(n.) A singular or odd person; -- a familiar, humorous, or depreciatory appellation.
Example Sentences:
(1) Ironic that an experimental music veteran with 20 years behind him should be leading a fresh charge into the 90s, setting up the framework for Autechre, Aphex Twin and the whole intelligent dance music (IDM) scene, but the rise of sampling, rave and techno was the realisation of a music that codgers like Kirk had only been able to dream of decades earlier, prior to the arrival of the technology.
(2) Photograph: John Whale At Christmas my son gave me a large box labelled "The Old Codgers Glastonbury Survival Kit".
(3) Two backbenchers – one an old codger on the way down, the other a newcomer on the way up – are called upon to propose the ‘Humble Address’ when the Commons reconvenes.
(4) "The NHS is not for sale, you grey-haired manky codger!"
(5) At the same time, a repeat of BBC1 old codgers drama New Tricks won the slot, pulling in 4.8 million viewers, a 21% share, enough to beat ITV1's The Bill, which had 4 million and 18%.
(6) Judith McGrath Sutton Coldfield, West Midlands • We old codgers are not complacent of youth (Owen Jones, Opinion , 4 February), merely slightly surprised that its radical aspirations are merely to have a slice of the middle-class lifestyle we enjoy and wish to preserve.
Conger
Definition:
(n.) The conger eel; -- called also congeree.
Example Sentences:
(1) An activity UTP : D-glucose-1-phosphate uridylyltransferase is located in the microsomal membranes of conger liver.
(2) The theoretical model employed was an adaptation of Conger's Ecological-Systems approach which was based on the principles of Bronfenbrenner's theory of human development.
(3) Newmark, Conger, and Faschingbauer (1976) found a significant difference between mean ratings of MMPI and FAM (Faschingbauer's Abbreviated MMPI) based interpretations.
(4) When the present results are compared to those of Newmark, Conger and Faschinbauer (1976) and earlier work by Fashcinbauer (1973), it appears that the FAM yields interpretation as accurate as one would expect given its psychometric dissimilarity from the MMPI.
(5) This microsomal enzyme could be the last of a membranous biosynthetic pathway for UDP-glucose, as conger liver microsomes contain also a membranous glucokinase and a membranous phosphoglucomutase.
(6) A galactose-binding lectin was purified from the skin mucus of the conger eel Conger myriaster by affinity chromatography and HPLC.
(7) Congresox talabonoides, the yellow conger pike eel, caught near Hong Kong, shows a high incidence of abnormal vertebrae and dorsal fin rays.
(8) A conger was obtained which was heterozygous for the variant allele at the muscle-glucosephosphate isomerase locus.
(9) Serotonin-like immunoreactivity was found in the club cells of Heteropneustes fossilis and Carapus acus but not in those from the sea eel Conger conger.
(10) The production of amines may indicate that the Merkel cells of C. conger have both secretory capabilities and transduction functions.
(11) The skin mucus of the conger eel, Conger myriaster, contains galactose-specific agglutinins.
(12) A comparison of the variant conger muscle isozyme with the wild type revealed a single altered peptide, suggesting a point mutation.
(13) Quantitative receptor autoradiographic study of 125I-atrial natriuretic peptide factor (ANF) in the heart of a teleost fish Conger conger has shown that a heterogenous distribution of 125I-ANF binding exists in the different cardiac regions.
(14) The isozymes were isolated from catfish liver and muscle and from conger muscle and shown to be homogeneous by polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis, isoelectric focusing, analytical ultracentrifugation, and rechromatography.
(15) Leukocyte and kidney cell cultures were used to examine the sex chromosomes of Japanese freshwater eels (Anguilla japonica) and conger eels (Astroconger myriaster).
(16) The amino-acid sequence of a beta-galactoside-binding lectin isolated from the skin mucus of the conger eel Conger myriaster was determined.
(17) Immunocytochemical techniques were used to investigate the distribution and co-localization of neuron-specific enolase (NSE) and serotonin (5-HT) in the skin of the conger eel, Conger conger.