(n.) A disease in cattle consisting in inflammation of the stomach by gas, ordinarily caused by eating too much green food; tympany; bloating.
Example Sentences:
(1) The hooves of biotin-deficient swine are weak, brittle, and often necrotic.
(2) The calves may carry the germs of coccidia and helminths on their hooves already during transportation to the new calf-house; 2. twelve- to twenty-day-old calves, coming to the calf-houses, are often already attacked by several species of coccidia and helminths; 3. the number of parasite species increases and the extensity of invasion rises with age; 4. it has been demonstrated that the invasion process of eight species of coccidia and five species of worms can take place under the conditions of modern calf-house; 5, stronglyloidosis, oesophagostomosis, and trichocephalosis can be treated as typical stable helminthoses; 6. some other speceis of helminths and coccidia occur in calves after transition to green forage with which they are probably carried to the calf-house.
(3) She's like a bull stomping its hooves before a charge.
(4) I won't dilate too much about the experience of seeing the marbles close up, which is something the ancient Greeks never did, because they were placed high on the Parthenon, but what is moving is the human detail of the sculptures – the snapshots of people turning round to see what's going on, struggling with a bullock that is about to get loose, and men expiring at the hooves of centaurs.
(5) In veterinary medicine, it has been documented that defect hooves of horses or claws of swines respond well to oral application of biotin.
(6) Human epidermis, hair, nails, and kidney as well as bovine and horses' hooves were found to contain a lipid fraction, which on thin-layer chromatography migrated slightly ahead of the cerebroside sulfate esters and gave the color reaction specific for sialic acid.
(7) Generations of rabbits have dug their burrows at the top of the bank here, the roofs of an ancient warren collapsing one by one under the weight of cattle hooves or human feet, leaving a pock-marked boundary.
(8) It was also found that neuroleptanalgesia contributes to the development of favourable conditions for both minor and major surgery in the region of the head, neck, chest, abdomen, limbs (except for the hooves), excluding the oral cavity.
(9) It was found that the percent of deformed hooves was 5-6 with cows that had daily exercise movements, up to 10-with cows having limited movements, and up to 51 and more-with animals deprived of movement.
(10) It was found that 'stable' hooves and disease processes developing in them and in the body as a whole lowered the milk yield by 3.3 l, on an average, per cow (4.5 l, respectively).
(11) A seasonal pattern was found in the Ca, Mg, and Zn composition of hooves in the 12 cattle evaluated in 1982 and in the 11 cattle evaluated in 1983, with the concentrations of 3 minerals decreasing in winter when dietary change did not occur.
(12) The 60 pigs were divided into four groups: Group 1, 13 pigs: A washing down of the hooves with lukewarm water.
(13) However, 8 d after consuming fescue-free diets, steers that had previously consumed the high-endophyte diet had greater (P = .08) blood flow to the coronary bands of the front hooves than steers that had consumed the low-endophyte diet.
(14) Their fifth child kicks so violently in the womb that sometimes Harriet "believed hooves were cutting her tender inside flesh, sometimes claws".
(15) The diagnosis is primarily based on the observation of symmetrical and bilateral lesions in hooves and characteristic lameness affecting all feet.
(16) Twenty-three Hereford X Shorthorn cattle were used to evaluate the effects of seasonal and dietary changes on the mineral composition (Ca, Mg, Cu, Zn, and S) of hooves.
(17) It was the hoove for the calmars with two wreath of pins.
(18) Although she was born in Bamako, her parents were from Wassoulou, the fertile south of Mali, and much of her music is based on the idioms of that area, particularly the ancient, bluesy music of the hunters, who you can meet in their jackets covered with mirrors, hooves and the tails of animals, radiating ineffable cool.
(19) A metal grid on which the cows' rear hooves stood during milking was the second contact.
(20) Results of mineral analysis of hooves indicated strong correlations between calcium and the other minerals (except S), and between Zn and Cu.
Hoover
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) The UK's biggest advertiser-funded broadcaster, which hoovers up almost £1 in every £2 spent on free-to-air TV commercials, still derived almost 75% of its £2.2bn in total revenues last year from this source.
(2) The reported rates of protein degradation in a recent paper on the effect of surgical trauma on muscle protein turnover [Hoover-Plow & Clifford (1978) Biochem.
(3) The minutes of the policy convention show DSD representatives insouciant about sharing metadata on Australians – so long as it had been hoovered up “unintentionally” they were happy to store and to disclose it without obtaining a warrant.
(4) Another potential Oscar-hoover is Silver Linings Playbook from David O Russell.
(5) In recent months, the UK Post Office has been hoovering up savers' money with a sustained in-branch campaign.
(6) Are charities alive to the potential threat of these new channels to hoover up their online donors?
(7) Here comes Dusty to get Marshall and replace him with J.J. Hoover, a 25-year-old righty to face Marlon Byrd.
(8) They saw that hoovering up or wrecking precious natural resources to get rich quick today would only leave us poorer tomorrow.
(9) Both Labour and Lib Dems said the wording opens the door into an investigation into whether the US National Security Agency or GCHQ eavesdropping centre in Cheltenham have been circumventing the warrant system approved by parliament by using technologies to hoover up information from communications traffic.
(10) He accepts that Ukip will likely hoover up votes which previously went to the far right British National party.
(11) Each car hoovers up – and processes – nearly one gigabyte of data every second.
(12) At an annual open house on New Year's Day in 1930, Herbert Hoover shook hands with 6,348 people; the experience was so traumatic he promptly vowed never to repeat it.
(13) The ethical and legal questions around 3D printing and firearms are important and complex, but they also tend to hoover up a lot of the mainstream media attention for this area of technology.
(14) Bookcases line the property: there are tomes on Hitler, Disney, Titanic, J Edgar Hoover, proverbs, quotations, fables, grammar, the Beach Boys, top 40 pop hits, baseball, Charlie Chaplin – any and every topic.
(15) When the NSA hoovers up and stores citizens’ data, even incidentally, the worry is not merely “instrumental”.
(16) A muddle-through option could involve the ECB [European central bank] announcing a "shock and awe" amount of QE [quantitative easing] to hoover up a significant part of government issuance.
(17) Whether the FBI would have figured more heavily in Goldfinger if Hoover had not objected so vigorously remains unclear.
(18) With just a mask and plastic tube connected to a compressor to supply them with air, they dive into the water, hoover up the sand with the suction hose, create a ditch to stand in, then turn the hose towards the newly created sea walls.
(19) The investment, which covers the Mirror and Sunday Mirror , is aiming to massively ramp up the newspapers' web presence with an eye to hoovering up readers when Rupert Murdoch's Sun website is put behind a paywall later this summer.
(20) Bill Whalen of the Hoover Institute at Stanford University, who has closely followed Fiorina’s career since before her 2010 run for Senate in California, said that her current candidacy had been “very long on style” but it was “time to add some substance” in the form of policy prescriptions.