(n.) In the most general sense, any one of the Quadrumana, including apes, baboons, and lemurs.
(n.) Any species of Quadrumana, except the lemurs.
(n.) Any one of numerous species of Quadrumana (esp. such as have a long tail and prehensile feet) exclusive of apes and baboons.
(n.) A term of disapproval, ridicule, or contempt, as for a mischievous child.
(n.) The weight or hammer of a pile driver, that is, a very heavy mass of iron, which, being raised on high, falls on the head of the pile, and drives it into the earth; the falling weight of a drop hammer used in forging.
(n.) A small trading vessel of the sixteenth century.
(v. t. & i.) To act or treat as a monkey does; to ape; to act in a grotesque or meddlesome manner.
Example Sentences:
(1) Tests showed the cells survive and function normally in animals and reverse movement problems caused by Parkinson's in monkeys.
(2) Estimates of potential for gastrointestinal side effects using the rat enteropooling assay and in vivo monkey effects indicate that diarrhea will be substantially reduced with retention of uterine stimulating potency.
(3) In 60 rhesus monkeys with experimental renovascular malignant arterial hypertension (25 one-kidney and 35 two-kidney model animals), we studied the so-called 'hard exudates' or white retinal deposits in detail (by ophthalmoscopy, and stereoscopic color fundus photography and fluorescein fundus angiography, on long-term follow-up).
(4) After immunoadsorbent purification, the final step in a purification procedure similar to that adopted for colon cancer CEA, two main molecular species were identified: 1) Material identical with colon cancer CEA with respect to molecular size, PCA solubility, ability to bind to Con A, and most important the ability to bind to specific monkey anti-CEA serum.
(5) Examinations, begun at day 150 of gestation in 33 monkeys and between days 32 and 58 in four other animals, were repeated at intervals of one to seven days.
(6) Adult nonpregnant female rhesus monkeys fed purified diets containing 100 or 4 ppm zinc for 1 yr were mated then studied through midgestation.
(7) Two lectins, wheat germ agglutinin (WGA) and peanut agglutinin (PNA), were used to compare domains within the interphotoreceptor matrices (IPM) of the cat and monkey, two species where the morphological relationship between the retinal pigment epithelium (RPE) and photoreceptors is distinctly different.
(8) Electroretinographic (ERG), morphometric and biochemical studies on retinas from monkeys or rats reveal that moderate level developmental lead (Pb) exposure produces long-term selective rod deficits and degeneration.
(9) Furthermore, the effect of immunization was examined in monkeys previously given fluoride in their diet and which had developed a low incidence of dental caries when offered a human type of diet containing about 15 per cent sucrose.
(10) Rhesus monkey BAT mitochondria (BATM) possess an uncoupling protein that is characteristic of BAT as evidenced by the binding of [3H]GDP, the inhibition by GDP of the high Cl- permeability or rapid alpha-glycerol-3-phosphate oxidation.
(11) 65% of the cAMP injected into the amniotic fluid of 2 monkeys remained after 1 hour.
(12) Features of the human disease, however, including hyperinfection syndrome, can be produced by S. stercoralis in the Patas monkey and in dogs.
(13) Twelve monkeys, Macaca fascicularis and Macaca mulatta, were investigated to study their renal microvasculature.
(14) Several types of neurons were differentiated on the basis of a study of neuronal activity in various parts of the cortex near the sulcus principalis during the execution of spatial delayed reactions by monkeys.
(15) Asian macaques are susceptible to fatal simian AIDS from a type D retrovirus, indigenous in macaques, and from a lentivirus, simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV), which is indigenous to healthy African monkeys.
(16) Neurons in deprived puffs and interpuffs were generally similar in size to those in nondeprived regions, although CO-reactive cells were significantly smaller in the deprived puffs of monkeys enucleated for 28.5 or 60 wks.
(17) Regardless of the habitual diet, a test meal accentuated the rate of triacylglycerol appearance in whole plasma and in the very low density lipoproteins of Triton WR-1339-treated monkeys, and the rate of increase of the protein component after feeding was slightly higher.
(18) The genetic management of the African green monkey breeding colony was discussed in relation to the difference in distribution of phenotypes of M and ABO blood groups between the parental (wild-originated) and the first filial (colony-born) populations.
(19) Recordings were made from secondary vestibular axons in the medial longitudinal fasciculus (MLF) of barbiturate-anesthetized squirrel monkeys.
(20) The influence of intravitreal injection of a small amount of l-ornithine hydrochloride in monkey eyes has been investigated morphologically.
Rascal
Definition:
(v.) One of the rabble; a low, common sort of person or creature; collectively, the rabble; the common herd; also, a lean, ill-conditioned beast, esp. a deer.
(v.) A mean, trickish fellow; a base, dishonest person; a rogue; a scoundrel; a trickster.
(a.) Of or pertaining to the common herd or common people; low; mean; base.
