(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.
Routine
Definition:
(n.) A round of business, amusement, or pleasure, daily or frequently pursued; especially, a course of business or offical duties regularly or frequently returning.
(n.) Any regular course of action or procedure rigidly adhered to by the mere force of habit.
Example Sentences:
(1) If the method was taken into routine use in a diagnostic laboratory, the persistence of reverse passive haemagglutination reactions would enable grouping results to be checked for quality control purposes.
(2) The inquiry found the law enforcement agencies routinely fail to record the professions of those whose communications data records they access under Ripa.
(3) All of the nude mice developed paraplegia with or without incontinence at 2 weeks and routinely died of inanition 3 weeks postimplantation.
(4) The present retrospective study reports the results of a survey conducted on 130 patients given elective abdominal and urinary surgery together with the cultivation of routine intraperitoneal drainage material.
(5) There are widespread examples across the US of the police routinely neglecting crimes of sexual violence and refusing to believe victims.
(6) This implementation reduced a formidable task to a relatively routine run.
(7) These unusual fractures are not easily detected on the routine three-view "hand-series."
(8) The study included fifty children, aged six to fourteen years, selected from patients seeking routine dental care at Children's Hospital National Medical Center.
(9) A newborn presenting with persistent umbilical stump bleeding should be screened for factor XIII deficiency when routine coagulation tests prove normal.
(10) It was found to be convenient for routine laboratory use and increased the yield of positive plate cultures in specimens without antibiotics from 53 to 75% (P less than 0.01) and in specimens containing antibiotics from 24 to 38% (P less than 0.05).
(11) For routine use, 50 mul of 12% BTV SRBC, 0.1 ml of a spleen cell suspension, and 0.5 ml of 0.5% agarose in a balanced salt solution were mixed and plated on a microscope slide precoated with 0.1% aqueous agarose.
(12) The effect of exclusion versus inclusion of the fiducial timing point optimizing routine in the signal averaging program was examined in 21 patients.
(13) Since this test is easily performed and hardly stresses the patient, it should routinely be the initial one for the diagnosis of renal osteopathy.
(14) This study suggests that the BD VACUTAINER agar slant is an acceptable alternative to the Septi-Chek system for routine blood cultures.
(15) The possibility of unequivocally detecting syncytium-inducing strains after only a few days of coculture will make this detection routine and rapid.
(16) In a retrospective study of 610 patients the role of routine gastroscopy prior to cholecystectomy was investigated.
(17) There were soon tales of claimants dying after having had money withdrawn, but the real administrative problem was the explosion of appeals, which very often succeeded because many medical problems were being routinely ignored at the earlier stage.
(18) These results indicate that the routine use of a defunctioning colostomy at anterior resection should now be questioned.
(19) During a single reversal trial of two 2-wk experimental periods, teats of all glands of 12 Holstein cows were subjected to a milking routine conducive to large vacuum fluctuations and flooded teat cups.
(20) It is of special interest because it presented as a periapical pathosis associated with a nonvital tooth and emphasizes the value of routine histopathologic examination of tissue.