(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.
Though
Definition:
(conj.) Granting, admitting, or supposing that; notwithstanding that; if.
(adv.) However; nevertheless; notwithstanding; -- used in familiar language, and in the middle or at the end of a sentence.
Example Sentences:
(1) If Charles Spencer, 3rd Duke of Marlborough, who bought the island in 1738, were to return today he would doubtless recognise the scene, though he might be surprised that his small private buildings have grown into a sizable hotel.
(2) Neuroleptics (chlorpromazine, reserpine and haloperidol) had not such an influence, though they somewhat increased the general activity of the animals.
(3) Acceptance of less than ideal donors is ill-advised even though rejection of such donors conflicts with the current shortage of organs.
(4) Even though attempts to generalize the data from childbearing women to women of childbearing age have an inherent conservative bias, the results of our study suggest that 988 women (95% CI 713 to 1336) aged 15 to 44 years in Quebec had HIV infection in 1989.
(5) Since it was established, it has stoked controversy about contemporary art, though in recent years it has been more notable for its lack of sensationalism.
(6) The diagnosis of anaplastic thyroid cancer, though suspected, was deferred for permanent sections in all cases.
(7) The country has no offshore wind farms, though a number of projects are in the research phase to determine their profitability.
(8) In the German Democratic Republic, patients with scleroderma and history of long term silica exposure are recognized as patients with occupational disease even though pneumoconiosis is not clearly demonstrated on X-ray film.
(9) Comparison of developmental series of D. merriami and T. bottae revealed that the decline of the artery in the latter species is preceded by a greater degree of arterial coarctation, or narrowing, as it passes though the developing stapes.
(10) Though the 54-year-old designer made brief returns to the limelight after his fall from grace, designing a one-off collection for Oscar de la Renta last year , his appointment at Margiela marks a more permanent comeback.
(11) It’s as though the nation is in the grip of an hysteria that would make Joseph McCarthy proud.
(12) Their receptive fields comprise a temporally and spatially linear mechanism (center plus antagonistic surround) that responds to relatively low spatial frequency stimuli, and a temporally nonlinear mechanism, coextensive with the linear mechanism, that--though broad in extent--responds best to high spatial-frequency stimuli.
(13) Keep it in the ground campaign Though they draw on completely different archives, leaked documents, and interviews with ex-employees, they reach the same damning conclusion: Exxon knew all that there was to know about climate change decades ago, and instead of alerting the rest of us denied the science and obstructed the politics of global warming.
(14) I hope they fight for the money to make their jobs worth doing, because it's only with the money (a drop in the ocean though it may be) that they'll be able to do anything.
(15) Though three of these presumable metabolites could slightly inhibit the binding of [3H]-KW-3049, they were not detected in rat and dog plasma at 0.5 h after oral administration of KW-3049.
(16) Plasmids containing the inverted repeat alone bound ER, though less efficiently than did plasmids containing the entire sequence.
(17) At first it looked as though the winger might have shown too much of the ball to the defence, yet he managed to gain a crucial last touch to nudge it past Phil Jones and into the path of Jerome, who slipped Chris Smalling’s attempt at a covering tackle and held off Michael Carrick’s challenge to place a shot past an exposed De Gea.
(18) The durable power of attorney concept, though not free of problems, appears more likely to be of practical utility.
(19) Tap the relevant details into Google, though, and the real names soon appear before your eyes: the boss in question, stern and yet oddly quixotic, is Phyllis Westberg of Harold Ober Associates.
(20) Even though there are variations among equipment bearing the same model number it was considered worthwhile to make available relative cavitational and temperature data.