Example Sentences:
(1) Later, Dizzee Rascal drew big crowds in Tower Hamlets as he ran through the streets where he grew up, throwing his trainers into the throng and running in his socks.
(2) She is talking to Dizzee Rascal, who at least has the decency to goon around for the camera.
(3) You can throw out rascally councillors or governments, but the contracts will go on regardless.
(4) There is a new thirst for characters, for mischief-makers and rascals, for politicians whose mistakes make them more accessible to the rest of us.
(5) If they are not rascally Tories making mischief or communist infiltrators, then they are leftie romantics, their heads in a dwam and full of ideals incompatible with modern, monetarist Britain.
(6) I read so many books when I was a kid that I didn’t even know were shaping me up.” Stormzy review – accessible flow that shows his range Read more When Omari was 10, two big moments happened: he became too old for Book Trail and Dizzee Rascal ’s Boy In Da Corner was released.
(7) So if the Stay Puff Marshmallow Man makes it to the next World Series... 12.10am GMT National Anthem Rascal Flatts.
(8) The transition from the uncompromising aggression and personalised sonic militancy of Dizzee Rascal's first two albums, to the Day-Glo chart-topping triptych of Dance Wiv Me, Bonkers and Holiday seems similarly without precedent.
(9) As he ambles into the small interview room at Munich’s Säbener Strasse in a plain black T-shirt and trainers, Alaba is unassuming to the point of being shy, a little at odds with his reputation as a social-media prankster – his oeuvre contains a series of shots of the midfielder Franck Ribéry dozing and a nearly-nude double-selfie with his former team-mate Mitchell Weiser, in thongs – and as a typically Viennese lausbub (rascal) who once told the club’s former president Uli Hoeness that he had to “think about” an allegation by a concerned member of the public that he was painting the town red with Ribéry in Munich.
(10) China must be aware that Palmer’s rampant rascality serves as a symbol that Australian society has an unfriendly attitude toward China.
(11) Not only did this life-affirming piece of mischief make the perfect counterpoint to the self-harming entrepreneurial initiative of the emaciated illusionist, it also enabled a TV audience of millions to get a taste of music they might not otherwise have heard, as Jus' a Rascal was beamed around the world as the unofficial soundtrack to the much sought after news footage of the end of Blaine's 44-day fast.
(12) In the sequence that may have caused most puzzlement among non-Britons, Boyle examined the rise of social media through a miniature soap opera, complete with a guest appearance from Sir Tim Berners-Lee and a collaged soundtrack racing from My Generation and My Boy Lollipop through Tiger Feet and Pretty Vacant to Dizzee Rascal live in the stadium.
(13) Dizzee Rascal: I Luv U Facebook Twitter Pinterest Dizzee Rascal's debut single was a blackly comic tale of teenage pregnancy set to grinding electronics and related in an edge-of-panic scream.
(14) Over the past few years, the UK charts have been transformed by British-born urban pop artists, such as Chipmunk, Tinchy Stryder, Dizzee Rascal, N-Dubz, JLS, Taio Cruz… and every one of these No 1 artists is a Nando's lover.
(15) Further down the line lay the Notting Hill riots of 1958, Joe Harriott at Ronnie Scott's, the Notting Hill street carnival, the Equals singing Black Skin Blue Eyed Boys, the Clash singing Police and Thieves, football fans throwing bananas at black players, black players becoming international captains, Lenny Henry offering to be repatriated to Dudley, Paul Gilroy's There Ain't No Black in the Union Jack, the Brixton and Toxteth riots of 1981, Janet Kay trilling Silly Games on Top of the Pops, Courtney Pine's Jazz Warriors, the London Community Gospel Choir, the Reggae Philharmonic Orchestra, Benjamin Zephaniah turning down an MBE, pirate radio, natty dread, funki dred, drum'n'bass, dubstep, grime, Dizzie Rascal.
(16) (For a demonstration of the awkwardness its members have sometimes displayed in trying to adapt to the 21st century, readers with a taste for schadenfreude are invited to search YouTube for clips of the hip-hop artist Dizzee Rascal performing there live last year.)
(17) Written in the Rascal (Real-time Pascal) programming language, the program runs on the Macintosh family of microcomputers.
(18) The show will feature performances from Lily Allen, Jay-Z and Lady Gaga, while organisers have promised a special version of You Got the Love from Florence and the Machine with Dizzee Rascal (otherwise known as the inevitable Brits mash-up.)
(19) In Britain they can at least throw the rascals out.
(20) Spooky Bizzle , DJ and producer of Slew Dem crew, says: "If it wasn't for the tunes that built the foundation, like Danny Weed's Creeper , Dizzee Rascal's Hoe , Wiley's Eskimo or Youngstar's Pulse X " – the record considered the first-ever grime release, from early 2002 – "or even watching my peers around me constructing their own grime beats, then I wouldn't be doing what I do now."