(n.) A large carnivorous feline mammal (Felis leo), found in Southern Asia and in most parts of Africa, distinct varieties occurring in the different countries. The adult male, in most varieties, has a thick mane of long shaggy hair that adds to his apparent size, which is less than that of the largest tigers. The length, however, is sometimes eleven feet to the base of the tail. The color is a tawny yellow or yellowish brown; the mane is darker, and the terminal tuft of the tail is black. In one variety, called the maneless lion, the male has only a slight mane.
(n.) A sign and a constellation; Leo.
(n.) An object of interest and curiosity, especially a person who is so regarded; as, he was quite a lion in London at that time.
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) Two similar calici agents, San Miguel sea lion virus (SMSV) and vesicular exanthema of swine virus (VESV) are susceptible to the virucidal activity of disinfectants of differing formulation.
(3) Gassman and Hoffman were both given Golden Lions for life achievement.
(4) Lion cubs fathered by Cecil, the celebrated lion shot dead in Zimbabwe , may already have been killed by a rival male lion and even if they were still alive there was nothing conservationists could do to protect them, a conservation charity has warned.
(5) Lynn Kramer, the zoo's vice-president of animal operations and welfare, said five lions were typically in the exhibit and have never appeared to endanger each other before.
(6) Two “Belgian journalists” had been in the Panjshir valley of northern Afghanistan for weeks, supposedly waiting to interview Ahmad Shah Massoud, the so-called Lion of the Panjshir, leader of the anti-Taliban Northern Alliance, an al-Qaida adversary.
(7) RNA labeled with [3H]uridine from Vero cells infected with San Miguel sea lion virus in the presence of actinomycin D was analyzed by glycerol density gradient sedimentation and polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis.
(8) 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).
(9) For 20 years the great British inequality machine has hurtled on, driven largely by the burgeoning incomes of this top 0.1% – almost all of whom are directors, bankers or work in business services and real estate – who captured the lion’s share of any gains in real productivity.
(10) Kolo Touré: the lion-hearted loveable leader who is a triumph for tenacity | Paul Doyle Read more West Ham, who also saw a £31m bid for Lyon striker Alexandre Lacazette rejected this week, are now expected to return with an improved offer for both players.
(11) Acute viral hepatitis was diagnosed in five California sea lions (Zalophus californianus) stranded along the Los Angeles coast.
(12) Check your ego “I went through a big learning curve with Wales and then the British and Irish Lions in 2001,” Henry says.
(13) "I used to hate lions," he adds, "but now, because my invention is saving my father's cows and the lions, we are able to stay with the lions without any conflict."
(14) Bahrain, meanwhile, is picking up the lion’s share of the bill for the construction of a Royal Navy base, the Mina Salman support facility, which will include warehouses, a 300-metre jetty, accommodation, sports pitch and helipad.
(15) The animated advert cost £1m to make and features a hare and a bear created by some of the artists behind Disney's Lion King.
(16) In neighbouring Honduras , a group of farmers who were tired of seeing the lion's share of their produce go to middlemen decided three years ago to work with buyers in the country's largest city, San Pedro Sula, selling directly to supermarkets and fast-food chains, to offer a steady supply of lettuce, tomatoes, broccoli and other vegetables.
(17) In Cecil the lion fallout, hunters defend Walter Palmer and fear big game bans Read more The move comes after an American dentist killed a well-known lion named Cecil in Zimbabwe last month in an allegedly illegal hunt, setting off a worldwide uproar.
(18) Announcing the completion of a £600m tie-up with Premier Oil , Rockhopper said it was on track to pump oil from its Sea Lion field by the third quarter of 2017 and was working with its bigger partner to develop other prospects in the Falklands area.
(19) Antibodies were found to San Miguel sea lion virus (SMSV) types 1, 5, 6, 7, 8, 10 and 13, and to Tillamook (bovine) calicivirus, but no antibodies were found to the walrus calicivirus.
(20) Eleven other lions, nine of which were initially underdosed, required additional injections of the drug combination for safe handling.
Unicorn
Definition:
(n.) A fabulous animal with one horn; the monoceros; -- often represented in heraldry as a supporter.
(n.) A two-horned animal of some unknown kind, so called in the Authorized Version of the Scriptures.
(n.) Any large beetle having a hornlike prominence on the head or prothorax.
(n.) The larva of a unicorn moth.
