(n.) A small singing bird of many genera and species, belonging to the family Fringillidae.
Example Sentences:
(1) Furthermore, female zebra finches responded strongly to AE-treated males and preferred intact males given small AE implants to unsupplemented males.
(2) Intracellular recordings were made from zebra finch hyperstriatum ventrale pars caudale (HVc) neurones in in vitro slice preparations.
(3) These results are compatible with the idea that tamoxifen does not block the action of estradiol in the brain of zebra finches, and suggest that the effects of early tamoxifen treatment on the morphology of the song system may reflect central actions of tamoxifen.
(4) After 6 and 9-h advance and delay shifts of the LD cycle, the 3 species of finches similarly re-entrained their activity rhythms in the direction of the shifted zeitgeber.
(5) The direct contact of the nervous element to the gastro-enteric endocrine cells has recently been reported in the proventricular mucosa of the finch.
(6) Margaret Finch and Sean Mcloughlin Directors, TRP solicitors, Birmingham
(7) Professor Adam Tickell of the University of Birmingham, who served on the working group behind Finch's report, said UK universities "recognise and embrace the strong moral case that the public who fund our research should have unimpeded access to the results of that research".
(8) Prof Finch, a sociologist at the University of Manchester, was asked by the government to consult academics and publishers on how the UK could make the scientific research funded by taxpayers available free of charge while maintaining high standards of peer review and without undermining the UK's successful publishing industry.
(9) They said they don’t think they’d need to because the activity won’t have a significant impact on the finch,” she said.
(10) "In the longer term, the future lies with open access publishing," said Finch at the launch of her report on Monday.
(11) In the subtropical finch, spotted munia (Lonchura punctulata), circanual rhythms (of gonads, fattening, feeding) have been demonstrated in an information-free environment of continuous illumination (LL), rendering it an ideal model for research on the physiology of the circannual clock.
(12) Any offset strategy will result in a net loss of habitat for the black-throated finch.” Concerns over the impact of mining upon the black-throated finch have previously been dismissed by federal MP and businessman Clive Palmer , who has plans for a separate Galilee Basin mine and pointed out that the birds “have wings and can fly” from danger.
(13) "I think this could be a good thing for Spain in a strange way as it will make them realise that some players will need to go before the next World Cup (Arbeloa, Torres etc) and maybe blood some of the younger ones (take your pick from the under 21s)," writes Carl Finch.
(14) Libor scandal: the bankers who fixed the world’s most important number | Liam Vaughan and Gavin Finch Read more Labour’s shadow chancellor, John McDonnell, called for a new investigation on the back of the broadcaster’s report.
(15) "Transport and housing budgets always gets cut in a spending squeeze," said Dermot Finch, director of thinktank Centre for Cities.
(16) The steroid modulation of the aromatase might be related directly to the activation of sexual, aggressive, and nest-building behaviors, whereas the stable dimorphism in 5 alpha- and 5 beta-reductase observed in the nuclei of the song system might be one of the neurochemical bases of the sex differences in the vocal behavior of the zebra finch.
(17) This contrasts with the zebra finch, a species in which only the males sing: a considerably greater proportion of male zebra finch cells in HVc and MAN are labeled than in females.
(18) The chromatin core particle DNA conformation deduced in broad outline by Finch et al.
(19) If you caught Anthony Wall [who ran Arena with Nigel Finch from 1985 to 1995 and who is still in charge of the strand] at the right moment in the bar, and had a good idea, you'd be doing it the next day.
(20) Paramyxovirus type 2(PMV-2) (Yucaipa-like), unreported in free-flying passerines in the Americas, was recovered from a finch, wren, and chicken, each from a different location.
Flinch
Definition:
(v. i.) To withdraw from any suffering or undertaking, from pain or danger; to fail in doing or perserving; to show signs of yielding or of suffering; to shrink; to wince; as, one of the parties flinched from the combat.
(v. i.) To let the foot slip from a ball, when attempting to give a tight croquet.
(n.) The act of flinching.
Example Sentences:
(1) These findings could not be attributed to changes in flinch threshold as neither treatment nor time affected this measure.
(2) I noticed one of them hit him I don’t know where, but I saw him flinch,” Wilson said.
(3) Lesions of the central nucleus also decreased reactivity to shock (jumping and flinching) during shock presentation.
(4) She did not flinch when hostage-takers took over the Iranian embassy; most were killed by the SAS.
(5) Based on the mean thresholds obtained from a flinch-jump test, 8 rats were tested in a startle inhibition procedure with prestimulus intensities of 0.1, 0.2, 0.4, and 0.8 mA.
(6) Our forebears never flinched from modernising the Conservative party, so why should we?
(7) Burnham said that broadcasters cannot "flinch" from the need to look after contestants.
(8) Publication of the Prince Charles 'black spider' letters: live Read more But Kristina Kyriacou, the royal’s top media adviser, barely flinched when duty called as her protectee was confronted by the dogged Channel 4 reporter Michael Crick on Tuesday.
(9) In a second experiment it was observed that neither the shock-induced flinch nor the jump threshold was elevated after nigral lesions, suggesting that these lesions do not decrease the aversive motivational properties of foot shock.
(10) No change in the flinch-jump threshold was detected.
(11) Microinjections of morphine (10 microgram) at both sites significantly elevated the threshold of response in the flinch-jump test; but only at medial sites did naloxone (1 microgram) antagonise this effect.
(12) striker Clint Dempsey’s upcoming debut rap album , The Redux, choice rhymes including: “My game face won’t never flinch, “I’m beast mode, Marshawn Lynch.” O FIVERÃO LETTERS “We’ve all been there with Mario Balotelli (yesterday’s Bits and Bobs).
(13) This is the first time he even flinched, he smiled, went to mutter something, thought better of it and just carried on reading the paper.
(14) According to this hypothesis, the failure of these teratments to disrupt escape responding may be due to the fact that the unconditioned stimulus generates reflexive motor responses (flinch, jump, etc.)
(15) We know that when danger arrived in the halls of Sandy Hook Elementary, the school's staff did not flinch.
(16) For the coverage that I am getting – the fact that it covers previous conditions, the fact that it doesn’t flinch at cancer treatments, the fact that my copays are reasonable and the pharmacy prescription requirements allow me to get the drugs I need – it’s a remarkable bargain.
(17) When it emerged that Jeremy Corbyn’s first act as leader was to go to the pub and sing the Red Flag , bankers flinched and Tories sneered, yet it was no surprise to me.
(18) Nociceptive thresholds were measured by the flinch-jump test.
(19) Now the sleeves are rolled up for the business of telling the press his party will flinch from any coalition with Ukip or the Scots.
(20) After both players tussled, mutually kicking out, television replays suggested Cissé was complaining Evans had spat in his eye but other images showing the United centre-half flinching indicated that this was far from one-sided.