(n.) A rope or strap, with or without a headstall, for leading or tying a horse.
(n.) A rope for hanging malefactors; a noose.
(v. t.) To tie by the neck with a rope, strap, or halter; to put a halter on; to subject to a hangman's halter.
Example Sentences:
(1) When the III between short intromissions from a rested male was experimentally increased to 100 s by use of a halter and lead device, the duration of lordosis was significantly less than that displayed by females paired with control males (8-s III) and virtually the same as that displayed by females paired with males that produced only long intromissions.
(2) The Dipteran flight appendages, the wings and halteres, develop from larval imaginal discs that also produce other sections of the second and third thoracic adult body segments.
(3) 15 minutes later a halter with two long ropes is put on to hold up the animals' heads after they lay down.
(4) Change in the pattern of aldehyde oxidase in bithorax mutants signals alteration in gene expression which at least for this particular enzyme correlates well with the morphological transformation from haltere to wing.
(5) In wild-type Drosophila melanogaster larvae, the Ultrabithorax (Ubx) gene is expressed in the haltere imaginal discs but not in the majority of cells of the wing imaginal discs.
(6) As expected, the pbx1 mutation led to reduced Ubx expression in the posterior compartment of the haltere disc; surprisingly, pbx1 also led to altered expression of the en protein near the compartment border in the central region of the disc.
(7) Two types of cuticular strain detectors, the campaniform sensilla on the haltere of the blowfly, Calliphora vicina, and the slit sensilla on the tibia of the spider, Cupiennius salei, were investigated.
(8) Contemporaneous accounts report his body was found among others slain, a halter was thrown around his neck, his naked body was slung over a horse with head, arms and legs dangling, and he was bought to a church in Leicester and irreverently buried.
(9) This can be readily determined by treating torticollis initially with head halter traction of three to four pounds' weight and observing whether it resolves in five of seven days.
(10) The rapid death of the flies may be ascribed to one or more of the following reasons: (i) reverse migration of numerous microfilariae from the expanded- to the tubular-part of the mid-gut, where they cause serious injury and disintegration of the gut epithelium; (ii) abrasive damage to the stomach epithelial cells by the invading microfilariae with occasional release of the gut contents into the haemocoele; (iii) interruption of the formation of the peritrophic membrane, particularly at its anterior and posterior ends, with subsequent failure of the flies to digest the blood in the stomach; (iv) passage of large amounts of parasitized blood from the stomach backwards into the hind-gut, leading to its mechanical obstruction and (v) invasion and injury of various organs of the fly, among them the ventral nerve-cord, brain, optic nerve, eye, halteres, fat-body and flight musculature by excessive numbers of microfilariae.
(11) Less frequent defects included fused or missing mouth parts and missing halteres.
(12) ap is presumably required for transcriptional regulation of genes involved in wing and haltere development.
(13) The dorsal and ventral histoblast nests within the first abdominal (A1) segment are shown not to be segmentally homologous with the metathoracic (T3) haltere and leg discs, respectively, since they occur at distinct dorso-ventral locations during normal development and can be found together within the same segment in mutants of the Bithorax complex (BX-C) where T3 is transformed towards A2-A4 or A1 towards T3.
(14) Distribution of the enzyme aldehyde oxidase in transformed haltere discs from the homoeotic bithorax series of mutants was investigated by histochemical means.
(15) The transformation of pT2 cells (wing) toward pT3 cells (haltere) is seen in adults carrying eight doses of wild type Ubx and bxd by decreasing the amount of the bithorax complex (BX-C) regulator Polycomb (Pc).
(16) We use a mutant (Haltere-mimic) to show that sequences that normally restrict segmental expression of Ubx in the ectoderm are located downstream from the RNA leader.
(17) The postbithorax (pbx) mutant, which transforms the posterior haltere into a structure resembling the posterior wing blade, reveals an aldehyde oxidase staining pattern in the haltere disc characteristic of the posterior side of the wing disc pouch.
(18) It is shown here that the transformed haltere disc closely resembles the previously established pattern in the wing disc with respect to aldehyde oxidase distribution.
(19) While circulating insulin levels may at times appear to be normal or even elevated in patients with NIDDM, depending on the control group for comparison and the glucose level at which subjects are studied, a profound impairment of pancreatic B-cell function is characteristic of NIDDM and contributes to the hyperglycemia in this condition (Halter, et al., 1985).
(20) We also report an exceptional vg allele (vg83b27) that produces an extreme wing and haltere phenotype, but which defines a second vg complementation unit.
Hater
Definition:
(n.) One who hates.
Example Sentences:
(1) In fairness, “Still can’t pay no attention to a hater”, as the man himself might say... all year.
(2) Here, in the profane world of anti-music, I could be a hater and say: "This is where the rock'n'roll dream dies.
(3) But the rise of Ukip looks to me to be legitimising a very different view, in which the average English person will be characterised as an avowed Eurosceptic, a fierce opponent of immigration, a hang-'em-and-flog-'em merchant, and a hater of government.
(4) Even the most fervent haters of the BBC can only mutter and mumble when Attenborough productions are mentioned.
(5) Joe Biden is the alternative Clinton haters have been waiting for | Jeb Lund Read more “If you can’t state why you want the job, then there’s a lot more lucrative opportunities other places,” he said.
(6) Luke Sookdeo, a pupil at Perry Beeches Academy, Birmingham, had a word for his "haters" after getting an A in English literature and an A* in drama.
(7) The haters cannot get past the relentless self-promotion, and loathe everything BrewDog stands for.
(8) "Women-haters were like gods: invulnerable and chock-full of power," Plath writes.
(9) Supermarket-haters, such as George Monbiot, argue that Tesco is an evil capitalist enterprise that decent folk should avoid at all costs.
(10) They say Trump’s a racist and a hater,” Ron said.
(11) More Attlee there then than Bevan or Castle, both good haters who were loved - and hated - in return.
(12) We are not just haters or lovers of particular weather conditions but perverse creatures, wishing it would be sunny when it rains and rainy when it's sunny.
(13) Though many on social media have pointed to the site as being behind Overweight Haters Ltd, it is unclear whether the Slimgur posts are from the cards’ organiser.
(14) Saddest of all are the chain-link fences that now ring the plaza, giving the Brutalism haters even more ammunition to tear the thing down.
(15) Today, when he delivers his exhaustively trailed autumn statement on the economy , and tomorrow, when possibly the biggest strike since the 20s is expected in response to his public-spending cuts, there should be plenty of opportunities for the Osborne-haters.
(16) Nick Griffin knows this much: it doesn't matter how badly the haters try to expose him – his followers feel under siege enough to ignore all that as part of some massive leftwing conspiracy.
(17) Nothing came of it but it caused us grave concern.” Salazar concluded with a message for his detractors: “Let the haters hate; we’re going to keep winning through hard work, dedication and fair play.” But the immediate response from Usada and Magness suggests this saga will rumble on for a long while yet.
(18) Listen to those people talk, they're haters," he said.
(19) Tony Abbott is abusing his office and the cabinet process by pursuing his own anti-wind ideology, enlisting fellow wind haters Joe Hockey to help bring down a whole industry.” Last month Abbott described turbines as “visually awful” , and Hockey had earlier labelled them “utterly offensive” .
(20) Beyoncé’s use of “slay” is an additional embrace of the language of the black queer community and, in its repetition, it’s an incantation that can slay haters, slay patriarchy, to slay white supremacy.