What's the difference between breeder and straight?

Breeder


Definition:

  • (n.) One who, or that which, breeds, produces, brings up, etc.
  • (n.) A cause.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It is the absorbed dose in joules per gram that is biologically significant and the data shows that the mean absorbed dose to death within either sex shows no significant difference with respect to age or weight, but that the difference between the sexes are significant, particularly among the aged ex-breeders.
  • (2) At 35 wk of age, the females were reassigned to the various light sources in order to achieve all possible combinations of adolescent and breeder light-source treatments.
  • (3) Results indicate that feeding schedule (ED vs. EOD) as well as nutrient intake influence body weight gains of broiler breeder males.
  • (4) Twenty-two parent (multiplier) breeder flocks became infected.
  • (5) The breeder diet failed to increase uterine weights above control values for either treatment interval.
  • (6) It is concluded that SD feed restriction causes a persistent elevation of plasma corticosterone in broiler breeders.
  • (7) Administration of prostaglandin E1 and antiplatelet drugs (acetylsalicylic acid, sulfinpyrazone, and dipyridamole) reduced the number of circulating platelet aggregates in the breeder rats.
  • (8) Similar to other seasonal breeders, it appears that stallions may possess an endogenous circannual rhythm in reproductive function that is subject to manipulation by altering the light:dark ratio, i.e., photoperiod.
  • (9) Breeder vaccination against tenosynovitis resulted in immunity of the progeny against oral infection at 1 day old, whereas progeny from unvaccinated breeders were susceptible to such a challenge.
  • (10) Corn-soybean breeder diets with 0, 2, 4, and 6% added poultry fat were fed from 24 to 64 wk of age.
  • (11) To compare the sensitivity of two methods for the detection of serum antibodies to pigeon faecal antigens in patients with pigeon breeder's disease.
  • (12) The nationwide epidemic ended in middle April 1974 following removal of incriminated hamsters from pet shops throughout the country and voluntary cessation of distribution of hamsters from the incriminated breeder.
  • (13) Acquired HEV antibody appeared at 8 to 10 weeks, and 100% of the meat and breeder turkey flocks were positive after 11 weeks of age.
  • (14) Eggs collected from F1 generation breeders that received 1 ppm were not affected harmfully as measured by embryonation, embryo survival, and hatchability rates.
  • (15) Our results reveal the highest rate of toxoplasmosis infection (87%) among the staff of the slaughter-houses, whereas the bovine stock-breeders are the most exposed population to hydatid disease with a 9% prevalence.
  • (16) Egg and one-day-old chick weights were decreased by limiting the food intake of the breeders but the negative effect disappeared at slaughter (7 weeks).
  • (17) Pigeon breeder's lung differs from the condition known as bird breeder's lung in that it turns much less often into a chronic condition (pulmonary fibrosis and emphysema).
  • (18) The superior specificity of the LOS antigen compared to the WC preparation in the ELISA was demonstrated by testing serum samples from retired breeder mice against WC and LOS antigens from P. ureae, P. multocida, and P. hemolytica.
  • (19) Pullets were full-fed for the first 8 wk of life, then placed on a skip-a-day program with breeder-recommended feed allocations.
  • (20) Threshold currents for the induction of aggression were determined on several days before the females were paired with experienced breeder males.

Straight


Definition:

