(n.) A bed or stretcher so arranged that a person, esp. a sick or wounded person, may be easily carried in or upon it.
(n.) Straw, hay, etc., scattered on a floor, as bedding for animals to rest on; also, a covering of straw for plants.
(n.) Things lying scattered about in a manner indicating slovenliness; scattered rubbish.
(n.) Disorder or untidiness resulting from scattered rubbish, or from thongs lying about uncared for; as, a room in a state of litter.
(n.) The young brought forth at one time, by a sow or other multiparous animal, taken collectively. Also Fig.
(v. t.) To supply with litter, as cattle; to cover with litter, as the floor of a stall.
(v. t.) To put into a confused or disordered condition; to strew with scattered articles; as, to litter a room.
(v. t.) To give birth to; to bear; -- said of brutes, esp. those which produce more than one at a birth, and also of human beings, in abhorrence or contempt.
(v. i.) To be supplied with litter as bedding; to sleep or make one's bed in litter.
(v. i.) To produce a litter.
Example Sentences:
(1) In X-irradiated litters, almost invariably, the incidence of anophthalmia was higher in exencephalic than in nonexencephalic embryos and the ratio of these incidences (relative risk) decreased toward 1 with increasing dose.
(2) Milk yield and litter weights were similar but backfat thickness (BF) was greater in 22 C sows (P less than .05) compared to 30 C sows.
(3) A considerably greater increase in the peak plasma OT concentration resulted when hungry foster litters of 6 pups were suckled after the mothers' own 6 pups had been suckled.
(4) The litter size of vaccinated gilts was larger than that of the control gilts.
(5) Gilts that had already reached sexual maturity at the time of insemination showed a higher rate of oestrus and better litter size than immature animals.
(6) A reduction in tibial breaking strength was also found in caged hens, when compared to deep-litter hens.
(7) Piglets from litters with post-weaning diarrhoea had reduced weight gains after weaning and were 2.3 days older at 25 kg bodyweight than piglets from non-diarrhoeic litters.
(8) Serum somatomedin A was significantly reduced in the growth-retarded rats as compared to those whose growth was enhanced by rearing in small litters.
(9) Shell casings littered the main road, tear gas hung in the air and security forces beat local residents.
(10) The number of embryos within the range of each SD unit was expressed as a percentage of each litter.
(11) Progressive paraparesis developed in four male English Springer Spaniel pups from a litter of five during the first 10 weeks of life.
(12) In comparison with untreated controls from the same litters, there was a 4-7-fold enhancement of lung-thorax compliance in all groups of surfactant-treated animals during a 3-h period of artificial ventilation.
(13) Chlamydia psittaci was believed responsible for an episode of high perinatal death loss in a swine herd in which 8.5 pigs per litter normally were weaned.
(14) The streets of Jiegu are now littered with concrete remnants of modern structures and the flattened mud and painted wood of traditional Tibetan buildings.
(15) Hens of the same breed and age reared together on deep litter showed no differences in nest site selection and nesting behaviour regardless of whether they had previously been housed in a deep litter house or in cages.
(16) Landrace sows lost less weight during lactation (P less than .05) when fed diet F than when fed diet N. The total number of pigs born, born alive, and alive at 21 d and at weaning were higher (P less than .01) for S-line Duroc sows, and litter size at 21 d and at weaning was higher (P less than .01) for S-line Landrace sows than for C-line litters within each breed.
(17) A severe state of protein-energy malnutrition was induced by litter expansion which caused the mean total body weight of experimentally malnourished rats to diminish significantly as compared to control animals.
(18) Rat pups from 12 litters were handled daily, once every three days, or never touched between postnatal Days 5 and 20.
(19) History is littered with examples of byelection sensations that soon turned to dust.
(20) An experiment was conducted to test effects of prenatal and postnatal fraternity size (size of litter in which an individual develops prenatally or is reared postnatally) on ovarian development in mice.
Mount
Definition:
(v.) A mass of earth, or earth and rock, rising considerably above the common surface of the surrounding land; a mountain; a high hill; -- used always instead of mountain, when put before a proper name; as, Mount Washington; otherwise, chiefly in poetry.
(v.) A bulwark for offense or defense; a mound.
(v.) A bank; a fund.
