What's the difference between monoceros and winter?
Monoceros
Definition:
(n.) A one-horned creature; a unicorn; a sea monster with one horn.
(n.) The Unicorn, a constellation situated to the east Orion.
Example Sentences:
(1) The target enzymes, acetylcholinesterase (for phosphamidon and carbaryl) and Mg2+ ATPase (for DDT and fenvalerate) have been assayed during exposure and reclamation of these insecticides in M. monoceros.
(2) Changes in midgut gland, muscle, and gill tissue nitrogen metabolic profiles studied in a penaeid prawn, Metapenaeus monoceros, following its exposure to sublethal concentrations of phosphamidon, methyl parathion, DDT, and lindane.
(3) Changes in midgut gland and muscle tissue glycolytic potentials of penaeid prawn, Metapenaeus monoceros following exposure to methylparathion, carbaryl and aldrin were studied.
(4) Activity levels of acid phosphatase (ACPase) in midgut gland and muscle tissues of penaeid prawn, Metapenaeus monoceros were studied after exposure to selected sublethal concentrations of phosphamidon after acute and chronic exposure.
(5) Activity levels of acid and alkaline phosphatases in hepatopancreas, stomach, muscle, gill and brain tissues of penaeid prawn, Metapenaeus monoceros were studied after in vitro addition of different concentrations of aldrin and lindane, the organochlorine insecticides.
(6) Narwhal (Monodon monoceros) liver and kidney cytosol were fractionated by gel chromatography, anion-exchange chromatography and electrophoresis.
(7) In Metapenaeus monoceros Fabricius, the blood phenoloxidase shows a molecular weight of 250,000 and the cuticular phenoloxidase shows two isozymes with molecular weights of 350,000 and 250,000.
(8) The nervous tissue AChE, BUChE and glutaminase activity levels were significantly inhibited, whereas glutamine synthetase activity, acetylcholine and glutamine contents were increased significantly following the sublethal exposure of prawn, Metapenaeus, monoceros to methylparathion and malathion.
(9) Remarkably high cadmium levels are found in kidney and liver of narwhal (Monodons monoceros) from western Baffin Bay (mean of 63.5 micrograms g-1) and western Greenland waters (median of 39.5 micrograms g-1).
(10) Earlier this year, the French space agency's Corot spacecraft spotted the smallest exoplanet yet, in orbit around a star in the constellation Monoceros, 390 light years away.
(11) The acetylcholinesterase activity in selected tissues of prawn, Metapenaeus monoceros showed a significant inhibition during commercial (CgC) and technical (TgC) grade carbaryl exposure.
(12) Changes in oxidative metabolism of hepatopancreas and muscle tissues of penaeid prawn, Metapenaeus monoceros was studied, following its exposure to selected organophosphorous insecticides phosphamidon, dichlorovos and methylparathion.
(13) Acute and chronic exposure to phosphamidon creates disturbances in the normal functioning at the cellular level in the tissues of prawn, M. monoceros.
(14) The significant inhibition creates disturbances in the normal functioning such as disturbances in the normal functioning such as disturbances in protein synthesis and different biochemical lesions in selected tissues of prawn, M. monoceros.
Winter
Definition:
(n.) The season of the year in which the sun shines most obliquely upon any region; the coldest season of the year.
(n.) The period of decay, old age, death, or the like.
(v. i.) To pass the winter; to hibernate; as, to winter in Florida.
(v. i.) To keep, feed or manage, during the winter; as, to winter young cattle on straw.
Example Sentences:
(1) The way we are going to pay for that is by making the rules the same for people who go into care homes as for people who get care at their home, and by means-testing the winter fuel payment, which currently isn’t.” Hunt said the plan showed the Conservatives were capable of making difficult choices.
(2) Since 1887, winter green is claimed to have caused dermatitis and to have been responsible for "idiosyncrasy".
(3) Age-specific MRs for the over-75-year age group were also not related to the winter air temperatures in the eight cities.
(4) Isolated renal tubules and renal clearance techniques were used to characterize the renal handling of 2-deoxy-D-galactose (2-d-Gal) by the winter flounder (Pseudopleuronectes americanus).
(5) The headteacher of the school featured in the reality television series Educating Essex has described using his own money to buy a winter coat for a boy whose parents could not afford one, in a symptom of an escalating economic crisis that has seen the number of pupils in the area taking home food parcels triple in a year.
(6) The growth of the subantarctic King penguin chick is distinguished from that of other penguins by its long winter fasting period (from 2 weeks to 3 months).
(7) Pensioners, like those in receipt of long-term social welfare payments or those who can prove they cannot provide their heating needs during winter, are entitled to a means-tested weekly winter fuel allowance of €20 (£ 14.54) per household.
(8) The first is that the supposed exaggerated winter birthrate among process schizophrenics actually represents a reduction in spring-fall births caused by prenatal exposure to infectious diseases during the preceding winter--i.e., a high prenatal death rate in process preschizophrenic fetuses.
(9) The sea ice usually then begins to freeze again over the winter.
(10) Altogether 60% of the readmissions occurred during the two winter months (June and July).
(11) They were divided into three groups and fed the following forages during the winter of 1972-1973.
(12) Seasonal fluctuations in IOP were observed (P = 0.0007), with higher IOP occurring in the winter.
(13) This is the grim Fury on a rainy winter morning in Cannes.
(14) It may be winter but all of you together are generating some serious street heat," he said.
(15) It's not going to be all right, winter is upon us and people need to take action now."
(16) His next target, apart from the straightforward matter of retaining his champion's title this winter, is 4,182, being the number of winners trained by Martin Pipe, with whom he had seven highly productive years at the start of his career.
(17) However, in late fall, winter and early spring AC is not really necessary.
(18) Mr Bae stars in a popular drama, Winter Sonata, a tale of rekindled puppy love that has left many Japanese women hankering for an age when their own men were as sensitive and attentive as the Korean actor.
(19) The winter vomiting bug norovirus, which also puts strain on the NHS every winter because it leads to wards having to close, has not yet become a major problem, the latest evidence indicates.
(20) Bright artificial light has been found effective in reducing winter depressive symptoms of Seasonal Affective Disorder, although conclusions about the true magnitude of treatment effect and importance of time of day of light exposure have been limited by methodologic problems.