(v. & n.) A muscle that bends a limb, esp. the arm.
(n.) One of the two highest cards in the pack commonly used in the game of euchre.
(n.) Anciently, a chamber; a lodging room; esp., a lady's private apartment.
(n.) A rustic cottage or abode; poetically, an attractive abode or retreat.
(n.) A shelter or covered place in a garden, made with boughs of trees or vines, etc., twined together; an arbor; a shady recess.
(v. t.) To embower; to inclose.
(v. i.) To lodge.
(n.) A young hawk, when it begins to leave the nest.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Treasurer Joe Hockey walks to a doorstop interview with the media this morning at the Ministerial entrance to Parliament House in Canberra, Tuesday 13th May 2013 Photograph: Mike Bowers, Guardian Australia There is a certain commonality associated with the annual rituals of the treasurer.
(2) The first experiment replicates the main finding of Gluck and Bower.
(3) Photograph: Mike Bowers 5.48am BST National leader Warren Truss would like to know if the Prime Minister will apologise for banning live exports when she's in Jakarta.
(4) Chris Bowen gets 94A-ed and yells over the dispatch box during question time in the House of Representatives this afternoon Wednesday 16th July 2014 Photograph: Mike Bowers Bowen's ejection has prompted the MPI, the post QT debate, to be cancelled.
(5) Not only did the Guardian's stories eventually prove correct, but Jefferson's boss, Cynthia Bower, announced her departure a few months later.
(6) Mike Bowers (@mpbowers) Director-General of Security David Irvine and Att.
(7) The website’s photographer, Mike Bowers, applied for a visa to visit the island in November and on Tuesday was reportedly sent an email from the director of Nauru’s government information office, Joanna Olsson.
(8) In February the CQC's chief executive, Cynthia Bower, announced that she would step down later this year after weeks of criticism.
(9) Wednesday 16th July 2014 Photograph: Mike Bowers The two gentleman pictured above foreshadowed new national security laws that will give Asio more powers to snoop on computers and more powers to coordinate with other agencies during investigations.
(10) Photograph: Mike Bowers for The Guardian The government had its first win: Parry easily secured the job of the new president, with 63 votes, while Ludlam mustered support from only 10 senators.
(11) Mike Bowers has wandered down the front to capture a bunch of anti-coal seam gas protesters blocking the entrance of the people's house.
(12) In contrast to various kinds of elastases that are known to produce emphysematous changes in animals, the elastolytic activity of carrageenan solution did not show any such effects, although in the homogenate of the lobes given carrageenan, a moderate but significant increase in the proteinase activities of alveolar macrophages are said to occur (Bowers et al.
(13) Malcolm Bower Gunnislake, Cornwall • It is crazy to have school students reluctant to take language A-levels for fear of low grades and no university place, while university language departments are closing down due to lack of demand from school students.
(14) "There may be some legitimate fear about interfering with other people's cultures, but when you talk to the husbands and boyfriends of the women they're not happy that their wives and girlfriends cannot respond sexually – and that's even without going into the misery that the women suffer," says Bowers.
(15) Once they've healed she sends them literature on discovering masturbation, and Gary and Bowers give all the patients their phone numbers and email.
(16) This year alone, there has been a hostile Blair biography , Broken Vows, by the investigative journalist Tom Bower, which dismissed the inquiry as naive and out of its depth.
(17) Bowers tells FGM patients that "there are no guarantees" but that eight out of 10 report improvements in their sex life after her surgery, ranging from eliminating pain and acquiring some pleasure to full-on orgasm.
(18) She "did not seem to ask for compassion", as Elizabeth notes at the end of her first visit to the marital bower.
(19) Photograph: Mike Bowers for the Guardian And Victorian senator John Madigan said “the welfare of Australian families and Australian manufacturing are both important to me, and I will not undermine either to advance the other.” The Coalition proposed deep cuts to family tax benefits in its first budget in 2014 – but about $6bn of those savings remain stalled in the Senate, opposed by Labor, the Greens and a majority of the crossbench.
(20) Their demand came after the CQC finally named the three people – former chief executive Cynthia Bower, her deputy Jill Finney, and media manager Anna Jefferson – who were said to be present during a discussion at the health regulator when it was decided to suppress a report that had uncovered critical weaknesses in its inspections of University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay Foundation Trust.
Courtship
Definition:
(n.) The act of paying court, with the intent to solicit a favor.
(n.) The act of wooing in love; solicitation of woman to marriage.
(n.) Courtliness; elegance of manners; courtesy.
(n.) Court policy; the character of a courtier; artifice of a court; court-craft; finesse.
Example Sentences:
(1) Furthermore, the homoeotic legs of SSa females are not required to be present for the detection of courtship song, since females whose homoeotic legs were removed could still distinguish between singing and non-singing males.
(2) A brief courtship was followed by a surprise wedding.
(3) We showed that the ability to agglutinate is not necessary in MATa cells for courtship but that production of a-pheromone and response to alpha-pheromone are necessary.
(4) The [14C]2-deoxyglucose (2-DG) technique was used to study patterns of neural activity associated with the species-typical courtship behavior of male red-sided garter snakes (Thamnophis sirtalis parietalis).
(5) Since courtship song increases a females' receptivity to copulation, the frequency of mating within a short observation period was used as a measure of the ability of mutant females to distinguish between singing males and males that were unable to sing.
(6) Adult male canaries learn to produce high-amplitude complex courtship songs each breeding season, whereas females do not, and brain nuclei involved with the production of song behavior are much larger in breeding males than in nonbreeding males or females (Nottebohm, 1980, 1981).
(7) The anatomy of galanin-like immunoreactive systems in the apteronotid brain suggests a role in neuroendocrine regulation and an involvement with anatomical areas controlling aggressive and courtship behaviour.
(8) Courtship, the appetitive phase of male sexual behavior, was temporally related to subsequent mating.
(9) Lesions of the septum or nucleus sphericus prior to hibernation facilitate courtship behavior upon emergence the following spring.
(10) Michael Bronner is a founding editor at Warscapes , which will be running an in-depth series on the Habré case and the US government's secret courtship of the dictator.
(11) Females that did not mate, but received similar amounts of male courtship, had levels of PGF2 alpha significantly lower than those of females that mated.
(12) Work of the past 20 years shows that flash synchrony is widespread geographically and taxonomically, appears in an astonishing range of spectacular display types, utilizes several neural flash-control mechanisms and is pervasively but enigmatically involved in courtship.
(13) Untreated male cagemates housed with treated females exhibited increased territoriality, courtship behavior, and mating, which began on day 4 or 5 of the treatment period.
(14) Progesterone priming combined with social isolation or with courtship experience had no significant effect on subsequent progesterone-induced incubation.
(15) In contrast, the apblt allele makes for wild-type rates of nonwing courtship.
(16) The extent to which the courtship activity of the test males was stimulated by the presence of additional courting males was not influenced by how actively the additional males courted.
(17) Members of four sympatric species of Eupomacentrus carry out reproductive activities at the same time of the year and produce similar pulsed courtship sounds.
(18) From the differential courtship responses of these males it could be concluded that the only important factor which enables a male to distinguish between conspecific males and females and to direct persistent courtship only toward females is tissue composition of females.
(19) After a courtship of proselytising together for Beveridge on street corners and in parish halls, they were married and stayed so, through some rough times, for 34 years.
(20) Both the high androgen levels prior to hibernation and the rapid decrease during the spring courtship season may result from temperature influences on clearance rates.