(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 .
Cue
Definition:
(n.) The tail; the end of a thing; especially, a tail-like twist of hair worn at the back of the head; a queue.
(n.) The last words of a play actor's speech, serving as an intimation for the next succeeding player to speak; any word or words which serve to remind a player to speak or to do something; a catchword.
(n.) A hint or intimation.
(n.) The part one has to perform in, or as in, a play.
(n.) Humor; temper of mind.
(n.) A straight tapering rod used to impel the balls in playing billiards.
(v. t.) To form into a cue; to braid; to twist.
(n.) A small portion of bread or beer; the quantity bought with a farthing or half farthing.
Example Sentences:
(1) In some experiments heart rate and minute ventilation (central vactors) appear to be the dominant cues for rated perceived exertion, while in others, local factors such as blood lactate concentration and muscular discomfort seem to be the prominent cues.
(2) There was no significant effect of the factor "cues."
(3) Almost nothing is known about nature and timing of the embryonic cues which induce or initiate spicule formation by these cells.
(4) Two mechanisms are evident in chicks' spatial representations: a metric frame for encoding the spatial arrangement of surfaces as surfaces and a cue-guidance system for encoding conspicuous landmarks near the target.
(5) Sleep was defined behaviorally as failure to respond to the faint auditory RT cue.
(6) Fifty-one severely retarded adults were taught a difficult visual discrimination in an assembly task by one of three training techniques: (a) adding and reducing large cue differences on the relevant-shape dimension; (b) adding and fading a redundant-color dimension; or (c) a combination of the two techniques.
(7) However, these models differ in their predictions about the effect of trial order on cue interaction.
(8) These additional cues involved different sensations in effort of the perfomed movement sliding heavy object vs. sliding light object (sS test), as well as different sensations in pattern of movement and joints - sliding vs. lifting of an object (SL test).
(9) Through cues or precues, attention was directed to one location of a multistimulus visual display and, while attention was so engaged, the identity of a stimulus located at a different position in the display was changed.
(10) For both the single- and multiple-band signals, performance was best when the signal band(s) had a different envelope from the common envelope of the cue bands, and performance was worst when either the cue bands all had different envelopes, or the signal and cue bands all shared the same envelope.
(11) Cues conditioned to food elicit eating by selectively activating appetitive systems.
(12) Comparison of implant-user performance with the temporal-only data reported here can help determine whether the speech information available to the implant user consists of entirely temporal cues, or is augmented by spectral cues.
(13) The students received cues-pause-point training on an initial question set followed by generalization assessments on a different set in another setting.
(14) However, in a double-cue conditioning paradigm in which both command words were presented alone on different trials and reinforced, response latency was longer and puff attenuation poorer among Vs than when the UCS was signaled by a unique cue.
(15) In 1943 Konrad Lorenz postulated that certain infantile cues served as releasers for caretaking behaviour in human adults.
(16) A Rhesus monkey was trained to discriminate between 2 acoustic signals, preceded by visual cues, that instructed which of 2 movements to make.
(17) On three of the tests, the independent variable was a spectral cue and on three others a temporal cue was manipulated.
(18) These findings suggest that health professionals, particularly nurses, who work with families in their homes, must be alert and sensitive to cues and circumstances which could indicate suffering, and in so doing, take the necessary steps to ameliorate their situation.
(19) To investigate this issue, data from two previous papers were reanalysed to investigate the complete time course of precuing target location with either: (1) a peripheral cue that may draw attention reflexively, or (2) a central, symbolic cue that may require attention to be directed voluntarily.
(20) Roberts described the TGF-betas as providing the cells with cues to their temporal positions in a developmental program, that is, telling the cells "where they were, where they are, and where they're going."