(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.
Hindu
Definition:
(n.) A native inhabitant of Hindostan. As an ethnical term it is confined to the Dravidian and Aryan races; as a religious name it is restricted to followers of the Veda.
(n.) Same as Hindoo.
Example Sentences:
(1) UPDATE II [Tues.] Two other items that may be of interest: first, Guardian editor-in-chief Alan Rusbridger was the guest for the full hour yesterday on Democracy Now, discussing the paper's role in reporting the NSA stories, and the video and transcript of the interview are here ; second, marking our collaboration on a series of articles about spying on Indians, the Hindu has a long interview with me on a variety of related topics, here .
(2) The Hindu belief system accommodates this by prescribing use in such a way that this effect becomes beneficial.
(3) It claims, with no factual basis, that Muslim men seek relationships with Hindu women in order to convert them and increase the Muslim population as a result of this.
(4) "Whether Jain or Sikh or Buddhist or Sufi or Zoroastrian or Jewish or Muslim or Baptist or Hindu or Catholic or Baha'i or Animist or any other mainstream or minor religion or movement, we are taught as a tolerant society to accept a diversity of ideologies.
(5) The former tea seller who started his political career with a far right Hindu revivalist organisation promised "good times ahead".
(6) Ultimately, it suggests the question: had he actually been Muslim, or instead been Hindu, Jewish or atheist, would he be any less American?
(7) India’s caste system is alive and kicking – and maiming and killing | Mari Marcel Thekaekara Read more India’s prime minister, Narendra Modi , belongs to a party that is explicitly Hindu in character, while other parties exist to further the interests of, among others, India’s Muslims population as well as members of socially disempowered Dalit caste.
(8) On involvement with the guru and a new 'family,' the experienced increased well-being and periods of bliss, and their acceptance of mystic Hindu beliefs was solidified.
(9) The reason was that Hindu traditions were oraly transmitted and the records, written exclusively in Sanskrit, were incomplete.
(10) Narendra Modi , the Hindu nationalist politician who won power in India in May in a landslide election, arrives in New York on Friday for a gruelling schedule of more than 50 speeches, rallies, interviews, meetings and business breakfasts aimed at rebooting an often troubled relationship with the US.
(11) The recovery pulse and respiration were analysed to determine the level of physical fitness among the physical education and medical students of Banaras Hindu University.
(12) Many analysts believe Gandhi will struggle to confront Narendra Modi, the conservative, Hindu nationalist who is the candidate of the opposition Bharatiya Janata party (BJP) .
(13) The chapel is identified by the school as a Christian church but also hosts Hindu services and has been used for Buddhist meditations.
(14) Over the summer, Hindu nationalists in India performed ceremonial rituals for Trump in the hopes that their worship would help him get elected, so he can “ put an end to Islamic terrorism ”.
(15) Sitting in a side street listening to the sound of loud blasts and gunfire emanating from Nariman House, Rakash Bhaud, the local leader of the far-right Hindu party Shiv Sena, blamed the central government for the failures that, he said, had left them at the mercy of Pakistan-backed terrorists.
(16) But the riots appear to have done permanent damage to Hindu-Muslim relations in India, a country with 140 million Muslims.
(17) Small political parties have fared poorly in national elections, which have been dominated for the last two decades by the Hindu-nationalist BJP and the Congress party.
(18) It has been twinned with London’s St Pancras Old church – close to the St Pancras Eurostar terminal – since 2007 • 5 rue de Belzunce, paroissesvp.fr Secrets Temple Ganesh Facebook Twitter Pinterest Photograph: Alamy At the north end of the Gare du Nord, just past the elevated metro line, is a colourful Hindu temple dedicated to the god Ganesh.
(19) Adoptions in India are currently governed by provisions or the 1956 Hindu Adoptions and Maintenance Act.
(20) His Hindu nationalist rhetoric and failure to swiftly curb the 2002 deadly anti-Muslim riots that swept Gujarat state when he was chief minister have stirred worries among critics about his ability to maintain secular peace.