(n.) One who pries about on the lookout for something.
Example Sentences:
Tomcat
Definition:
(n.) A male cat, especially when full grown or of large size.
Example Sentences:
(1) The captain of the ship said it was under assault by Iranian gunboats at the time and that the Airbus A300 was misidentified as an attacking F-14 Tomcat.
(2) Resorting to a series of Ted the swordsman scenes which may merely be the lurid fantasies of the heroine, director Christine Jeffs never makes it clear whether Hughes was a rampaging philanderer whose sexual conquests and general obliviousness to Plath's mounting depression led to her demise, or a man driven into other women's arms by his wife's chronic melancholy - perhaps the most time-honoured excuse of the inveterate tomcat - or both.
(3) The histochemical localization of some oxidoreductases was investigated in the epididymides of adult tomcats.
(4) The observations as described in Part I indicated that urine of estrous female female positively influences the frequency of flehmen in tomcats.
(5) Female studies included laparoscopies as indicated intrauterine insemination with Tomcat catheter (Sherwood Medical, St. Louis, MO) was performed in all cases.
(6) Dell was first made aware of the issue in June 2013 when a Dell user called “three west” first posted about the smell of a new Dell Latitude E6430u saying “the machine is great, but it smells as if it was assembled near a tomcat's litter box.
(7) The symptoms and the course run by cutaneous asthenia, a skin disease which is congenital and probably hereditable, are reported in a Birmese tomcat.
(8) We describe a metallic cervical cannula that allows the use of the popular Tomcat catheter in the majority of patients in whom we were unable to achieve a successful ET with the Tomcat alone.
(9) By means of microsurgical technique and under the control of the ophthalmoscope 300 mul of isotone solution of NaCl with 22Na or o-131J-iodo-hippuric acid were injected into the space between the retina and pigment epithelium of 28 narcotized tomcats after having closed the inferior retina vessels by photocoagulation about 1 hr before in an umber of the animals.
(10) This exuberant early 19th-century novel by ETA Hoffmann is framed as a poetically pretentious tomcat's autobiography, which gets mixed up, due to a printer's error, with the biography of a composer.
(11) This histochemically enstablished pattern of enzyme activity in the epididymis of the tomcat was compared with those of other mammals.
(12) A tomcat hijacked a plane, stuck a pistol into the pilot's ribs and demanded: "Take me to the canaries."
(13) The ET technique at Tygerberg Hospital, using the Tomcat catheter, is described.
(14) In acute experiments on tomcats after stimulation of supraoptic nuclei (SON), postoptic nuclei (PON), preoptic area of the hypothalamus, cervical sympathetic nerve (SCN) and vagal afferent fibers (VA) the following data were obtained in the preparations stained by Gomori method: four pair accessory cell groups in the rostral part of the hypothalamus were observed: 1) periventricular group (along the walls of the III ventricle; 2) the preoptic group (above the preoptic recess; 3) the parafornical group (around the fornix columns), and 4) the spindle-shaped group.
(15) "I wouldn't trust myself with anything except for comic verse or bad-on-purpose verse: now you've met my cats you'll understand why I was very keen to do The Life and Opinions of the Tomcat Murr …".
(16) Both urine and cheek gland secretion of the female donor appeared to contain pheromones which inform the tomcat about her hormonal phase.
(17) An introducer--the FT introducer--designed to overcome technical difficulties in selected patients in passing the Tomcat catheter is described.
(18) The histochemical localization of 6 lysosomal enzymes was studied in the epididymis of adult tomcats.