(n.) The European whistling, or wild, swan (Olor cygnus); -- called also hooper swan, whooping swan, and elk.
Example Sentences:
(1) What did surprise pundits was Hollywood's recognition of this unflinching Austrian film about ageing as a candidate for best picture, among such expected contenders as Steven Spielberg's Lincoln , Ben Affleck's Argo and Tom Hooper's Les Misérables .
(2) "Also, Although not noticeable in the league so far, in Europe you can really see they miss the steel and composure of Wanyama in the centre of the park and the opportunist nature of Gary Hooper up front."
(3) The problem is that rugby is a winter sport, played in stodgy conditions up north that don’t really allow for the development of faster, lighter genuine open-side flankers who can match the likes of Richie McCaw, David Pocock, Francois Louw and Michael Hooper.
(4) It was written by Sarah Hooper, who worked on Channel 4's Shameless, and is scheduled to launch in autumn next year.
(5) While big businesses have enjoyed access to new couriers, Royal Mail itself eventually reached such a dire state that the Hooper report urged the government to rewrite the law to clarify that competition was a mixed blessing.
(6) (S. P. Cohen, D. C. Hooper, J. S. Wolfson, K. S. Souza, L. M. McMurry, and S. B.
(7) When the Weigl was used as a moderator variable with the Hooper and also with the Benton, the p values for each test were somewhat reduced (p = .005 and .01), an indication of improvement in predictive power.
(8) Meanwhile, Norwich have confirmed that they will not be making any further bids for Gary Hooper.
(9) TV producer turned Arts Council chairman Peter Bazalgette is another possible candidate, as is Richard Hooper, former deputy chairman of Ofcom, and Lord Myners, the former City minister who recently quit the board of the Co-operative Group.
(10) More predictable were the three awards that went to Tom Hooper's Les Misérables – two technical, and a best supporting actress gong for Anne Hathaway's showstopping role as warbling prostitute Fantine.
(11) Proctolin strongly excites the lateral pyloric and the inferior cardiac neurons of the stomatogastric ganglion (STG), causing them to fire extended high-frequency bursts of action potentials (Hooper and Marder, 1987; Nusbaum and Marder, 1989a,b).
(12) Gary Hooper strikes twice as Leeds are thwarted at Sheffield Wednesday Read more That said, this was a perfect away performance from a Birmingham side at the other end of the spending scale, tight at the back, and clinical in attack.
(13) Despite Hooper's triumph at the Directors Guild of America awards a month ago , which are generally considered an accurate barometer of the Academy's intentions (only six times in their 63-year history have they not correlated), momentum had seemed to be falling back into the hands of David Fincher, who took both the Golden Globe and the Bafta two weeks ago.
(14) This work and the related experiments of DiSpirito and Hooper (DiSpirito, A.A., and Hooper, A.B.
(15) We had left her for just about an hour when they called us to tell us she had passed away.” When she celebrated her last birthday, the great-grandmother said: “I don’t feel very different to when I was 75.” Hooper broke a Guinness World Record last year when she became the oldest person to undergo a hip replacement operation, which was carried out by consultant orthopaedic surgeon Jason Millington at St Mary’s hospital in Newport.
(16) The solutions are obvious from this string, it is a question of doing something about them sustainably.” Reader comments Deona Hooper : “With recent news, I know many may feel the UK system is imperfect.
(17) The remaining five – Ben Affleck's Argo , Steven Spielberg's Lincoln , Quentin Tarantino's Django Unchained , Kathryn Bigelow's Zero Dark Thirty and Tom Hooper's Les Misérables – seem to address and express this particular year.
(18) "Let me be clear about what we are looking for," said Hooper.
(19) But it’s been treated as less.” Gillard tells Hooper there is no control group to tell her reliably whether a male leader in the same circumstances would have had an easier run.
(20) While Nancy, Diana , Unity and Decca pursued literature, fascism, Hitler and socialism, Debo's best friend in childhood was the family's old groom, Hooper, "the human end of the horses; the stables were my heaven".
