(n.) The American quail or bobwhite. The name is also applied to other related species. See Bobwhite.
Example Sentences:
(1) The judge, Mr Justice John Royce, told George she was "cold" and "calculating", as further disturbing details of her relationship with the co-accused, Colin Blanchard and Angela Allen, emerged.
(2) Colin Ellis, European economist at Daiwa Securities SMBC, said: "Today's PMI data will only fan the glimmers of hope that have started to appear in recent weeks.
(3) A former senior CIA official said the secretary of state at the time, Colin Powell, eventually was informed about the program and sat in meetings in which harsh interrogation techniques were discussed.
(4) Adam Boulton, Colin Brazier and Gillian Joseph will report from around central London, as will the Skycopter.
(5) Colin Wiles is an independent housing consultant Interested in housing?
(6) It’s vital the Commission tackles Europe’s transport emissions, which will be the largest source of emissions by 2030,” said Colin Roche, a campaigner for the group.
(7) • Crone and the former NoW editor Colin Myler "misled the committee by answering questions falsely about their knowledge of evidence that other News of the World employees had been involved in phone-hacking and other wrongdoing".
(8) AP Magic in the Moonlight Colin Firth in Magic in the Moonlight Woody Allen remains a hero at Cannes, an arena largely untroubled by accusation and counter-accusation surrounding his private life.
(9) (Auchterarder, Perth and Kinross) Dr Colin Deas Campbell.
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(11) The 58-year-old takes over as Brendan Rodgers’s No2 from Colin Pascoe, who was sacked last month following a robust end-of-season review.
(12) Dr Colin Bannon Plymouth • As a signatory to the Action on Sugar campaign , the British Dental Association supports a tax on sugar to curb childhood obesity, and we would add, tooth decay.
(13) The original said “Colin Kaepernick can protest racism”; it now says “Colin Kaepernick can protest against racism.
(14) Colin Couchman said: "Our expectation is that things will start to cool off a bit."
(15) Colin James Sutherland, reader in parasitology, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM), London, UK Colin moved to LSHTM to take a post-doctoral research post on malaria in 1998.
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(17) A coronial inquest into the death in custody of a 22-year-old Yamitji woman in a South Hedland police cell will begin in two months time, the Western Australian premier, Colin Barnett, told her family this week.
(18) Colin Kaepernick and San Francisco 49ers safety Eric Reid kneeled during the national anthem on Thursday night, continuing the quarterback’s preseason protest against American racial injustice and minority oppression.
(19) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Detective Constable Colin Saysell talks at the graffiti sessions at London’s South Bank Centre.
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Quail
Definition:
(v. i.) To die; to perish; hence, to wither; to fade.
(v. i.) To become quelled; to become cast down; to sink under trial or apprehension of danger; to lose the spirit and power of resistance; to lose heart; to give way; to shrink; to cower.
(v. t.) To cause to fail in spirit or power; to quell; to crush; to subdue.
(v. i.) To curdle; to coagulate, as milk.
(n.) Any gallinaceous bird belonging to Coturnix and several allied genera of the Old World, especially the common European quail (C. communis), the rain quail (C. Coromandelica) of India, the stubble quail (C. pectoralis), and the Australian swamp quail (Synoicus australis).
(n.) Any one of several American partridges belonging to Colinus, Callipepla, and allied genera, especially the bobwhite (called Virginia quail, and Maryland quail), and the California quail (Calipepla Californica).
(n.) Any one of numerous species of Turnix and allied genera, native of the Old World, as the Australian painted quail (Turnix varius). See Turnix.
(n.) A prostitute; -- so called because the quail was thought to be a very amorous bird.
Example Sentences:
(1) Small pieces of anterior and posterior quail wing-bud mesoderm (HH stages 21-23) were placed in in vitro culture for up to 3 days.
(2) The in vivo approach consisted of interspecies grafting between quail and chick embryos.
(3) The findings support our earlier suggestion that the kinetics of spermatogenesis in the quail are fundamentally similar to the pattern which has been described for mammals.
(4) Laminin is a constituent of the basement membrane in both chicken and quail blastoderms.
(5) Bidrin treatment of quail embryos results in axial anomalies as well as malformations of the beak and the limbs.
(6) Sporozoites were inoculated into the allantoic cavity of 7-day-old Japanese quail embryos (Coturnix coturnix japonica), after which the infected embryos were incubated at 41 C. In the chorioallantoic membrane mature first generation schizonts, mature second generation schizonts, and gametes were detected at 48 hr postinoculation of sporozoites (PI), 84 hr PI, and 126 hr PI, respectively.
(7) Respiration frequency increased during exposure to 35 (four birds) and 40 degrees C (six birds) in the normally hydrated quail, while in the dehydrated quail, respiration frequency increased only in three birds during exposure to 35 degrees C, and four birds during exposure to 40 degrees C, the frequencies were lower during dehydration.
(8) We conclude that the cellular mechanisms directing muscle fiber type-specific TnIf gene expression are mediated by cis-regulatory elements present on the introduced quail DNA fragment and that they control TnIf expression by affecting the accumulation of TnIf mRNA.
(9) However the characteristic fine structure and the high Na-KATPase content of the quail nasal gland suggest that it is a salt gland.
(10) The heart of the jungle bush quail is richly innervated.
(11) The presence of glutamic acid decarboxylase (GAD) and gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) was investigated in neuroretina sections from hatching quail embryos by immunocytochemistry.
(12) Lipid biosynthesis in the liver as well as transport into the follicles in Japanese quail were investigated depending on sexual maturity at 5, 7, 9 and 11 weeks of age.
(13) Both monensin and salinomycin had a reasonable safety margin in quail.
(14) The alternative exon sequences TnTf mRNAs expressed in anatomically distinct quail muscles can be correlated with sequences in TnTf protein isoforms in these chicken muscles.
(15) Both intestinal and uterine CaBP levels are higher in laying than in non-laying quails.
(16) The PGCs were picked up with a fine glass pipette, and one hundred were then injected into the terminal sinuses of 2-day-old Japanese quail embryos (24 somites); bubbles were then inserted to prevent haemorrhage.
(17) Of the four CFA determinants normally found in adult quail RBCs, only two were present on quail-chicken hybrid RBCs.
(18) For each of 12 transformed quail clones studied, it was possible to detect, after digestion with Kpn I, unique junctions between viral and cellular DNA.
(19) In eight bands of proteinase isozymes, the variation of band 5 (presence or absence) was detected among quails.
(20) This antibody binds transiently to a small number of brain vesicle cells in developing chick embryo as well as in quail embryo.