(n.) An inclosure for keeping small animals; a pen; especially, a grated box for confining poultry.
(n.) A cart made close with boards; a tumbrel.
(v. t.) To confine in a coop; hence, to shut up or confine in a narrow compass; to cramp; -- usually followed by up, sometimes by in.
(v. t.) To work upon in the manner of a cooper.
Example Sentences:
(1) The population in the chicken coop contains a relatively stable nucleus which may be organized in demes with an excess of females over males and limited territorial mobility.
(2) These results indicate that crop clearance is improved by lighting both before and after cooping.
(3) A total of 209 bulls selected from herds in the northeastern US by Eastern AI Coop., Inc. from 1978 to 1981 were identified.
(4) He has had a good run at the movies, not too many turkeys in the coop.
(5) We conclude that the COOP Charts are practical, reliable, valid, sensitive to the effects of disease and useful for quickly measuring patient function.
(6) The 29 Chart physicians used the Dartmouth COOP Charts to measure their adult patients' health status during a single clinical encounter; the 27 control clinicians used no measure of health status.
(7) Opponents of extended coverage insisted that it be put to a vote at the coop's annual meeting in April, at which time contraceptive coverage won by 10 votes.
(8) No response differences were observed between patients who received COOP Chart illustrations and those who did not receive illustrations.
(9) A play in which the characters were so cooped up that they did not often have to enter or exit seemed to be a solution, and the resultant play was Disciplines Of War, later renamed The Long And The Short And The Tall.
(10) The combination of meal feeding and cooping soon after feed withdrawal greatly increased the quantity of digesta in the crop 8 h after feed withdrawal.
(11) Plasma B concentrations and tonic immobility (TI) fear reactions were measured in unstressed (control) and stressed (overnight cooping) chicks of both lines.
(12) The survival of VA-Coop surgical patients with three-vessel disease without left main lesions was significantly better (p less than 0.05 by Wilcoxon test) than the medical group with the 6-month (surgical) mortality adjusted to a more acceptable level (5%).
(13) I am Greek, I love my country, and furthermore I live here, with my family, and work here – unlike many APEs, incidentally, who pontificate on what's best for the country safely cooped up in universities of their despised "centre".
(14) Nine raucous, angry and confusing days cooped up in the windowless halls of Copenhagen's biggest conference site.
(15) In patients with Hodgkin's disease the excretion of pyrimidine deoxyribonucleosides in urine was followed up within the course of 92 chemotherapeutical series with cytostatics of COOP group.
(16) Self-assessment instruments, such as the COOP charts, offer promise.
(17) I have worked in penthouse apartments, right down to what can reasonably be described as a chicken coop.
(18) The event was a jolly for those routinely cooped up in the agency's distinctive doughnut-shaped headquarters in Cheltenham, and they were furnished with six pages of rules and regulations to ensure fair play.
(19) Comparison of results from 1972-1974 showed the following differences: cardiopulmonary bypass time per graft, 61 minutes (VA-Coop) vs 33 minutes (VA-W); perioperative myocardial infarction (MI), 18% vs 6%; hospital mortality, 6% vs 1%; revascularization index (patent grafts per patient determined by postoperative angiography divided by diseased arteries per patient), 0.55 (VA-Coop) vs 0.84 (VA-W).
(20) The increase occurred in both populations but was more apparent in the chicken-coop population.
Hoop
Definition:
(n.) A pliant strip of wood or metal bent in a circular form, and united at the ends, for holding together the staves of casks, tubs, etc.
(n.) A ring; a circular band; anything resembling a hoop, as the cylinder (cheese hoop) in which the curd is pressed in making cheese.
(n.) A circle, or combination of circles, of thin whalebone, metal, or other elastic material, used for expanding the skirts of ladies' dresses; crinoline; -- used chiefly in the plural.
(n.) A quart pot; -- so called because originally bound with hoops, like a barrel. Also, a portion of the contents measured by the distance between the hoops.
(n.) An old measure of capacity, variously estimated at from one to four pecks.
(v. t.) To bind or fasten with hoops; as, to hoop a barrel or puncheon.
(v. t.) To clasp; to encircle; to surround.
(v. i.) To utter a loud cry, or a sound imitative of the word, by way of call or pursuit; to shout.
(v. i.) To whoop, as in whooping cough. See Whoop.
(v. t.) To drive or follow with a shout.
