(n.) The male of any species of cattle (Bovidae); hence, the male of any large quadruped, as the elephant; also, the male of the whale.
(n.) One who, or that which, resembles a bull in character or action.
(n.) Taurus, the second of the twelve signs of the zodiac.
(n.) A constellation of the zodiac between Aries and Gemini. It contains the Pleiades.
(n.) One who operates in expectation of a rise in the price of stocks, or in order to effect such a rise. See 4th Bear, n., 5.
(a.) Of or pertaining to a bull; resembling a bull; male; large; fierce.
(v. i.) To be in heat; to manifest sexual desire as cows do.
(v. t.) To endeavor to raise the market price of; as, to bull railroad bonds; to bull stocks; to bull Lake Shore; to endeavor to raise prices in; as, to bull the market. See 1st Bull, n., 4.
(v. i.) A seal. See Bulla.
(v. i.) A letter, edict, or respect, of the pope, written in Gothic characters on rough parchment, sealed with a bulla, and dated "a die Incarnationis," i. e., "from the day of the Incarnation." See Apostolical brief, under Brief.
(v. i.) A grotesque blunder in language; an apparent congruity, but real incongruity, of ideas, contained in a form of expression; so called, perhaps, from the apparent incongruity between the dictatorial nature of the pope's bulls and his professions of humility.
Example Sentences:
(1) Richard Bull Woodbridge, Suffolk • Why does Britain need Chinese money to build a new atomic generator ( Letters , 20 October)?
(2) Michael Schumacher’s manager hopes F1 champion ‘will be here again one day’ Read more Last year, Red Bull were frustrated by Mercedes, Ferrari and Honda as they desperately looked for a new engine supplier.
(3) This procedure can quickly provide acrosome-reacted bull sperm for use with various in vitro fertilization procedures and for assessment of male fertility.
(4) The total glutathione peroxidase activity was unrelated to studied variables of bull semen.
(5) I want to follow the west bank of the river south for some 100 miles to a bluff overlooking the river, where Sitting Bull is buried – and then, in the evening, to return to Bismarck.
(6) Two ejaculates were harvested by electroejaculation on each of 3 d per week for 14 wk from 14, 12- to 24-mo-old Holstein bulls.
(7) Three bulls selected for high faecal worm egg counts and three bulls selected for low faecal worm egg counts were mated to Africander-Hereford cross cows.
(8) Twenty-three cases (72%) were found in young bulls aged 18 months or less.
(9) Six Holstein (light-muscled type) and six Belgian Blue bulls (double-muscled type) were fed a finishing diet.
(10) The bull's eye method showed redistribution in 5 of 19 patients (26%) in Group B, 5 of 19 (26%) with % delta Th < or = 0 and 2 of 9 (22%) with IVSE < or = 0.
(11) Basic peptides (bovine pancreatic trypsin inhibitor, bull seminal isoinhibitors of trypsin, arginine vasopressin and adamantylamide-alanylisoglutamine) were analysed with a cationic ITP system at acidic pH.
(12) The simple method of retrograde flushing of spermatozoa from the epididymal cauda of slaughter bulls yielded an average of 2 x 10(9) spermatozoa from one cauda.
(13) Out of the 2550 ejaculates taken from 42 breeding bulls within 12 months, 685, i.e.
(14) Group A Villarreal, Borussia Mönchengladbach, FC Zurich, Apollon Limassol Group B FC Copenhagen, Brugge, Torino, HJK Helsinki Group C Tottenham Hotspur , Besiktas, Partizan Belgrade, Asteras Tripoli Group D Red Bull Salzburg, Celtic , Dinamo Zagreb, FC Astra Group E PSV, Panathinaikos, Estoril Praia, Dynamo Moscow Group F Internazionale, Dnipro, St Etienne, FK Karabakh Group G Sevilla, Standard Liège, Feyenoord, Rijeka Group H Lille, Wolfsburg, Everton , Krasnodar Group I Napoli, Sparta Prague, Young Boys, Slovan Bratislava Group J Dynamo Kyiv, Steaua Bucharest, Rio Ave, AaB Group K Fiorentina, PAOK, Guingamp, Dinamo Minsk Group L Metalist Kharkiv, Trabzonspor, Legia Warsaw, Lokeren
(15) Single atrial myocytes were enzymatically isolated from the bull-frog as previously described (Hume & Giles, 1981), and patch-clamp techniques were used in an attempt to identify and separate two inwardly rectifying K+ channels in this tissue.
(16) We wish Thierry all the best for his future.” New England Revolution ended the Red Bulls’ playoff run on Saturday , and Henry said he had decided not to return for another season.
(17) Acinar cells, which are seromucous in nature, contain secretory granules that often contain a perfect "bull's eye" inclusion (or some variant of this configuration) suspended in a dense matrix.
(18) Five of the bulls were used in homospermic insemination studies.
(19) Among Hereford bulls, body weights were similar (P greater than .10) in all control and relocated bulls by the end of the study, except that MH bulls moved to TX had lower body weights (P less than .01).
(20) Twenty bulls were inoculated with bluetongue virus (BTV) to study the frequency, duration and pathogenesis of seminal shedding of the virus.
