(n.) One of several species of wild goats having very large, recurved horns, transversely ridged in front; -- called also steinbok.
Example Sentences:
(1) Spain's IBEX has tumbled more than 2%, despite its central bank predicting that the country's recession is over.
(2) Campa was speaking as the Ibex index of Madrid's most traded stocks plunged for a second day and the cost of protecting investors against a default of Spanish debt reached a record high.
(3) Spanish IBEX: up 42 points at 7476, +0.55% Italian FTSE MIB: up 68 points at 15335, +0.45% Worryingly, Italian and Spanish longer-term debt has not rallied as much as the shorter-term bonds.
(4) UK FTSE 100: down 0.75%, or 44 points, at 5845 Germany DAX: down 0.9% France CAC 40: down 0.9% Spain IBEX: down 1.1% Italy FTSE MIB: down 1% 8.20am BST In the Wall Street Journal this morning Charles Goodhart and Sony Kapoor ask whether the eurozone crisis has turned a corner.
(5) In female ibex up to an age of six years, a sufficiently accurate age determination can be made based on the degree of skeletal ossification and length of the bones (s. Table 2).
(6) Spanish 10-year bond yields fell to a six-month low of 5.5% and the Ibex stock market in Madrid jumped by 1.4%, after Moody's confounded investors' expectations and left the country's rating unchanged.
(7) Here's an early round-up: FTSE 100: up 18 points at 5827, +0.3% DAX: up 40 points at 6959, + 0.6% CAC: up 28 points at 3430, + 0.85% IBEX: up 139 points at 7193.
(8) The FTSEurofirst300 index fell 1.4%, driven by selloffs in Frankfurt (DAX down 1.9%), Paris (CAC down 2.65%), Madrid (IBEX down 1.2%) and Milan (FTSE MIB down 2%).
(9) Virus isolates from a blue wildebeest, a sika deer and an ibex had restriction endonuclease DNA cleavage patterns that were in general similar to each other.
(10) • FTSE 100 : up 18 points at 5811, + 0.3% • German DAX : up 49 points at 7278, +0.6% • French CAC : up 30 points at 3419, + 0.9% • Spain's IBEX : up 56 points at 7708, + 0.75% • Italy's FTSE MIB : up 120 points at 15632, + 0.8% Spread-betters had been predicting that concerns over the global economy would push shares lower.
(11) The Italian blue-chip index, the FTSE MIB index, fell by 3.25%, while the Spanish Ibex lost 2.8%.
(12) • The FTSE 100 has fallen 0.62% at 5793.32 • Germany's Dax is down 0.68% • France's Cac has closed 0.72% lower • Spain's Ibex is off 1.06% • Italy's FTSE MIB has dropped 0.78% • The Dow Jones Industrial Average is currently down 11 points But Spanish and Italian bond yields have edged lower again, so Spain may well feel it can hold out on any bailout request.
(13) The Dax in Frankfurt is up 0.5% while the Ibex in Madrid has perked up 0.6%.
(14) The biggest falls on European bourses were in Milan, where the FTSE MIB slid 549 points to 13,114 and in Madrid, where the Ibex shed 252 points to 6624.
(15) Here's a closing summary: FTSE 100: down 22 points at 5893, - 0.37% German DAX: down 10 points at 7401, - 0.14% French CAC: down 26 points 3555, - 0.73% Spanish IBEX: down 6 points at 8148, -0.08% Italian FTSE MIB: down 154 points at 16470, - 0.93% With Spanish bond yields still sharply higher today, there is concern in the City that the eurocrisis is poised to flare up again.
(16) Updated at 10.10am BST 8.12am BST EUROPEAN MARKETS FALL AT THE OPEN Financial markets in Europe have dropped at the start of trading: FTSE 100 index: down 34 points at 5858, - 0.6% German DAX: down 49 points at 7354, -0.8% French CAC: down 23 points at 3530, - 0.66% Spanish IBEX: down 50 points at 8097, - 0.6% Italian FTSE MIB: down 95 points at 16375, - 0.6% Spain isn't the only reason.
(17) 9.32am BST Market update Not much drama to report in the financial markets, where stock markets are pretty flat in early trading (Spain's IBEX is the most 'interesting', down around 0.5%).
(18) FTSE 100: up 18 points at 5798, + 0.3% German DAX: up 32 points at 7322, + 0.45% French CAC: up 6 points at 3446, + 0.2% Spanish IBEX: up 44 points at 7886, + 0.57% Italian FTSE MIB: up 80 points at 15529.
