(n.) A child of a European parent on the one side and an Asiatic on the other.
(n.) One born of European parents in Asia.
(a.) Of European and Asiatic descent; of or pertaining to both Europe and Asia; as, the great Eurasian plain.
Example Sentences:
(1) As Russian companies Polymetal, Polyus Gold and Evraz race to join Eurasian Natural Resources as FTSE100 companies, despite their murky practices, because of London's incredibly lax listing requirements, one future scenario is becoming clearer.
(2) The other Eurasian Union is “imaginary”, the brainchild of Putin, first mentioned in October 2011 .
(3) Then, perhaps a couple of decades after the customs union is formed, its members consider creating a true monetary union with a common currency - the Eurasian ruble?
(4) Southern blot analysis of all populations shows that they can be grouped into three classes: a) American bisexuals; b) Eurasian bisexuals, and c) parthenogenetic organisms (all from Eurasia).
(5) Nor, not even if he succeeds in giving substance to his Eurasian imperial dream (which is not impossible) does Putin have the network of client states on his doorstep that Stalin surrounded himself with after 1945.
(6) Instead, the Ukrainian government announced that it was "renewing dialogue" with Moscow on trade and economic matters and with the Kremlin's embryonic rival to the EU, the Eurasian customs union.
(7) The endemic areas are widespread throughout the Eurasian continent and the Japanese islands.
(8) Using genomic fingerprinting by an arbitrarily primed polymerase chain reaction, we resolved into three groups a collection of Eurasian and North American isolates of spirochetes that are generally categorized as B. burgdorferi.
(9) But in the end the parliament in Minsk ratified the treaty on Eurasian Economic Union on 9 October, the day before its first three members – Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan – were due to meet.
(10) Russia's discomfiture stems in part from the blow such defections would deliver to its own pet Customs Union project, part of Putin's grandiose plan for a Eurasian union.
(11) But the first step is a customs union, and, in the case of the Eurasian Union, it had to include Ukraine, Russia's largest neighbour to the west.
(12) In recent years, Putin has been keen to push his own Eurasian Union as an alternative to the EU.
(13) In order to simulate the outcome of the P-M status of Eurasian populations of Drosophila melanogaster, the evolution of experimental mixed-strains was monitored for up to 50 generations.
(14) In this paper, the history and structure of South American, Eurasian, and African rodent faunas are described.
(15) Polyakov said organisers want to revisit the idea of Ukrainian participation, “but nobody knows when.” If the aim is truly to turn a Eurasian super league into one of the strongest in the Uefa zone, then Ukrainian participation would presumably be essential.
(16) The possibility of a change towards a P type only appeared with the introduction of the strong P strain Harwich into Eurasian strains.
(17) The Eurasian Institute refused to answer questions about its funding, but said it was being attacked because of its "activities to advance the political, economic and humanitarian links between Georgia and Russia and for making critical statements about Georgia's western ties".
(18) And now, under Putin's similarly autocratic regime, Russia plans to create, over time, a vast Eurasian Union (EAU).
(19) The shade of blue would be slightly different depending on whether the Pacific Ocean or the Eurasian land mass was facing them.
(20) In Europe, protection of the habitat of the Eurasian lynx and controls on hunting have seen its population rise fivefold since the 1960s.
Ruffe
Definition:
(n.) A small freshwater European perch (Acerina vulgaris); -- called also pope, blacktail, and stone, / striped, perch.
Example Sentences:
(1) The ruff displayed a very high number of synapses with terminals showing a varied morphology.
(2) What this means is that a truly fascinating picture by Rubens – his fantastical, ingenious portrait of Marchesa aria Grimaldi, and her Dwarf (c 1606) in which a ruff collar takes on the proportions and complexity of the Milky Way and the beautiful Grimaldi is closely accompanied by her jowly retainer – is shown among a host of lesser works.
(3) Most recently, this research has been expanded to include a more thorough consideration of the geometric properties of bone in relationship to adult age changes (Martin and Atkinsin, 1977; Ruff and Hayes, 1983).
(4) The morphological characteristics of the synaptic contacts in the ruff of the cichlid fish Hemichromis bimaculatus were studies using the combined Golgi-electron microscope technique.
(5) The only exception was the ruff in Lake Yli-Kitka, where a sharp increase was encountered.
(6) Associate professor Tilman Ruff, co-president of International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, said that with a ban treaty likely to be concluded next year, the world stood at an historic turning point.
(7) Strains with the highest fibrinolytic activity belonged to the Bacillus genus and were isolated from mineral detritus and ruff intestines in the Black Sea.
(8) "I've been feeling ruff," intimated the canine star.
(9) The rate of rhodopsin regeneration in decolorized rod outer segments ROS of pollock and ruff in the presence of exogenous 11Z-retinal is found to depend slightly on the temperature.
(10) We have previously isolated a murine UDP-Gal:beta-D-Gal(1,4)-D-GlcNAc alpha(1,3)-galactosyltransferase (alpha(1,3)-GT) cDNA (Larsen, R. D., Rajan, V. P., Ruff, M. M., Kukowska-Latallo, J., Cummings, R. D., and Lowe, J.
(11) Proteocephalus infection in the perch and ruff did not vary significantly according to the length of the fish in either area, except that no P. percae were found in perch smaller than 70 mm in the lake.
(12) There was a prominent seasonal variation in the occurrence of P. cernuae in the ruff in both areas, but especially in the lake, where no proteocephalids were found in the ruff in July-October.
(13) We have described previously a gene transfer system for the isolation of human DNA sequences that determine expression of a mammalian GDP-fucose: beta-D-galactoside-2-alpha-L-fucosyltransferase (alpha-(1,2)-fucosyltransferase) (Ernst, L. K., Rajan, V. P., Larsen, R. D., Ruff, M. M., and Lowe, J.
(14) These include pupillary ruff defects, iris sphincter transillumination, a characteristic whorl-like pattern of particulate pigment deposition on the iris sphincter, particulate pigment deposition on the peripheral iris and trabecular meshwork, and exfoliation material on the zonules and ciliary body.
(15) The neuropsychological application of the Ruff 2 and 7 Selective Attention Test as a measure of visual selective attention was investigated.
(16) ), at which time the chick host is known to experience malabsorption in the chick host (Ruff and Wilkins, 1980).
(17) I think cars have an extraordinary opportunity for cool design.” Wheego A US company that was spun out of Ruff & Tuff Electric Vehicles, a manufacturer of recreational electric vehicles such as golf carts.
(18) By using an extension of Ruff's analysis of the sequential model of open end-plate ion channel blockade, we have been able to show that the action of the chloramphenicols on end-plate current amplitude and time course can be explained by the combination of two distinct mechanisms.
(19) We have found that a mixture of either ferrous or ferric ions with hydrogen peroxide (Fenton and Ruff reagents) can serve as biomimetic models for cytochrome P-450 in hydroxylation, exposidation, sulfoxidation, and N-demethylation of various drugs.
(20) Aperture size is based on the average radius (30 mm) of the open face of the ruff.