(n.) A female deer or antelope; specifically, the female of the fallow deer, of which the male is called a buck. Also applied to the female of other animals, as the rabbit. See the Note under Buck.
(n.) A feat. [Obs.] See Do, n.
Example Sentences:
(1) This report deals with the shortened estrous cycles, masculinization, depressed fertility, and the systemic hormone profiles resulting from a granulosa cell tumor in a doe.
(2) An anonymous source, “John Doe”, gave the archive to the German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung .
(3) The defence has also been handed in discovery documents by the prosecution indicating the likely questions that John Doe will be asked by the government and his probable answers.
(4) It is unclear if John Doe is the same source who sold information to the Danes.
(5) Results calculated using this methodology were compared with U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) guidelines for a southeastern U.S. site.
(6) A single placenta in each doe was perfused via the umbilical arteries with Krebs' bicarbonate buffer at pH 7.5 (phase 1), 7.0 (phase 2), and 7.5 (phases 3-5).
(7) Connolly told a local paper , “Our position, if the termination for parental rights is granted, is that [she] would not have standing to obtain the abortion.” He’s arguing that Doe’s parental rights should be rescinded because she is facing charges of chemical endangerment of a child.
(8) In the doe, the highest levels were found in fat followed by liver, kidney, spleen, heart, brain and blood.
(9) The woman, known as Jane Doe, had filed a lawsuit in order to be granted a furlough to obtain the procedure.
(10) He outlines the history of the Department of Health and Human Services' "Baby Doe" regulations, and the legal battles over the regulations and over the care of New York's "Baby Jane Doe."
(11) Hypoxia was induced by letting the doe breathe a low-oxygen gas mixture.
(12) In responding to the three hypothetical cases of severely handicapped newborns, up to 32 percent of the respondents said that maximal life-prolonging treatment was not in the best interests of the infants described but that the Baby Doe regulations required such treatment.
(13) The "doe's eye" anomaly appears to be the only morphological symptom of the disease.
(14) Thus, glucocorticoid treatment of the pregnant doe results in structural changes in the fetal lung tissue, an acceleration of some aspects of type II cell differentiation, and a concomitant increase in epithelial-mesenchymal interactions.
(15) In these years the day of the devoted amateur passed; the trained medical librarian came into being and matured.This, the first Janet Doe Lecture, is named for one who illustrates the best in medical librarianship, serving with scholarly distinction.
(16) With the aim of determining the efficiency of a simple and non destructive method for measuring the ovulation rate, 20 doe rabbits were subjected to coelioscopy and slaughtered on day 14 of gestation.
(17) So even though abortion technically was legal” for those women, “it wasn’t available,” Doe said.
(18) Doe 2 aborted a fetus 5 days before term; MAT antibody was found in the pleural fluid of the fetus (1:16,384) and in the doe's serum (1:4,096 on the day of abortion).
(19) A 5-year-old Toggenburg doe was examined because of wasting, decreased milk production, and progressive abdominal distention.
(20) Yield was found to be related to litter size, the time the doe and her kittens were removed from the nest, the number of fleas put onto a doe before littering and the mean ambient temperature to which the doe was exposed in the week pre-partum.
Nanny
Definition:
(n.) A diminutive of Ann or Anne, the proper name.
Example Sentences:
(1) I remember the blood pouring across the floor and the screaming of the nanny looking after our boys."
(2) David Cameron has made a strong defence of his decision to employ a Nepalese nanny, while at the same time refusing to say that his government will meet its target to cut the number of net migrants to the UK to fewer than 100,000 by next year.
(3) Wise, she says, did the bulk of the childcare during filming of Nanny McPhee, though Gaia did sometimes join her on set.
(4) A more benign version of the thesis – that Siri might have changed his own mind – can be glimpsed, in comedic form, behind Habemus Papam ( We Have a Pope in the UK), the 2011 film by Nanni Moretti, in which a pontiff goes on the run post-election to avoid taking up office.
(5) Although the guidance is not a statutory code and leaves room for doctors' professional judgment, both the government and Labour are wary of "nanny state" approaches.
(6) Bermondsey asks: Could you explain to the British public why 14 year old children are thrown into prison for 3 years for writing nonsense on Facebook and why someone looses their home and goes to jail for doing a nanny job while receiving £70 week in social security while Fred Goodman lives in his holiday home in Barbados for 3 months a year?
(7) At the Woodland Pytchley Hunt, an experienced nanny will be on hand to accompany small children today, and at the Surrey Union a prize of £20 was offered for the "best turned out under 16 year old".
(8) They are dismissed as the work of liberal interferers and apostles of the nanny state.
(9) The Good Care Guide results reveal that children receive better quality of care than their elderly relatives, with 88% of nurseries and 91% of nanny agencies achieving top marks in terms of quality of care – in contrast to 78% of care homes.
(10) Thompson, best known for her acting roles in films such as Sense and Sensibility, Love Actually and Nanny McPhee, also wrote many of those screenplays.
(11) The couple's son Moshe, two, was rescued by his nanny.
(12) But raising the kind of money required to defeat the soda industry in a fight over taxes seemed impossible – until Michael Bloomberg, the billionaire mayor of New York City and food nanny to the world, stepped in.
(13) And Mummy said darling, do you remember Bodrum when Nanny walked into pre-lunch drinks on the gulet, of course everyone was incredibly kind, bringing her a Tizer and some After Eights before the men threw her in the sea, the gentlest of hints but basically she never left the lower decks again?
(14) As Labour called for complete transparency over the nanny, Downing Street issued a statement saying Gita Lima had been awarded British citizenship after David Cameron became prime minister in 2010.
(15) "The government has to be much more nanny state in terms of policing the food industry, taxing snack food, taxing fizzy drinks, banning fizzy drinks, banning sugary foods, and not just in school dinners but also in work canteens and hospital food.
(16) She had been looking for a job for nine months but had just landed a position as a nanny for a family on the Upper East Side, starting in January.
(17) Whitehall is bracing itself for a potentially damning report from Sir Alan Budd tomorrow into events surrounding the fast-tracking of a visa application for the nanny of David Blunkett's then lover, Kimberly Quinn.
(18) (I later hear that Mercy has been taken by a nanny to a secret location in the north, ready for the adoption.)
(19) Best pope Michel Piccoli, in Nanni Moretti's otherwise awful Habemus Papam .
(20) The basis of this change has not been published, and yet it will apparently enable considerable funds to be showered on couples with a combined income of up to £300,000 , and serious nannying bills.