(n.) An old province of France (in the eastern central part).
(n.) A richly flavored wine, mostly red, made in Burgundy, France.
Example Sentences:
(1) Fifty friends and family came here to his wake and toasted his memory with vintage jeroboams of La Tâche, perhaps the most distinguished of all burgundies.
(2) Albeit an unloveable, slightly scary Ron Burgundy in a 'I may now be a low level Tesco manager in a cheap suit but I still remember how to handle a stanley knife' kind of way," reckons Robert Lowery, who is forgetting that Jim White has a phone.
(3) Crates of the most expensive burgundy were another regular delivery.
(4) There are three population clusters of domestic rabbits, namely (1) New Zealand White and a hybrid combination; (2) Spanish Common, Butterfly, Burgundy, and Californian; and (3) Spanish Giant.
(5) I was probably the only person at one of Roy Hodgson's many – indeed, seemingly hourly – sad press conferences to be reminded of Italian designer Roberto Cavalli, but that's only because the sports journalists never witnessed the designer weepily explain for 45 minutes that he was cancelling his show in a manner decidedly reminiscent of the owlish England manager announcing, post knockout, that he was in a "a realm of despair" – a description the Daily Telegraph's Matt Law rightly described as Ron Burgundy-esque.
(6) Earlier this year, I stayed in a remodelled gypsy caravan in the garden of the owner’s home while making my way back to the UK via Burgundy.
(7) Anyone who doesn't take pleasure in seeing Joe Pesci in a burgundy velvet three-piece suit is a person who possesses neither soul nor eyes.
(8) The stuff that sells at auction and that has collectors salivating into their silver spittoons invariably comes from Bordeaux, Burgundy, the Rhône Valley or, at a pinch, the Loire or Champagne.
(9) (5) The excised role surfaced in the Anchorman companion DVD 'Wake Up, Ron Burgundy: The Lost Movie'.
(10) Guanosine supplements mutations at the burgundy locus (55.7); this locus was described previously through a pteridine eye-color defect but identified as an auxotrophic locus after the isolation of a new allele, burgua2-1.
(11) If you leave aside Champagne, which has no serious rivals at the top end, I think you can find very good alternatives to pricey red Bordeaux, Sauternes, red and white Burgundy, northern Rhône Syrah and Châteauneuf du Pape in other countries, and sometimes within France itself.
(12) Police released an image of him after the killing in which he was shown dressed in black with a burgundy balaclava and carrying a long object in a black bag.
(13) Having changed out of the white tracksuit he was wearing when he left Scotland into a dark suit and burgundy tie, Megrahi left the plane with the Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi's son Saif, who raised his hand to the crowd before they sped off in a convoy of white sedans.
(14) We have obtained a polyclonal antiserum by immunizing fawn Burgundy rabbits with the mineralocorticoid receptor (MCR) purified biochemically from rat kidneys.
(15) Joe Pesci's burgundy velvet suit in My Cousin Vinny, tied with Ben Stiller's tracksuits in The Royal Tenenbaums.
(16) Roux wields much power in Burgundy and beyond, and it is best to have him on your side if you want to be mayor of Auxerre.
(17) Fresh, ripe, stylishly oaked; a white Burgundy that outperforms a lot of Puligny-Montrachets.
(18) Thank you, thank you,” he says, then dictates into my tape recorder: “‘You’re a fuckin’ star,’ she says walking by, an attractive young woman in burgundy jeans.” Is there a danger that he’ll lead the masses up the hill, then toddle off to Hollywood and give up on the revolution?
(19) And there was something afoot in the sleepy Burgundy town of Auxerre.
(20) Photograph: Rex Features This December, we'll see him reprise his Brian Fantana alongside Will Ferrell's Ron Burgundy in the much-anticipated Anchorman sequel.
Color
Definition:
(n.) A property depending on the relations of light to the eye, by which individual and specific differences in the hues and tints of objects are apprehended in vision; as, gay colors; sad colors, etc.
(n.) Any hue distinguished from white or black.
(n.) The hue or color characteristic of good health and spirits; ruddy complexion.
(n.) That which is used to give color; a paint; a pigment; as, oil colors or water colors.
(n.) That which covers or hides the real character of anything; semblance; excuse; disguise; appearance.
(n.) Shade or variety of character; kind; species.
