(n.) The One First Cause; also, one of the triad of Hindoo gods. The triad consists of Brahma, the Creator, Vishnu, the Preserver, and Siva, the Destroyer.
(n.) A valuable variety of large, domestic fowl, peculiar in having the comb divided lengthwise into three parts, and the legs well feathered. There are two breeds, the dark or penciled, and the light; -- called also Brahmapootra.
Example Sentences:
(1) The [commission] has done work on a massive scale to educate voters, especially the vulnerable ones – illiterate, poor, marginalised – as well as women and youth,” HS Brahma, an election commissioner, told reporters.
(2) Brahma Prakash Yadav, director of the Indian meteorological department, said though maximum temperatures would remain high until the weekend, rain would bring some relief early next week (PDF) .
(3) Shake some bottled butter or hot sauce over it, and send it on its way with an ice-cold bottle of Brahma (£2.40).
(4) A major effort to boost turnout – historically around 55% in Indian national elections – could result in up to 65% of eligible voters casting ballots, Brahma said.
(5) The Langshan and Brahma breeds were both shown to possess the same single shank-feathering locus, but because of their differences in phenotype and penetrance in the genetic crosses it was suggested that they possessed different alleles at this locus.
(6) One of the pleiotropic activators of homeotic genes in Drosophila, the brahma gene, encodes a protein similar to a yeast protein that is required for transcriptional activation of multiple tightly regulated genes.
(7) "We are saying please do not get too emotional, or do outbursts or conduct or behaviour that would not be appreciated by others," Brahma told the Guardian.
(8) The Light Brahma contained the largest amounts of total lipid, 10.4%, followed by the White Plymouth Rock, 10.2%, Black Jersey Giant, 9.5%, Single Comb White Leghorn, 8.8%, and the Dark Cornish, 8.6%.
(9) AB InBev’s intention is to work with SABMiller’s board toward a recommended transaction.” How the two companies compare SABMiller Year founded: 2002 Key brands: Grolsch, Peroni, Foster’s Pints sold per year: 57bn Employees: 69,000 Market value: £59bn Chief executive: Alan Clark Profits: £4.1bn AB InBev Year founded: 2008 Key brands: Stella Artois, Budweiser, Corona Pints sold per year: 81bn Employees: 150,000 Market value: £118bn Chief executive: Carlos Brito Profits: £11.9bn AB InBev’s brands Stella Artois Budweiser Corona Brahma Boddingtons Leffe Hoegaarden Lowenbrau Bass SABMiller’s brands Grolsch Peroni FostersMillerMeantime Lech Blue Moon Castle
(10) AB InBev was only formed in 2008 by the merger of Anheuser-Busch, the American maker of Budweiser, and InBev, which itself was an amalgamation of Belgium’s Interbrew, the owner of Stella Artois, and AmBev, the Brazilian maker of Brahma.
(11) The brahma (brm) gene is required for the activation of multiple homeotic genes in Drosophila.
(12) Brahma Chellaney, a respected Indian international affairs analyst and author, has called corruption an "existential threat" to India.
(13) The Black Jersey Giant chickens attained the greatest weight at 4 weeks followed by the White Plymouth Rock, Dark Cornish and Single Comb White Leghorn with the Light Brahma growing the slowest of the strains tested.
(14) My belief system , Brahma Kumaris , involves celibacy and that’s not always easy, believe me.
(15) The Brahma allele was shown to be dominant over the Langshan allele.
(16) lager brewed to stave off heat exhaustion in the tropical sun but with little or no accounting for taste or style (we're talking to you, Brahma, Skol, Antarctica and Nova Schin).
(17) "To be fair, there are also quite a lot of Sunderland fans supporting Paraguay who have presumably never tasted the pleasures of an insanely cheap Brahma in Britannia Pub, Asunción.
(18) Harishankar Brahma, one of three commissioners charged with overseeing the biggest democratic exercise in the world, said that "as the really hot campaign will start, it will be more active and aggressive".
(19) Male and female chicks of the Light Brahma, White Plymouth Rock, Single Comb White Leghorn, Black Jersey Giant and Dark Cornish breeds were fed three diets of widely varying calorie:protein ratios to four weeks of age.
