(n.) One who, or that which, buzzes; a whisperer; a talebearer.
Example Sentences:
(1) Rats were trained to perform shuttle responses to a buzzer in four different situations: pseudoconditioning or D test (buzzers and footshocks presented at random), classical conditioning or DP test (buzzers and footshocks paired on every trial), avoidance without stimulus pairing or DC test (buzzer-shock intervals varied at random, shocks contingent upon non-emission of a shuttle response to the preceding buzzer), and standard two-way avoidance or DPC test (buzzers paired to shocks, but the latter omitted every time there was shuttling to the buzzer).
(2) The tie-breaker isn't quite the buzzer-beater that Jeff Carter converted with tenths of a second left in the first period of Game 3, but it comes with under 30 ticks left in the second period here and has a similar effect.
(3) In a second study, the lever-pressing response, which produced saline infusion and the buzzer, became available only subsequent to 5 sessions of pairing the buzzer with infusions of saline or alcohol.
(4) When the former Liberal party leader Jeremy Thorpe needs attention, he presses the buzzer hanging from his neck and Disney's It's a Small World After All rings round his large Regency house in Notting Hill.
(5) Most of the remaining patients responded to a buzzer; nevertheless, its use needs to be carefully presented and supervised.
(6) Instead we had the first buzzer beater of this year's tournament as Texas’s Cameron Ridley made an improbable game-winning layup with time expiring.
(7) Facebook Twitter Pinterest With 2.3 seconds left, Russell Westbrook made a three-pointer to give the Thunder a one point lead that looked like it was going to seal the game, but before anyone could put his clutch three into any perspective, offseason acquisition Andre Iguodala coldly hit a buzzer-beater to shock a Thunder team that shocked the Warriors mere moments before.
(8) The child sleeps on a detector mechanism such as two separate metal mats that are connected with a buzzer alarm.
(9) The effect of stimulus compounding in classical conditioning was investigated by conditioning one group of rats to a compound CS consisting of a buzzer and light and then conditioning separate groups of rats to the individual elements of the compound CS.
(10) Facebook Twitter Pinterest When the final final buzzer went off, the Trail Blazers had become the fifth team to win game one on the road – a sign that the normally predictable first round of playoffs has the potential to surprise even the most jaded fan.
(11) Animals were trained to escape an aversive unconditioned stimulus (electric foot shock) within 3 s after being exposed to a conditioned stimulus (light and buzzer).
(12) The external stimulus was produced by a door buzzer (80 to 90 db).
(13) "They will be woken frequently throughout the night when other children are admitted, or the ward buzzer sounds, or the lights go on and off.
(14) It did not occur if visual and auditory stimuli were in opposite hemifields when a simultaneous visual stimulus caused a slight reduction of mean initial saccadic amplitude compared to the mean amplitude to buzzer alone.
(15) When a buzzer noise is used as a conditioned stimulus (CS) with these drugs as unconditioned stimuli, the buzzer CS acquires the properties of the drugs in increasing dopamine metabolism.
(16) Long, 23-foot jumper at the buzzer that doesn't go from LeBron James.
(17) Instead Portland's Lillard, last year's Rookie of the Year who has already gathered a reputation as one of the game's most clutch players, hit an astonishing three pointer at the buzzer to put up the Trail Blazers 99-98, ending the Houston Rockets season in dramatic fashion .
(18) Plus, as he showed against the Atlanta Hawks, he's still capable of an occasional jaw-dropping buzzer-beating game winner .
(19) Fingers on buzzers, here's your starter for 10: which well known BBC presenter tried out for University Challenge as a Cambridge University student, but failed to get into the team?
(20) But answering questions such as: "William Wilkinson's An account of the principalities of Wallachia and Moldavia inspired this author's most famous novel" requires a very sophisticated piece of programming that can return the answer quickly enough to beat your rival to the buzzer.
Horn
Definition:
(n.) A hard, projecting, and usually pointed organ, growing upon the heads of certain animals, esp. of the ruminants, as cattle, goats, and the like. The hollow horns of the Ox family consist externally of true horn, and are never shed.
(n.) The antler of a deer, which is of bone throughout, and annually shed and renewed.
(n.) Any natural projection or excrescence from an animal, resembling or thought to resemble a horn in substance or form; esp.: (a) A projection from the beak of a bird, as in the hornbill. (b) A tuft of feathers on the head of a bird, as in the horned owl. (c) A hornlike projection from the head or thorax of an insect, or the head of a reptile, or fish. (d) A sharp spine in front of the fins of a fish, as in the horned pout.
(n.) An incurved, tapering and pointed appendage found in the flowers of the milkweed (Asclepias).
