(n.) The title of the eldest son of the king of France, and heir to the crown. Since the revolution of 1830, the title has been discontinued.
Example Sentences:
(1) On the left is the favourite, Spanish-born Hidalgo, 54, protégée of current mayor Bertrand Delanoë and disparagingly referred to as la dauphine (the heiress).
(2) The tropical bont tick was also found associated with a severe skin disease, dermatophilosis, caused by the bacterium Dermatophilus congolensis, in 54% of the cattle infested by A. variegatum in the Gros Islet and Dauphin areas of St. Lucia.
(3) The impact of a rare “ice tsunami” in 2013 on the Canadian municipality of Ochre Beach was just a taster: a wall of melting iceberg on Dauphin Lake was blown by winds on to the shore, splintering every house in its path.
(4) Tory pundits jeered that the pretty boy, the effete “Dauphin” of Canadian politics, was about to get his famous hair badly mussed.
(5) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Place Dauphine on the Ile de la Cité.
(6) A monitoring survey was conducted during 1984 on the Ochre and Turtle Rivers, which flow into Dauphin Lake in western Manitoba, Canada, to determine levels of the herbicides MCPA, diclofop-methyl, dicamba, bromoxynil, 2,4-D, triallate and trifluralin which were widely used in each watershed.
(7) de Dauphine) has studied the two sectors which co-exist in the French hospital service--the public sector and the private profit--making sector.
(8) The nematode Raphidascaris acus causes significant parasite-induced mortality in natural populations of yellow perch (Perca flavescens) in Dauphin Lake, Manitoba, Canada.
(9) He designed his own board game, as well as "Mark Twain's Patent Self-Pasting Scrapbook", which sounds like something the Duke and Dauphin in Huckleberry Finn might sell.
(10) The Minton report – though it was preliminary in nature – made dismaying reading for Claude Dauphin, the Trafigura director in charge of oil preparations.
(11) A community health survey was conducted by the Pennsylvania Department of Health in Londonderry Township, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, in response to concerns about potential health effects associated with residential exposure to chemical contaminants in well water.
(12) Twenty species of fishes (n = 20,759) were collected from Dauphin Lake, Manitoba, Canada, to determine the types and numbers of ectoparasites they harbored.
(13) The littoral zone (less than or equal to 1.5 m) comprises only 14% of the surface area and 3% of the volume of Dauphin Lake, yet 72% of all gill-netted fishes harboring ectoparasites were collected there.
(14) 46 isolates of Plasmodium falciparum collected in the Tolagnaro (Fort Dauphin) area of Southeast Madagascar were assessed with WHO in vitro micro-technique test kits to determine their susceptibility to chloroquine and mefloquine.
(15) There followed 18 months at Salisbury Rep , where he honed his craft and played the Dauphin in Saint Joan, Disraeli in Portrait of a Queen and Trinculo in The Tempest.
(16) Plerocercoids were most prevalent (5.3%) in spottail shiners (Notropis hudsonius), the major fish host for Ligula in Dauphin Lake.
(17) And as he showed in his bout with Brazeau, the apparently overmatched Dauphin can be an effective counter-puncher.
(18) Claude Dauphin, the managing director, was told by the London manager, Naeem Ahmed, on 28 December 2005: "Caustic washes are banned by most countries due to the hazardous nature of the waste (mercaptans, phenols, smell) … there are not many facilities remaining in the market.
(19) By rights Le Bar du Caveau, on the Ile de la Cité’s Place Dauphine, one of the most picturesque squares in the very centre of the tourist’s Paris, should have been crammed with foreigners.
(20) "They do make a sentinel species," said George Crozier, recently retired as the director of the Dauphin Island Sea Lab.
Dolphin
Definition:
(n.) A cetacean of the genus Delphinus and allied genera (esp. D. delphis); the true dolphin.
(n.) The Coryphaena hippuris, a fish of about five feet in length, celebrated for its surprising changes of color when dying. It is the fish commonly known as the dolphin. See Coryphaenoid.
(n.) A mass of iron or lead hung from the yardarm, in readiness to be dropped on the deck of an enemy's vessel.
(n.) A kind of wreath or strap of plaited cordage.
