(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.
Uranus
Definition:
(n.) The son or husband of Gaia (Earth), and father of Chronos (Time) and the Titans.
(n.) One of the primary planets. It is about 1,800,000,000 miles from the sun, about 36,000 miles in diameter, and its period of revolution round the sun is nearly 84 of our years.
Example Sentences:
(1) They have sent back images of Saturn's rings, Jupiter's red spot and sulphur volcanoes on its moons Europa and Io, and of "winter" on Uranus.
(2) By 1864 Ulrichs had transposed the new knowledge from embryology to sexology to explain those to whom he gave the name Urnings (after Uranus who gave womanless birth to Venus from sea spume) as having "a woman's mind trapped in a man's body" (anima muliebris corpore virili inclusa).
(3) Radioisotope thermoelectric generators (RTG) transform the heat produced during the alpha decay of 238Pu into electrical energy for use by deep-space probes, such as the Voyager spacecraft, which have returned images and other data from Jupiter, Saturn and Uranus.