(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".
Metamorphism
Definition:
(n.) The state or quality of being metamorphic; the process by which the material of rock masses has been more or less recrystallized by heat, pressure, etc., as in the change of sedimentary limestone to marble.
Example Sentences:
(1) Quantitative and morphological data were obtained on developing olfactory axons in the African clawed frog, Xenopus laevis, during late premetamorphosis (stages 48-54), prometamorphosis (stages 55-57), and halfway through metamorphic climax (stages 58-62).
(2) (1) Control tadpoles did not undergo metamorphic change at any of the temperatures tested.
(3) There was a clear asynchrony in innervation, with projections to some terminal zones appearing before projections to others; projections to all terminal zones were present by late metamorphic stages.
(4) The general nerve terminal morphology and pattern of accumulation of acetylcholine receptors at cutaneous pectoris neuromuscular junctions were similar to those of the adult throughout metamorphic climax except that they still contained more than one motor axon.
(5) In contrast, tadpoles allowed to survive up to 6 months showed no loss of motoneurons if they did not enter metamorphic climax.
(6) The association becomes looser at the metamorphic stage and, occasionally, small breaks in the basement membrane are seen.
(7) Large adult animals have statoconia larger than those in early post-metamorphic animals which have just started producing multiple stones.
(8) The possible significance of decline in serum T4 levels to the metamorphic event in lamprey is discussed.
(9) The characteristics of the nuclear T3 receptors present in red blood cells (RBCs) of Rana catesbeiana tadpoles undergoing metamorphic climax have been investigated with a T3 saturation technique.
(10) The inhibition of unusually high endogenous corticosteroid levels in metamorphic larvae with metyrapone restores suppressor function.
(11) The retinotectal connexions of double nasal (NN), double temporal (TT) and double ventral (VV) eyes in juvenile Xenopus were mapped after post-metamorphic removal of the rostral, caudal, medial or lateral tectal halves with the subsequent cutting of the optic nerve of the operated eye.
(12) However, unlike the crossed fibers of the pre-metamorphic dermis, there is no preferred orientation to the fibers in either layer of the post-metamorphic dermis.
(13) Using selected cDNAs, RNA dot blot analysis of liver mRNA from tadpoles at different stages of metamorphosis showed that the level of one thyroid hormone-enhanced mRNA increased during late prometamorphosis and metamorphic climax.
(14) This also permitted the authors to note the absence of any myelofibrosis or metamorphic neo-osteogenesis.
(15) Coal dust of the IV stage of metamorphism was found to have more marked fibrogenic properties.
(16) The post-hatching development can be divided into four phases: planktonic, metamorphic, juvenile, and adult.
(17) They manifested themselves in disorders of the mitotic regimen and intercellular interactions, in atypical proliferations and primary glandular metamorphism of regenerating cells.
(18) Thyroids were taken from subjects representing metamorphic stages I (premetamorphic larvae), II (onset of climax), and VII (completion of gill resorption), as well as from captivity control larvae.
(19) (2) When tadpoles were kept in thyroxine solutions at 5 degrees, there were no changes in developmental morphology, and tadpoles kept at 18 and 20 degrees showed significant metamorphic changes in 5 to 6 days, but there was a high mortality at the higher T4 concentrations.
(20) The result is that four factors metamorphic rock, zinc, copper, chromium are suspected factors.