(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.
Sedan
Definition:
(n.) A portable chair or covered vehicle for carrying a single person, -- usually borne on poles by two men. Called also sedan chair.
Example Sentences:
(1) Car sales are expected to drop across the industry this year: Fiat Chrysler has canceled all of its compact and midsize sedans and American automakers are bracing for a leaner 2017 after setting records in 2016.
(2) I'd rather have a sedan chair carried by four greased Egyptians.
(3) Having changed out of the white tracksuit he was wearing when he left Scotland into a dark suit and burgundy tie, Megrahi left the plane with the Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi's son Saif, who raised his hand to the crowd before they sped off in a convoy of white sedans.
(4) Photograph: wepods Several trials of autonomous vehicles are under way in the automotive and technology industries, from Tesla’s Model S sedan, which can change lanes with minimal driver input , to plans by Google and Daimler to introduce driverless vehicles.
(5) Aston Martin is planning to raise up to £150m from investors to move into new models such as crossover SUVs, luxury sedans and electric cars.
(6) The Palo Alto, California-based company currently makes one vehicle – the $70,000 Model S sedan – and is developing two others.
(7) Herbert Diess, chairman of the VW brand’s management board, and Heinz-Jakob Neusser, VW’s board member in charge of technical development, had planned to attend the event to introduce the latest version of the Passat mid-size sedan.
(8) Crossover SUVs – a cross between a family car and a sports car – sedans and hybrid models all feature in its plans.
(9) The driver of the sedan called 911 and California highway patrol officers responded.
(10) Oliver also suggests that Sedan have been led out at two recent Coupe de France finals by boars, while "FC Cologne has always employed a (real) goat as a mascot, I kid you not," chuckles Robert Sleigh.
(11) However, the gates were knocked down during the fighting for the capital and touring it in family sedans has now become the city's best day out.
(12) The electric tech mogul held a press conference on Friday to tell reporters how fast his old car goes with its new upgrade: zero to 60 miles per hour in 2.8 seconds, which would put the four-door sedan in a league with high-end sports cars like the most recent Lamborghini Murciélago.
(13) People with Model S sedans that were made earlier do not have the required sensors and would not be able to add them retroactively.
(14) The Model X was originally unveiled in 2012 alongside the first deliveries of the Model S sedan and was expected to go into production in 2013.
(15) UberX is a ride-sharing system, UberBlack provides sedans and UberLux is the company’s high-end offering.
(16) When BYD Auto launches one of China's first mass produced fully electric sedans later this year, it will be trying to conquer the world rather than save it.
(17) After I rebuked him for his impertinence in waiting in the wrong place, thereby delaying me for at least 12 seconds, he lead me out to his highly polished black Cadillac sedan.
(18) Ships teeming with rear spoilers for family sedans being turned away from the nation’s harbors.
(19) A couple emerge from a silver Sedan into an empty parking lot in north-eastern Dallas, Texas .
(20) Tesla Motors, which is headquartered in Palo Alto, makes its all-electric Model S sedan at the Fremont factory.