Looper
Definition:
(n.) An instrument, as a bodkin, for forming a loop in yarn, a cord, etc.
(n.) The larva of any species of geometrid moths. See Geometrid.
Example Sentences:
(1) There was no difference in LC50 between the two strains to larvae of spruce budworm (Choristoneura fumiferana), gypsy moth (Lymantria dispar), eastern hemlock looper (Lambdina fiscellaria fiscellaria), and whitemarked tussock moth (Orgyia leucostigma), whether expressed as total alkaline soluble protein, activated toxin protein, or International Units as determined by bioassay against Trichoplusia ni.
(2) 3.52am BST Tigers 3 - A's 0, top of the 8th Infante hits a looper to the outfield that looks like it could drop, but Crisp gets to it in time for the out.
(3) A sex pheromone produced by male cabbage looper moths, Trichoplusia ni (Hübner), has been isolated from the genital scent brushes and identified as 2-phenylethanol.
(4) Photograph: Alan Markfield Johnson has crammed Looper with these subtle touches.
(5) Third instar larvae of the cabbage looper Trichopulsia ni were exposed to conidia of E. apiculata.
(6) Photograph: Alan Markfield If Bruce isn't really Looper's baddie, it's only because black-and-white morality doesn't have a place in Johnson's world.
(7) Rian Johnson, the director of Brick and Looper, is to write and direct the next two Star Wars films, taking the reins from JJ Abrams , according to reports on Friday.
(8) Chris Pratt’s next attempt to cement his action-hero status in Jurassic World sees him in the relatively untested hands of writer and director Colin Trevorrow, known for just one movie – the lo-fi time-travel indie Safety Not Guaranteed; Fox’s latest attempt to reboot The Fantastic Four sees Josh Trank, director of impressive found-footage thriller Chronicle, getting a chance to shine; and Looper’s Rian Johnson has been hired as the director of Star Wars Episode VIII.
(9) This cycle is broken when a Looper called Joe (played by Brick star Joseph Gordon-Levitt) comes face-to-face with a target who won't just kneel there, whimper and die – himself.
(10) Insect species examined were lepidopterous larvae of the cabbage looper (Trichoplusia ni), southern armyworm (Spodoptera eridania), and black swallowtail (Papilio polyxenes).
(11) In Looper, both Young and Old Joe look like heroes, but they're (literally) too self-involved to learn anything from life, until they're forced to.
(12) The medium was preconditioned with the cell line IPL-LdFB, derived from fat body of the gypsy moth, Lymantria dispar, cell line IAL-TND1, derived from imaginal discs of the cabbage looper, Trichoplusia ni, and whole fat body tissue from host Helicoverpa zea.
(13) Instead, Wacha gets ahead of him 0-2, takes a walk, and hits an easily caught looper to the outfield.
(14) Given that Willis's character is a stubborn, ruthless grouch, can we see Looper as a fear of ageing, too?
(15) In the mid-fifth instar larvae of the cabbage looper moth, Trichoplusia ni, the subcellular distribution of total superoxide dismutase was as follows: 3.05 units (70.0%), 0.97 units (22.3%), and 0.33 units (7.6%) mg-1 protein in the mitochondrial, cytosolic and nuclear fractions, respectively.
(16) China has already been courted by Hollywood through various films being at least partly set in the country, including Iron Man 3, The Karate Kid and Looper.
(17) "They think they're hot shit, but they're kind of fuck-ups," says Johnson, who points to the Loopers' choice of weapon – chunky buck-spitters known as Blunderbusses – as evidence of their true status.
(18) L-3-Cyanoalanine synthase activity is clearly linked to differential cyanide tolerance of two insect species, the southern armyworm (more tolerant) and cabbage looper (less tolerant).
(19) In last year's Looper , Bruce Willis tampered with the past in an effort to save his future wife.
(20) The baculovirus from the lepidopteran host Autographa californica (alfalfa looper) was shown to replicate in a dipteran cell line without the production of characteristic polyhedral inclusion bodies.