(n.) A large and powerful feline animal (Felis onca), ranging from Texas and Mexico to Patagonia. It is usually brownish yellow, with large, dark, somewhat angular rings, each generally inclosing one or two dark spots. It is chiefly arboreal in its habits. Called also the American tiger.
Example Sentences:
(1) October 27, 2013 7.27pm GMT Around the league And here’s how things look elsewhere, as we head into the fourth quarter: Cowboys 13-7 Lions Browns 17-20 Chiefs Dolphins 17-20 Patriots Bills 10-28 Saints Giants 15-0 Eagles 49ers 35-10 Jaguars 7.25pm GMT End of 3rd quarter: 49ers 35-10 Jaguars The quarter ends with the Jaguars facing a third-and-one at their own 32.
(2) It is thought Tata, the Indian conglomerate that also owns Jaguar Land Rover and Tetley Tea, is also preparing to cut several hundred roles in operations that serve the Scunthorpe plant, mainly at its Rotherham site.
(3) The group comprised 29 pumas (Felis concolor), 32 lions (Panthera leo), 27 tigers (P tigris), 19 leopards (P pardus), 18 jaguars (P onca) and 22 cheetahs (Acinonyx jubatus).
(4) It’s a seismic moment for the industry and particularly the big European manufacturers who have done a lot of work on diesel: technologically, they have they made the wrong bet.” Some analysts believe fears of brand damage in Europe are overstated but Bailey says: “In the US it’s very different: VW have killed their diesel market and it has left them in a very difficult position.” For British manufacturer Jaguar Land Rover, the timing of VW’s woes was ominous, as it unveiled two new diesels in America.
(5) Perhaps not, if this missive from our an at Wembley, Davidde Corran, is anything to go by: From the Wembley seats to the San Francisco 49ers fans occupying so many of them, the first of four annual Jacksonville Jaguars games has quite the red tinge.
(6) No British car plant has shut down during this recession, but Jaguar warned last week it intends to close a West Midlands plant, and the future is uncertain for Vauxhall's factories since the plants were sold by General Motors to Magna, the Canadian car-parts maker.
(7) Jaguars 29-20 Titans Surely, but surely the Jacksonville Jaguars are going to get their first win of the year in Tennessee this afternoon.
(8) And while the Jaguars really are horrible right now, it is worth remembering that the Kansas City Chiefs were the worst team in the NFL last year at 2-14.
(9) Jaguar Land Rover, the Indian-owned but Midlands-based producer of the upmarket Defender and Range Rover models reported volumes rising by nearly 7.5% over the year while production at the Japanese-owned volume carmaker Honda fell by 12.3%.
(10) Downing Street has refused to release the guest list for this year's bash at the private Hurlingham members' club in Fulham, west London, but the gleaming Rolls-Royces and Jaguars streaming through the gates gave a hint of the wealthy passengers heading inside.
(11) The Jaguars clearly want Bortles to focus on improving individually before he takes on greater responsibility for the team.
(12) The jaguar – the largest cat of the Americas – is something of a symbol of the Pantanal, although only the luckiest tourists ever spot one.
(13) I think the bid’s sponsors [companies including Npower, Morrisons and Jaguar Land Rover] are entitled to say to the FA: ‘You have a duty to recover the money we’ve spent.’” Previously a leading sports and media lawyer and senior FA official, Johnson is now chief executive of the Jewish Leadership Council but he retains an acute interest in the next step taken by his former employers.
(14) The England manager, Roy Hodgson, last week questioned the Football Association’s decision to host NFL games at Wembley so close to national team matches – the Three Lions host Slovenia in a Euro 2016 qualifier on Saturday six days after the Dallas Cowboys played the Jacksonville Jaguars .
(15) Tony Woodley, joint general secretary of Unite the union, said that if Jaguar Land Rover had to be sold then Tata was the best option.
(16) A Ford spokesman said there were no plans to sell off other UK subsidiaries such as Jaguar and Land Rover, but said: "We continue to review all our businesses."
(17) 49ers 28-3 Jaguars, 6:38 remaining in 3rd quarter Well that’s just crushing for Jacksonville, who began the second half as they had finished the first, putting together a strong drive to take the ball from their own 16 all the way to the San Francisco six, only to run out of steam at the end.
(18) However, the same clearly isn't true of Jaguar's marketing department.
(19) I first meet him as the 43-year-old sits in his Inspector Morse-style Jaguar outside Radio 2.
(20) We studied the IgE and IgG4 response of 11 cat-allergic patients against Fel d I-like structures in eight members of the Felidae family: ocelot, puma, serval, siberian tiger, lion, jaguar, snow leopard, and caracal.
Leopard
Definition:
(n.) A large, savage, carnivorous mammal (Felis leopardus). It is of a yellow or fawn color, with rings or roselike clusters of black spots along the back and sides. It is found in Southern Asia and Africa. By some the panther (Felis pardus) is regarded as a variety of leopard.
