(a.) Of or pertaining to the Canary Islands; as, canary wine; canary birds.
(a.) Of a pale yellowish color; as, Canary stone.
(n.) Wine made in the Canary Islands; sack.
(n.) A canary bird.
(n.) A pale yellow color, like that of a canary bird.
(n.) A quick and lively dance.
(v. i.) To perform the canary dance; to move nimbly; to caper.
Example Sentences:
(1) What the Qataris own in Britain • HSBC Tower, the bank’s global headquarters in Canary Wharf • The Shard on the south bank of the Thames (95%) • Harrods, bought in 2010 for a reported £1.5bn • The Olympic Village in east London • Numbers 1-3 Cornwall Terrace, Regent’s Park – this week denied planning permission to be turned into a £200m single home • A 50% stake in the Shell Centre on London’s South Bank • Half of One Hyde Park, the world’s most expensive apartment block • The former US embassy building in Grosvenor Square • The site of Chelsea Barracks in west London, being turned into a luxury housing estate • 20% slice of Camden market • Stakes in Barclays, Sainsbury’s, the London Stock Exchange and Heathrow • And coming soon: Canary Wharf, after the controlling group capitulated and recommended a £2.6bn bid to shareholders Julia Kollewe
(2) Adult male canaries learn to produce high-amplitude complex courtship songs each breeding season, whereas females do not, and brain nuclei involved with the production of song behavior are much larger in breeding males than in nonbreeding males or females (Nottebohm, 1980, 1981).
(3) Because female canaries do not normally sing, neurons in female HVc must develop response selectivity by a mechanism different from that proposed for male birds in the motor theory of song perception.
(4) The endogenous stages of Isospora serini Arogão and Isospora canaria Box are described from experimentally infected canaries, Serinus canarius Linnaeus.
(5) Examined coding regions of the canary c-myc gene were also highly related to their mammalian counterparts, but in contrast to N-myc, the canary and mammalian c-myc genes were quite divergent in their 3' untranslated regions.
(6) The company has already attracted formal censure over its cheerfully casual approach to taking on debt; in January it was forced to remove a page from its website that suggested its loans had advantages over student loans (neglecting to mention its APR of 4,214% and the current student loan rate of 1.5%), and inviting students to borrow money from them for things such as holiday flights to the Canaries.
(7) In male canaries examined during the song season, HAT-2 RNA shows variable expression within the song control circuit, and is notably less abundant in the three nuclei which concentrate androgens (HVC, RA and L-MAN).
(8) Qatar’s royal family may have snapped up Canary Wharf for £2.6bn this week, adding to its London portfolio of Harrods and the Shard skyscraper, but the Gulf billionaires’ property spree has finally run into a dead end – a humble town hall bureaucrat.
(9) Opta Joe's warning about the Canaries was very relevant indeed.
(10) The latter is fresh out of university, fluent in English and wears a canary-yellow silk blouse and tight jeans with a large designer handbag.
(11) The ultraviolet (UV) radiation doses received by 270 psoriasis patients were studied during 4-week climate therapy periods in November, March or April in the Canary Islands.
(12) I've been successful enough, but there are still times when I feel like the canary down the mine."
(13) Growth rate, nitrogen balance, skeletal muscle nitrogen fractions and in vivo intestinal absorption of D-galactose (2 mM) and L-leucine (20 mM) have been measured in male growing rats (90-100 g initial body weight) fed 12% protein diets containing either casein (control) or the raw leafy legume Chamaecytisus proliferus L. (Western Canary Islands).
(14) In a way the judiciary is the canary in the mine, because when courts and tribunals close their doors and won't tell lawyers and complainants what is going on, you know that an essential part of a free society is in the process of being degraded.
(15) He may yet return to Sporting Park though, with his initial loan deal at the Canaries running out at the end of this season.
(16) Several avian viruses (infectious bursal disease virus, Newcastle disease virus, Canary pox virus, and reovirus) formed plaques under agar.
