(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.
Scoop
Definition:
(n.) A large ladle; a vessel with a long handle, used for dipping liquids; a utensil for bailing boats.
(n.) A deep shovel, or any similar implement for digging out and dipping or shoveling up anything; as, a flour scoop; the scoop of a dredging machine.
(n.) A spoon-shaped instrument, used in extracting certain substances or foreign bodies.
(n.) A place hollowed out; a basinlike cavity; a hollow.
(n.) A sweep; a stroke; a swoop.
(n.) The act of scooping, or taking with a scoop or ladle; a motion with a scoop, as in dipping or shoveling.
(n.) To take out or up with, a scoop; to lade out.
(n.) To empty by lading; as, to scoop a well dry.
(n.) To make hollow, as a scoop or dish; to excavate; to dig out; to form by digging or excavation.
Example Sentences:
(1) These recent Times scoops about Obama's policies do not sink to the level of the Judy Miller debacle.
(2) Pharo also claimed that Wade had turned down the scoop about MPs’ expense claims because she had spent so much on a book by former glamour model Katie Price.
(3) Latino Review has a track record of attention-grabbing scoops, though its accuracy has occasionally been called into question.
(4) Scoop some of the flour mixture over the top of each piece and press down with the back of your hand, making sure it's completely coated.
(5) Murdoch MacLennan, the Telegraph Media Group chief executive, praised staff and the titles' editor-in-chief, Will Lewis: "Will Lewis and his team have done a brilliant job with the MPs' expenses scoop.
(6) Anderson Fernandes, 22, appeared before magistrates in Manchester charged with burglary after he took two scoops of coffee ice-cream and a cone from Patisserie Valerie in the city centre.
(7) In the case of Edmondson's ex-colleague Clive Goodman, the paper's former royal editor, some of those scoops involved paying the private detective Glenn Mulcaire to hack into phone messages left on mobile phones belonging to public figures.
(8) And this as we learn that GCHQ, in all its technological majesty, can scoop up every last word that passes through those sleek cables beneath the Atlantic, everything we say and every last key that our fingers stroke.
(9) Scoop half of the chillies into a blender jar, pour in half of the soaking liquid (or water) and blend to a smooth purée.
(10) If, as seems probable, the Conservative party now scoops up most of the support that used to go to Farage, what impact will that have on the broader cause of Conservatism?
(11) ‘Dysfunctional’ ABC management slammed Trevor Bormann, last year’s Walkley winner for Foreign Correspondent’s “Prisoner X” scoop, has dumped a bucket on ABC news management on the way out the door.
(12) But her huge payout has drawn comparisons to the rewards Wall Street bankers have scooped as markets collapse.
(13) But by exaggerating the point, Parker swerves around another truth – that the UK's intelligence agencies are already scooping up more material than ever before, and GCHQ has an ambition to go further.
(14) Yaya Toure picked him out with a forensic, scooped pass that he played with the outside of his right boot and Bony watched it drop before trying to score with an overhead kick.
(15) The incidence of obstructions, as registered by impediments to exhalation and by increases in peak inspiratory pressure, was significantly less frequent with the modified device, since the tongue could be "scooped" to a ventro-caudal direction if necessary.
(16) Fire crews typically rely on helicopters scooping up 1,500-litre buckets of water from ponds and streams to put out flames.
(17) Together they set out to modernise Radio 2, reasoning that as Radio 1 shed its "Smashie and Nicey" middle-of-the-road image to target youth in the 1990s, Radio 2 had to move and scoop up disenfranchised adults aged in their late thirties and above.
(18) The Chinese dredger barges can reach up to 30 metres below the surface, cutting out and scooping up huge quantities of sand and coral for land reclamation projects.
(19) ITV News' coverage of the Woolwich attack, including its shocking exclusive cameraphone footage of one of Lee Rigby's killers shot minutes after he was murdered, won the home news coverage and scoop of the year awards; while News at Ten co-anchor Mark Austin was named national presenter of the year.
(20) The studio has refused to comment on Latino Review's Justice League scoop.