(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.
Ilk
Definition:
(a.) Same; each; every.
Example Sentences:
(1) We show that preservation of the correct PE carboxyl-terminal amino acid sequence, REDLK, allows the toxins containing TGF alpha carboxyl inserts to retain significant cytotoxicity against target cells, since another molecule (PE4E-TGF alpha-ILK) containing a nonfunctional carboxyl-terminal sequence was over 100-fold less active.
(2) We need to get back something of that ilk – where each team has three or four players from the home countries at the start of every match."
(3) Fashion's current preoccupation with art is effectively the death knell of the minimalist look – most art (Donald Judd and his ilk aside) is about getting messy.
(4) It is as honest as the report that emerged the same day from the world’s climate scientists, which demonstrated that if Exxon Mobil and its ilk keep their promise to dig up their reserves and burn them, then the planet will no longer function effectively.
(5) It's harder to romanticise living in such a dwelling in NYC – a Londoner can live in a bedsit and be reminded of Fleur and her ilk, but a New Yorker might be apt to think of SROs – but not impossible; in order to survive here, you have to develop the ability to romanticise just about anything.
(6) It's a little sweetly, wishy-washy in the body, but, for a beer of its ilk, it has a real thirst-quenching bitterness to it.
(7) It is a much more natural creed for rightists, like Charles, who dream of an ancient pastoral world where material goods were the prerogative of his ilk.
(8) Never mind that it was the overwhelmingly Tory shire votes of Jacob Rees-Mogg ’s ilk that swung the referendum, while two thirds of Labour voters were remainers.
(9) Some of us enjoyed it so much that we were all for Griffin and his ilk appearing on television all the time, purely in the spirit of political fair play, you understand.
(10) The trouble is that these supposed victims are very, very able to defend themselves and their ilk.
(11) You go to an amazing venue, there are influential people in the room of all ilks, people you wouldn’t normally meet in your day job.
(12) But it's clear that Chimpanzee and its ilk have strayed from the evolutionary path of nature documentary film-making.
(13) Forbes and his ilk have reached a sort of quantum theory of food: the more they look, the more they see.
(14) Democracy forgets you, no one cares what you think, and governments will spend a lot less on you and your ilk.
(15) Perhaps what Claire Alexander at the University of Manchester calls the “jovial bigotry” of Farage and his ilk has helped channel their rage.
(16) "If our critical culture handled films of this ilk with something other than kid gloves, we might not have to continually address these same, tired questions.
(17) But there is no need to apologise to somebody of that ilk.” Leicester are on an 11-game winless run and are bottom of the Premier League going into Saturday’s match at West Ham United, who are fourth.
(18) He told the Guardian: “I am delighted that Eddie Redmayne won [a Golden Globe for best actor], but we can’t just have a culture dominated by Eddie Redmayne and James Blunt and their ilk.
(19) A Mail Online columnist declared : “Next time you hear someone say we are safer IN the EU – remember Brussels.” And in an astonishing removal of guilt from the terrorist murderers, added: “Merkel – and her ilk – blew up Brussels.” I will vote to remain within the European Union, even though I am critical of its current incarnation and want to change it.
(20) Though frequently labelled super-injunctions, they are not of the same ilk as the case that prompted the original coining of the term, because it referred to the fact that the very existence of the injunction must remain secret.