(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.
Riot
Definition:
(n.) Wanton or unrestrained behavior; uproar; tumult.
(n.) Excessive and exxpensive feasting; wild and loose festivity; revelry.
(n.) The tumultuous disturbance of the public peace by an unlawful assembly of three or more persons in the execution of some private object.
(v. i.) To engage in riot; to act in an unrestrained or wanton manner; to indulge in excess of luxury, feasting, or the like; to revel; to run riot; to go to excess.
(v. i.) To disturb the peace; to raise an uproar or sedition. See Riot, n., 3.
(v. t.) To spend or pass in riot.
Example Sentences:
(1) But, in a sign of tension within the coalition government, the Liberal Democrats home affairs spokesman, Tom Brake, told BBC2's Newsnight that "if [the offenders in question] had committed the same offence the day before the riots, they would not have received a sentence of that nature".
(2) Loyalists are opposed to any restrictions and have blocked roads and rioted over the issue.
(3) It’s clear which way the ultra-right community around Ukip wishes to go: their timelines are full of praise for Marine Le Pen and Geert Wilders , and blazing with imagery – both real and fake – of migrant riots in France and Sweden.
(4) The organizers of the protest march he participated in said the man had fallen ill before any rioting had broken out.
(5) Jana Sante, owner of Gisella Boutique, Peckham: "We received a call from someone saying 'the riots are heading your way'.
(6) The rioting began on Wednesday after a deadly argument between a Muslim gold shop owner and his Buddhist customers in Meikhtila.
(7) To counterbalance integration against the threat of riots is basically the Tebbit test without the sport.
(8) Communal riots are not unique to Gujarat, but the chief ministers of other states have not been blamed when pogroms have erupted on their watch.
(9) He was the peaceful activist whose sudden disappearance into a phalanx of riot police on a Baltimore street sparked a viral panic.
(10) It is the same article of the law that was used against Pussy Riot and can carry a jail sentence of several years.
(11) Ten years ago I felt I could understand why people gathered at Cronulla beach to protest on the day of the riots.
(12) Mohammed Salama, 23, an Al Ahly ultra whose leg was broken in the stadium riot, said it became clear at half-time in the match between the two historical foes that trouble was brewing.
(13) Tolokonnikova was given a two-year sentence for her part in Pussy Riot's "punk prayer" in Moscow's largest cathedral, calling on the Virgin Mary to "kick out Putin".
(14) Three members of the Russian feminist punk band Pussy Riot are facing two years in a prison colony after they were found guilty of hooliganism motivated by religious hatred, in a case seen as the first salvo in Vladimir Putin's crackdown on opposition to his rule.
(15) To substantiate his claims, the author draws upon historical documents from the Second World War dealing with the threat to China from Japan's armed forces, and also makes reference to the race riots in Los Angeles early this year.
(16) Following escalating violence against protestors, in February the peaceful protest camp was cleared by riot police, resulting in at least 88 deaths in 48 hours; Yanukovych was later deposed, ahead of Russia's move on Crimea.
(17) Ursula Nevin, 24, of Stretford, slept through the riots, but was jailed for five months after admitting handling stolen goods looted by her lodger.
(18) You can argue about what constitutes a race “riot” these days – and why the hell we are seeing teargas every other evening in the suburbs, or Jim Crow-reminiscent police dogs in the year 2014.
(19) A prosecutor in north London who dealt with nothing but riot cases in the crown court for three months said: "Let's be clear, we could have failed.
(20) Shields accepted that the Irish appeared more inclined to send up their grim fiscal situation than go out and riot.