(n.) Any large web-footen bird of the subfamily Anserinae, and belonging to Anser, Branta, Chen, and several allied genera. See Anseres.
(n.) Any large bird of other related families, resembling the common goose.
(n.) A tailor's smoothing iron, so called from its handle, which resembles the neck of a goose.
(n.) A silly creature; a simpleton.
(n.) A game played with counters on a board divided into compartments, in some of which a goose was depicted.
Example Sentences:
(1) Experiments were conducted comparing the relative contribution of internal and external cold stimuli in the initiation of horripilation (cutis anserina or "goose flesh") in men and women.
(2) The molecular structure of the goose-type lysozyme has been determined at a resolution of a 2.8 A by X-ray crystallographic analysis.
(3) In 2000 the comic strip Mother Goose and Grimm showed an owl in a tree calling "Whom" and a raccoon on the ground replying "Show-off!"
(4) Erythrocytes from pigeons and 1-day-old chicks gave similar antigen and antibody titers, but goose erythrocytes gave lower titers.
(5) Aminopyrine demethylase activity was significantly lower in liver slices from the duck (Aylesbury X Pekin, Khaki-Campbell) than from the rat (Wistar), and in the Aylesbury X Pekin duck lower than in the turkey (Triple 6 FLX), chicken (Brown Leghorn, Rhode Island Red X Light Sussex) and goose (Emden X Doulouse).
(6) In contrast to those obtained from duck, goose and caiman, delta-crystallin isolated from the pigeon lens possessed very little argininosuccinate lyase activity.
(7) Salt-gland blood flow in the domestic goose has been measured using a combination of Sapirstein's indicator fractionation technique for organ blood flow and Fegler's thermodilution method for cardiac output.2.
(8) At the end of this awful Soviet-style display we had to watch the Chinese soldiers goose step on to the stage”.
(9) It is concluded that the epithelial cell of the goose, as of other animals, may function beyond crypts without the regulating influence of the nucleus.
(10) Evidence was presented that a single copy of the decarboxylase gene present in the goose genome codes for both the mitochondrial form found in extremely low amounts in the liver and the cytosolic form found in large amounts in uropygial glands.
(11) After scarfing platefuls of seafood on the terrace, we wandered down to the harbour where two fishermen, kitted out in wetsuits, were setting out by boat across the clear turquoise water to collect goose barnacles.
(12) Flagellates from the caeca of a diseased hen and a diseased goose were transmitted to 35 specific pathogen-free (SPF) chickens.
(13) 2 mycoplasma strains were isolated, one from the phallic lymph of a gander and the other from a cloacal swab of a laying goose.
(14) The W chromosome possessed large amounts of CMA3-bright material on the short arm in both the turkey and the goose.
(15) The RIA will measure PRL in several avian species including the chicken, duck, goose, pheasant, pheasant X chicken F1 hybrid, pigeon, quail and rock.
(16) A molecular weight value of 547 000 was determined for the goose fatty acid synthetase by sedimentation equilibrium centrifugation.
(17) When it was her turn in front of Mengele [the murderous Auschwitz doctor who notoriously experimented on inmates], my mother told him that she was pregnant, hoping he would be compassionate ... Mengele snapped “ Du dumme gans ” [you stupid goose] and ordered her to the right.” That meant she had been chosen for forced labour, rather than the gas chamber.
(18) To test this possibility the levels of the decarboxylase, acetyl-CoA carboxylase, and fatty acid synthase in the gland of the embryonic and neonatal goose were measured by immunodiffusion and immunoblot assays for the proteins as well as the enzyme assays for the catalytic activities.
(19) Proline uptake averaged higher in the proximal portion of the cecum than in any region of the small intestine for all species but the goose.
(20) In the flesh, though, you'd think Wasikowska wouldn't say boo to a goose, let alone a camel.
Gosling
Definition:
(n.) A young or unfledged goose.
(n.) A catkin on nut trees and pines.
Example Sentences:
(1) Stanislas could have celebrated that reprieve by treating himself to another goal when United’s defence was bisected by a wonderful pass from Gosling.
(2) The eight-seventh passage was non-pathogenic for susceptible day-old goslings and produced active and adequate immunity in these young birds.
(3) In addition, vascular resistance of these vessels was found to be abnormally low, as reflected by the Gosling pulsatility index.
(4) Somewhere in here is a story that Refn can hardly be bothered to tell: the psychotic brother of Bangkok-dwelling American Julian (Ryan Gosling) murders a girl, is murdered for it in his turn by the girl's father, who is acting reluctantly under the aegis of a karaoke-loving samurai-cop (Vithaya Pansringarm), an angel of vengeance figure who then subtracts arm number one from the father as punishment for pimping out his late daughter.
(5) On examining the blood and the organs, the virus was detected in a very low amount and for a very short time in blood and spleen of goslings and only in blood of ducklings.
(6) Neonates were correctly classified according to diagnosis by the Doppler measures as follows: Pourcelot's pulsatility index (100%), Gosling's pulsatility index (97%), diastolic amplitude (94%), mean amplitude (76%), area under the curve (70%), and systolic amplitude (58%).
(7) For a 10-day spell they interviewed everyone from Ryan Gosling to Martin Scorsese, Nicole Kidman to Roman Polanski.
(8) Police today interviewed at least one of Gosling's friends who knew him at the time of the killing.
(9) The drug caused a significant decrease in the plasma free fatty acid (FFA) levels only in the goslings kept at thermoneutrality.
(10) Please note that Gosling does not actually appear in How to Catch a Monster.
(11) Tom Gosling, reward partner at PricewaterhouseCoopers, said: "There is a wider question of differences in regulatory approach at the global level creating an uneven playing field, and a risk of geographic arbitrage in favour of jurisdictions that are perceived to be more lenient."
(12) Goslings were more affected than chicks by the ingestion of a raw soya-bean diet (RSD) in the following ways: reduction in food intake and growth rate; increase in relative weight of the digestive organs; reduction in specific activities of lipase (EC3.1.1.3), amylase (EC3,2.1.1) and chymotrypsin (EC3.4.4.5) in the pancreas (not affected in chicks); greater inhibition of trypsin (EC 3.4.4.5) in the pancreas (not affectd in chicks); greater inhibition of trypsin (EC3.4.4.4.
(13) Simon Brew of Den of Geek wrote : "He might not be Ryan Gosling, but Affleck has quietly been impressing as an actor, and maturing as one too.
(14) Detectives have already examined the unedited footage of Gosling's feature for BBC East Midlands TV on Monday to establish if there was any collusion with members of the crew who may have been told details of the crime.
(15) Among those in the Hollywood-heavy lineup for Cannes this year will be Steve Carell and Channing Tatum, who star in Foxcatcher, the dark drama from Moneyball director Bennett Miller also competing for the Palme d'Or, while Ryan Gosling's directorial debut, Lost River, will be part of the Un Certain Regard sidebar.
(16) Investigations were extended over several years and were, more specifically, applied to 1,148 samples obtained from 525 goslings and 429 samples which had been collected from 139 Muscovy duck chickens.
(17) Gosling was arrested at his sheltered accommodation shortly after dawn and interviewed for more than nine hours by Nottinghamshire police after he admitted to the killing on TV on Monday night.
(18) Addition of methionine to the RSD improved food intake and growth rate more in goslings than in chiks.
(19) But the break could not have come at a worse time – after almost two hours of goal-less tension, fans watching from home were treated to scenes of delirious Evertonians celebrating the goal of 19-year-old Dan Gosling.
(20) The pulsatility index (as defined by Gosling) was lower at all vessel sites up to 72 h in the SGA group.