(a.) Having the color of gold; as, the golden grain.
(a.) Very precious; highly valuable; excellent; eminently auspicious; as, golden opinions.
Example Sentences:
(1) The microsomal preparations from untreated Syrian golden hamster livers exhibited higher activities of N-demethylation towards the macrolide antibiotics, erythromycin and troleandomycin, than those from untreated and phenobarbital-treated rats.
(2) Fertilization of golden hamster eggs was blocked both in vitro and in vivo by antibodies produced in rabbits against specific hamster ovarian antigens (HOA).
(3) A golden toad (Bufo periglenes) in Monteverde Cloud forest reserve in Puntarenas province of Costa Rica.
(4) Malignant melanoma of the conjunctival region was induced in the golden Syrian hamster.
(5) Subcutaneous polymorphic sarcomas were induced in 8 out 27 offspring of syrian golden Hamsters after treatment of pregnant mother animals at day 15 of gestation with Adenovirus 12.
(6) Gassman and Hoffman were both given Golden Lions for life achievement.
(7) Greek police have said the 45-year old man arrested over the attack has admitted being a member of the extremist Golden Dawn Party.
(8) "Before the last election the government promised to usher in a 'golden age' for the arts.
(9) Far from securing the regime change they were seeking, the creditors now find that Syriza is being supported by all Greek political parties apart from the communists and the neo-Nazi party Golden Dawn.
(10) Exposure to short daylengths arrests the oestrous cycle, provokes daily gonadotrophin surges and reduces the ability of exogenous oestradiol to trigger behavioural receptivity in golden hamsters.
(11) Skin tyrosinase levels and the eumelanin and phaeomelanin contents of the hair were measured in pubertal and adult C3H-HeA*vy mice that grow dark and golden yellow hair respectively.
(12) It sells itself to British tourists as a holiday heaven of golden beaches, flamenco dresses and well-stocked sherry bars, but southern Andalucía – home to the Costa del Sol – has now become the focus of worries about the euro.
(13) Queen's speech: the day ‘psychoactive drugs’ tripped off the royal tongue Read more The first Queen’s speech of the second term should be golden.
(14) MFH was administered in drinking water continuously for life to Swiss mice and Syrian (golden) hamsters.
(15) Flagellar movement of golden hamster spermatozoa obtained from the testis and the caput and cauda epididymides was observed by a light microscope while holding them at their heads with a micropipette.
(16) This study examined the effects of ethanol and hereditary cardiomyopathy on sodium and water excretion by golden Syrian hamsters of both sexes.
(17) And this isn’t a thrill confined to some mythical vanished golden age.
(18) The data obtained suggest a major energy power of the skeletal muscles as well as initiation of non-contractile heat production in them in the golden hamsters adapted to cold.
(19) Mammotrophs or prolactin (PRL) cells were identified in the adenohypophysis of adult golden hamsters by immunocytochemical techniques with a polyclonal anti-PRL, that was proved to be specific to PRL by the dot immunoblotting test.
(20) In a long piece on the Daily Beast, he also revealed that Mia Farrow had granted permission for her image to be used in film clips honouring Allen during the Golden Globes, and expressed surprise at her Twitter reaction.
Goldeneye
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Adele will be following in the shoes of Shirley Bassey (who sang the themes to Goldfinger, Diamonds Are Forever and Moonraker), Tina Turner ( GoldenEye ) and Madonna (Die Another Day).
(2) Goldeneye, the first of Brosnan’s efforts, heralded a dramatic renewal: not simply because of a new actor, but more significantly who was behind the camera.
(3) Martin Hollis: Ex-Rare designer and co-creator of Goldeneye, now working on smaller indie projects.
(4) While Santorum struggled through much of the early part of the debate, choosing for instance to discuss the threat of an electromagnetic pulse attack on the US – a WMD which features in the plot of the James Bond movie Goldeneye – he gained momentum in his closing statement.
(5) The justly renowned opening scene of Goldeneye – during which Bond freefalls into a pilotless light aeroplane’s cockpit – did much to reinvigorate and modernise the series on its own.
(6) Recorded discussing a rendering of the James Bond theme GoldenEye by that other vocal heavyweight Tina Turner , Shirley was less than impressed.
(7) He sneered at Pierce Brosnan’s Bond in GoldenEye, shouted at Nicolas Cage in National Treasure and threatened Harrison Ford in Patriot Games.
(8) He spent his final years at the Goldeneye estate in Jamaica, where he had been living for three months annually for more than a decade to write.
(9) Moreover, a whole new generation was reached through a hugely successful Goldeneye video game spinoff , making a significant contribution to perceptions that the Bond film was no longer stale and old-fashioned.
(10) It was the darkly brilliant TV drama Cracker that mesmerised the critics, but cheesy British film comedies such as Nuns On The Run and The Pope Must Die made Coltrane a global movie star, appearing in two consecutive James Bond films ( GoldenEye and The World Is Not Enough ).
(11) The risk of increased exposure to metals for a vertebrate predator foraging on aquatic insects in acidified lakes was investigated through analyses of the content of Al, As, Ca, Cd, Cu, Fe, Hg, Mn, Pb, Ru, Se, and Zn in the liver tissue of 42 non-fledged Goldeneye, Bucephala clangula, ducklings from acidic, circumneutral, and limed lakes in South Sweden.
(12) Adults of Profilicollis botulus were found in 6 species of diving ducks in British Columbia including 3 new hosts: common goldeneye, Bucephala clangula (L.); Barrow's goldeneye, B. islandica (Gmelin); and greater scaup, Aythya marila (L.).