(v. i.) To bear, or be susceptible of, being calvered; as, grayling's flesh will calver.
Example Sentences:
(1) Therefore from the economic aspect it appears to be profitable to replace productive, but ill, older dairy cows by healthy first-calvers because the negative effect of the mastitis on the production of milk increases with every successive lactation.
(2) The effect of the last developmental phase of the warble fly (Hypoderma bovis de Greer) larvas was studied as exerted on some health indices of milk in 20 experimental (treated) and 18 control (untreated) first-calvers of the Pinzgau breed at two localities of an area affected by bovine hypodermosis in the period from May to June, 1975.
(3) Simon Calver, the chief executive, said: "We are continuing to make fundamental improvements to our business in the UK, which will allow us to compete effectively in a changing marketplace.
(4) 'I feel good because I'm helping people' THE MUM: Kate Calver, 50, secondary school teacher Just before giving birth to Sophie, I was approached by the research team who asked me to be in the study.
(5) Apart from a higher effect, especially in the compensation of hypomagnesiaemia and metabolic acidosis, the use of the new supplement in first-calver stocks allows to reduce the total financial costs of mineral feed supplements by 20%.
(6) In three groups of first-calvers with 15 animals each, with an identical basal diet, we followed for six months the effect of the DOB mixture additive without fat, the DOB mixture with 5% of rendering-plant fat obtained mechanically and DOB with 5% of rendering-plant fat after perchlorethylene extraction (0.90% perchlorethylene residuum).
(7) The Lovefilm chief executive, Simon Calver, said: "The deal is a winner for the members who love Lovefilm because of its value, choice, convenience and innovation in home entertainment "With Amazon's unequivocal support we can significantly enhance our members' experience across Europe."
(8) "However, it is an unfortunate reality that building union officials often hide behind employee conduct and the actions of the FWBC will bring home to workers the consequences of blindly following union demands," said Richard Calver, acting chief executive of Master Builders.
(9) The calves of the Red Spotted breed and their first-calver mothers were subject to the study of total proteinemia and of the changes in protein fractions before parturition and in a ten-day period of post-partal development.
(10) Twelve calves of the Red Spotted breed and its crossbreds born by first-calvers, kept in a large-capacity stable of a dairy farm, were subject to the study of the ontogenetic development of the values of the blood picture from birth up to the 10th day of age.
(11) Preferably 10 sera from each of the yearling, first calver, second calver and older age groups should be tested.
(12) Chief executive Simon Calver, who joined Mothercare from LoveFilm last April, admitted the mother and baby retailer was being "squeezed in the middle" as supermarkets beat it on price at the bottom end and luxury brands, such as The White Company, stole some high-end customers.
(13) In none of the followed health indices of milk were significant differences in the values obtained from experimental and control first-calvers proved statistically.
(14) We investigated the effect of hypodermosis on the quantitative and some qualitative indicators of milk from 20 experimental and 18 control first-calvers of the Pinzgau cattle breed.
(15) After calving, the haemorrhages tended to disappear rapidly from the claws of the heifers, but no such recovery was evident in the second calvers and mature cows.
(16) Calver said Lovefilm has seen "very, very strong" uptake in streaming from games consoles, which it introduced in March last year, but that physical rentals were also performing "confidently" and "continuing at pace".
(17) In 77% of the cows and first-calvers of the experimental group the quality of colostrum complied with the standard; in the case of the control animals this proportion was 83%.
(18) It was administered to about 7300 highly pregnant heifers and first-calvers at rates of 0.15 to 0.2 kg per head and day.
(19) "It's the customers who decide whether to go for digital or physical rentals – that's why we're developing a hybrid proposition," Calver told the Guardian.
(20) A field trial was performed in two half-sib first-calver groups of the Bohemiam Spotted breed.
Caviar
Definition:
(n.) The roes of the sturgeon, prepared and salted; -- used as a relish, esp. in Russia.
Example Sentences:
(1) 'Azerbaijan is turning into a dictatorship – we shouldn't fall for its caviar diplomacy' Read more The crowded courtroom was growing increasing stifling as the air-conditioner could not cope with mid-August heat.
(2) By the time the guests have their fill of caviar-stuffed potatoes and get in their limos to the Vanity Fair party across town, most are sufficiently well lubricated to deal with one another: I walk in to see Benedict Cumberbatch standing by the bar with Joan Collins, while Patrick Stewart and Jared Leto are expressing mutual admiration for one another nearby.
(3) As for potatoes, we're supposed to treat them with a reverence previously reserved for fine wine and caviar.
(4) The madreporic ("caviar") prosthesis is a hinged knee prosthesis that can be inserted without the use of cement.
(5) But before he can leave the store he meets Doug, the husband of the producer who has promised to read his script, wheeling a shopping cart with his child and "a four-figure avalanche of shellfish, cheeses, meats, and caviars".
(6) Palmer also appeared on Channel Nine's Today show, where he launched an angry tirade against Murdoch and Thomas, describing Thomas as "like Black Caviar with a broken leg".
(7) (And if I'm being honest, I might sneak in a few mouthfuls of foie gras and caviar, too.)
(8) The guests order from the bar menu – beef sliders for £21, £770 for a 50g portion of beluga caviar.
(9) "It was celebrated with champagne and Iranian caviar at MHL's Mayfair offices and was widely reported in the financial press as a groundbreaking event," writes David Lascelles in his recently published biography of Zombanakis.
(11) Twitter users are mocking the DWP’s latest misstep with the inevitable hashtag #fakedwpstories (“since the jobcentre sanctioned me I only eat caviar”; “I save so much on trousers now all that money isn’t burning holes in my pockets”), and rightly so.
(12) Allegations of “caviar diplomacy” have swirled around the Council of Europe’s parliamentary assembly for years, with Azerbaijan accused of offering cash and luxury gifts in exchange for favourable votes.
(13) David died in the early hours of 22 May 1992, having enjoyed a good bottle of chablis and some caviar brought to her bedside by friends.
(14) The rest of the team helped, but he was the Black Caviar who got us here, but the point is that in terms of thinking about the future it’s not a change of personality; it is what does that bring; how does that improve our situation.
(15) One night, eating with her parents at a caviar house off the Champs Elysées, she was introduced to the television star Jacques Martin.
(16) The French president "eats everything" except caviar, truffles and lobster, and doesn't like cabbage, artichokes or asparagus much, according to a former chef who spent 40 years cooking for six French heads of state from Georges Pompidou to the incumbent, François Hollande .
(17) With 50 film premieres, a caviar-and-blinis-studded conference and lavish digs at the Hotel Astoria (which claims Rasputin, Thatcher and Bush are former guests), it has attracted Russian oligarchs, US heavyweights HBO and Showtime, and the French director François Ozon.
(18) I often exchanged grubby dollars or packets of Marlboro for tins of caviar from slightly sinister gold-toothed charmers.
(19) Out of 399 human faeces examined during the first eight months (1975) for the presence of NCV vibrios, one vibrio parahaemolyticus strains has been isolated from a man with acute gastro-enteritis (gastric and abdominal pains, nausea, diarrhoea, headache, general weakness), after having a meal with salted caviar.
(20) Be adventurous… It's time for parma ham, mozzarella and caviar lunchboxes.