(n.) A manger or rack; a feeding place for animals.
(n.) A stall for oxen or other cattle.
(n.) A small inclosed bedstead or cot for a child.
(n.) A box or bin, or similar wooden structure, for storing grain, salt, etc.; as, a crib for corn or oats.
(n.) A hovel; a hut; a cottage.
(n.) A structure or frame of timber for a foundation, or for supporting a roof, or for lining a shaft.
(n.) A structure of logs to be anchored with stones; -- used for docks, pier, dams, etc.
(n.) A small raft of timber.
(n.) A small theft; anything purloined;; a plagiaris/; hence, a translation or key, etc., to aid a student in preparing or reciting his lessons.
(n.) A miner's luncheon.
(n.) The discarded cards which the dealer can use in scoring points in cribbage.
(v. t.) To shut up or confine in a narrow habitation; to cage; to cramp.
(v. t.) To pilfer or purloin; hence, to steal from an author; to appropriate; to plagiarize; as, to crib a line from Milton.
(v. i.) To crowd together, or to be confined, as in a crib or in narrow accommodations.
(v. i.) To make notes for dishonest use in recitation or examination.
(v. i.) To seize the manger or other solid object with the teeth and draw in wind; -- said of a horse.
Example Sentences:
(1) (vi) At 10 C crib-1 synthesizes unequal amounts of 25S and 17S ribosomal ribonucleic acid (rRNA) molecules, resulting from a greatly reduced accumulation of stable 17S rRNA.
(2) Police found a crib sheet on one of the detained men with phrases such as “great breasts” and “I want to f*** you” translated into German.
(3) When she was about two, three months old he bought me a stroller and a $700 crib.
(4) An additional 26 babies received BERA and one Crib-O-Gram test.
(5) In case of corn contamination by ochratoxin A, the analysis of technologic parameters conclude to question the drying corn with ears in cribs and the delayed drying after the reception of corn in storage corporation.
(6) The activities of choline acetyltransferase (ChAT), acetylcholinesterase (AChE), glutamate decarboxylase, and tyrosine hydroxylase in a number of brain regions are reported for this infant, two cases of crib death, and a group of normal adults.
(7) A recent report on a prospective study of more than 5,000 babies showed that all 3 infants who ultimately succumbed to crib death had had abnormally prolonged corrected QT intervals on day 4 of life; the report contends that that irregularity leads to ventricular fibrillation, which is then the immediate cause of death.
(8) The authors emphasize the importance of detecting the newborns at audiological risk and screening the neonates in order to get an early diagnosis and treatment of the affection, at least within the first year of life, to avoid or reduce the consequences of hearing loss; then they describe the procedure commonly in use at present for neonatal hearing screening and a number of available different diagnostic tools (electrodermal audiometry, heart rate audiometry--with the possibility of autoregressive analysis--respiration audiometry, autoregressive analysis of EEG, acoustic impedance measurements with study of the acoustic reflex, auditory response cradle which is also named CRIB-O-GRAM).
(9) And in the Crib Assessment and Purchasing Guide, which follows the Conclusions and Ratings, we provide general guidance to help readers evaluate cribs that were not included in this study.
(10) The 14th child, a 3-month-old white female infant, was found dead in her crib and had renal histopathologic findings consistent with the hemolytic-uremic syndrome.
(11) By the time they returned to their cribs, they were again asleep.
(12) A city which appears as if redesigned by the furnishers of MTV Cribs will appeal to those with a cruel sense of humour.
(13) A series of psychophysical lifting studies was conducted to establish maximum acceptable weights of lift (MAWL) for three supply items commonly handled in underground coal mines (rock dust bags, ventilation stopping blocks, and crib blocks).
(14) His scholarship, no doubt, was meagre but he could read Greek with the help of a dictionary and a crib and he loved it - that may astonish.
