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Jackdaw
Definition:
(n.) See Daw, n.
Example Sentences:
(1) The jackdaws were behaviorally active during the light part of the photoperiod.
(2) Littlewood picked up influences like a scholarly jackdaw, insisting that her company prepare properly.
(3) Capote's jackdaw eye gathered precise, jewelled, almost hyper-real detail – from the easterly wind stirring the elm trees on the track leading to the Clutters' farmhouse to the corpses lying in the Phillips' Funeral Home in Garden City, their heads encased in sparkling white cotton, and swollen to twice the size of blown-up balloons – while his ear rapidly tuned in to local speech patterns, alive to every nuance, every rhythm.
(4) Threshold parameters of the microphonic component in jackdaw nestlings differ from those of sea-gull embryos by more evident flatness.
(5) Studies have been made on the development of hearing in the jackdaw Coloeus monedula and sea-gulls Larus canus and L. argenatus, by means of recording microphonic component of the cochlear potential under chronic experimental conditions.
(6) In 1990 we reported that milk bottles pecked by jackdaws and magpies were a probable source of human campylobacter infection.
(7) Polygraphic and behavioral studies of the jackdaws Corvus monedula have revealed a strong influence of the natural day-night cycle on their daily wakefulness-sleep activity.
(8) Yet, even when the terms of engagement are so limited, a one-off, they reveal that while "the personal may be political", attach a Tannoy, and all manner of furies are unleashed and rights abrogated, not least of the children, ex-husbands, siblings and friends, the jackdaw journalist's, often involuntary, supporting cast.
(9) Some birds in the UK have increased since the 1970s, namely stock doves, wood pigeons, goldfinch, greenfinch and jackdaws.
(10) Late to the mobile game Yet Bezos's hand has almost been forced, suggests Jan Dawson of Utah-based Jackdaw Research, as the era of "e-commerce" on desktop computers gives way to "m-commerce", where people buy via their smartphones and tablets.
(11) Although few people witnessed the attacks, the likely culprits are magpies (Pica pica) and jackdaws (Corvus monedula).
(12) It is certainly true that journalists and writers are jackdaws and that some of us – and I put my hand up here – sometimes see everything in that way, something to be expressed, worked through, written about.
(13) It was estimated that between 500 and 1000 jackdaws (Corvus monedula) were present in the area where milk bottles were pecked and 63 isolates of campylobacter were made from the bill and cloaca.
(14) Ever since he started on the extraordinary sequence of books announced by A Dragon Apparent in 1951, about his travels in French Indochina, the truth about Lewis's discreet personality was something he left others to decide; rarely did his ego make more than fleeting personal appearances in his work - not even in Naples '44 (1978), his hauntingly comic memoir of the second world war, or his two volumes of autobiography, Jackdaw Cake (1985) and The World, The World (1996).
(15) Duck embryos and livers from 24-30 months old chickens, crows, sparrows, rooks or jackdaws contained no gs-antigen.
(16) Osborne and his incredibly powerful Rabbit bring ecstasy to Tory benches Read more It was a redefining budget of scale and ambition that sucked up everything around Osborne, showing that he has the confidence to be a political jackdaw.
(17) Perhaps his kids liked it, in an act of intergenerational rebellion against dad's love of Extreme Noise Terror and Jackdaw With Crowbar .