(n.) A large deer, of several species. The European elk (Alces machlis or Cervus alces) is closely allied to the American moose. The American elk, or wapiti (Cervus Canadensis), is closely related to the European stag. See Moose, and Wapiti.
(n.) Alt. of Elke
Example Sentences:
(1) That’s when you heard the ‘boom’.” Teto Wilson also claimed to have witnessed the shooting, posting on Facebook on Sunday morning that he and some friends had been at the Elk lodge, outside which the shooting took place.
(2) Eight cases of snakebite occurred in seven of 11 captive Rocky Mountain elk (Cervus elaphus nelsoni) during June and July 1987.
(3) We have previously identified, cloned and characterized one of the divergent ets-related members elk-1 and shown that it codes for a sequence-specific DNA-binding transcriptional activator.
(4) Protein products of 24 loci from the genomes of Yellowstone Park elk were analyzed by electrophoresis.
(5) Brucellosis has been present in one of the two elk herds since at least 1930, and the incidence of infection among mature females in both herds was approximately 50% during this study.
(6) Proteins of the ets proto-oncogene family bind to similar sequences and we have found that a member of this family, Elk-1, forms SRF-dependent ternary complexes with the SRE.
(7) In the elk this part of the gut usually constitutes a greater part of the spiral loop than the coil proper, and runs in several irregular loops and small coils between the coil proper and the jejunal attachment.
(8) The Yakut elk is an obligatory intermediate host of E. granulosus (Batsch, 1786).
(9) We report here the immunolocalization of scrapie amyloid (PrP27-30) in plaques observed in brain tissues of Rocky Mountain elk (Cervus elaphus nelsoni) and hybrids of mule deer and white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) naturally affected with CWD.
(10) In elks 1 and 2, rupture of the semi-membranosus muscle was associated with massive hemorrhage and swelling.
(11) The amino terminal ETS-domain of Elk-1 was shown to be necessary and sufficient for direct DNA-binding activity.
(12) This grassy plain is well stocked with all kinds of wildlife, including the Rocky Mountain Elk and Black-tailed deer that are the wolves’ main sources of food.
(13) Streptokinase euglobulin lysis time (SK-ELK), fibrin and fibrinogen degradation products (FDP) and fibrinogen in the blood were determined to know the proper dosage of t-AMCHA which would not cause the ischemic complications yet suffice to prevent the rebleeding of ruptured intracranial aneurysm.
(14) Three elk with severe scabies had an estimated 0.6 x 10(6), 3.8 x 10(6) and 6.5 x 10(6) mites, respectively.
(15) Efficient ternary complex formation by Elk-1 is mediated by the B box, a conserved 21 amino acid region located 50 residues C-terminal to the Ets domain, which also acts to inhibit autonomous DNA binding.
(16) Conditions of foliage forests with high grass, where occur hosts of all developmental phases of ticks (elks, hares, rodents, insectivores), are most favourable for I. persulcatus.
(17) Peptides were isolated from the disulphide bridge and active-site regions of the A and B chymotrypsins of moose and elk by diagonal peptide-'mapping' techniques.
(18) Cattle, bison, and elk serum samples were treated with 0.2 M-mercaptoethanol before examination in MAT.
(19) In elk 3, several of the large muscles of the hindlimbs as well as the biceps brachii muscles of the forelimbs appeared pale, dry, and friable.
(20) elk is predominantly expressed in brain, while flk RNA is widely distributed and most abundant in testes.
Hooper
Definition:
(n.) One who hoops casks or tubs; a cooper.
(n.) The European whistling, or wild, swan (Olor cygnus); -- called also hooper swan, whooping swan, and elk.
Example Sentences:
(1) What did surprise pundits was Hollywood's recognition of this unflinching Austrian film about ageing as a candidate for best picture, among such expected contenders as Steven Spielberg's Lincoln , Ben Affleck's Argo and Tom Hooper's Les Misérables .
(2) "Also, Although not noticeable in the league so far, in Europe you can really see they miss the steel and composure of Wanyama in the centre of the park and the opportunist nature of Gary Hooper up front."
(3) The problem is that rugby is a winter sport, played in stodgy conditions up north that don’t really allow for the development of faster, lighter genuine open-side flankers who can match the likes of Richie McCaw, David Pocock, Francois Louw and Michael Hooper.
(4) It was written by Sarah Hooper, who worked on Channel 4's Shameless, and is scheduled to launch in autumn next year.
(5) While big businesses have enjoyed access to new couriers, Royal Mail itself eventually reached such a dire state that the Hooper report urged the government to rewrite the law to clarify that competition was a mixed blessing.
(6) (S. P. Cohen, D. C. Hooper, J. S. Wolfson, K. S. Souza, L. M. McMurry, and S. B.
(7) When the Weigl was used as a moderator variable with the Hooper and also with the Benton, the p values for each test were somewhat reduced (p = .005 and .01), an indication of improvement in predictive power.
(8) Meanwhile, Norwich have confirmed that they will not be making any further bids for Gary Hooper.
(9) TV producer turned Arts Council chairman Peter Bazalgette is another possible candidate, as is Richard Hooper, former deputy chairman of Ofcom, and Lord Myners, the former City minister who recently quit the board of the Co-operative Group.
(10) More predictable were the three awards that went to Tom Hooper's Les Misérables – two technical, and a best supporting actress gong for Anne Hathaway's showstopping role as warbling prostitute Fantine.
(11) Proctolin strongly excites the lateral pyloric and the inferior cardiac neurons of the stomatogastric ganglion (STG), causing them to fire extended high-frequency bursts of action potentials (Hooper and Marder, 1987; Nusbaum and Marder, 1989a,b).
(12) Gary Hooper strikes twice as Leeds are thwarted at Sheffield Wednesday Read more That said, this was a perfect away performance from a Birmingham side at the other end of the spending scale, tight at the back, and clinical in attack.
(13) Despite Hooper's triumph at the Directors Guild of America awards a month ago , which are generally considered an accurate barometer of the Academy's intentions (only six times in their 63-year history have they not correlated), momentum had seemed to be falling back into the hands of David Fincher, who took both the Golden Globe and the Bafta two weeks ago.
(14) This work and the related experiments of DiSpirito and Hooper (DiSpirito, A.A., and Hooper, A.B.
(15) We had left her for just about an hour when they called us to tell us she had passed away.” When she celebrated her last birthday, the great-grandmother said: “I don’t feel very different to when I was 75.” Hooper broke a Guinness World Record last year when she became the oldest person to undergo a hip replacement operation, which was carried out by consultant orthopaedic surgeon Jason Millington at St Mary’s hospital in Newport.
(16) The solutions are obvious from this string, it is a question of doing something about them sustainably.” Reader comments Deona Hooper : “With recent news, I know many may feel the UK system is imperfect.
(17) The remaining five – Ben Affleck's Argo , Steven Spielberg's Lincoln , Quentin Tarantino's Django Unchained , Kathryn Bigelow's Zero Dark Thirty and Tom Hooper's Les Misérables – seem to address and express this particular year.
(18) "Let me be clear about what we are looking for," said Hooper.
(19) But it’s been treated as less.” Gillard tells Hooper there is no control group to tell her reliably whether a male leader in the same circumstances would have had an easier run.
(20) While Nancy, Diana , Unity and Decca pursued literature, fascism, Hitler and socialism, Debo's best friend in childhood was the family's old groom, Hooper, "the human end of the horses; the stables were my heaven".