  • (a.) A variant of Strait, a.
  • (superl.) Right, in a mathematical sense; passing from one point to another by the nearest course; direct; not deviating or crooked; as, a straight line or course; a straight piece of timber.
  • (superl.) Approximately straight; not much curved; as, straight ribs are such as pass from the base of a leaf to the apex, with a small curve.
  • (superl.) Composed of cards which constitute a regular sequence, as the ace, king, queen, jack, and ten-spot; as, a straight hand; a straight flush.
  • (superl.) Conforming to justice and rectitude; not deviating from truth or fairness; upright; as, straight dealing.
  • (superl.) Unmixed; undiluted; as, to take liquor straight.
  • (superl.) Making no exceptions or deviations in one's support of the organization and candidates of a political party; as, a straight Republican; a straight Democrat; also, containing the names of all the regularly nominated candidates of a party and no others; as, a straight ballot.
  • (adv.) In a straight manner; directly; rightly; forthwith; immediately; as, the arrow went straight to the mark.
  • (n.) A hand of five cards in consecutive order as to value; a sequence. When they are of one suit, it is calles straight flush.
  • (v. t.) To straighten.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In contrast to L2 and L3 in L1 the mid gut runs down in a straight line without any looping.
  • (2) It was so difficult to keep a straight face when I was filming a sauna scene with Roy Barraclough, who played the mayor of Blackpool.
  • (3) The region of the tentorium and straight sinus can occasionally give rise to a vermiform appearance (the "AVM artifact").
  • (4) In testing the contribution of the long, curved stem to the torsional stability of uncemented prostheses by comparing it with other stems, the long, curved stem was the most stable, followed by a shorter straight stem, and a short, proximally curved stem.
  • (5) Every time I have seen him since – you stand up straight and it’s: ‘Hi, boss.
  • (6) Both sets of experiments revealed a straight linear relationship between the dose of VC and the % foci area induced.
  • (7) Despite a few initial concerns about the technology and how it would fit into their daily routines, staff really see the benefit and find it rewarding to see the messages and be able to respond straight away.
  • (8) The results may be due to stronger social reinstatement tendencies in females than in males: Higher levels of social motivation facilitate behavioral performance when the task is easy (straight runway) and inhibit it when the task is difficult (V-shaped runway).
  • (9) The contrast threshold for line orientation was studied using two lines with the same orientation under three different experimental conditions (series): (1) the two lines were presented in the same part of the receptive field; (2) they were along the same straight line and separated by 14' visual angle; (3) they were parallel and displaced at 4' of visual angle.
  • (10) Only eye position proved statistically significant; straight-ahead eye position induced more bias than did fixation of the visual stimulus.
  • (11) Ultrastructural examination of a tumor with a typical cribriform pattern showed spaces of two types; the more frequent type was bounded by cells with straight plasma membranes and contained filamentous and basement-membrane-like material, and the less frequent type was surrounded by cells with numerous microvilli and contained nonfilamentous homogeneous material.
  • (12) The first problem facing Calderdale is sheep-rustling Happy Valley – filmed around Hebden Bridge, with its beautiful stone houses straight off the pages of the Guardian’s Lets Move To – may be filled with rolling hills and verdant pastures, but the reality of rural issues are harsh.
  • (13) Atlético Madrid maintained their faint hopes of catching Barcelona by recording a fourth straight league win, comfortably beating Deportivo la Coruña 3-0 with goals by the midfielder Saúl Ñíguez, top scorer Antoine Griezmann and Argentinian forward Ángel Correa.
  • (14) The chemotactic receptor-transducer proteins of Escherichia coli are responsible for directing the swimming behavior of cells by signaling for either straight swimming or tumbling in response to chemostimuli.
  • (15) These observations suggest that the inner dynein arms in Chlamydomonas axonemes are aligned not in a single straight row, but in a staggered row or two discrete rows.
  • (16) Following a run which included eight straight draws in the Premier League and a 3-0 defeat at Tottenham last Wednesday, Mubarak had reached the conclusion that Hughes and his coaching staff were not realising the potential of the players City had assembled.
  • (17) When plotted against [Ca]o on a double log scale, the above relation yielded a straight line with a slope of 1.0.
  • (18) The torque versus rotation curves can be divided into two straight regions and two transition zones.
  • (19) Its middle, straight portion (between 2.30 and 3.30 microns sarcomere spacings) extrapolated to zero tension at 3.49 microns sarcomere length.
  • (20) New observations include: (1) In 15 nm cross sections that show single 14.5 nm levels: (a) The flared X structure characteristic of rigor is replaced by a straight-X figure in which the crossbridge density is aligned along the myosin-actin plane, rather than skewed across it as in rigor.