(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.
Honk
Definition:
(n.) The cry of a wild goose.
Example Sentences:
(1) I've danced and I still want to dance," he said over the noise of drumming and honking cars.
(2) After Karadzic's arrest in 2008, the streets of Bosnian cities were lined with honking cars, but after that of Ratko Mladic last year, there was no such celebration.
(3) From his 19th-floor newsroom Eurípedes Alcântara enjoys a spectacular view over the "new Brazil"; helicopters flit through the afternoon sky, shiny new cars honk their way across town, tower blocks and luxury shopping centres sprout like turnips from the urban sprawl.
(4) In London, Trafalgar Square and Whitehall were jammed from the start of the planned "go slow" at 2pm, as thousands of black cabs gathered honking their horns, bringing total gridlock to the centre of the capital, while supporters waved banners and started occasionally chanting: "Boris, out!"
(5) He won’t look at you when you pull up beside him, honking about decorum and proper manners.
(6) Thomas Wiggins – the man urging cars to honk as they passed – dropped his face into his hands.
(7) His head pounds, “my chest gets heavy, stomach gets tight” and “I feel suffocated, anxious.” “I have difficulty breathing at the end of the day, my face is black with soot,” says Kumar, waiting for his next fare on a noisy corner in south Delhi, beside a road jammed with honking cars, trucks and buses.
(8) When one reaches glory is it hard to keep up,” said Arturo Vidal - who currently has ‘Campeón’ shaved into his hair, both an indisputable statement and a honking piece of hubris - said after the game.
(9) "More likely indoor fireworks under Balotelli's shirt," honks David Parkinson.
(10) Cars honk impatiently and refuse to give way to one other.
(11) There are more than 5m cars in Beijing, and they have transformed its once-generous thoroughfares into a noxious, honking mass.
(12) Honk if you think Washington is broken!” says a sign on her campaign bus.
(13) The mechanism of production of this honk is discussed.
(14) A systolic honk developed in a woman with idiopathic cardiomyopathy and congestive heart failure.
(15) Three children with loud systolic honks were studied noninvasively with phonocardiography and echocardiography.
(16) Qasr-el-Aini was almost a hellish experience, with cars honking the whole time.
(17) Parreira had no complaints about either of the big talking points – the flight of the ball and the honk of the vuvuzela – of a so far underwhelming first round of matches: "We love them both."
(18) (I will not bore the boob-honking lobby with the statistics on female employment, prevalence and seniority.)
(19) Moscow is generally noisy with the sounds of thousands of drivers honking horns as they wait for the passing of these motorcades, which often involve a dozen cars with blue sirens wailing.
(20) A third study with 137 male drivers and 63 female drivers examined the interactive effects of a rifle, an aggressively connotated bumper sticker, and individual subject characteristics (sex and an exploratory index of self-perceived status) on horn honking.