(n.) An animal of various species of the genera Felis and Lynx. The domestic cat is Felis domestica. The European wild cat (Felis catus) is much larger than the domestic cat. In the United States the name wild cat is commonly applied to the bay lynx (Lynx rufus) See Wild cat, and Tiger cat.
(n.) A strong vessel with a narrow stern, projecting quarters, and deep waist. It is employed in the coal and timber trade.
(n.) A strong tackle used to draw an anchor up to the cathead of a ship.
(n.) A double tripod (for holding a plate, etc.), having six feet, of which three rest on the ground, in whatever position in is placed.
(n.) An old game; (a) The game of tipcat and the implement with which it is played. See Tipcat. (c) A game of ball, called, according to the number of batters, one old cat, two old cat, etc.
(n.) A cat o' nine tails. See below.
(v. t.) To bring to the cathead; as, to cat an anchor. See Anchor.
Example Sentences:
(1) Cantact placing reaction times were measured in cats which were either restrained in a hammock or supported in a conventional way.
(2) The oral nerve endings of the palate, the buccal mucosa and the periodontal ligament of the cat canine were characterized by the presence of a cellular envelope which is the final form of the Henle sheath.
(3) Oral administration in domestic cats causes malignant hepatomas and tumors of the esophagus and kidney.
(4) Midsagittal or parasagittal pontomedullary brainstem incisions were performed in 4 cats.
(5) This unusual insertion could affect the interaction of cat CD4 with class II molecules, or with FIV, a feline homolog of HIV.
(6) We found that, although controlled release delivery of ddC inhibited de novo FeLV-FAIDS replication and delayed onset of viremia when therapy was discontinued (after 3 weeks), an equivalent incidence and level of viremia were established rapidly in both ddC-treated and control cats.
(7) Two lectins, wheat germ agglutinin (WGA) and peanut agglutinin (PNA), were used to compare domains within the interphotoreceptor matrices (IPM) of the cat and monkey, two species where the morphological relationship between the retinal pigment epithelium (RPE) and photoreceptors is distinctly different.
(8) In Group B, at 1, 2, 4, 9 and 12 months post infection two cats were necropsied.
(9) Additionally, cats excreted the taurine conjugate of hydratropic acid.
(10) It is clear that before general release of a new living feline infectious enteritis vaccine, there must be satisfactory evidence that concurrent infection will not affect the safety of the modified antigen.In cats infected with feline infectious enteritis there appears to be a short period, coinciding with the onset of leucopaenia, during which they are highly infectious.
(11) Electron microscopic observations of the masseter nerve in the aged cats revealed a disruption of the myelin sheaths and a pronounced increase in collagen fibers in the endoneurium and perineurium.
(12) The calcium entry blocker nimodipine was administered to cats following resuscitation from 18 min of cardiac arrest to evaluate its effect on neurologic and neuropathologic outcome in a clinically relevant model of complete cerebral ischemia.
(13) A microdissection of the orbital nerves of the cat was made paying particular attention to the accessory ciliary ganglion.
(14) In cat, DARPP-32-immunoreactive cell bodies identified as Müller cells were demonstrated in the inner nuclear layer (INL) with processes closely surrounding the cell soma of photoreceptors in the outer nuclear layer.
(15) Moreover, 8 of 10 cats in the 10% HAES group showed extravasation of red cells.
(16) In the anesthetized cat, the posterior canal nerve (PCN) was stimulated by electric pulses and synaptic responses were recorded intracellularly in the three antagonistic pairs of extraocular motoneurons.
(17) Pharmacokinetics of 3H-dihydrodigoxin and 3H-digoxin after single intravenous and intraduodenal administration in cats are compared.
(18) This documents the inhibitory role which lithium can play in several examples of animal aggressive behavior including pain-elicited aggression, mouse killing in rats, isolation-induced aggression in mice, p-chlorophenylalanine-induced aggression in rats, and hypothalamically induced aggression in cats.
(19) When PCR products in each of the 12 cats were subjected to a second amplification using the same primer pair (two-step amplification: double PCR), FIV proviral DNA was detected in all of the cats.