(n.) Something made of a horn, or in resemblance of a horn
(n.) A wind instrument of music; originally, one made of a horn (of an ox or a ram); now applied to various elaborately wrought instruments of brass or other metal, resembling a horn in shape.
(n.) A drinking cup, or beaker, as having been originally made of the horns of cattle.
(n.) The cornucopia, or horn of plenty.
(n.) A vessel made of a horn; esp., one designed for containing powder; anciently, a small vessel for carrying liquids.
(n.) The pointed beak of an anvil.
(n.) The high pommel of a saddle; also, either of the projections on a lady's saddle for supporting the leg.
(n.) The Ionic volute.
(n.) The outer end of a crosstree; also, one of the projections forming the jaws of a gaff, boom, etc.
(n.) A curved projection on the fore part of a plane.
(n.) One of the projections at the four corners of the Jewish altar of burnt offering.
(n.) One of the curved ends of a crescent; esp., an extremity or cusp of the moon when crescent-shaped.
(n.) The curving extremity of the wing of an army or of a squadron drawn up in a crescentlike form.
(n.) The tough, fibrous material of which true horns are composed, being, in the Ox family, chiefly albuminous, with some phosphate of lime; also, any similar substance, as that which forms the hoof crust of horses, sheep, and cattle; as, a spoon of horn.
(n.) A symbol of strength, power, glory, exaltation, or pride.
(n.) An emblem of a cuckold; -- used chiefly in the plural.
(v. t.) To furnish with horns; to give the shape of a horn to.
(v. t.) To cause to wear horns; to cuckold.
Example Sentences:
(1) After calving, probably the position of new follicles is temporally influenced by direct signals from the uterine horns affected differently by pregnancy.
(2) Severity of leukoaraiosis around the frontal horns of the lateral ventricles correlated significantly with severity of leukoaraiosis of the centrum semiovale adjacent to the bodies of the lateral ventricles.
(3) Spinal cord stimulation would suppress at least the dorsal horn neurons which were destroyed by various kinds of diseases.
(4) This study presents data supporting a selective antinociceptive role for DA at the spinal level, where it has a widespread antinociceptive influence, on cells in both the superficial and deeper dorsal horn.
(5) On Days 12-14 each gilt received twice daily infusions of Day 15 pCSP in one uterine horn and SP in the other uterine horn.
(6) In 25 rabbits, endometrium from the right uterine horn was transplanted onto the peritoneum (Experimental group = Group E).
(7) Differential pulse voltammetry used in combination with an electrochemically treated carbon fiber electrode allowed the detection of 5-hydroxyindoles (5-HI) in the dorsal horn of the urethane-anesthetized rat.
(8) Uterine blood flow to both uterine horns was measured by microsphere and by tritiated water steady-state diffusion methodology.
(9) But Hey Diddly Dee, in Sky Arts' latest Playhouse Presents season, could only manage 71,000 viewers, despite the combined star power of Kylie Minogue, David Harewood, Peter Serafinowicz and Mathew Horne.
(10) A few with low endometrial receptor levels had normal livers but at least one sterile uterine horn.
(11) It is concluded that chronic peripheral nerve section affects the anatomical and physiological mechanisms underlying the formation of light touch receptive fields of dorsal horn neurons in the lumbosacral cord of the adult cat, but that the resulting reorganization of receptive fields is spatially restricted.
(12) The concordance for this disease in these two patients of nonconsanguineous parentage with no family history of the disorder suggests the possibility of sublethal intrauterine injury to anterior horn cells.
(13) Subpopulations of DRG neurones that subserve distinct sensory modalities project to discrete regions in the dorsal horn.
(14) Phospholipase A2 has been purified from the venom of Horned viper (Cerastes cerastes) by gel permeation chromatography followed by reverse-phase HPLC.
(15) In ventral horn motoneurons and neurons of nucleus dorso-medialis (C1) pronounced staining was found after a total dosage of 1200 micrograms HgCl2.
(16) The influence of embryos on growth of the uterus was determined by comparing uterine length, weight and diameter between gravid and nongravid horns within unilaterally pregnant gilts.
(17) Postmortem examination showed axonal pathology of the anterior horns and roots of the spinal cord, and white matter hypoplasia of the brain.
(18) Histochemically the lowered activity of enzymes was localized mainly in the neuropil of: striatum, the Broc's nuclei and rhinencephalon: in the nervous cells of: Ammon's horn, nuclei of thalamus and in neocortex.
(19) Thyrotropin releasing hormone (TRH) has been identified recently in fibers and cell bodies in the dorsal horn of the spinal cord, but its function in the dorsal horn is not known.
(20) With immunocytochemical techniques, SP immunoreactivity (SP-I) and CGRP-I were localized in myometrial nerves throughout the uterine horns, with nerves immunoreactive for CGRP being the more numerous.