(n.) The word which unites the subject and predicate.
(n.) The stop which connects the manuals, or the manuals with the pedals; -- called also coupler.
Example Sentences:
(1) Ejaculation occurred frequently in the SU condition but rarely in SR tests, results suggesting that sheath retraction may normally inhibit ejaculation in ex copula tests, and perhaps during copulation as well.
(2) In the ex copula genital reflex test, DPAT dramatically inhibited ejaculation and the display of penile erections.
(3) In a second experiment, intracranial microinjection of quinelorane was followed by ex copula reflex tests.
(4) Purkinje cell responses in lobules I-III were equivalent at both SRIF doses, and degeneration in the copula pyramis, paraflocculus and paramedian lobule emerged at the higher SRIF dose.
(5) In the in copula mating test, 20 and 80 micrograms IT 8-OH-DPAT, significantly reduced ejaculation latency, intromission frequency and intercopulatory interval.
(6) The 8-OH-DPAT-induced increase in glucose utilization in the copula pyramis, that is putatively associated with the appearance of the 5-HT behavioural syndrome, was also blocked by BMY 7378, as was the behavioural syndrome.
(7) The largest increases occurred in granule cell patches in the contralateral copula pyramidis (Cop P) and pyramis (P), the hemispheric and vermal portions of the eighth cerebellar lobule, respectively.
(8) At 40 days of age all animals were gonadectomized, received implants of TP in silastic capsules, and were tested in subsequent weeks for masculine copulatory behavior and ex copula phallic responses.
(9) Such grouped receptors may function to indicate position of the worm in copula.
(10) There was a partial recovery of emission in copula by the fourth week of treatment, suggesting that a nonadrenergic mechanism had assumed this function.
(11) In Experiment 1 a D1 agonist injected into the MPOA increased the number of ex copula erections but decreased the number of seminal emissions.
(12) Transition of the tegumental surface from the juvenile to the adult form begins after worms are in copula and have grown to several millimeters in length.
(13) Paired males were found to be in copula on 20-34% of observations.
(14) The purpose of the study was to determine whether Black inmates could be distinguished from White inmates by their use of the present progressive, final stops, distributive be, remote aspect been, noun plurals, third person singular present tense, possessives, consonant clusters, and the copula.
(15) Unpaired males lacked spined tubercles and the development of the spines is considered to occur only when worms are in copula.
(16) Metergoline pretreatment also failed to antagonize the RDS-127-induced facilitation of ejaculatory behavior in copula.
(17) Both spined and unspined tubercles were found on the dorsal and dorso-lateral surfaces of sexually mature (in copula) male worms.
(18) In contrast to seminal emission ex copula, pimozide pretreatment failed to antagonize the RDS-127 facilitation of ejaculatory behavior in copula.
(19) Genital reflex ex copula tests were used in order to assess these two responses without the confounding factors of mating behavior.
(20) These studies indicate the need for cautious interpretation of data obtained from in vitro analyses of separated male and female mansonian schistosomes, and that such conditions may not reflect in vivo or in copula function.
Verb
Definition:
(n.) A word; a vocable.
(n.) A word which affirms or predicates something of some person or thing; a part of speech expressing being, action, or the suffering of action.
Example Sentences:
(1) It was found that labelling the picture with a sentence containing a specific verb substantially increased the likelihood that the specific picture corresponding to that verb would subsequently be falsely recognized.
(2) The focus of both studies was on children in their second year of life learning verbs in various pragmatic contexts.
(3) Last week he argued that properly primed immigrants will "see off the racists" - as if once blacks and Asians could conjugate their verbs properly and learn the date of the Battle of Agincourt, then racists would refrain from attacking them.
(4) (2) The emergence of the distinction between ST and NST verbs is gradual rather than sudden.
(5) An analysis of the types of verbs used in self-thoughts evoked by family versus school probes supported the six predicted differences in verb types derived from our postulate of a more passive self-concept in the family context.
(6) Finally, we discuss whether a mixed model containing both verb-based and class-based mechanisms is required to explain the actionality effects.
(7) These data suggest that the problems agrammatic subjects show with verbs in sentence comprehension, and the general lexical access deficit also recently claimed to be part of the agrammatics' problem, may not extend to the real-time processing of verbs and their arguments.
(8) As predicted, the younger children were better at correcting the nouns than the verbs; the two grammatical forms were corrected equally well by the older children.
(9) A difference between verbs and nouns remained even when level of concreteness was controlled.
(10) Thirdly we investigate his comprehension of semantically and thematically related nouns and verbs.
(11) The study is longitudinal and compares the development of body communication and speech (here: the use of nouns, verbs, adjectives, and pronouns) during the 18-month period of rehabilitation.
(12) In comparison to normal children, they had a shorter MLU and upper bound, and a smaller vocabulary, including fewer verbs.
(13) The verb-based account predicts that children should show a consistent pattern of responses for individual verbs on test and re-test.
(14) The most frequent verbs acquired were the perception verbs see and look and the epistemic verbs think and know.
(15) He omitted 43% of articles, 40% of complementizers, 20% of pronouns, 27% of semantically marked prepositions, 43% of purely grammatic prepositions, and 22% of auxiliary verbs, but his average sentence length was 9.8 words and 64% of his sentences contained embedded clauses.
(16) Exceptions were noted for the normals on the verb class and for the Wernicke's aphasics on the NP and VP linguistic constituents.
(17) In a naturalistic study of 24 children at 1;3 and 1;9, it was found that mothers modelled verbs for their children most often BEFORE the referent action actually occurred.
(18) As with the horrible “This is what a feminist looks like” T-shirt, we are again using the wrong verbs.
(19) The verb phrase (VP) anaphora is a commonly used construction in English in which part of a sentence, including the verb, is replaced or deleted.
(20) Verb learning is clearly a function of observation of real-world contingencies; however, it is argued that such observational information is insufficient to account fully for vocabulary acquisition.