(n.) The striped mullet of California (Mugil cephalus, / Mexicanus).
Example Sentences:
(1) There is no better symbol of London’s macho financialisation than the early 21st-century surge in skyscraper construction, the lanky delinquent mob of new towers that cluster around the City, and their gangmaster, the Shard.
(2) An intensive 6-month schedule of drugs was devised with both systemic and central nervous system activity, known by the acronym 'MACHO', to treat 24 newly and consecutively diagnosed children, 13 with stage IV B-cell non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (B-NHL) and 11 with B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (B-ALL).
(3) October 17, 2012 2.21am BST Oh, a bit of a to-do between Macho Mitt and Obama, over federal licenses and oil drilling, and Mitt's looking a bit Al Gore 2000 here, wandering around being all aggro and complaining about the rules.
(4) It’s the furthest from the male macho look you could get.
(5) "I think that Britain's broadband vision needs to be about more people using broadband rather than macho claims about the speed of the technology," she said.
(6) Labour now wants to own this mantle of macho, to keep the momentum of cruelty going in the name of responsibility, But lets get real.
(7) The wealthier and older clients are provided with sexual services within a setting that might be described as a "macho theater" in which social needs are also allowed expression.
(8) One was the anti-colonial instincts of some African churches, where the style of leadership is extremely macho.
(9) When I handed in my notice, I was told there was no budget to give me a pay rise, yet the guy who replaced me (and had less experience) was offered £10k more.” Lipstick and lap-dancing Beyond structural gender disparities, many respondents complained of a “macho, misogynist culture”, with bosses organising events at strip clubs, and frequent commentary on women’s bodies the norm.
(10) But for the first time in five clásicos there was no red card for Mourinho's macho team.
(11) Nonetheless, the feds’ approach is a sea-change from the early 1990s, when a macho paramilitary culture and aggressive rules of engagement approved at the highest levels were ingrained in the FBI and contributed to disasters the bureau is now anxious never to repeat.
(12) 'Macho v macho': what to expect from Putin-Trump negotiations Read more A statement from Trump’s transition team said Putin offered congratulations on winning “a historic election”.
(13) But we do need to make sure that more women are more involved at a higher level in Greater Manchester politics, without a doubt, and as mayor that’s what I would do, and make sure there was that representation at the highest level, because there can’t be any sense that it’s a macho world or closed world in any way.
(14) The humanitarian sector is still a very macho world.
(15) Some mentioned a macho, sexist culture, and others said they felt patronised by a cloying paternalism.
(16) 'Art is based on emotion, but being macho is based on ego; the wall protecting that emotion' Reading this on mobile?
(17) Putin is known for burnishing his image with macho stunts and this is not the first time the truth has proved less than heroic.
(18) I’ve never come across it in sport because you’re a sportsman, it’s a macho thing, so it never enters your head.” If we are going to be generous, they were different times and there were lots of clubs in those days operating with these attitudes.
(19) He is masculine but defiantly anti-macho, and his unpanicked air of sexual fluidity has lent itself to a run of gay gangsters: he was Richard Burton's bit of rough in Villain , a carnally carnivorous mob boss in Sexy Beast , and a slinky, elegant hood in 44 Inch Chest .
(20) "By making the hero a girl, he took all that macho stuff out of the equation and that gave him the freedom to examine heroism.
Macro
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Although systemic fibrinolysis with streptokinase was not initiated until eight weeks after the accident, a partial restitution of the markedly reduced macro- and microcirculation in the fingers was possible.
(2) To investigate the physical state of water in hydrating biological macro-molecules, the dielectric properties of water in hen egg lysozyme pellets with various moisture contents were studied using the thermally stimulated depolarisation currents technique.
(3) In 4 (2 micro and 2 macro) of these 8 inaccuracies, the error ranged from 10% to 22%.
(4) Macro elements were applied in the simulated production of 100 portions of each entrée formula.
(5) The presence of flat feet and excessive laxity of the joints, associated with the characteristic facies, macro-orchidism, and behavior, justifies a referral for developmental and genetic evaluation.
(6) Macro-epidemiology is concerned with the absolute and relative contributions of particular causes or diseases to the overall burden of ill-health in a population.
(7) There were no differences in postoperative macro and microcirculatory parameters between the patients with oedema (n = 11) and those without oedema (n = 10).
(8) A heterochromatin characterization of macro- and microchromosomes was performed.
(9) The formed complex (macro CK-MM3) consists of both CK-MM3 and immunoglobulin A (IgA), and its amount of the formed complex was proportional to CK-MM3 activity and IgA concentration.
(10) Among 163 insulin-dependent (type I) diabetics (average age 43.5 years; average duration of diabetes 17.5 years), 40 (24.5%) died within ten years from the consequences of micro- and (or) macro-angiopathies.
(11) In Part 1 of this study, the mathematical relations between micro and macro measures of effect were derived.
(12) 2) The causes of sharp differences in both, the resolving power and mechanisms of recognition of antigenic determinant by antibodies and B cell receptors, on the one hand, and of macromolecular antigens as such by antigen-recognizing receptors of T cells, on the other 3) The essence of the mechanisms by means of which the T cell receptors recognize and distinguish the macro-molecular antigens as such.
(13) Steinbrück is also right to accuse Merkel the of not having communicated the real nature of the European crisis: she continues to talk about a sovereign debt crisis even though, apart from Greece, the real macro-economic instability originated in the private sector.
(14) We filled the macro- and microvascular beds with Microfil and made stereoscopic observations of cleared 0.5- to 1.0-cm-thick sections.
(15) Differentiated mouse BC3H1 myogenic cells secrete substrate-associated macro-molecules (SAM) which restrict the proliferation of undifferentiated cells and promote both cell shape changes and expression of predominantly the vascular smooth muscle (VSM)-specific isoform of the contractile protein alpha-actin.
(16) The paper also indicates that there are at least three mechanisms providing a positive clinical effect of plasmapheresis in peripheral atherosclerosis: (1) peripheral macro- and microhemodynamic improvement due to decreased levels of plasma and perimembrane fibrinogen and increased erythrocyte deformability; (2) a decrease in thrombus risk due to lower fibrinogen levels and fibrinolytic activation; (3) monitoring risk factors of atherosclerosis due to lower levels of atherogenic lipoproteins, triglycerides, and cholesterol.
(17) Finally, morphological analysis revealed a progressive increase of RBC with Heinz bodies, of macro-megalocytes and of immature erythroblasts thus indicating that the cell population, produced during recovery from PHZ induced anemia, is widely heterogeneous.
(18) Some of them may be obtained from complex macro- and microscopical investigations with the use of biometry and mathematical statistics.
(19) The purpose of this study was to compare the macro scale SDS-PAGE technique, which has been used for the last two decades, with semiautomated electrophoresis using an ultrathin SDS-PAA gel with silver staining (Phast system).
(20) The aorta, heart and liver were investigated macro- and microscopically.