(a.) Immature; boyish; "green"; as, a callow youth.
(n.) A kind of duck. See Old squaw.
Example Sentences:
(1) More importantly, it's eminently understandable in a callow youth.
(2) Julian Callow of Barclays Capital Change is largely down to the impact of import price changes.
(3) In that same National season, he teamed with Simon Callow (as Face) and Josie Lawrence (as Doll Common) in a co-production by Bill Alexander for the Birmingham Rep of Ben Jonson’s trickstering, two-faced masterpiece The Alchemist ; he was a comically pious Subtle in sackcloth and sandals.
(4) The World Cup winner and World Cup star respectively could not have taken kindly to being overlooked for a callow rookie.
(5) His 1990 BBC play Old Flames starred Stephen Fry and Simon Callow as former schoolmates who find themselves sucked into a vortex of anonymous persecution.
(6) But Blair, the callow young lawyer, elected with him in Margaret Thatcher's landslide year of 1983, was always a protégée.
(7) Ishiguro's flawed but introspective narrators are always fascinating portraits of unusual characters: in A Pale View from the Hills, the narrator is a Japanese widow living in England, The Remains of the Day is narrated by the butler of an Nazi-sympathising English aristocrat, and a callow English private detective is the central character in When We Were Orphans.
(8) Wood will feature in a BBC2 documentary celebrating the career of her regular on-screen collaborator Julie Walters, and the channel will also air Rik Mayall: Lord of Misrule, narrated by Simon Callow, which the BBC says will feature rare and unseen archive footage of the comedian who died in June, along with contributions from actors and comedians including Simon Pegg, Lenny Henry, Ben Elton and Alexei Sayle.
(9) While in the Telegraph, Simon Callow declares that Dickens is " our first and favourite literary superstar ".
(10) Actors including Joanna Lumley, Sam West, Ralph Fiennes , Alan Rickman, Mark Rylance and Simon Callow have recorded video messages to David Cameron highlighting the plight of political prisoners held under the autocratic regime of the Belarusian dictator, Alexander Lukashenko.
(11) The website features literary manuscripts, workhouse menus and newspaper articles, along with videos of the actor Simon Callow reading extracts from some of Dickens's best-known works.
(12) Other alumni include the actor Simon Callow, former Conservative MP Jerry Hayes and rugby union star Michael Swift.
(13) Alan Ayckbourn, then a callow 20-year-old playing Stanley in an early production of the play in Scarborough, also had the temerity to ask Pinter for some biographical details of the mysterious concert pianist.
(14) Jude Law, Michael Morpurgo, Antony Gormley, Patrick Stewart, Carol Ann Duffy, Vanessa Redgrave, Simon Callow, Brian Eno, Lindsey German, Jeremy Corbyn MP, Tony Benn, Timothy West, Dominic Cooke, AL Kennedy, Janie Dee, Neil Faulkner, Heathcote Williams, Dame Harriet Walter, Tim Pigott-Smith, Roger Lloyd Pack, Alan Rickman, Ken Loach, Ralph Steadman, Ken Livingstone, Rob Montgomery, Duncan Heining, Chris Nineham, Kate Hudson, Jan Woolf, Peter Kennard, Andy de la Tour, Evan Parker, Robert Wyatt, Colin Towns, Chris Searle, Neil Yates, Steve Berry, Leo Aylen, Danny Thompson, Terry Jones, Kika Markham, Susan Wooldridge, Tony Haynes, Mike Dibb, Nic France, Leon Rosselson, Barry Miles, Liane Aukin, Alistair Beaton • "When should these commemorations end?"
(15) That is the age differential between one of the game's established legends and a rising prospect who was 15 when he first fought for money in 2005, stopping a similarly callow Abraham González in four rounds in front of a small audience in the Arena Chololo Larios, Tonala, a city on the edge of Guadalajara, not far from where he was born.
(16) Julian Callow, chief European economist at Barclays We interpret this as a clear sign the ECB is prepared to change policy significantly at its September meeting, in terms of purchasing debt without claiming seniority subject to the EFSF being deployed to buy government debt.