(17) The trust is often the "canary in the mine" at the frontline of change affecting the natural environment and thinking about what this means for the places that we manage.
(19) Leaves or fruit from 14 plants considered to be toxic to pet birds were administered by gavage to 15 pairs of canaries (Serinus canaria).
(20) Thymidine autoradiography and retrograde transport of horseradish peroxidase (HRP) were combined to determine the connectivity of neurons born in adult canary forebrain.
Dance
Definition:
(v. i.) To move with measured steps, or to a musical accompaniment; to go through, either alone or in company with others, with a regulated succession of movements, (commonly) to the sound of music; to trip or leap rhythmically.
(v. i.) To move nimbly or merrily; to express pleasure by motion; to caper; to frisk; to skip about.
(v. t.) To cause to dance, or move nimbly or merrily about, or up and down; to dandle.
(v. i.) The leaping, tripping, or measured stepping of one who dances; an amusement, in which the movements of the persons are regulated by art, in figures and in accord with music.
(v. i.) A tune by which dancing is regulated, as the minuet, the waltz, the cotillon, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) His verdict of her that "she danced on the graves of her husband's victims.
(2) In the dance off tomorrow should be Dave and Karen and Mark and Iveta, but it wouldn't surprise me if Fiona and Anton were in the bottom two instead.
(3) The Taliban banned television, music, dancing, and almost every other pastime, from kite-flying to cinema-going.
(4) I encourage you to visit your local care home on Friday to take part in the activities, from dance classes to tours of care homes.
(5) The station programmer of the year went to Andy Roberts of dance station Kiss.
(6) Oh, and let’s not forget about him doing bad dance moves in a video making fun of Drake’s choreography in the Hotline Bling video.
(7) Should it all go wrong, I can't see further than Dance of the Cuckoos , personally.
(8) He got in a cherry picker for Space Oddity, and managed to sing and dance.
(9) Dell'Utri managed the 1994 campaign – a dazzling phantasmagoria of dancing girls under the lights, while he saw to the shadows.
(10) It's the slogan of an old electronica & dance music festival in Berlin known as The Love Parade.
(11) His opposite number, Roy Carroll, saved at the feet of Sinclair, the County striker Izale McLeod drove inches wide, but in the 24th minute Villa were level, Jack Grealish dancing through a series of attempted tackles before putting the ball on a plate inside the penalty area for the hugely promising Adama Traoré to thump past Carroll.
(12) Saturday's programme was beaten in the ratings – at least while the two were head-to-head – by BBC1's Strictly Come Dancing.
(13) Not so in 2012, with the shortlist for outstanding achievement in dance revealed as Edward Watson for The Metamorphosis at Covent Garden; Sylvie Guillem for 6,000 Miles Away at Sadler's Wells and Tommy Franzen for Some Like it Hip Hop at the Peacock.
(14) A significant increase in the percentage of zymosan-complement rosette forming cells was seen during dancing.
(15) The purpose of this study was to determine the changes in maximum oxygen uptake (VO2max) and body composition following 8 weeks of aerobic dance using hand-held weights (Heavyhands, AMF, Jefferson, IA).
(16) She mentions the show at the Baltic in Gateshead in 2007, when one of her photographs, Klara and Edda Belly-dancing , owned by Elton John, was removed from the exhibition on the grounds that it was pornographic .
(17) The show discovered Susan Boyle and Paul Potts, but more recently has become synonymous with dancing dogs (controversially so last year, when it emerged the winner had used a stunt double ).
(18) This season’s other much awaited debut will be Natalia Osipova , dancing her first Kitri with the Royal later this month.
(19) "Anne Hathaway at least tried to sing and dance and preen along to the goings on, but Franco seemed distant, uninterested and content to keep his Cheshire-cat-meets-smug smile on display throughout."
(20) The 30-year-old, whose airway had been so damaged by TB she was gasping for breath on the stairs, told Professor Paolo Macchiarini she had been dancing all night in a club in Ibiza.