(n.) A large European scaraboid beetle (Geotrupes stercorarius), which makes a droning noise while flying. The name is also applied to allied American species, as the June bug. Called also dorr, dorbeetle, or dorrbeetle, dorbug, dorrfly, and buzzard clock.
(n.) A trick, joke, or deception.
(v. t.) To make a fool of; to deceive.
Example Sentences:
(1) That's the sixth hit allowed tonight dor Wainwright.
(2) The two dead Israeli soldiers were identified as Captain Yochai Klengel, 25, and Sergeant Dor Nini, 20.
(3) Phenotype effects (obese greater than lean) were present for retroperitoneal (RP) and dorsal (DOR) white fat depot weight, adipocyte number per depot, and adipocyte lipid content.
(4) Phenotype effects (corpulent greater than lean) were present for fat pad weight, adipocyte number, and adipocyte lipid content in the dorsal (DOR) and retroperitoneal (RP) WAT depots.
(5) Furthermore, the data indicated that neither the Lb nor the DOR scales could differentiate the Low Back patients from other psychosomatic and psychiatric patients and suggested that these two scales should be used with extreme caution by clinicians.
(6) Presently, the surgical technique of our preference is the anterior SemiNissen or Dor's hemivalve, with closure of the His' angle, the hiatus and the pillars of the diaphragm, when indicated, and pexia of the round ligament.
(7) Furthermore, contrary to the impression given in some DOR is not alone in making premium payments to government, nor is it the highest payer.
(8) Perry says: “The staff on East Coast, I’ve talked to dozens of them, are really excited to be working with two very customer-facing brands.” Horne adds: “One member said he’d wished we’d taken over years ago, I certainly haven’t detected regret that they’re not working for DOR any more.
(9) Evidence is also presented which shows that each of the pathological MMPI profile types examined across "functional," "organic," and "mixed" classification is significantly more elevated than a normal profile group on two scales (Lb, DOR) designed to measure functional aspects of pain.
(10) DOR images of a contrast-detail phantom are superior to those produced by conventional medium-speed screen-film radiography.
(11) The 27Al DOR NMR spectra of CAW measured at 9.4 and 11.7 T and spinning rates of 800-1150 Hz of the outer and 5 kHz of the inner rotor show seven sharp central lines accompanied by a manifold of spinning sidebands.
(12) Based on the demonstrated influence of L-lactate, pyruvate, and phenazine methosulfate on the salvage synthesis of purine nucleotides [K. Ravid, P. Diamant, and Y. Avi-Dor, (1984) Arch.
(13) Scores from the Low Back (Lb) and the Dorsal (DOR) scales of 20 patients with functional low back pain, 20 patients with functional gastrointestinal pain, and 20 psychoneurotic patients were compared.
(14) Genes ecs, dor and swi from this cluster have been mapped in D. funebris, D. virilis, D. hydei, D. repleta, D. mercatorum and D. paranaensis to the telomeric region of the X chromosome, in D. kanekoi to the distal region, and in D. pseudoobscura, to the proximal region of the X chromosome.
(15) Rotor synchronized pulse excitation is applied in the DOR experiments.
(16) When is the last time that you heard of good old British Rail offering any kind of customer incentives?” Even if the political divide can be encapsulated in a supermarket loyalty programme, the management of East Coast under DOR claims to have “relentlessly focused” on customers (it did, in fact, operate a rewards points scheme).
(17) The rate increase dor sulfate and L-(+)-tartrate is ca.
(18) Nissen's (106), Tupe (47), Belsi's (3), Dor's (5), and atypical methods were applied.
(19) All of these Dor-Nissen partial wrap-around operations were technically easy to do and all the postoperative patients have been problem-free both clinically and radiologically.
(20) The mixed and functional groups differed significantly from the organic group on the Hs, Hy, Pt, Sc, Hy-O, D-O, and DOR scales.
Dory
Definition:
(n.) A European fish. See Doree, and John Doree.
(n.) The American wall-eyed perch; -- called also dore. See Pike perch.