(v. t.) To call by a shout or peculiar cry.
(n.) A shout; a whoop, as in whooping cough.
(n.) The hoopoe. See Hoopoe.
Example Sentences:
(1) It offered maternity coverage without any extra hoops.
(2) The mood is fantastic: upbeat, from a crowd of older locals reliving their youth to cool young thangs attracted by Margate’s burgeoning reputation as Dalston-sur-Mer; fiftysomething men in braces and Harringtons, candy-floss-chomping teens… People are picnicking on the fake lawn beside the hair and beauty caravan, children gyrating newly bought hula-hoops to the strains of I’ve Got a Lovely Bunch of Coconuts.
(3) 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.
(4) Yes, April Fools' Day is the hoop and stick, the cup-and-ball game, the Michael McIntyre of comedy, if you will.
(5) Their determination to use it as a stick to beat abortion providers with is simply one more reason why this paternalistic and meaningless little bureaucratic hoop needs to be terminated forthwith.
(6) The Way Home, To Save a Life, and hoop-shooting nuns drama The Mighty Macs are, similarly, self-fulfilment yarns in which God is a bit of a backdrop.
(7) I asked Kennie how it felt having been through so many hoops only to be told that he still couldn’t vote because of a bureaucratic cock-up that occurred 45 years ago.
(8) On the basis of their isotopic shifts upon deuterium labeling, we have assigned the band at 887 cm-1 to C10H and C14H HOOP modes, and the band at 940 cm-1 to C11H = C12H Au-like HOOP mode.
(9) • Savage is every Friday and Saturday at Metropolis Studios, London, from 4 March (tickets £5), savagedisco.com The Mighty Hoop-la Facebook Twitter Pinterest Skewering the type of weekender you’d usually associate with Butlins (Redcoats, awkward cabaret, warring families), The Mighty Hoop-la has gathered many of the best alternative club nights – including those on this list, except Torture Garden, Hip Hop Karaoke and Savage – and performance troupes for a festival dedicated to high camp, high energy and high-concept fun.
(10) Furthermore, perturbations of the unique bathorhodopsin hydrogen out-of-plane (HOOP) vibrations in E113Q and E113A indicate that the strength of the protein perturbation near C12 is weakened compared to that in native bathorhodopsin.
(11) It could be that it is used by people who are renting, or by people who are happy to pay more so they don’t have to jump through the hoops to remortgage – however, you have to be one of their customers to apply, so they will know quite a lot about you,” says Andrew Hagger of Moneycomms.com.
(12) Older and shrewder by the late 2000s, the early 90s pioneers involved in Hard Events and Insomniac (the company behind Electric Daisy Carnival) learned how to work with the system, going through the bureaucratic hoops required to get permits, and providing the level of intensive security, entrance searches and overall safety provisions that would give political cover to their local government enablers.
(13) Celtic are in their traditional green and white hoops – a friend, she shall remain nameless, once tried to argue that Celtic's jersey was in fact stripes and not hoops – and Shakhter are clocking and rocking a natty orange number.
(14) • The Mighty Hoop-La, Bognor Regis, 26-29 February (three-night tickets from £85), themightyhoopla.com
(15) Retrospective review of 730 consecutive primary uncemented and cemented total hip arthroplasties revealed 19 intra-operative hoop-stress fractures of the femoral neck.
(16) On the basis of a comparison with the vibrational calculations, the low frequency (803 cm-1) and the reduced intensity of the C15 HOOP mode in Pr suggest that the chromophore in Pr adopts the C15-Z,syn conformation.
(17) To determine whether significant regional differences in shortening exist in the canine left ventricle, the shortening characteristics of small segments of the circumferentially oriented hoop axis fibers and the more longitudinally oriented fibers near the epicardium were examined using pairs of ultrasound crystals placed at three levels of the left ventricular free wall in the open-chest dog.
(18) His fourth Jessica Daniel thriller has been sold to Pan Macmillan, who are predictably cock-a-hoop.
(19) 9.15am: Our morning paper view has arrived, with Simon Burnton having thumbed his way through tomorrow's fish and chip wrapping : While Dutch newspapers are predictably cock-a-hoop this morning about developments in South Africa – "FINALE!
(20) Wearing a hooped brown and cream sweater with collar turned up, Mvubu, from KwaThema, stared at the floor with hands behind his back for much of the hearing.