(v. i.) To make a noise resembling that of a hen when she calls her chickens; to cluck.
(v. i.) To chuckle; to laugh.
(v. t.) To call, as a hen her chickens.
(n.) The chuck or call of a hen.
(n.) A sudden, small noise.
(n.) A word of endearment; -- corrupted from chick.
(v. t.) To strike gently; to give a gentle blow to.
(v. t.) To toss or throw smartly out of the hand; to pitch.
(v. t.) To place in a chuck, or hold by means of a chuck, as in turning; to bore or turn (a hole) in a revolving piece held in a chuck.
(n.) A slight blow or pat under the chin.
(n.) A short throw; a toss.
(n.) A contrivance or machine fixed to the mandrel of a lathe, for holding a tool or the material to be operated upon.
(n.) A small pebble; -- called also chuckstone and chuckiestone.
(n.) A game played with chucks, in which one or more are tossed up and caught; jackstones.
(n.) A piece of the backbone of an animal, from between the neck and the collar bone, with the adjoining parts, cut for cooking; as, a chuck steak; a chuck roast.
Example Sentences:
(1) The committee is chaired by John Thompson, the board's lead independent director, and includes Microsoft founder and chairman, Bill Gates, as well as other board members Chuck Noski and Steve Luczo.
(2) Iowa senator Chuck Grassley, the Republican who chairs the Senate judiciary committee, introduced legislation on Tuesday that would crack down on jurisdictions that provide safe harbor for undocumented migrants by withholding some federal funding for state and local entities if they decline to cooperate with the government on the holding or transferring of undocumented migrants with criminal records.
(3) Seven more were charged in the US and four more, including the former Concacaf general secretary Chuck Blazer, pleaded guilty.
(4) Secretary of state John Kerry and defense secretary Chuck Hagel are still expected to meet their Russian counterparts for a series of discussions over other matters at the State Department on Friday.
(5) Who hasn’t moved house and chucked a load of old stuff just because they can’t face ramming it back into the Ikea chest of drawers?
(6) On Friday the defence secretary, Chuck Hagel, defended Shinseki, but added: “We know things went wrong.
(7) Should I man up, chuck out the Union flags and get back to grumbling about the Games?
(8) It also includes vice president Joe Biden, secretary of state John Kerry, the defence secretary, Chuck Hagel, and several of the most senior Obama advisors, lawyers and staff.
(9) In his book Fight the Power , Chuck rails against everything from Hollywood to the sports industry for portraying blacks as 'watermelon stealin', chicken eatin', knee knockin', eye poppin' lazy, crazy, dancin', submissive, Toms.
(10) He hadn’t known, and he’d chucked her the moment he found out.
(11) You should do what Chuck Grassley does,” he said.
(12) On stage, Chuck gave his speech about the weapons of mass distraction and praised 'all my brothers and sisters from the Caribbean', though it's hard to see who in the audience he was referring to.
(13) Two nurses ready a yellow and black machine that looks like a drill press with an oversized button where the chuck would be.
(14) Chuck in an n, chuck in a p. Spastic was another one, the c-word was a no-no.
(15) "So we are restricting them from breastfeeding there, while in society breastfeeding mothers are still getting chucked out of cafes and out of libraries.
(16) "I think the American people are not interested in Benghazi," said Senator Chuck Schumer.
(17) If people don't like what national politicians do, they can chuck them out at the next election.
(18) In her talks, Mother Agnes claims to be part of the "liberal opposition to Assad”, said Chuck Kauffman, national co-ordinator of the Alliance For Global Justice, which hosted Mother Agnes’ talk and workshop at its annual Tear Down The Walls gathering in Tucson in November.
(19) The other pollutants chucked out by diesel meant that, on balance, the tax regime should be pushing people towards petrol.
(20) It’s in these barren parts that the Edwards air force base is located, where Chuck Yeager broke the sound barrier for the first time, and where the test pilots celebrated in Tom Wolfe’s The Right Stuff proved their mettle before going on to become America’s first astronauts.
Hen
Definition:
(n.) The female of the domestic fowl; also, the female of grouse, pheasants, or any kind of birds; as, the heath hen; the gray hen.
Example Sentences:
(1) Whether hen's egg yolk can be used as a sperm motility stimulant in the treatment of such conditions as asthenospermia and oligospermia is subjected for further study.
(2) Studies were conducted to evaluate the effects of acute (24 h) thermal stress on anterior pituitary function in hens.
(3) Lead levels in contents and shells of eggs laid by hens dosed with all-lead shot were about twice those in eggs laid by hens dosed with lead-iron shot.
(4) Unlike most birds of prey, which are territorial and fight each other over nesting and hunting grounds, the hen harrier nests close to other harriers.
(5) In Experiment 1 (summer), hens regained body weight more rapidly, returned to production faster, and had larger egg weights (Weeks 1 to 4) when fed the 16 or 13% CP molt diets than when fed the 10% CP molt diet.
(6) Studies have been made on the activity of glycosidases from eye tissues of developing chick embryos and adult hens.
(7) The results suggest that a cytoplasmic progesterone receptor is present in the pituitary and hypothalamic tissue, as well as in the oviduct magnum, of the hen.
(8) Each diet was fed to five or six individually caged hens for 42 days.
(9) Mortality was less in the N-XL as compared to DB, but NB hens showed 11.7% more mortality than dwarfs.
(10) Raw Target RSM was force fed to 12 hens which were killed after varying time intervals (15 min., 30 min., 60 min.)
(11) A reduction in tibial breaking strength was also found in caged hens, when compared to deep-litter hens.
(12) To investigate the physical state of water in hydrating biological macro-molecules, the dielectric properties of water in hen egg lysozyme pellets with various moisture contents were studied using the thermally stimulated depolarisation currents technique.
(13) The TOCP-treated hens developed clinical signs of neuropathy.
(14) Posterior pituitary extract (0.01-0.5 equivalent) from hens in each of the various stages of the reproductive cycle induced a concentration dependent PRL release.
(15) Is he not going to talk to them for four or eight years?” Henning said.
(16) Data were obtained on hen-day egg production, egg weight, egg mass, egg specific gravity, Haugh units, feed consumption, and feed efficiency.
(17) Hens of the same breed and age reared together on deep litter showed no differences in nest site selection and nesting behaviour regardless of whether they had previously been housed in a deep litter house or in cages.
(18) Though Henning lived in Eccles, Salford, he had many friends in Bolton.
(19) The present study determined the amount and types of glycosaminoglycans and collagen concentrations in follicles of the domestic hen.
(20) Brown layer hens (BC and HC strains) and white layer hens (WL strain) orally infected with the H-162 strain of the egg-drop syndrome 1976 virus developed few clinical signs except for abnormal egg production.