(n.) A small, strong, flat-bottomed rowboat, with sharp prow and flaring sides.
Example Sentences:
(1) MI5 spied on Doris Lessing for 20 years, declassified documents reveal Read more Ennals’ son, Sir Paul Ennals, told the Guardian: “It was hardly surprising that the secret services establishment found them all [there were three Ennals brothers, Martin, David, and John] of interest throughout their lives – their careers focused upon defending the rights of minority groups, setting up organisations to combat injustice, founding the Anti-Apartheid Movement and speaking out for what they believed.” He added: “I don’t think such ideas and activities were extreme after the war, and they shouldn’t be now.” MI5 justified its targeting of individuals and organisations, including the Anti-Apartheid Movement, the National Council for Civil Liberties, and CND, on the grounds either that some individual members were members of the Communist party, or that the party was suspected of trying to infiltrate them.
(2) I had a week in New York before going out to Indiana and, as everybody did in those days, I went to Radio City Music Hall, and the movie playing was The Pajama Game , which had one of my favourite stars in it – Doris Day.
(3) While Auden and Britten are much grander characters than, say, Maggie Smith's nervy vicar's wife in Bed Among the Lentils or Thora Hird's Doris in A Cream Cracker Under the Settee trying to stave off the care home, they share the same disappointments – loneliness, self-doubt, age.
(4) Recent reports from this laboratory indicate that exposure of cholesterol-loaded macrophages to high density lipoprotein 3 (HDL3) stimulates not only cholesterol efflux, but also results in a two- to threefold increase in apoE accumulation in the media (Dory, L., 1989.
(5) "I have always been of the mind that the idea somehow Google had got through everything and now it was hunky-dory was a bit hopeful.
(6) Mara And Dann, An Adventure, is published by Flamingo at £16.99 Life at a glance Doris May Lessing Born: October 22, 1919; Kermanshahan, Persia (now Iran).
(7) How she does it I have no idea.” Karen Kay, events fundraiser at the Rowans hospice, said: “Doris is an amazing lady and a huge inspiration.
(8) But I’m sorry, Mr Mayor, you have lied to us about enough other things that we are not going to take your word for it that things are just hunky dory in the building behind us.
(9) In Alfred and Emily (2008), Doris imagined different outcomes for them.
(10) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Doris Davis, eyewitness to the shooting of another man in the St Louis area.
(11) MI5 spied on Doris Lessing for 20 years, declassified documents reveal Read more Born Edith Suschitzky in Vienna, she first came to the UK in 1927 to train as a Montessori teacher.
(12) At the G4G there were talks on how to envisage a Rubik's cube in four dimensions (which drew a huge round of applause), new methods of making shapes fit together, the launch of a puzzle game called Doris, and demonstrations of how laser cutting is changing wooden mechanical puzzles.
(13) Doris Lessing has always been a writer interested in the future, so I doubt this would come as any surprise to her at all.
(14) I never thought that we would end our days like this.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Pippa Clewer, right, at her 92-year-old mother Doris’s bed.
(15) He and Doris Lessing will be discussing The Golden Notebook on Wednesday January 17 at the Newsroom, 60 Farringdon Road, London EC1 at 7pm.
(16) As the prime minister used to do as chancellor when he was conning us that everything was hunky-dory and tickety-boo, we were constantly told how lucky we were to be in Britain, and not one of those other benighted countries such as Germany, where there is no growth.
(17) She is one of the voices in the new Disney Pixar film, Finding Dory , the sequel to Finding Nemo, due for release in 2016.
(18) They had a wonderful time at Cannes, were widely feted, and everything seems hunky dory today.
(19) Small angle x-ray diffraction patterns were recorded from isometrically contracting Limulus (horseshoe crab) telson levator muscle using a multiwire proportional-area detector on the storage ring DORIS.
(20) M. scoleciformis was found in the biliary bladder of the John dory, Zeus faber (on 1 from 4 fishes), M. formosus was found in the urinary bladder of the whiting Merlangius merlangus (on 2 from 9 fishes).