(n.) To rise on high; to go up; to be upraised or uplifted; to tower aloft; to ascend; -- often with up.
(n.) To get up on anything, as a platform or scaffold; especially, to seat one's self on a horse for riding.
(n.) To attain in value; to amount.
(v. t.) To get upon; to ascend; to climb.
(v. t.) To place one's self on, as a horse or other animal, or anything that one sits upon; to bestride.
(v. t.) To cause to mount; to put on horseback; to furnish with animals for riding; to furnish with horses.
(v. t.) Hence: To put upon anything that sustains and fits for use, as a gun on a carriage, a map or picture on cloth or paper; to prepare for being worn or otherwise used, as a diamond by setting, or a sword blade by adding the hilt, scabbard, etc.
(v. t.) To raise aloft; to lift on high.
(v.) That upon which a person or thing is mounted
(v.) A horse.
(v.) The cardboard or cloth on which a drawing, photograph, or the like is mounted; a mounting.
Example Sentences:
(1) Until his return to Brazil in 1985, Niemeyer worked in Israel, France and north Africa, designing among other buildings the University of Haifa on Mount Carmel; the campus of Constantine University in Algeria (now known as Mentouri University); the offices of the French Communist party and their newspaper l'Humanité in Paris; and the ministry of external relations and the cathedral in Brasilia.
(2) The first method used an accelerometer mounted between the teeth of one of the authors (PR) to record skeletal shock.
(3) Heart rates were obtained simultaneously from FM radio transmitters and heart rate monitors externally mounted on unanesthetized and unrestrained mixed-breed goats.
(4) Silvio Berlusconi's government is battling to stay in the eurozone against mounting odds – not least the country's mountain of state debt, which is the largest in the single currency area.
(5) Perfused or immersion-fixed epithalamic tissues, sectioned, and mounted on glass slides were processed through the avidin-biotin immunofluorescence method.
(6) "You have three million people coming in from all over the world who could potentially carry a novel pathogen home with them," says Mounts.
(7) said Wanis Kilani, a uniformed rebel driving a pickup truck with a machine-gun mounted on the back.
(8) H-2b mice primed with the wildtype of vesicular stomatitis virus serotype Indiana (VSV-IND wt) mount an in vitro measurable cytotoxic response against the nucleoprotein (NP) of VSV-IND and are protected against a challenge infection with a vaccinia-VSV recombinant virus expressing the NP of VSV-IND (vacc-IND-NP).
(9) On dissected mucosa stained by the PAS-alcian blue whole-mount method the density and distribution of goblet cells in various parts of the middle ear was determined in 13 children, ranging in age from 9 days to 14 years.
(10) Luciferase activity was monitored quantitatively, and the protein was immunolocalized in whole-mount embryonic brains.
(11) They had mounted a vigorous lobbying campaign, both in public and behind the scenes, since the legislation first came to light this month .
(12) The problem for Labour is that, to mount an effective challenge to the ascendant Conservative party, they must first come to some agreement about why they are losing.
(13) Corneas of bullfrog (Rana catesbeiana) were mounted between lucite chambers.
(14) The announcement comes amid mounting frustration in the international community over Israel’s continued settlement activity, regarded by many countries as illegal.
(15) He was accused of disrespecting the FA Cup with such a weakened team but he mounted a strong defence, referencing the club’s seven injuries that have left him with only 13 fit senior outfield players.
(16) The surface mount electronic internal controller provides motor commutator, energy management, telemetry, and physiologic control functions.
(17) The preparation was mounted in an organ bath and superfused with Tyrode solution containing hemicholinium-3 and eserine.
(18) Neovascular responses were evaluated by daily slit-lamp observations and terminal whole-mount and histologic examinations of colloidal carbon-perfused vessels.
(19) The scheme is available to those who have one or more of the following technologies: solar PV panels (roof-mounted or stand alone), wind turbines (building mounted or free standing), hydroelectricity, anaerobic digestion (generating electricity from food waste), and micro combined heat and power (through the use of new types of boilers , for example).
(20) Eighty-eight percent of subjects receiving CVD 103-HgR mounted a significant (greater than fourfold) rise in Inaba vibriocidal titre while 68% did so for the heterologous Ogawa serotype.