(n.) A soft, elastic, very durable cap, made of thick, seamless woolen stuff, and worn by men in Scotland.
(n.) A covering for the head, worn by women, usually protecting more or less the back and sides of the head, but no part of the forehead. The shape of the bonnet varies greatly at different times; formerly the front part projected, and spread outward, like the mouth of a funnel.
(n.) Anything resembling a bonnet in shape or use
(n.) A small defense work at a salient angle; or a part of a parapet elevated to screen the other part from enfilade fire.
(n.) A metallic canopy, or projection, over an opening, as a fireplace, or a cowl or hood to increase the draught of a chimney, etc.
(n.) A frame of wire netting over a locomotive chimney, to prevent escape of sparks.
(n.) A roofing over the cage of a mine, to protect its occupants from objects falling down the shaft.
(n.) In pumps, a metal covering for the openings in the valve chambers.
(n.) An additional piece of canvas laced to the foot of a jib or foresail in moderate winds.
(n.) The second stomach of a ruminating animal.
(n.) An accomplice of a gambler, auctioneer, etc., who entices others to bet or to bid; a decoy.
(v. i.) To take off the bonnet or cap as a mark of respect; to uncover.
Example Sentences:
(1) Fry's letter was also delivered to the Lausanne headquarters of the International Olympic Committee, by Guillaume Bonnet of the campaign group All Out .
(2) No blood group polymorphism was revealed by testing bonnet macaque red cells with isoantisera produced in rhesus monkeys (M. mulatta) and in crab-eating macaques (M. fascicularis).
(3) Nasal cavities from eight subadult bonnet monkeys were processed for light microscopy, and scanning and transmission electron microscopy.
(4) Despite the BBC cutting back on the number of "bonnet and bodice" adaptations in favour of more modern period drama , Davies said there was still room for big classic pieces.
(5) Now I’ve got this bee in my bonnet and want to tell people “Roast it whole until the skin’s soft, take it out of the Aga, cool it a bit and it will be just lovely”.
(6) Partially purified human ovarian follicular fluid peptide (hGF2) was administered during follicular phase in 5 bonnet monkeys.
(7) We present a series of four patients with the Charles Bonnet syndrome, which is characterized by recurrent vivid visual hallucinations in the presence of normal cognition and insight.
(8) The purpose of this study is to develop a technique to test the utility of an investigational device, the obstetric bonnet, and measure the forces it places on the fetal head.
(9) To ascertain the role of diet in the aetiology of mucoid vasculopathy, groups of bonnet monkeys were fed protein-deficient normal carbohydrate, or protein-deficient high-carbohydrate tapioca (cassava) starch based diets or control diets of normal protein and carbohydrate for 3 or 5 months periods.
(10) Osborne has a better grasp than Cameron of what is technically required to secure British interests in a rewired relationship with the EU – the under-the-bonnet business of voting weights and single-market rules.
(11) We have confirmed the presence of M cells in bonnet monkey FAE having ultrastructural features very similar to those of human M cells.
(12) We studied behavioral development in 12 mother-reared social-group-living bonnet macaque (M. radiata monkey infants during the first four months of life.
(13) A 17-year-old girl with unilateral blindness and exophthalmos was found to have Bonnet-Dechaume-Blanc syndrome without retinal arteriovenous communications.
(14) In Old World monkeys, the U2 genes were organized as a tandem repeat of an 11-kb element; the restriction maps of the 11-kb elements in baboon and two closely related macaques, bonnet and rhesus monkeys, also differed slightly, confirming that efficient sequence homogenization is an intrinsic property of the U2 tandem array.
(15) But then a car bonnet-sized choc ice gets wheeled out and everything's OK again.
(16) The symptoms in the second case resembled those described in cases of visual hallucinosis (Charles Bonnet syndrome) in the elderly.
(17) Variations with regard to salt tolerance were observed in rice varieties, Blue bonnet, IR-8, Jhona-349, and Magnolia.
(18) Also, the bonnet macaques' maltose and Polycose preferences exceeded those of the squirrel monkeys.
(19) Imipramine hydrochloride was administered orally twice daily to 18 bonnet and 3 rhesus monkeys between days 23 and 45 of pregnancy for 1-3 or 18-22 days at 1, 2, and 10 times the recommended human dose.
