(n.) A valuable breed of mountain sheep in Scotland, which takes its name from the Cheviot hills.
(n.) A woolen fabric, for men's clothing.
Example Sentences:
(1) Five groups of four, housed Cheviot ewes (mean live-weight 50 kg) were given single doses of 0, 2.5, 5, 10 or 20 g cupric oxide particles in gelatin capsules while receiving a diet of marginal copper content based on pelleted oats.
(2) Total body energy retention (ER) and metabolizable energy intake (MEI) values from experiments with 231 lambs (Suffolk male x (Border Leicester male x Cheviot female) female) housed indoors and given thirteen forage diets were used to estimate the metabolizable energy (ME) required for maintenance.
(3) In a study to learn more about the pathogenicity of transmissible mink encephalopathy virus for the natural hosts of scrapie, 20 Cheviot sheep and 19 dairy goats were inoculated intracerebrally with the Idaho strain of the virus.
(4) Lambing records were only available for 1972 and 1973 for Sourhope ewes and gimmers of all breeds and showed the following: (see article) This meant that in terms of attention and vigilance, a high shepherding input was necessary with the South Country Cheviot flock.
(5) However, recrudescences of infection were observed 14 and 28 days after treatment in the Soay and Cheviot sheep respectively.
(6) Inclusion bodies were also seen in the neocortex of hamsters infected with the 263K strain of scrapie agent and a Cheviot sheep infected with the ME7 strain of agent.
(7) Cheviot wethers were defaunated by using dioctyl sodium sulfosuccinate and were constantly infused with urea to provide 2.87% of the daily N intake.
(8) No glomerulonephritis occurred in three Cheviot lambs reared by Finnish Landrace foster mothers whose own naturally reared lambs died of the disease.
(9) Newly-born Finnish Landrace and Cheviot lambs were cross-fostered to determine the role of colostrum in the development of mesangiocapillary glomerulonephritis of the Finnish Landrace breed.
(10) I was required to read John McGrath's drama about Highland history, The Cheviot, The Stag and the Black Black Oil.
(11) This fragment is linked to susceptibility to experimental scrapie in a closed flock of Cheviot sheep.
(12) Side-effects associated with treatment were registered in the Cheviot sheep but not in the Soay sheep.
(13) Using these polymorphisms it is now possible to assign a Sip genotype to the sheep in the Cheviot flock.
(14) One of six siblings of affected lambs, all reared by Cheviot foster mothers, developed a milder focal form of the disease.
(15) Val 112 appears to be linked to a short incubation period of experimentally induced scrapie in the Cheviot sheep and therefore with the Sip sA allele.
(16) The major protein (PrP) of scrapie-associated fibrils is encoded by a cellular gene and a cDNA copy of the hamster PrP mRNA has been used to analyse the restriction fragment length polymorphism of the two lines of Cheviot sheep.
(17) Twelve percent of cases were found to be homozygous for a 4.4 kb EcoRI fragment (e3) which in the Cheviot flock had been linked to relative resistance to scrapie.
(18) Merino, Scottish Blackface, Cheviot, Southdown, Border Leicester, Finnish Landrace and Finnish Landrace x Dorset Horn lambs were removed from their mothers before sucking and bottle-fed with measured amounts of colostrum, either from individual ewes, or from pools of colostrum, some of which had been frozen for up to two years.
(19) In the present study similar fibrils were seen in all the brain extracts prepared from 11 Cheviot or Suffolk sheep with natural or experimental scrapie that had been diagnosed clinically and confirmed neuropathologically.
(20) The outbreak appeared to have no effect on the weaning percentage and blackface and Cheviot ewes were equally susceptible.
Fabric
Definition:
(n.) The structure of anything; the manner in which the parts of a thing are united; workmanship; texture; make; as cloth of a beautiful fabric.
(n.) That which is fabricated
(n.) Framework; structure; edifice; building.
(n.) Cloth of any kind that is woven or knit from fibers, either vegetable or animal; manufactured cloth; as, silks or other fabrics.
(n.) The act of constructing; construction.
(n.) Any system or structure consisting of connected parts; as, the fabric of the universe.
(v. t.) To frame; to build; to construct.
Example Sentences:
(1) Both condemn the treatment of Ibrahim, whose supposed offence appears to have shifted over time, from fabricating a defamatory story to entering a home without permission to misleading an interviewee for an article that was never published.
(2) Gastric reservoir reduction, wrapping the stomach with an inert fabric, is one such procedure.
(3) It put on the agenda the need to upgrade the existing urban fabric, and to use the derelict and brownfield sites in our cities before encroaching on the countryside.
(4) In mitigation, Gareth Jones, defending, said: "The first comment [he] wrote was in relation to Fabrice Muamba.
(5) But most instances are more mundane: the majority of fraud cases in recent years have emerged from scientists either falsifying images – deliberately mislabelling scans and micrographs – or fabricating or altering their recorded data.
(6) Provisional restorations were fabricated for the prepared teeth using conventional direct techniques, and the intrapulpal temperature rise was recorded.
(7) Problems associated with cloth wear and the unexpectedly slow rate, in man, of tissue ingrowth into the fabric of the Braunwald-Cutter aortic valve prosthesis have been discouraging, although this prosthesis has been associated with a very low thromboembolic rate in patients receiving anticoagulant therapy.
(8) The only thing Michael Fabricant could reasonably be vice-chairman of is the steering committee of Nurse Ratched 's ward fete.
(9) Designing and fabricating the metallic framework for a fixed partial denture requires planning and an understanding of what is desired in the final form.
(10) Dissociated culture of adult mouse dorsal root ganglion cells on glass plates, on which grating-associated microstructures (a repetition of microgrooves [mGRV] and microsteps [mSTP] of 0.1-10 micron) are fabricated by the conventional lithographic techniques, represents a remarkable bi-directional growth of their nerve fibers in the axial direction of the grating.
(11) A prospective study of six cases fabricated from CT computer-generated models of challenging cranial defects appears to show significant improvements in plate design, resulting in better plate adaptation, stability and aesthetic contour.
(12) The fabric protection factors (FPF) of 5 metal meshes, to simulate the weave pattern and yarn dimensions of typical fabrics, and 6 textiles with variable construction (woven and knitted), fibre type and dye were determined using a spectrophotometric assay and human skin testing.
(13) In addition, there are basic differences in the PNI formation on aldehyde-treated pericardium and natural aortic valves as compared to the Dacron fabric.
(14) It claims that reports of civilians being killed by security forces are fabrications cooked up by activists and the international media, while the official news agency talks constantly about "armed criminal groups" trying to destabilise the country.
(15) Lt Gen Khan told the Washington Post that the documents were "a fabrication".
(16) The forehead flap covers fabricated composite flaps of intravasal lining and primary cartilage grafts that create the subsurface architecture of the external nose.
(17) A technique for fabricating dies without using a die saw has been described.
(18) There is effective use of a scuba-like neoprene fabric which is slickly practical and gives a bold, shell-like silhouette to hooded coats and to sweatshirts which seems to reference the balloon and cocoon shapes that Cristobal Balenciaga invented to great acclaim in the 1950s.
(19) The second technique is the fabrication of a cast post and core restoration that fits an abutment root as well as the existing crown of a four-unit fixed restoration.
(20) Computer-designed and fabricated inlays and onlays are now an available treatment modality, with a reported 3-years follow-up looking very promising.