(n.) A wild dog found in Australia, but supposed to have introduced at a very early period. It has a wolflike face, bushy tail, and a reddish brown color.
Example Sentences:
(1) We have found that domestic dogs and dingoes are monomorphic for the same electrophoretic alleles at a further 15 loci, and polymorphic for the same alleles at a 30th locus.
(2) Polymerase chain reaction, in combination with direct DNA sequencing, was used to compare DNA from cysts and adult worms from dingoes.
(3) This article describes an investigation of inter- and intraspecific variation in three small populations of wild Canidae-wolf, coyote, and dingo.
(4) Photograph: Nevill Keating Pictures Ltd He didn't even have a skin to help with the dingo, and produced an adorably fluffy and very un-wild looking dog.
(5) Surely these latter institutions are of more cultural value to you than naive treatments of kangaroo with a mouse's head and a dingo that looks like a fox in wolf's clothing.
(6) The kangaroo and the dingo were exhibited at the Society of Artists in London, and Banks's own portrait by Joshua Reynolds was shown at the Royal Academy.
(7) During lactation, female rodents, dingoes, and kangaroos consume urine and feces excreted by the young.
(8) The family Canidae serologically may be divided into two main groups: 1) the genus Canis which includes the wolf, domestic dog, dingo, jackal and 2) species which significantly differ from the former (the fox, polar fox, dog fox, fennec).
(9) Stubbs had even less to go on for the dingo, which is no doubt why Portrait of a Large Dog looks more like something you might enter for Crufts than a feral beast from the outback.
(10) On the south western Downs, where sheep-farming predominates, the prevalence in cattle was much lower, probably because of fewer dingoes.
(11) Twenty-four had dingoes and wallabies but only 8 had feral pigs.
(12) No significant differences were found in any of the parameters studied except the enzyme level of NADH-MR which was significantly lower in dingoes (P less than 0.05).
(13) Also, 50 intestinal tracts from dingoes from southern Queensland were examined between October 1981 and November 1983.
(14) "The dingo looks like it is about to pounce on something; it has a hard stare, so maybe that's what Stubbs was trying to get across."
(15) The saved items included two George Stubbs paintings, including the first depictions of a kangaroo and a dingo in Western art, and maps of Hampton Court.
(16) Small foci of the domestic strain of E. granulosus may be maintained in a cycle involving dingoes, macropods and possibly feral pigs in cattle raising areas of coastal Queensland.
(17) I can take or leave the Maritime Museum's argument that the pictures belong with a portrait of Cook by Nathaniel Dance commissioned by Stubbs and memorabilia from the Endeavour voyage, and understand Aussie irritation at the somewhat dingo-in-a-manger attitude of the Brits who didn't seem to care much about the paintings when they were in private collections, but were suddenly jumping up and down as soon as it looked like they might be on their way to Canberra.
(18) "We predict that Wallaby will find an amazing 600,000 new galaxies and Dingo 100,000, spread over trillions of cubic light years of space."
(19) The sylvatic strain of E. granulosus was found in 36 dingoes, the Australian mainland domestic strain in 4, and a further 5 dingoes were infected but the strain was not identified.
(20) The strain of E. granulosus in both patients was genetically indistinguishable from that found in macropods, dingoes and sheep from New South Wales and the United Kingdom.
Lingo
Definition:
(n.) Language; speech; dialect.
Example Sentences:
(1) Chronic pain patients evidenced lower scores on all Harris and Lingoes Sc subscales, except for the Bizarre Sensory Experiences subscale on which they scored significantly higher than the psychiatric groups.
(2) Substantial genetic correspondences also existed for Harris-Lingoes content subscales, with fewer correspondences between adoptees and their adoptive mothers.
(3) Some have even altered the lingo and banned the word “beneficiary”, opting for “client” instead.
(4) Charting the shopping and mating rituals of Manhattan's female socialites, it became not only a bestseller but an era-defining work responsible for introducing lingo such as "toxic bachelor" to women worldwide.
(5) Lamb's page on the BBC website even offers a dictionary so that listeners might gen up on "Lamby's lingo".
(6) He spoke the lingo and he danced the samba and he always had a soft spot for the underdog … Ashes to ashes and dust to beaches."
(7) Harris and Lingoes' (1955) six PD subscales were assessed empirically for their convergent validity and for their utility to discriminate amongst male offenders on the two outcome measures of successful completion of sentences at a correctional halfway house and reincarceration at a 1-year follow-up.
(8) Predictor variables included scores on the five Harris-Lingoes Psychopathic-Deviate subscales of the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI), Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children-Revised (WISC-R scores, and sex, age, parent, and sibling information.
(9) subscales of Psychological Denial and Body Concern, and the five Harris-Lingoes (1955) subscales of Scale 3 were analyzed.
(10) Judges developed more content categories per scale than Harris and Lingoes, but showed relatively little agreement on item groupings.
(11) I didn't really need to learn any lingo but I tried to convey their sense of persistence, where they ask questions and piece together a puzzle.
(12) Distributions of all possible split-half combinations were computed for selected Harris-Lingoes subscales with few items.
(13) Wiggins, Harris and Lingoes, and Serkownek Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) scores were used to predict Millon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory (MCMI) scores in a 100-patient sample.
(14) In addition, MMPI data from 1,315 normal adolescents, collected at the Mayo Foundation, and from 217 normal adolescents, collected in Norfolk, Virginia, are evaluated in relation to adult normative values on the Harris-Lingoes (Harris & Lingoes, 1955) content subscales to identify unique characteristics of adolescents' response patterns.
(15) 5.03pm GMT Those savvy internet-types over at the Associated Press have put together a "glossary" of Twitter terms, because they reckon that "Twitter-specific lingo that could look like alphabet soup to the uninitiated".
(16) Two multidimensional scaling procedures, INDSCAL (Carroll & Chang, 1970) and SSAI-MINISSA (Guttman, 1968; Lingoes, 1965), were applied to the similarity data, yielding flavor spaces or maps which were similar to one another.
(17) During moments of rest, the police on my protection detail would be hunched over iPads watching and talking the same strange lingo.
(18) Mexican American and Anglo American's performance on the Wiggins Content Scales, Harris-Lingoes subscales, and Serkownek subscales was assessed in a college student population.
(19) But where did BuzzFeed learn its hypermodern slangy lingo?
(20) She followed him around the country: "I do disgusting work now, do feel sorry for me, it's in the YMCA canteen and it's very embarrassing because they all copy my voice," both its extraordinary vowels and the racy Mitford lingo.