philosophy master's student at Bologna.
(16) In Bologna, Martinelli feels much the same: "I know I'll never have a job like my mother had, teaching English all her life," she says.
(17) In Bologna’s university quarter – scene of faculty occupations and violent clashes in 1977 – the walls of Via Zamboni are covered with posters advocating a No vote.
(18) "A wholesale destruction," a Bologna University professor says, "of human capital".
(19) "The family," says Andrea Pareschi, 21, a political sciences graduate from Bologna, "has become the primary social security system."
(20) The respiratory-dependent pacemaker (RDP3 or MB-1, Biorate, Biotec International, S.p.A., Bologna, Italy) detects the respiratory rate by measuring thoracic impedance using a subcutaneous auxiliary lead.
Elephant
Definition:
(n.) A mammal of the order Proboscidia, of which two living species, Elephas Indicus and E. Africanus, and several fossil species, are known. They have a proboscis or trunk, and two large ivory tusks proceeding from the extremity of the upper jaw, and curving upwards. The molar teeth are large and have transverse folds. Elephants are the largest land animals now existing.
(n.) Ivory; the tusk of the elephant.
Example Sentences:
(1) The hymen was not penetrated as a result of intromission and therefore the site of ejaculation would have been in the urogenital canal of the 4 primigravid elephants.
(2) In June, a notorious elephant poacher led a gang of bandits in an attack on the Okapi wildlife reserve in DRC, killing seven people.
(3) Spending time with the baby elephants was very special; the best bit was watching them have a mud bath and occasionally joining in!
(4) Some of these are functions that would once have been taken on through squatting – and sometimes still are, as at Open House , a social centre recently and precariously opened in London's Elephant & Castle, an area torn apart by rampant gentrification, where estates are flogged off to developers with zero commitment to public housing and the aforementioned "shopping village" is located in a derelict estate.
(5) In December he smashed apart the Roman forces in the north, assisted by his awesome elephants, the tanks of classical warfare.
(6) Yang Feng Glan is accused of smuggling 706 elephant tusks worth £1.62m from Tanzania to the far east.
(7) Prince William is due to make a speech about conservation at an elephant sanctuary in China on 4 March.
(8) We haven’t ascertained how much of the forests it has taken over, but a significant portion may in reality be unpalatable weeds and effectively unusable from an elephant’s perspective.
(9) We’ve sent one of our writers to Kenya to meet the elephants, and some of the people who seek to look after them, just as news breaks that elephant numbers are dramatically down.
(10) It’s home to a quarter of a million people, about 150 elephants and a host of other wild animals ranging from bears and tigers to flycatchers and martens.
(11) Kenya's president has set fire to more than five tonnes of elephant ivory worth £10m to draw attention to poaching deaths.
(12) On the other hand the government and the police have got a duty to ensure that people in the Department of Defence are not breaching national security by giving stuff to you.” The Greens senator Scott Ludlam, who provided his own circumvention tips during the Senate debate on Tuesday, said Turnbull’s explanation indicated data retention could be a “$300m white elephant”.
(13) Through the year, a herd of elephants may move over a very large area in search of food and water – sometimes more than 1,000 square kilometres.
(14) At 5pm each night, local TV stations broadcast the locations of all elephants on the plateau.
(15) Sudanese poachers were responsible for the recent mass slaughter of 26 elephants at world heritage Dzanga-Ndoki national park in the CAR.
(16) We have a few quotations from a compendium of jokes of the first emperor Augustus (not all brilliant: "When a man was nervously giving him a petition and kept putting his hand out, then drawing it back, the emperor quipped, 'Hey, do you think you're giving a penny to an elephant?'").
(17) … the party wants to run a highly disciplined election campaign – there can be no place for a rogue elephant."
(18) In January, poachers shot down a helicopter in Tanzania and killed its British pilot during an operation to track down elephant killers while, in October last year, 14 elephants were poisoned by cyanide in Zimbabwe .
(19) It would be kind of a big elephant to have missed."
(20) A realistic elephant might serve as a memento to the hundred elephants killed for their ivory every day.