(n.) Any one of numerous species of the genus Pica and related genera, allied to the jays, but having a long graduated tail.
Example Sentences:
(1) Isaac Julien, artist I have a magpie attitude to inspiration: I seek it from all sorts of sources; anything that allows me to think about how culture comes together.
(2) It was determined that MAGPI can be performed safely and cost-effectively on an ambulatory basis.
(3) For every cinephile that delights in Quentin Tarantino's penchant for opulent dialogue and magpie film-historian's eye, there's another who sees the US director of Reservoir Dogs , Pulp Fiction and the Kill Bill movies as a garish charlatan who survives on a habit of plundering the past.
(4) Capital One Cup: QPR lose to Carlisle and Watford lose to Preston Read more The beating of Huddersfield Town away in the first round was proof the new-look Magpies had the capacity to embarrass higher division opposition though, and a similar upset looked to be on the cards when Genaro Snijders’ long-range shot took a deflection that looped past the wrong-footed Villa goalkeeper Mark Bunn in the 16th minute.
(5) Fame Academy – the Blue Peter-like BBC attempt to ape Cowell's more Magpie-esque shows – built Sneddon up because, unlike those ITV poppets, he wrote his own songs.
(6) Moving swiftly on, Dominic Hart reminds us of an even more painful experience, physically at least, suffered by Newcastle supporter Robert Nesbitt, who chose to have a large image of Andy Cole in full Magpies garb tattooed on to his right thigh ... two days before Cole left for Manchester United.
(7) Lesions, grossly and histologically typical of pox infection, occurred in a white-backed magpie from Melbourne, Australia.
(8) De Jong joins the Tenerife striker Ayoze Pérez and Sunderland midfielder Jack Colback in signing for the Magpies this summer.
(9) As we stand by the edge of the Eaton Square Gardens, I can see a magpie or two hopping around, squawking at the hawk.
(10) The M inverted V glansplasty was designed to address the factors leading to meatal retraction and the abnormal glans shape sometimes seen after the MAGPI.
(11) In the long term, it is our experience that the MAGPI operation does not maintain a terminal position for the external urinary meatus, but the functional and cosmetic results are satisfactory.
(12) But maybe you have: maybe you’ve glanced out of the window and seen there, on the lawn, a bloody great hawk murdering a pigeon, or a blackbird, or a magpie, and it looks the hugest, most impressive piece of wildness you’ve ever seen, like someone’s tipped a snow leopard into your kitchen and you find it eating the cat.
(13) The daily organization of sleep and wakefulness was examined electrographically under natural conditions in captive juvenile and adult magpies, Pica pica.
(14) Over a one-year period, 96 consecutive children with distal hypospadias underwent mental advancement and glanuloplasty (MAGPI) for hypospadias repair.
(15) Glandular or coronal hypospadias have been repaired by MAGPI procedure (65 cases, 1 fistula, 1 meatal stricture), and distal penile hypospadias by Mathieu's urethroplasty (32 cases, 1 fistula), since 1981.
(16) He made his last appearance for the Swans, who are one point better off than the relegation-threatened Magpies, in Sunday’s 3-2 FA Cup third-round defeat at League Two Oxford , after which he became involved in a row with a disgruntled fan as he left the pitch.
(17) We have treated hypospadia that is strictly glandular either with Duckett's Magpi procedure (54 cases, 49 long-term follow-up, 47 good results, retraction of the meatus in two), or Koff's advancement procedure if there is a grow in glans (13 cases, 12 good results, on requiring meatostomy).
(18) The MAGPI procedure routinely is performed on an outpatient basis without any urinary diversion.
(19) Duckett's innovative meatoplasty and glanuloplasty (MAGPI) procedure has become a standard operation for the correction of these lesions.
(20) "Alternatively, draw up a contract between you absolving each other of liability if an accident occurs," advises Jasmine Birtles, author of The Money Magpie.
Pie
Definition:
(n.) An article of food consisting of paste baked with something in it or under it; as, chicken pie; venison pie; mince pie; apple pie; pumpkin pie.
(n.) See Camp, n., 5.
(n.) A magpie.
(n.) Any other species of the genus Pica, and of several allied genera.
(n.) The service book.
(n.) Type confusedly mixed. See Pi.
