(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.
Nugget
Definition:
(n.) A lump; a mass, esp. a native lump of a precious metal; as, a nugget of gold.
Example Sentences:
(1) Gallinari will miss the entire 2013-14 Nuggets season, unlike most Nuggets fans who, at its end, probably won't miss it all.
(2) Playing with what one imagines to be a huge chip on his shoulder, Aldridge put up a career-high 44 points, and the Trail Blazers beat the Nuggets 110-105 .
(3) 'Park' and 'Nugget' Kentucky bluegrass turfs were grown in controlled environment chambers and inoculated with Klebsiella pneumoniae (W-2, W-6, and W-14), Erwinia herbicola (W-8), and Enterobacter cloacae (W-11).
(4) Andersen, who has a 'mohawk' hairstyle and a past which includes a drugs ban, joined the Miami Heat after leaving the Nuggets.
(5) Last year, when Andersen was playing for the Denver Nuggets , the Colorado Sheriff's Office Internet Crimes Against Children team seized property from Andersen's home, leading to widespread speculation.
(6) We'll be here until then and beyond, sharing every rumour nugget, insightful news line and weighty analysis we can muster.
(7) You may lose a life in a game when you make a mistake, but good games brilliantly balance the inconvenience of this with the provision of power-ups and health packs – little nuggets of grace in the learning system.
(8) Among those might be the Denver Nuggets, who had to play the Trail Blazers a few hours after the NBA All-Star announcements.
(9) This was no abstract essay, but a speech written in concrete, packed with what the wonks call "crunchy" nuggets of policy.
(10) There is one family group sharing a tray of chicken nuggets - a Thai mother and father with a fat little boy bursting from a designer leather jacket, but the other patrons are all alone, disconnected, eating their fast food with silent efficiency.
(11) Why doesn't it just flood out when it is turned into a takeaway or a ready meal or a chicken nugget?
(12) The story was swiftly denied, but many observers felt there might be a nugget of truth in it, underlining how febrile the mood had become.
(13) Grampian, supplier of fresh chicken and nuggets to all the main British supermarkets, has just closed down a factory in Scotland and ended its contract with some of its British farmers, while buying two huge factories outside Bangkok.
(14) The survey is good fun, discarding old chestnuts such as washing-up and dusting in favour of fresher nuggets such as: who organises playdates?
(15) Pools of ticks, Ixodes (Ceratixodes) uriae collected between 1975 and 1979 at Macquarie Island, yielded 33 strains of at least 4 different viruses: Nugget virus (Kemerovo group), 1 strain; Taggert virus (Sakhalin group) 9 strains; a previously undescribed flavivirus, related to Central European Tickborne encephalitis virus, for which the name "Gadgets Gully" is proposed, 9 strains; a virus serologically related to the Uukuniemi serogroup, family Bunyaviridae, for which the name "Precarious Point" is proposed, 10 strains.
(16) And as long as that audience is there to be fought for, then, yes, Jonathan Ross will be paid gold nuggets per second.
(17) McDonald’s posted relatively healthy returns in the third quarter, egged on by the continued popularity of its all-day breakfast and new chicken nuggets without added preservatives.
(18) The Miami Heat didn't see their streak end in a blowout loss, which is more than the Denver Nuggets can say after their comparably modest 15-game win streak ended in a blowout loss to New Orleans.
(19) Denver's Wilson Chandler scored 17 points, Nate Robinson added 16, and Kenneth Faried had a key block and transition dunk with 33 seconds left to lift the Nuggets past the Washington Wizards 75-74.
(20) Served in school dining halls, fast-food outlets, at hospital bedsides, and on the tables of harassed parents, nuggets have become ubiquitous.