(n.) Any one of several species of carnivorous animals inhabiting Africa and Asia, related to the dog and wolf. They are cowardly, nocturnal, and gregarious. They feed largely on carrion, and are noted for their piercing and dismal howling.
(n.) One who does mean work for another's advantage, as jackals were once thought to kill game which lions appropriated.
Example Sentences:
(1) The jackal (Canis adustus) was the predominate wildlife species involved (69%) and played a role in the epidemiology of bovine rabies in remote farm areas.
(2) Seven helminth species from jackals, three species from dogs, four species from cats and four species from badgers are reported for the first time in Iran.
(3) Rendered in these cool, clean strokes, with efficiency and noninvolvement as the hallmarks of the type, The Day Of The Jackal's decision to tell the viewer nothing substantive about its assassin's personality, inner life, or convictions, was a virtual invitation to other film-makers and writers to fill in the gaps, to search for unexpected dramatic and comic possibilities in the unexamined background of the hitman archetype and to make hay with all their potential.
(4) He could be the jackal-headed Anubis, Egyptian god of embalming, down on his luck.
(5) In a village in Upper Egypt, 21 persons were bitten by a rabid jackal.
(6) Nineteen street rabies virus strains, isolated in Egypt from humans (two), dogs (nine), cats (two), farm animals (two), gerbils (three), and a jackal were antigenically analyzed.
(7) In two jackals caught in the Kzyl-Orda region one species of coccidians of the genus Isospors was found.
(8) Carlos the Jackal used PETN in 1983 to attack the Maison de France, the French cultural centre in Berlin.
(9) Canine ehrlichiosis was successfully transmitted from the domestic dog to three Wild Dogs Lycaon pictus and three Black-backed Jackals Canis mesomelas.
(10) The relationships between mandibular and dental measurements were investigated in a sample of 60 adult domestic dogs, 17 black-backed jackals Canis mesomelas, 18 side-striped jackals C. adustus and 16 Cape foxes Vulpes chama.
(11) The family Canidae serologically may be divided into two main groups: 1) the genus Canis which includes the wolf, domestic dog, dingo, jackal and 2) species which significantly differ from the former (the fox, polar fox, dog fox, fennec).
(12) And I would lie down, knowing there was a jackal hovering right above, ready to swoop down and kill us.
(13) I started having this recurring dream that there was a hovering, insect-like jackal in my bedroom.
(14) Canine transmissible venereal sarcoma (CTVS) is a contagious neoplasm of dogs that can be transplanted with intact viable cells across major histocompatibility (MHC) barriers among dogs and even other Canine such as foxes, coyotes, and jackals.
(15) The Campbells have always believed their father was murdered by one of the most notorious loyalist paramilitary killers of the Troubles – Robin "The Jackal" Jackson .
(16) None was found in sera from hyaena and jackals in this series but had been detected earlier.
(17) Eighty four per cent of golden jackals, 30 per cent of red foxes and nine per dent of dogs were found to be infected.
(18) First, mtDNA sequence divergence within several contiguous black-backed jackal populations is large (8.0%).
(19) The Jackal wasn't by any means the first contract killer on the screen.
(20) One well-placed source in Moscow described RCB as the “private pocket” for top government people – the “golden jackals around Shere Khan [Putin]”, as he put it.
Menial
Definition:
(n.) Belonging to a retinue or train of servants; performing servile office; serving.
(n.) Pertaining to servants, esp. domestic servants; servile; low; mean.
(n.) A domestic servant or retainer, esp. one of humble rank; one employed in low or servile offices.
(n.) A person of a servile character or disposition.
Example Sentences:
(1) Women seldom occupy higher positions in a [criminal] organisation, and are rather used for menial, but often dangerous tasks ,” it notes.
(2) One of the biggest losers are the estimated 12-20 million illegal immigrants living in the US, most of whom play an integral role in the economy, doing menial jobs that citizens do not want.
(3) Having failed to get into Rada, Wesker embarked on a series of menial jobs: bookseller's assistant, plumber's mate and, at the Bell hotel in Norwich, kitchen porter.
(4) The new movie marks a partial return to the thematic territory of Rosetta , which concerned a teenage girl scrabbling around for menial jobs.
(5) In the UK, the interrelated challenges we face include an ageing population; technological advances that wipe out whole occupations; global competition and the large-scale underemployment of individuals, mostly women, overqualified for the menial jobs they have struggled to acquire.
(6) Nonetheless, the workers' movement was once dedicated to the eventual abolition of all menial, tedious, grinding work.
(7) The system applies domain-specific knowledge to manage the menial details and automate most of the decision-making steps involved in the design process.
(8) • On placement, put your ego to one side and take on any task, however menial: it will open the door to new experiences.
(9) If they are poor, it wants them to be invisible, flitting uncomplainingly from one menial job to the next.
(10) The prosecution claimed that the man, who left home when he was 11 to take up a series of menial jobs in Delhi, was the most violent of the attackers of the girl last December.
(11) Like ads for other menial jobs, they use absurd and insulting hyperbole in inverse proportion to the quality of the position, as though seeing the word SUPERSTAR enough times will make you forget how boring the duties are.
(12) If that became true over the past 10 years, it was only in the "we are all middle class now" sense of New Labour – not in the sense of actually eliminating menial work, or the divide between workers and owners.
(13) There is also Hunt's plan to make all student nurses spend a year of their training doing the more menial tasks in healthcare usually done by healthcare assistants – feeding, washing and moving patients, for example.
(14) We suggest that prosperity which has led to use of foreign laborers in menial jobs has caused this slow down.
(15) The Home Office says the menial work is provided on a voluntary basis to meet their “recreational and intellectual” needs and provide “relief from boredom”.
(16) It’s about spotting that and thinking about how you can influence it.” That’s the dream Clara Summers (not her real name), 33, clings to as she contemplates quitting her job in events at a Copenhagen bar, where a “bro-centric” atmosphere means that, as the only woman in the management team, she is handed all the menial tasks.
(17) Menial tasks in South Africa are invariably performed by Africans.
(18) Professional politicians, and their intellectual menials, will no doubt blather on about “Islamic fundamentalism”, the “western alliance” and “full-spectrum response”.
(19) 15.5% were not in school and unemployed, and 28% worked at menial jobs.
(20) Smartphones at the ready: TechCrunch has given Alfred , an outsourcing app for your most menial tasks, its Disrupt Cup – an award that recognises the best new start-ups.