(n.) An animal of the Weasel family (Mustela / Putorius furo), about fourteen inches in length, of a pale yellow or white color, with red eyes. It is a native of Africa, but has been domesticated in Europe. Ferrets are used to drive rabbits and rats out of their holes.
(n.) To drive or hunt out of a lurking place, as a ferret does the cony; to search out by patient and sagacious efforts; -- often used with out; as, to ferret out a secret.
(n.) A kind of narrow tape, usually made of woolen; sometimes of cotton or silk; -- called also ferreting.
(n.) The iron used for trying the melted glass to see if is fit to work, and for shaping the rings at the mouths of bottles.
Example Sentences:
(1) The contralateral projection in all divisions of the CN of both albino and 'red eyed' ferrets was normal.
(2) Ferret preparations showed low levels of spontaneous activity, which was reduced by acidosis and enhanced by alkalosis.
(3) Class V cavities were prepared on the labial surfaces of the canine teeth of 18 male ferrets.
(4) In this study, Golgi-stained tissue was examined in order 1) to determine whether sex differences exist in dendritic dimensions of neurons from this region, and 2) to assess the effects of adult androgen treatment on dendritic morphology in ferrets of both sexes.
(5) Also, yohimbine treatment significantly reduced duration of recumbency in 10 of 11 ferrets (p = 0.0001).
(6) A survey was made of the density of the cholinergic innervation of different parts of the brainstem of the rat and ferret.
(7) Dense B-50-like immunoreactivity was localized in nerves throughout the wall of the rat, ferret and human small intestine, notably in the myenteric and submucous plexuses, where in the ferret ileum it co-localized with vasoactive intestinal polypeptide-immunoreactive fibre groups.
(8) Our results suggest that the vascular response of isolated ferret lungs to severe hypoxia consisted of separate early and late phases of vasoconstriction.
(9) Hormone levels were measured in frequent blood samples taken via an indwelling jugular cannula from sexually mature and castrated ferrets.
(10) The effects of gossypol acetic acid on isometric and isotonic contractions of isolated ferret heart ventricular muscle was recorded on a myograph.
(11) The ferret callosal cell distribution has a greater tangential extent in area 18 than in area 17.
(12) PACAP-like immunoreactivity was observed in nerve fibers in the gut wall of all species examined (chicken, mouse, rat, hamster, guinea-pig, ferret, cat, pig, sheep and man).
(13) In both groups of ferrets the oestradiol binding capacity of the uterus was approximately 10 times greater than that of the other tissues studied; of these other tissues the highest oestradiol binding capacity was present in the pituitary, followed by hypothalamus, midbrain, amygdala and cerebral cortex.
(14) Amrinone was found to increase phasic tension of ferret papillary muscles only for depolarizations lasting less than 250 to 300 msec.
(15) Unlike the cat, there is no difference in retinal decussation patterns in wild-type sable ferrets and heterozygous ferrets carrying one albino gene.
(16) We have compared the effects of three vasoactive agents, endothelin, platelet activating factor and thromboxane A2 analogue, U 46,619, in the pulmonary circulation of ferrets.
(17) The distribution of acetylcholinesterase and choline acetyltransferase in primary visual areas of adult pigmented ferret was determined with cholinesterase histochemistry and choline acetyltransferase immunohistochemistry.
(18) The neonatal ferret appears to be a useful model for assessing integrated epithelial structure-function relationships that are important not only during early development but also during repair after airway injury involving deciliation.
(19) The decussation patterns of retinal ganglion cells in adult pigmented and albino ferrets were determined from the distribution of cells labelled after large unilateral injections of horseradish peroxidase into the visual pathway, involving the lateral geniculate nucleus and fibres of passage to the superior colliculus.
(20) In the present study, the SV was examined light microscopically in sectioned material or whole-mounts from pigmented and albino animals of 5 species, including the cat, guinea pig, rabbit, ferret and mouse.
Tape
Definition:
(n.) A narrow fillet or band of cotton or linen; a narrow woven fabric used for strings and the like; as, curtains tied with tape.
(n.) A tapeline; also, a metallic ribbon so marked as to serve as a tapeline; as, a steel tape.
Example Sentences:
(1) Although measurements are easily obtained with a tape measure, the validity of these measurements is not known.
(2) A combined plot of all results from the four separate papers, which is ordered alphabetically by chemical, is available from L. S. Gold, in printed form or on computer tape or diskette.
(3) The fact that the security service was in possession of and retained the copy tape until the early summer of 1985 and did not bring it to the attention of Mr Stalker is wholly reprehensible,” he wrote.
(4) Patients' and therapists' discourses can be analysed from tape recordings or from their responses to open-ended questions.
(5) I’m very sorry.” Who is Billy Bush: the man egging on Trump in tape about groping women Read more Trump and Bush had been on a bus headed to the set of the soap opera Days of Our Lives, in which Trump was set to make a cameo.
(6) His wrists were shown wrapped in tape with “MIKE BROWN” and “MY KIDS MATTER” written on them.
(7) In response, Trump used Twitter to falsely claim that the woman in question, Alicia Machado, had made a sex tape.
(8) Video tapes have been used extensively in medical education and especially in training for family practice.
(9) Foreign investment has been sluggish because of insecurity, red tape and corruption.
(10) Hulk Hogan’s status as a public figure, even one who holds forth often and at length about his sex life, may have kept him from getting the kind of sympathy that the subject of the escort story immediately received, but there’s no evidence Bollea intended for anyone to see the tape.
(11) This preliminary study involved rating of tape-recorded sessions by psychoanalytically oriented judges.
(12) I didn't want to leave but David asked me to because he'd made a tape and said he wanted the world to understand.
(13) The computer system was a hybrid of analog devices (tape-recorder, voltage summator, and high-pass filters) and a multipurpose laboratory digital device (PDP-12).
(14) On referral to our clinic, his physical examination and tape recording were characterized by harsh inspiratory stridor.
(15) A 16-channel EEG tape recorder system having a frequency response of DC-100 Hz for each channel is described.
(16) But we shouldn’t forget that Gawker was not just getting sued over the Hulk Hogan sex tape case.
(17) Matches on the NDCD tape could be found for 80% of the items in the shelf stock sample and 69.5% of the items in the tape supplied by the wholesaler.
(18) However, more careful examination revealed that these actually represented transient speeding of the monitor tape, perhaps secondary to a semiconductor malfunction.
(19) Single stage semi-automated radioimmunoassays for total serum thyroxine (T4) and triiodothyronine (T3) are described which employ an automatic pipetting station, automatic gamma counter, and a programmable calculator with paper tape reader and printing facility.
(20) The tape-recorded EEG offers possibilities of more channels and a higher reliability when diagnosing short subclinical seizures, however, only after offline analysis.