(20) This locus was designated as Pti-1, with Pti-1L being the Langshan allele and Pti-1B the Brahma allele.
Fowl
Definition:
(n.) Any bird; esp., any large edible bird.
(n.) Any domesticated bird used as food, as a hen, turkey, duck; in a more restricted sense, the common domestic cock or hen (Gallus domesticus).
(v. i.) To catch or kill wild fowl, for game or food, as by shooting, or by decoys, nets, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) Ernst Reissner studied the formation of the inner ear initially using the embryos of fowls, then the embryos of mammals, mainly cows and pigs, and to a less extent the embryos of man.
(2) These same areas were previously reported to increase metabolic activity in imprinted Guinea fowl chicks, when they heared the imprinting stimulus during the 2-deoxyglucose experiment.
(3) In contrast, uncloned NJ12508 stock virus killed 1 of 24 hens and FL27716 stock virus killed 4 of 24 hens, and neither produced the complete spectrum of lesions associated with fowl plague.
(4) In several groups of galliform birds (chicken, turkey, pheasant and guinea fowl) the presence and function of plasma haptoglobin (Hp) have been studied.
(5) The Semliki Forest virus spike subunit E2, a membrane-spanning protein, was transported to the plasma membrane in BHK cells after its carboxy terminus, including the intramembranous and cytoplasmic portions, was replaced by respective fragments of either the vesicular stomatitis virus glycoprotein or the fowl plague virus hemagglutinin.
(6) Kidneys from young fowl fed a salt deficient diet for up to five weeks were examined under the electron microscope.
(7) Twenty-five and 6.6% of embryos derived from 7-8 and 24 to 30 months old chickens respectively, 30% of liver specimens from 3-4 months old chickens 3.3% of liver specimens from adult guinea-fowl and 72% of liver specimens from Maran fowl contained the group-specific leukosis complement-fixing antigen (gs-antigen).
(8) The effect of hemorrhage on blood arginine vasotocin level in the domestic fowl.
(9) Based on the facts in 1) and 2), we consider that the glands located in the fowl esophagus are undifferentiated gastric glands.
(10) I will not find out the charge until I go to trial, so I just do not know.” Fowle, a 56-year-old equipment operator for the city of Moraine, Ohio, said he was originally detained at a large tourist hotel in Pyongyang and later moved to what he described as a suite-style room in a guest house, which he did not name.
(11) Also studied was the serum resistance of seven serotype 3, 4 isolates obtained from the lungs of M9-vaccinated turkeys from seven flocks experiencing increased mortality due to fowl cholera.
(12) The main animal paramyxoviruses are parainfluenza 3 (agent of shipping fever) in cattle; NDV (cause of fowl pest) and Yucaipavirus in birds; Sendai and PVM in mice; Nariva virus in rodents; possibly bovinerespiratory syncytial virus; and SV5 and SV41 in monkeys.
(13) This peptide, termed eel atrial natriuretic peptide (ANP), has sequence homology of 59% to mammalian (human or rat) ANP, 52% to fowl ANP, and 46% to frog ANP.
(14) The distribution of 3 beta-hydroxy steroid dehydrogenase was examined in the subcellular fractions of granulosa cells collected from the ovary of the domestic fowl.
(15) In adult fowls, the area of the media was increased by 93% (radial) and 32% (ulnar) following denervation and the number of smooth muscle cell layers increased by 39% (radial) and 11% (ulnar).
(16) Fasting heat production, scaled on metabolic body size (bodyweight in kg)0.75, was similar to that of mature male domestic fowl (Gallus domesticus).
(17) Results indicate that age of poults and method of vaccination may be important factors in the development of acquired resistance to fowl cholera when aflatoxin is present in the diet.
(18) Urolithiasis (kidney stone formation) is an acquired degenerative kidney lesion affecting sexually mature and immature domestic fowl.
(19) The immune response of chicks to oral vaccination with HP1-strain of fowl pox virus was studied using intracellular virus alone or a combination of intra and extracellular viruses.
(20) The infection, confirmed by viral culture, was produced by Dutch strain (Hav 1 Neq 1) of fowl plague virus.