(n.) A large and valuable fish of the Mackerel family, of the genus Scomberomorus. Two species are found in the West Indies and less commonly on the Atlantic coast of the United States, -- the common cero (Scomberomorus caballa), called also kingfish, and spotted, or king, cero (S. regalis).
Example Sentences:
(1) In three patients a mechanically well-fixed Mathys Ceros 80 (Ha) hydroxyapatite-coated acetabular component was revised 2, 5 and 13 months after total hip replacement due to component malposition.
(2) 1,2-Di-(5Z,9Z)-5,9-hexacosadienoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosph oethanolamine was found in both organisms, while 1,2-di(5Z,9Z,19Z)-5,9,19-hexacosatrienoyl-sn-gly cero-3-phosphoethanolamine was present in M. prolifera, 1,2-Di-(4Z,7Z,10Z,13Z,16Z,19Z)-4,7,1 0,13,16,19-docosahexaenoyl-sn-glycero-3- phosphocholine was the major molecular species in the PC fraction of M. prolifera.
(3) The overall mortality was 5.8% for the group studied and cero for the control group (p greater than 0.05) and was shown to be more related with prematurity than with the latent period of PRM.
(4) The Valencia reporter for Onda Cero radio called it a “lack of respect”, while in AS it was described sarcastically as “English humour”.
(5) Successive governments responded with "cero tolerancia" and "mano dura" (hard hand), which means sending soldiers and police on raids into the slums, shooting gang members who "resisted arrest" and jailing others for long stretches.
(6) Beta-Tricalcium phosphate granulates (Ceros 82) implanted in femurs of the rat led to osteoconduction already one week after implantation.
(7) Before that second confrontation Matallanas spoke to Onda Cero radio and related the conversation, saying: “I have no idea why.
(8) "In principle, it looks like not all of (the €100bn) will be used," De Guindos told Onda Cero radio.
(9) They always do: as Santiago Segurola put it on Onda Cero radio on Wednesday night: “If there’s an ‘author’s team’ in Spain now, it is probably Celta”, built according to their manager Eduardo Berizzo’s belief in a particular way of playing and his players’ willingness to put that into practice.
(10) He told the Spanish radio station Onda Cero: “I’m still not at that moment, I want all this [in Brazil] to end as soon as possible, go on holiday, disconnect a little and then decide things with time.
(11) The hysteresis decrease with the number of stress cycles and approaches asymptotically to cero.
(12) Incluso la alimentación de los bebés recién nacidos en la ciudad puede tener cierta influencia: en 2012, sólo el 9% de los bebés de cero a seis meses fueron alimentados exclusivamente con leche materna en la Ciudad de México, en comparación con 14% de los bebés en el resto del país.
(13) Grudge match Mexico are the perennial regional rivals – USA fans like to chant " Dos a cero " after a string of recent scorelines.
(14) The PP’s Esteban González Pons told Onda Cero radio on Friday: “In Brussels, everybody is clear that debt forgiveness is not possible, that Greece’s debts cannot be forgiven and that they’ll have to live up to their obligations in some way or another.” This article was amended on 31 January 2015 to correct the number of buses expected to bring Podemos supporters to Madrid.
(15) "We hope this [pressure] stops and that people realise there's an election here and that the party that wins has the right to a minimum margin," the PP leader told Onda Cero radio in remarks reported by the Associated Press.
Hero
Definition:
(n.) An illustrious man, supposed to be exalted, after death, to a place among the gods; a demigod, as Hercules.
(n.) A man of distinguished valor or enterprise in danger, or fortitude in suffering; a prominent or central personage in any remarkable action or event; hence, a great or illustrious person.
(n.) The principal personage in a poem, story, and the like, or the person who has the principal share in the transactions related; as Achilles in the Iliad, Ulysses in the Odyssey, and Aeneas in the Aeneid.
Example Sentences:
(1) Mendl's candy colours contrast sharply with the gothic garb of our hero's enemies and the greys of the prison uniforms – as well as scenes showing the hotel later, in the 1960s, its opulence lost beneath a drab communist refurb.
(2) They'd started so well, too, winger Oreste Corbatta putting Argentina ahead after three minutes in the 1958 groups, but the 1954 hero Helmut Rahn scored twice in an eventual 3-1 win for West Germany.
(3) One of her heroes, one of her mentors was Saul Alinsky,” he said, referring to the radical community organiser whose book, Rules for Radicals, he claimed contains an acknowledgement of Lucifer.
(4) Maggie and Joe Forber win the 2013 Unsung Hero (es) of the Year award.
(5) In the wake of the horrors of the second world war it was the proudest gift to a land fit for heroes, delivered at a time when the national debt made our current crisis look like an embarrassing bar tab.
(6) "With the full backing of British Gymnastics, the trainers who helped take Smith and Tweddle to Olympic glory are ready to turn the nation's pop stars, actors, newsreaders and chefs into heroes of the high bars and titans of the tumble track," it added.
(7) The former Massachusetts governor, like many Republicans, expected the Trump campaign to implode last summer, after he insulted Mexicans and said Arizona senator and 2008 Republican nominee John McCain was not a “war hero” because “I like people who weren’t captured.” This year, days after Trump did not immediately disavow an expression of support from David Duke, a former Ku Klux Klan grand wizard, Romney said one of his sons was driving him to an airport when he asked: “When the grandkids ask ‘What did you do to stop Donald Trump ?’ what are you going to say?’” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Romney launches extensive attack on Trump: ‘A genius he is not’ That, Romney said, was the final push.
(8) Dickens's last completed novel, Our Mutual Friend , has a mysterious hero, John Rokesmith, who turns out to be someone different from the person we were told he was.
(9) At the end of World War II, when another generation of heroes returned home from combat, they built the strongest economy and middle class the world has ever known.
(10) Kafka's faceless and amoral heroes, on the other hand, inspire no sympathy at all.
(11) Thank God the heroes of SWAT-team prevented the worst.
(12) From campaigner to prisoner to President to global hero, Nelson Mandela will always be remembered for his dignity, integrity and his values of equality and justice.
(13) Northampton toiled manfully to seek a way back into the tie with Holmes, two-goal hero from the first match, making a number of threatening runs.
(14) So President Mujica may be thinking: "why not take the risk and embrace the possibility of becoming the first marijuana hero and the man who thwarted drug dealers?"
(15) André Villas-Boas Villas-Boas was only 33 when he won the Europa League with Porto Gianluca Vialli Sven-Göran Eriksson Pep Guardiola You got… Perfection You hero You star You've done very well there You've done well there You've done OK there Sorry to break it to you but that's a bad score Come on.
(16) "I saw Hutton in his prime; another time, another time," as his couplet about his cricketing hero, Sir Leonard Hutton, has it.
(17) What he liked best was to talk to the cricket pro, Bert Wensley, formerly of Sussex, about such heroes as Maurice Tate, Duleepsinhji and HT Bartlett, and to encourage Bert to enlarge on his reasons for describing Sir Home Gordon, Bart, the overlord of Sussex cricket, as a "shit" - the first time we heard that word.
(18) Seeing the performance later in Edinburgh, I was impressed by Briers' ability to encompass the hero's rage and madness.
(19) Reagan's youthful hero was FDR – another optimist, albeit a far steelier one – who turned the federal government into the agent of recovery from the Great Depression and of victory in World War II.
(20) "The FA decision-makers can become the heroes that protected the national game.