(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.
Garth
Definition:
(n.) A close; a yard; a croft; a garden; as, a cloister garth.
(n.) A dam or weir for catching fish.
(n.) A hoop or band.
Example Sentences:
(1) He’s also one of the first players to emerge out of the league to become one of its coaches, and his and general manager Garth Lagerwey’s canny use of the draft may well reflect his own experience as a player.
(2) Garth Gibbs, the Daily Mirror journalist who died a couple of years ago, used to claim cheerfully that he had not found the missing Lord Lucan in more places – from Cape Town to the Bahamas to Macau – than anyone else.
(3) Garth Caswell, HLA chair, says: "We believe that hospice lotteries are under threat from people mistakenly thinking they can achieve the same charitable goals of giving to local health-related charities and at the same time stand a chance of winning larger prizes by playing the health lottery.
(4) But the reality of a Trump rally, or at least this Trump rally, was about as threatening as a Garth Brooks concert.
(5) 01792 851616, bayviewgower.co.uk Y Garth, Dinas Cross, Pembrokeshire A bolthole in the village of Dinas Cross, halfway between Fishguard and Newport, with statement walls featuring gold flocked and big bloom wallpaper, chandeliers and rich fabrics.
(6) Garth Greenwell 'Putting lipstick on a pig': experts on why Obama is lending Donald Trump a hand Read more Obama has been criticised for being too much style, too little substance.
(7) After Seattle’s early exit in the playoffs, nobody is batting an eyelid at suggestions he might soon be on his way to reunite with his former sporting director Garth Lagerwey in replacing Sigi Schmid.
(8) This from Brian Lunt Garth Crooks on BBC3 whilst Phelps on the red button!!
(9) Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Frédéric Kanouté Footballer , John Austin Former MP , Rodney Bickerstaffe, Bob Crow, Victoria Brittain, Jeremy Corbyn MP, Caryl Churchill Playwright , Rev Garth Hewitt, Dr Ghada Karmi, Bruce Kent, Roger Lloyd Pack Actor , Ken Loach Film-maker , Michael Mansfield QC, Kika Markham Actor , Luisa Morgantini Former vice-president, European parliament, Prof Hilary Rose, Prof Steven Rose, Alexei Sayle Author and comedian , Jenny Tonge House of Lords , Dr Antoine Zahlan, Geoffrey Lee Red Card Israeli Racism , Tomas Perez Football Beyond Borders , John McHugo Liberal Democrat Friends of Palestine • This article was amended on 28 May 2013.
(10) The Tsar of Love and Techno is published 6 October by Knopf Facebook Twitter Pinterest Garth Risk Hallberg, City on Fire Photograph: Publicity City on Fire, by Garth Risk Hallberg The mere sale of this novel – for a reported $2m, following hard upon news that it had been optioned by the movie producer Scott Rudin – caused a kind of sensation in bookish circles.
(11) The crowd, which ranged from young British Muslims to leftwing activists to students and pensioners, listened to speakers including human rights advocate Bianca Jagger, singer Annie Lennox and the Rev Garth Hewitt, canon at St George's Cathedral in Jerusalem.
(12) Narrated by a dog, Garth Stein’s The Art of Racing in the Rain was criticised for a sex scene, and Alexie’s award-winning novel for its strong language.
(13) Garth Crooks, the BBC TV presenter who played for Stoke City and Tottenham Hotspur through the hostile racism that enveloped football in the 1980s, called on the FA to charge Terry .
(14) A child star who grew up on the set of idiosyncratic British films including Garth Jennings’ Son of Rambow and Dexter Fletcher’s Wild Bill , Poulter is now 21.
(15) Cyrille Regis and Garth Crooks gave an hour-long address to the under-21 players at Burton as part of the awareness programme, reliving what it was like to be among the first black footballers in England.
(16) Garth Powis reviews the evidence that this approach may eventually lead to new, more selective drugs for treating cancer.
(17) Garth Marenghi's Darkplace was not extensively watched, but had some devoted fans, including Miramax's Harvey Weinstein who wanted to make a movie of it (he would later distribute Submarine in the US).
(18) I ask Ayoade if he's proud of Garth Marenghi, and he practically snorts.
(19) Garth Crooks, the former Tottenham Hotspur footballer who is an anti-racism campaigner, said: "If the FA don't act on the undisputed facts, and find Terry guilty of bringing the game into disrepute, a lot of good people are saying to me that there's no point in getting involved in the game at a senior level.
(20) Flights from London to San Antonio, booked on kayak.co.uk , start at around £460 return More Miles Than Money: Journeys Through American Music , by Garth Cartwright, is published by Serpent's Tail (serpentstail.com, £12.99)