(n.) Any South American monkey of the genus Mycetes. Many species are known. They are arboreal in their habits, and are noted for the loud, discordant howling in which they indulge at night.
Example Sentences:
(1) The results suggest that observer performance with devices that use ratemeters or howlers can be enhanced by improving the mode of count-rate presentation.
(2) Our findings are used to infer the original habitat in which proto-red howlers may have acquired such adaptations and to hypothesize that climbing and its related anatomy are a primitive condition for anthropoids.
(3) In addition, in late February and early March, 2 infected howler monkeys (Alouatta sp.)
(4) Originally published in Howler magazine It was an unseasonably cold October night in the urban moonscape that is Reykjavík, the capital of Iceland .
(5) Morphological adaptations to climbing (a scansorial mode of quadrupedal, arboreal locomotion practised on twigs and small branches) are identified by relating anatomical details of limb bones to a sample of 6,136 instantaneous observational recordings on the positional behavior and support uses of 20 different free-ranging, adult red howlers.
(6) As the half closed, a Ben Foster howler which saw him carrying the ball over the line for a corner had the fans behind his goal singing how he was "England's No5".
(7) Her performance was so forensically focused in almost every respect, it makes her Morgan howler all the more surprising.
(8) Loud calls of adult male red howlers (Alouatta seniculus) inhabiting a deciduous and semideciduous open woodland site in Venezuela were recorded opportunistically and categorized by ear and sonographically as barks and roars.
(9) The first one was the howler and everybody connected to Arsenal did howl, especially the big German.
(10) Among the most significant variables, the skin of sloths, howlers and macaques constitutes more than 12% of body weight, whereas greyhound skin is 5% of weight; sloth and howler muscle are 25% of weight, macaque muscle about 40% of weight, greyhound and agouti muscle over 50% of weight.
(11) Thanks to my Howler ed and sometime Guardian contributor George Quraishi for that... 8.16pm BST 36 mins Zusi twists and turns near the byline to pick out his cross, but having done the hard work his cross is poor and the Germans clear.
(12) This is an edited version of a feature that originally appeared in Issue 09 of Howler magazine.
(13) Observer performance was better with the multichannel scaler and HRM III than with either the ratemeter or the howler.
(14) I think I heard the prime minister come out yet again on the wireless the other day with that pre-Keynesian howler – much in vogue with the German economic establishment – that when the private sector cuts back, it makes sense for the public sector to cut back too.
(15) The predominantly herbivorous diet of the howler and baboon is responsible for modification in the configuration of the hyolaryngeal apparatus.
(16) Iusually am impressed by Simon Jenkins, but his polemic in today's Guardian on the Edward Snowden affair was well below par and full of howlers.
(17) In 1960 Adolph Schultz described several cases of plagiocephaly in a collection of mantled howler monkeys (Alouatta palliata) from the forests of Central America.
(18) If this is the case, then howler monkeys may be a good model to study the cause(s) of craniosynostosis.
(19) Howler plasma cross reacted with antihuman apoA-I antibodies but not with antihuman LDL antibodies.
(20) Comparisons of dietary data, estimated energy expenditures, and habitat productivity provide indications of the degree to which a habitat is capable of supporting the energy and other nutritional requirements of howler and spider monkeys living within the study area.
Joke
Definition:
(n.) Something said for the sake of exciting a laugh; something witty or sportive (commonly indicating more of hilarity or humor than jest); a jest; a witticism; as, to crack good-natured jokes.
(n.) Something not said seriously, or not actually meant; something done in sport.
(v. t.) To make merry with; to make jokes upon; to rally; to banter; as, to joke a comrade.
(v. i.) To do something for sport, or as a joke; to be merry in words or actions; to jest.
Example Sentences:
(1) In platform shoes to emulate Johnson's height, and with the aid of prosthetic earlobes, Cranston becomes the 36th president: he bullies and cajoles, flatters and snarls and barks, tells dirty jokes or glows with idealism as required, and delivers the famous "Johnson treatment" to everyone from Martin Luther King to the racist Alabama governor George Wallace.
(2) "The sending off was a joke, and I thought the penalty was even worse," Bruce said.
(3) Fringe 2009 also welcomes back Aussie standup Jim Jeffries , whose jokes include: "Women to me are like public toilets.
(4) Greek officials categorically denied the report with many describing it as a "joke".
(5) Two years later, Trump tweeted that “Obama’s motto” was: “If I don’t go on taxpayer funded vacations & constantly fundraise then the terrorists win.” The joke, it turns out, is on Trump.
(6) It’s gender, age, disability, sexual orientation, social background, and – most important of all, as far as I’m concerned – diversity of thought.” Diversity needs action beyond the Oscars | Letters Read more He may have provided the Richard Littlejohn wishlist from hell – you know the one, about the one-legged black lesbian in a hijab favoured by the politically correct – but as a Hollywood A-lister, the joke’s no longer on him.
(7) When we arrived, he would instruct us to spend the morning composing a song or a poem, or inventing a joke or a charade.
(8) Having long been accustomed to being the butt of other politicians' jokes, however, Farage is relishing what may yet become the last laugh.
(9) Quizzed by one journalist, Gabrielli joked that "the first 12 hours are the most dangerous".
(10) I think the “horror and outrage” Roberts complains of were more like hilarity, and the story still makes me laugh (as do many others on Mumsnet, which is full of jokes as well as acronyms for everything).
(11) Musk revealed his love for Kerbal Space Program in a Q&A in Reddit , joking (or maybe not?)
(12) One of the punters came up to me after and said that I seemed confident, but he’d spent the whole time wondering when I was going to tell a joke.
(13) In a recent episode of the BBC Radio 4 comedy Alun Cochrane's Fun House , Cochrane joked of how he sleeps better in the living room.
(14) I’m just going to prepare myself for next year, for the Olympics and come out even stronger.” Questioned over Bolt’s joking accusation, Gatlin added: “I want my money back.
(15) Intricate is the key word, as screwball dialogue plays off layered wordplay, recurring jokes and referential callbacks to build to the sort of laughs that hit you twice: an initial belly laugh followed, a few minutes later, by the crafty laugh of recognition.
(16) His art knows this and tries to deal with it by way of jokes and excess.
(17) James Cleverly, MP for Braintree, who supported Johnson’s aborted leadership bid before backing May, said joking about him risked undermining the foreign secretary.
(18) It would also be likely to lend scope to ill-conceived prosecutions jeopardising ordinary free speech rights, such as the notorious Twitter Joke Trial .
(19) This, Brown jokes, counts as good weather for Scotland.
(20) December 3, 2013 And fellow presenters took the opportunity for some jokes at his expense.