(v. t. & i.) To cry out harshly and loudly, like the bird called crake.
(v. t. & i.) To boast; to speak loudly and boastfully.
(n.) A boast. See Crack, n.
(n.) Any species or rail of the genera Crex and Porzana; -- so called from its singular cry. See Corncrake.
Example Sentences:
(1) And Oryx and Crake is dealing with tendencies that are global rather than country-specific or allied to national politics.
(2) Morally provocative and darkly funny with plenty of sex (including some fashionable sadomasochism), the series will be lapped up by fans of The Handmaid's Tale and Oryx and Crake .
(3) For instance, David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas, and Margaret Atwood's Oryx & Crake, two recent favorites, were speculative fiction, and Elizabeth Wein's Code Name Verity, another recent favourite, was historical.
(4) The presence of 5-3deltabeta-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase, IIbeta-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase, 17beta-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase and glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase has been demonstrated histochemically in the adrenal gland of the rain quail Coturnix coromendalica, barn owl Tyto alba, brown crake Amaurornis akool and painted partidge Francholinus pictus.
(5) Does having written Oryx and Crake make you think The Handmaid’s Tale is less true than it was?
Drake
Definition:
(n.) The male of the duck kind.
(n.) The drake fly.
(n.) A dragon.
(n.) A small piece of artillery.
(n.) Wild oats, brome grass, or darnel grass; -- called also drawk, dravick, and drank.
Example Sentences:
(1) Alighting upon the final four songs recorded by Drake, he pressed play and began to make notes before setting about mixing them for this putative release.
(2) Oh, and let’s not forget about him doing bad dance moves in a video making fun of Drake’s choreography in the Hotline Bling video.
(3) Dosage with the second lead shot did not result in further accumulation of bone lead in hens, but increased bone lead concentrations threefold in drakes, suggesting that saturation levels for bone lead had already been reached in the hens after ingestion of one shot.
(4) But this year forward-thinking mainstream rappers such as A$AP Rocky, Drake and Nicki Minaj have created a fertile soil for the growth of a new kind of normal.
(5) Trump’s response: After Drake came forward, Trump issued a dismissive statement.
(6) He states that he categorically warned Drake about appointing Sutton as technical director.
(7) That depends on whether you think Nick Drake is incredibly boring,” countered Duffy.
(8) T-Mobile: ‘Restricted Bling’ (starts at 10:21) Rap star Drake demonstrates extraordinary compliance no matter what’s asked of him in this funny advert for T-Mobile which aims to suggest that the network’s rivals “ruin everything”, but a longer version with him actually incorporating the lines “device eligible for upgrade after 24 months” and “streaming music will incur data charges” into his song wouldn’t go amiss.
(9) At the end of 1971 Drake wrote some new songs in Tanworth, but they constituted a clean break from the second- and third-person meditations of the previous two albums.
(10) Mallard drakes accumulated mercury rapidly from dietary dosage of methylmercury dicyandiamide and eliminated it slowly, retaining approximately one half at the end of 84 days; no measurable loss occurred between the end of the 7th and 56th days, but loss resumed concurrently with new feather growth, and continued through the 112th day, the close of the study.
(11) The anatomical structure of the ejaculatory groove region (EGR) of the drake was investigated macro- and microscopically in connection with its function.
(12) Similarly, in the Muscovy drake, using TAM enhanced penis growth and advanced semen production by 5 wk.
(13) • Macklemore & Ryan Lewis' won best rap performance , beating Kanye West, Jay Z, Eminem, Drake and Kendrick Lamar.
(14) Back at his parents' house, Drake had the use of a car.
(15) The Drake family even offered to buy it off me eight years ago for £2,000."
(16) Stephen “Tea Towel” Duffy mentioned Nick Drake.
(17) That Drake had hit a new low was perfectly apparent - not only from the rest of the songs in that final session but from his inability to sing and play the guitar at the same time.
(18) British Cycling, Will’s Wheels and the curious case of 2,200 pieces of GB kit Read more Drake said: “I have never been made aware, formally or informally, of any allegation that Shane Sutton had used the offensive term ‘gimps’ in reference to Paralympic athletes prior to the media reports of the past few days.
(19) But even as details of the prospective deal began to emerge and give it credibility (including the slightly bizarre but apparently true report of musician Drake intervening to persuade his fan, Defoe, to come to the rapper's hometown team ), there still seemed to be something of a gap between the thought of Defoe arriving, and Leiweke's late-November promise that Toronto were on the verge of the biggest signing in MLS history.
(20) Seasonal changes in plasma LH concentrations were measured by radioimmunoassay every month for 1 year in nine Khaki Campbell drakes kept under natural lighting conditions in Kiel, Germany.