(n. pl.) The benevolent spirits of the dead, especially of dead ancestors, regarded as family deities and protectors.
Example Sentences:
(1) It's so magnificent, like the swishing mane of a thoroughbred stallion … Too late, snip snip, off it comes.
(2) This feeling of trepidation isn't helped when I spot him, standing out a mile among the post-work drinkers and carefully dressed-down new-media types, not just because of his mane of blond hair but because his face is covered in faded bruising and the remains of a black eye.
(3) Nucleoid supercoiling can be increased by adding oxolinic acid to a strain that carries three topoisomerase mutations: delta topA, gyrB225, and gyrA (Nalr) (S. H. Manes, G. J. Pruss, and K. Drlica, J. Bacteriol.
(4) The hip-hop world has become dominated by styles such as drill and trap, and their preoccupation with drug dealing and womanising, with the purists' calls for a return to hip-hop's golden era drowned out by Lex Luger's snares and Gucci Mane 's endless chants of "burrrrr".
(5) Cecil was a 13-year-old lion with a distinctive black mane, and was reportedly lured out of the national park with bait earlier this month, before being killed with a bow and arrow and rifle, before being skinned and beheaded.
(6) There are pictures of it with its huge, black mane draped on their grand piano.
(7) Koeman believes Southampton are braced for another summer in which key players such as Victor Wanyama and Sadio Mane are likely to attract admiring glances themselves.
(8) These data suggest that nocturnal coadministration of ranitidine 300 mg reduces almost completely gastroduodenal lesions evoked by acetylsalicylic acid 300 mg mane.
(9) The shirts-and-jeans combos might not be for everyone, but there's no denying the quiet confidence, the soft but authoritative Scouse accent, the silver mane gelled to stiff peaks ...
(10) What seemed at first a whoa-ful tale to be reined in, has now become a bit of a mare, neigh an un-fetlocked disaster, as it gallops into one of the week's mane stories.
(11) The severity of each foot was assessed before and after corrective treatment according to the classification of Manes et al., 1975.
(12) Now, increasing numbers of moon, compass, blue and lion's mane jellyfish have been reported.
(13) The charity warned that lion's mane jellyfish have a powerful sting and anyone taking part in the survey should look but not touch jellyfish that they see.
(14) Back in Budapest, watching Charli and her all-girl band on stage, it's easy to see the appeal: live, she is a force, years of arena support slots whirled into a show full of wild mane-flicking, stomping, impressive back bends and tongue-waggling.
(15) Palmer, a keen big game hunter who posts pictures of his kills on social media, is said to have paid around $50,000 (£32,000) for the chance to kill Cecil, a protected 13-year-old lion famous for his black-fringed mane, in Zimbabwe’s Hwange national park earlier this month.
(16) Gucci Mane , the rapper who plays Alien's menacing nemesis, was in prison when Korine offered him the job.
(17) If positions coding for the peptide-binding region of the class II beta chains are eliminated from sequence comparisons, the Mane-DRB genes appear to be most closely related to the human (HLA) DRB1 genes of the DRw52 group.
(18) An Ivory Coast fan waits for the start of the Group C football match between Colombia and Ivory Coast at the Mane Garrincha National Stadium in Brasilia during the 2014 World Cup.
(19) - Our results demonstrate for the first time that omeprazole 20 mg mane is superior to ranitidine 150 mg b.i.d.
(20) Only 7 amino acid substitutions exist between the LS174T cell enzyme and the alkaline phosphatase encoded by the germ cell alkaline phosphatase genomic DNA clone isolated by Millan and Manes (Proc.
Mates
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) He's Billy no-mates with a Heckler & Koch sniper-rifle, drowning in loneliness, booze and depression.
(2) Females were killed at various times after the onset of mating or artificial insemination, oviducts were fixed and sectioned serially, and spermatozoa were counted individually as to their location in the oviduct.
(3) Adult nonpregnant female rhesus monkeys fed purified diets containing 100 or 4 ppm zinc for 1 yr were mated then studied through midgestation.
(4) Abnormal synaptonemal complexes were seen in all 19 crosses of N. crassa and N. intermedia that were examined, including matings between standard laboratory strains, inversions, Spore killers, and strains collected from nature.
(5) One hundred and ninety-six herd mates without RP served as controls.
(6) Males exploit this behavioural switch by increasing their sneaky mating attempts.
(7) To this end, a meiosis-defective mating-type mutation was used as a marker for the plus segment, by taking advantage of its suppressibility by a nonsense suppressor.
(8) Using allozymes as the genetic probe, data are presented which show that wild Drosophila buzzatii females and males engaged in copulation mate at random.
(9) Nwakali, an attacking midfielder, was the player of the Under-17 World Cup in Chile last year, which Nigeria won, and at which his team-mate Chukwueze, a winger, also impressed.
(10) Gibbs was sent off in the first half at Stamford Bridge for handball, despite replays clearly showing it was his team-mate Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain who illegally deflected an Eden Hazard shot.
(11) Fumonisins are mycotoxins produced by strains belonging to several different mating populations of Gibberella fujikuroi (anamorphs, Fusarium section Liseola), a major pathogen of maize and sorghum worldwide.
(12) Transfer of the shuttle vectors from B. uniformis donors to E. coli occurred at the same frequencies when the matings were done aerobically or anaerobically.
(13) the does had been grazing on lucerne from the time of mating and received a free-choice lick, which included iodine.
(14) The present investigation examines the assortative mating coefficients for scales of the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) from five separate studies.
(15) After irradiation by 137Cs gamma-rays at a dose of 5 Gy the males were mated to unirradiated females and genetic analysis of fertility in the F1 progeny was carried out.
(16) Swarming is a requisite for mating in populations of Aedes communis and Ae.
(17) Recombination between markers was observed in matings between phage beta and the heteroimmune corynebacteriophages gamma and L. In such matings between heteroimmune phages the c markers of phages beta and gamma failed to segregate from the imm markers which determine the specificity of lysogenic immunity in these phages.
(18) Labs that produce new legal highs use the simple expedient of giving them to their mates to test.
(19) On the basis of segregating phenotypes, the genetic potentials of these compatible nocardiae were ascertained as follows: the formation of a diploid with subsequent segregation of parental or haploid recombinant genomes or both; persistence of the diploid through many generations; continuing reassortment of genetic information by multiple matings between parental or recombinant organisms; and, very probably, second-round recombinations within the diploid.
(20) A test mating between two Manchester Terriers affected by Perthes' disease (PD) resulted in the birth of three affected males and two unaffected females.