(15) The examination of 337 cases of Sudden Infant Death Syndorme (SIDS) ro Crib Deaths in Philadelphia, Penn., USA, and 294 cases in Hamburg, Federal Republic of Germany, shows regional concentrations which are close to uncommon magnetic fields or stray electric currents in the ground.
(16) (v) After a shift from 10 to 25 C crib-1 exhibits a 12-h lag before the growth rate and the rate of synthesis of 37S subunits begin to increase significantly.
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(18) This period, four to six months postnatally, interestingly coincides with the peak incidence of sudden infant death syndrome (crib death), which similarly occurs at 3 to 5 months of age.
(19) We will place this heritage in our constitution, and we will put an end to those eternal debates which lead to Christmas cribs being banned from town halls .” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Front National MP Marion Maréchal-Le Pen.
(20) Finland is the best country for babies A baby sleeps in a Finnish maternity box that can be used as a first crib.
Stock
Definition:
(n.) The stem, or main body, of a tree or plant; the fixed, strong, firm part; the trunk.
(n.) The stem or branch in which a graft is inserted.
(n.) A block of wood; something fixed and solid; a pillar; a firm support; a post.
(n.) Hence, a person who is as dull and lifeless as a stock or post; one who has little sense.
(n.) The principal supporting part; the part in which others are inserted, or to which they are attached.
(n.) The wood to which the barrel, lock, etc., of a musket or like firearm are secured; also, a long, rectangular piece of wood, which is an important part of several forms of gun carriage.
(n.) The handle or contrivance by which bits are held in boring; a bitstock; a brace.
(n.) The block of wood or metal frame which constitutes the body of a plane, and in which the plane iron is fitted; a plane stock.
(n.) The wooden or iron crosspiece to which the shank of an anchor is attached. See Illust. of Anchor.
(n.) The support of the block in which an anvil is fixed, or of the anvil itself.
(n.) A handle or wrench forming a holder for the dies for cutting screws; a diestock.
(n.) The part of a tally formerly struck in the exchequer, which was delivered to the person who had lent the king money on account, as the evidence of indebtedness. See Counterfoil.
(n.) The original progenitor; also, the race or line of a family; the progenitor of a family and his direct descendants; lineage; family.
(n.) Money or capital which an individual or a firm employs in business; fund; in the United States, the capital of a bank or other company, in the form of transferable shares, each of a certain amount; money funded in government securities, called also the public funds; in the plural, property consisting of shares in joint-stock companies, or in the obligations of a government for its funded debt; -- so in the United States, but in England the latter only are called stocks, and the former shares.
(n.) Same as Stock account, below.
(n.) Supply provided; store; accumulation; especially, a merchant's or manufacturer's store of goods; as, to lay in a stock of provisions.
(n.) Domestic animals or beasts collectively, used or raised on a farm; as, a stock of cattle or of sheep, etc.; -- called also live stock.
(n.) That portion of a pack of cards not distributed to the players at the beginning of certain games, as gleek, etc., but which might be drawn from afterward as occasion required; a bank.
(n.) A thrust with a rapier; a stoccado.
(n.) A covering for the leg, or leg and foot; as, upper stocks (breeches); nether stocks (stockings).
(n.) A kind of stiff, wide band or cravat for the neck; as, a silk stock.
(n.) A frame of timber, with holes in which the feet, or the feet and hands, of criminals were formerly confined by way of punishment.
(n.) The frame or timbers on which a ship rests while building.
(n.) Red and gray bricks, used for the exterior of walls and the front of buildings.
(n.) Any cruciferous plant of the genus Matthiola; as, common stock (Matthiola incana) (see Gilly-flower); ten-weeks stock (M. annua).
(n.) An irregular metalliferous mass filling a large cavity in a rock formation, as a stock of lead ore deposited in limestone.
(n.) A race or variety in a species.
(n.) In tectology, an aggregate or colony of persons (see Person), as trees, chains of salpae, etc.
(n.) The beater of a fulling mill.
