(n.) The gathering of a crop of any kind; the ingathering of the crops; also, the season of gathering grain and fruits, late summer or early autumn.
(n.) That which is reaped or ready to be reaped or gath//ed; a crop, as of grain (wheat, maize, etc.), or fruit.
(n.) The product or result of any exertion or labor; gain; reward.
(v. t.) To reap or gather, as any crop.
Example Sentences:
(1) The form of the harvested crop, varietal characteristics and annual growing conditions have less bearing.
(2) Cadavers have a multitude of possible uses--from the harvesting of organs, to medical education, to automotive safety testing--and yet their actual utilization arouses profound aversion no matter how altruistic and beneficial the motivation.
(3) The quality of liver grafts was evaluated using an original, blood-free isolated perfusion model, after 8 h cold storage, or after 15 min warm ischemia performed prior to harvesting.
(4) The UN estimates that at least 10 million people in east Africa will be in need of humanitarian assistance as a result of severe food shortages, failed harvest, rising food prices and conflict in the region.
(5) All the patients underwent oocyte retrieval and 94.3% of the harvested oocytes were preovulatory.
(6) Two ejaculates were harvested by electroejaculation on each of 3 d per week for 14 wk from 14, 12- to 24-mo-old Holstein bulls.
(7) Harvest the bulbs once they reach 7-8cm across; if you cut them off at ground level rather than pulling the whole plant up, the roots should produce a second crop of feathery shoots.
(8) These experiments concerned the clinical observation of the rats, their body weight and food intake, the relative weights of their lungs, liver, kidneys and spleen, the number and activity of their alveolar macrophages harvested by pulmonary washing.
(9) Phil Barlow Nottingham • Reading about the problems caused by a lack of toilets reminded me of the harvest camps my father’s Birmingham school organised in the Vale of Evesham during the war, where the sixth-formers spent weeks picking fruit and vegetables on farms.
(10) Histologic analysis was performed on specimens from the harvested soft tissue.
(11) In addition to recruiting donors, physicians are responsible for maintaining optimal organ function in a beating heart organ donor to ensure that all organs that could potentially be harvested are in a condition suitable for transplant.
(12) We describe a surgical technique that makes use of the lower trapezius flap with inclusion of the dorsal scapular artery; this technique greatly extends the usefulness of the lower trapezius flap, while decreasing the morbidity caused by division of the upper portion of the trapezius muscle during flap harvest.
(13) The concentration of G-CSF in supernatants from cells stimulated with both IL-1 and IL-4 was at least tenfold higher than that measured in supernatants harvested from cells stimulated with either IL-1 or IL-4 alone.
(14) During five separate excursions (1989-90), observations were made of occurrence, harvesting, use, and marketing of psychoactive fungi by local Thai natives (males and females, adults and children), foreign tourists, and German immigrants.
(15) Tumours harvested after 3 weeks growth in donors, became cystic and had a scanty arterial supply.In both groups there was no portal circulation to the tumours' deposits.It is suggested that prior to intra-arterial treatment of cancer in the liver, the morphology of the tumour should be assessed.
(16) Following incubation, the monolayer was washed, and the cells were harvested and analyzed for crystal internalization.
(17) Western blotting experiments indicate that subunit IV is not a contaminating light-harvesting complex polypeptide.
(18) Under stimulation by AA, a significant decrease in the PGI2 production of the specimens was seen 120 minutes after harvesting.
(19) However, combining anti-dodecon and anti-hexon sera or producing antisera against the combined dodecon-hexon components resulted in neutralizing titers which were identical to titers obtained with antisera against the crude virus harvests.
(20) Human fibroblast cell lines were pulse-treated for 1 h with either methylnitrosourea (MNU) or ethylnitrosourea (ENU) at various time intervals before harvesting for chromosome analysis.
Sow
Definition:
(v. i.) To sew. See Sew.
(n.) The female of swine, or of the hog kind.
(n.) A sow bug.
(n.) A channel or runner which receives the rows of molds in the pig bed.
(n.) The bar of metal which remains in such a runner.
(n.) A mass of solidified metal in a furnace hearth; a salamander.
(n.) A kind of covered shed, formerly used by besiegers in filling up and passing the ditch of a besieged place, sapping and mining the wall, or the like.
(v. t.) To scatter, as seed, upon the earth; to plant by strewing; as, to sow wheat. Also used figuratively: To spread abroad; to propagate.
(v. t.) To scatter seed upon, in, or over; to supply or stock, as land, with seeds. Also used figuratively: To scatter over; to besprinkle.
(v. i.) To scatter seed for growth and the production of a crop; -- literally or figuratively.
Example Sentences:
(1) Milk yield and litter weights were similar but backfat thickness (BF) was greater in 22 C sows (P less than .05) compared to 30 C sows.
(2) Plasmid profiling was used to distinguish strains of lactobacilli inhabiting the digestive tract of piglets and the feces of sows.
(3) Serum from piglets of vaccinated sows had no more bactericidal activity than did sera from non-vaccinated sows.
(4) The results indicate that additional feed in late gestation improves reproductive performance in sows.
(5) The latter animals were raised in an automated feeding device (Autosow) with an artificial diet simulating the nutritional composition of sow milk.
(6) In acute experiments on pregnant sows under sodium pentobarbitone anaesthesia, acid base balance, oxygenation and plasma metabolite concentrations were well maintained in the dam and all fetuses which remained undisturbed in utero, irrespective of the duration of the experiment.
(7) Littermate pigs were reared artificially or on the sow.
(8) The animals were sold only to smaller farms (less than 500 sows for breeding) with concentional keeping patterns which were kept under constant diagnostic supervision.
(9) Sow had a couple of chances and the substitute Emmanuel Emenike drew a sharp last-minute save out of Szczesny but Giroud's penalty, after Kadlec's foul on Walcott, represented Arsenal's emphatic final word.
(10) Incubation of normal pig lymphocytes in serum samples collected from 10 sows immediately before, and at daily intervals after mating with a vasectomized boar significantly elevated the rosette inhibition titre (RIT) of a standard antilymphocyte serum in 6 animals on the first but not on the 2nd and 3rd day after copulation.
(11) Landrace sows lost less weight during lactation (P less than .05) when fed diet F than when fed diet N. The total number of pigs born, born alive, and alive at 21 d and at weaning were higher (P less than .01) for S-line Duroc sows, and litter size at 21 d and at weaning was higher (P less than .01) for S-line Landrace sows than for C-line litters within each breed.
(12) Patterns of estradiol and LH secretion around estrus were similar in normal sows and those treated with GnRH.
(13) The adrenocortical response and open field behavior of a random sample of 37 individually confined gestating sows in different parities were tested around day 85 of pregnancy.
(14) The possibility of transplacental transmission of PRCV was investigated in two litters born to sows that had been inoculated with this virus in late pregnancy.
(15) Isolations were made from the kidney and genital tract of each sow.
(16) Critics have warned that the boom is benefiting only a narrow elite while leaving the poor and jobless behind, exacerbating inequality and potentially sowing seeds of unrest.
(17) Add to this the fact that sows in China are almost certain to be kept in stalls.
(18) Despite hypocalcaemia and hypophosphataemia of the homozygote sows at term, fetal Ca and Pi concentrations were normal.
(19) Number of pigs born alive was lower for sows treated with P.G.
(20) Sera from adult sows showed a higher rate (73.1%) of positive titers than those from 3-6 month-old pigs (40.7%).