(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.
Liquor
Definition:
(n.) Any liquid substance, as water, milk, blood, sap, juice, or the like.
(n.) Specifically, alcoholic or spirituous fluid, either distilled or fermented, as brandy, wine, whisky, beer, etc.
(n.) A solution of a medicinal substance in water; -- distinguished from tincture and aqua.
(v. t.) To supply with liquor.
(v. t.) To grease.
Example Sentences:
(1) The fall of the cell number in the liquor cerebrospinalis was more rapidly in the GAGPS treatment.
(2) VP levels were measured by radioimmunoassay in liquor withdrawn from the cisterna magna.
(3) There were 16% where liquor was not obtained at the first attempt, and a further 7% where cell growth or biochemical testing was unsatisfactory.
(4) A rowdy fringe took to raiding liquor stores, spraying graffiti and flaunting marijuana.
(5) The reported method is an alternative procedure when the usual type of liquor drainage is impossible.
(6) 'If you meet, you drink …' Thus introduced to intoxicating liquors under auspices both secular and sacred, the offering of alms for oblivion I took to be the custom of the country in which I had been born.
(7) The number of molecules per unit cell is four and was deduced from the density of the crystals (1.10 g cm-3) and the mother liquor (1.01 g cm-3) and the specific volume of the protein calculated from molecular dimensions obtained from electron microscopy studies.
(8) These included changes in total protein content, slight increases in cell counts and the occurrence of monocytic forms of stimulus, but rarely changes in the pattern produced by electrophoresis of the liquor.
(9) Three morphologically distinct types of GABA-immunoreactive (GABA-ir) cell bodies were observed, multipolar neurons in the lateral grey cell column, apparently bipolar cells in the ventral aspect of the dorsal horn, and small liquor-contacting cells surrounding the central canal.
(10) As a consequence, artificial pulmonary ventilation (APV) at the hyperventilation regime was administered to a part of the patients to correct acidosis of the liquor.
(11) Chronic pachymeningitis of the hind brain, resulting from the administration of kaolin leads to the disorders of liquor circulation on the level of outlet of the fourth ventricle this being a start mechanism for the cavity formation in the spinal cord.
(12) Strain Aureobasidium pullulans capable of utilizing hemicelluloses and xylan was cultivated on processed waste dialysis liquor from the production of viscose fibres, containing about 1.5% hemocelluloses.
(13) It was shown spectrophotometrically that a single administration of SB increased its concentration in the liquor and brain tissues by 366.7 and 500 per cent respectively as compared to the control values.
(14) One strain produced 25 mug of chlorflavonin per ml per 4 to 5 days in a pilot scale fermentor with stirring, using a medium containing corn steep liquor and glucose.
(15) The large liquor-contacting area in the pineal recess region, as well as the peculiar organization of its surface, suggest a complex interrelationship between the liquor and the pineal gland of the opossum.
(16) Smoking western cigarettes and drinking strong liquors were not significantly related for either sex.
(17) The death occurred suddenly from the disturbances of liquor and blood circulation in the presence of an asymptomatic course of disease.
(18) The simple sum of these 11 risk factors was significantly associated with prevalence of use for cigarettes, beer and wine, hard liquor, marijuana, and other drugs.
(19) Liquor examination showed albumino-cytological dissociation with an increase in liquor IgG; encephalic CT and encephalo-medullary NMR were normal; a neurophysiological study (EMG, PEV, BAER) was indicative of the PNS problems.
(20) A total of 99 patients with pre-eclampsia and proteinuria were managed conservatively between 30 and 37 weeks of gestation, based on serial urinary estriol, liquor amnii, and renal function studies.