(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.
Stencil
Definition:
(n.) A thin plate of metal, leather, or other material, used in painting, marking, etc. The pattern is cut out of the plate, which is then laid flat on the surface to be marked, and the color brushed over it. Called also stencil plate.
(v. t.) To mark, paint, or color in figures with stencils; to form or print by means of a stencil.
Example Sentences:
(1) His stencils, skewed perspective and wit are recognizable enough to be mocked in the New Yorker .
(2) Qassem is one of a small band of graffiti artists in the Afghan capital who, encouraged by a group of western "art activists", are set on bringing tagging, wall-painting and graphic stencils to public spaces across the city.
(3) Kaltenbach's step test (individually by stencils defined normal ranges of the heart rate during a 6 minute submaximal exercise and a 6 minute recovery period; age and sex dependent work load relative to body surface area) is able to mimic everyday efforts in an easy and reliable way.
(4) Stencilling – If you want to get started with spray cans, precut stencils are pretty easy to get your hands on and you can make some really nice things by overlapping the same patterns with different colours.
(5) It was facing closure earlier this year and needed £120,000 to survive – until the Banksy stencil arrived next to the club's gates.
(6) The envelope contains a small red card with the number 23 stencilled in black and a handwritten invitation to deliver a talk of my choosing at the semi-annual convention to take place in mid-January in Berlin.
(7) Leopard and Barcode, one of the artist’s celebrated early stencil works, had been situated on the side of a house on Pembroke Road, Bristol.
(8) "He's sort of like Batman," Matt Adams, a Williamsburg resident, said as he photographed the Japanese-themed stencil.
(9) Leopard and Barcode, one of the artist’s celebrated early stencil works, had been situated on the side of a house on Pembroke Road, Bristol .
(10) A piece of engine cowling featuring a Rolls-Royce stencil, which was found in South Africa earlier this year , is “almost certainly” from the Boeing 777 that went missing more than two years ago with 239 people on board, the Australian Transport Safety Bureau said on Thursday.
(11) Retrospective evaluation of the nomogram showed that it can separate normal labour from labour destined to result in an abnormal outcome, such as longer first and second stages, a greater incidence of instrumental delivery, and babies with low Apgar scores.It is suggested that the use of a stencil representing normal labour progress, together with Philpott's partogram, will be of considerable use, both in specialist and in general-practitioner units.
(12) Glenn Ligon – Call and Response Often using words as image, Ligon’s stencilled paintings, neons and films detail the experience of black America.
(13) Two years later, when “The Four” were invited to contribute to the London Arts and Crafts Exhibition, he sent a rather heavily proportioned settle, with stencilled patterns and beaten metal panels, made by Margaret Macdonald.
(14) That’s me,” he said of the stencilled outline shown in one of the clips.
(15) "It's quite easy to be a bad stencil artist, but it takes a lot of work to get the images he gets."
(16) Dj Lu’s pineapple hand-grenade stencil is one of the most famous and prominent symbols on the streets of Bogotá - a comment, he says, on the way land is used in Colombia , where soil that was once for crops is now full of landmines.
(17) Instead, the site showed images of only one painting, a stencil of a man and a woman standing in a doorway and appearing to embrace, but in fact looking over each other's shoulders to read their smartphones, which illuminate their faces.
(18) I am very optimistic about the future of an independent UK.” In front of Jackson’s stencil is David Burns, a wheelchair user from Dorset, who describes himself as “a self-unemployed artist”.
(19) The artist's work, even when removed from outdoor locations, can command huge sums: in February a painting of two policemen kissing that had originally been stencilled onto a pub wall in Brighton was sold at a Miami auction for $575,000.
(20) But their identities can be gleaned by cross-checking photos submitted online against silhouette stencils applied by Perry to the pots shown in clips he has released.