(n.) A cetacean of the genus Delphinus and allied genera (esp. D. delphis); the true dolphin.
(n.) The Coryphaena hippuris, a fish of about five feet in length, celebrated for its surprising changes of color when dying. It is the fish commonly known as the dolphin. See Coryphaenoid.
(n.) A mass of iron or lead hung from the yardarm, in readiness to be dropped on the deck of an enemy's vessel.
(n.) A kind of wreath or strap of plaited cordage.
(n.) A spar or buoy held by an anchor and furnished with a ring to which ships may fasten their cables.
(n.) A mooring post on a wharf or beach.
(n.) A permanent fender around a heavy boat just below the gunwale.
(n.) In old ordnance, one of the handles above the trunnions by which the gun was lifted.
(n.) A small constellation between Aquila and Pegasus. See Delphinus, n., 2.
Example Sentences:
(1) October 27, 2013 7.27pm GMT Around the league And here’s how things look elsewhere, as we head into the fourth quarter: Cowboys 13-7 Lions Browns 17-20 Chiefs Dolphins 17-20 Patriots Bills 10-28 Saints Giants 15-0 Eagles 49ers 35-10 Jaguars 7.25pm GMT End of 3rd quarter: 49ers 35-10 Jaguars The quarter ends with the Jaguars facing a third-and-one at their own 32.
(2) In 2005, Westbrook bought the £190m head lease for Dolphin Square, once the largest block of flats in the world with a colourful list of former residents, including more than 70 MPs, at least 10 Lords and a number of intelligence agency personnel.
(3) Tony Dolphin, the chief economist at the IPPR thinktank, said: "Any reasonable person might say, these departments are already suffering swingeing cuts, and we're seeing reductions in frontline services: how can you possibly say you're going to take another 1% off without affecting services?"
(4) We examined four dolphins (Grampus griseus) of 582 mass-stranded.
(5) Vote for me, and I will complete the job of rebalancing it... January 28, 2014 12.03pm GMT Britain's businesses need to stop sitting on their cash piles and crank up their investment, argues IPPR’s chief economist Tony Dolphin: “The news that manufacturing is growing is welcome.
(6) The adults of the trematode occurring in the nasal sinuses and posterior nasal passage of the dolphins are considered as practically harmless for the host but thier eggs, aspirated deep into the bronchial tree, may initiate a foreign-body of inflammatory reaction in the lungs and continuous aspiration of such eggs may provoke a chronic pneumonia condition.
(7) The primary structure of this myoglobin proved identical with that from the Atlantic bottlenosed dolphin, Tursiops truncatus, but showed four substitutions with respect to the sequence reported for the Black Sea dolphin which has also been given the designation Delphinus delphis.
(8) In the dolphin peculiar architectonics have been observed in the nucleus gigantocellularis medullae oblongatae, nucleus papillioformis or the nucleus reticularis tegmenti Bechterewi and the nucleus centralis superior medialis seu ventralis.
(9) While jobs growth may have been strong during these three years of decent economic growth, it was disproportionately in low value-added – and low-paid – sectors of the economy,” Dolphin said.
(10) The previous government set a number of conditions on the development, to offset the impact on seagrasses, which are vital to the survival of dolphins, turtles and dugongs.
(11) He paid women in prostitution for their services in a grace and favour flat in Dolphin Square for which he pays £1,000 a month instead of the going rate of nearly £3,000.
(12) I take a small kayak, I see electric eels, dolphins.
(13) Its not just about dolphins, but human greed as well.
(14) In a speech which criticised the government's health reforms, Dolphin encouraged delegates to back strike action to defend their pensions.
(15) One of the reported claims against Incognito, which he has denied, is that he pressured Martin, a left tackle in his second year with the Dolphins, to pay $15,000 towards an unofficial players’ trip to Las Vegas that he did not attend.
(16) Richard Kerr will tell the programme that he was abused at Dolphin Square and the Elm Guest House in Barnes, south-west London – two locations that are at the centre of allegations about an elite paedophile ring involving politicians, senior military officers and, in his words, “men who had control and power over others”.
(17) A 21-yr-old male Atlantic bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) was performing at an aquatic park when it developed a soft tissue swelling anterior to the flukes.
(18) It had been alleged that a high-profile paedophile ring was operating out of Dolphin Square, in Westminster, allegedly involving the late former prime minister Edward Heath and other establishment figures.
(19) Tackle the Humpback Dolphin trail and watch the surfers crest waves at Pollock Beach.
(20) World's wildlife being pushed to the edge by humans - in pictures Read more Pollution is also a significant problem with, for example, killer whales and dolphins in European seas being seriously harmed by long-lived industrial pollutants .
