(n.) A bird of the Crow family (Fregilus graculus) of Europe. It is of a black color, with a long, slender, curved bill and red legs; -- also called chauk, chauk-daw, chocard, Cornish chough, red-legged crow. The name is also applied to several allied birds, as the Alpine chough.
Example Sentences:
(1) In June, coastal birds such as choughs, kittiwakes and razorbills bred late and reared few young.
(2) We saw no one apart from some old men in a hut who offered us water, unless vultures, choughs and the odd goat count.
(3) Beethoven incorporated snatches of the cuckoo, quail and nightingale in his Pastoral Symphony , while the 20th-centure French composer Oliver Messiaen went even further , using the sounds of species such as the golden oriole, woodlark, and even the harsh cries of the alpine chough in his musical works.
(4) A System of Counting Crows Named after "not-actual" creators System of a Down and Counting Crows' Adam Duritz , this rollback of capitalism is based on the numeration of birds in the crow family – including rooks, choughs and nutcrackers.
(5) Other rare birds, from chough to stone curlew to cirl bunting , have done better than ever this year, because farmers collaborated with wildlife charities from the RSPB to the National Trust.
Hough
Definition:
(n.) The joint in the hind limb of quadrupeds between the leg and shank, or tibia and tarsus, and corresponding to the ankle in man.
(n.) A piece cut by butchers, esp. in pork, from either the front or hind leg, just above the foot.
(n.) The popliteal space; the ham.
(n.) Same as Hock, a joint.
(v. t.) Same as Hock, to hamstring.
(n.) An adz; a hoe.
(v. t.) To cut with a hoe.
Example Sentences:
(1) As the 100-day mark approached, Hough said: “I think the support remains.” “The economy improved elsewhere,” she said.
(2) Newborns were studied at district hospital, Chinsurah, in Houghly district (West Bengal) from September 1977-August 1978.
(3) There have since been several workshops offered by Xomed and Dr. Hough, who developed the device, to train otolaryngologists how to implant this device.
(4) Professor Mike Hough, who was in the team that started the Home Office's then British crime survey in the early 1980s, says the fact that both the key yardsticks – the official crime survey and the police statistics – point in the same direction suggests there has been a "real and welcome fall" in crime.
(5) The literature thus far is limited to the experience of Hough and others involved with his initial trials.
(6) Camra's pubs director, Julian Hough, said the pub's success was hard earned against some tough competition: "The Swan with Two Necks really is the best of the best, having beaten rival pubs at every step, in a process which starts at a local level and takes a full 12 months to complete.
(7) A subtle curved line due to pneumothorax is then detected by means of the Hough transform.
(8) Perry Boys Abroad, by Ian Hough, has been released by Pennant Publishing
(9) If he can’t produce, then he’ll be as bad as Hillary.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Melissa Hough, president of the board of trustees of the Slate Belt Heritage Center in Bangor, Pennsylvania.
(10) The algorithm is based on the Hough transformation and can determine the parameters describing an ellipse even in low signal-to-noise ratio images and when the contour is only partially visualized such as in non-perfused regions of the left ventricular myocardium.
(11) A) There are 2 types of bone conduction implant: the "Audiant Bone Conduction" system of Hough-Vernon (Xomed), where an outside electromagnetic coil sends signals transcutaneously to a magnetic screw embedded on the temporal bone.
(12) Case study Julia Hough, a 39-year-old emergency services call handler in Dorset, was diagnosed with endometriosis in 2002.
(13) EGK Red carpet host Ryan Seacrest and actor Julianne Hough arrive at the Golden Globes with matching bouffants.
(14) In this paper we present you our clinical experience of 2 cases in which we implanted the Audiant Bone Conductor (by J. Hough).
(15) We report a case of an adrenal lipoma, a very rare lesion first described in 1899 and of which a total of six cases have previously been reported (Lange 1966, Page, De Lellis & Hough 1986).
(16) This group was tentatively assigned to His 14 on the basis of the results on X-ray crystallographic and chemical modification studies [Hough et al.
(17) PopCap Games , whose highly entertaining and child-friendly game Plants vs Zombies was nominated for a Bafta last year, feature "player profiles" on their website, including "Barbara Simpson, 36 – Connecticut mom plays Bejeweled Blitz with a baby on her lap" and "Ann Hough, 48 – Mother, daughter bond over Plants vs Zombies".
(18) EGK Actress Julianne Hough arrives at the Golden Globes.
(19) The stenotic change was detected on the basis of the reference diameter estimated by Hough transformation.
(20) Four of 33 tumors were classified as benign according to the Weiss, van Slooten, or Hough systems (tumor tissue was unavailable for seven patients).