(n.) An American feline quadruped (Felis concolor), resembling the African panther in size and habits. Its color is tawny, without spots; hence writers often called it the American lion. Called also puma, panther, mountain lion, and catamount. See Puma.
Example Sentences:
(1) It is not known whether limitation of ammoniagenesis and elevated plasma glucose concentration also characterize larger felidae such as panthers and cougars.
(2) The rest is left to mule deer, cougars, marmots, badgers – and me.
(3) It’s also good to take advice on bear and cougar safety .
(4) FULHAM Accounts for the year to 30 June 2014 Ownership Owned by Shahid Khan, via Big Cat Holdings, a company registered in Bermuda (tax haven), and Cougar HoldCo London, registered in the UK.
(5) This is an industry that has Cougar Night practically next door to my office and thinks it’s perfectly appropriate to meet there for business conversations.” Since some of the big tech companies began releasing their generally dismal diversity statistics back in 2014, prompting rebukes from both the media and the federal government , the race has been on to make Silicon Valley a more welcoming place for women and minorities.
(6) I hope Bridget's not some awful giddy cougar but I think that's unlikely."
(7) Islet amyloid isolated from the pancreas of a 20-year-old cougar (Felis concolor) was dissolved and purified by gel permeation and reversed phase HPLC for amino acid sequence analysis.
(8) An estimated 650,000 Nanophyetus salmincola were recovered from the small intestine of a wild female cougar kitten (Felis concolor).
(9) The new fossil suggests central Asia, rather than Africa, was where the panthera sub family, including lions, jaguars, tigers, leopards, snow leopards, and clouded leopards, diverged from the rest of the cat family tree, felinae, which includes cougars, lynxes, and domestic cats.
(10) The movie's central theme will be familiar to those who have seen Hollywood's "cougar" films: older, recently retired woman has an affair with younger, sexually voracious man.
(11) The woods are home to grizzlies, black bears, cougars, wolves and coyotes, so it’s important to keep to the 191 miles of trails in the park – which range in difficulty from short strolls to steep treks of several days’ duration – and to make a noise while walking to scare off any bears.
(12) IAPP from the cougar, like IAPP from the human and domesticated cat, incorporates an inherently amyloidogenic AILS sequence at positions 25-28.
(13) The common occurrence of sarcocysts in muscles of top carnivores such panthers and cougars is unexplained.
(14) Washington State blows the New Mexico Bowl Facebook Twitter Pinterest Okay, not one of the marquee bowls on the schedule, but any game where a team blows a 45-30 lead in the final three minutes as the Washington State Cougars did against the Colorado State Rams belongs on this list.
(15) More comedy coverage Noel Fielding review – solo standup set is a holiday from reality Lee Mack review – latterday Eric Morecambe is gloriously daft Ahmed Ahmed review – adolescent gags about pot, ‘cougars’ and race Kevin Bridges: you can’t be complacent in comedy Never mind the broadcasts: TV doesn’t make or break a standup Angela Barnes: the salty standup mentored by ‘Auntie’ Sarah Millican All hail the Pajama Men: the Velvet Underground of comedy Sheeps, Beasts and the new breed of sketch show Lee Evans review – when he starts talking he stops being funny
(16) Cross-reactive antibodies to FIV were common in several free-ranging populations of large cats, including East African lions and cheetahs of the Serengeti ecosystem and in puma (also called cougar or mountain lion) populations throughout North America.
(17) Rafael Gutiérrez, executive director of Costa Rica's national conservation system, agrees: “It has always been a controversial issue, mainly because the media was all over ministers to stop the programme.” He told the Guardian an eradication effort would begin in 2015, with castration or the introduction of cougars being considered as well as hunting or poisoning.
(18) were found in the striated muscles from 11 of 14 wild Florida panthers (Felis concolor coryi) and four of four cougars (two wild F. concolor stanleyana and two captive F. concolor of undetermined subspecies).