Burn
Definition:
(v. t.) To consume with fire; to reduce to ashes by the action of heat or fire; -- frequently intensified by up: as, to burn up wood.
(v. t.) To injure by fire or heat; to change destructively some property or properties of, by undue exposure to fire or heat; to scorch; to scald; to blister; to singe; to char; to sear; as, to burn steel in forging; to burn one's face in the sun; the sun burns the grass.
(v. t.) To perfect or improve by fire or heat; to submit to the action of fire or heat for some economic purpose; to destroy or change some property or properties of, by exposure to fire or heat in due degree for obtaining a desired residuum, product, or effect; to bake; as, to burn clay in making bricks or pottery; to burn wood so as to produce charcoal; to burn limestone for the lime.
(v. t.) To make or produce, as an effect or result, by the application of fire or heat; as, to burn a hole; to burn charcoal; to burn letters into a block.
(v. t.) To consume, injure, or change the condition of, as if by action of fire or heat; to affect as fire or heat does; as, to burn the mouth with pepper.
(v. t.) To apply a cautery to; to cauterize.
(v. t.) To cause to combine with oxygen or other active agent, with evolution of heat; to consume; to oxidize; as, a man burns a certain amount of carbon at each respiration; to burn iron in oxygen.
(v. i.) To be of fire; to flame.
(v. i.) To suffer from, or be scorched by, an excess of heat.
(v. i.) To have a condition, quality, appearance, sensation, or emotion, as if on fire or excessively heated; to act or rage with destructive violence; to be in a state of lively emotion or strong desire; as, the face burns; to burn with fever.
(v. i.) To combine energetically, with evolution of heat; as, copper burns in chlorine.
(v. i.) In certain games, to approach near to a concealed object which is sought.
(n.) A hurt, injury, or effect caused by fire or excessive or intense heat.
(n.) The operation or result of burning or baking, as in brickmaking; as, they have a good burn.
(n.) A disease in vegetables. See Brand, n., 6.
(n.) A small stream.
Example Sentences:
(1) This is a fascinating possibility for solving the skin shortage problem especially in burn cases.
(2) Zinc in plasma and urine and serum albumin and alpha 2-macroglobulin were measured in 48 patients with burns.
(3) With the exception of PMMA and PTFE, all plastics leave a very heavy tar- and soot deposit after burning.
(4) The patient later died from complications of burns.
(5) In clinical situations on donor sites and grafted full-thickness burn wounds, the PEU film indeed prevented fluid accumulation and induced the formation of a "red" coagulum underneath.
(6) Biomass and crops for animals are as damaging as [burning] fossil fuels.” The recommendation follows advice last year that a vegetarian diet was better for the planet from Lord Nicholas Stern , former adviser to the Labour government on the economics of climate change.
(7) For the purpose of studying the role of elastase and protease of Pseudomonas aeruginosa in bacterial infection in burns, the effects of the vaccines made from each enzyme, their toxoids and OEP on protection against infection in burned mice were studied.
(8) The authors report on their experience in the use of cultured keratinocytes in severely burned children, observed in the Surgical Emergency and Pediatric Surgery Department at the Gaslini Institute of Genova.
(9) Frequency of symptoms like dizziness, headache, lachrymation, burning sensation in eyes, nausea and anorexia, etc, were much more in the exposed workers.
(10) This is triggered not so much by climate change but the cause of global warming itself: the burning of fossil fuels both inside and outside the home, says Farrar.
(11) It is often difficult if not impossible to include a pediatric patient in the planning of burn reconstruction.
(12) The fact that it is still used is regrettable yet unavoidable at present, but the average quantity is three times less than the mercury released into the atmosphere by burning the extra coal need to power equivalent incandescent bulbs.
(13) This phenomenon can have a special significance for defining the vitality in inflammation of bone tissue, in burns and in necrosis of soft tissues a.a. of the Achilles tendon.
(14) Kunduz hospital patients 'burned in beds … even wars have rules', says MSF chief Read more The resolution – which was supported by Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and others – requests that Ban present recommendations on measures to prevent attacks and to ensure that those who carry them out are held accountable.
(15) A 26-year-old man with 40% full-thickness burns was treated by excision and split-skin grafting on the 7th post-burn day.
(16) We conclude that a burn involving the chest wall results in cardiopulmonary abnormalities, not seen after a body burn of a comparable size, which appear to be due to hyperthermia and an increased release of prostacyclin and O2 radicals.
(17) During treatment, the mother underwent an abortion and burned her face with kitchen chemicals.
(18) The tinsel coiled around a jug of squash and bauble in the strip lighting made a golf-ball size knot of guilt burn in my throat.
(19) Significant enhancement of IL-2 production by indomethacin was seen in the burned group (mean, 95%), but not in controls (mean, 23.8%) or normal mice (mean, 17.2%), and similar effects were seen with flurbiprofen.
(20) Twenty-one days of treatment of one group of burned rats with the selective beta 2-adrenergic agonist, clenbuterol, increased resting energy expenditure and normalized body weight gain, muscle mass, and muscle protein content.