(n.) The supreme deity, king of gods and men, and reputed to be the son of Saturn and Rhea; Jove. He corresponds to the Greek Zeus.
(n.) One of the planets, being the brightest except Venus, and the largest of them all, its mean diameter being about 85,000 miles. It revolves about the sun in 4,332.6 days, at a mean distance of 5.2028 from the sun, the earth's mean distance being taken as unity.
Example Sentences:
(1) Runner-up: RISC edible roof garden and alternative kitchen garden Jupiter Big Idea Winner: Naturepaint Naturepaint is a totally natural paint product that comes in a powder form.
(2) "They will drift apart after a couple of days but Jupiter will be visible for at least another two weeks."
(3) After the Trump campaign and Trump supporters repeatedly insisted Fields was lying, she filed a report with local police in Jupiter, Florida.
(4) Mail shots • The Royal Mail handles 75,000,000 items of post every day • Collects from 113,000 different points • Delivers to 28,000,000 addresses • Has 33,000 vehicles using 135,000,000 litres of diesel a year • Has an annual road mileage equivalent to a return trip to Jupiter • Has 12,000 retail outlets • Has annual carbon dioxide emissions of just under 1m tonnes a year, about 0.15% of all UK emissions • Has an annual electricity consumption that would power 112,000 homes • Produces annual landfill waste equivalent to over 2,200 buses • Has an annual water consumption equivalent to 28 litres for every person in the UK
(5) The last thing anyone wants to see is a conga line of pot-bellied fortysomethings drinking Red Stripe on Jupiter.
(6) The past few months alone have seen the box office failure of Disney’s Tomorrowland and the Wachowskis’ Jupiter Ascending, despite the presence of A-listers such as George Clooney, Channing Tatum and Mila Kunis on the cast lists.
(7) If they were, it might make sense to go on to an asteroid or one of the moons of Jupiter, but they're not.
(8) Consideration is given of the mechanism for the formation of some of the products and implications regarding planetary atmosphere chemistry, particularly that of Jupiter, are explored.
(9) There could be life in the ice-covered oceans of Jupiter's moon Europa.
(10) In ancient myth, Jupiter took the form of a swan to seduce Leda.
(11) Nights are a chillier story with frost likely by midweek, and clear skies in which the apparent cosying-up of Jupiter and Venus is currently a striking sight.
(12) After inoculation of roots, followed by constant conditions of incubation of the Meteor and Jupiter cultivars having their origin at the Plant-breeding Station at Luzany u Prestic, the isolates caused various symptoms of disease, each isolate showed a different degree of pathogenity.
(13) They have sent back images of Saturn's rings, Jupiter's red spot and sulphur volcanoes on its moons Europa and Io, and of "winter" on Uranus.
(14) Ian Fogg, senior analyst at Jupiter Research, said that as well as mobile communications, Apple is pushing forward in areas such as home entertainment.
(15) They could be iron-rich like Mercury, or mostly silicate rocks, or extremely icy, like the moons of Jupiter,” said Gillon.
(16) Here's the full piece: Just say no to drug giants - AstraZeneca did the right thing 11.09am BST Here's the full quotes from disgruntled Jupiter fund manager, Alastair Gunn : "We are disappointed the board of AstraZeneca has rejected Pfizer’s latest offer so categorically.
(17) "I'd really love to put a lander on the surface of Europa, the moon of Jupiter, that we feel is a place in the solar system most likely to have life.
(18) On Tuesday, police in Jupiter, Florida, charged the aide with simple battery after Lewandowski was accused by a reporter for a pro-Trump rightwing website of forcefully grabbing her at a rally.
(19) Robert Peston (@Peston) More than a quarter of all Royal Mail shares flogged by the government have been traded this morning October 11, 2013 11.52am BST The Financial Times reports that Jupiter Fund Management has purchased a sizeable amount of Royal Mail’s shares through the IPO.
(20) "I think trimming off a million filesharers from the total number in the UK would be a great measure of success for this letter campaign, but even that would be an unprecedented success in tackling global file sharing," said Mark Mulligan, a vice-president at analysts Jupiter Research.
