(v. i.) To bring forth young; to produce offspring.
Example Sentences:
(1) The experiment was conducted on 3 groups of calves.
(2) These calves had hemagglutinating antibodies against P. hemolytica before exposure.
(3) After calving, probably the position of new follicles is temporally influenced by direct signals from the uterine horns affected differently by pregnancy.
(4) A total of 3,532 females of various engorged weights was collected from all calves, resulting in a mean female tick yield of 1.78% based on the number of larvae used for all infestations.
(5) Calves were tagged in the right ear with the green certified preconditioned for health (CPH) tag of the American Association of Bovine Practitioners.
(6) Calves showing signs of pneumonia had low levels of IgG1 (45-5 per cent had less than 8 mg per ml compared with "now-pneumonic" calves which had relatively high levels (only 9.5 per cent had less than 8 mg per ml).
(7) Calves were fed milk replacer twice daily while housed indoors in wooden-slatted floor box crates (metabolism cages).
(8) The results presented in this paper show that chronic lymphatic fistulae can be established successfully in fetal calves to give access to recirculating lymphocytes.
(9) One hundred and forty six calving interval records were built up from 64 N'Dama cows maintained for 3.5 years under a high natural tsetse challenge in Zaire.
(10) Although they were born at different periods of the year, the calves in all three groups had similar bacterial loads in their noses and tracheas when they were 1 day old (P greater than 0.05).
(11) Those findings suggest that CCN in calves is caused by thiamine deficiency and that the blood thiamine levels cannot be used for diagnosis of CCN.
(12) Examination of cattle faeces demonstrated that six-month-old calves excreted moderate numbers of N battus eggs in June and July, thus contaminating next season's sheep grazing.
(13) Distribution of immunoglobulin(Ig)-containing cells was investigated in calves inoculated orally with live organisms of both Bacteroides succinogenes and Selenomonas ruminantium.
(14) Nevertheless, there are farms on which satisfactory results are obtained in rearing calves with low Ig levels.
(15) It has to be assumed that in calves with respiratory distress syndrome--in analogy to pulmonary immaturity--the blood clotting mechanism is not yet fully developed.
(16) Twenty-eight Friesland calves were infested at 7 to 11 months of age with 5 000-45 OOO cercariae of Schistosoma mattheei.
(17) Calves were monitored for physiological changes for 6 h at 15, 30, or 60-min intervals.
(18) Calf birth weight and gestational length decreased (P less than .01) as the number of calves born increased from one to two to three.
(19) However, titers of six of these calves increased at five to eight months of age and either remained constant or increased through one year of age.
(20) The somatograms demonstrated that the ballet dancers had relatively smaller upper arms and larger calves and ankles compared with the reference female.
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.