(n.) A carrier pigeon remarkable for its ability to return home from a distance.
(n.) See Hoemother.
(n.) A Hebrew measure containing, as a liquid measure, ten baths, equivalent to fifty-five gallons, two quarts, one pint; and, as a dry measure, ten ephahs, equivalent to six bushels, two pecks, four quarts.
Example Sentences:
(1) Lin Homer's CV Lin Homer left local for national government in 2005, giving up a £170,000 post as chief executive of Birmingham city council after just three years in post, to head the Immigration Service.
(2) Hodge said it appeared that activities related to the Geneva branch of HSBC’s Swiss subsidiary were “pretty outrageous” and told Homer that tax investigators should have spoken to whistleblower Hervé Falciani, who initially obtained the list while employed as an IT worker in 2007.
(3) The agency’s current chief executive, Lin Homer, is due to face the Commons public accounts committee, chaired by the Labour MP Margaret Hodge.
(4) Armitage's stage version, commissioned for the in-the-round Royal Exchange in Manchester, a space that can encompass both the intimate and the epic, reworks The Iliad , adding an ending Homer never wrote.
(5) Aaron Hill drove in two runs with a homer and double, helping the Arizona Diamondbacks top the Chicago Cubs 3-1 and also split a four-game series.
(6) Young Commons reared and trained with Homers of the same age differed behaviorally from the Homers in a variety of ways and many fewer returned home from training and test releases, but the season for the fewer returns appeared to be more concerned with social behavior than with orientation capability.
(7) In Game Four two home runs from Jhonny Peralta and a homer apiece from Triple Crown-winner Cabrera and Austin Jackson led the annihilation.
(8) The tumor demonstrated Homer Wright rosettes, was positive for neuron-specific enolase and ultrastructurally revealed neurosecretory granules.
(9) And why did George Osborne and the Treasury sign a deal with the Swiss in 2012 which prevents the UK from actively obtaining similar information in the future?” One member of the Public Accounts Committee, said Homer should return to the committee to explain herself in light of the comments from the French finance minister.
(10) Off the south-west coast of Ibiza stands Es Vedrà, a 400m-high limestone rock which legend suggests was the island of the Sirens who lured sailors to their deaths in Homer's Odyssey.
(11) Modern knowledge of renal physiology, kidney disease, and the body fluids in American medicine was established largely by Donald D. Van Slyke, Thomas Addis, John P. Peters, Homer W. Smith, and Alfred Newton Richards.
(12) Homer and Shakespeare have this in common: neither is afraid of a catalogue, either in The Iliad or in the history plays.
(13) Keith Vaz , the chairman of the Commons home affairs select committee, which accused the former UKBA head, Lin Homer, of "catastrophic leadership failure" while she was in charge, congratulated May for "delivering the lethal injection" to the organisation.
(14) Homer himself is a collection of poets, one of many.
(15) It's also somewhat bizarre that Domonic Brown , second in the NL in homers, was passed over, not to mention Pedro Alvarez, Pittsburgh's power threat.
(16) This paper looked at Orten and Soll's runaway typology and Homer's conceptualization of runaways as "running from" or "running to" something and expanded the context to include interactions with family and professionals.
(17) Lin Homer has been announced as the next chief executive of HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC).
(18) David Cameron and Nick Clegg have both just stuck their feet in it, insulting the stay-at-homers and egging on the go-to-workers – but why bother to take sides?
(19) The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, headed by environment secretary Liz Truss, and HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC), whose chief executive is Lin Homer, continue to refuse to ensure that all their subcontracted staff are paid the living wage.
(20) Now Pedro Alvarez, who is tied for the NL lead with 36 homers, is at the plate with a chance to add to the Bucs lead...
Pyre
Definition:
(n.) A funeral pile; a combustible heap on which the dead are burned; hence, any pile to be burnt.
Example Sentences:
(1) The nucleotide sequence suggests that pyrE expression is regulated by modulated attenuation, as has been proposed to be the case for both pyrB and pyrE expression in Escherichia coli.
(2) Sequence analysis confirmed this mapping and further showed that fpg is adjacent to rpmBG in the order fpg, rpmGB, pyrE.
(3) The nucleotide sequence of two kilobase pairs (kb) 5' to the orfE-pyrE operon has been determined.
(4) We have used the galK gene, minus its promoter, to quantitate transcription of the orfE--pyrE operon of Escherichia coli in front of and after the intercistronic attenuator.
(5) "If you're in India there'd be a funeral pyre and you get the women throwing themselves on it.
(6) In Australia, the sudden flush of vegetation that followed the loss of large herbivores caused stacks of leaf litter to build up, which became the rainforests' pyre: fires (natural or manmade) soon transformed these lush places into dry forest and scrub .
(7) The incongruously epic promo clip for the cheap-as-chips credit-crunch anthem Dirtee Cash culminates in Dizzee being burnt as a guy on top of a pyre of books (featured texts include TS Eliot's The Wasteland and William Blake's Jerusalem).
(8) Furthermore, the major 3' end of the pyrE mRNA was mapped near a palindromic structure of similarity to the family of repetitive extragenic palindromic sequences, 35 nucleotide residues after stop codon of the pryE gene.
(9) The sequence revealed two open reading frames, orfX and orfY, consisting of 286 and 274 codons, respectively, and having a transcriptional orientation opposite that of the orfE-pyrE operon.
(10) The report by the scientists, released on 11 December, said that the pyre would have required 33 tons of logs, or nearly 1,000 tyres, to reduce 43 bodies to the remains presented as evidence by the attorney general.
(11) The mutation of one mutant of the last class, unlike those of the other nine mutants tested, lay outside the cysE-pyrE segment, in the 90 to 116 min region of the linkage map.
(12) It is like watching a nation busily engaged in heaping up its own funeral pyre …” I don’t think this Ukip poster creators would be insulted by the Enoch Powell comparison Powell foresaw an unchecked inflow of black immigrants creating civil war; this poster tells us absolutely the same thing about the people headed our way, it claims, across borderless Europe.
(13) P1 transduction analyses indicate that the rfa-2 marker is nonallelic with the recently described cysE-pyrE-linked rfaD70 locus.
(14) He said detained members of the gang had led them to the tip where they said they had participated in the massacre and incineration of dozens of young people on a huge funeral pyre that burned for 15 hours on the same night as the students disappeared.
(15) The pyrE gene, encoding the pyrimidine biosynthetic enzyme orotate phosphoribosyltransferase, is the promoter distal gene of the dicistronic orfE-pyrE operon.
(16) The insertion, rec-258, was located between pyrE and dgo at min 82.1 on the current linkage map.
(17) The order of the genes in this region of the E. coli chromosome is: fpg--rpmBG--radC--pyrE.
(18) R-prime plasmids carrying the pyrE-rfa-cysE region of the chromosome of Salmonella typhimurium were isolated by using the vector pULB113 (RP4::mini-Mu).
(19) And there’s a growing natural cremation movement in the UK advocating outdoor funeral pyres.
(20) The results indicate that the NusA protein is required for proper regulation of pyrE gene expression and is involved, together with the NTP pools, in maintaining the coupling between transcription and translation in the pyrE attenuator region by inhibiting RNA chain elongation.