(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.
Vulture
Definition:
(n.) Any one of numerous species of rapacious birds belonging to Vultur, Cathartes, Catharista, and various other genera of the family Vulturidae.
Example Sentences:
(1) The exact number of lawsuits involving vulture funds operating in offshore tax havens is unclear, as many of these funds are highly secretive of their holdings.
(2) Domestic cats, 11 other species of carnivorous mammals, 6 species of snakes, and white-backed vultures were tested for their possible role as definitive hosts of Benoitia besnoiti by feeding with cystic material from chronically infected bovines.
(3) Margaret Lyons of the Vulture blog summed up the US response to MacFarlane's turn when she wrote: It's frustrating enough to know that 77% of Academy voters are male.
(4) A senior Gulf diplomat said: “They are inviting the vultures to the banquet table.
(5) Facebook or Google's YouTube are not the culture industries so much as the vulture industries, taking an information surcharge from us while we amuse each other, and selling us to advertisers.
(6) We saw no one apart from some old men in a hut who offered us water, unless vultures, choughs and the odd goat count.
(7) People are rare here, outnumbered by the eagles, vultures and cabra (goats).
(8) Some signs breathed – there were cats in baskets, rats and parrots in cages, vultures tethered to wine shacks, and so on, often with bells around their necks.
(9) The vultures, led by a US billionaire, are mainly hedge fund investors who snapped up Argentinian bonds at rock-bottom prices following the country's $95bn default on its foreign debt in 2001.
(10) The debate was interrupted after 20 minutes when about 30 student demonstrators walked into the hall and began to barrack Hunt, chanting "Minister of culture, Tory vulture" and "Tory scum".
(11) The World Bank estimates that more than one-third of the countries which have qualified for Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) debt relief have been targeted by vulture funds.
(12) UK legislation on vulture funds has already had an impact, when Liberia last year reached agreement to repay just over 3% of the face value of a $43m debt.
(13) The International Monetary Fund and the World Bank said many countries had been pursued by vulture funds, including Cameroon, Ethiopia, Sudan, Uganda, and the DRC.
(14) The sequences are compared with those of the Golden Eagle, and with those of the Andean Condor, a New World vulture.
(15) "To those who say we should negotiate with the vultures, I say the vultures are vultures because they don't negotiate," economy minister Axel Kicillof said defiantly.
(16) When it comes to greenlighting a film, the ‘comp’ is king – that is, the comparison to other, similar films, which studios use for box office projections and determining a budget,” says Kyle Buchanan, senior editor at Vulture.
(17) They buy up the debts of countries in chaos and war, speculating on the fact that when investors finally come back into the country – often encouraged by generous debt writedown schemes and International Monetary Fund programmes – the vultures will get their money back with huge interest on top, benefiting from the fledgling trade and new liquidity.
(18) Last year, the boutique Los Angeles fashion label Wildfox dedicated its entire Spring collection to a recreation of Cher, Dionne and Tai’s unmistakable wardrobes, while Vulture tracked down the bulk of the film’s cast (plus Rollin’ With My Homies hitmaker Coolio) for an oral history of the iconic ‘party in the Valley’ scene .
(19) Instead of a temporal fovea as in eagles and hawks, an afoveate temporal area is present in chimango, condor, and vulture.
(20) Cho revealed, in an interview with the website Vulture , that a kiss was originally part of the scene, but was ultimately removed.