(n.) A quadruped of the genus Canis, esp. the domestic dog (C. familiaris).
(n.) A mean, worthless fellow; a wretch.
(n.) A fellow; -- used humorously or contemptuously; as, a sly dog; a lazy dog.
(n.) One of the two constellations, Canis Major and Canis Minor, or the Greater Dog and the Lesser Dog. Canis Major contains the Dog Star (Sirius).
(n.) An iron for holding wood in a fireplace; a firedog; an andiron.
(n.) A grappling iron, with a claw or claws, for fastening into wood or other heavy articles, for the purpose of raising or moving them.
(n.) An iron with fangs fastening a log in a saw pit, or on the carriage of a sawmill.
(n.) A piece in machinery acting as a catch or clutch; especially, the carrier of a lathe, also, an adjustable stop to change motion, as in a machine tool.
(v. t.) To hunt or track like a hound; to follow insidiously or indefatigably; to chase with a dog or dogs; to worry, as if by dogs; to hound with importunity.
Example Sentences:
(1) We conclude that chronic emphysema produced in dogs by aerosol administration of papain results in elevated pulmonary artery pressure, which is characterized pathologically by medial hypertrophy of small pulmonary arteries.
(2) The combined immediate and delayed responses to fleas in the dog are as observed by other investigators in man and guinea pigs.
(3) In dogs, cibenzoline given i.v., had no effects on the slow response systems, probably because of sympathetic nervous system intervention since the class 4 effects of cibenzoline appeared after beta-adrenoceptor blockade.
(4) It was shown in experiments on four dogs by the conditioned method that the period of recovery of conditioned activity after one hour ether anaesthesia tested 7 to 7.5 days.
(5) Dialysis of dog plasma against an artificial c.s.f.
(6) For similar inotropic responses, normo- and hyperkalaemic dogs had similar levels of (Na+, K+)-ATPase inhibition and microsomal-bound digoxin.
(7) Complete heart block was produced in 20 of 20 dogs.
(8) The dog and the pig also have an endoperoxide-sensitive constrictor system activated by the 11,9-(epoxymethano) analogue of PGH2 and, of particular note, ICI 79939 and its 11-oxo analogue.
(9) All of this in the same tones of weary nonchalance you might use to stop the dog nosing around in the bin.
(10) One hundred and twelve dogs, including twenty C3-deficient dogs, were studied over a period of 6 years.
(11) From the present results it is concluded that secretion of extrapancreatic glucagon increased in response to arginine infusion in the diabetic state, both alloxan diabetic dogs and one-week post-pancreatectomized dogs.
(12) The effect of pO(2) was studied in a further nine dogs.
(13) The effects of tachycardia caused by ectopic right or left ventricular stimulation on ventricular recovery potentials were studied in 30 dogs.
(14) Stimulation with these electrodes were effective for inducing voiding with little residual volume after the recovery of bladder reflexes, 3 weeks after experimental spinal cord injury in the dog.
(15) A neodymium YAG (Nd:YAG) laser was evaluated in a dog ulcer model used in the same manner as is recommended for bleeding patients (power 55 W, divergence angle 4 degrees, with CO2 gas-jet assistance).
(16) Hollywood legend has it that, at the first Academy awards in 1929, Rin Tin Tin the dog won most votes for best actor.
(17) Liver bloodflow remained unchanged in AS dogs, but hepatic alanine uptake nearly tripled (p less than 0.01) and hepatic glucose production increased by 60% (p less than 0.05).
(18) Affected dogs were from ten breeds and their average age was eight years.
(19) Though three of these presumable metabolites could slightly inhibit the binding of [3H]-KW-3049, they were not detected in rat and dog plasma at 0.5 h after oral administration of KW-3049.
(20) Temelastine produces these species-specific changes by enhancing thyroxine clearance from the circulation in the rat, but not in the dog or mouse.
Doo
Definition:
(n.) A dove.
Example Sentences:
(1) Now they’re having to downsize, changing cities and dispose of all their toys, like their big trucks and Ski-doos, but nobody wants to buy that stuff because they can’t afford it either.” “It’s very depressing,” says Seibel, who’s still unemployed despite sending several hundreds of resumes, including to McDonalds, where he was told he was overqualified.
(2) For what it’s worth, I thought of Sadness and Joy as like Velma and Daphne from Scooby Doo , of equal importance in the long run.
(3) Complex in the details (the fact that many companies have been operating DOO for more than a decade; the technology used; the laws being cited by Southern in the hope of outlawing the strikes) and simple in the principle – scrapping guards on large trains is unsafe for passengers, says Aslef , and puts drivers under extreme pressure.
(4) In 100 of these cases DOOS and creatinine were measured.
(5) But there is arguably nothing on either list to rival the yuck factor of one of last year's crop – the Doggie Doo , a plastic dog that poos out plasticine.
(6) The Orbit is a landmark, an icon, a thing, a doo-dad, a wotsit.
(7) She denied being homophobic or racist, and said she was against taking drugs, insisting that a reference on Twitter to making "hash brownies" was from a Scooby Doo film.
(8) Both unions agreed to oppose any more driver-only operated (DOO) trains , which threaten jobs for conductors and which drivers believe makes passengers, and themselves, less safe.
(9) The nicknames have helped build his "regular guy" image, but Pootie-Poot sounds more like a throwback to the preppy vocabulary of his father, who was famous for such phrases as "I'm in deep doo-doo".
(10) You press a button, and the bookcase opens, like in Scooby-Doo.
(11) (Monday was reserved for that Scooby-Doo road trip which garnered much – and largely favorable – publicity, Chipotle surveillance footage and all .)
(12) Asiana President Yoon Young-doo arrived in San Francisco from South Korea on Tuesday morning, fighting his way through a pack of journalists outside customs.
(13) Age had an effect on DOOS, creatinine and their ratio.
(14) But Pak Doo Ik looked in fine shape as he wandered through Westminster yesterday, stop ping momentarily in front of a portrait of Tony Benn to ask if he had ever been mayor of Middlesbrough.
(15) In hit recordings such as Poison Love , Cryin' Heart Blues and Goodnight, Sweetheart, Goodnight, they spiced country music's plain cooking with exotic dashes of Latin American music and black doo‑wop vocalising, yet for a decade they were valued cast members of the conservative Grand Ole Opry.
(16) Before that, his teenage band the Jades had released two entirely unexceptional doo-wop tracks in 1958 and two years later he had chanced his arm as a solo singer, recording in the perky, post-rock'n'roll style that predominated in pre-Beatles America.
(17) In August last year Turner Broadcasting moved to edit out scenes where smoking appeared to be condoned from 1,700 episodes of Hanna Barbera cartoons including Tom & Jerry, Scooby Doo, the Jetsons and the Flintstones.
(18) You know, I was Tory darling for a day, whoopi-doo, but that was it.
(19) Photograph: Sam Frost The Marvel character Thor can be spotted at Stonehenge in a story called Day of the Deadly Druid and both Scooby-Doo and Xena: Warrior Princess have also cavorted around cartoon versions of the monument.
(20) A semiautomated method is described for the determination of total 11-deoxy-17-oxo-steroids (11-DOOS: androsterone, etiocholanolone plus dehydroepiandrosterone) in urine.