(n.) A piece of woodland; a small wood. [Obs.] See Holt.
Example Sentences:
(1) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Nicholas Hoult in Kill Your Friends, 2015.
(2) Hoult, however, concedes the radicalism more freely.
(3) But I’m no longer obsessed.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Instead, Hoult speaks knowledgeably about daytime TV – in particular Homes Under the Hammer , Wanted Down Under and Come Dine With Me – and with studenty enthusiasm about food: “When I fall asleep I’m thinking about breakfast and then after breakfast it’s lunch and then it’s dinnertime with snacks in between.” At 25, then, he remains appealingly suburban despite the glam location (beach cabana at the Hotel du Cap , Cannes’s most exclusive) and rising star status ( X-Men , Clash of the Titans , Jack the Giant Slayer , Jennifer Lawrence ’s ex).
(4) So it’s hard to imagine the unhappiness of Mrs Hoult after her son was cast in Mad Max: Fury Road – eight months in the Namibian desert hanging off exploding lorries, told not to move lest his head come off.
(5) The guns are more pumped, the giggle less nervous, but Hoult is still a genuine sweetie.
(6) The results are shown to be in good agreement with experiment and reduce to the more traditional expression for the coil impedance of Hoult and Lauterbur (1979) in the low conductivity or small sample size limit.
(7) The spectrum of normal muscle was found to resemble that obtained by Hoult et al.
(8) One of Bocchi’s staff members, Catriona Hoult, was formerly a national newspaper journalist.
(9) We derive an expression describing the electric interaction between an NMR coil and sample which is the analogue of the well known Hoult-Richards expression for the magnetic interaction.
(10) As critics have observed, the fear on Hoult’s face is pretty convincing.
(11) When Miller wrote the script in 1999, he conceived of Hoult’s character as a quasi kamikaze pilot.
(12) It’s impossible.” Mad Max’s Nicholas Hoult on hanging off lorries and channeling Andrex puppies Read more Theron, cool and blond and glossy, sips mineral water in front of the sea.
(13) Nearly nine years ago, Nicholas Hoult gave a series of interviews.
(14) David Hoult Stockport • Coincidental that the three political parties currently set to be excluded from the forthcoming TV election debates are led by women and the four to be included are led by men ( Report , 17 January)?
(15) Very much a reflection of what’s going on in the world.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Riley Keough and Nicholas Hoult in Mad Max: Fury Road.
(16) Previously announced was George Miller’s Mad Max: Fury Road , with Tom Hardy tearing around a desert wasteland alongside Charlize Theron and Nicholas Hoult.
(17) Nicholas Hoult, too, is having an intriguing career, and though Nux wasn’t the hero of Mad Max: Fury Road , he provided the film with its most compelling character arc.
(18) Results of this analysis as well as those for the full sphere as presented by Hoult and Lauterbur are compared with observation for a variety of sample conductivities and orientation.
(19) Hoult’s recurring role as Dr Hank McCoy in the X-Men films has already awarded him his superhero badge, leaving him free to branch out into interesting areas such as off-the-wall westerns (Young Ones) and black comedies (Kill Your Friends).
(20) ‘I became a citizen, had a cream tea and then registered to vote’ : Debbie Hoult, 62, retired, Beaconsfield, Conservative Facebook Twitter Pinterest Debbie Hoult: ‘It’s a time to become more informed if one wants to vote.’ Photograph: David Yeo for the Guardian I’m an American but I’ve been living in Britain for 26 years.
Moult
Definition:
(v. t.) To shed or cast the hair, feathers, skin, horns, or the like, as an animal or a bird.
(v. t.) To cast, as the hair, skin, feathers, or the like; to shed.
(n.) The act or process of changing the feathers, hair, skin, etc.; molting.
(v. & n.) See Molt.
Example Sentences:
(1) In cultures of medium ML-15 containing a feeder layer of Dog Sarcoma (DS) cells larvae successfully moulted and showed a small but significant increase in length.
(2) Neither was the autumn moult, induced early in intact females by the change to a short photoperiod, advanced in ganglionectomized females, showing that the latter were unresponsive to the artificial modification of the photoperiod.
(3) Statistical analysis has shown the following: a) the growth inhibition, which is especially distinct in autumn-spring generation, takes place in the Ist instar larvae 1.76-2.20 mm long inhabiting the walls of the nasal cavity and concha (their average body length at hatching is 1.08 plus or minus 0.004 mm); the inhibition is associated with interpopulation relations and apparently does not depend on the date of its beginning and can last from 6 to 7 months; c) after the growth resumption the development continues uninterruptedly up to the moulting; the inhibition is also possible at the beginning of the 2nd instar and then the development proceeds without any intervals up to the complete maturation of larvae.
(4) A sharp rise in trehalose level of haemolymph is observed towards the end of 4th instar accompanied with sudden fall of the sugar in fat body during the same period, but after moulting blood trehalose abruptly decreases.
(5) The allatectomy in the 4th instar larvae of Rhodnius prolixus stops moulting in 93 per cent of the cases.
(6) The metathoracic musculature of the American cockroach Periplaneta americana was denervated by dissecting the nerves originating in the metathoracic ganglion on one side within 2 days after the last moult.
(7) Body-plumage of hens moulted at 11 degrees C was 25% heavier than of hens moulted at 29 degrees C. 3.
(8) One hour after infection, primary larvae appear in the body cavity where they moult immediately.
(9) In females, however, the number of NSG was relatively more than that in males in the Spring premigratory phase but fewer in the moulting phase.
(10) Food intake raises and decreases gradually between two moults.
(11) Trans-stadial transmission was demonstrated through one moult only, and transovarial transmission did not occur.
(12) This in vitro assay, based solely on the occurrence or absence of worm aggregation following the final moult in culture, proved very easy to interpret rapidly and accurately.
(13) A molecular modeling study has proposed that, when Ca2+ binds to the N-terminal triggering sites, helices B and C separate from the helices D and A, thereby exposing a crucial interaction site for troponin I, the inhibitory subunit of troponin [Herzberg, O., Moult, J., and James, M. N. G. (1986) J. Biol.
(14) Three developmental stages were investigated--1 day, 14 days, and 6 weeks after adult moulting.
(15) The effects of the insect growth regulator diflubenzuron (DFB) were observed on the larval-larval and larval-pupal moulting cycles of Tenebrio molitor, after treatment at ecdysis.
(16) Virus persisted transstadially as shown by the presence of an average of 10(3.4) PFU in newly moulted adults.
(17) Cauterization of the pars intercerebralis after the critical period of the prothoracic gland activity does not affect moulting in any way.
(18) In normal, non-expanding toad epidermis more cells are produced than needed to replace cells lost by moulting.
(19) Variation in temperature (4-40 degrees C) had a significant effect on moulting rate of the ticks and transmission of theilerial parasites from nymphs to resultant adults.
(20) Thymus enlargement in both young and adults has been found to be accompanied by marked erythropoietic activity within the gland, and it is suggested that this activity is related to an increased demand for erythrocytes which may occur during moult and breeding.