(v. t. & i.) To bring forth young, as a cat; to bring forth, as kittens.
Example Sentences:
(1) Mild clinical signs of diarrhoea were noted in kittens infected experimentally with one of the feline reovirus type 2 isolates.
(2) Eight kittens born of two Brugia pahangi infected cats have been studied for transplacental passed microfilariae.
(3) Anesthetized, intubated kittens were subjected to one of two procedures: (1) insertion of a suction catheter to a predetermined distance and withdrawal with or without the application of suction or (2) insertion of the catheter until resistance was met and withdrawal with or without the application of suction.
(4) The development of visual acuity was studied longitudinally in young kittens, using a modification of the forced-choice preferential looking method (FPL) devised by Teller et al.
(5) In 7- to 10-day-old kittens thresholds are high (around 100 dB), and secure phase locking is observed only at frequencies below about 600 Hz.
(6) The cellular responses of 8 kittens (4 inoculated orally with mouse brains containing Toxoplasma gondii cysts and 4 uninfected controls) were studied.
(7) In these kittens, 26-40% of the striate cortex cells could be driven by the deprived eye.
(8) The paper describes the clinical and morphological features of a congenital neurological disease affecting two in-bred litter-mate kittens.
(9) The postnatal increase in size appeared to vary among neurons, yielding a wider neuronal size spectrum in the adult cat than that observed in kittens.
(10) Three groups of kittens were adapted to purified diets containing 43.5% soy protein that were either taurine-free (OT) or contained 0.15% taurine (NT) or 1.0% taurine (HT).
(11) Monocular and binocular depth thresholds were measured for all kittens when they were between three and five months old.
(12) Previous research by Bem has indicated that androgynous individuals of both sexes display "masculine" independence when under pressure to conform as well as "feminine" nurturance when interacting with a kitten.
(13) Stable intracellular recordings were obtained from 46 neurons in 20 kittens ranging in age from fetal day (F) 51 to postnatal day (P) 120.
(14) Y axons in the kitten had only small arborizations within lamina A (less than fifty terminal boutons per axon) but heavily innervated lamina C. The structure of the terminal boutons on the kitten r.g.c.
(15) The initially unoperated kitten had its callosum sectioned at five months and was retested following surgery.
(16) Using an antibody prepared against taurine conjugated to bovine serum albumin with glutaraldehyde, the distribution of taurine in cerebellum of newborn and 8-week-old kittens from mothers fed 0, 0.02, 0.05, or 1% dietary taurine has been determined.
(17) It has been established that interhemispheric relations in the kitten associative cortex are mediated, not only by the callosal, but also by the extracallosal system, which was evidenced by the presence of late negative components preserved after callosotomy.
(18) The two formaldehyde-inactivated vaccines were found to be safe for use in kittens.
(19) One year after treatment, the kitten remained free of clinical signs of the disease or complications from the repair.
(20) With the aim of obtaining some basic information for future developmental studies, the lateral cervical nucleus (LCN) was investigated in 32 kittens of different ages by electron microscopic and stereologic methods.
President
Definition:
(n.) Precedent.
(a.) Occupying the first rank or chief place; having the highest authority; presiding.
(n.) One who is elected or appointed to preside; a presiding officer, as of a legislative body.
(n.) The chief officer of a corporation, company, institution, society, or the like.
(n.) The chief executive officer of the government in certain republics; as, the president of the United States.
(n.) A protector; a guardian; a presiding genius.
Example Sentences:
(1) In early 2000, during the first months of Vladimir Putin’s presidency, Babitsky was kidnapped by Russian forces and disappeared for many weeks.
(2) All former US presidents set up a library in their name to house their papers and honour their legacy.
(3) In platform shoes to emulate Johnson's height, and with the aid of prosthetic earlobes, Cranston becomes the 36th president: he bullies and cajoles, flatters and snarls and barks, tells dirty jokes or glows with idealism as required, and delivers the famous "Johnson treatment" to everyone from Martin Luther King to the racist Alabama governor George Wallace.
(4) He was very touched that President Nicolas Sarkozy came out to the airport to meet us, even after Madiba retired.
(5) In fact, you might read it as a signal … that the president might well lose on this,” she said.
(6) To become president of Afghanistan , Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai changed his wardrobe and modified his name, gave up coffee, embraced a man he once denounced as a “known killer” and even toyed with anger management classes to tame a notorious temper.
(7) They have actively intervened with governments, and particularly so in Africa.” José Luis Castro, president and chief executive officer of Vital Strategies, an organisation that promotes public health in developing countries, said: “The danger of tobacco is not an old story; it is the present.
(8) Both former presidents Bush have said they will sit out the 2016 campaign, as has former presidential candidate Jeb Bush.
(9) Cas reduced it further to four, but the decision effectively ends Platini’s career as a football administrator because – as he pointedly noted – it rules him out of standing for the Fifa presidency in 2019.
(10) Herman Van Rompuy, the European Council president chairing the summit, hoped to finesse an overall agreement on the banking supervisor.
(11) "For a better world, not only for the Iranian people but for the next generation across the globe, I earnestly hope that President Rouhani will receive a warm welcome and meaningful responses during his visit to the UN."
(12) Western diplomats acknowledge that the capture of Qusair is likely to have emboldened President Bashar al-Assad , making him less likely to consider concessions – let alone stepping down.
(13) Companies had made investments in certain energy sources, the president said, so change could be “uncomfortable and difficult”.
(14) I am rooting hard for you.” Ronald Reagan simply told his former vice-president Bush: “Don’t let the turkeys get you down.” By 10.30am Michelle Obama and Melania Trump will join the outgoing and incoming presidents in a presidential limousine to drive to the Capitol.
(15) One might expect that a similar news spike and rebounding of support for stricter gun control can happen, given President Obama's new push.
(16) To safeguard its long-time regional ally, Iran gave full political, economic and military backing to the embattled Syrian president.
(17) The lies Trump told this week: from murder rates to climate change Read more “President Obama has commuted the sentences of record numbers of high-level drug traffickers.
(18) But to treat a mistake as an automatic disqualification for advancement – even as heinous a mistake as presiding over a botched operation that resulted in the killing of an innocent man – could be depriving organisations, and the country, of leaders who have been tested and will not make the same mistake again.
(19) It certainly isn’t a good time for the association but we as a team are insisting on this being cleared up transparently and Wolfgang Niersbach, as president, is part of that.
(20) Bob Farnsworth, president of Nashville, Tennessee-based Hummingbird Productions, told trade publication Variety that the film was set for release in 2015 and would star Karolyn Grimes, who played George Bailey's daughter in the original film.