(n.) The male of birds, particularly of gallinaceous or domestic fowls.
(n.) A vane in the shape of a cock; a weathercock.
(n.) A chief man; a leader or master.
(n.) The crow of a cock, esp. the first crow in the morning; cockcrow.
(n.) A faucet or valve.
(n.) The style of gnomon of a dial.
(n.) The indicator of a balance.
(n.) The bridge piece which affords a bearing for the pivot of a balance in a clock or watch.
(v. t.) To set erect; to turn up.
(v. t.) To shape, as a hat, by turning up the brim.
(v. t.) To set on one side in a pert or jaunty manner.
(v. t.) To turn (the eye) obliquely and partially close its lid, as an expression of derision or insinuation.
(v. i.) To strut; to swagger; to look big, pert, or menacing.
(n.) The act of cocking; also, the turn so given; as, a cock of the eyes; to give a hat a saucy cock.
(n.) The notch of an arrow or crossbow.
(n.) The hammer in the lock of a firearm.
(v. t.) To draw the hammer of (a firearm) fully back and set it for firing.
(v. i.) To draw back the hammer of a firearm, and set it for firing.
(n.) A small concial pile of hay.
(v. t.) To put into cocks or heaps, as hay.
(n.) A small boat.
(n.) A corruption or disguise of the word God, used in oaths.
Example Sentences:
(1) A comparative study was performed for isoelectric and electrophoretic spectra blood serum albumin of parental breeds of chickens and their heterosis hybrids --broiler cocks.
(2) Lastly, I'll offer just one example of cock-eyed methodology.
(3) The Peppers like to be jerks (at Dingwalls Swan dedicated a song to “all you whiney Britishers who can suck my American cock”), but don’t let the surface attitude fool you.
(4) A small membranous sheet of the perivitelline layer (PL) isolated from freshly ovulated ova was incubated with cock spermatozoa, and morphological changes of PL and percentage of spermatozoa lacking acrosomes were observed during incubation.
(5) The fibrinolytic response of mature and immature cocks was comparable to that of the immature hens.
(6) All of which is knocked into a cocked one by the achievements of Martin O'Neill's Celtic.
(7) "Sorry to leave it in such a mess, old cock", was the parting shot from the Conservative chancellor.
(8) This temperature probably represents the thermoneutral temperature (TNT) of the cock.
(9) This year though, the annual fest of tit tape, weepy self-congratulation and sheer star power will be remembered for more than a frock faux pas: there was a serious cock-up .
(10) In heterospermic tests, cocks with distinguishable offspring were paired and semen was mixed within pairs.
(11) Obama doesn't have much to say, and neither does Mitt Romney but after that Libya cock-up his brain is mush and he starts going on about two parent families – what?
(12) "We desperately need donors… These people have lost so much, but they still could lose more," said Jane Cocking of Oxfam.
(13) When the acquisition was announced, Google spokespeople were cock-a-hoop, and with good reason: the guys who founded DeepMind are among the best in a very competitive field.
(14) In a cock-up of Olympic proportions, the iCloud password was reset by Farook’s employers (the owners of the phone) with the explicit consent of the FBI.
(15) He often seems mysteriously amused, cocking an eyebrow and pulling a coy, wouldn’t-you-like-to-know smirk, but he likes to laugh out loud, too.
(16) Thyroidectomy and thyroxine supplements in thyroidectomized birds failed to influence plasma corticosterone and, apart from cock, transcortine levels.
(17) Heparin has been found to stimulate or suppress the priming activity of a protein antigen (cock muscle phosphorylase-b) in mice depending on the various parameters (the dose of antigen, timing of administration, etc.).
(18) The differences were seen during the late cocking and acceleration phases, which place the greatest stress on the medial collateral ligament.
(19) The present work aims to find a biochemical criterion for evaluating the evolution of sperm according to age through the study of the ATPase activity from the spermatozoa and the acid phosphatase from the seminal plasma of cocks from three different breeds.
