(n.) The young of the cow, or of the Bovine family of quadrupeds. Also, the young of some other mammals, as of the elephant, rhinoceros, hippopotamus, and whale.
(n.) Leather made of the skin of the calf; especially, a fine, light-colored leather used in bookbinding; as, to bind books in calf.
(n.) An awkward or silly boy or young man; any silly person; a dolt.
(n.) A small island near a larger; as, the Calf of Man.
(n.) A small mass of ice set free from the submerged part of a glacier or berg, and rising to the surface.
(n.) The fleshy hinder part of the leg below the knee.
Example Sentences:
(1) Angus (A), Charolais (C), Hereford (H), Limousin (L), and Simmental (S) breeds were included in deterministic computer models simulating integrated cow-calf-feedlot production systems.
(2) Cultures could not be established on microcarriers in the presence of Ultroser G. However, microcarrier cultures started in the presence of 10% foetal calf serum, and transferred to 2% Ultroser G after 7 days resulted in high cell densities.
(3) Higuaín was not fully fit which, with Rodrigo Palacio out with a calf injury, perhaps in part explained why Alejandro Sabella had made the change.
(4) This suppressive activity is obtained in medium containing 10% heat-inactivated fetal calf serum (FCS) or similar amounts of heat-inactivated bovine serum, syngeneic, or allogeneic murine sera but not by unheated FCS.
(5) The possibility that mammalian DNA topoisomerase II is an intracellular target which mediates drug-induced DNA breaks is supported by the following studies using 4'-(9-acridinylamino)methane-sulfon-m-anisidide (m-AMSA): (a) a single m-AMSA-dependent DNA cleavage activity copurified with calf thymus DNA topoisomerase II activity at all chromatographic steps of the enzyme purification; (b) m-AMSA-induced DNA cleavage by this purified activity resulted in the covalent attachment of protein to the 5'-ends of the DNA via a tyrosyl phosphate bond.
(6) The calf pain prodrome of "tennis leg" requires rest and then a stretching program.
(7) A radioactive, photoactive Vinca alkaloid, N-(p-azido-[3,5-3H]-benzoyl)-N'-beta-aminoethylvindesine [( 3H]NABV) with pharmacological and biological activities similar to vinblastine was synthesized and used to identify specific Vinca alkaloid macromolecular interactions in calf brain homogenate by photoaffinity labeling.
(8) All four requirements were experimentally verified in calf trachea.
(9) A systematic structural comparison of several carp gamma-crystallins with high methionine contents was made by the secondary-structure prediction together with computer model-building based on the established X-ray structure of calf gamma-II crystallin.
(10) Native calf and rabbit erythrocytes bound the lectin, but human and rat erythrocytes required neuraminidase and trypsin treatment, respectively, for lectin binding to occur.
(11) It is concluded that BEC is the major infectious cause of neonatal calf diarrhoea in the Ethiopian dairy herds studied with RV and K99 ETEC also contributing to morbidity, either alone or as mixed infections.
(12) Each calf was given a score based on macroscopic and microscopic lesions.
(13) Calf birth weight and gestational length decreased (P less than .01) as the number of calves born increased from one to two to three.
(14) Variability of basal blood flow in terms of standard deviations and in terms of coefficients of variation computed from duplicate determinations were significantly higher than for the other parameters and significantly more elevated in the forearm than in the calf.
(15) Each group of cattle consisted of six permanent members, two members fistulated at the oesophagus and one worm-free tracer calf.
(16) 2, and the calf serum were 34 and 73, and 480 mug per mouse respectively.
(17) Bovine lens calf gamma-II crystallin contains five histidine residues at sequence positions 14, 53, 84, 117, and 122.
(18) Human liver slices were exposed to increasing concentrations of 1,2-propanediol up to a final concentration of 4.76 M in fetal calf serum.
(19) Pure cultures of oligodendrocytes or type 2-astrocytes can be generated in substantial amounts from CG-4 cells and maintained for several weeks in medium containing 5% fetal calf serum.
(20) Recent STM studies of calf thymus DNA and poly(rA).poly(rU) have shown that the helical pitch and periodic alternation of major and minor grooves can be visualized and reliably measured.
Iceberg
Definition:
(n.) A large mass of ice, generally floating in the ocean.
Example Sentences:
(1) Lord said the case is "likely to be the tip of the iceberg", leading to other claims against banks over the Libor scandal.
(2) Raw power Standing before a glacier in Greenland as it calves icebergs into the dark waters of a cavernous fjord is to witness the raw power of a natural process we have accelerated but will now struggle to control.
(3) The examples I have quoted are the tip of a very large and very nasty iceberg.
(4) It turns out the accounting scandal – which revealed the estimate of first-half profits Tesco gave the City back in August had been artificially inflated by £263m – was just the tip of the iceberg that the previous management team left for him to negotiate.
(5) The number of people in England and Wales entering insolvency fell in the first three months of 2012, but debt charities warned the figures represented "the tip of the iceberg" of the UK's debt problems.
(6) He said the figures could be “just the tip of the iceberg”, as some tenants could be losing their homes without going through the court process.
(7) It is in order to fight in a "lo-tech war" on a world that is never named, "flying the frosty vortices of air above the vast white islands that were the colliding tabular icebergs".
(8) The police and the authorities are now aware that trafficked children are being forced to work in cannabis farms but this is really only the tip of the iceberg.
(9) Russian athletics’ doping crisis could be the tip of the iceberg for world sport Read more It is understood that senior figures within the IAAF council will push for Russia to be immediately provisionally suspended.
(10) Many of the tumours had the characteristics of an iceberg, with considerable extravesical extension making endoscopic management less suitable because of the possibility of massive haemorrhage or recurrence.
(11) The oppression of Europe's Romany has lasted thousands of years and the case of Maria is merely the tip of the iceberg.
(12) Instead he said the buildup of ice was caused by the aftermath of a collision between a huge iceberg known as B09B and the Mertz Glacier Tongue.
(13) Websites such as favors.org or sliversoftime.com, and new kinds of local currency – from Berkshares or brixtonpound.org – are the tip of a giant iceberg of an exchange-based economy that encompasses all the things that people do for each other without money changing hands in conventional ways.
(14) A skating star in the twilight of his storied career and another who could go on to be just as impressive combined to put in top performances at the Iceberg Skating Palace on Sunday night and win Russia their first gold medal, to the delight of the watching Vladimir Putin.
(15) Now we know, thanks to the findings handed by a whistleblower to the Sunday Times and ARD, the German broadcasting network, that Yegorova was just the tip of a very large iceberg .
(16) Dr Margaret Chan, director general of the World Health Organisation, sees obesity as the tip of the iceberg, pointing towards a catastrophe in which the world has to manage millions suffering from long-term chronic illness.
(17) We discuss the concept that circulating cytokines represent the tip of the iceberg.
(18) Paul Kenny, the GMB general secretary, said: "Current job losses already announced in the public sector of nearly 150,000 are just the top of the iceberg heading for our services and our economy when the comprehensive spending review finally hits home next month.
(19) He also shows off a spectacular electric blue iceberg.
(20) The banning of minarets may prove to be the tip of an upcoming iceberg.