(n.) Any species of Phalangium; -- also called harvestman
(n.) A British fish; the whiff.
Example Sentences:
(1) This is what President Carter did when he raised the spectre of terminating US military assistance if Israel did not immediately evacuate Lebanon in September 1977.
(2) In his interim Digital Britain report published last month, Carter called for the creation of a "second institution ... with public purpose at its heart" to rival the BBC and mooted the merger of Channel 4 into a wider entity, potentially involving parts of BBC Worldwide, the corporation's commercial arm.
(3) The only fact the Guardian can report is that the case involves the London solicitors Carter-Ruck, who specialise in suing the media for clients, who include individuals or global corporations.
(4) Around the same time Clinton also beefed up President Carter's 1977 Community Reinvestment Act – forcing lenders to take a more sympathetic approach to poor borrowers trying to get on the housing ladder.
(5) Myers, who wrote a review of local radio for Lord Carter's Digital Britain report published in April , said there had been a breakdown in the relationship between commercial stations and the regulator.
(6) Helena Bonham Carter said the protest was a “perfect” response to the film Suffragette .
(7) The tie-breaker isn't quite the buzzer-beater that Jeff Carter converted with tenths of a second left in the first period of Game 3, but it comes with under 30 ticks left in the second period here and has a similar effect.
(8) Dr Peter Carter, chief executive and general secretary of the RCN, said: "Nursing staff are seeing an increasing number of older people with HIV and too often they can see that the system is failing them.
(9) At the Forum Rodgers and Chic will be part of a lineup that includes DJs past and present, from Studio 54 legend Nicky Siano to Chicago house star Derrick Carter.
(10) Top Jamaican at Beijing Games tests positive for drugs in sample reanalysis Read more According to Reuters, traces of the drug are reported to have been found in Carter’s A sample when 454 frozen blood and urine samples from Beijing were retested by the International Olympic Committee last month.
(11) Carter is finishing off a capability review for the Department for International Development.
(12) Raegan Carter, with Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast, has described Jindal’s decision as political grandstanding and called Jindal’s action against clinics illegal.
(13) latex agglutination test (LAT), two indirect hemagglutination tests (IHAT) (Carter-Wallace, USA and Ismunit, Italy), enzyme immunoassay (EIA) and indirect fluorescent antibody test (IFAT).
(14) In discussing the role of the United States in world politics, President Jimmy Carter described the changes in Europe as it prepares for unification into one economic bloc; the deteriorating conditions in the third world; the impact of the recent changes in communist countries; and the persistence of regional wars and civil disputes.
(15) Lorien Carter said her nephew had been “a beautiful young man”.
(16) US President George Bush left open yesterday the possibility of closing the Guantánamo Bay prison, a day after his White House predecessor Jimmy Carter called for it to be shut.
(17) That is the view Professor Carter has been espousing for a long time.
(18) Troy Carter, the force behind Lady Gaga , isn't just a talent manager.
(19) Dr Peter Carter, chief executive and general secretary of the Royal College of Nursing, said: "Alcohol abuse costs the NHS £3bn every year and nursing staff witness first hand the social costs of binge drinking every day.
(20) If you get moments like this, why would you ever call it a day?” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Fly-half Dan Carter says he’s ‘very proud’ to have won back-to-back Rugby World Cups after kicking 19 points in New Zealand’s 34-17 victory over Australia The outside-half Dan Carter , whose 19 points stretched his record in international rugby to 1,598, will not play international rugby again, having signed a contract with Racing Métro.
Garter
Definition:
(n.) A band used to prevent a stocking from slipping down on the leg.
(n.) The distinguishing badge of the highest order of knighthood in Great Britain, called the Order of the Garter, instituted by Edward III.; also, the Order itself.
(n.) Same as Bendlet.
(v. t.) To bind with a garter.
(v. t.) To invest with the Order of the Garter.
Example Sentences:
(1) The [14C]2-deoxyglucose (2-DG) technique was used to study patterns of neural activity associated with the species-typical courtship behavior of male red-sided garter snakes (Thamnophis sirtalis parietalis).
(2) Motor units in the thin transversus abdominis muscle of the garter snake were identified and physiologically characterized in the living state.
(3) Viremia in garter snakes has a cyclic rhythm independent of the temperature of the environment.
(4) Fibers of the garter snake transversus abdominis muscle fall into three classes according to contraction speed: faster and slower twitch and tonic.
(5) But it is also the incantatory darkness of dreams and visions, death and memory, as an observing consciousness creeps into the "blinded bedrooms" of the town's inhabitants, hushing and inviting us on: "Come now, drift up the dark, come up the drifting sea-dark street now in the dark night seesawing like the sea ... " Blind Captain Cat is dreaming of long-ago sea voyages and long-dead lovers; twice-widowed Mrs Ogmore-Pritchard of her henpecked husbands; Organ Morgan of musical extravaganzas; Polly Garter of babies; Mary Ann Sailors of the Garden of Eden; Dai Bread of "Turkish girls.
(6) The actions of two reversible anticholinesterase agents, edrophonium and physostigmine, were compared with the irreversible agent methanesulfonyl fluoride (MSF) on miniature end-plate currents (MEPCs) and ACh-induced end-plate current fluctuations recorded from twitch fibers of costocutaneous muscles of garter snakes (Thamnophis sp.).
(7) A study was made of feeding and temperature as factors affecting the appearance of western equine encephalitis (WEE) virus-neutralizing serum (VNS) antibodies in the serum of garter snakes (Thamnophis spp).
(8) A granulosa cell tumor was identified in a captive six year old Garter Snake (Thamnophis sirtalis).
(9) The oxygen affinity of red cell suspensions from fetal garter snakes was higher than that of cell suspensions from their mothers.
(10) Now a 42-year-old lecturer in film and music at Trafford College, Manchester, she is a regular at the Morrissey Smiths Disco at the Star and Garter pub and, thanks to listening to Meat is Murder , a committed vegetarian.
(11) Male red-sided garter snakes (Thamnophis sirtalis parietalis) court only on emergence from winter dormancy.
(12) Testosterone (T) was administered intracranially to intact adult male Canadian red-sided garter snakes (Thamnophis sirtalis parietalis) in the fall and in the summer.
(13) Traits were measured for six or fewer presumed full-sibling offspring from each of 45 wild-caught gravid garter snakes (Thamnophis sirtalis).
(14) Four enantiomers of chloramphenicol have been tested for their effects on end-plate current and miniature end-plate current decay and amplitude characteristics in the voltage-clamped costocutaneous nerve-muscle preparation of the garter snake.
(15) He has already received the Garter and could retire as early as next summer.
(16) Newborn garter snakes (Thamnophis sirtalis) responded similarly to worm and fish surface extracts regardless of whether the mothers were fed exclusively on fish or worms during the gestation period.
(17) Then, for his 15 minutes, Gove was before us, cross-gartered like foolish Malvolio, until another grandee, Kenneth Clarke , in concert with the Daily Mail, was ready to knife his guts.
(18) The model is applied to a vascular network of the glomerulus of the garter snake.
(19) Garter snakes were used to study the effects of venous CO2 loading using the skin as an exchanger.
(20) Using a simple ophthalmoscopic technique, the cone mosaic of a live garter snake was clearly visible when viewed directly through its natural pupil, providing the first definitive cone map in a vertebrate eye.