(n.) A company of people transplanted from their mother country to a remote province or country, and remaining subject to the jurisdiction of the parent state; as, the British colonies in America.
(n.) The district or country colonized; a settlement.
(n.) A company of persons from the same country sojourning in a foreign city or land; as, the American colony in Paris.
(n.) A number of animals or plants living or growing together, beyond their usual range.
Example Sentences:
(1) Therefore, it is suggested that PE patients without endogenous erythroid colonies may follow almost the same clinical course as SP patients.
(2) A beta-adrenergic receptor cDNA cloned into a eukaryotic expression vector reliably induces high levels of beta-adrenergic receptor expression in 2-12% of COS cell colonies transfected with this plasmid after experimental conditions are optimized.
(3) Four of the 39 ticks in our colony were infected with a spirochete; presumably, Borrelia crocidurae.
(4) High-grade and low-grade candidemia were defined as 25 colony-forming units or more per 10 ml and 10 colony-forming units or fewer per 10 ml of blood, respectively.
(5) Cell lines specific for class I or class II loci of the MHC produced interferon and colony-stimulating factors.
(6) DNA from 9% (47 of 529) of the E. coli colonies tested hybridized with the ST probe, whereas only 5% (28 of 529) produced ST as measured by the suckling mouse bioassay.
(7) Proliferation of quiescent hematopoietic stem cells, purified by cell sorting and evaluated by spleen colony assay (CFU-S), was investigated by measuring the total cell number and CFU-S content and the DNA histogram at 20 and 48 hours of liquid culture.
(8) When an expression vector containing plasminogen cDNA is transfected into baby hamster kidney cells, the number of drug-resistant colonies as well as the levels of plasminogen secreted by those colonies is lower than observed in similar transfections of other protease precursor genes.
(9) Alterations in DNA synthesis induced by a single dose of cyclophosphamide in normal and tumorous tissues in vivo paralleled in many respects the changes seen when the more time-consuming techniques of the LI or granulocyte colony formation were employed.
(10) Coup leader Captain Amadou Sanogo on Friday pleaded for foreign help to preserve the territorial integrity of the former French colony, a major gold and cotton producer.
(11) We isolated soft agar colonies (a-subclones) and sub-clones from foci (h-subclones) of both hybrids, and, as a control, subclones of cells from random areas without foci of one hybrid (BS181 p-subclones).
(12) As compared with solvent-treated control, no significant increases were observed in the number of revertant colonies in all tester strains in both systems with and without mammalian metabolic activation (S9 Mix).
(13) When PMC purified to greater than 99% purity were cultured in methylcellulose with IL-3 and IL-4, approximately 25% of the PMC formed colonies, all of which contained both berberine sulfate-positive and berberine sulfate-negative mast cells.
(14) Viruses isolated from ticks (Ixodes uriae) from a seabird colony on the Isle of May, Scotland, were shown by complement fixation tests to be related to the Uukuniemi and Kemerovo serogroups.
(15) The genetic management of the African green monkey breeding colony was discussed in relation to the difference in distribution of phenotypes of M and ABO blood groups between the parental (wild-originated) and the first filial (colony-born) populations.
(16) When foods such as dairy products contain large numbers of egg yolk-negative strains of S. aureus, the PPSA agar has the advantage over egg yolk containing media such as Baird-Parker agar that fewer suspect colonies have to be confirmed.
(17) Control-operated cells with centrosomes left in the karyoplast progress through the cell cycle, duplicate the centrosome, and form clonal cell colonies.
(18) However, the blasts formed mixed colonies consisting of erythroblasts, granulocytes, macrophages, and immature blasts when cultured in methylcellulose with PHA-leukocyte conditioned medium.
(19) Direct testing, using colonies of N. gonorrhoeae mixed with the Phadebact gonococcus test reagents, produced noninterpretable results in many cases.
(20) With the H-2+ cells, treatment with each modality significantly increased the number of metastatic colonies.
Rookery
Definition:
(n.) The breeding place of a colony of rooks; also, the birds themselves.
(n.) A breeding place of other gregarious birds, as of herons, penguins, etc.
(n.) The breeding ground of seals, esp. of the fur seals.
(n.) A dilapidated building with many rooms and occupants; a cluster of dilapidated or mean buildings.
(n.) A brothel.
Example Sentences:
(1) Spring is in the air here too: in the nearby churchyard at West Huntspill, the rookery is thronged with nesting birds.
(2) An infant northern fur seal (Callhorinus ursinus) died in a rookery on St. Paul Island, Pribilof Islands, Alaska.
(3) I think it will eventually, but at this moment we have to go where we can get the supplies from.” Production staff at the Rookery are working across 11 production lines.
(4) The epizootic primarily affected juvenile or subadult male California sea lions migrating northward from breeding rookeries of southern California's Channel Islands.
(5) On the factory floor at the Rookery, group production manager Nick Speed says the ups and downs of the business, as well as seasonal changes tend not to affect its UK production lines, because the British manufacturing operation is given priority over factories overseas.
(6) The boys' "rookeries" were run by Italian gangmasters in Clerkenwell's Little Italy, but in keeping with contemporary suspicion and hostility to Jews Dickens made Fagin Jewish – something he later regretted.
(7) So our workloads tend to be pretty constant.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest At work on the production line at Mulberry’s Rookery factory in Somerset.
(8) We’ve only got two Mulberry-owned factories – the Rookery and the Willows – and we always make sure that they are filled first.
(9) These results are used to conclude that leptospirosis is not acquired primarily on the breeding rookeries but rather is more frequently acquired subsequent to the purps leaving the rookeries, presumably through the food chain during their first pelagic cycle.
(10) Dozens of state parks and recreation areas line the coast, featuring tide pools, seal rookeries, sea stacks and lighthouses.
(11) Over the past three years, the Rookery has been extended to increase capacity, and the Willows was opened as Mulberry brought its remaining UK production back in-house.
(12) He played in Harold Pinter's A Slight Ache at the Arts theatre and went on tour as Gerald Popkiss in Ben Travers's Rookery Nook, before giving an irresistible Roland Maule, the importunate playwright from Uckfield, in Coward's Present Laughter, at the Vaudeville in 1965.
(13) The Watford fans flooded onto the pitch, and while they were kept to the Rookery Stand half by stewards, this blocked off the route to the tunnel, meaning Knockeart and his team-mates were forced to wait for the undulating ecstasy to subside.
(14) A nearby breeding rookery on the same island was apparently unaffected.
(15) Between 130,000 and 150,000 square feet of leather is cut at the Rookery every month.
(16) About 60% of its products are made in Somerset factories: there’s the Rookery, in the village of Chilcompton in a fold of the Mendip hills, and the Willows, which opened last year about an hour down the road in Bridgwater.
(17) Our data suggest that walking 200 km (from the sea to the rookery and back) requires less than 15% of the energy reserves of a breeding male emperor penguin initially weighing 35 kg.
(18) Genotypic ratios within clutches of loggerhead turtle (Caretta caretta) embryos, from the Mon Repos rookery (Queensland), deviate significantly from the Mendelian ratios expected on the null hypothesis of single paternity.
(19) During the antarctic winter emperor penguins (Aptenodytes forsteri) spend up to four mo fasting while they breed at rookeries 80 km or more from the sea, huddling close together in the cold.