(n.) Jocosely or in contempt, a boy or girl, esp. an awkward, rude, ill-mannered boy.
(v. t. & i.) To bring forth; -- said of animals, or in contempt, of persons.
(n.) A stall for cattle.
(n.) A cupboard.
(v. t.) To shut up or confine.
Example Sentences:
(1) Lion cubs fathered by Cecil, the celebrated lion shot dead in Zimbabwe , may already have been killed by a rival male lion and even if they were still alive there was nothing conservationists could do to protect them, a conservation charity has warned.
(2) In the second phase nitric oxide, which is still bound to CuB after the first phase, is expelled from the complex by azide, with a concomitant electron transfer from CuB to cytochrome a.
(3) A video from the zoo showed Juxiao sitting in the corner of a room as she delivered her cubs for four hours and licking them after they were born.
(4) In the Mahale Mountains National Park of Tanzania, a group of about 33 chimpanzees were observed to surround a leopard den containing a mother and at least one cub and to drag out and kill the cub.
(5) The agency on Friday released a clip recorded by a camera attached to the collar of a female polar bear without cubs in the Beaufort Sea north of Prudhoe Bay, Alaska.
(6) Did the lumbersexual, as accused, steal his look from the gay world of “bears” and “cubs”?
(7) The Cubs outfielder, who could void any trade out of Chicago, has said he just needs a few days to decide if he wants to allow the deal to happen, one which would provide the Bronx Bombers with a badly needed right-handed power bat, so please just be patient, OK?
(8) Aaron Hill drove in two runs with a homer and double, helping the Arizona Diamondbacks top the Chicago Cubs 3-1 and also split a four-game series.
(9) It is suggested that azide binding is probably associated with the deprotonation of some ionizable group(s) in the vicinity of the cytochrome a3-CuB site.
(10) Oliver mocked Kadyrov in a five-minute segment on HBO’s Last Week Tonight after the Chechen leader appealed to the world to help find his cat, a so-called toyger, a domestic cat bred to resemble a tiger cub.
(11) Attenborough told ITV1's This Morning: "If you had tried to put a camera in the wild in a polar bear den, she would either have killed the cub or she would have killed the cameraman, one or the other."
(12) There is still a chance she will give birth to a live cub as her progesterone levels have not yet returned to base.
(13) Cubs of the year recovered more quickly than adults.
(14) Pityrosporum pachydermatis was repeatedly isolated from portions of alopecic tissue from the throax and ears of a black bear cub (Ursus americanus).
(15) A video camera in the Indonesian jungle has captured the first known footage of Sumatran tiger cubs in the wild , boosting efforts to conserve the endangered species, WWF said today.
(16) These results can be simulated on the basis of a model which requires that the intramolecular electron transfer from cytochrome a and CuA to cytochrome a3-CuB is a two-electron process and, in addition, that the binding of oxidized cytochrome c to the electron- transfer site decreases the rate constants for intramolecular electron transfer from cytochrome a.
(17) 265, 7945-7958], it is proposed that formate can bind to CuB and the fast to slow transition is rationalized by using this proposal.
(18) Karmila Parakkasi, the leader of WWF Indonesia's Sumatran tiger research team, said her crew first captured still images of the tigress and a cub in July 2009 using still camera traps.
(19) Only four American League teams – the Indians, Red Sox, Tigers, and White Sox – and five National League teams – the Cardinals, Cubs, Reds, Phillies, and Pirates – were in their current cities when the current Major League alignment came into existence.
(20) Officials said the cub was "healthy and vibrant" following a physical examination conducted days after her birth .
Cud
Definition:
(n.) That portion of food which is brought up into the mouth by ruminating animals from their first stomach, to be chewed a second time.
(n.) A portion of tobacco held in the mouth and chewed; a quid.
(n.) The first stomach of ruminating beasts.
Example Sentences:
(1) The reasons for this are discussed in terms of a mechanism in which all electrons enter through cytochrome a, which, in turn, is in rapid equilibrium with a second site, identified with 'visible' copper (830 nm-absorbing) Cud (Beinert et al., 1971).
(2) Neither stimulus light intensity nor eccentricity affected the CUD in the normals, in 1 of the commissurotomized patients, and in the acallosal boy.
(3) The results showed the MDP- and DTPA-CUDs stored at -18 degrees C retained the properties which resulted in acceptable radiochemical purity and biodistribution in mice for as long as 30 days.
(4) The purpose of this study was to examine, by transmission electron microscopy (TEM), the nature of the protective effect of dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO) on hearts of copper-deficient (CuD) rats.
(5) After either one or two days of storage at -10 degrees C, four CUDs of each concentration were labeled with 0.2-0.3 mL of sodium pertechnetate Tc 99m (10-20 mCi).
(6) Cumulative [14C]cholesterol absorption and total lymphatic output of cholesterol were significantly decreased in CuD at 4 hr and thereafter, with no change in percentage distribution of free and esterified cholesterol.
(7) Purity was less than 80% for CUDs stored for more than two days.
(8) Male, weanling Sprague-Dawley rats were fed diets deficient (CuD, less than 0.5 ppm) or adequate (CuA, 5.0-5.5 ppm) in Cu for 4 weeks.
(9) They exhibit natural behaviours – they chew the cud, socialise, groom each other.” “It’s a perception that cows need to gambol in fields,” he said.
(10) Patients with parietal lesions had still longer CUDs, 37 msec on the average.
(11) The CUDs of 2 commissurotomized patients varied with stimulus eccentricity but not intensity.
(12) Over an 8-hr period, 7.3% of the dose was absorbed by CuD and 9.2% by CuA.
(13) The radiochemical purity of CUDs labeled with 2.0 mL of sodium pertechnetate Tc 99m was significantly greater than the purity of CUDs labeled with 0.2 mL for storage times exceeding two days.
(14) cytochrome a and Cud) were reduced simultaneously and the stoicheiometry of the initial reaction was closer to two molecules of cytochrome c2+ oxidized per molecule of cytochrome a reduced.
(15) Male, weanling Sprague-Dawley rats were fed either a purified diet which was deficient in copper (CuD) or the same diet made sufficient with 5 ppm of copper (CuS).
(16) Aminopeptidase N activity was 35% lower in CuD rats than controls, but activity was not affected by cis-Pt.
(17) In our patients the mean CUD, expressed as the difference between contralateral and ipsilateral responses, was 20 msec.
(18) Four leaders were arrested on 1 November and this was the first time Hailu Shawel, the CUD leader, had been able to speak publicly since his detention.
(19) The CUDs in these subjects are attributed to the transfer of nonsensory information via the corpus callosum, via ipsilateral corticospinal tracts, and via the anterior commissure or ipsilateral motor pathways, respectively.
(20) The CUDs of lower dilution (3 mL) appeared to be more stable than the CUDs of higher dilution (10 mL).