(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.
Pigeon
Definition:
(n.) Any bird of the order Columbae, of which numerous species occur in nearly all parts of the world.
(n.) An unsuspected victim of sharpers; a gull.
(v. t.) To pluck; to fleece; to swindle by tricks in gambling.
Example Sentences:
(1) However, the characteristics of pigeon atherosclerosis at other vascular sites have not been extensively studied.
(2) There are thus clear similarities in the overall pattern of somatosensory projections in the pigeon and in many mammalian species.
(3) The behavioral effects of phenytoin, phenobarbital, clonazepam, valproic acid, and ethosuximide were evaluated in food-deprived pigeons performing under automaintenance and negative automaintenance procedures.
(4) The pigeon's metapatagialis muscle consists of three slips, two twitch and one tonic, and these slips are distinguishable at the gross anatomical level.
(5) The gain of anterior SC primary afferents at 0.25 Hz is similar for anesthetized (2.93 I X s-1 X deg-1 X s-1, n = 14) (11) and for unanesthetized (3.01 I X s-1 X deg-1 X s-1, n = 14) pigeons.
(6) A series of seven experiments related amplitude and latency of the pigeon's startle response, elicited by an intense visual stimulus, to antecedent auditory and visual events in the sensory environment.
(7) Immunohistochemical techniques were used to survey the distribution of several conventional transmitters, receptors, and neuropeptides in the pigeon nucleus of the basal optic root (nBOR), a component of the accessory optic system.
(8) Immunoglobulin G (IgG), A (IgA) and M (IgM) antibody activity against pigeon serum was demonstrated in the patient's serum by a solid phase radioimmunoassay (RIA) technic.
(9) The activities of choline acetyltransferase and acetylcholinesterase were assayed in submicrogram samples from layers of pigeon retina.
(10) Erythrocytes from pigeons and 1-day-old chicks gave similar antigen and antibody titers, but goose erythrocytes gave lower titers.
(11) But my timid scrunch-face puts me so behind the curve that I might as well start training carrier pigeons.
(12) The serratus metapatagialis (SMP) muscle of the pigeon has been studied histochemically and ultrastructurally.
(13) Pigeon Type I horizontal cells are Cajal's "brush-shaped" cells, and their axon terminals resemble Cajal's "stellate" cells.
(14) The mechanism of pyruvate-2,6-dichlorophenol-indophenol (2,6-CPI) reductase reaction catalyzed by the pyruvate dehydrogenase complex from pigeon breast muscle and by its pyruvate dehydrogenase component was studied.
(15) Most of the time when we talk about pollution people think about Beijing or other places, but there are some days in the year when pollution was higher and more toxic in London than Beijing, that’s the reality.” He said he was inspired by the use of pigeons in the first and second world wars to deliver information and save lives, but they were also a practical way of taking mobile air quality readings and beating London’s congested roads.
(16) The local pigeon crop-sac assay was used to test the direct effects of epidermal growth factor (EGF) and several other growth factors and hormones on the growth of mucosal epithelial cells in vivo.
(17) Nine pigeons in a matching-to-sample task with 5 alternative stimuli were exposed to 4 dose levels of sodium pentobarbital.
(18) In pigeon liver, only purine nucleoside phosphorylase was increased but xanthine dehydrogenase activity was not detected after feeding a high protein diet, while both enzyme activities were increased in the pigeon kidney.
(19) The authors report an epizootic form of toxoplasmosis observed among the crowned pigeons (Goura cristata Pallas and Goura victoria Frazer).
(20) Pigeons are able to home from unfamiliar sites because they acquire an olfactory map extending beyond the area they have flown over.