(v. t.) See Pi.
Example Sentences:
(1) Other Christmas favourites, including stollen, organic mince pies and Schweppes tonic will also be included among 100 seasonal products on the list of 1,000 items which shoppers can choose from over the next few months.
(2) Paul Doyle Kick-off Sunday midday Venue St Mary’s Stadium Last season Southampton 2 Leicester City 2 Live Sky Sports 1 Referee Michael Oliver This season G 18, Y 60, R 1, 3.44 cards per game Odds H 5-6 A 4-1 D 5-2 Southampton Subs from Taylor, Martina, Stephens, Davis, Rodriguez, Sims, Ward-Prowse Doubtful Bertrand, Davis, Van Dijk (all match fitness) Injured Boufal (knee, Jan), Hesketh (ankle, Feb), Targett (hamstring, Feb), Austin (shoulder, Mar), Pied (knee, Jun), Gardos (knee, unknown) Suspended None Form DWLLLL Discipline Y37 R2 Leading scorer Austin 6 Leicester City Subs from Zieler, Hamer, Wasilewski, Gray, Fuchs, James, Okazaki, Hernández, Kapustka, King Doubtful None Injured None Suspended None Unavailable Amartey, Mahrez, Slimani (Africa Cup of Nations) Form LDLWDL Discipline Y44 R1 Leading scorers Slimani, Vardy 5
(3) This technique is compared with calculated outline and ring source attenuation correction techniques in a pie phantom.
(4) We describe a premature infant with progressive worsening of unilateral PIE, which was successfully treated by selective bronchial balloon catheterization after failure of conservative management.
(5) Studied were the composition and the technologic properties of the milk of Dutch Black pied cattle under this country's conditions.
(6) Superfusion with 10(-6) to 10(-4) M arachidonic acid resulted in a slow developing positive inotropic effect (PIE) in a concentration-dependent manner.
(7) The 2 Fat Butchers in Walmer offers high-quality free-range meat and excellent pork pies and scotch eggs.
(8) A Staphylococcus strain was inoculated on the top and cut surfaces of freshly baked Southern custard pies which were then packaged in a pasteboard carton and held at 30 C. Daily plate counts of surface sections 0.3 inch (0.76 cm) in thickness were made.
(9) She almost wills her biscuits to dry out and her pies to sink.
(10) Facebook Twitter Pinterest The big difference is that I’ve got my finger in all the pies, whereas Lord Farquaad only thought he did.
(11) A total of 33 strains of staphylococci, isolated from Black Pied cows with subclinical mastitis (conformed by the brom-thymol test), were studied to establish their biochemical properties and resistance to antibiotics as well as the occasional correlation between enzyme activity and resistance.
(12) An increase in eosinophils carrying surface IgE was demonstrated in alveolar cells from PIE Syndrome particularly with hypodense eosinophils from CEP patients.
(13) The appearance of PIE and its complications, i.e., pneumothorax and pneumomediastinum, occurred over a wide range of mean airway pressures and positive end-expiratory pressures; there was no direct relationship between barotrauma and mean airway pressure or positive end-expiratory pressure.
(14) MCI-154 (10(-7) to 10(-4) M) produced a concentration-dependent PIE amounting to 75% of the maximal effect of isoproterenol.
(15) The killer's taste in movies stretches from westerns to gangster thrillers to Elvis Presley musicals: apple-pie imports that were boycotted by socialist president Sukarno's coalition before the coup.
(16) A case of PIE syndrome induced by Saiboku-To (TJ96) is reported.
(17) She had a history of PIE syndrome induced by disodium cromoglycate 4 years previously (Jpn.
(18) It will be streamed live here: Monetary Policy Committee August 2013 Inflation Report My colleague Andrew Sparrow will be live-blogging the whole session here: Mark Carney gives evidence to the Commons Treasury committee: Politics live blog 9.52am BST This graphic shows how most of the Royal Mail's revenues come from its parcels and letters divisions, although its European parcels business, GLS, makes a decent contribution (with revenue of £1.5m, out of a total pie of over £9bn.
(19) Safdie himself still maintains a pied-à-terre in the 13-storey building, which stands on a narrow, man-made peninsula just south of the Old Port section of Montreal.
(20) I got it wrong on PIE and I apologise for having done so.