(n.) A hero, fabled to have been the son of Jupiter and Alcmena, and celebrated for great strength, esp. for the accomplishment of his twelve great tasks or "labors."
(n.) A constellation in the northern hemisphere, near Lyra.
Example Sentences:
(1) His father, Denis, flew out to help the search and an RAF Hercules was diverted to the area.
(2) A news blackout was imposed until he appeared alongside Hamid Karzai at the presidential palace at midday local time after flying in from Abu Dhabi on an RAF C130 Hercules aircraft.
(3) I can confirm that last night I authorised two Hercules to participate in the big aid drop on Amerli, a town that has been under siege for nearly two months.
(4) Not far away lies Cape Tenaro, where Hercules is said to have descended into the underworld and tamed Cerberus, the three-headed dog.
(5) He starred opposite Peter Ustinov's Hercule Poirot in three television films, as Hastings, the Belgian detective's baffled foil.
(6) The Hercules coach, Esteban Vigo, has admitted he is keen to sign the 25-year-old Samaras as he prepares for his first season in La Liga, and Lennon and chief executive Peter Lawwell now have a decision to make.
(7) Contrast injection was assisted with a Hercules pump (Cordis) in all cases.
(8) Solid and traditional, all acres of dark wood and stained glass, it prides itself on its list of around 18 mainly bottled Irish beers from such breweries as Kinsale, Hilden, Station Works, Farmageddon, Clever Man (look out for its Ejector Seat turf-smoked stout) and Hercules.
(9) She was placed in an isolation unit at Glasgow’s Gartnavel hospital after becoming feverish, before being transferred by an RAF Hercules plane to London.
(10) He had signed only after the Catalan club's pursuit of Fàbregas failed and his debut ended with a shock 2-0 home defeat by Hercules, in which Mascherano – slow on and off the ball – gave away the free-kick that led to one of the goals and was fortunate to escape a red card.
(11) In Libya you will find teargas made in Britain and, according to Paul Rogers, of the department of peace studies at Bradford University (writing for the openDemocracy site), Mirage F-1 planes, recently upgraded by the French, who are foremost in calling for a no-fly zone, and C-130H Hercules transport planes from the US , where intervention has a growing number of advocates.
(12) The court has therefore implicitly determined that Hercules and Leo are ‘persons’.” After the amendment to the order, NhRP adjusted its stance, noting “these cases are novel and this is the first time that an order to show cause has issued.
(13) The Celtic manager, Neil Lennon , has admitted that the Spanish club Hercules have made a move to sign Georgios Samaras.
(14) Recipe supplied by Olia Hercules, oliahercules.com Germknodel with custard These Austrian sweet dumplings are also lovely served with fruit compote.
(15) One banner said: "'Teesside the infant Hercules': PM William Gladstone 1860.
(16) Recipe supplied by Olia Hercules; oliahercules.com Lemon and tangerine curd Tart and not too sweet, this citrus curd is like spoonfuls of sunshine shipped in from a place where your car easily starts in the morning and the tiny hairs in your nose don't freeze the moment you walk outside.
(17) You feel, at any moment, as if Hercule himself might pop out of The Feathers following a gin fizz.
(18) #Hercules January 3, 2014 2.45pm GMT If you're flying out of JFK this morning, it looks like you're not flying out of JFK this morning: Breaking News Storm (@breakingstorm) JFK Airport reopening pushed to 10 am due to snow conditions - @NBCNews January 3, 2014 2.40pm GMT Some people see a layer of snow.
(19) Teams USA Tim Howard; Steve Cherundolo, Jay DeMerit, Jonathan Bornstein, Carlos Bocanegra; Landon Donovan, Michael Bradley, Maurice Edu, Clint Dempsey; Jozy Altidore, Hercules Gomez.
(20) Lucy (25 July) Facebook Twitter Pinterest My anticipation of Lucy is much the same as Hercules.
Hydra
Definition:
(n.) A serpent or monster in the lake or marsh of Lerna, in the Peloponnesus, represented as having many heads, one of which, when cut off, was immediately succeeded by two others, unless the wound was cauterized. It was slain by Hercules. Hence, a terrible monster.
(n.) Hence: A multifarious evil, or an evil having many sources; not to be overcome by a single effort.
(n.) Any small fresh-water hydroid of the genus Hydra, usually found attached to sticks, stones, etc., by a basal sucker.
(n.) A southern constellation of great length lying southerly from Cancer, Leo, and Virgo.
Example Sentences:
(1) As an extension of the previous study which indicated that mesoglea is a primitive basement membrane which has retained some characteristics of interstitial extracellular matrix, the present study was undertaken to analyze the role of mesoglea components during head regeneration in Hydra vulgaris.
(2) Using serial-sectioning techniques for conventional transmission and high-voltage electron microscopy, we characterized the ultrastructural features and synaptic contacts of the sensory cell in tentacles of Hydra.
(3) The neuron differentiation pathway in hydra is usually assumed to be the following.
(4) The extent of the growth changes in maximal work output during 10 s (MWO10), 30 s (MWO30), and 90 s (MWO90) of maximal repetitive knee flexions and extensions assessed on a modified Hydra-Gym machine was investigated in 84 boys and 83 girls, 9-19 yr of age.
(5) Substance P-like immunoreactivity was found in Hydra attenuata mainly but not exclusively in the nerve and interstitial cells, localized in the cytoplasm and on the cell surface membranes.
(6) Hydrozoans such as Hydra vulgaris, as with all classes of Cnidaria, are characterized by having their body wall organized as an epithelial bilayer with an intervening acellular layer termed the mesoglea.
(7) These results are the first demonstration that the dense-cored vesicles of Hydra neurons contain a neuropeptide.
(8) Nematocyte differentiation from interstitial stem cells in hydra occurs in a highly position-dependent manner along the body axis.
(9) The presence of Arg-Phe-amide (RFamide)-like peptides in dense-cored vesicles in neurons of the peduncle of Hydra was demonstrated by immunogold electron microscopy.
(10) History will judge Syria’s descent into a hydra-headed war as a stain on the world’s conscience.
(11) The multiple manifestations of systemic lupus erythematosus recall the ancient Greek monster the Hydra.
(12) Hydra) has raised some interesting evolutionary questions as to the function of intragranular nucleotides.
(13) Captain America kicking open the door of what looks like a European mountain fortress suggests the Nazi offshoot Hydra might be rearing its many ugly heads once again.
(14) Intact hydra treated for 24 h with oligomycin gradually lose their head structures and the distal ends form feet.
(15) This substance is specific for the foot as evidenced by the following findings: (1) It is present in the animal as a steep gradient descending from foot to head, paralleling the foot-forming potential of the tissue (2) It does not accelerate head regeneration, nor do the head factors of hydra discovered by Schaller (1973) and Berking (1977) accelerate foot regeneration.
(16) This study concerns application of the Hydra attenuata assay to detect the developmental toxicity potential of various aqueous samples.
(17) Feeding behavior in hydra is initiated by the association of glutathione (GSH) with a putative external chemoreceptor.
(18) Because it is self-inflicted, hydra-headed and increasingly beyond our control, both politically and economically, at a time when Britain is losing friends fast by peeing on their chips.
(19) The tentacles in hydra have characteristics of both spacing patterns and number-regulating patterns in that their number under some circumstances changes with the size of the animal and under others does not.
(20) Every epithelial cell is continuously displaced with neurons toward either head or foot in an adult hydra.