(n.) A straw, wire, stick, etc., used chiefly to point out letters to children when learning to read.
(n.) An instrument for playing on the harp; a plectrum.
(n.) The style of a dial.
(n.) A grass of the genus Festuca.
(v. i. & t.) To use a fescue, or teach with a fescue.
Example Sentences:
(1) Fescue was less than 5% infected with Acremonium coenophialum.
(2) Two additional studies were conducted to determine the effects of lysocellin and monensin on macromineral apparent absorption and retention in steers fed tall fescue greenchop.
(3) Studies were conducted to determine the specificity and cause of altered pituitary hormone secretion when ewes ingest endophyte-infected (Acremonium coenophialum) GI-307 tall fescue (toxic fescue).
(5) Experimental diets consisted of Kentucky-31 tall fescue hay, soybean meal and a semi-purified concentrate mixture in ratios of 95:5:0, 76:4:20, 57:3:40 and 38:2:60; NaHCO3 represented 0 or 7.5% of the concentrate mixture.
(6) The study reported here was part of a long-term investigation of the effects of genotype on growth, reproduction, and metabolism in cattle grazing common Bermuda grass and endophyte-infected fescue pastures.
(7) This study suggests that a quipazine-metoclopramide regimen may have therapeutic potential for combating ergotlike fescue and other similar toxicities observed in cattle grazing on endophyte-infected pasture grasses.
(8) (tall fescue), and provides biological protection and enhanced fitness to its host, but its anti-mammalian ergot alkaloids detract from the usefulness of tall fescue as forage for livestock.
(9) Rats fed diets containing tall fescue seed infested (E+) with the endophytic fungus Acremonium coenophialum had lower (P less than .05) feed intakes and weight gains than did rats fed diets containing uninfested (E-) tall fescue seed.
(10) Fescue intake (percentage of BW) was lowest (P less than .05) for C with I (1.56) and higher (P less than .05) for WS with NI (2.63) than WS with I (2.12); fescue intake for C with NI (2.33) was intermediate (P greater than .10) to WS with NI and WS with I.
(11) Twelve Hereford heifers were used in a grazing experiment to determine intake and digestibility of tall fescue forage treated with the plant growth regulator mefluidide.
(12) ), 2) tall fescue-red clover (Trifolium pratense L.), or 3) tall fescue-alfalfa (Medicago sativa L.) or were barn-fed, 4) tall fescue hay, 5) orchardgrass (Dactylis glomerata L.)-alfalfa hay, or 6) tall fescue silage from late October to early April during each of 5 yr.
(13) Steers grazing mefluidide-treated forage had greater (P less than .05) total weight gains than did steers grazing untreated tall fescue during a 168-d study (86 vs 69 kg).
(14) HAL evoked significant PRL secretion unaccompanied by any GH or TSH effect in both toxic fescue and OG ewes.
(15) Bermudagrass was offered during d 1 to 45 and tall fescue during d 46 to 90 in Exp.
(17) Neurohormonal imbalances of prolactin and melatonin, with restricted blood flow to internal organs, may be the principal causes of aberrant reproduction, growth, and maturation in livestock consuming endophyte-infected tall fescue.
(18) To evaluate effects of previous forage systems on feedlot performance, yearling Hereford steers (average initial weight of 249 kg) were grazed on tall fescue (TF), smooth bromegrass-red clover (BG-RC) or orchardgrass-red clover (OG-RC) pastures before finishing.
(19) All systems produced satisfactory cattle performance, but fescue-ladino clover combined with fescue-red clover required minimum inputs of harvested feed and maintained excellent stands during 6 yr.
(20) The highest degree of sensitivity was observed for cocksfoot, meadow fescue, meadow foxtail, rye grass, timothy and Yorkshire fog.
Rescue
Definition:
(v. t.) To free or deliver from any confinement, violence, danger, or evil; to liberate from actual restraint; to remove or withdraw from a state of exposure to evil; as, to rescue a prisoner from the enemy; to rescue seamen from destruction.
(v.) The act of rescuing; deliverance from restraint, violence, or danger; liberation.
(v.) The forcible retaking, or taking away, against law, of things lawfully distrained.
(v.) The forcible liberation of a person from an arrest or imprisonment.
(v.) The retaking by a party captured of a prize made by the enemy.
Example Sentences:
(1) Video games specialist Game was teetering on the brink of collapse on Friday after a rescue deal put forward by private equity firm OpCapita appeared to have been given the cold shoulder by lenders who are owed more than £100m.
(2) Madrid now hopes that a growing clamour for future rescues of Europe's banks to be done directly, without money going via governments, may still allow it to avoid accepting loans that would add to an already fast-growing national debt.
(3) 2010 2 May : In a move that signals the start of the eurozone crisis, Greece is bailed out for the first time , after eurozone finance ministers agree to grant the country rescue loans worth €110bn (£84bn).
(4) He also paid tribute to first responders and rescue workers.
(5) The war rescued the young men of Brooklyn from the Depression.
(6) Marker rescue experiments with alkylated T7 bacteriophage carried out in the presence and in the absence of nalidixic acid suggest that the gradient in rescue is due to two alkylation-induced causes: a DNA injection defect and an interference with DNA synthesis.
(7) Moreover, the rescue effect was surprisingly large considering the relatively small number of RPE cells transplanted.
(8) The purpose of this study was to review our results with mechanical support as rescue therapy in children with sudden circulatory arrest after cardiac surgery.
(9) High-dose thiotepa with autologous bone marrow rescue is a new and promising treatment modality in several kinds of solid tumors.
(10) Panel Julia St Thomas, protection and rule of law technical adviser, International Rescue Committee , Beirut, Lebanon , @juliastthomas , @theIRC Julia has been working on human rights issues in the Middle East since 2007.
(11) There are no more operational hospitals and not a single ambulance to rescue the ever-growing number of wounded and sick.
(12) Fv-1-specific host-range pseudotypes of murine sarcoma virus (MuSV) were developed by rescue from nonproducer cells with N- or B-tropic leukemia viruses.
(13) When oocytes were microinjected first with the mosxe antisense oligonucleotide, and subsequently with in vitro synthesized v-mos RNA, meiotic maturation was rescued as evidenced by germinal vesicle breakdown.
(14) Fitness for use in pharmacokinetic drug level determinations was shown in three patients, who received both low doses and high dose therapy combined with citrovorum factor rescue.
(15) Beijing says the island outposts will serve maritime search and rescue missions, disaster relief, environmental protection as well as undefined military purposes.
(16) Forty-nine patients have received OKT3 therapy, with 31 grafts (63.3%) successfully rescued.
(17) I ask the Turkish guard to confirm that they will send a search-and-rescue team.
(18) The quantum leap in integration being mulled will not save Greece, rescue Spain's banks, sort out Italy, or fix the euro crisis in the short term.
(19) Investors and analysts are concerned that while the European emergency fund had enough cash to rescue Greece, Ireland and potentially Portugal, if needed, it may not be large enough to fund Spain's borrowing needs.
(20) Banks continue to recover following the UK goverment's £500bn rescue plan announced the previous day.