(20) Using the Cochet-Bonnet esthesiometer, we evaluated the corneal sensation of 11 patients with unilateral Adie's tonic pupil.
Uncover
Definition:
(v. t.) To take the cover from; to divest of covering; as, to uncover a box, bed, house, or the like; to uncover one's body.
(v. t.) To show openly; to disclose; to reveal.
(v. t.) To divest of the hat or cap; to bare the head of; as, to uncover one's head; to uncover one's self.
(v. i.) To take off the hat or cap; to bare the head in token of respect.
(v. i.) To remove the covers from dishes, or the like.
Example Sentences:
(1) Nucleotide sequence analysis of cDNAs for asparagine synthetase (AS) of Pisum sativum has uncovered two distinct AS mRNAs (AS1 and AS2) encoding polypeptides that are highly homologous to the human AS enzyme.
(2) He was often detained and occasionally beaten when he returned to Minsk for demonstrations, but “if he thought it was professional duty to uncover something, he did that no matter what threats were made,” Kalinkina said.
(3) The report says this tactic has helped the west uncover at least one of Iran's secret nuclear sites and, according to official statements by the Iranians, has caused enrichment centrifuges to break.
(4) It is recommended that further research be directed toward uncovering the emotional and cognitive resources of teenage mothers rather than focusing on their more obvious weaknesses.
(5) Gas trapping and corneal edema were not observed in uncovered corneas or corneas covered with membrane lenses.
(6) The Scottish Affairs select committee that is investigating the blacklisting has uncovered documents showing that the police unit monitoring political activists met the blacklisting agency in 2008 to discuss sharing information.
(7) Experiments were designed to uncover potential deficits in events related to proliferation including cell surface protein and IL-2 receptor (IL-2R) expression, interleukin-2 (IL-2) production, and accessory cells.
(8) Cruddas, who has several BNP councillors in his Barking constituency, told MPs in the House of Commons: "What's been uncovered in the internal workings of the BNP appears to be systematic illegality in terms of data protection, bugging, money laundering, theft and the operation of the Political Parties Elections and Referendums Act 2000."
(9) Tangent-screen studies uncovered neurasthenic spiral fields superimposed on hysterical tubular contractions of both eyes.
(10) This invertebrate precipitin, Tridacnin, may be used as a marker for nearly two thirds of all asialo serum glycoproteins; A number of different cross-reactions with various other polysaccharides and galactans subdivides those neuraminidase-treated glycoproteins into several subgroups, indicating that the uncovered carbohydrate structures are not always completely identical.
(11) There are no cases Money could uncover of people convicted for slipping a dodgy £1 into a vending machine or palming one off to their newsagent, but criminal gangs have been jailed for manufacturing fake coins.
(12) In order to uncover the role of G proteins in the integrative functioning and development of the nervous system, we have begun a multidisciplinary study of the G proteins present in the fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster.
(13) The presence of both P and D greatly augments initial cleavage of C3 with D fully uncovering the active site of B and P stabilizing that site.
(14) Again, two phenotypes were uncovered, and faster mobility was found in the red cells that had higher agglutinability.
(15) It was hard to understand why the girls would go back and why they couldn’t be saved.” She said she had been disturbed by what they had uncovered during research, what she called an “institutional neglect of a certain strata of society”.
(16) When the sample was separated into the three groups of organic etiology, psychogenic etiology with psychiatric diagnosis, and psychogenic etiology without psychiatric diagnosis, few significant differences in group profiles were uncovered.
(17) ECRF will continue to fight for the truth for Giulio Regeni and in uncovering the fate of Egyptians who fall victim to forced disappearances.” Abdullah’s release comes days after Egyptian investigators visited Rome to discuss developments in the Regeni case.
(18) It is likely that future investigations will uncover even more fundamental regulatory roles for heparin as well as for other polysaccharides in the normal function of growth factors, especially in the complex process of angiogenesis.
(19) A similar relation was uncovered in the literature for asthmatic patients at rest or during recovery from natural asthma.
(20) Raping a child is not the same as putting your hand on the leg of an adult woman, but what is this but a spectrum of systematic abuse being uncovered?