(n.) A spar or buoy held by an anchor and furnished with a ring to which ships may fasten their cables.
(n.) A mooring post on a wharf or beach.
(n.) A permanent fender around a heavy boat just below the gunwale.
(n.) In old ordnance, one of the handles above the trunnions by which the gun was lifted.
(n.) A small constellation between Aquila and Pegasus. See Delphinus, n., 2.
Example Sentences:
(1) October 27, 2013 7.27pm GMT Around the league And here’s how things look elsewhere, as we head into the fourth quarter: Cowboys 13-7 Lions Browns 17-20 Chiefs Dolphins 17-20 Patriots Bills 10-28 Saints Giants 15-0 Eagles 49ers 35-10 Jaguars 7.25pm GMT End of 3rd quarter: 49ers 35-10 Jaguars The quarter ends with the Jaguars facing a third-and-one at their own 32.
(2) In 2005, Westbrook bought the £190m head lease for Dolphin Square, once the largest block of flats in the world with a colourful list of former residents, including more than 70 MPs, at least 10 Lords and a number of intelligence agency personnel.
(3) Tony Dolphin, the chief economist at the IPPR thinktank, said: "Any reasonable person might say, these departments are already suffering swingeing cuts, and we're seeing reductions in frontline services: how can you possibly say you're going to take another 1% off without affecting services?"
(4) We examined four dolphins (Grampus griseus) of 582 mass-stranded.
(5) Vote for me, and I will complete the job of rebalancing it... January 28, 2014 12.03pm GMT Britain's businesses need to stop sitting on their cash piles and crank up their investment, argues IPPR’s chief economist Tony Dolphin: “The news that manufacturing is growing is welcome.
(6) The adults of the trematode occurring in the nasal sinuses and posterior nasal passage of the dolphins are considered as practically harmless for the host but thier eggs, aspirated deep into the bronchial tree, may initiate a foreign-body of inflammatory reaction in the lungs and continuous aspiration of such eggs may provoke a chronic pneumonia condition.
(7) The primary structure of this myoglobin proved identical with that from the Atlantic bottlenosed dolphin, Tursiops truncatus, but showed four substitutions with respect to the sequence reported for the Black Sea dolphin which has also been given the designation Delphinus delphis.
(8) In the dolphin peculiar architectonics have been observed in the nucleus gigantocellularis medullae oblongatae, nucleus papillioformis or the nucleus reticularis tegmenti Bechterewi and the nucleus centralis superior medialis seu ventralis.
(9) While jobs growth may have been strong during these three years of decent economic growth, it was disproportionately in low value-added – and low-paid – sectors of the economy,” Dolphin said.
(10) The previous government set a number of conditions on the development, to offset the impact on seagrasses, which are vital to the survival of dolphins, turtles and dugongs.
(11) He paid women in prostitution for their services in a grace and favour flat in Dolphin Square for which he pays £1,000 a month instead of the going rate of nearly £3,000.
(12) I take a small kayak, I see electric eels, dolphins.
(13) Its not just about dolphins, but human greed as well.
(14) In a speech which criticised the government's health reforms, Dolphin encouraged delegates to back strike action to defend their pensions.
(15) One of the reported claims against Incognito, which he has denied, is that he pressured Martin, a left tackle in his second year with the Dolphins, to pay $15,000 towards an unofficial players’ trip to Las Vegas that he did not attend.
(16) Richard Kerr will tell the programme that he was abused at Dolphin Square and the Elm Guest House in Barnes, south-west London – two locations that are at the centre of allegations about an elite paedophile ring involving politicians, senior military officers and, in his words, “men who had control and power over others”.
(17) A 21-yr-old male Atlantic bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) was performing at an aquatic park when it developed a soft tissue swelling anterior to the flukes.
(18) It had been alleged that a high-profile paedophile ring was operating out of Dolphin Square, in Westminster, allegedly involving the late former prime minister Edward Heath and other establishment figures.
(19) Tackle the Humpback Dolphin trail and watch the surfers crest waves at Pollock Beach.
(20) World's wildlife being pushed to the edge by humans - in pictures Read more Pollution is also a significant problem with, for example, killer whales and dolphins in European seas being seriously harmed by long-lived industrial pollutants .