(19) FTSE 100: up 17 points at 5675, + 0.3% German DAX: up 25 points at 6989, + 0.25% French CAC: up 11 points at 3417, up 0.35% Spanish IBEX: up 59 points at 7553, up 0.79% Italian FTSE MIB: up 60 points at 15188, up 0.38% Cameron Peacock , market analyst at IG Markets, warned that shares could swiftly retreat if the ECB doesn't deliver: Should Mr Draghi fail to provide the market with an acceptable level of detail of the intended programme, there is the very real risk of a short-term pull back in the euro, particularly now, given it has rallied on the back of last night’s leaks.
(20) • The FTSE 100 has finished down 0.11%, a fall of nearly 100 points on the week • Germany's Dax is down 0.58% • France's Cac has closed up 0.47% • Italy's FTSE MIB is 0.09% lower • Spain's Ibex is up 0.16% • The Athens market is up 0.92% • The Dow Jones Industrial Average is up 64 points at the moment And with that we're off.
Sable
Definition:
(n.) A carnivorous animal of the Weasel family (Mustela zibellina) native of the northern latitudes of Europe, Asia, and America, -- noted for its fine, soft, and valuable fur.
(n.) The fur of the sable.
(n.) A mourning garment; a funeral robe; -- generally in the plural.
(n.) The tincture black; -- represented by vertical and horizontal lines crossing each other.
(a.) Of the color of the sable's fur; dark; black; -- used chiefly in poetry.
(v. t.) To render sable or dark; to drape darkly or in black.
Example Sentences:
(1) The spontaneous v alleles that are suppressed by the suppressor of sable [su(s)] are apparently identical insertions of 412, a copia-like transposable element.
(2) Unlike the cat, there is no difference in retinal decussation patterns in wild-type sable ferrets and heterozygous ferrets carrying one albino gene.
(3) The course of experimental infection of a type SAT 1 FMDV strain was studied in buffalo, sable antelope and eland following tongue inoculation and contact and has been compared with that in cattle.
(4) Six years after the GER, the only event I still consider to be bonkers beyond belief is the Marathon des Sables .
(5) Six-day-old rats received 20 forward pairings of an odor-conditioned stimulus (CS) with one of two unconditioned stimuli (UCS); 1) intra-oral milk infusions or 2) stroking with a sable-hair brush.
(6) Her two major accomplishments in this province include laying the groundwork for its first psychiatric hospital and the outfitting of treacherous Sable Island with rescue equipment to aid ships stranded off its shore.
(7) Positive reactions were also recorded in lechwe (Kobus leche), tsessebe (Damaliscus lunatus), red hartebeeste (Alcelaphus buselaphus), gemsbok (Oryx gazella), sable (Hippotragus niger) and impala (Aepyceros melampus).
(8) This effect on Q biosynthesis was found in both the wild-type and the suppressor of sable [su(s)2] mutant.
(9) The parasite was recovered from the subdural space of one reindeer and was seen histologically within the neuropil of another reindeer and a sable antelope.
(10) Sables with a normal course of pregnancy displayed a regular increase in the progestin level already at the period of diapause, although relatively small in value.
(11) Parelaphostrongylus tenuis caused neurologic disease in 6 reindeer (Rangifer tarandus tarandus) and 2 sable antelope (Hippotragus niger) that were housed at the National Zoological Park Conservation and Research Center in Front Royal, Va. Progressive hindlimb ataxia and weakness were seen in all affected animals.
(12) We have examined the retinal decussation patterns in pigmented ferrets that were either wild-type sable or heterozygous with one albino gene.
(13) Examination of the estrogen and progestin levels in sables can aid in the establishment of pregnancy and differentiation of its normal course from the pathological one.
(14) It was identified as Babesia irvinesmithi Martinaglia, 1936, which is unique to sable.
(15) To date, spontaneous infection of T. spiralis in wildlife in Japan has been reported in sables (in Hokkaido, 1963), Japanese black bear (in Aomori, 1974, 1975), brown bear (in Hokkaido, 1980) and raccoon dog (in Yamagata, 1984).
(16) Cryptosporidium was found in the intestinal tract of 10 blackbuck, 2 scimitar-horned oryx, 2 fringe-eared oryx, 2 addax, and 1 sable antelope that had diarrhea.
(17) Mutations at suppressor of sable [su(s)], which increase the accumulation of v1 transcripts, slightly elevate the level of v+37 RNA.
(18) The cute little face, the Calvin Klein underpants, the soft sable hair (I was the target audience.
(19) The significance of the change from sable to hogs' hair brush and flake white to Kremnitz white in the late 1950s was exaggerated.
(20) We have studied the effect of mutations in the suppressor of sable [su(s)] gene on P element-induced yellow alleles.