(n.) The pupa state of certain insects, esp. of butterflies, from which the perfect insect emerges. See Pupa, and Aurelia (a).
Example Sentences:
(1) Behind her balcony, decorated with a flourishing pothos plant and a monarch butterfly chrysalis tied to a succulent with dental floss, sits the university’s power plant.
(2) With many of London's big radio stations recording both falling audiences and share of the market, Capital has come out on top, trailed by Emap's Magic in second place, with Chrysalis's Heart slipping from first to third place in the space of three months.
(3) When she emerges from the chrysalis as an adult, she emits pheromones to attract a mate, lays her eggs where she is, and dies.
(4) GCap and Chrysalis were bought at the top of the market and advertising revenues subsequently dried up as the economic recession took hold.
(5) The assets he's offering to the indie sector are, apparently, Virgin, Chrysalis UK (excluding its deal with Robbie Williams), Ensign, Mute, Jazzland and Sanctuary.
(6) Grainge was bullish that the enforced asset sale – which will include EMI operations in nine European countries and labels such as Chrysalis, Mute and Sanctuary, home to artists including Spandau Ballet, Depeche Mode and Iron Maiden respectively – will draw premium bids and that Universal will not lose out by offloading them.
(7) Allen, meanwhile, became chairman of newly formed Global Radio, which has since become the UK's largest commercial radio group by buying Chrysalis and GCap Media, and joined the boards of Big Brother producer Endemol and Virgin Media.
(8) The Global boss is the son of Michael Tabor, who amassed a fortune from bookmaking, horsebreeding and property, and helped bankroll the £545m double purchase of GCap Media and Chrysalis Radio that created Global's broadcasting empire.
(9) Sound Digital faces competition from a rival bid, Listen2 Digital, backed by former Chrysalis Radio chief executive Phil Riley’s Midlands radio group Orion Media and engineering services outfit, Babcock International.
(10) Global was set up last year when its management team bought the stations of music and radio company Chrysalis with private equity money.
(11) Global, the home of Classic FM, Capital, Heart and the London talk station LBC, was born out of the £545m double purchase of Chrysalis Radio and GCap Media which was masterminded by the group's youthful founder, Ashley Tabor, the son of the billionaire Michael Tabor.
(12) There is no love lost between Taunton, who came to the UK in 1995 as general manager of the internet service provider DNA Internet, and Tabor, son of the billionaire Michael Tabor, who created the Global Radio empire out of nothing with the £545m double purchase of Chrysalis Radio and GCap Media.
(13) The project is called Butterfly, and the metaphor is immediate: a splendid winged object is soon to emerge from a lumpen chrysalis.
(14) After the first single, 2 Tone made a deal with Chrysalis to become its autonomous subsidiary, rejecting an approach from Mick Jagger and Rolling Stones Records.
(15) The Sunday Times reported that Chris Wright, founder of the music publishing firm Chrysalis, who backed Labour in the 2005 election, said the party risked stoking the politics of envy.
(16) He takes over from the presenter of the past two years, Simon Hirst, the breakfast DJ on Chrysalis' Galaxy station in Yorkshire.
(17) Addictions are not something to trivialise, but the majority of bright young things will emerge from the chrysalis of their teenage years a whole lot wiser, smarter and freer than they were before, with no desire to revisit the era of experimentation.
(18) The commercial network also believes that responsibility for regulating the BBC should be taken away from its board of governors and given to Ofcom - a view backed almost universally in submissions to the media regulator's BBC charter review by rival media organisations including Channel 4, ITN, Chrysalis and the Commercial Radio Companies Association.
(19) However, in some ways the plane is itself the chrysalis.
(20) Meanwhile Phil Riley, the chief executive of Chrysalis Radio, called the poor set of figures for Heart "transitionary" saying the quarter accounted for a move between the "old" Heart and the "new".
Cocoon
Definition:
(n.) An oblong case in which the silkworm lies in its chrysalis state. It is formed of threads of silk spun by the worm just before leaving the larval state. From these the silk of commerce is prepared.
(n.) The case constructed by any insect to contain its larva or pupa.
(n.) The case of silk made by spiders to protect their eggs.
(n.) The egg cases of mucus, etc., made by leeches and other worms.
Example Sentences:
(1) Abdominal cocoon is rare, only 31 cases reported in the literature.
(2) There is effective use of a scuba-like neoprene fabric which is slickly practical and gives a bold, shell-like silhouette to hooded coats and to sweatshirts which seems to reference the balloon and cocoon shapes that Cristobal Balenciaga invented to great acclaim in the 1950s.
(3) The pitch on which Iceland train, favoured in the past by Monaco and Nantes for summer getaways, sits beneath Mont Veyrier and is cocooned a few hundred metres from pristine lakeside beaches and disrobed holidaymakers.
(4) The nonsoluble degradation products formed a cocoon encapsulating the now smaller specimen.
(5) A single preincubational exposure of silkworm eggs to a dose of 2 Gy increases the mass of larvae as well as the cocoon shell weight, silk-bearing and the raw silk production.
(6) For copper and dichloroaniline earthworms did recover cocoon production to a level as high as the control level or even higher; in case of pentachlorophenol, cocoon production was still reduced after 3 weeks in clean soil.
(7) The abnormalities at laparotomy were impressive, with a gross proliferation of the visceral peritoneum which formed a dense white cocoon which encased, constricted and markedly shortened the small bowel, usually from the duodenojejunal flexure to the ileocaecal valve.
(8) After the spinning of the cocoon, the cells are lysed and disappear entirely at the nymphal stage.
(9) The exposed adult females formed cocoons but no larvae hatched from them.
(10) By making a fibrin cocoon, the anastomosis can be insulated.
(11) After years of wearing a facemask and grabbing all the covers to cocoon myself against the light while he reads, we have made two changes that have transformed everything.
(12) The specificity of this antibody to the purified cocoon protein has suggested strong immunoreactivity up to a titre of 1:5000 dilution of the antibody.
(13) After a promising start it appears this press conference has degenerated into its usual cocoon of flaky stuff.
(14) The crystalline material covering the cocoon of Malacosoma neustria testacea (Lasiocampidae, Lepidoptera) was analyzed physically and chemically.
(15) No mature cockroaches from larvae exposed to AG-5, no hatching from cocoons lied by treated adults were observed.
(16) As we left the intimate cocoon of the pub, my bouncy excitement became more of a trudge as, heart in mouth, I babbled and swore, and panicked that I couldn't do it, terrified that stage fright and nerves would overtake me, and that my tentative voice would abandon me altogether.
(17) The analysis of the cocoon showed that it was made of a silica-rich layer containing also calcium and phosphorus.
(18) Acid-base and electrolyte balance do not reach a new equilibrium within 1 yr in the cocoon.
(19) Electrophoretograms of reduced samples of secretion collected from either actively feeding or "cocoon"-building animals showed an electrophoretic pattern containing up to six of the 25 protein fractions detected in salivary gland samples, with varied amounts of these same six proteins in electrophoretograms of secretion samples from a given stage.
(20) You’re really into your own little cocoon, because you have such massive protection that you really can’t go anywhere.