(n.) A northern constellation, the Harp, containing a white star of the first magnitude, called Alpha Lyrae, or Vega.
(n.) The middle portion of the ventral surface of the fornix of the brain; -- so called from the arrangement of the lines with which it is marked in the human brain.
Example Sentences:
(1) The discrimination performance of Megaderma lyra was studied in a two-alternative, forced-choice experiment using phantom targets with different internal delays and relative amplitudes of the two copies.
(2) Peroxidase-anti-peroxidase immunocytochemistry, applied on serial semithin epoxy resin sections, was used to examine the localization of endogenous GABA in horizontal cells in the retina of a marine teleost, the dragonet (Callionymus lyra L.).
(3) The divergent evolution of Macroderma gigas and Megaderma lyra, two representatives of the family Megadermatidae, is discussed.
(4) Dialectic Criminology is defined, in Lyra's conception, as a Classified Criminology, synthetizing both the psychological approach (clinical criminology, or micro-criminology), and the sociological approach (sociological criminology or macro-criminology), according to an anthropological basic frame of reference, which constitutes the new and original prerequisite.
(5) The hemoglobin of the Indian false vampire Megaderma lyra contains only one component.
(6) A detailed comparison of the unfolding programs LYRA and SAND is made, and reasons are given for our choice of SAND in our application.
(7) There were lush velvet palazzos from Maslea ; pastel-coloured flared jumpsuits by Syomirizwa Gupta ; satin emerald-green dresses with puffed shoulders from Foulard; trendy burkini-wear by Lyra ; and beaded evening gowns by Sahee London that could have floated off the pages of an F Scott Fitzgerald novel.
(8) The displaced small amacrine cells (DSA cells) in the dorsal pure cone part of the retina of the marine teleost Callionymus lyra have been analysed in a combined light and electron microcopical study.
(9) Mission scientists will use Kepler's 95 megapixel digital camera to survey the brightness of 100,000 stars in the constellations of Cygnus and Lyra every half an hour.
(10) In more than three years surveying 150,000 stars in the constellations of Cygnus and Lyra, Kepler has located 132 planets and more than 2,700 further candidate planets, which will need independent corroboration from other telescopes before they are confirmed hits.
(11) An allele at B1 produces the frenata pattern; an allele at B2 produces zonata; together they produce lyra.
(12) They are orbiting a star called Kepler-20 almost 1,000 light years away in the constellation Lyra .
(13) The horizontal cell system in the retina of the fish Callionymus lyra L. was investigated light microscopically and electron microscopically.
(14) But there have been so many good female characters for girls in cinema – Lyra in The Golden Compass, Katniss in The Hunger Games, Hit-Girl in Kick-Ass .
(15) Prof. Lyra discusses in this article the basic problem of criminological sciences, stating that its essential object of study is the determination of the genesis of crime.
(16) To this aim, according to Prof. Lyra, it is necessary to overcome merely biological or psychological theories, and the new sociologisms, which cannot explain deviant behavior without falling into dogmatism or relativism.
Summer
Definition:
(v.) One who sums; one who casts up an account.
(n.) A large stone or beam placed horizontally on columns, piers, posts, or the like, serving for various uses. Specifically: (a) The lintel of a door or window. (b) The commencement of a cross vault. (c) A central floor timber, as a girder, or a piece reaching from a wall to a girder. Called also summertree.
(n.) The season of the year in which the sun shines most directly upon any region; the warmest period of the year.
(v. i.) To pass the summer; to spend the warm season; as, to summer in Switzerland.
(v. t.) To keep or carry through the summer; to feed during the summer; as, to summer stock.
Example Sentences:
(1) There was also acknowledgement for two long-term servants to the men’s game who will both leave the Premier League for Major League Soccer this summer.
(2) United believe it is more likely the right-back can be bought in the summer but are exploring what would represent the considerable coup of acquiring the 26-year-old immediately.
(3) In London, diesel emissions are now so bad that on several days earlier this summer, children, older people and vulnerable adults were warned not to venture outside .
(4) Some retailers said April's downpours led to pent-up demand which was unleashed at the first sign of summer, with shoppers rushing to update their summer wardrobes.
(5) Join a Twitter book club It all started last summer, when 12,000 people took to Twitter to discuss Neil Gaiman's American Gods .
(6) As Heseltine himself argued, after the success of last summer's Olympics, "our aim must be to become a nation of cities possessed of London's confidence and elan" .
(7) This includes cutting corporation tax to 20%, the lowest in the G20, and improving our visa arrangements with a new mobile visa service up and running in Beijing and Shanghai and a new 24-hour visa service on offer from next summer.
(8) The fact that the security service was in possession of and retained the copy tape until the early summer of 1985 and did not bring it to the attention of Mr Stalker is wholly reprehensible,” he wrote.
(9) In Experiment 1 (summer), hens regained body weight more rapidly, returned to production faster, and had larger egg weights (Weeks 1 to 4) when fed the 16 or 13% CP molt diets than when fed the 10% CP molt diet.
(10) Two epidemics of meningoencephalitis caused by echovirus type 7 and coxsackievirus type B 5 in the summer and autumn of 1973 in Umeå in Northern Sweden were compared.
(11) We are also running our graduate internship scheme this summer.
(12) Read more Grabban, who moved to Carrow Road from Bournemouth in 2014 for around £3m, has been a target for Eddie Howe for some time and the manager had three bids for him turned down in the summer.
(13) Summers was not a popular choice among many of the World Bank's developing country members.
(14) High degress of multinucleation were observed least frequenctly in the summer both in patients with and without known malignancy.
(15) Son was signed from Hamburg for €10m that summer to replace Schürrle.
(16) All the summer deals in graphical, Etch-a-sketch form .
(17) A foretaste of discontent came when Florian Thauvin, the underachieving £13m winger signed from Marseille last summer , was serenaded with chants of ‘You’re not fit to wear the shirt” from away fans during Saturday’s FA Cup defeat at Watford .
(18) McNear was in New York that summer after her junior year and for nearly two months they were lovers in Manhattan.
(19) The loss of summer sea ice has led to unusual warming of the Arctic atmosphere, that in turn impacts weather patterns in the northern hemisphere , that can result in persistent extreme weather such as droughts, heatwaves and flooding," she said.
(20) The last time I saw Ruqayah was in the summer of 2014, in a chain cafe in Cairo’s largest shopping mall.