(n.) A small and beautiful species of orchid, having a flower variegated with purple, pink, and yellow. It grows in cold and wet localities in the northern part of the United States. The Calypso borealis is the only orchid which reaches 68¡ N.
Example Sentences:
(1) Calypso star Glenroy "Sullé" Caesar composed a song called Reparations, which has since become an anthem of the movement.
(2) Ukip’s claim that they are not a racist party gets more and more incredible with every scandal.” Read defended his song after some objected to his appropriation of calypso music to promote an anti-immigration argument.
(3) Remarkably, when Kitchener disembarked, Pathe News caught the "king of calypso" on camera.
(4) With its wit and side order of double entendre – "Oh mister, don't touch me tomatoes" – calypso fitted easily into the national psyche.
(5) It was The Banana Boat Song, a Jamaican work chant, that broke calypso to an international audience.
(6) Ukip has attracted criticism over its new calypso theme tune sung in a fake Caribbean accent, with lyrics about “open borders” and “illegal immigrants in every town”.
(7) I flew down there with my grandfather to spend two weeks on his boat, the Calypso, when I was nine.
(8) As the 50s teetered into the 60s, calypso was still popular.
(9) In his youth, when he was a Boston-based calypso singer, they used to call him The Charmer.
(10) But it was never meant to be remotely racist … It’s an old-fashioned political satire … you can’t sing a calypso with a Surrey accent.” The song’s second line addresses the issue of immigration, saying: “Leaders committed a cardinal sin, open the borders let them all come in; illegal immigrants in every town, stand up and be counted Blair and Brown.
(11) However, Calypso Sun Lotion SPF30, at £1.20 per 100ml is around a 10th of the cost of Piz Buin lotion – passed both tests.
(12) The first breach took place on 2 August last year, when the votes cast by five Irish viewers in Cricket AM's Car Park Calypso competition were not registered because of a technical fault.
(13) They are funny because David Silvester said gay marriage had caused flooding in the Thames basin ; because Godfrey Bloom assaulted a reporter with a conference brochure and condemned aid to “bongo bongo land” ; because their celebrity Mike Read sang a pro-Ukips calypso in a West Indian accent ; because William Henwood said Lenny Henry should emigrate to a “black country” ; because Winston McKenzie has the fame-crazed air of a man who would join a Skrewdriver tribute band if he thought it would get him on Channel 5 news; and because the Ukips’ deputy leader, Paul Nuttalls, is so pleased to be the centre of attention he sports the perpetual expression of a baby that has just used a potty for the first time, holding up his arse muck delightedly for his parents to coo over.
(14) Tidy lines of classic blue-and-white or pastel pink beach huts called Calypso and Aquarius sit on sea defences at Chapel Point, a few miles from Skegness.
(15) As a new book devoted to the label's cover art illustrates, Studio One also branched out into gospel, calypso and mento recordings, and even sessions by Indian devotional musician Sri Chinmoy.
Humorous
Definition:
(a.) Moist; humid; watery.
(a.) Subject to be governed by humor or caprice; irregular; capricious; whimsical.
(a.) Full of humor; jocular; exciting laughter; playful; as, a humorous story or author; a humorous aspect.
Example Sentences:
(1) Work on humoral responses has focused on lysozyme, the hemagglutinins (especially in the oyster), and the clearance of certain antigens.
(2) Reactive metabolites which suppress splenic humoral immune responses are thought to be generated within the spleen rather than in distant tissues.
(3) Our results on humoral and cellular components of immunity in dependence of age, according to SENIEUR protocol admission criteria are presented.
(4) Snakes did not only exhibit the major cell- and humoral-mediated immune functions, but these functions appeared to be linked with the degree of MLR disparity.
(5) These findings show that humoral factors that can inhibit natural killer cell activity in vitro are present in the peripheral blood of patients who have endometriosis; moreover, they suggest that the suppressed natural killer cell activity may allow the development of endometrial cells at ectopic sites.
(6) CGRP at a dose of 3 micrograms caused a small rise in aqueous humor protein concentration.
(7) While mindful of the potential difficulties which attend its introduction into the treatment situation there is an attempt to balance this position through a consideration of the appropriate conditions and modes of operation under which a humor-enriched approach may be efficacious.
(8) The changes in the bone and in calcium metabolism during cisplatin or bisphosphonate administration is reported in a 50-year-old patient with esophageal carcinoma who had humoral hypercalcemia of malignancy (HHM).
(9) In this respect, its effects are very similar to those of pooled rhesus monkey aqueous humor during perfusion of rhesus monkey eyes.
(10) Patients with primary hypogammaglobulinaemia have previously been thought not to be more susceptible to Salmonella infection but a combination of low gastric acidity and impaired humoral immunity may predispose them to such infection.
(11) The appearance in aqueous humor of selected metabolites of arachidonic acid metabolism at various times was correlated with the influx of protein and myeloperoxidase activity in the iris-ciliary body.
(12) The development of this arthritis was accompanied by the expression of cell-mediated and humoral immunity to the immunizing antigen.
(13) The steps in the model are the drug elimination rate in the precornea and anterior chamber, the rate of drug dissolution, the rate of drug penetration into the cornea, and the rate of drug transport into the aqueous humor.
(14) (4) The data support other evidence for declining cellular and humoral immunity in aging man.
(15) The pharmacokinetic parameters, apparent absorption, and elimination rate constants, of phenylephrine and the prodrug were determined from aqueous humor concentration-time and mydriasis-time profiles.
(16) Much has been learned about the complexity of the local, humoral and nervous factors regulating the normal behavior of the skin blood vessels, and many studies have addressed how this knowledge might relate to the causation of primary Raynaud's disease.
(17) Modern analytical techniques allow their detailed analysis in terms of the humoral antibody responses and afford the possibility of the future development of control and disease management procedures tailored to each individual host-parasite system.
(18) Intensive humoral immunity was observed to develop in 86% of vaccines, this genic.
(19) Chemotactic activity in the aqueous humor is found in both CVF-treated and control rabbits 20 hours after intravitreous LPS.
(20) If beta-blockage does not cause lowering of aqueous humor secretion, in itself responsible for the maintenance of intraocular pressure, what is the mechanism of action?