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Mear


Definition:

  • (n.) A boundary. See Mere.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) One of the 3 cases of non-bacterial prostatitis on Meares & Stamey's method was diagnosed as non-bacterial prostatitis, but the other two cases were diagnosed as urethritis.
  • (2) As director, he used his business associate Vladimir Oplanchuk, then nominee director Edward Petre-Mears in Nevis.
  • (3) Mear, who is chief executive of the Walton centre NHS foundation trust in Liverpool says: "I had been thinking about becoming a chief executive and I think that the diagnostic element of the programme gave me the clarity I was after.
  • (4) Ray Mears is working with LateRooms.com to host a Destination Inspiration event ( inspiration.laterooms.com ) The Amazon, Peru, Ed Stafford Ed Stafford In early 2008 I set off to try to become the first man to walk the length of the Amazon.
  • (5) I think it was called Ray Mears ’s World of Interiors, or something.
  • (6) So begins the final shootout between Pendleton and her one-time nemesis Anna Meares of Australia, usually unfairly billed as the Bad to Pendleton's Good, (the role of the Ugly would be played by the UCI commissaires).
  • (7) He told us: "Sarah Petre-Mears has acted as nominee for BVI [British Virgin islands] companies which this company has formed … As far as we are concerned, she has acted as a genuine nominee."
  • (8) Forty-four per cent of patients referred with symptoms of prostatitis did not have any aerobic bacteria at the prostatic level in sufficient number for the diagnosis bacterial prostatitis according to Meares and Stamey and form thus a third group.
  • (9) Mears said temperatures would reach close to 30C in the south-east, with 29C predicted on Sunday, compared to a July average of 19.4C.
  • (10) The most popular programme on BBC2 was Ray Mears: Northern Wildness, about Canada, which drew 2 million viewers and a 7% share, at 8pm.
  • (11) Mears said the high pressure was a result of "the jet stream [being] where it's supposed to be at this time of year.
  • (12) Both prostate catheter and Meares & Stamey's method were performed by crossover method in 11 patients who were highly suspected of chronic prostatitis based on symptoms and physical findings.
  • (13) Mears bought Care UK’s homecare business in 2015.
  • (14) The council has signed a partnership with Mears Group to “regenerate” seven of MK’s 1970s estates over the next 15 years.
  • (15) Meanwhile, care firm Mears Care, which made a loss last year and received an inter-company credit of around £27m in 2015, has paid out £15.8m to its parent company Mears Group over the last five years.
  • (16) (Meares 1971) A simple method of treatment under local anaesthesia is described.
  • (17) Salem's Lot as proxy for EveryTown USA (twinned with Hidden Darkness); Mark as the overly bright kid we all wish we'd been at his age; and, biggest of all, Ben Mears as the hampered writer, ruined by life, trying to write but faced with a reality that's more dangerous than anything in his mind.
  • (18) Pendleton has looked untroubled throughout the tournament so far and could well face Anna Meares in the final after the Australian made it through to the final four as well.
  • (19) Survival with Ray Mears, in which the former BBC presenter tracked leopards in Namibia, had 2.355 million (10.8%) in the 7pm hour on ITV1.
  • (20) Marco Pierre White's Kitchen Burnout and Survival, hosted by Ray Mears, complete the quartet of shows hoping to bask in the reflected glow.

Rear


Definition:

  • (adv.) Early; soon.
  • (n.) The back or hindmost part; that which is behind, or last in order; -- opposed to front.
  • (n.) Specifically, the part of an army or fleet which comes last, or is stationed behind the rest.
  • (a.) Being behind, or in the hindmost part; hindmost; as, the rear rank of a company.
  • (v. t.) To place in the rear; to secure the rear of.
  • (v. t.) To raise; to lift up; to cause to rise, become erect, etc.; to elevate; as, to rear a monolith.
  • (v. t.) To erect by building; to set up; to construct; as, to rear defenses or houses; to rear one government on the ruins of another.
  • (v. t.) To lift and take up.
  • (v. t.) To bring up to maturity, as young; to educate; to instruct; to foster; as, to rear offspring.
  • (v. t.) To breed and raise; as, to rear cattle.
  • (v. t.) To rouse; to stir up.
  • (v. i.) To rise up on the hind legs, as a horse; to become erect.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The first group was reared in complete darkness while the second one was subjected to permanent noise.
  • (2) Laboratory-reared Ixodes scapularis Say, Amblyomma americanum (L.), and Dermacentor variabilis (Say) were fed on New Zealand white rabbits experimentally infected with Borrelia burgdorferi (JDI strain).
  • (3) Heavy death losses (59%) occurred in adult Mystromys 3--14 days after muscle biopsies were taken from their rear legs.
  • (4) Maternal age had a significant effect (P less than .05) on live body weights of broilers reared either separately or intermingled.
  • (5) Slight but significant shortening of the latency of initial positivity in the evoked potential was observed after rearing in the enriched condition as compared to the data obtained from the littermates that were reared in the standard or impoverished conditions.
  • (6) Here we show that the subsequent survival and reproductive success of subordinate female red deer is depressed more by rearing sons than by rearing daughters, whereas the subsequent fitness of dominant females is unaffected by the sex of their present offspring.
  • (7) Infected ticks were reared from larvae feeding on each of 11 rabbits taken from the same site.
  • (8) But in each party there are major issues to be dealt with as the primary phase of the contests slips gradually into the rear-view mirror.
  • (9) The external and internal rear-view mirrors of automobiles should be positioned within the binocular field of vision.
  • (10) This time, the syndrome was observed on adult cattle reared in the Accra Plains (Ghana) and infected by S. typhimurium.
  • (11) Serum somatomedin A was significantly reduced in the growth-retarded rats as compared to those whose growth was enhanced by rearing in small litters.
  • (12) This measure was significantly greater by 17.2% in chicks trained for 140 min than in dark-reared controls.
  • (13) It was caused at the frequency close to 100% in dysgenic offsprings reared above 25 degrees C, of which gonads were morphologically clearly different from those of usual GD sterility, whereas there was no indication of GD-3 sterility at temperatures below 24 degrees C. Temperature sensitive period of GD-3 sterility was estimated to the prepupal stage by shift-down experiment.
  • (14) a 45-mg pellet every 45 s) induces considerable locomotion, rearing and other motor activities in food-deprived rats.
  • (15) In contrast, when hamsters reared under LD conditions at 25 degrees C for 12 weeks were transferred to SD, testicular regression was associated with a decrease in plasma testosterone and the total LH binding per two testes and an increase in LH binding per unit testicular weight.
  • (16) Nevertheless, there are farms on which satisfactory results are obtained in rearing calves with low Ig levels.
  • (17) Littermate pigs were reared artificially or on the sow.
  • (18) There were no significant differences in the adrenal weights of males or females, but females reared by bisexual pairs had larger absolute and relative adrenals than females reared in populations.
  • (19) sp., described from wild-caught and laboratory-reared females, males, nymphs, and larvae parasitizing the Humboldt Penguin, Spheniscus humboldti Meyen, is the fifth species of the Ornithodoros (Alectorobius) capensis group to be recognized in the Neotropical Region.
  • (20) In cats that viewed lines of the same orientation with both eyes during rearing, a substantially smaller proportion of units were selective for orientation; the preferred orientations of these units also tended to match the orientation to which the cats had been exposed.

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