(20) In Experiment 2, five pens of 30 Arbor Acres and 3 cocks each were assigned to feeding times of 0830, 1130, 1430, and 1730 h. Eggs were collected hourly from 0700 to 1600 for Days 6 through 10 of a 10-day treatment period.
Stopcock
Definition:
(n.) A bib, faucet, or short pipe, fitted with a turning stopper or plug for permitting or restraining the flow of a liquid or gas; a cock or valve for checking or regulating the flow of water, gas, etc., through or from a pipe, etc.
(n.) The turning plug, stopper, or spigot of a faucet.
Example Sentences:
(1) Using a conventional mixture of two units of packed red cells, two units of fresh frozen plasma and 500 ml crystalloid, a single line and a driving pressure of 300 mmHg, the highest flow in our study was 970 ml.min-1 (2.8 mm catheter, no stopcock).
(2) A three-way stopcock with double syringe allows concomitant administration of atropine to counteract the cholinergic side effects of edrophonium.
(3) Stopcocks with larger inner diameters may improve drainage over that achievable with the stopcocks that are currently available.
(4) The use of a three-way stopcock and connecting tube between catheter and syringe is suggested.
(5) Finally it is emphasized that careful handling of the catheters and avoidance of stopcocks and air bubbles are essential for obtaining accurate and reproducible values.
(6) With the prototype stopcock, drainage of water alone was reduced by 0-9% for the catheters of different sizes.
(7) The standard stopcock decreased drainage efficiency for these catheters by 13-42%.
(8) If the stopcock in the boy's toilet begins to stick, ring Michael Gove.
(9) Two outbreaks of pseudobacteraemia occurred related to the arterial line stopcock and to heparin used for biochemistry tests.
(10) Hematocrit and blood gases were measured after withdrawing 0, 2, 4, 6, 8, and 10 ml of flush-blood solutions before sampling from a 20-ga radial artery catheter and 7-ft pressure tubing and stopcock.
(11) Patients were randomized to receive fentanyl initially by an epidural (group A, n = 8) or IV (group B, n = 8) catheter for 6 h, after which they were crossed-over to the alternate route by means of a hidden three-way stopcock.
(12) We found that use of the novel sampling system resulted in significantly fewer episodes of internal bacterial contamination of the arterial monitoring line (7%) than did the use of a stopcock system (61%).
(13) A closed system device with teflon needle, sideholes, and attached stopcock was designed and evaluated for diagnosis and evacuation of neonatal pneumothoraces.
(14) The results showed that both sample volume and discarded volume required smaller amount with a T-connecter than with a three-way stopcock to obtain more accurate measurements.
(15) The safety and efficacy of high-pressure injection through a stopcock was tested using a disposable flow switch model.
(16) A double stopcock technique is described for sampling blood from umbilical catheters.
(17) Superior thyroid artery cannulation during carotid endarterectomy and coupling the cannula to a three-way stopcock with an anaeroid manometer allows the surgical team in the operating field to monitor mean pressures and to draw blood samples for gas analysis from the common, the internal, or the external carotid artery.
(18) Fluid or air may be removed from the chest intermittently with a three-way stopcock attached to the thoracostomy tube and a 60-ml syringe.
(19) A sample containing the dwell volume of the catheter and the stopcock (1 ml) was withdrawn and discarded, followed by fifteen 1 ml samples being taken for analysis.
(20) The electromyograms of the rectus abdominis (EMGra) and of the diaphragm (EMGdi) have been recorded on human subjects immersed at two bath temperatures (TW), 25 and 40 degrees C. The recordings were obtained during a calibrated isometric contraction sustained for 20 s against a closed stopcock at functional residual capacity (FRC) level for EMGra (expiratory effort) and at pulmonary volume greater than 90% vital capacity for EMGdi and EMGra (inspiratory effort).