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Hoo


Definition:

  • (interj.) See Ho.
  • (interj.) Hurrah! -- an exclamation of triumphant joy.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It's also, clearly, the beginning of an annual TV tradition, a comforting pool of lamplit nostalgia amid all the sequins and celebrity hoo-hah, with Geoffrey Palmer flapping his jowls exasperatedly as he realises he's packed the wrong rectal tube.
  • (2) But only Victoria, the monarch, found much use for it and long before the second world war the Hoo line had become a little-used byway.
  • (3) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Route planners have been canny in their research, judging by the reaction from Mike Herrieven who has run Mere village stores in a wooden cabin at Hoo Green for 20 years, but doesn't expect to last another five.
  • (4) Both HOO.- and ROO.-initiated peroxidations of linoleic acid were promoted by increases in solution ionic strength: the inclusion of 0.1 M of various alkali metal salts in the reaction resulted in up to a 4-fold increase in the overall peroxidation rate.
  • (5) Here's Phil Powell: "All this hoo-hah about Alistair Cook reminds me of this superb tweet from Adam Hollioake …" Adam Hollioake (@adamhollioake) You are free to criticize athletes.
  • (6) It's difficult to know who comes out looking dafter from this whole hoo-ha – the media, Twitter, News International, who yesterday admitted to wrongly confirming Deng's account, or Murdoch himself.
  • (7) The jury of nine men and three women at Maidstone crown court cleared the six, five of whom had scaled a 200m tall chimney at Kingsnorth power station at Hoo, Kent in October 2007.
  • (8) An faur mair valuable than ony Saxon Sutton-Hoo nonsense!’ The senders were from a wide range of backgrounds.
  • (9) The LOOH-dependent pathway of HOO.-initiated fatty acid peroxidation may be relevant to mechanisms of lipid peroxidation initiation in vivo.
  • (10) But it’s creepy how that all debate over whether hackers are freedom fighters or criminals seems to go out of the window, when the much greater prize of - woo-hoo!
  • (11) 23 October For all the hoo-ha over the Chinese visit, he [TB] felt in the end we had taken the right position, and stuck to it and it would benefit us with the Chinese, as well as the public.
  • (12) Almost all of that Fife landscape has now been buried without ceremony by motorways and housing estates, but equivalents can be found elsewhere, none of them grander and stranger than that part of Kent known as the Hoo peninsula, which lies between the Medway and the Thames and which, if Norman Foster and Boris Johnson have their way, could become the most vital stretch of land in Britain.
  • (13) There was Khrushchev or Brezhnev gazing on sternly from a Kremlin balcony at the synchronised marching and Soviet military hardware scrolling past below, but the whole deadly solemn communist pomp was undercut by that garish chunk of Disneyland architecture sitting in the corner, screaming "yoo hoo!".
  • (14) Would it matter to the world beyond, other than to birds and ornithologists too, if Hoo became a giant airport and dock, clustered with warehouses, freight yards and car parks?
  • (15) What emerges instead is a fond tribute to a clutch of eccentrics who managed to eke emotional resonance from the unlikeliest of sources, with each – from FW " Nosferatu " Murnau in 1922 to gothic melancholist Guillermo " Pan's Labyrinth " del Toro – serving up the blimey with a generous dollop of boo-hoo.
  • (16) Still, the Brass Eye hoo-ha set the tone for a decade in which comedy became the nation's moral barometer – even if the "offensive" acts to come weren't always as defensible as Morris.
  • (17) The problem is not with the books; the problem is that this year's hoo-ha suggests that the Booker is happy to be seen as a marketing strategy than as an exercise – however flawed – in choosing and celebrating literary and artistic achievement.
  • (18) Minor reactions presumably provide alternative formations of the 4a-hydroperoxy- and 4a-hydroxy-flavin radical cation transients by the direct addition of HOO.
  • (19) But even so modified we would still be facing the prospect of a coal plant on the Hoo Peninsula emitting 6m tonnes of CO 2 a year.
  • (20) So there was a big hoo-ha – 'Rizwan rigged the JCR election' – and we exposed them for just picking their puppets.

Owl


Definition:

  • (n.) Any species of raptorial birds of the family Strigidae. They have large eyes and ears, and a conspicuous circle of feathers around each eye. They are mostly nocturnal in their habits.
  • (n.) A variety of the domestic pigeon.
  • (v. i.) To pry about; to prowl.
  • (v. i.) To carry wool or sheep out of England.
  • (v. i.) Hence, to carry on any contraband trade.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Owls were more hypnotizable than larks in the morning, and larks were also significantly more hypnotizable in the evening than owls.
  • (2) In owl monkeys, elevation of intracranial pressure to 500 mm.
  • (3) Inadequate availability of hematological reference data seriously restricts optimal utilization of the owl monkey (Aotus lemurinus griseimembra) as an experimental model.
  • (4) In 2000 the comic strip Mother Goose and Grimm showed an owl in a tree calling "Whom" and a raccoon on the ground replying "Show-off!"
  • (5) The sulfinyl- and sulfonylquinazolines also retained antimalarial effects against chloroquine-, cycloguanil-, and DDS-resistant lines of P. berghei in mice and against chloroquine- and pyrimethamine-resistant strains of P. falciparum in owl monkeys.
  • (6) Matched, binocular displacing prisms were mounted over the eyes of 19 barn owls (Tyto alba) beginning at ages ranging from 10 to 272 d. In nearly all cases, the visual field was shifted 23 degrees to the right.
  • (7) Results described in this report identify a region of the viral genome that is required for oncogenicity in owl monkeys (Aotus trivirgatus); this region is not required for replication of the virus.
  • (8) A highly organized myoelectric event in the fasting avian small intestine, the ROC is demonstrated in detail in chickens (Gallus); it is also found in other gallinaceous birds but not in owls (Strix) or mammals.
  • (9) WR-158,122 and WR-159,412, against Plasmodium falciparum and Plasmodium vivax infections in owl monkeys, were seriously impaired when infecting strains were pyrimethamine-resistant; and 2) that primary treatment failure with either agent led frequently to emergence of parasites resistant to these derivatives.
  • (10) The owl processes time and intensity components of the auditory signal in separate pathways, and each pathway has a distinctive pattern of GAD- and GABA-like immunoreactivity.
  • (11) Middle ear morphology and behavioural observations of kangaroo rats jumping vertically to avoid predation by owls and rattlesnakes support this view.
  • (12) Connections between the primary motor cortex (MI) and the corpus striatum were studied in the owl monkey.
  • (13) I found swans and storks and all manner of seabirds but, again, no owls, because stuffing them is forbidden in France.
  • (14) Thus I wound up on 13 February calling a London taxidermy shop and asking if they had any owls.
  • (15) The standard metabolism of Aotus trivirgatus (Night monkey, Owl monkey) is 22.5 to 46.2 per cent below Kleiber's prevision curve for mammals, which applies to other cebid monkeys like Saimiri sciureus and Alouatta.
  • (16) A person who's that out of it deserves both an owl and chocolate, so I got off the train at Piccadilly Circus and picked him up a box.
  • (17) Recordings from conscious owls plus simultaneous radiographic observations revealed characteristic gastrointestinal motility patterns associated with egestion.
  • (18) Look and listen out for Little owls hunting voles and mice and badgers crossing over the summit from a set on the hillside below.
  • (19) The fitting procedure showed that the shape of the owls' binaural temporal window could be described by the same algorithms as the human monaural temporal window.
  • (20) In squirrel and owl monkeys, extensive reciprocal connections were made with cortex throughout the caudal half of the lateral fissure and, to a much lesser extent, cortex around the superior temporal sulcus.

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