(17) • Simon Callow in Juvenalia is at the Assembly Hall, Edinburgh until 25 August.
(18) foliosociety.com • 'We found a glitterball and a DJ, let rip and got stonking drunk' – Simon Callow on the first night of Juvenalia
(19) Had England suffered defeat to a callow Wales side on the eve of the World Cup finals as T&T did here in Graz, Eriksson would have been firefighting after the match.
(20) Sometimes, Oldham looked like a callow teenager; at others, wild and woolly like a lonesome pilgrim.
Juvenile
Definition:
(a.) Young; youthful; as, a juvenile appearance.
(a.) Of or pertaining to youth; as, juvenile sports.
(n.) A young person or youth; -- used sportively or familiarly.
Example Sentences:
(1) We studied the chemotaxis of peripheral blood polymorphonuclear leukocytes (PMNs) and monocytes and the production of tumor necrosis factor alpha by monocytes of patients with juvenile periodontitis (JP).
(2) In this study, bacterial flora, especially the occurrence of A. actinomycetemcomitans, in the periodontal pockets of one juvenile with gingivitis (G), one JP patients, five rapidly progressive periodontitis (RP) patients and one adult periodontitis(AP) patient, and one adult with healthy periodontium was investigated using a blood agar medium and a selective medium for A. actinomycetemcomitans.
(3) Juvenile diabetics appear to have fewer cutaneous abnormalities than adults who develop the disease, but the juvenile diabetic is not spared.
(4) The mothers of 87 male and female adolescents accepted at a counseling agency described their offspring by completing the Institute of Juvenile Research Behavior Checklist.
(5) Lymphocyte numbers were depressed below control levels at 24 hr postphlebotomy in exposed juvenile and adult males.
(6) During the first 15 to 20 min of metamorphosis the larval arms are retracted and resorbed into the aboral surface of the juvenile.
(7) Differentiation on histopathological grounds between this tumour and the more common juvenile melanoma may be difficult, but this important distinction should be possible in almost all cases.
(8) Experimentally, the newborn and juvenile matured white A breeded mice of both sexes were used.
(9) A family with occurrence of juvenile sudden death and effort polymorphous ventricular tachycardias is reported.
(10) Minced and triturated fragments from the spinal cord of normal rat fetuses (15-18 days gestation) labeled with the fluorescent dye fast blue (FB) were successfully transplanted into juvenile myelin-deficient rat spinal cord under direct observation.
(11) Changes in haemolymph juvenile hormone (JH) concentrations of larvae of the southwestern corn borer, Diatraea grandiosella, were used to estimate the activity of the corpora allata.
(12) Monaural plugging was performed on different juvenile bats at 7, 14, and 35 days of age.
(13) Compared with juvenile and adult controls, a significantly greater number of "fast isoamylases" was found in the parotid saliva of children with cystic fibrosis and their healthy heterozygous parents.
(14) The purpose of this study was to test an empirically based prediction model of school dropout on a sample of 137 juvenile delinquents, some who have dropped out and some who have remained in school.
(15) Liver enzymes, including aspartate aminotransferase (also called SGOT), alanine aminotransferase (also called SGPT), alkaline phosphatase, and lactate dehydrogenase, may be elevated in juvenile arthritis patients with hepatic dysfunction.
(16) Nine of these 10 patients had juvenile polyposis defined by the presence of at least three juvenile polyps; and eight of the nine had a family history of juvenile polyps.
(17) In 2, the terminal event resembled juvenile chronic myelogenous leukemia, and in the third, the diagnosis was acute monocytic leukemia.
(18) Following the definition and etiology, cases of juvenile bleeding in 66 patients were analysed in connection with the time of its occurrence, its clinical picture and therapy.
(19) This study investigates bacterial invasion of the soft tissue walls of deep pockets from cases with adult (AP) and juvenile periodontitis (JP).
(20) It is planned to employ this method (after further improvements) in investigating the possible effects of changes in the crevicular fluid composition on the developmental and regenerative processes in the juvenile periodontium.