(n.) Any large, rapacious bird of the Falcon family, esp. of the genera Aquila and Haliaeetus. The eagle is remarkable for strength, size, graceful figure, keenness of vision, and extraordinary flight. The most noted species are the golden eagle (Aquila chrysaetus); the imperial eagle of Europe (A. mogilnik / imperialis); the American bald eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus); the European sea eagle (H. albicilla); and the great harpy eagle (Thrasaetus harpyia). The figure of the eagle, as the king of birds, is commonly used as an heraldic emblem, and also for standards and emblematic devices. See Bald eagle, Harpy, and Golden eagle.
(n.) A gold coin of the United States, of the value of ten dollars.
(n.) A northern constellation, containing Altair, a star of the first magnitude. See Aquila.
(n.) The figure of an eagle borne as an emblem on the standard of the ancient Romans, or so used upon the seal or standard of any people.
Example Sentences:
(1) David Cameron was accused of revealing his ill-suppressed Bullingdon Club instincts when he shouted at the Labour frontbencher Angela Eagle to "calm down, dear" as she berated him for misleading MPs at prime minister's questions.
(2) 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.
(3) It's been a busy free-agency period for the Eagles, with Michael Vick going to the New York Jets and Mark Sanchez moving in the opposite direction .
(4) 3.06am GMT The Eagles are just better The Eagles are up.
(5) The HNC, including paraventricular and supraoptic nuclei, was removed and maintained in Eagle's Minimal Essential Medium (pH 7.4) for 7 days at 37 degrees C in a 95% air 5% CO2 environment.
(6) 1.15am GMT It’s not all about quarterbacks In amongst all the talk about Brees and Foles, at least one Eagles player has been getting far too little attention coming into this game.
(7) Another potential cause of a blockage in the discussions was the future of Maria Eagle , the shadow defence secretary.
(8) The document underlines unrest within the shadow cabinet with a number of frontbench MPs listed in the fourth “core negative group” including Lucy Powell at education and Maria Eagle, who was moved from her role in defence to culture.
(9) Primary cultures from human dental pulp were produced in Leighton tubes in the compound nutritive medium of Eagle consisting of calf serum, ascorbic acid, penicillin and streptomycin.
(10) A series of cytotoxic oxygenated derivatives of oleic acid, 8-oxo-9, 9-oxo-10, 10-oxo-8-, and 11-oxo-9 trans octadecenoic acid, uniquely found at post-mortem in airway cells of cotton workers, were synthesized and shown to be cytotoxic, i.e., inhibitory of growth for several cell lines, including HL-60 and U-937 promyelocytes and Eagle's KB carcinoma cells.
(11) Maria Eagle said: "I think the fact that eight women have been elected shows that the parliamentary Labour party want a balance in terms of gender.
(13) The effect of incubating purified Leydig cells in Eagle's medium and the subsequent effect of the RNA synthesis inhibitors, actinomycin D and cordycepin, on lutropin-stimulated testosterone synthesis have been investigated.
(14) 'No doesn't really mean no': North Carolina law means women can't revoke consent for sex Read more The 13-year-old girl, named Savannah, spoke on 7 May in Eagle Mountain, Utah, during a once-a-month portion of Sunday services in which members are encouraged to share feelings and beliefs.
(15) Angela Eagle set to launch bid for Labour leadership Read more The documents make clear that Joe Ryle, an aide to McDonnell who until at least autumn 2014 was a press spokesman for the Green MEP Keith Taylor, helped put together the group.
(16) Adult squirrel monkey tissues were cultured in Eagle's minimum essential medium in the presence of 14C-labelled valine, threonine and leucine for 24 hours.
(17) During growth of Propionibacterium acnes on Eagles medium protoporphyrin was accumulated inside the cells and coproporphyrin, both as a free base as metalcontaining, outside the cells.
(18) They are Edwardian reconstructions of earlier (mainly goldsmiths’) signs, reappropriated by early 20th-century banks, though the signs of the black eagle and the black horse, which became the logos for Barclays and Lloyd’s, have vanished.
(19) But Rubio’s Pac, Reclaim America, hopes to benefit from wealthy individual donors including the Miami car dealer Norman Braman, the former owner of the Philadelphia Eagles, who is believed to have pledged at least $10m.
(20) The Cowboys had one last chance to beat the Eagles but Kyle Orton, doing his best Tony Romo impersonation, threw an interception to end Dallas hopes.
Hyena
Definition:
(n.) Any carnivorous mammal of the family Hyaenidae, of which three living species are known. They are large and strong, but cowardly. They feed chiefly on carrion, and are nocturnal in their habits.
Example Sentences:
(1) Pasting, a stereotypic form of anal gland scent marking, was studied in 2 cohorts (N = 20) of captive spotted hyenas (Crocuta crocuta).
(2) Hyena disease was first reported in France in 1975 and since then has been recognized in many countries.
(3) They've grown used to holding their bladders and bowels, being stalked by wild boars and hyenas and, during the rainy season, watching out for snakes.
(4) This morphology is considered as an adaptation to stabilizing the body while the hyena carries large and heavy load.
(5) Three of the 4 dominant hyenas ate substantial quantities of the food during this group feeding, and all 4 hyenas ate the following day when offered the food alone.
(6) Mongoose (Herpestes ichneumon), hyena (Hyaena hyaena), cats and dogs were susceptible.
(7) Known as the “hyena”, this man travels between villages, paid by the community to have sex with girls as young as nine, often exposing them to unwanted pregnancy and HIV infection.
(8) He grumbled last week : "The worst of these hyenas would assemble outside press conference rooms in packs and discuss ways to unsettle the panel after organising committee board meetings."
(9) Facebook Twitter Pinterest The camera traps also revealed an extraordinary range of other forest dwellers, including forest elephants , olive baboons , spotted hyena as well as red river and giant forest hogs , crested guinea fowl and aardvark .
(10) Among them were primitive versions of hippopotamuses, rhinos, horses, antelopes, and dangerous predators such as big cats and hyenas.
(11) Recently, deer, antelope, hyena, skunk, gerbil, monkey, and human scents have been investigated.
(12) Surely the nightly calls from the hyenas or the diet of raw kidneys and goat brain soup would make us bolt back to a five-star hotel.
(13) Lions and hyenas persisted: lions hunted reindeer across the frozen wastes of Britain until 11,000 years ago .
(14) Within some 10 or 15,000 years, the continent had lost its straight-tusked elephants, forest rhinos, hippos, hyenas and monstrous scimitar cats.
(15) Even during hte one-month peak, the major predator on calves, the spotted hyena, is unable to feed to satiation.
(16) The hemoglobin from spotted hyena (Crocuta crocuta) exhibits in its alpha- and beta-chains 22 and 20 exchanges, respectively, compared to human hemoglobin.
(17) Frankly, some of the personalised attacks on him and his father have been deeply unsavoury,” he added, saying some Labour MPs were “behaving like hyenas”.
(18) On Day 3, the dominant hyena and 3 or 4 members of her group were offered the food simultaneously.
(19) In 2015, startup CEO Greg Gopman attempted to make amends for his own anti-homeless screed (he described the homeless as “the lower part of society” and “degenerates [who] gather like hyenas” and bemoaned the “burden and liability [of] having them so close to us) by launching a program of his own to “solve” homelessness.
(20) The primary structure of the alpha- and beta-chains of hemoglobin from spotted hyena (Crocuta crocuta, Hyenidae) is presented.