(v. t.) To feed or supply (cattle, sheep, etc.) with grass; to furnish pasture for.
(v. t.) To feed on; to eat (growing herbage); to eat grass from (a pasture); to browse.
(v. t.) To tend (cattle, etc.) while grazing.
(v. t.) To rub or touch lightly the surface of (a thing) in passing; as, the bullet grazed the wall.
(v. i.) To eat grass; to feed on growing herbage; as, cattle graze on the meadows.
(v. i.) To yield grass for grazing.
(v. i.) To touch something lightly in passing.
(n.) The act of grazing; the cropping of grass.
(n.) A light touch; a slight scratch.
Example Sentences:
(1) Voluntary intake and nutritive value of diets selected by goats grazing a shrubland at Marin county, N.L., Mexico were determined.
(2) the does had been grazing on lucerne from the time of mating and received a free-choice lick, which included iodine.
(3) Examination of cattle faeces demonstrated that six-month-old calves excreted moderate numbers of N battus eggs in June and July, thus contaminating next season's sheep grazing.
(4) Before 1948, the Bedouin tribes lived and grazed their animals on much of the Negev, claiming ancestral rights to the land.
(5) The relative resistance to different cattle ticks of Gudali and Wakwa cattle with different levels of Brahman breeding, grazed on natural pastures in the subhumid tropics of Wakwa, Cameroon, was assessed using pasture tick infestations.
(6) Three age groups were used: stall fed yearlings, grazing heifers and lactating cows.
(7) Serum cholesterol concentrations were lower in steers grazing on G1-307 than in steers grazing on G1-306 or cultivars.
(8) Diagnostic methods which reveal only the presence or absence of Ostertagia in grazing animals are of little importance since all will acquire some degree of infection when grazed in the temperate regions of the world.
(9) High titres of antibodies to rinderpest virus were demonstrated in sera collected from sheep and goats that were grazing together with the affected cattle herds; there was, however, no evidence of clinical disease in these small ruminants and wildlife species in the affected area.
(10) However, both groups of bulls exhibited similar diurnal grazing patterns with two major daily grazing periods; the first (0400 to 1300) peaked early in the morning (0600) and the second (1700 to 2200) occurred in late afternoon and evening.
(11) In grass tetany, the animals generally are grazing cool-season forages in which Mg concentration or bioavailability of plant Mg is low.
(12) Currently, the lucrative trade in logging, cattle grazing and palm oil, means tropical forests are worth substantially more dead than alive to developing countries.
(13) Eighty-five American wigeon (Anas americana) died after grazing on one treated fairway on the day of application following irrigation.
(14) It appeared that H. contortus could not have more than two generations in ewes or lambs in a single grazing season.
(15) The changes in nematode cholinesterase (ChE) activities were examined in relation to the development of resistance in (1) a flock of young grazing sheep, (2) grazing and penned sheep treated with dexamethasone and (3) penned sheep receiving a single mixed infection.
(16) Previously infected weaners underwent spontaneous cure within 6 weeks to 6 months of starting to graze safe pastures, Teladorsagia being reduced by 77 to 98%, Nematodirus by 9 to 94% and Trichostrongylus by 34 to 40%.
(17) The foals and yearlings were allowed to graze on open pasture throughout the experiment to provide a natural source for bot and helminth infections.
(18) One of the major differences between the two systems is that PMC cows have access to grazing along the rivers.
(19) Three groups of five, three-and-a-half to four-month-old lambs were put to graze on three plots contaminated by Trichostrongylus colubriformis.
(20) Grazing sheep in some situations develop visible cysts earlier, around one year of age, hence it is considered that the infections of experimental sheep in SPF conditions may not reflect all the circumstances leading to natural infection.
Rake
Definition:
(v. t.) To scrape or scratch across; to pass over quickly and lightly, as a rake does.
(n.) An implement consisting of a headpiece having teeth, and a long handle at right angles to it, -- used for collecting hay, or other light things which are spread over a large surface, or for breaking and smoothing the earth.
(n.) A toothed machine drawn by a horse, -- used for collecting hay or grain; a horserake.
(n.) A fissure or mineral vein traversing the strata vertically, or nearly so; -- called also rake-vein.
(v. t.) To collect with a rake; as, to rake hay; -- often with up; as, he raked up the fallen leaves.
(v. t.) To collect or draw together with laborious industry; to gather from a wide space; to scrape together; as, to rake together wealth; to rake together slanderous tales; to rake together the rabble of a town.
(v. t.) To pass a rake over; to scrape or scratch with a rake for the purpose of collecting and clearing off something, or for stirring up the soil; as, to rake a lawn; to rake a flower bed.