Man
Definition:
(n.) A human being; -- opposed tobeast.
(n.) Especially: An adult male person; a grown-up male person, as distinguished from a woman or a child.
(n.) The human race; mankind.
(n.) The male portion of the human race.
(n.) One possessing in a high degree the distinctive qualities of manhood; one having manly excellence of any kind.
(n.) An adult male servant; also, a vassal; a subject.
(n.) A term of familiar address often implying on the part of the speaker some degree of authority, impatience, or haste; as, Come, man, we 've no time to lose!
(n.) A married man; a husband; -- correlative to wife.
(n.) One, or any one, indefinitely; -- a modified survival of the Saxon use of man, or mon, as an indefinite pronoun.
(n.) One of the piece with which certain games, as chess or draughts, are played.
(v. t.) To supply with men; to furnish with a sufficient force or complement of men, as for management, service, defense, or the like; to guard; as, to man a ship, boat, or fort.
(v. t.) To furnish with strength for action; to prepare for efficiency; to fortify.
(v. t.) To tame, as a hawk.
(v. t.) To furnish with a servants.
(v. t.) To wait on as a manservant.
Example Sentences:
(1) By presenting the case history of a man who successively developed facial and trigeminal neural dysfunction after Mohs chemosurgery of a PCSCC, this paper documents histologically the occurrence of such neural invasion, and illustrates the utility of gadolinium-enhanced magnetic resonance scanning in patient management.
(2) Villagers, including one man who has been left disabled and the relatives of six men who were killed, are suing ABG in the UK high court, represented by British law firm Leigh Day, alleging that Tanzanian police officers shot unarmed locals.
(3) The combined immediate and delayed responses to fleas in the dog are as observed by other investigators in man and guinea pigs.
(4) A 61-year-old man experienced four bouts of pancreatitis in 1 year.
(5) Based on several previous studies, which demonstrated that sorbitol accumulation in human red blood cells (RBCs) was a function of ambient glucose concentrations, either in vitro or in vivo, our investigations were conducted to determine if RBC sorbitol accumulation would correlate with sorbitol accumulation in lens and nerve tissue of diabetic rats; the effect of sorbinil in reducing sorbitol levels in lens and nerve tissue of diabetic rats would be reflected by changes in RBC sorbitol; and sorbinil would reduce RBC sorbitol in diabetic man.
(6) "At the same time, however, we cannot allow one man's untrue version of what happened to stand unchallenged," he said.
(7) The condition is compared to extrahepatic and intrahepatic biliary atresia of man and evidence is presented for regarding this case to be one of extrahepatic origin.
(8) Four showed bronchodilation after a deep breath, indicating that this response can occur after extrinsic pulmonary denervation in man.
(9) Antral G cells increase in states of achlorhydria in man and animals provided atrophic antral gastritis is absent.
(10) To become president of Afghanistan , Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai changed his wardrobe and modified his name, gave up coffee, embraced a man he once denounced as a “known killer” and even toyed with anger management classes to tame a notorious temper.
(11) This study reports the analysis of a transvestite man through focusing on his marital interaction and his wife's complementary behavior to his perversion.
(12) One man has died in storms sweeping across the UK that have brought 100-mile-an-hour winds and led to more than 50 flood warnings being issued with widespread disruption on the road and rail networks in much of southern England and Scotland.
(13) Yesterday's flight may not quite have been one small step for man, but the hyperbole and the sense of history weighed heavily on those involved.
(14) These results indicate that both racemic and L-baclofen inhibit trigeminal transmission in man, probably because they interfere with excitatory transmission through the interneurons of the lateral reticular formation.
(15) But what they take for a witticism might very well be true; most of Ellis's novels tell more or less the same story, about the same alienated ennui, and maybe they really are nothing more than the fictionalised diaries of an unremarkably unhappy man.
(16) A man named Moreno Facebook Twitter Pinterest Italy's players give chase to an inscrutable Byron Moreno, whose relationship with the country was only just beginning.
(17) Variability (CV = 0.7%) in body volume of a 45-year-old reference man measured by SH method was very similar to variation (CV = 0.6%) in mass volume of the 60-1 prototype.
(18) A 68 year-old man with a history of right thalamic hemorrhage demonstrated radiologically in the pulvinar and posterior portion of the dorsomedian nucleus developed a clinical picture of severe physical sequelae associated with major affective, behavioral and psychic disorders.
(19) Subcutaneous adipose tissue extracellular glucose was investigated in vivo in man with a microdialysis technique.
(20) Ernst Reissner studied the formation of the inner ear initially using the embryos of fowls, then the embryos of mammals, mainly cows and pigs, and to a less extent the embryos of man.