(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.
Crimp
Definition:
(v. t.) To fold or plait in regular undulation in such a way that the material will retain the shape intended; to give a wavy appearance to; as, to crimp the border of a cap; to crimp a ruffle. Cf. Crisp.
(v. t.) To pinch and hold; to seize.
(v. t.) to entrap into the military or naval service; as, to crimp seamen.
(v. t.) To cause to contract, or to render more crisp, as the flesh of a fish, by gashing it, when living, with a knife; as, to crimp skate, etc.
(a.) Easily crumbled; friable; brittle.
(a.) Weak; inconsistent; contradictory.
(n.) A coal broker.
(n.) One who decoys or entraps men into the military or naval service.
(n.) A keeper of a low lodging house where sailors and emigrants are entrapped and fleeced.
(n.) Hair which has been crimped; -- usually in pl.
(n.) A game at cards.
Example Sentences:
(1) There is a significant group of disorders which present with unruly hair, and these have been described under all manner of titles, including crinkly, woolly, kinky, crimped, frizzly, steely, spunglass, in an attempt to define their clinical appearance.
(2) The purpose of this study was to determine the feasibility of using this optical method to detect quantitative differences in PAV collagen crimp following zero-, low-, and high-pressure fixation.
(3) Similarly, the largest strains are radial to facilitate the formation of a large coaptation area, while the circumferential strains are explained by the extension to the crimped collagen fibres.
(4) An instrument to be called the "Crimp Meter" was designed and used with a conventional balance to enable the plotting of a force-displacement curve for individual feathers.
(5) The effect of stretching is examined and interpreted in terms of crimp straightening.
(6) Mel Kenyon , who was then the literary manager at the Royal Court, saw it, and I got a job assisting on a Martin Crimp play here.
(7) By observing changes in this pattern on rotating the polarizing stage and on rotating the fibres a crimped structure of the fibres was deduced and its parameters were calculated.
(8) The force of stretching of the edges of the defect was studied by an elaborated tensiometric device after application of each row of crimping sutures.
(9) Unique aspects of our implant procedure include the use of a Leksell frame already adapted to the GE-8800 scanner, the use of pre- and post-implant computerized treatment planning programs to determine the dose distribution profiles and the use of adjustable metal collars crimped to the outer catheters to provide ease of insertion, uniform pre-implant catheter length, and protection against source migration.
(10) The results suggest that it is the crimped structure that is responsible for the high extensibility of the collagen fibres under low tension.
(11) From the hydrodynamic point of view it is essential to optimize the size and shape of the crimping, especially for small-diameter grafts.
(12) Gelseal, crimped and noncrimped knitted Dacron grafts had pseudointima of comparable architecture, thickness, cellular and noncellular composition.
(13) The planar crimping of collagen fibrils and their assemblage into cylindrically symmetric fascicles is verified by small angle X-ray diffraction.
(14) These collagen fibrils have a relatively large crimped appearance.
(15) These observations can be reconciled by assuming that variations in crimp frequency are attributable solely to a combination of follicle shape and fibre length growth rate without recourse to the more generally accepted theories relating to the proportion and distribution of ortho- and paracortical cells in the firbre cortex.
(16) China's military buildup, including the launch of its own carrier last year and rapid development of ballistic missiles and cyber warfare capabilities, could potentially crimp the US forces' freedom to operate in the waters.
(17) The operation was also performed in 8 patients with occlusion of the median cerebral artery or with the crimp of the carotid arteries.
(18) In 19, a platinum wire Teflon piston was placed in the laser stapedotomy fenestra and crimped on the long process of the incus; autologous venous blood was infiltrated into the oval window niche as a sealing mechanism.
(19) The optimal zones in the operative field for applying the crimping sutures were also determined.
(20) Several rows of crimping sutures were then applied to the aponeurosis of the rectus abdominis muscle above and below the defect.