(n.) A wading bird with lobate toes, of the genus Fulica.
(n.) The surf duck or scoter. In the United States all the species of (/demia are called coots. See Scoter.
(n.) A stupid fellow; a simpleton; as, a silly coot.
Example Sentences:
(1) There was at least one happy tale, after a coot family miraculously escaped from the floods.
(2) The timing of upper lip protrusion movements and accompanying acoustic events was examined for multiple repetitions of word pairs such as "lee coot" and "leaked coot" by four speakers of American English.
(3) Andrew Coote (@ACunit) @DanLucas86 Endless Blue by @horrorsofficial - he should have remained blue, he blue the season for @ManUtd & because he will be blue April 22, 2014 Facebook Twitter Pinterest Share Share this post Facebook Twitter Pinterest close 2.26pm BST The severance package Here's some information courtesy of someone who wishes to be known as Handsome B.
(4) This calls for a specific HP48SX implementation with ASCII text output of the algorithm presented by Roberts and Coote (1965), and extended by Roussel and Husson (1991).
(5) John Coote describes these treatments and their possible mechanisms of pharmacological action.
(6) The duo – "two old coots", in Bowles' own quip this week – are the elder statesmen of federal budget battles.
(7) There is a proven link, says Coote, between shorter working hours, health and wellbeing, and freeing up time to take part in voluntary and democratic action.
(8) Bacteria of the genus Campylobacter were isolated from 28 Rooks (Corvus frugilegus), 1 Red Kite (Milvus milvus), 1 Lapwing (Vanellus vanellus), 1 Coot (Fulica atra), 1 Common Moorhen (Gallinula chloropus) and 1 Northern Mallard (Anas platyrhynchos).
(9) This included white crowned sparrows, Zonotrichia leucophrys, gold crowned sparrows, Z. atricapilla, and English sparrows, Passer domesticus, (68% in the composite); coots, Fulica americana, (29%); blackbirds, Euphagus cyanocephalus, (33%); crows, Corvus brachyrhyncos, (29%); robins, Turdus migratorius, (16%); pigeons, Columba fasciata, (10%); and mallard ducks, Anas platyrhynchos, (7%).
(10) There was evidence for a sequential mortality similar to that reported previously at this site: coots were the first birds to die, followed by American wigeon (Anas americana) and northern pintails (A. acuta acuta); northern shovelers (A. clypeata) and mallards (A. platyrhynchos) died late in the epizootic.
(11) There was evidence for a distinct sequence in the bird species dying at one site; American coots (Fulica americana) appeared to be the first species to die.
(12) At the height of the carping, Ryan Lizza of the New Yorker likened Clinton to an “ill-tempered coot driven a little mad by Obama’s success”.
(13) This report analyzes a large data set (1906 individuals, 15 allozyme loci) from a single field collection of the coot clam Mulinia lateralis and demonstrates (1) significant heterozygote deficiencies at 13 of 15 loci, (2) a correlation between the magnitude of heterozygote deficiency at a locus and the effect of heterozygosity at that locus on shell length, and (3) a distribution of multilocus heterozygosity which deviates from that predicted by observed single-locus heterozygosities.
(14) Anna Coote, Nef's head of social policy, believes that if larger charities moved to four day weeks they would be rewarded with "a more rounded and balanced workforce, less prone to absenteeism and sickness, and more productive hour-for-hour."
(15) Her organisation previously talked about a 21-hour working week as being the right option for the economy and society, but Cootes believes this is too radical for many organisations to get their head around at the moment.
(16) The causative agent of ornithosis was isolated in virological examination of the organs of a coot.
(17) Se concentrations in kidneys and livers of American coots (Fulica americana) were significantly correlated (r = 0.9845); Se concentrations in breast muscles and livers of juvenile ducks (Anas spp.)
(18) My own first encounter with Norfolk in literature came in the form of the heroic and crime-solving adventures of Arthur Ransome's Coot Club , a plucky little gang of boys and girls who live around Horning on the Norfolk Broads, in the Swallows and Amazons series of novels, a world as far from my own upbringing as was imaginable.
(19) (Actually, it had a bucolic view of Regent’s canal in London: houseboats, joggers, coots.)
(20) At Nef, Coote questions whether pay should be seen as a limiting factor.
Scoot
Definition:
(v. i.) To walk fast; to go quickly; to run hastily away.
Example Sentences:
(1) The resulting corner is dealt with easily by Real, who scoot upfield through Di Maria.
(2) During catalysis in the scooting mode the enzyme does not leave the surface of the vesicle to which it is bound.
(3) Similarly, anomalous kinetic effects of the thermotropic gel-fluid phase transition or of a change in the general disorder of the bilayer organization (fluidity) has a minor effect on the kinetics of hydrolysis in the scooting mode.
(4) Updated at 4.44pm BST 4.39pm BST Second set: Djokovic 4-6, 4-2 Nadal* (*denotes server) After much head-shaking, Djokovic nails a forehand, before drawing Nadal to the net with a drop-shot, Nadal scooting to the backhand wing and force-scooping a winner crosscourt.
(5) I'm going to scoot off now -- my colleague Nick Fletcher will see you home :).
(6) 27 min: Park Chung-yong attempts to break down the right, but falls over just as he's nearly scooting past Fucile.
(7) Its occurrence is most probably related to the new "scoot foot" or "sitting back" technique in downhill skiing.
(8) It was shown that the hydrolysis of these mixed lipid vesicles occurs in the scooting mode in which the enzyme remains tightly bound to the interface and only the substrate molecules present on the outer monolayer of the target vesicle became hydrolyzed Thus the phenomenon of scooting mode hydrolysis was not restricted to the action of PLA2 on vesicles of pure anionic phospholipids, but it was also observed with vesicles of zwitterionic lipids as long as a critical amount of anionic compound was present.
(9) I hire a bike and scoot around the city as if I live there.
(10) A keen skier, the president attended its 2006 launch, where he was filmed scooting along the snow.
(11) The kinetic data of P. glumae lipase have been analyzed in terms of the scooting and hopping models for the action of lipolytic enzymes [Upreti, G.C., & Jain, M.K.
(12) Interfacial catalysis in the scooting mode with a high processivity occurs on vesicles of anionic phospholipids, and under these conditions the dynamics and order of the substrate in the interface influences the catalytic turnover only moderately, i.e., about 2- to 10-fold.
(13) The couple seemed to enjoy their scoot around the show, with the Queen asking what one work by the New York collective Bernadette Corporation was.
(14) Furthermore, relative to native enzymes, manoalogue-modified enzymes retained significantly higher catalytic activities when acting on water-soluble substrates than when acting on vesicles in the scooting mode.
(15) The interfacial turnover rate constant for scooting kinetics, ki, for the various phospholipids were from less than 0.1 to 1 per min.
(16) Messi skidaddles down the middle, shifts the ball a tad left to scoot past Schweinsteiger, and Lampards it at goal.
(17) This rigorous description of interfacial catalysis was made experimentally possible by examining the action of PLA2 in the scooting mode under conditions of at most one enzyme per vesicle, where it hydrolyzed all of the substrate in the outer monolayer of vesicles without leaving the surface.
(18) This difficulty can be overcome by monitoring interfacial catalysis in the scooting mode where the enzyme does not leave the interface.
(19) Then scoot over for a look at the many marvellous recipes in his New Vegetarian column .
(20) Acta 860, 435-447), hydrolysis of anionic vesicles occurs by interfacial catalysis in the scooting mode, i.e., the catalytic turnover is fast relative to the off-rate of the enzyme from the interface.