(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".
Nub
Definition:
(v. t.) To push; to nudge; also, to beckon.
(n.) A jag, or snag; a knob; a protuberance; also, the point or gist, as of a story.
Example Sentences:
(1) Out of the latter, NUB congenital defect was in 4, total epispadia in 1, spina bifida in 1 patient.
(2) In the case of S. enteritidis NUB 31, the effect of CPS-K was detectable only when more than 20 mug per mouse was injected.
(3) And that is the nub of the FT report: grim reading for chancellor George Osborne as he puts the finishing touches to his 19 March budget.
(4) The peak CPS-K effect on infection with S. enteritidis NUB 1 was seen when given immediately before bacterial challenge.
(5) Some wore "slave bracelets" made out of boot laces and walked with "Black Power canes", sticks with the nub carved into a clenched fist.
(6) This is the nub of the issue and the foreign secretary's statement seems to mask a much more complex picture.
(7) Four new nuB mutations in the DNA gyrase-binding site between the G and I genes were also sequenced and found to be identical to the nuB103 mutation sequenced previously.
(8) The nub of Zittrain’s concern is that the practice of shaping what stays and what goes from the database is hopelessly individualistic.
(9) The promotion of infection with S. enteritidis NUB 1 by CPS-K depended upon its dose, the effect of CPS-K being demonstrable up to as little as 0.2 mug per mouse.
(10) This is the nub of what I am going to call, because I've always secretly wanted to be a mathematician, the "Birmingham Liberty Paradox".
(11) And I'm hopeful that we're getting closer to the nub of the problem.
(12) The nub of the controversy was his comment that "we wouldn't have had all these problems over all these years" if Mr Thurmond, who ran a campaign to keep blacks out of white schools and neighbourhoods, had won the presidency in 1948.
(13) Both have seen very bleak scenarios depicted by either side in attempts to scare the electorate, for example with the idea that a yes vote will usher in a very authoritarian regime.” In his presentations, Baldini, who will vote yes, tries to go to what he sees as the nub of the issue.
(14) Our failing economy needs stimulating and your nub of grey meat and Mars egg are simply not sufficient.
(15) Why does it matter whether other people believe it or not?” I suspect that gets to the nub of it.
(16) As a result of enumeration of bacterial populations in the peritoneal washing, blood, liver and spleen, it was revealed that CPS-K promoted in vivo growth of S. enteritidis NUB 1 and NUB 31.
(17) The NUB-6 cell line consisted of two distinct cell subtypes, small typical neuroblasts and larger spheroid-forming cells, while NUB-7 was homogeneously neuroblastic.
(18) All the children were operated on: NUB reconstruction according to Davis, bilateral uretero-cystostomy according to Coen.
(19) Two new neuroblastoma (NB) cell lines, NUB-6 and NUB-7, were established from recurrent and primary NB tumours respectively and identified conclusively as NB by their phenotypic characteristics, catecholamine production and N-myc amplification.
(20) Urodynamic studies showed the absence of detrusor-sphincter dyssynergia and confirmed organic nature of NUB lesion.