(n.) A swimming bird (Sula fiber or S. sula) related to the common gannet, and found in the West Indies, nesting on the bare rocks. It is so called on account of its apparent stupidity. The name is also sometimes applied to other species of gannets; as, S. piscator, the red-footed booby.
(n.) A species of penguin of the antarctic seas.
(a.) Having the characteristics of a booby; stupid.
Example Sentences:
(1) • Sustainable tourism company Sumak Travel offers tailor-made journeys to Veracruz, and other parts of Mexico Los Islotes , Sea of Cortez, Baja California, Mexico Steve Backshall , naturalist and TV presenter Facebook Twitter Pinterest Photograph: Alamy Stock Photo Just two hours from La Paz in Mexico’s Sea of Cortez, Los Islotes is a rocky California sea lion colony, peppered with resting blue-footed boobies, cormorants and pelicans.
(2) Friday night's attack came just hours a after police discovered a booby trap bomb device underneath a car also in west Belfast.
(3) She said she refuses to let anyone inside the room, and sweeps it for cameras and “booby traps.” She said she is taunted daily about the videos, which are still online.
(4) But they can at least lay booby-traps to confuse and deter – a concept known as “active defence”.
(5) Observations in 1969 and 1970 implicated the monkeys in a drastic decline of the nesting populations of brown boobies (Sula leucogaster) and red-footed boobies (Sula sula).
(6) Holmes, still clad in body armour, told police he had booby-trapped his apartment.
(7) So I invited my friends to my "Bye Bye Boobies" Party.
(8) Alan Boobis said: “My role in ILSI (and two of its branches) is as a public sector member and chair of their boards of trustees, positions which are not remunerated.
(9) The recent proliferation of articles linking fetal scalp or cord blood evidence of metabolic acidosis to birth asphyxia threatens to create another legal booby trap.
(10) There are several beaches near busy Padstow, including wide golden Booby's Bay – sure to make kids giggle, and a hit with advanced surfers.
(11) A succession of police and federal agents testified that Holmes spent weeks amassing guns and ammunition, concocted explosives to booby-trap his apartment, scouted the movie theatre before the attack and took a series of chilling photographs .
(12) The witnesses said that in late June he began equipping himself with a helmet, gas mask and body armour; and in July he began buying fuses, gunpowder, chemicals and electronics to booby-trap his apartment in the hope of triggering an explosion and fire to divert police from the theatre.
(13) "No," reassured Lynch, "Eigg's sea name is Isle of the Big Women, so most probably it will be an effigy of a woman with giant boobies."
(14) It's not an insurance policy, it is a potential booby trap," he said.
(15) These disgruntled republicans were responsible for murdering the Catholic PSNI constable Ronan Kerr with an under-car booby trap in April 2011.
(16) The walls and entrances were also booby-trapped, and two large plastic containers were put in the middle of the floor.
(17) An advisory position held by Boobis at Efsa was discontinued in 2012.
(18) We have seen letter bombs, under-car booby traps, blast bombs, hijackings.
(19) Thus, expression of this DNA construct generates a pool of CD4+ booby-trapped cells that, as a population, are resistant to HIV infection.
(20) It took several hours, and a bomb-disposal robot that checked Sonboly’s body for booby-trap explosives, to confirm that in fact there was only one attacker, and he had committed suicide early on in the evening.
Sula
Definition:
(n.) A genus of sea birds including the booby and the common gannet.
Example Sentences:
(1) The results show that the amount of the gene product of the gene recA affects the SOS induction of the gene sulA.
(2) In neighbouring Honduras , a group of farmers who were tired of seeing the lion's share of their produce go to middlemen decided three years ago to work with buyers in the country's largest city, San Pedro Sula, selling directly to supermarkets and fast-food chains, to offer a steady supply of lettuce, tomatoes, broccoli and other vegetables.
(3) A study was made of the SOS induction of the gene sulA of Escherichia coli K12 in relation to the gene dosage of the gene recA.
(4) Lon-directed degradation of SulA was energy dependent, as was the increase in degradation of SulA in delta lon pAlp+ cells.
(5) But in the month after the coup, there was a 60% rise in the number of femicides, with the bodies of more than 50 women found in the two largest cities, Tegucigalpa and San Pedro Sula.
(6) Analysis of mutations within the ftsZ, gene, selected for resistance to the cell division inhibitor SulA, revealed that they also conferred resistance to MinCD.
(7) 3'-Azido-3'-deoxythymidine (azidothymidine; AZT), 2',3'-dideoxyadenosine (ddA), 2',3'-dideoxyguanosine (ddG), and 2',3'-dideoxyinosine (ddI) induced cell filamentation (sulA) and prophage lambda in well-agar diffusion and liquid microsuspension assays.
(8) Colonies grown in Sula's liquid medium, on the other hand, showed no such stratification and were equally acid-fast at all points.
(9) Of these genes, ftsZ is of great interest as it acts earliest in the division pathway, is essential, its level dictates the frequency of division, and it is thought to be the target of two cell-division inhibitors, SulA, produced in response to DNA damage, and MinCD, which prevents division at old sites.
(10) It is suggested that the SulA polypeptide is also a component of an enzyme that acts in another step of folate biosynthesis and that this step is inhibited in vivo by either free or conjugated sulfonamides.
(11) Then there was Sverre Flate Bjorkavag, 28, a committed party activist who stood for mayor in his small town of Sula, on Norway's west coast.
(12) The SOS response, as indicated by sulA induction, is strongly induced by all types of alkylating agents used.
(13) To better understand this protection, we mutagenized the sulA gene and selected for mutants that have partially or totally lost their ability to saturate the Lon protease and thus can no longer protect another substrate.
(14) Observations in 1969 and 1970 implicated the monkeys in a drastic decline of the nesting populations of brown boobies (Sula leucogaster) and red-footed boobies (Sula sula).
(15) When expressed in E. coli, the foreign sulA genes did not block cell division suggesting that their products are inactive.
(16) The temperature-sensitive phenotype is a result of increased expression of sulA, which encodes a division inhibitor, at 42 degrees C. Excision repair genes, including uvrA, uvrB and uvrD, are constitutively expressed at 30 degrees C accounting for the ultraviolet light resistance of the lexA41 mutant, but the SOS mutagenesis operon, umuD,C, is not adequately derepressed, thereby explaining the failure to induce mutagenesis in this background.
(17) lon strains carrying pZAQ could stably maintain a multicopy plasmid carrying sulA (pBS2), which cannot otherwise be introduced into lon mutants.
(18) It is an overlooked fact that in some ways her novels are very conventional; The Bluest Eye is also a coming-of-age story; Sula is a romance.
(19) A hypothesis that the SulA product someway regulates transposition of Tn5 negatively is proposed.
(20) The N terminus of the SulA protein [amino acid (aa) residues 1-30] has diverged extensively during the evolution of Enterobacteriaceae, whereas the central region (aa residues 31-149) has been well conserved.