(19) We laugh about Mamils (middle-aged men in Lycra) and cougars (middle-aged women sleeping with younger men).
(20) Ollulanus tricuspis is reported for the first time from cougars and represents the first occurrence of this parasite in a sylvatic felid from North America.
Painter
Definition:
(n.) A rope at the bow of a boat, used to fasten it to anything.
(n.) The panther, or puma.
(n.) One whose occupation is to paint
(n.) One who covers buildings, ships, ironwork, and the like, with paint.
(n.) An artist who represents objects or scenes in color on a flat surface, as canvas, plaster, or the like.
Example Sentences:
(1) There was inadequate evidence to indicate that the higher risk of neuropsychiatric disability for painters might have been due to their occupational exposure to organic solvents.
(2) The art Kennard produced formed the basis of his career, as he recounted later: “I studied as a painter, but after the events of 1968 I began to look for a form of expression that could bring art and politics together to a wider audience … I found that photography wasn’t as burdened with similar art historical associations.” The result was his STOP montage series.
(3) Scott insisted he was an abstract painter in the way he felt Chardin was too: the pans and fruit were uninteresting in themselves; they were merely "the means of making a picture", which was a study in space, form and colour.
(4) These late paintings were deemed too perfect, not "badly done" enough, perhaps, and unchallenging: there was in them a marked absence of painterly lavishness.
(5) It was a diplomatic gift from Rubens to Charles I, when the painter was acting as an envoy for Philip IV, but nevertheless seems to me a painting for everyone.
(6) Closing volume in relation to vital capacity (CV%) was increased in car painters, suggestive of a "small airways disease" on Monday before work and tended to increase during a work week.
(7) Statistically significant increases were detected in the elution rates of male smoking automobile mechanics and male smoking painters compared to non-smoking controls.
(8) Dr Atl is better known for his work as a landscape painter who portrayed the horizons of the valley of Mexico.
(9) By the time he joined the Army, he had begun to believe he was "more deep and true as a poet than a painter".
(10) That in turn helps to bring an income stream to creative artists, painters and many others.” At the event, Corbyn also vowed to defend the BBC , suggesting it could be lost, and UK broadcasting could end up commercialised like in the US, due to cuts made by the Conservative government.
(11) Thoma, who was born in the Black Forest in southern Germany in 1839 and died in 1924, started out as a painter of clock faces and built a reputation for his depictions of rural life.
(12) His charge sheet includes numerous assaults (one against a waiter who served him the wrong dish of artichokes); jail time for libelling a fellow painter, Giovanni Baglione, by posting poems around Rome accusing him of plagiarism and calling him Giovanni Coglione (“Johnny Bollocks”); affray (a police report records Caravaggio’s response when asked how he came by a wound: “I wounded myself with my own sword when I fell down these stairs.
(13) What Norbert Lynton called "painterly lavishness" took over Scott's work.
(14) He quoted a Chinese proverb that to be a painter "you need the eye, the hand and the heart.
(15) Leafing anxiously through a folder thick with court documentation and witness statements, Painter said he wanted his children returned to his care so they could go back to their old school and the home in which they had grown up.
(16) Rubens is not a solitary source of painterly genius, but a gregarious master who never hid his own quotations of earlier art.
(17) Nikolai Astrup (1880-1928) is recognized as one of the most famous Norwegian painters of his time.
(18) Less well known is his collection of works by all the major artists of late 19th-century Britain, pre-Raphaelite painters such as John Everett Millais, Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Edward Burne-Jones, and later more academic painters, hugely popular and fabulously expensive in their day, including Lawrence Alma-Tadema, Albert Moore, Edward Poynter and the grandest of them all, Frederic Leighton.
(19) The son of an architect and older brother of broadcaster Clement Freud, the painter was married to Kathleen Garman for four years.
(20) "I saw Picasso, Matisse, but Paul Klee was the big influence," he told me, "because he was so steeped in Indian philosophy he had made himself almost an Indian painter."