(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.
Dorado
Definition:
(n.) A southern constellation, within which is the south pole of the ecliptic; -- called also sometimes Xiphias, or the Swordfish.
(n.) A large, oceanic fish of the genus Coryphaena.
Example Sentences:
(1) A single specimen, a partially engorged female, of Ixodes brunneus was recovered from a common grackle (Quiscalus quiscula) in Butler County, near El Dorado, Kansas (USA).
(2) The El Dorado Medication Error Tool (EDMET) is objective and simple to use.
(3) Iran is an El Dorado for oil,” said Paolo Scaroni, who when he headed the Italian energy giant Eni met with Iranian oil minister Bijan Namdar Zanganeh about potential investments.
(4) Bouchart has long been a fierce critic of immigration policy in the UK, which she said was "considered an El Dorado" by immigrants.
(5) Greece, he said, was set to become an El Dorado for those who did so.
(6) We recently characterized a protein serine-threonine kinase (Pkn1) that is required for normal development (J. Munoz-Dorado, S. Inouye, and M. Inouye, Cell 67:995-1006, 1991).
(7) French champagne at Sherry's Restaurant for the top-hatted Wall Street speculators celebrating the discoveries of El Dorado; shots of five-cent whiskey (said to taste "like a combination of kerosene oil, soft soap, alcohol, and the chemicals used in fire extinguishers") for the unemployed foreign labourer sleeping in the gutters south of Canal Street.
(8) Hotel Posada Freeman, Mazatlán, Sinaloa This 12-storey hotel, built in 1944 on Old Mazatlán’s seafront (and not to be confused with the newer Posada Freeman Zona Dorado), hosted the likes of Rock Hudson and John Wayne while they shot westerns in Mexico.
(9) The content of cadmium and lead was determined in several most popular brands of cigarettes produced in Poland (Carmen, Caro, Extra Mocne, Klubowe, Popularne, Radomskie, Marlboro--produced on the licence of the Philip Morris and in cigarettes imported from Albania (Durres Special, Arberia), Yugoslavia (Jugo) and Cuba (Tobaco Dorado 767, Kim).
(10) One serving intelligence officer told the Guardian: “South Africa is the El Dorado of espionage.” Africa has also become caught up in the US, Israeli and British covert global campaigns to stem the spread of Iranian influence, tighten sanctions and block its nuclear programme.
(11) In the following paper (Muñoz-Dorado, J., Inouye, S., and Inouye, M. (1990) J. Biol.
(12) But what I really liked about being a thief was that every week you might find El Dorado," he said.
(13) In response to a request by the French authorities, there is now direct communication between our officials and migrants to explain to them that there is no El Dorado there [in the UK].
(14) Their father was shot in a dispute over land on a cattle ranch near the Brazilian town of El Dorado, in the Amazonian state of Para.
(15) Free from Fifa red tape, the rebel DiMayor clubs went feral, taking their blackballing as cue to cherry-pick whoever they fancied: the El Dorado era was born.
(16) But isn’t the UK, as the mayor of Calais put it , “El Dorado” for immigrants, with our generous benefits and booming economy?
(17) The gene has been expressed in Escherichia coli by using the lacZ promoter, and its gene product was overproduced (Muñoz-Dorado, J., Inouye, M., and Inouye, S. (1990) J. Biol.
(18) It was raining hard last Saturday morning as four companies of military policemen and a team of plain-clothes intelligence agents - about 150 troops in all - took up positions around the terminal of El Dorado airport.
(19) Doubles from €50 Hotel El Dorado, Carboneras Almería's fortifications.