Example Sentences:
(1) Ultrastructural study of the Leydig cells of nonbreeding crabeater, leopard and Ross seals showed that three types of cells could be distinguished.
(2) The group comprised 29 pumas (Felis concolor), 32 lions (Panthera leo), 27 tigers (P tigris), 19 leopards (P pardus), 18 jaguars (P onca) and 22 cheetahs (Acinonyx jubatus).
(3) That has changed over the past few years as wallpaper has made a comeback and women have remembered that they like wearing madly patterned dresses – particularly leopard-print ones, or ones with huge flowers.
(4) Kidneys were studied from 1,111 leopard frogs (Rana pipiens) after exposures to a 12-hour light-12-hour dark environment.
(5) In the Mahale Mountains National Park of Tanzania, a group of about 33 chimpanzees were observed to surround a leopard den containing a mother and at least one cub and to drag out and kill the cub.
(6) We have conducted anatomical and physiological experiments to investigate the functional organization of the dorsal thalamus in the northern leopard frog (Rana pipiens pipiens).
(7) Embryos of the leopard frog deprived of primordial germ cells by treatment with ultraviolet light were joined in parabiosis with normal, unirradiated embryos.
(8) Nick Clegg, 24 October 2010 Chopin's Waltz in A Minor played by Idil Biret Sunday Morning Coming Down by Johnny Cash The Cross by Prince Petit Pays by Cesária Évora Street Spirit by Radiohead Life on Mars by David Bowie Waka Waka 2010 World Cup theme, by Shakira Schubert's Impromptu No.3 in G Flat Major played by Alfred Brendel Book The Leopard, by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa Luxury A stash of cigarettes David Cameron, 28 May 2006 Tangled Up In Blue by Bob Dylan Ernie by Benny Hill Wish You Were Here by Pink Floyd Mendelssohn's On Wings of Song performed by Kiri Te Kanawa and Utah Symphony Orchestra Fake Plastic Trees by Radiohead This Charming Man by The Smiths Perfect Circle by R.E.M.
(9) He says they talk about "the love, life and losses of [Real Housewives Of Atlanta star] NeNe Leakes," and that they're "designing the merchandise for the next season of [equally tacky reality show] Bad Girls Club: Evian bottles replaced with leopard print covers to conceal the brand on TV.
(10) Integrated taste recordings of the glossopharyngeal (IX) nerve innervating the tongue of the southern leopard frog were studied in response to various amino acids and quinine hydrochloride.
(11) A new pattern index, Ip, is introduced and used to compare patterns of wild type, burnsi, and kandiyohi chromatophores in the leopard frog, Rana pipiens.
(12) Armillifer armillatus, Linguatula serrata and L. nuttalli have each been isolated from nine different mammalian species in the Kruger National Park: lion, Panthera Leo; Leopard, P. pardus; buffalo, Syncerus caffer: blue wildebeest, Connechaetes taurinus; giraffe, Girraffa camelopardalis; kudu, Tragelophus strepsiceros; waterbuck, Kobus ellipsyprymnus; tsessebe, Damaliscus iunatus and impala, Aepyceros melampus.
(13) This review focuses on the cellular events associated with the neuromuscular adaptation in the jaw complex during metamorphosis of the leopard frog, Rana pipiens.
(14) The inner ear of the leopard frog, Rana pipiens, receives sound via two separate pathways: the tympanic-columellar pathway and an extra-tympanic route.
(15) The integrin alpha 6 beta 4: (a) was organized in typical patches which often showed a "leopard skin" pattern where spots corresponded to microfilament-free areas; (b) was not associated with focal contacts containing vinculin and talin but rather corresponded to relatively removed contact areas of the basal membrane as shown by interference reflection microscopy; and (c) was coherent to patches of laminin secreted and deposited underneath the ventral membrane of individual cells.
(16) Inseminations using heterologous (domestic cat) spermatozoa also resulted in fertilized oocytes in the tiger, leopard, snow leopard, puma, serval, and Geoffroy's cat (range in fertilization rate, 5.0% for leopard to 46.2% for puma).
(17) In a litter of three snow leopards, bilateral colobomata of the upper temporal eyelids, bilateral persistent pupillary membranes and a unilateral coloboma of the optic nerve entrance are described as "Multiple Ocular Colobomata" (MOC).
(18) We studied the IgE and IgG4 response of 11 cat-allergic patients against Fel d I-like structures in eight members of the Felidae family: ocelot, puma, serval, siberian tiger, lion, jaguar, snow leopard, and caracal.
(19) In seven of eight rats operated on according to the technique of Leopard, the same results were observed.
(20) Basal concentrations of serum LH, FSH and cortisol were comparable (P greater than 0.05) between male and female leopards.