(n.) A young bird or fowl, esp. a young barnyard fowl.
(n.) A young person; a child; esp. a young woman; a maiden.
Example Sentences:
(1) No one has jobs,” said Annie, 45, who runs a street stall selling fried chicken and rice in the Matongi neighbourhood.
(2) Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall tried to liven things up, but there are only so many ways to tell us to be nice to chickens.
(3) The bursa of Fabricius, thymus glands and spleen of chickens were also shown to express mRNA coding for ANP.
(4) The effect of modifying the periodate-susceptible methionine residues in chicken ovotransferrin was small but significant.
(5) When commercial chickens are infected in most sensitive one-day age, the virus titre does not exceed the value of 10(12) particles per 1 ml of plasma.
(6) The reaction of cis-diamminedichloroplatinum(II) with chicken erythrocyte nuclei produces covalent cross-linking of HMG proteins 1, 2 and E to DNA, in addition to cross-links amongst LMG proteins.
(7) Specific antisera prepared in rabbits or in foot-pad-inoculated chickens were adequate for culture typing.
(8) Thymus and spleen cells from such hypogammaglobulinaemic chickens were extracted with non-ionic detergents, acid urea, or combinations of urea and detergent, and the extracts were analysed for Ig by the inhibition assay.
(9) The LSCC-H32 cells were demonstrated to be as susceptible for most of the tested viruses as were secondary chicken embryo cells.
(10) These results indicate that chicken AK1 expressed in E. coli catalyzed the synthesis and accumulation of TTP within the bacterial cells.
(11) The deduced amino acid sequences of the inserts of these two clones show considerable homology with each other, the sequence of chicken skin beta-galactoside-binding lectin, and eight peptides derived from purified human lung lectin of Mr approximately 14,000.
(12) Significant cross-reactivity was observed between corresponding rabbit and chicken light chains, confirming other indications of homology between these proteins in the two species.
(13) Acute isovolemic anemia was produced in anesthetized chickens by serial exchanges of 6% dextran 70 equal to 1% of body weight to quantitate cardiovascular and metabolic parameters.
(14) Specific antibodies against G streptococcal binding proteins prepared in chickens inhibited binding of 125I-Hp to group G and group A streptococci, but not to Actinomyces pyogenes.
(15) A facility for keeping chickens free of Marek's disease (MD) was obtained by adopting a system of filtered air under positive pressure (FAPP) for ventilation, and by imposing restrictions on entrance of articles, materials and personnel.
(16) The size of KM of neuraminidase is similar in all chicken influenza virus strains their antigenic formula is suggested [A(GP6-H3N2)].
(17) Laminin is a constituent of the basement membrane in both chicken and quail blastoderms.
(18) In one series of trials, spleen cells from strains of chickens with differing levels of susceptibility to MD tumors were stimulated with graded doses of Concanavalin A (Con A) or phytohemagglutin (PHA).
(19) These data indicate that ochratoxin A by itself does not cause hemorrhagic anemia syndrome of chickens and that an anemia caused by a nutritional deficiency can be elicited by a mycotoxin.
(20) The virus neutralizing (VN) titers were occasionally lower where the polyvalent vaccines were used when compared to those from chickens given the monovalent vaccines.
Chuckle
Definition:
(v. t.) To call, as a hen her chickens; to cluck.
(v. t.) To fondle; to cocker.
(n.) A short, suppressed laugh; the expression of satisfaction, exultation, or derision.
(v. i.) To laugh in a suppressed or broken manner, as expressing inward satisfaction, exultation, or derision.
Example Sentences:
(1) "Tell Harold Bloom, I've had much posher recommendations," she says, chuckling.
(2) Half-time Half-time analysis: It's like an end-of-season game in Italy," chuckles James Richardson, as he brings me my coffee ... because he knows his place.
(3) Then you’ll have two boats with the same name, and two with no name.” He chuckles.
(4) "I remember when I heard last year that Yorkshire was bidding to host the Tour and I must admit I chuckled.
(5) It is easy to point to lines that have a fortuitous topicality: knowing chuckles now greet George's admission that "There's a sense in which I even quite like a war", and later suggestion that, if Labour can't beat the Tories, the best solution is to join them.
(6) "This is where the gap between my theoretical desire and practical politics comes in," he chuckles.
(7) Today he can afford to chuckle, in a financial sense as well as an emotional one.
(8) Mumford gives a small chuckle, and concedes I might have a point.
(9) The biggest problem is there aren’t any people,” he said with a chuckle.
(10) I'd have to say a lion because he's bigger [little chuckle].
(11) Royles also had to endure more or less the entire committee laughing at him openly when he boasted about consultants' high levels of job satisfaction, something the chuckling Mps surmised might be caused by their stellar pay.
(12) Whetstone wrote: “ Given the tone of some of your publications, that made quite a few people chuckle ” and followed the comment with a gif of a baby laughing.
(13) She chuckled about that at a dinner last week with Arthur Sulzberger – the Times's publisher, who gave her the editor's job.
(14) One summer day in 1994, my best friend Steve – a gentle, jovial guy with the most disarming chuckle – called and asked me to meet him for lunch.
(15) In the flesh, though, he's more Bruce Forsyth than Bruce Willis: sweet-eyed, gleaming-teethed, with a keen ear for innuendo and a frankly mucky chuckle.
(16) Then he chuckles into the phone from his office in New York, where he now works.
(17) OK, well, first of all, Owen’s a very ambitious man,” adding with a dry chuckle, “He’s very evidently taken the opportunity that’s been presented.” That said, he would “absolutely not” call Owen “Blairite-lite”, and says crossly, “I think it’s a stupid phrase to use.
(18) [Chuckling] No, we didn't have some barbaric practices in the NBA.
(19) Sandwiched between the adverts, the programmes were comprised of laugh track chuckles and a life lesson for the kids, one per episode.
(20) Elsewhere, the corpses are swapped for tragedy and the Muttley chuckles turn to whimpers.