(n.) A hollow place in the earth, either natural or artificial; a subterraneous cavity; a cavern; a den.
(n.) Any hollow place, or part; a cavity.
(n.) To make hollow; to scoop out.
(v. i.) To dwell in a cave.
(v. i.) To fall in or down; as, the sand bank caved. Hence (Slang), to retreat from a position; to give way; to yield in a disputed matter.
Example Sentences:
(1) Evidence is presented in support of the hypothesis that fresh bat guano serves as a means of pathogenic fungi dissemination in caves.
(2) Biogastrone treatment influences the pain in a higher per cent as compared with Caved-S and oxyferroscorbon (p greater then 0.05), whereas regards the rest of the clinical symptoms -- no statistically significant difference was established.
(3) The prerequisite for all champions is the refusal to cave in, so City's equaliser with only three minutes remaining was pleasing.
(4) It is the Altamira cave, not the Altimira cave as we had it.
(5) But 30 minutes before takeoff on our private jet – like a top-end Lexus limo with wings – actress Rosamund Pike has heroically stepped in for the year's hot meal ticket: an El Bulli supper, pitch perfect for a selection of rare champagne, devised by Adrià with Richard Geoffroy, Dom Pérignon's effervescent chef de cave.
(6) On Thursday, conservative analyst Ross Douthat wrote: “A party whose leading factions often seemed incapable of budging from 1980s-era dogma suddenly caved completely.” On Friday, former top Barack Obama strategist David Axelrod tweeted : “The Day After: seems as if @GOP establishment is measuring @realDonaldTrump as a moldable vessel.
(7) Cave added that her organisation was engaged in a freedom of information battle with Cabinet Office minister Mark Harper, who is overseeing the coalition's plans to introduce a lobbying register.
(8) Using Koufonissi as a base, there are daily excursions by caique and ferry to nearby islands, including Iraklia, where walkers can follow a pilgrims' trail across the high lands to spectacular St John's Cave, carved into a limestone cliff.
(9) The Cave is a mining scene complete with treasure chest, giant spider, zombie and a “Steve” minifigure.
(10) So it will have been a wrench for Jez, and his embattled entourage, to have to “cave in”, as the Guardian’s report put it, and suspend the MP from the party after David Cameron (who really should leave the rough stuff to the rough end of the trade) had taunted him at PMQs for not acting sooner when the Guido Fawkes blog republished her ugly comments and the Mail on Sunday got out its trumpet.
(11) But in recent years, directors have sought out the likes of Radiohead's Jonny Greenwood ( There Will Be Blood ), the Chemical Brothers ( Hanna ) and Nick Cave ( The Assassination of Jesse James By the Coward Robert Ford ).
(12) And the confirmation that Greece won't get its bailout tranche unless its debt development is deemed sustainable means that Brussels has caved into IMF demands.
(13) In Pilgrim's Progress, Christian's path passes a cave in which two giants once dwelled.
(14) Many of the bodies are mummified, most of them were not interred, but deposited in caves.
(15) In the 20 years he was away, Malick moved to Paris and travelled the world, exploring caves in Nepal and the Alps as well as studying ancient civilisations and visiting Greece.
(16) Given that I'm trying to actually do some work while this whole thing is going on I'm not sure how successful I'll be before I cave in and *cough* go down the pub.
(17) The final band, at gone 4am, was Eigg's own metal band called, naturally, Massacre Cave.
(18) Only 11 cases of paratrigeminal epidermoid, including the cases localized in the Meckel's cave have been reported in the past literatures (Table 1).
(19) You see a cave with a hole.” She recovered thanks to god’s grace and good treatment at the government Hastings hospital, she said, but to her great sadness, her nine-year-old son, Clifford, will not come near her for fear.
(20) She and her friends recalled that this land was occupied by “cave-houses” – homes built from holes in the rock – in the 1950s.
Troglodyte
Definition:
(n.) One of any savage race that dwells in caves, instead of constructing dwellings; a cave dweller. Most of the primitive races of man were troglodytes.
(n.) An anthropoid ape, as the chimpanzee.
(n.) The wren.
Example Sentences:
(1) The polymorphic epitope recognized by 7.3.19.1 is not only present on human cells but is also expressed on chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes) class II-positive cells.
(2) The general ridge alignments are very similar to those of the chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes); Biegert ('61).
(3) The analysis of the karyotype of pygmee Chimpanzee (Pan paniscus), and its comparison with the one of Pan troglodytes shows some differences on chromosomes 2q, 7, 13, and 22.
(4) This study demonstrates a useful methodology for judging the personality of chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes schweinfurthi).
(5) For the first time in Czechoslovakia, two strains of Yucaipa paramyxovirus were isolated, both of them from Troglodytes troglodytes.
(6) Sixty-one chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) from various sources and backgrounds have been resocialized in a cage setting and integrated into social unit groupings.
(7) A brightly coloured train rattles across their path and stops abruptly and, after an affectionate hug, the two creatures climb aboard, carefully fasten their seatbelts and are bounced away to a rendezvous with their friends (a lavishly hatted family of peg dolls called the Pontipines; Makka Pakka, a squat, fuzzy troglodyte with OCD, and the Tombliboos, a triumvirate of pastel-coloured pepper pot creatures who live inside a topiary bush).
(8) A qualitative study is presented of chromosomal rearrangements induced by gamma-irradiation at 2 Gy and 3 Gy in peripheral blood lymphocytes of the chimpanzee Pan troglodytes.
(9) The group-specific component (Gc) was examined in a sample of 78 chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes).
(10) Ten independant cellular hybrids were obtained from Chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes) fibroblasts and the murine cell line C11D.
(11) Young chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) will accept ethanol in quantities sufficient to produce symptoms of withdrawal when ethanol is subsequently discontinued.
(12) Exoerythrocytic stage parasites of Plasmodium malariae were obtained in vitro by inoculating primary cultures of hepatocytes from a chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes) and a monkey (Aotus lemurinus griseimembra) with sporozoites.
(13) The lateral meniscus is disc-shaped, with a central foramen, in Catarrhinii (Old World monkeys), in Hylobates, in Gorilla and in Pan Troglodytes.
(14) Here, two sunbeams in the troglodytic gloom, they drink Starbucks, fire off emails, write books, and generally plan the next stage of the revolution.
(15) Comparison of the sequences of those gamma chains from Homo sapiens, Pan troglodytes, Macaca nemestrina and P. cynocephalus that have been well characterized attests to the conservative nature of gamma-chain evolution among the Anthropoidea, the differences in sequence between any two of these chains ranging from none (between the A gamma and G gamma chains of P. troglodytes and H. sapiens) to no more than five (between the V gamma chains of P. cynocephalus and the A gamma chains of H. sapiens).
(16) The chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes) has been widely studied as a model for the epidemiological forms referred to as "blood-transmitted" and "coagulation-factor-transmitted" non-A, non-B hepatitis.
(17) The comparative sample consists of 42 Homo sapiens, 27 Pan troglodytes, 29 Gorilla gorilla and 29 Pongo pygmaeus.
(18) In this article results are reported from 3 warning stimulus-priming experiments that assessed hemisphere-specific activation and lateralization in 2 language-trained chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes).
(19) Mild, transient proteinuria and azotemia were produced in three cynomolgus monkeys (Macaca fascicularis) and a chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes) following intravenous inoculation with Prospect Hill virus, a hantavirus isolated from meadow voles in the United States.
(20) Measurements of frontal sinus volumes were determined for Gorilla gorilla gorilla; G. gorilla beringei and Pan troglodytes.