Lizard
Definition:
(n.) Any one of the numerous species of reptiles belonging to the order Lacertilia; sometimes, also applied to reptiles of other orders, as the Hatteria.
(n.) A piece of rope with thimble or block spliced into one or both of the ends.
(n.) A piece of timber with a forked end, used in dragging a heavy stone, a log, or the like, from a field.
Example Sentences:
(1) Adults and immatures of Ixodes pacificus Cooley & Kohls were collected by flagging vegetation and from lizards during a 3-mo period in the Hualapai Mountain Park, Mohave County, AZ, in 1991.
(2) These lizards were introduced into Bermuda from Jamaica in 1905.
(3) The pineal of certain lizards possesses a finger-like projection that extends toward the parietal eye.
(4) Pathogenic Mycobacterium ulcerans were recovered from the stool of anole lizards up to 11 days after inoculation by stomach tube.
(5) Similarity and difference of the nuclei investigated in the turtles with the thalamic anterior nuclei in lizards, with the anterior and intralaminar nuclei in Mammalia are discussed.
(6) For example, most large extant lizards are herbivorous.
(7) The evolution of epidermal glands in gekkonid lizards is reviewed; the cellular dynamics of beta-glands are compared with those of unspecialized epidermis; the possibility that gekkonine epidermal glands respond to quantitative variation in circulating testosterone titers is discussed.
(8) The vitellogenic response was assessed by measuring the distribution of the 32P radioactivity between the acidoprecipitable plasma fraction and the plasma vitellogenin recognized by the lizard antivitellogenin serum.
(9) THe distribution of delta 5-3beta-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase, 17beta-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase, 11beta-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase, glucose-6phosphate dehydrogenase, isocitrate dehydrogenase, lactate dehydrogenase and reduced nicotinamide-adenine dinucleotide diaphorase enzyme activities was studied in ovaries of the 3 species of lizards.
(10) A correlation was found between published resting and active VO2 of lizards, and between VO2 and lifestyle.
(11) The taxonomically close relationship between lizards and snakes, which together constitute the Squamata, is reflected in a similar distribution of DA fibers and varicosities to the dorsal ventricular ridge and the lateral cortex, and in the limited number of CSF-contacting DA neurons in the hypothalamus.
(12) Other than snake venoms, only venoms of the toad Bufo calamita and the lizards were hemorrhagic, and only venoms of the social wasps, social bees and harvester ant exhibited strong anticoagulant activity.
(13) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Coral bleaching on the Great Barrier Reef worse than for decades The photos were taken from around Lizard Island by Lyle Vale from Coral Watch at the University of Queensland .
(14) Histochemical demonstration of beta-glucuronidase was carried out in the normal and regenerating tail of the house lizard, Hemidactylus flaviviridis.
(15) Intracellular records with glass microelectrodes filled with horseradish peroxidase (HRP) were taken from primary afferents of the horizontal semicircular canal in the lizard, Calotes versicolor.
(16) Neutral and traces of acidic mucins were detected in the secretory cells of lizards.
(17) Parachlorophenylalanine (p-CPA) was used for chemical pinealectomy in a study of tail regeneration in the gekkonid lizard, Hemidactylus flaviviridis.
(18) This proposal was tested with three species of malarial parasites of lizards, Plasmodium mexicanum of the western fence lizard, and P. agamae and P. giganteum of the African rainbow lizard, using single samples from naturally infected lizards, repeated samples from free-ranging lizards (P. mexicanum only), and repeated samples from laboratory maintained animals.
(19) After 3H testosterone injection into castrated males of the Lizard Lacerta vivipara, the radioactive compound is detected by radioautography of epididymis, femoral glands, gut and liver.
(20) Furthermore, when the isolated pineal of Dipsosaurus was studied in organ culture, it showed no circadian rhythm of melatonin secretion, as do pineals of some other lizard species, although it did produce large quantities of this hormone.