(n.) A female parent; -- used of beasts, especially of quadrupeds; sometimes applied in contempt to a human mother.
(n.) A kind or crowned piece in the game of draughts.
(n.) A barrier to prevent the flow of a liquid; esp., a bank of earth, or wall of any kind, as of masonry or wood, built across a water course, to confine and keep back flowing water.
(n.) A firebrick wall, or a stone, which forms the front of the hearth of a blast furnace.
(v. t.) To obstruct or restrain the flow of, by a dam; to confine by constructing a dam, as a stream of water; -- generally used with in or up.
(v. t.) To shut up; to stop up; to close; to restrain.
Example Sentences:
(1) Blood was collected from pups and dams to determine its caffeine concentration.
(2) Over the years the farm dams filled less frequently while the suburbs crept further into the countryside, their swimming pools oblivious to the great drying.
(3) Six of eight AD and seven of eight vitamin A-adequate dams carried pregnancy to term (greater than or equal to Day 64).
(4) All aircraft exited the strike areas safely.” Earlier, residents living near the Mosul dam told the Associated Press the area was being targeted by air strikes.
(5) Serum copper concentration also was measured in dams and kids in a control herd that had no history of ataxia.
(6) In contrast, the same concentration of isopropanol produced narcosis in the dams, retarded body-weight gain and reduced the feed intake.
(7) In acute experiments on pregnant sows under sodium pentobarbitone anaesthesia, acid base balance, oxygenation and plasma metabolite concentrations were well maintained in the dam and all fetuses which remained undisturbed in utero, irrespective of the duration of the experiment.
(8) A dam Johnson's point may need proving towards Roberto Mancini rather than Manuel Pellegrini, but Manchester City will still be aware of a Sunderland player with a cause in the Capital One Cup final.
(9) Pups were weaned either to the diet of their dam or to the diet fed to dams in the other treatment group in a crossover design.
(10) After 21 days of gestation the morphine-dependent dams were decapitated and the foetal brains were dissected.
(11) The open reading frame can be expressed from the dam-regulated mod promoter (for modification of D108 DNA), yet also contains its own dam-independent promoter for expression that is detectable by northern blot analysis late in the D108 lytic cycle.
(12) Simmental sires had significantly heavier calves at birth and S and H dams tended to have more calving difficulty and lower survival rates.
(13) Primary CMV infection of dams extending into early pregnancy induced augmented cytolysis of CMV-infected fetal cells, but not MA104 NK cell targets, throughout gestation and resulted in 70% loss of conceptus.
(14) Mature Angus dams at Goudies had 3.7% calf deaths at birth (4.9 vs 2.4% for males vs females), a further 1.8% calf deaths to weaning and 4.6% assisted births.
(15) Further, the presence of the dam in the goalbox reduced plasma corticosterone elevations, particularly among 15-day-old pups and at 60 min.
(16) On day 18 the dams were killed and the male fetuses were examined for testicular differentiation.
(17) Within this group, fetal resorption had a significant effect upon the sex ratio, and this relationship was significantly affected by the number of implanted embryos: resorbing dams produced male-biased litters at small and intermediate numbers of implantation sites and female-biased litters when the number of implanted embryos was large.
(18) Ewe lambs from treated dams had approximately 12% greater rate of growth (P less than .04) than ewe lambs from control dams.
(19) Meadow vole dams, housed in a 14L:10D photoperiod were injected daily 3 h before onset of darkness with 10 micrograms melatonin.
(20) For heifer carcass traits from 3- to 6-yr-old dams, breed was significant (P less than .05 to P less than .01) for carcass weight, longissimus muscle area, percentage of cutability, and estimated kidney, heart, and pelvic fat.
Dyke
Definition:
(n.) See Dike. The spelling dyke is restricted by some to the geological meaning.
Example Sentences:
(1) We thought we had a responsibility to English football if we can fit [the clubs] in, and that money we can use to support grassroots football,” Dyke said.
(2) Grade said he objected to Dyke's assertion in the Times that he used information about the BBC's schedule when he quit as chairman of the corporation in late 2006 to move to ITV.
(3) Last year David Cameron dubbed Offa’s Dyke “the line between life and death”, and barely a week goes by at Westminster without the Conservatives kicking the Welsh NHS.
(4) Alexander Lebedev has targeted some of the biggest names in British media to edit the Independent, including Greg Dyke, the former director general of the BBC.
(5) Latin America delights in Fifa arrests after years of impunity Read more Greg Dyke, chairman of the English Football Association (FA), said that the 79-year-old needed to leave Fifa for the organisation to continue.
(6) A report by Greg Dyke, former director general of the BBC, is likely to recommend that the BBC licence fee is scrapped to save up to £100m a year.
(7) The review, which originally promised to report in January, was broadly welcomed but some felt that Dyke had overlooked the findings of a recent wide ranging review into the supply line for domestic talent that resulted in the £340m Elite Player Performance Plan in favour of asking the same questions again.
(8) Dyke believes that following the Olympics, Entwistle has a chance to show "how important the BBC is to the nation".
(9) Van Dyke is the first on-duty officer to be charged with murder while working for the Chicago police department in nearly 35 years.
(10) Among them are former director general Greg Dyke, who described the trust under Fairhead’s predecessor Lord Patten as a “busted flush” .
(11) And, I think, certainly in terms of the playing, we can make a difference.” Dyke also said new visa rules agreed last week with the Home Office will help.
(12) Following this week's withdrawal of Lord Coe, who had been backed by David Cameron and George Osborne , the former director general Greg Dyke said neither politician should have become so involved.
(13) "I don't think [Patten's] doing a good job because I don't know where he was when the crisis happened," Dyke told MPs on the House of Commons culture, media and sport select committee on Tuesday.
(14) When we decided in Brazil that we wanted Roy to continue with his contract, we thought, ‘He’s got a contract, he sees it through.’ Sometime in the next year we will discuss what happens afterwards.” Dyke said in March: “I get on quite well with Roy and I chat to him all the time.
(15) Instead, let's hunt down whoever told Van Dyke an English accent just involves adding "guvnerrrr" to every other sentence.
(16) Greg Dyke interview: ‘People keep coming up to me and saying: Well done, you got rid of him!’ Read more Asked whether he would bet on Blatter being arrested if he had to choose, Dyke replied: “Yes.” Blatter has strenuously denied all wrongdoing.
(17) Dyke’s plan is unlikely to find favour with all top flight clubs, who want to preserve their autonomy and believe a £340m investment in the Elite Player Performance Plan is bearing fruit.
(18) Having overseen early England exits at the 2014 World Cup and now Euro 2016, Dyke said Roy Hodgson’s successor as England manager could be a foreign coach but said he had to be steeped in English football.
(19) Greg Dyke, the Football Association chairman, believes a new contract for Roy Hodgson is not entirely dependent on a successful finish at Euro 2016.
(20) Independent IAB members, including the former Chelsea players Graeme Le Saux and Paul Elliott, have written a joint letter to the FA chairman Greg Dyke and all FA councillors backing Rabbatts and criticising the investigation.