(n.) A variety of pigeon with a large crop; a pouter.
(n.) A machine for cropping, as for shearing off bolts or rod iron, or for facing cloth.
(n.) A fall on one's head when riding at full speed, as in hunting; hence, a sudden failure or collapse.
Example Sentences:
(1) When Hayley Cropper swallows poison on Coronation Street on Monday night, taking her own life to escape inoperable pancreatic cancer, with her beloved husband, Roy, in pieces at her bedside, it will be the end of a character who, thanks to Hesmondhalgh's performance, has captivated and challenged British TV viewers for 16 years.
(2) Coronation Street star Julie Hesmondhalgh said there was "an almost holy atmosphere" during her last scene when her character Hayley Cropper committed suicide in the face of incurable cancer.
(3) The columnist came a cropper in 2008 with his front-page Sunday Times story about John Le Carre's temptation to defect to the Soviet Union .
(4) Updated at 3.06pm BST 2.56pm BST O'Sullivan's rescue mission immediately comes a cropper, though, missing the black after his first red.
(5) And their confidence has meant some have come a cropper.
(6) The man, an army veteran whose identity has been withheld, was working as a translator for the US marines in the volatile Anbar province when he was detained for nine months at Camp Cropper, a US military facility near Baghdad airport dedicated to holding "high-value" detainees.
(7) The man, an army veteran whose identity has been withheld, worked as a translator for the US marines in the volatile Anbar province when he was detained for nine months at Camp Cropper, a US military facility near Baghdad airport dedicated to holding "high-value" detainees.
(8) "Croppers and livestock keepers in sub-Saharan Africa have in the past shown themselves to be highly adaptable to short- and long-term variations in climate.
(9) I flick idly through a few pictures, subjecting them to either the heart icon or the big red X. I'm careful not to use it in the office: friends of mine have already come a cropper by discovering their colleagues on the screen and finding out more than they ever wanted to know – a picture of the IT coordinator's penis is never welcome.
(10) The public had not and [the coalition] came a cropper big style".
(11) While everyone may have been under the impression that these products were being recycled, the reality is they more than likely weren’t,” he says, en route to the James Cropper mill in Kendal, Cumbria , where the Simply Cups cups are turned into new packaging.
(12) "The stakes in holding detainees at Camp Cropper may have been high, but one purpose of the constitutional limitations on interrogation techniques and conditions of confinement even domestically is to strike a balance between government objectives and individual rights, even when the stakes are high," he ruled.
(13) You can paint the name of your favourite rider on the road, though you are asked to use non-slippy chalk-based paint so that the riders don't come a cropper.
(14) Ironically, given the extensive choice, it's not one of these that Medway couple Michelle and David Reade came a cropper with.
(15) Cropper has made a handful of appearances on the bench for Southampton, but his prospects of getting a game this year do not look too good, after the club spent £10m to sign the England international Fraser Forster from Celtic .
(16) In neither sex was there a significant relation of pleural calcification to smoking, ventilatory capacity, nor type of work, though those classified as field croppers had a slightly higher prevalence.
(17) "He won't be the first or last youth to try and change the world and come a cropper," Ruffell said.
(18) District judge Wayne Andersen in Illinois last year ruled that Donald Vance and Nathan Ertel, Americans who worked in Iraq as contractors and were held at Camp Cropper, could pursue claims that they were tortured using Rumsfeld-approved methods after they suspected the security firm they worked for of engaging in illegal activities.
(19) For the sixth time in eight years, the club have not come a cropper at the play-off round.
(20) Julie Hesmondhalgh is best known for her award-winning performance as Hayley Cropper in Coronation Street – the first transgender character in a television serial.
Pigeon
Definition:
(n.) Any bird of the order Columbae, of which numerous species occur in nearly all parts of the world.
(n.) An unsuspected victim of sharpers; a gull.
(v. t.) To pluck; to fleece; to swindle by tricks in gambling.
Example Sentences:
(1) However, the characteristics of pigeon atherosclerosis at other vascular sites have not been extensively studied.
(2) There are thus clear similarities in the overall pattern of somatosensory projections in the pigeon and in many mammalian species.
(3) The behavioral effects of phenytoin, phenobarbital, clonazepam, valproic acid, and ethosuximide were evaluated in food-deprived pigeons performing under automaintenance and negative automaintenance procedures.
(4) The pigeon's metapatagialis muscle consists of three slips, two twitch and one tonic, and these slips are distinguishable at the gross anatomical level.
(5) The gain of anterior SC primary afferents at 0.25 Hz is similar for anesthetized (2.93 I X s-1 X deg-1 X s-1, n = 14) (11) and for unanesthetized (3.01 I X s-1 X deg-1 X s-1, n = 14) pigeons.
(6) A series of seven experiments related amplitude and latency of the pigeon's startle response, elicited by an intense visual stimulus, to antecedent auditory and visual events in the sensory environment.
(7) Immunohistochemical techniques were used to survey the distribution of several conventional transmitters, receptors, and neuropeptides in the pigeon nucleus of the basal optic root (nBOR), a component of the accessory optic system.
(8) Immunoglobulin G (IgG), A (IgA) and M (IgM) antibody activity against pigeon serum was demonstrated in the patient's serum by a solid phase radioimmunoassay (RIA) technic.
(9) The activities of choline acetyltransferase and acetylcholinesterase were assayed in submicrogram samples from layers of pigeon retina.
(10) Erythrocytes from pigeons and 1-day-old chicks gave similar antigen and antibody titers, but goose erythrocytes gave lower titers.
(11) But my timid scrunch-face puts me so behind the curve that I might as well start training carrier pigeons.
(12) The serratus metapatagialis (SMP) muscle of the pigeon has been studied histochemically and ultrastructurally.
(13) Pigeon Type I horizontal cells are Cajal's "brush-shaped" cells, and their axon terminals resemble Cajal's "stellate" cells.
(14) The mechanism of pyruvate-2,6-dichlorophenol-indophenol (2,6-CPI) reductase reaction catalyzed by the pyruvate dehydrogenase complex from pigeon breast muscle and by its pyruvate dehydrogenase component was studied.
(15) Most of the time when we talk about pollution people think about Beijing or other places, but there are some days in the year when pollution was higher and more toxic in London than Beijing, that’s the reality.” He said he was inspired by the use of pigeons in the first and second world wars to deliver information and save lives, but they were also a practical way of taking mobile air quality readings and beating London’s congested roads.
(16) The local pigeon crop-sac assay was used to test the direct effects of epidermal growth factor (EGF) and several other growth factors and hormones on the growth of mucosal epithelial cells in vivo.
(17) Nine pigeons in a matching-to-sample task with 5 alternative stimuli were exposed to 4 dose levels of sodium pentobarbital.
(18) In pigeon liver, only purine nucleoside phosphorylase was increased but xanthine dehydrogenase activity was not detected after feeding a high protein diet, while both enzyme activities were increased in the pigeon kidney.
(19) The authors report an epizootic form of toxoplasmosis observed among the crowned pigeons (Goura cristata Pallas and Goura victoria Frazer).
(20) Pigeons are able to home from unfamiliar sites because they acquire an olfactory map extending beyond the area they have flown over.