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Columba


Definition:

  • (n.) See Calumba.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) If the people who know where Columba is buried could have seen what that did to my mother, if they could imagine their own mother in that position, they could not stay silent if they had any human feelings at all.
  • (2) The various components of these muscles are provided with stiff as well as wide aponeuroses and tendons (much stronger than those observed in Columba), indicating forceful opening and closure of the beaks for plucking off the fruit, grasping it hard and manipulating it with the help of the beaks before swallowing.
  • (3) Circulating levels of free fatty acids (FFA) and growth hormone (GH) were measured over a 24 hr period during the crop gland cycle of domestic pigeons (Columba livia).
  • (4) New host records included Sarcocystis sp., Echinostoma revolutum, Hymenolepis sp., Aproctella stoddardi, Ascaridia columbae, and Dispharynx nasuta.
  • (5) Untreated and treated (unilateral section of utricular and saccular branches of the vestibular nerve) pigeons Columba livia were rotated in the dark in the horizontal plane, the head being in a different position relative to the axis of rotation.
  • (6) Columba McVeigh was kidnapped, killed and buried in secret by the group after being accused of working as an informer for the security forces in 1975.
  • (7) To fill in some of the gaps in our knowledge of Schizogony of Haemoproteus columbae Kruse, transmission experiments involving inoculation into pigeons (Columba livia Gmelin) of sporozonites from salivary glands of the hippoboscid fly Pseudolynchia canariensis (Macquart) were carried out.
  • (8) The fine structure of the feeding organelles of the endogenous developmental stages of Eimeria labbeana from the ileal mucosa of the common Pigeon, Columba livia, is described and compared with similar structures of other species of Eimeria.
  • (9) Injections of fluorescent tracers into the spinocerebellum of homing pigeons (Columba livia) disclosed a group of neurons located rostral to the dorsal column nuclei which receives spinal primary afferents, as confirmed by double-labeling experiments.
  • (10) Using various neurohistological, electronmicroscopic, cytochemical and electrophysiological techniques, studies have been made on the development of peripheral visual pathways in human subjects and some homoiotherm animals (pigeon Columba livia, cats, rabbits).
  • (11) All 98 strains of this yeast isolated from Columba livia (feral pigeon) belonged to serotype B.
  • (12) Homing behavior was tested in pigeons (Columba livia) after removing a portion of the ventrolateral telencephalon, which receives extensive projections from the olfactory bulb and is comparable with the mammalian pyriform cortex.
  • (13) An adult male pigeon (Columba livia) was presented to the Wildlife Service at the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine for depression, cachexia, and diarrhea.
  • (14) Primary structure of hemoglobin of alpha-chain of Columba livia is presented.
  • (15) An antigen (C(g)) by which Columba guinea differs from C. livia has behaved as a unit in over 400 backcross offspring.
  • (16) The diffusion of rock-pigeon (domestic form of Columba livia Gmelin 1789) is greatly increasing owing to its high reproductivity; for this reason it is present in both countries and cities.
  • (17) The results of electrophysiological experiments where the responses from pigeon (Columba livia) single horizontal semicircular canal afferent fibers produced by mechanical stimulation across a broad frequency bandwidth are reported.
  • (18) The fleshy insertion of the outer slip of M. pseudotemporalis profundus extends ventrally over the dorsolateral surface of the mandible much more than it does in Columba.
  • (19) Extracellular recording from single auditory nerve fibers in the pigeon, Columba livia, revealed some unusual discharge patterns of spontaneous and evoked activity.
  • (20) He does speak fluent Spanish and is married to a Mexican-American woman, Columba Bush, whom he met as a teenage English teacher in Guanajuato.

Monk


Definition:

  • (n.) A man who retires from the ordinary temporal concerns of the world, and devotes himself to religion; one of a religious community of men inhabiting a monastery, and bound by vows to a life of chastity, obedience, and poverty.
  • (n.) A blotch or spot of ink on a printed page, caused by the ink not being properly distributed. It is distinguished from a friar, or white spot caused by a deficiency of ink.
  • (n.) A piece of tinder made of agaric, used in firing the powder hose or train of a mine.
  • (n.) A South American monkey (Pithecia monachus); also applied to other species, as Cebus xanthocephalus.
  • (n.) The European bullfinch.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) At least 14 At least 14 monks, nuns and former monks are believed to have set themselves on fire in the past year, mostly in traditionally Tibetan areas of Sichuan that have been focal points of opposition to central government control.
  • (2) The bi-annual Leonard Cohen Event was initially hosted during Cohen’s silent period when the singer embraced Buddhism and entered the Mount Baldy Zen Centre to live in seclusion as a Rinzai monk.
  • (3) "I urge both the monks and the lay Tibetans of the area not to do anything that might be used as a pretext by the local authorities to massively crack down on them.
  • (4) It left Monk rueing Shelvey’s disallowed strike, while also questioning why Oliver did not send off Koné, rather than book the forward, for an aerial challenge on Federico Fernández in the first half.
  • (5) 3 Turn left to follow the path, keeping Monk's Lode on your left.
  • (6) said: “The Bank of England seems all but certain to ease policy, with only the scale and form of easing in question.” Monks is predicting a bigger cut than many of his peers in the City, pencilling in a drop in official interest rates to zero.
  • (7) We are Protestant Christians, so by sending monks to chant sutras they were trying to get us riled up,” a member of one Zhejiang church told Radio Free Asia , a US-funded news website.
  • (8) Swansea were two points above the drop zone at that time, but Monk kept them up and was handed the permanent job the following May.
  • (9) The sunflowers are the brainchild of Kouyuu Abe, a Zen monk who owns a temple just outside Fukushima city and is committed to the "fight against radiation".
  • (10) Monk insisted Gomis deserved to be credited with the goal – “he covered every blade of grass, I think” – and applauded his gesture in grabbing a French tricolour from the touchline and waving it to the heavens in solidarity with those who lost their lives in Paris.
  • (11) They sat me in a chair and just shaved most of my hair off in weird concentric rings so I looked like a tonsured 14th-century monk who had had brain surgery.
  • (12) An activist has discipline, goals and strategy.” Amy K. Nelson (@AmyKNelson) Amazing scene here at QuickTrip: exiled Tibetan monks here & people are in awe, hugging them, wanting photos.
  • (13) That is the act of extremists," said one monk on the road near Aba.
  • (14) The first day I was beaten very hard and they asked: who organised the monks?
  • (15) Both Buddhist monks and police can be seen through much of the footage – the monks often taking part in the violence, the police watching immobile as it progresses.
  • (16) The aim of this study was to determine whether the austerely living Trappist and Benedictine monks have a lower prevalence of a number of risk factors and health problems than the general Dutch population.
  • (17) A gruff intellectual alternately nicknamed “Mad Dog” and “the warrior monk,” Mattis is deeply respected in much of the foreign policy establishment, despite notably clashing with the Obama administration over his more hawkish views on Iran.
  • (18) Shelvey collected his sixth yellow card of the league season against Aston Villa on Friday following a cynical foul on Gabriel Agbonlahor – he was sent off against Everton in November after being booked twice – and Monk said the midfielder is running the risk of becoming a liability.
  • (19) The brains of monke guinea pigs asphyxiated at birth pletely resuscitated, and killed a ous times thereafter revealed no chial hemorrhages.
  • (20) On the outskirts of Sheffield there is a wood which, some 800 years ago, was used by the monks of Kirkstead Abbey to produce charcoal for smelting iron.

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