(v. t.) To search through; to scour; to ransack.
(v. t.) To enfilade; to fire in a direction with the length of; in naval engagements, to cannonade, as a ship, on the stern or head so that the balls range the whole length of the deck.
(v. i.) To use a rake, as for searching or for collecting; to scrape; to search minutely.
(v. i.) To pass with violence or rapidity; to scrape along.
(n.) The inclination of anything from a perpendicular direction; as, the rake of a roof, a staircase, etc.
(n.) the inclination of a mast or funnel, or, in general, of any part of a vessel not perpendicular to the keel.
(v. i.) To incline from a perpendicular direction; as, a mast rakes aft.
(n.) A loose, disorderly, vicious man; a person addicted to lewdness and other scandalous vices; a debauchee; a roue.
(v. i.) To walk about; to gad or ramble idly.
(v. i.) To act the rake; to lead a dissolute, debauched life.
Example Sentences:
(1) While they're raking in the money, he is broke and out of work.'
(2) Since his arrest, a French taboo has been broken and Strauss-Kahn's behaviour towards women, deemed "libertine" by his friends, has been raked over.
(3) Adam Lallana, Rickie Lambert and Dejan Lovren have all moved to Liverpool while Luke Shaw has signed for Manchester United and Arsenal have taken Calum Chambers to the Emirates Stadium, with Southampton raking in more than £88m for the combined deals.
(4) Sir Michael Rake, the chairman of easyJet, said: "Following a thorough process involving a number of high calibre candidates we have unanimously chosen a strong chief executive with the strategic ability, operational capability and passion to drive easyJet through the next stage of its development and we look forward to working with Carolyn."
(5) Anyone could be said to have made mistakes in hindsight and there was nothing to be gained in raking up the past.
(6) Milliken, author of a report on rhino-horn consumption in Vietnam , also expressed concerns about the end-user market: "One wonders if unscrupulous dealers in these markets will not simply employ some means to 'bleach' them to back to a 'normal' appearance and continue raking in high profits."
(7) 4 min: Another raking pass to Di Maria, who wins a penalty after smashing the ball against the hand of David Alaba.
(8) The muck-raking website Lifenews.ru, which has close links to the FSB, Putin’s former spy agency, has pointed the finger at Nemtsov’s colourful love life.
(9) Round K-wires with either a diamond point or a high rake-angle trocar point were compared with each other and with C-wires, which have a rounded square cross section and a short diamond point.
(10) I also present a method for teaching this system to residents that makes use of a piece of cotton or nylon rope, a cotton mop refill, and the end of a garden rake.
(11) Sturridge's wonderful change of pace saw him accelerating on to Gerrard's raking long pass down the right and, with the defence left standing, the on-rushing Uruguayan met Sturridge's ball across the six-yard box.
(12) The panel Tim Kelsey , national director for patients and information, NHS England Dr Chaand Nagpaul , GP and chair of the British Medical Association 's GP committee Gary Walker , former United Lincolnshire hospitals trust chief and whistleblower Ben Pathe , business development officer, Patient Opinion Roger Kline , director, Patients First Jo Bibby , director of strategy, Health Foundation Nick Chinn , co-founder of #WeNurses Dr Nicola Williams , deputy director of research, North Bristol NHS trust Katherine Rake , chief executive, Healthwatch England Dr Tom Kennedy , consultant physician and rheumatologist, Royal Liverpool University hospital
(13) From our investigations and research from elsewhere it appeared that the National Board of Health defines negligence as considerable error of judgement, or where examination or history raking, had been insufficient.
(14) Among an all-star cast, including Gary Oldman, Tom Hardy and Shia LaBoeuf, Pearce still manages to stand out as Charlie Rakes, the special deputy from Chicago sent to Virginia to close down the sale of illegal liquor for good.
(15) As well as raking in the cash, Google is responsible for much of the infrastructure that delivers digital advertising.
(16) The British sent non-essential staff on the same route as the Americans but, lacking air cover, saw their Jeeps raked with gunfire and forced back.
(17) Haji-Ioannou and his easyGroup had instigated a series of "increasingly personalised attacks", Rake declared , "involving a number of inaccurate and misleading statements, including inappropriate and defamatory assertions and innuendo".
(18) While he gets his beard trimmed – a painstaking process that takes 45 minutes and involves an Afro comb the size of a garden rake – Rick dishes out a little parable about how to deal with paparazzi in light of Alec Baldwin's recent decision to quit public life (and New York) after one too many run-ins.
(19) Rake, married with four sons, keeps horses at his Oxfordshire home and has formed a polo team.
(20) When disaster duly strikes, and Lydia runs off with a notable rake to live in sin somewhere in London, he is powerless.