(20) Staphylococcus aureus was isolated from 9 dogs and 4 cats, and staphylococcus epidermidis from 7 dogs and 5 cats.
Rocket
Definition:
(n.) A cruciferous plant (Eruca sativa) sometimes eaten in Europe as a salad.
(n.) Damewort.
(n.) Rocket larkspur. See below.
(n.) An artificial firework consisting of a cylindrical case of paper or metal filled with a composition of combustible ingredients, as niter, charcoal, and sulphur, and fastened to a guiding stick. The rocket is projected through the air by the force arising from the expansion of the gases liberated by combustion of the composition. Rockets are used as projectiles for various purposes, for signals, and also for pyrotechnic display.
(n.) A blunt lance head used in the joust.
(v. i.) To rise straight up; said of birds; usually in the present participle or as an adjective.
Example Sentences:
(1) It’s the same story over and over.” Children’s author Philip Ardagh , who told the room he once worked as an “unprofessional librarian” in Lewisham, said: “Closing down a library is like filing off the end of a swordfish’s nose: pointless.” 'Speak up before there's nothing left': authors rally for National Libraries Day Read more “Today proves that support for public libraries comes from all walks of life and it’s not rocket science to work out why.
(2) Guy Jobbins, a Cairo-based British water scientist who heads Canada's International Development Research Centre climate change adaptation programme for Africa, says understanding of the issue has rocketed in the past few years.
(3) The group was one of the few in Syria to have received anti-tank rockets and had regularly used them against Syrian armour.
(4) In the same way, using the anti-trimethylamine-N-oxide reductase serum, rocket immunoelectrophoresis analyses were able to show that the inducible apoenzyme is not regulated by the fnr gene product and that molybdate does not seem necessary for the synthesis or stabilisation of this enzyme.
(5) In 13 patients complement C3d was determined by rocket immunoelectrophoresis.
(6) "The Afghan people dared rockets and bombs, but they came out and voted and that's great."
(7) After two bodyguards of British ambassador Dominic Asquith were wounded in a rocket attack on the UK consulate, London closed its mission down.
(8) Within the last half hour Haaretz reported a home in the city was hit by a rocket and that one person is being treated for shock.
(9) A rocket also caused the first serious Israeli casualty – one of eight people hurt when a fuel tanker was hit at a service station in Ashdod, 20 miles north of Gaza.
(10) Barack Obama's policy of engagement with North Korea lies "in tatters" after it was effectively shot down by Pynongyang's defiant but failed attempt to launch a long-range rocket.
(11) We usually started at 5am taking pictures of the Israeli air strikes and rockets launched by Palestinian militants.
(12) After a frantic period around "Black Friday" sales at the end of November, business quietened down but "took off like a rocket" from Boxing Day when Dixons took £100,000 a minute, chief executive Seb James said.
(13) Although missiles belonging to Hamas and other armed Palestinian groups in Gaza do sometimes fall short, there was no visible evidence of debris from broken Palestinian rockets in the school.
(14) They said US forces had found a "daisy chain"– a long bomb rigged up from mortars, rocket-propelled grenades and a motorbike.
(15) Serum volume in the blood dots was determined by calculation of dot area or by measuring albumin content in the eluted samples by means of rocket immunoelectrophoresis.
(16) If the billions that have been thrown at this programme had been invested in providing teachers with decent, evidence-based training which is “on-the-job”, then standards would have sky-rocketed and we would be vying with the best education systems in the world, such as those in Finland and Singapore.
(17) The concentrations of plasma serine protease inhibitors in monocyte culture supernatants were measured by using rocket immunoelectrophoresis.
(18) I can't say exactly what these are or when (they might be rolled out), but we are in a kind of race [with the Palestinian rocket firers] and we always need to update (the system) to increase the probability of a kill."
(19) Israel rejects these efforts as politically motivated, saying it acted in self-defence against Hamas rocket attacks from Gaza.
(20) The two systems tried were rocket immunoelectrophoresis, carried out after reduction of samples with dithiothreitol and using monomeric IgA as standard, and a radioimmunoassay utilising a double antibody precipitation method and polymeric IgA as standard.