(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".
Whooper
Definition:
(n.) One who, or that which, whooops.
Example Sentences:
(1) But the company's permission to explore there was dependent on its impact on migrating birds, including pink-footed geese and whooper swans .
(2) During spring 1989, thirty-three whooper swans (Cygnus cygnus) died at Lake Miyajima in Hokkaido, Japan; 15 were examined.
(3) Species of Anthropoides, Bugeranus, and Grus clustered closely but sorted into two lineages: a Whooper Group consisted of the whooping, common, hooded, black-necked, white-naped, and red-crowned cranes of genus Grus; and a Sandhill Group included the Sandhill, Siberian, Sarus, and Brolga cranes of genus Grus, the wattled crane of genus Bugeranus, and the Demoiselle and blue cranes of genus Anthropoides.
(4) This investigation indicates, however, that lead poisoning, especially in the whooper swan, may be a problem also in Norway, but hardly a so important one as in some other European countries and in the USA.
(5) The drilling site is close to an internationally important protected area for pink footed geese and whooper swans and could cause disturbance to the birds, the RSPB said.