(n.) The Paraguay tea, being the dried leaf of the Brazilian holly (Ilex Paraguensis). The infusion has a pleasant odor, with an agreeable bitter taste, and is much used for tea in South America.
(n.) Same as Checkmate.
(a.) See 2d Mat.
(v. t.) To confuse; to confound.
(v. t.) To checkmate.
(n.) One who customarily associates with another; a companion; an associate; any object which is associated or combined with a similar object.
(n.) Hence, specifically, a husband or wife; and among the lower animals, one of a pair associated for propagation and the care of their young.
(n.) A suitable companion; a match; an equal.
(n.) An officer in a merchant vessel ranking next below the captain. If there are more than one bearing the title, they are called, respectively, first mate, second mate, third mate, etc. In the navy, a subordinate officer or assistant; as, master's mate; surgeon's mate.
(v. t.) To match; to marry.
(v. t.) To match one's self against; to oppose as equal; to compete with.
(v. i.) To be or become a mate or mates, especially in sexual companionship; as, some birds mate for life; this bird will not mate with that one.
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.
Pullover
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Bennett looks smart as ever today – orange scarf, navy blue pullover, light blue shirt, green tie, tan suede shoes, all beautifully colour-coordinated.
(2) Only after training with a set of shirts that sampled the range of stimulus and response variation for "putting on pullover shirts" was successful generalization observed.
(3) "I've got nothing against him if he does a good job," said Wout Van Bavel, a retired businessman in the obligatory orange pullover and shirt.
(4) Performance across eight nontrained, probe shirts was used to assess generalization of the skill "putting on pullover shirts."
(5) He is said to have been dressed in multiple layers of clothing, including pullovers, although it is summer in Serbia.
(6) So please, don't ponder whether Scotland will keep one of England's old pullovers and wear it tearfully around the house on rainy Sundays, having learned her lesson after a brief and unsatisfactory liaison with a wealthy Nordic state.
(7) Comforting blankets, fabric toys or forcibly applied pullovers may cause initial inoculation.
(8) They see themselves as wholesome, Midwestern folks who just adore rooting on their Cardinals in red pullover sweatshirts.
(9) By this time, Freeman was widely known by his nickname "Fluff", apparently derived from his fondness for wearing a loose-fitting submariner's pullover given to him by his mother, Annie.
(10) The pullover shirt aid, the largest device, was stored in an adjoining playroom area.
(11) When Ante Gotovina, a Croatian general recently sentenced to 24 years for persecuting Serbs , arrived in Scheveningen in 2005, his erstwhile arch-enemy, the former Serbian president Slobodan Milosevic, lent him a pullover because he was cold, according to Ljube Boskovski who spent three years there before being acquitted of war crimes.
(12) She can be seen in photographs looking rather fetching in a pullover patterned with the flags of the European nations.
(13) @LengelDavid October 26, 2013 I predict we will see lots of shots of 60-year-old women with their hair in a bonnet wearing red Cardinals pullovers.
(14) And if I tell you its pupils wear grey blazers with red trim, ties and V-necked pullovers, stand in obedient lines waiting for teachers to lead them into classrooms, and sometimes learn Latin, you probably envisage a leafy suburban school, patronised by affluent white families from expensive detached houses.
(15) Reading his work earlier this month at a conference at Magdalene College, Cambridge, Murray cuts a formidable figure – "the fattest major English-language poet since the 20-stone Ben Jonson", as a critic once bluntly put it – sporting a voluminous pullover and alternately perching a scruffy baseball cap and his spectacles on his domed head.
(16) Tying a pullover around your waist to hide the soiled patch behind your uniform in case the tissue leaks is a dead giveaway.