(n.) A liquid or jelly containing the juices and soluble parts of meat, and certain vegetables, etc., extracted by cooking; -- used in making soup, gravy, etc.
(v. t.) To lay up; to put aside for future use; to store, as merchandise, and the like.
(v. t.) To provide with material requisites; to store; to fill; to supply; as, to stock a warehouse, that is, to fill it with goods; to stock a farm, that is, to supply it with cattle and tools; to stock land, that is, to occupy it with a permanent growth, especially of grass.
(v. t.) To suffer to retain milk for twenty-four hours or more previous to sale, as cows.
(v. t.) To put in the stocks.
(a.) Used or employed for constant service or application, as if constituting a portion of a stock or supply; standard; permanent; standing; as, a stock actor; a stock play; a stock sermon.
Example Sentences:
(1) The high frequency of increased PCV number in San, S.A. Negroes and American Negroes is in keeping with the view that the Khoisan peoples (here represented by the San), the Southern African Negroes and the African ancestors of American Blacks sprang from a common proto-negriform stock.
(2) The ulcers on seven of ten legs (70%) treated with Unna's boots and on 10 of 14 legs (71%) treated with elastic support stocking healed.
(3) Adjunctive usage of elastic stockings and intermittent compression pneumatic boots in the perioperative period was helpful in controlling leg swelling and promoting wound healing.
(4) China’s stock market rout Shanghai stocks Chinese shares have tumbled in recent weeks against the backdrop of a slowdown in the world’s second-largest economy .
(5) Half a million homes were sold in Scotland, we lost a huge, huge chunk of stock, and as house prices began to escalate so any asset to the community has gone.
(6) Nintendo’s share price on the Tokyo Stock Exchange has plummeted 17% in one day, apparently due to investors belatedly discovering that the company doesn’t actually make Pokémon Go , the latest mobile gaming phenomenon.
(7) The PTA take 25% of sales, and most parents donate unsold stock."
(8) Analysis of mice injected with helper-free P90A virus stocks demonstrates that the variants are generated during viral replication in vivo, probably as a consequence of error-prone reverse transcription.
(9) Born in Dublin and educated at University College Dublin, he has also served on the board of the Washington Post, General Electric, Waterford Wedgwood and the New York Stock Exchange.
(10) As well as stocking second-hand items for purchase, charity shops such as Oxfam have launched Christmas gifts to provide specific help for poor communities abroad.
(11) Philip Shaw, chief economist at Investec, said: “Clearly, there is a much greater chance that the euro hits parity with the US dollar once again, as it first did in 1999.” Stock markets climbed and bond yields fell as the markets digested the full implications of the massive QE project that will involve the ECB buying €60bn (£45bn) of bonds a month until September 2016 or when eurozone inflation nears the central bank’s 2% target.
(12) First, the possibility of "vertical" transmission of the virus was examined, as the Papio stock in Sukhumi was genetically homogeneous.
(13) Results of trials designed to determine forage production at various stocking densities may not reflect the nutritive value of the forage, but instead the severity of parasite exposure.
(14) Shares in energy companies lost ground as the impact of the drop in oil prices rippled through European stock markets.
(15) In the 46 herds in which only the adult stock were slaughtered, 11 herds suffered breakdowns.
(16) "I believe it is important to take stock of how technological advances alter the environment in which we conduct our intelligence mission," he explained.
(17) World stock markets suffered another bout of heavy losses when trading began on Thursday, with the FTSE 100 falling 57 points within the opening minutes to 5879.
(18) The closest town of any size is Burns, population 2,806, where you should stock up on petrol, food and water before heading south into the wilderness on the 66-mile Steens Mountain Backcountry Byway.
(19) During the last ten years the stock of pigs in the Netherlands has doubled.
(20) Analysis by six enzymes (aspartate aminotransferase; alanine aminotransferase; malate dehydrogenase; glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase; phosphoglucomutase; and glucose-phosphate isomerase) showed that these stocks have identical enzyme profiles and form a distinct zymodeme grouping.