What's the difference between carnivorous and meerkat?
Carnivorous
Definition:
(a.) Eating or feeding on flesh. The term is applied: (a) to animals which naturally seek flesh for food, as the tiger, dog, etc.; (b) to plants which are supposed to absorb animal food; (c) to substances which destroy animal tissue, as caustics.
Example Sentences:
(1) The urine compositions of the European mole Talpa europaea and of the white rat Rattus norvegicus (albino) kept on a carnivore's diet were compared.
(2) The data show that the structure of inner and outer enamel layers differ between these two carnivore species and that the enamel structure of the cat was most similar to that described in humans.
(3) This is more like an assemblage of bones buried during a single depositional episode, such as a flood, than an assemblage accumulated on a soil over a long period of time by carnivores or other means of death.
(4) We have not seen anything like this in a hundred years, back when the policy was that all large carnivores were to be eradicated.’ Photograph: Kevin Rushby Nina Jensen, chief executive of WWF in Norway, said: “This is mass slaughter.
(5) Examination of the original descriptions of the species of Sarcocystis in cattle, sheep, and swine, and of isosporid oocysts shed sporulated by dogs, cats, man, and other carnivores, has shown that it is not possible in most instances to identify unambiguously recently recognized taxa.
(6) Domestic cats, 11 other species of carnivorous mammals, 6 species of snakes, and white-backed vultures were tested for their possible role as definitive hosts of Benoitia besnoiti by feeding with cystic material from chronically infected bovines.
(7) It has been established experimentally that the Opisthorchis metacercaria in fish muscles were killed at -28 degrees S in 15-20 h., at -35 degrees C in 8 h. and at -40 degrees C in 2 h. The period of fish freezing becomes much longer when it is stored in snow-covered heaps, which may be the cause of Opisthorchis invasion of wild and domestic carnivorous animals.
(8) Remarkably, the ratio for adult rabbits is higher than in other monogastric herbivores and is instead similar to values for carnivores.
(9) It has been previously shown that in carnivores the NOT-DTN receives information from primary visual cortical areas in addition to the direct retinal input.
(10) ruminants, equids, carnivores and proboscidates) the thickness of elastic fibres of the nuchal ligament is a specific character, i.e.
(11) Despite fears that large carnivores are doomed to extinction because of rising human populations and overconsumption, a study published in Science has found that large predator populations are stable or rising in Europe.
(12) The breakages in carnivores' teeth were massively greater in the pre-human era .
(13) The ability of Trichinella spiralis larvae to survive at subfreezing temperatures encysted in the musculature of wild carnivorous mammals was assessed by evaluating motility and infectivity (to rodents) of trichinae at various intervals after storage in frozen skeletal muscle.
(14) A hitherto-unknown atavistic muscle in the dog initiated a review of the literature on the homologies and nomenclature of the forelimb flexors in carnivores and man.
(15) Mysłajek says only scientific arguments – the need to regenerate forests and control the ungulate population – can save Europe’s wild carnivores, especially the unpopular wolf.
(16) Poxviruses isolated from captive carnivores in Russia (Moscow virus) and elephants in Germany (elephant virus) were very closely-related to cowpox virus.
(17) The probable reservoirs of infection are wild carnivores, infection of man and dog being accidental.
(18) More ancient satellite DNAs were dispersed in carnivors or mammalian genomes.
(19) Between 20 and 22 June 1974, three captive carnivores (two genets, Genetta sp.
(20) Evidence was obtained that the pathogenesis of experimental PDV-infection in harbour seals shares some features with those of canine distemper in terrestrial carnivores.
Meerkat
Definition:
(n.) A South African carnivore (Cynictis penicillata), allied to the ichneumons.
Example Sentences:
(1) But on Friday, the network blocked Meerkat’s access to its social graph, the data which shows who follows who on Twitter.
(2) But at the same time it just proved how significant Meerkat has become.” Meerkat’s rise has been astronomical.
(3) It’s, like, amazing brands are using it, people with access are using it – reporters, schools, churches doing services, real-estate agents doing showings of apartments.” Rubin, whose team created Meerkat in eight weeks – almost accidentally as a side project to his Life On Air streaming service – said its aim was to help people share the most exciting or special moments of their lives with friends, admirers, fans or just about anyone who might want to watch.
(4) Meerkat is on a 30-second delay , which is a big issue considering those asking questions, published to Twitter, must then wait through that time to see any response.
(5) Meerkat is likely to be the talk of South by Southwest, as Twitter was in 2007 and Foursquare in 2009, as investors and technology watchers seek out Rubin and watch the company’s curated Meerkat live-stream events.
(6) I want you to come with me to the apartment showing, or yoga, or class.” The app has not just been used by friends sharing puppy and cat videos: journalists broadcasted President Obama’s speech at the 50th anniversary of the Selma to Montgomery marches last weekend, and Meerkat has been used to interview a senator.
(7) Its app is a rival to Meerkat, which launched in February and generated interest at this year’s SXSW festival in March.
(8) Testing out Meerkat: the app that brings live streaming to Twitter Read more “We’ve had the Miami Dolphins [NFL team], American Idol … everyone using Meerkat.
(9) Without access to the graph, it’s impossible for Meerkat to offer the service it previously did, automatically following all of a user’s friends from Twitter who are also on the app.
(10) And it's not just the BBC: as well as The X Factor, Barlow has also been on ITV's Jonathan Ross Show, as well as appearing on the channel with meerkat Aleksandr Orlov in a 90-second ad for Comparethemeerkat.com.
(11) In third place in the overall chart was The Simples Life, by The Meerkat, with sales of 37,640.
(12) Meanwhile that bloody meerkat website has been reeling in punters by offering free cuddly toys, as if its main customers were toddlers requiring third-party fire and theft for their trikes.
(13) MeerKAT project manager Willem Esterhuyse has at least one answer.
(14) Periscope’s launch comes shortly after Twitter controversially blocked Meerkat from accessing its social graph – the means by which the app was helping people find others to watch based on who they were following on Twitter.
(15) That means Meerkat users will not be automatically connected to their Twitter friends with Meerkat.
(16) Two episodes of Meerkat Manor had 1 million and 900,000 viewers respectively on BBC2 between 5.10pm and 6pm.
(17) The cool blue tunnel of Afrikanische Strasse U-Bahn station is embellished with enormous colour photographs: a grinning giraffe; a herd of zebras on the savannah; a pair of meerkats.
(18) Further down the food chain, even the infuriating meerkat from the comparethemarket.com adverts has had A Simples Life put together by Val Hudson , formerly of Headline books.
(19) It was this eusocial behaviour – currently considered to be unique among mammals to the naked mole rat and its close relative the Damaraland mole rat, though other social animals, including meerkats, practise a less regimented version – that first led Faulkes into a PhD on the animal.
(20) Instant means instant For many, this was their first experience of Meerkat: click a stream, start watching and asking questions, and then … nothing.