(n. sing. & pl.) One of a race of giants, sons of Neptune and Amphitrite, having but one eye, and that in the middle of the forehead. They were fabled to inhabit Sicily, and to assist in the workshops of Vulcan, under Mt. Etna.
(n. sing. & pl.) A genus of minute Entomostraca, found both in fresh and salt water. See Copepoda.
(n. sing. & pl.) A portable forge, used by tinkers, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) Each target compound was obtained in five steps starting from cyclopent-2-enone.
(2) It is suggested that the cyclops face constitutes a model for the study of the development of the normal face.
(3) The timing and mode of application of compounds toxic to cyclops in various endemic regions are discussed.
(4) The effect of Abate on the vector cyclops was studied and was found to be very encouraging.
(5) In these studies the specimens of cyclopes of man and mammals, still present in the collection of the Museum Vrolik in the Department of Anatomy and Embryology of the University of Amsterdam, were described and illustrated with beautiful lithographs.
(6) In the micro-economics of obscure music promotion the vandalism of a cloth cyclops dispenser could be the point at which your break-even point disappears over the event horizon.
(7) They describe the various types of Cyclops habitat and the seasonal variations in transmission.
(8) In this study, various insecticidal and molluscicidal compounds were tested in the laboratory for their toxicity to the intermediate hosts, namely, various species of cyclops, which often live in sources of potable water, such as step-wells, cisterns and ponds.
(9) "In terms of the math, [Storm, Jean Grey and Cyclops] would be in their early teens."
(10) The upper jaw has also been studied in a dried cyclops skull and in a desiccated cyclops head in which the roof of the orbit had been removed.
(11) Sieving water through a cloth is sufficient to remove the Cyclops, but on a public health scale improved water supplies are required for control.
(12) Such a case is presented along with a case of a cyclops with synophthalmos.
(13) Scanning electron microscopic observations were made on the early third stage (eL3) larvae of Gnathostoma spinigerum (Sakolnakhon, northeast Thailand) from 3-week-old infected cyclops (Mesocyclops leuckarti).
(14) Experiments demonstrated that Macaca mulatta was successfully infected with the early 3rd-stage larvae from cyclops or the advanced 3rd-stage larvae from fish.
(15) Four strains of L. tarentolae, the four other supposed saurian Leishmania species, three mammalian leishmanias, T. platydactyli and four other trypanosomes, T. cyclops (Malaysian macaque), T. conorrhini (Hawaiian reduviid bug), T. cruzi (man) and T. lewisi (feral rat) were analyzed for their contents of sterols and phosphoglyceride fatty acyl groups.
(16) At all concentrations tested, adult cyclops exhibited normal mating.
(17) This apparent diverse origin of cyclopia can be clarified if future cyclopic specimens are carefully investigated.
(18) Two cases of cyclopic malformations are described among 450 infants of diabetic mothers during a period of four years.
(19) Cheapness, low toxicity to mammals and ease of application, in conjunction with effectiveness against cyclops, are primary requisites for any compound accepted for widespread use.
(20) The pluviometry in each zone determines a specific cyclic evolution of the cyclops (the vectors of the disease) in the ponds which are the most important places of the transmission.
Ogre
Definition:
(n.) An imaginary monster, or hideous giant of fairy tales, who lived on human beings; hence, any frightful giant; a cruel monster.
Example Sentences:
(1) "Then the European commission and the council will start looking like an ogre here, and what the Daily Mail says – which is not true now – about hostility to the Brits inside the institutions will start being true."
(2) To crush any residual affinity for the monarchy, British propaganda against Thibaw “went into high gear”, said Thant Mtint-U, painting the monarch as an ogre, despot and drunkard.
(3) We have constructed a P2 ogr deletion mutant by in vitro techniques.
(4) Phages carrying Cys or Ala in place of Tyr-42 gave burst sizes at least as high as P2 ogr+ in a rpoA+ strain; a Gly substitution also allowed P2 to grow in either a rpoA+ or rpoA109 background, but markedly reduced the burst size.
(5) There, proprietorial and remorselessly downbeat, like the ogre in Shrek, stands MigrationWatch UK.
(6) Essebsi has dismissed the word “taghaoul” (power grab) that the Marzouki camp has deployed, evoking the ogre (“ghoul”) of north African Berber and Arab legend.
(7) The repeat is not present in the promoter region of P2 ogr.
(8) We propose that the P4 delta and P2 ogr gene products bind the -55 region of the P4 and P2 late promoters.
(9) We have inserted the ogr gene into a plasmid under control of the leftward promoter and operator of bacteriophage lambda.
(10) The bacteriophage P2 ogr gene product, a 72-residue basic protein rich in cysteine and histidine, is a positive regulatory factor for phage late gene transcription in both P2 and satellite phage P4.
(11) Thermal induction of ogr gene expression in this plasmid results in overproduction of a small protein that has been shown by complementation to possess Ogr function.
(12) The bacteriophage P2 ogr gene encodes an 8.3-kDa protein that is a positive effector of P2 late gene transcription.
(13) P2 mutants (P2 ogr) able to overcome the gro109 block have been isolated in which synthesis of late P2 mRNA and phage proteins Is restored.
(14) It seems reasonable to assume that mutants which strongly affect development of the imaginal-specific central nervous system may evidence abnormalities during the late larval or pupal stages when the adult central nervous system is undergoing final assembly and might show a lethal phase prior to eclosion (as is true for mutations at the previously defined l(1)ogre locus).
(15) The cryptic ogr genes are constitutively transcribed, apparently at a higher level than the wild-type ogr gene in a P2 lysogen.
(16) We have made null mutants of the P2 ogr and P4 delta genes.
(17) Seen up close in Helsinki earlier this year, Putin did not look the ogre his critics sometimes make him out to be.
(18) The P2 ogr gene encodes a 72-amino-acid protein required for P2 late gene expression.
(19) Neither GDH or OGR mobility alone clearly differentiated all species, but their combined use provided unambiguous discrimination of all species except F. varium and F. mortiferum.
(20) The DNA sequence of the ogr gene containing the ogr1 mutation was determined.