(n.) A bird of the genus Pyrrhula and other related genera, especially the P. vulgaris / rubicilla, a bird of Europe allied to the grosbeak, having the breast, cheeks, and neck, red.
Example Sentences:
(1) After a groundbreaking two-year investigation, Operation Bullfinch, seven men – including two sets of brothers – were convicted at the Old Bailey in May 2013 of 43 offences, which included trafficking, forcing girls into prostitution, procuring an illegal abortion, rape and physical violence.
(2) In increasing of the ambient temperature, the difference between the brain and body temperatures diminished from 1.4 degrees C (at the ambient temperature 0 degree C) to 0.5 degrees C (at the ambient temperature +37 degrees C) in bullfinches, the brain temperature being always the lower one.
(3) The technique is demonstrated using various seeds known to form part of the diet of the bullfinch (Pyrrhula pyrrhula L.), a pest of commercial orchards in southeast England.
(4) In late 2012, Operation Bullfinch resulted in seven men receiving prison sentences ranging from seven to 20 years for their involvement in an Oxford child sex ring.
(5) The popularity of craft beer has spread from its core followers in the hipster area of Shoreditch and Hackney across the capital and the rest of the UK.” The firm pointed to new entrants Long Arm Brewing in Ealing, Hackney-based 40ft Brewery and Bullfinch Brewery in Lambeth as evidence of London’s booming craft beer scene.
(6) Temporal characteristics of the vocalizations of bullfinches were investigated.
(7) The brain temperature in mice was higher than the rectal one by 0.4 degrees C. There were constant rapid oscillations of the brain temperature with the period of 1-2 min and the amplitude of 0.05-0.10 degrees C as well as slow oscillations with the period of 11-20 min and the amplitude of 0.5-1.5 degrees C both in bullfinches and mice.
(8) The calls produced by experimentally isolated bullfinches were subjected to sonagraphic analysis.
(9) These include the linnet , Dartford warbler , stonechat , meadow pipit , skylark , goldfinch , bullfinch, hedge sparrow , grey partridge and yellowhammer .
Nope
Definition:
(n.) A bullfinch.
Example Sentences:
(1) Oh”, said many, “You must doing it for charity.” Nope.
(2) Nope, he let's it go and now Kelly has walked the bases loaded with one out for the Wild Horse himself, Yasiel Puig.
(3) Nope, he grounds out to you know where, and even though Carpenter bobbles it, he throws over to get the former AL MVP just in time.
(4) "Nope, nope, nope," he said this week, brushing off talk of a reunion.
(5) 49ers 6-0 Panthers, 15:00, 2nd quarter The Panthers are 10 and 13 on 4th down conversions... but nope, the San Francisco defense stuffs Newton!
(6) 3.38am BST Heat 92-93 Spurs, 1:46 remaining in the 4th quarter Nope, it stays San Antonio ball as called, but they have less than a second.
(7) #Nope June 19, 2016 On Wednesday a Facebook spokesman confirmed to the Guardian that it was not using location data, with the same statement as supplied to Fusion.
(8) Nope, says Cole, and neither do courts that grant wiretap warrants.
(10) 4.24am BST Dodgers 2 - Cardinals 2, top of 8th Nope - that's a fail.
(11) #fundamentals January 5, 2014 1.57am GMT End of first quarter: Saints 0-0 Eagles Nope.
(12) Having persuaded numerous over-achieving women to keep time logs of their days, from dawn gym workouts (nope, me neither) to solving work crises at midnight, she observes that actually “their lives didn’t look that bad”.
(13) Nope, they offered this rather stark evaluation: "It was determined that on the whole these provisions indicate an interest in teaching at a research university and not at a college, like ours, that is both teaching and student centered."
(14) 1.06am BST Cardinals 9 - Pirates 1, Final Nope, just a single, his second of the night - he has half of Pittsburgh's four knocks tonight.
(15) At the last minute Robin popped in and the club owners decided, nope, we’re putting Robin on.
(16) In fact – and the letters make no mention of this – the child benefit tax charge is based on something called your "adjusted net income" (nope, I'd never heard of it either).
(17) Nope, a harmless pop out center field for the first out.
(18) That the Republicans think Rubio – and Cruz, to a lesser extent – is their Great Brown Hope instead of a Great Brown Nope despite all his negatives with Latinos ( he even introduced Mitt Romney during the 2012 Republican convention ) shows, once again, how much work the Reeps need to do to attract non-Cuban Latinos to their party.
(19) I remember watching a video of her eloquent speech at the G8 Summit in London in April – as she spoke in front of the world's leading foreign ministers, I stared at what I knew were tissue expanders and thought: "Nope, no one can tell."
(20) 6.49pm BST FULL TIME: Argentina 0-0 Switzerland Nope!