(n.) The kamichi; -- called also unicorn bird.
(n.) A howitzer.
Example Sentences:
(1) And none of them are making money, they are all buying revenue with huge war chests.” Patrick reckoned the 2.0 tech bubble will come to be defined by the unicorn.
(2) Bob Cannell, member of Suma Wholefoods workers co-operative "Suma had its best ever business results in 2013 and there have been similar results for other worker co-ops such as Unicorn Grocery in Manchester.
(3) Unicorn uterus, Fallopian tube and finbriae were observed, and a thumb-sized gonad with hemorrhage and fissure was also seen in the upper part of the scrotum.
(4) It is the England that then prime minister John Major vowed would never vanish in a famous 1993 speech: “Long shadows on county grounds, warm beer, invincible green suburbs, dog lovers and pools fillers and – as George Orwell said – ‘old maids bicycling to holy communion through the morning mist’.” Major was mining Orwell’s wartime essay The Lion and the Unicorn, whose tone was one of reassurance – the national culture will survive, despite everything: “The gentleness, the hypocrisy, the thoughtlessness, the reverence for law and the hatred of uniforms will remain, along with the suet puddings and the misty skies.” Orwell and Major were both asserting the strength of a national culture at times when Britishness – for both men basically Englishness – was felt to be under threat from outside dangers (war, integration into Europe).
(5) Ars Technica, which first reported Ramos’s comments , quotes iPhone forensics expert Jonathan Zdziarski as saying that the DA is warning that a “magical unicorn might exist on this phone”.
(6) And the export boom, the historic surge in business investment and all those other unicorns promised by the Office for Budget Responsibility are still stubbornly elusive.
(7) So – paywalls are not a mirage; nor are they a unicorn.
(8) I first discovered it after misgoogling Lady Gaga and finding a rather spectacular oil portrait of the singer eating a bloodied unicorn in the savannah.
(9) Scott Morrison says Labor 'selling a unicorn' with negative gearing savings Read more “I can sell them a fantasy or whatever you want to call it, pixie horses, whatever your preferred analogy is, but I’m not going to spin the public a line that there is some simple answer to getting expenditure down,” Morrison told 3AW on Friday.
(10) Whatever they’ve been talking about in public – tax cuts, steel workers’ jobs, unicorns, pixie horses , negative gearing, etc – behind the scenes politicians from all parties have been utterly preoccupied for months with this proposed change.
(11) A few minutes' walk from Unicorn Gate is the historic dockyard , resting place of HMS Victory, the Mary Rose, HMS Warrior , the world's first iron-hulled, steam-powered warship.
(12) His recent discoveries include The Fabulus Of Unicorns , a troop of apparently polyamorous performers in horned headdresses, who are also one of the acts appearing at Guilty Pleasures’ newest venture, The Mighty Hoop-La , a festivalesque weekender that’s bringing some dazzle and dancing to Bognor Regis at the end of February.
(13) Lateral thinking was needed to decipher old signs: Adam and Eve meant a fruiterer; a bugle’s horn, a post office; a unicorn, an apothecary’s; a spotted cat, a perfumer’s (since civet, a fashionable musky perfume, was scraped from the anal glands of African civet cats).
(14) Some internet archaeology had unearthed a few yellowing tweets from 2012 that showed him poking fun at stereotypical Jewish financial acumen (in his defence, his mother has Jewish parentage), at white women’s slight bottoms (“A hot white woman with ass is like a unicorn.
(15) As startup founders and their investors hope to turn their paper unicorn fortunes into cold hard cash, some of Silicon Valley’s most successful investors are warning a reckoning is coming.
(16) From the hands thrown to cheeks at Rupert Murdoch's announcement that he's looking to put paywalls up around his newspaper properties online, you might think that they're the unicorns of the online world, spoken of but never glimpsed.
(17) The quicker we get this out of the way and get back to dreaming about sipping Japanese whiskey on Jamaican beaches while watching unicorns wash themselves in the waves and hippopotamuses perform tricks involving hoops of fire the better, eh?
(18) One big problem for the unicorns is that there are simply too many of them.
(19) It’s not just Square – a lot of these unicorn funding rounds have been massively overpaid.
(20) I’m delighted to continue to work with the Unicorn team in the next thrilling stage of the theatre’s evolution.” Updated at 12.02pm BST 11.31am BST Two well-loved puppet theatres have lost their funding.