(n.) A company of people associated together; an assemblage; a throng.
(n.) The company of seamen who man a ship, vessel, or at; the company belonging to a vessel or a boat.
(n.) In an extended sense, any small body of men associated for a purpose; a gang; as (Naut.), the carpenter's crew; the boatswain's crew.
() imp. of Crow
(imp.) of Crow
Example Sentences:
(1) Squadron Leader Kevin Harris, commander of the Merlins at Camp Bastion, the main British base in Helmand, praised the crews, adding: "The Merlins will undergo an extensive programme of maintenance and cleaning before being packed up, ensuring they return to the UK in good order."
(2) Now serves as director of football and director of the academy at Crewe.
(3) He said the system had been successfully deployed at depths of 365 metres after hurricane Katrina, but not by a BP crew.
(4) The fiery energy she radiated on stage and her motormouth, ragga-influenced raps brought her to the attention of So Solid Crew, who invited her to collaborate.
(5) The authors describe the maternal transport and delivery of a neonate with a serious disorder that required specialized attention at an hour when most hospitals are staffed with a skeleton crew.
(6) Sigurdsson joined Reading as a youngster in 2005, and had loan spells at Crewe and Shrewsbury before breaking into the first team.
(7) The other rowers in the Arctic crew were Billy Gammon, 37, from Cornwall; Rob Sleep, 38, and British army officer Captain David Mans, 28, both from Hampshire.
(8) She had attitude to burn, though, while the Bristol crew were content to drift, their work rate informed by the slow pace of their native city and by what might be called the spliff consciousness that determined not just the bass-heavy pulse of their music but the worldview of their lyrics, which often tended towards the insular and the paranoid.
(9) Results of the model applied to several planning data sets (including a form of the Austin, Texas planning problem) demonstrate that more concentrated ambulance allocation patterns exist which may lead to easier dispatching, reduced facility costs, and better crew load balancing with little or no loss of service coverage.
(10) Helicopter crews have reported that entire villages have been razed there.
(11) Up to 100 children may have died in the weekend’s catastrophic shipwreck in the Mediterranean, a relief agency has said as prosecutors in Sicily arrested the alleged commander of the wooden fishing vessel and a member of his crew.
(12) I would urge her to follow the example of Elizabeth I, who, on appointing as her chief minister Sir William Cecil, said of him: “This opinion I have of you: that whatever you know my personal opinion to be, you will give me advice that is best for the realm.” Valerie Crews Beckenham, Kent • Another immensely qualified person loses their job for not being optimistic enough about Brexit.
(13) Over on the smaller boat, Mbalo remembers one of the two crew members then descending to the lower decks.
(14) Inflight monitoring uses the macroanalysis of crew speech characteristics as an indicator of psychological state.
(15) Separately, the Guardian witnessed teargas being shot directly at a camera crew with al-Jazeera America.
(16) Still escorted by Hamas gunmen, Shalit was then taken to a border crossing, where an Egyptian TV crew interviewed him before he was finally sent into Israel.
(17) Staff had to make paper records of 999 calls in what one ambulance crew member described as “a shambles”.
(18) A ccents from every state in the union can be heard as workers pour off the train each day in Williston, North Dakota, ready to try their luck as the welders, truck drivers, plumbers, oil rig roughnecks, frackers, water carriers and road crews required to support the booming fracking industry – but also as plumbers, lawyers, cooks, accountants and everything else it takes to build a rapidly burgeoning city.
(19) The Indonesian government has said it believes Australia paid the ship’s crew.
(20) I want to pay tribute to our cabin crew members who have been determined to achieve a negotiated settlement.
Rooster
Definition:
(n.) The male of the domestic fowl; a cock.
Example Sentences:
(1) To investigate the adaptive responses of immature bone to increased loads, young (3-wk-old) White Leghorn roosters were subjected to moderately intense treadmill running for 5 or 9 wk.
(2) A single mRNA of 1.3 kb was detected at high levels in heart and brain of 10-week-old roosters, and, at lower levels in spleen, liver and skeletal muscle.
(3) Reports of neurotoxic agents causing adverse effects on the male reproductive system initiated the present study which was designed to examine the effects of TOCP on the rooster.
(4) In the roosters the kidney contained approximately five times as much Se as the muscle.
(5) A recent re-determination of the rooster protamine amino acid sequence (28 residues from the N terminus) matches that predicted from the genome rather than the sequence of Nakano et al.
(6) We also show, by indirect immunofluorescence studies, that the 60-kDa protein is antigenically conserved in the germ cells of grasshopper, rooster, and frog and in plant meiocytes.
(7) Testis, epididymis and ductus deferens of the adult domestic fowl and male gonads of juvenile roosters have been studied by means of histochemical and histological methods.
(8) Another man in a pirate hat covered in voodoo dolls approached the screen, placing a live rooster on the stage as if offering it to the football gods.
(9) Consequently, the abnormal seminal plasma composition of Sd roosters is attributed to excurrent duct dysfunction.
(10) We report here the production of a fertile rooster which lacks avian leukosis virus-related endogenous viral genes and which seems to be completely normal and healthy.
(11) Oligomers of hyaluronic acid were prepared by digestion of hyaluronic acid from rooster combs with testicular hyaluronidase (hyaluronate 4-glycanohydrolase, EC 3.2.1.35), leech head hyaluronidase (hyaluronate 3-glycanohydrolase, EC 3.2.1.36), and with fungal hyaluronidase (hyaluronate lyase from Streptomyces hyalurolyticus).
(12) Radioactive O-phosphoryl-L-serine was detected after alkaline deacylation of rat and rooster liver [(3)H]seryl-tRNA acylated in vitro with homologous synthetases.
(13) Ribosomal RNAases from control and estrogen-stimulated roosters show differences in response to Mg2+, spermidine and EDTA.
(14) Visual cues thus appear to be more important than auditory cues alone with respect to the maintenance of dominant social status in roosters.
(15) Consequently, for an estrogenized rooster, the addition of both heparin and yeast RNA to the homogenate suffices to stabilize the polysomes, whereas control rooster liver homogenate needs supplementation with endogenous ribonuclease inhibitor.
(16) Aggressive and passive roosters displayed agonistic behaviour towards each other.
(17) Moreover, the maximal amplitude of the stapedius muscle EMG response is consistently lower than that detected in young roosters, despite the fact that the maximal vocalization amplitude of the adult birds is much higher.
(18) cDNA clones were prepared from poly(A)+ mRNA isolated from a population enriched in postmeiotic rooster testes spermatogenic cells.
(19) However, when these hens were artificially inseminated with semen from mite infested roosters, fertility nor hatchability was affected by the mite infestation.
(20) It was concluded that LMET was the major methionine analogue excreted from roosters dosed with either HMB-FA or LMET, and that HMB-FA was not excreted by the avian kidney.