(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.
Limp
Definition:
(v. i.) To halt; to walk lamely. Also used figuratively.
(n.) A halt; the act of limping.
(n.) A scraper for removing poor ore or refuse from the sieve.
(a.) Flaccid; flabby, as flesh.
(a.) Lacking stiffness; flimsy; as, a limp cravat.
Example Sentences:
(1) As it was, Labour limped in seven points and nearly two million votes behind the Conservatives because older cohorts of the electorate leant heavily to the Tories and grandpa and grandma turned up at the polling stations in the largest numbers.
(2) Everton ended with 10 men after Seamus Coleman limped off with all three substitutes deployed but there was no late flourish from a visiting team who, with Fernando replacing Kevin De Bruyne after the Irish defender’s departure, appeared content to settle for 1-2.
(3) He limped around in the beginning but the injury worsened.
(4) An actor dressed like one of the polar bears that figure in Coke ads limped up, wearing a prosthesis on one paw, a dialysis bag and tubing.
(5) Despite the 2 operations and extensive medical treatment with vasodilators, anticoagulants, and other medication, the pain and limp persisted and a cutaneous necrosis of the 1st and 5th left toes was observed.
(7) An obese man with a withered leg limps down Tollcross Road, eating pizza from a cardboard box.
(8) The Bruins, on the other hand, limped into the playoffs, with everyone wondering where their firepower had gone.
(9) More here: UK regulator urges banks to speed up swaps mis-selling compensation 8.40am GMT More reaction to the decision to send riot police to evict people from the offices of Greece's former state broadcaster this morning , starting with journalist Nick Malkoutzis: Nick Malkoutzis (@NickMalkoutzis) 5 mths after flicking switch on public broadcaster ERT, gov't tries to settle issue by sending riot police to remove remaining staff #Greece November 7, 2013 Nick Malkoutzis (@NickMalkoutzis) While #ERT will be off air for good after police intervention, the stain of how its closure has been handled won't wash away easily #Greece November 7, 2013 Lady Mondegreen (@amaenad) Like a mean stupid dog appeasing a cruel master, the Greek government wants to lay ERT's limp body at the troika's feet.
(10) The girl's mother, who I learned later, had recently arrived in Danané with her daughter after escaping the fighting in Abidjan, lifted the limp body and carried it out of the house to where we were parked.
(11) Their composure was shattered from the moment Alex McCarthy gifted the visitors an equaliser, all authority wrested away in the blink of an eye and Liverpool , suddenly focused where previously they had been limp and ineffective, the more persuasive threat in what time that remained.
(12) This team may have limped to the 50-point mark with their draw against the champions, but they have been pining for the end of this campaign for months.
(13) "It is spring, moonless night in the small town, starless and bible-black, the cobblestreets silent and the hunched, courters'-and-rabbits' wood limping invisible down to the sloeblack, slow, black, crowblack, fishingboatbobbing sea."
(14) If that happened, he could get up and limp across the street to the safety of the Indymedia centre, where he had spent the past three days filing reports on the G8 summit and on its violent policing.
(15) To determine whether limping is associated with decreased bone mineralization, the trabecular and integral bone densities (BDs) of 18 Caucasian children exhibiting computed tomographic evidence of tarsal coalition (14 boys, 4 girls, aged 9 years, 5 months to 16 years, 3 months) were compared with those of an age- and sex-matched control group.
(16) By then Wenger's frown lines had deepened in the wake of some heavy limping on Mikel Arteta's part.
(17) Today, he suffers from partial paralysis on the left side of his body, and has a limp and limited use his left arm.
(18) An analysis of the incidence and significance of leg shortening, limping, and abductor lurch is presented and some observations made on trochanteric overgrowth and the effect of surgery on the rate of femoral head reconstitution.
(19) In cultured cells, the general immunostaining patterns observed in vivo were maintained during the duration of the primary cultures for all five LIMPs.
(20) For Manchester City, Yaya Toure will return to their starting line-up, having been suspended for their match against Bayern Munich, but Micah Richards will miss today's game after limping off against Bayern with a hamstring injury.