(n.) A store where books are kept for sale; -- called in England a bookseller's shop.
Example Sentences:
(1) A prominent Mexican journalist and her publisher, Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial, are being sued in an attempt to force them to remove a bombshell political investigation from the country’s bookstores.
(2) CBS, which says it stumbled across its advance copy in a bookstore, happens to own the book's publisher, Simon & Schuster.
(3) Whatever challenges he then sees facing the legacy industry (no bookstores!
(4) They rightly perceive that there is a better chance that retailers can get it to them there.” James Daunt, chief executive of the bookstore chain Waterstones , said its online deliveries were being delayed by “one or two days” as a result of problems at its courier service, Yodel, which has been overwhelmed with demand from the retailers it serves.
(5) The Romney Family Table is available online and in bookstores now, and could serve as the perfect Christmas gift for anyone who likes Mitt Romney, or likes seeing pictures of someone else's happy, gorgeous family, or simply is determined to ensure that the Romneys don't just dissolve into obscurity.
(6) If you don't feel like that – if what you're really saying is you want to see your book on a shelf in a bookstore – then just forget it, and do something else."
(7) That prompted HarperCollins to swiftly halt the book's publication – but not before a number of copies had been passed to retailers, including Amazon.co.uk and high street bookstores.
(8) Pearson has acquired a 5% stake in Nook Media – a new company that houses Barnes & Noble's e-reader and tablet operations, digital bookstore and 674 college bookstores in the USA – for $89.5m.
(9) It is now No 1 on Amazon's bestseller list and sold out in many bookstores.
(10) None of the money sloshing around the city trickled down to preserve the centre for homeless youth that closed in 2013, or the oldest black-owned black-focused bookstore in the country, which closed in 2014, or San Francisco’s last lesbian bar, which folded in 2015, or the African Orthodox Church of St John Coltrane, which is now facing eviction from the home it found after an earlier eviction during the late-1990s dotcom boom.
(11) Before, publishers had sold digital rights, mostly to Amazon, as it was by far the biggest online retailer, based on the wholesale model that physical bookstores have used: Amazon (et al) would pay a percentage of the retail price, and then was free to set its own price for the retail sale.
(12) (Her mother once stood at the back of a bookstore after a reading and made frantic gestures at Flynn when a member of the audience asked whether she came from a bad family.)
(13) This dispute started because Amazon is seeking a lot more profit and even more market share, at the expense of authors, bricks and mortar bookstores, and ourselves.
(14) New banking facilities totalling £220m were agreed following a deal last month to sell HMV's Waterstone's bookstore division for £53m to Russian billionaire Alexander Mamut.
(15) During the months of August and September 1987, each student union director and bookstore manager from the 28 public universities in California (combined enrollment almost 500,000) were asked to complete a 75-item questionnaire on campus condom distribution.
(16) Because what's happening to bookstores – and to the publishing business overall – isn't Amazon; it's technology.
(17) The popular Wangfujing bookstore has pulled Chinese versions of Haruki Murakami's bestseller 1Q84 , as well as other Japanese authors' titles, said the Japan Times .
(18) Two thirds of the campuses reported having condoms for sale in either their bookstores or convenience stores; one third said condoms were available in the men's and women's restrooms in their student unions.
(19) The association said the banners have been shared by hundreds of shops , quoting Bear Pond Books in Montpelier, Vermont, which wrote: "Can you imagine if your local bookstore intentionally delayed selling you books just because we were mad at the publisher?
(20) No other bookstore on earth offers Amazon's selection.
Canine
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to the family Canidae, or dogs and wolves; having the nature or qualities of a dog; like that or those of a dog.
(a.) Of or pertaining to the pointed tooth on each side the incisors.
(n.) A canine tooth.
Example Sentences:
(1) Using monoclonal antibodies directed against the plasma membrane of Madin-Darby canine kidney (MDCK) cells, we demonstrated previously that a glycoprotein with an Mr = 23,000 (gp23) had a non-polarized cell surface distribution and was observed on both the apical and basolateral membranes (Ojakian, G. K., Romain, R. E., and Herz, R. E. (1987) Am.
(2) The oral nerve endings of the palate, the buccal mucosa and the periodontal ligament of the cat canine were characterized by the presence of a cellular envelope which is the final form of the Henle sheath.
(3) Fifty-two pairs of canine femora were tested to failure in four-point bending.
(4) The canine system allows quantitative separation of native heme containing alpha and beta chains which recombine to for tetrameric hemoglobin with normal functional properties (n = 2.17).
(5) The shock resulting from acute canine babesiosis is best viewed as anemic shock.
(6) Of 3,837 canine neoplasms from case records at Kansas State University, only 4 were of carotid body tumors.
(7) In only two of the killed and four of the hospitalized persons, reports of intact canine teeth as demonstrated by the typical lesions were available.
(8) The potential use of ancrod, a purified isolate from the venom of the Malaysian pit viper, Agkistrodon rhodostoma, in decreasing the frequency of cyclic flow variations in severely stenosed canine coronary arteries and causing thrombolysis of an acute coronary thrombus induced by a copper coil was evaluated.
(9) An in vitro, eccentric arterial stenosis model was created using 15 canine carotid arteries cannulated with silicone plugs containing special pressure-transducing catheters designed to measure pressure directly, within the stenosis.
(10) The fluorescent immunoassay offered several advantages over currently used methods for determining levels of canine haptoglobin in serum.
(11) The purpose of this study was to determine if aspirin, in doses that elevate plasma salicylate concentrations to values reported in patients with salicylate-induced pulmonary edema, produce pulmonary vasoconstriction in a canine, isolated perfused left lower lung lobe (LLL) preparation.
(12) A novel stimulant of gastric acid secretion was extracted and purified from the non-antral gastric mucosa of the canine stomach and some of its biological properties were examined.
(13) When the MD rule was used, the magnitude of the DFT gave the best performance for both canine and human samples.
(14) Formalin-fixed, paraffin-embedded tissue samples of canine amelanotic melanomas and normal canine tissues were studied immunohistochemically for the presence of S100 protein.
(15) In 12 anaesthetized mongrel dogs, a canine stroke model was produced by occluding the left internal carotid and middle cerebral arteries with aneurysm clips.
(16) Blood flow changes in the dental pulp of lower canine teeth of mature cats and incisors of mature rats were investigated with simultaneous laser Doppler flowmetry and local 125I-clearance (wash-out) during electrical sympathetic stimulation, efferent stimulation of n. alveolaris inferior (IAN) (cats) and i.a.
(17) Following orthodontic treatment the canine's incisal edge occlusion demonstrates the tip and torque present in the appliance that was used.
(18) A technique of diversion of the gastroduodenal vein in a canine model is described to compare long-term metabolic effects of systemic versus portal pancreatic endocrine drainage.
(19) Large doses of dsFab are efficacious in the treatment of dysrhythmias in this canine model of N oleander cardiac glycoside poisoning.
(20) These cases suggest that the role of R. sanguineus in the transmission of the etiologic agent of canine ehrlichiosis and other pathogenic organisms to humans may be underestimated and warrants investigation.