(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.
Teneral
Definition:
(a.) Of, pertaining to, or designating, a condition assumed by the imago of certain Neuroptera, after exclusion from the pupa. In this state the insect is soft, and has not fully attained its mature coloring.
Example Sentences:
(1) Injection of tsetse homogenates into teneral G. m. morsitans prior to exposure to trypanosome-infected feed increased T. b. brucei infections in the flies significantly.
(2) Teneral male Glossina morsitans centralis, G. austeni, G. palpalis palpalis, G. p. gambiensis, G. fuscipes fuscipes, G. tachinoides and G. brevipalpis were fed on the flanks of Boran calves infected with Trypanosoma vivax stock ILRAD 2241 isolated from a cow in Likoni, Kenya; stock ILRAD 2337 isolated from a cow in Galana, Kenya; stock ILRAD 1392 isolated from a cow in Nigeria; or, stock EATRO 1721 isolated from G. m. submorsitans in Nigeria.
(3) There was little variation in the susceptibility of teneral male and female flies, young fed flies, and fed stud males with all the compounds tested (dieldrin, resmethrin, tetrachlorvinphos, bromophos, and propoxur) and increased tolerance in old fed pregnant flies occurred only with dieldrin and resmethrin.
(4) Teneral G. morsitans centralis were fed on a goat infected with T. vivax IL 1392 and dissected 1-2 h after feeding.
(5) The likely role of rickettsia-like organisms (RLO) in potentiating teneral susceptibility to midgut infection is discussed.
(6) The in-vitro biosynthesis of [12-3H] juvenile hormone (JH) III by exposed corpora allata (CA) of teneral, sugar-fed, and blood-fed female Lutzomyia anthophora (Addis) was followed by incubating the CA for 4 h with [12-3H]methyl farnesoate.
(7) Interrupted feedings of teneral, laboratory-reared Glossina morsitans morsitans were used to study mechanical transmission of Trypanosoma brucei rhodesiense.
(8) Teneral G. m. morsitans susceptible to trypanosome infection had exposed carbohydrate residues recognised by APA lectin, but these residues were absent in a line of this species refractory to trypanosome infection.
(9) Conversely, access to sucrose for a few days led to a pronounced glycogenesis (up to 509%) and lipogenesis (up to 450% of the teneral values), depending on the species.
(10) Daily survivorship of blood-fed females was estimated to be 0.84 with a gonotrophic cycle length of 5 d. Daily survivorship for unfed females was estimated to be 0.86 with a gonotrophic cycle length of 7 d. The 2-d difference in gonotrophic cycle lengths was interpreted as the duration of the teneral period during which newly emerged females underwent maturation and mating before seeking hosts.
(11) Teneral reserves were isometric with body size, were considerably lower than previously reported for Aedes aegypti (L.) and were sexually dimorphic with respect to reserves and body size, all being slightly reduced in males.
(12) Teneral flies of Glossina morsitans morsitans were fed on mice infected with cloned and uncloned derivatives of three recent field isolates of Trypanosoma (Nannomonas) congolense.
(13) Increasing the period of starvation before infection increased the susceptibility to trypanosome infection of non-teneral flies.
(14) Five hundred and sixty teneral male Glossina morsitans centralis were fed, at the height of parasitaemia, on a goat infected with Trypanosoma brucei brucei.
(15) Teneral Glossina morsitans centralis, G. austeni, G. palpalis palpalis, G. p. gambiensis, G. fuscipes fuscipes, G. tachinoides and G. brevipalpis from laboratory-bred colonies, were allowed to feed simultaneously for 34 days on the flanks of ten goats infected with Trypanosoma brucei brucei isolated in Tanzania or in Nigeria, and then the tsetse were dissected.
(16) During moulting, the agranular alveoli of the immatures degenerate and new ones are formed which are apparently already functional in teneral nymphs and adults.
(17) quadrimaculatus Say, total protein, lipid, and carbohydrate present at eclosion, after feeding on sucrose, and after extreme starvation were quantified to study the effect of teneral and maximal reserves on subsequent fecundity and to judge the extent of reserve mobilization and the minimal irreducible amounts required for survival.
(18) The addition of the specific midgut lectin inhibitor D-glucosamine to the infective feed of non-teneral flies increased midgut infection rates to levels comparable with those achieved in teneral flies.
(19) In contrast, RLOs occurred in very much lower numbers within the midgut cells of nonteneral G. austeni, G. p. palpalis, G. p. gambiensis, G.f. fuscipes and G. tachinoides; were not seen in every specimen, and were rarely observed in the midgut cells of teneral testse.
(20) Exposure of wild non-teneral G.f. fuscipes, G. pallidipes, G. brevipalpis, and 3 day old G.m.