(n. sing. & pl.) Any animal; especially, a wild animal.
(n. sing. & pl.) A ruminant of the genus Cervus, of many species, and of related genera of the family Cervidae. The males, and in some species the females, have solid antlers, often much branched, which are shed annually. Their flesh, for which they are hunted, is called venison.
Example Sentences:
(1) We examined the karyotype in five individuals of roe-deer (Capreolus capreolus), coming from Southern Moravia.
(2) An experimental Anaplasma marginale infection was induced in a splenectomized mule deer (Odocoileus hemionus hemionus) which persisted subclinically at least 376 days as detected by subinoculation into susceptible cattle.
(3) No cross reactions were found between bluetongue and epizootic haemorrhagic disease of deer viruses.
(4) Platinum deer mice are conspicuously pale, with light ears and tail stripe.
(5) Here we show that the subsequent survival and reproductive success of subordinate female red deer is depressed more by rearing sons than by rearing daughters, whereas the subsequent fitness of dominant females is unaffected by the sex of their present offspring.
(6) We conclude from this study that there is little or no seasonal photoperiodic entrainment of the antler and testicular cycles of males in this population of axis deer.
(7) Specimens of human bone from the site exhibited lower strontium levels and strontium-to-calcium ratios than deer specimens from the same site, reinforcing paleodemographic evidence that the human populations that inhabited this site included substantial amounts of meat in their diets.
(8) Although approximately 29% of the inoculum was recovered from the hepatic parenchyma of the sheep, F. hepatica was found in only one of six inoculated deer.
(9) Thyroxine (T4), triiodothyronine (T3), and alkaline phosphatase (AP) were assayed monthly in white-tailed deer plasma obtained from the antler (A), jugular (J), and the saphenous (S) veins during the period of antler growth and the period of mineralization.
(10) Naturally occurring transmissible spongiform encephalopathies have been recognised in sheep, man, mink, captive deer and cattle.
(11) Seasonal levels of androstenedione and testosterone were investigated in plasma of mature intact and castrated male white-tailed deer.
(12) Rabbits were hyperimmunized using erythrocytes from either normal or Theileria infected deer.
(13) Adult F hepatica flukes were recovered from experimentally infected sheep and ESP obtained from the flukes; portions of liver were cut and frozen at -70 C. Fascioloides magna adults were collected from naturally infected white-tailed deer and ESP obtained; portions of liver were collected from noninfected white-tailed deer.
(14) Père David's deer hinds were treated with GnRH, administered as intermittent i.v.
(15) A technique for removing the pineal gland in adult and young male deer is described.
(16) The dispersion pattern of ticks on deer was aggregated, with twice and three times as many ticks collected from bucks as from does and from fawns, respectively.
(17) The aim of this work was to determine whether a herpesvirus serologically related to bovine herpesvirus 1 (BHV1) may occur in a stressed white-tailed deer population.
(18) Our results indicated that analyses of helminth communities of deer from this geographical area do not provide a useful quantification technique for determining deer condition, degree of hybridization, or levels of intraspecific competition.
(19) This report, based on police records submitted to the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet from 1987 through 1989, characterizes motor-vehicle collisions with deer in Kentucky.
(20) Unusual to see one around here until just recently.” More deer vaulted in front of my car on Yubari’s main street the following day, forcing a swerve.
Pollard
Definition:
(n.) A tree having its top cut off at some height above the ground, that may throw out branches.
(n.) A clipped coin; also, a counterfeit.
(n.) A fish, the chub.
(n.) A stag that has cast its antlers.
(n.) A hornless animal (cow or sheep).
(v. t.) To lop the tops of, as trees; to poll; as, to pollard willows.
Example Sentences:
(1) The arts broadcaster Lord Bragg said Hall, who moves to the BBC from running the Royal Opera House, had no option but to cut a swath through BBC middle management in the wake of the damning conclusions of the Pollard report into the Savile crisis.
(2) I welcome Nick Pollard's recommendations in this area.
(3) Pollard told a press conference following the publication of his report on Wednesday: "Perhaps the most worrying aspect was not the decision to drop the [Newsnight] story but complete inability to deal with the events that followed for a few months after the Savile investigation was halted."
(4) Lord Patten, the BBC Trust chairman, said in a press conference after the publication of the Pollard report that it was taking legal advice about Entwistle's payoff, which has attracted significant criticism.
(5) Distressed, ashamed and hopeless – the experience of being ‘fit for work’ | Dawn Howley Read more Tom Pollard, the policy and campaigns manager at the mental health charity Mind , said: “This worrying study shines a light on the damaging impact the work capability assessments can have on people’s mental health.
(6) The basis of Pollard's arrest was a memo he had written for the Sun newsdesk in 2009 after receiving a call from a woman in Manchester.
(7) The archaeologist and television presenter Tony Pollard wrote : "#twittersilence?
(8) Stephen Pollard, the lawyer representing Rose, previously defended the Barings Bank rogue trader Nick Leeson and property tycoon Vincent Tchenguiz in his successful fight against the SFO.
(9) "We have to be clear at that point I didn't know what that dark side was," Younghusband told Pollard's panel.
(10) I'm sure we'll learn more from the Pollard review, but it increasingly looks as if the editor, Peter Rippon, really wasn't sure of the story his journalists had brought him.
(11) One senior BBC executive resigned and another three were moved from their jobs following the publication of the 185-page report by Nick Pollard, the former head of Sky News.
(12) Entwistle, who left the BBC after 54 days as director-general, told Pollard that the question of how to handle the death of a celebrity with a dubious personal life was one of judgment.
(13) Pollard said he believed that police "hoped" they would uncover a phone-hacking scandal similar to that at the now-closed News of the World.
(14) The huge jump is in part due to payouts of £470,000, plus £107,000 in legal fees relating to the Pollard inquiry into the Savile scandal, to former director general George Entwistle, who left after just 54 days in November as the Jimmy Savile scandal engulfed the BBC.
(15) Glaciologists call such an event a collapse, but Pollard said it would not be rapid, and would take thousands of years to unfold: "We had a bit of a debate whether to use the word collapse in the paper.
(16) Pollard was arrested on suspicion of handling stolen goods and subjected to a year-long investigation based on a memo he had written to his bosses at the paper in 2009.
(17) Pollard said that he feels the 60 peer reviews investigated by the DWP since February 2012 should be examined together and the results of any lessons learned or key issues that may emerge published.
(18) The Pollard transcripts revealed how little preparation Entwistle had before his disastrous appearance before MPs on the culture, media and sport select committee in October last year.
(19) Witnesses have been questioned for several hours in many cases, with Pollard presiding over a hearing in which past and present BBC executives are questioned by Alan Maclean QC , who advised Tony Blair and Alastair Campbell during the Hutton inquiry into the death of David Kelly – and whose findings led to the resignation of another BBC director general.
(20) He will also have to deal with the crisis of leadership exposed by the Pollard review.