(n.) Frivolous or nonsensical talk; prattle; chattering.
Example Sentences:
(1) I think the president-elect has been clear on this.” Ana Quintana, a policy analyst at the Heritage Foundation who advocates a tougher policy towards the Cuban government, said: “All the indications are that he will roll back many of the executive actions – if we look at the appointments to his transition team, like Claver-Carone, who is a very vocal advocate against the opening, and rightfully so.” “Trump’s business sense and business acumen will overwhelmingly draw him to roll back on the opening,” Quintana added, saying that some other foreign companies who have started doing business in Cuba recently have had their assets confiscated.
(2) However, conservative Cuban Americans – including Mauricio Claver-Carone, a hardline member of Trump’s transition team – have said the regime run by Raúl Castro, Fidel’s brother, is just as repressive, and argue that some or all of the sanctions should be reinstated.
(3) "Really it is not choosing English for its own sake," said Claver Yisa, the director of policy planning at the education ministry.
Clover
Definition:
(n.) A plant of different species of the genus Trifolium; as the common red clover, T. pratense, the white, T. repens, and the hare's foot, T. arvense.
Example Sentences:
(1) The clover constituents chiefly incriminated for these effects are glycosides of the isoflavone derivatives genistein and its 4'-methyl ether biochanin-A, daidzein and its 4'-methyl ether formononetin, and pratensein; coumestrol and its 3'- and 4'-methyl ethers account for the estrogenic activity of alfalfa.
(2) The highest level of contamination with fungi was observed in the concentrate feed mixture followed by clover hay and rice straw.
(3) These natural matrix materials included samples of milk (containing 2 different levels of radioactivity), soil, air filters and clover.
(4) The presented results proof in tendency that oilseed-rape (00-rape seed), wheat, and barley as green plants can contribute in clostridial toxicosis in hares, whereas grass and beets are involved only partially, and clover is practically completely atoxigenic.
(5) We conclude that the structure of the acidic EPS does not control host-specific nodulation of white clover, hairy vetch, and beans for the strains of R. leguminosarum tested here.
(6) Together with biochemical and genetic data, these clones have been used to characterize the Li locus which controls linamarase activity in white clover.
(7) Southern blot analysis of Hind III digested genomic DNA shows that the white clover genome contains three genes with homology to the linamarase cDNA and that at least two of these genes segregate independently.
(8) This clover was chopped, dried, and formulated at 45% into an otherwise purified diet and fed to six guinea pigs for 90 days.
(9) Studies with monovalent antigen-binding fragments of anti-clover root antibody and Azotobacter vinelandii hybrid transformants carrying the unique antigenic determinant suggest that these polysaccharides bind R. trifolii to the clover root hair tips which contain trifoliin.
(10) Alfalfa, red clover, orchardgrass and timothy were harvested in the vegetative stage, wilted and stored as hay, or ensiled in small batch silos (20 kg) at 60, 40 or 20% (direct cut) dry matter and were analyzed for compositional differences.
(11) RNA-dependent RNA polymerase activities were detected in purified particles of white clover cryptic viruses 1 and 2.
(12) Anomalous nodulation of Trifolium subterraneum (subterranean clover) roots by Rhizobium leguminosarum 1020 was examined as a model of modified host-specificity in a Rhizobium-legume symbiosis.
(13) The agglutinins from these legumes were recognized by antibodies raised against the agglutinins of alfalfa and sweet clover.
(14) The soil reaction (pH) was not noteworthy affected by application of clover or grass residues.
(15) Comparative analysis of various copies of these repeated sequences, from R. trifolii (the clover symbiont) and R. meliloti (the alfalfa symbiont), reveals the presence of domains of intra- and interspecific conservation within the promoter regions.
(16) The frequency of piperacillin inactivation according to the clover-leaf test was significantly higher among the strains with synergism than among all the others (p less than 0.02).
(17) Charles Clover of the Financial Times , who tried to protect her, was pushed, thrown to the floor and kicked, and Channel 4 correspondent Jonathan Miller was punched.
(18) ), 2) tall fescue-red clover (Trifolium pratense L.), or 3) tall fescue-alfalfa (Medicago sativa L.) or were barn-fed, 4) tall fescue hay, 5) orchardgrass (Dactylis glomerata L.)-alfalfa hay, or 6) tall fescue silage from late October to early April during each of 5 yr.
(19) Clover's personal portable inhaler is described and illustrated.
(20) The complete nucleotide sequence of red clover necrotic mosaic virus (RCNMV) RNA-1 has been determined.