(n.) A distinguishing badge, as a flag or similar symbol (usually in the plural); as, the colors or color of a ship or regiment; the colors of a race horse (that is, of the cap and jacket worn by the jockey).
(n.) An apparent right; as where the defendant in trespass gave to the plaintiff an appearance of title, by stating his title specially, thus removing the cause from the jury to the court.
(v. t.) To change or alter the hue or tint of, by dyeing, staining, painting, etc.; to dye; to tinge; to paint; to stain.
(v. t.) To change or alter, as if by dyeing or painting; to give a false appearance to; usually, to give a specious appearance to; to cause to appear attractive; to make plausible; to palliate or excuse; as, the facts were colored by his prejudices.
(v. t.) To hide.
(v. i.) To acquire color; to turn red, especially in the face; to blush.
Example Sentences:
(1) Using an in vitro culture system, light scatter analyses, and two-color flow cytometry, we provide evidence that the interleukin-2 (IL-2) and transferrin receptors can be induced within 48 hr on nonproliferating immature thymocytes.
(2) A sensitive color reaction after two-dimensional TLC described earlier for zeranol determination in veal samples is proposed for the detection of the zeranol metabolite zearalanone and the mycotoxin zearalenone.
(3) Experiment 3 showed that the color-induced increase in odor intensity is not due to subjects' preexperimental experience with particular color-odor combinations, because the increase occurred with novel ones.
(4) In 60 rhesus monkeys with experimental renovascular malignant arterial hypertension (25 one-kidney and 35 two-kidney model animals), we studied the so-called 'hard exudates' or white retinal deposits in detail (by ophthalmoscopy, and stereoscopic color fundus photography and fluorescein fundus angiography, on long-term follow-up).
(5) Urinalysis revealed a low pH, increased ketones and bilirubin excretion, dark yellowish change in color, the appearance of "leaflet-shaped" crystals and increased red blood cells and epithelial cells in the urinary sediment, increased water intake, decreased specific gravity and decreased sodium, potassium and chloride in the urine.
(6) Contrary to previous reports, approximately 20% of the neurons in V3 were color selective in terms of showing a severalfold greater response to the best monochromatic wavelength compared with the worst.
(7) By using various colors, it is possible to tattoo a nipple-areola complex onto the breast that will have an illusion of projection.
(8) A semiautomated colorimetric assay (MTT assay), based on the ability of live cells to reduce a tetrazolium-based compound, 3-(4,5-dimethylthiazol-2-yl)-2,5-diphenyl tetrazolium bromide (MTT), to a purplish colored formazan product that can be measured spectrophotometrically, has recently been adapted for use in drug sensitivity analysis of cultured human tumor cell lines.
(9) Fifty-one severely retarded adults were taught a difficult visual discrimination in an assembly task by one of three training techniques: (a) adding and reducing large cue differences on the relevant-shape dimension; (b) adding and fading a redundant-color dimension; or (c) a combination of the two techniques.
(10) Estimated by SSST, the FAFol, which employs the stool with the highest content of 51Cr corresponding to the most carmine-colored stool, correlated closely with the FAFol based on complete stool collection (r = 0.96, n = 39, p less than 0.0001).
(11) As for fish attractiveness, motion, freshness, size, color and species were found as important parameters in the food-preference mechanism.
(12) Although the lens did not alter stereopsis, it did produce severe color discrimination losses for normal and dichromatic subjects.
(13) The respiratory functions of the oropharynx, larynx, and trachea of normal human fetuses in utero were explored by means of real-time, two-dimensional ultrasonography combined with color-flow and spectral Doppler analysis.
(14) A precise record of gingival color helps to follow-up oral and systemic diseases.
(15) Duplex and color Doppler sonography have become indispensable for evaluating the major vessels of the abdomen.
(16) The colors of mixtures of dental opaque porcelains and modifiers were measured with use of the CIE L*a*b* uniform color space.
(17) It appears, therefore, that the aggregation and dispersion of pigment within the melanophores is the primary mechanism responsible for the changes in color of this species.
(18) This section includes a description of the presentations on the pages, the use of color in the scans, and the use of certain advanced features of the ACTA-Scanner, the scanner used for the atlas.
(19) The use of the pellet binder "Lingnosol FG" in broiler diets at three levels plus a control group revealed differences in the consistency, quantity and color of the caecal contents between the treated and untreated groups.
(20) It was concluded that visualization of the intracranial venous system with color Doppler US is possible in the majority of healthy neonates.