(v. t.) An assembling or review of troops, as for parade, verification of numbers, inspection, exercise, or introduction into service.
(v. t.) The sum total of an army when assembled for review and inspection; the whole number of effective men in an army.
(v. t.) Any assemblage or display; a gathering.
(v. t.) To collect and display; to assemble, as troops for parade, inspection, exercise, or the like.
(v. t.) Hence: To summon together; to enroll in service; to get together.
(v. i.) To be gathered together for parade, inspection, exercise, or the like; to come together as parts of a force or body; as, his supporters mustered in force.
Example Sentences:
(1) The hosts had resisted through the early stages, emulating their rugged first-half displays against Manchester United and Arsenal here this season, and even mustered a flurry of half-chances just before the interval to offer a reminder they might glean greater reward thereafter.
(2) After I pointed this out, even with all the racist retorts he could muster, being told “he’s got you there mate” by his friends was the knockout that saved the night.
(3) A formation featuring Mile Jedinak playing just in front of the back four suggested a draw would suit them just fine, and a horribly sterile first half, during which each team mustered precisely one shot on goal, confirmed as much.
(4) But while the imprisoned activists and their supporters are fervently hoping that the Queen of Pop will use her Russian platform (Olimpiyskiy stadium, which is a pretty big one) to make a strong statement in their support, so far all she's been able to muster in public is a remark that she's "sorry that they've been arrested".
(5) The Jobseekers Act 1995 made this requirement explicit in relation to work schemes and it was on this basis that the court found that the sketchy 2011 regulations failed to pass muster.
(6) Reding may be hoping that she can muster enough support in the parliament to challenge the national governments and force them to back down.
(7) The radical republican group Eirigi could only muster around 150 demonstrators at the southern end of Parnell Square.
(8) Though his bloc emerged with the largest number of seats in the 328-seat parliament, it is difficult to see from where he could muster the numbers he needs.
(9) Yes, it’s been quite a banner season for the collective of self-identifying core gamers who gather on forums to muster shared fury.
(10) It was brutally hard on the home team, who had dominated the first half and created further chances in the second, including one for Traoré on 85 minutes, when he could not muster enough power in a close-range header.
(11) While Liverpool seemed stretched by cruel successive away fixtures, Chelsea arguably mustered some of their finest attacking football of the campaign through that ferocious opening period.
(12) The Andre documentary proved more popular than BBC2's struggling US drama import Defying Gravity, which could muster only 700,000 viewers and a 3% share in the same slot.
(13) This might pass muster if we were merely letting sleeping dogs lie.
(14) "After consideration of the bill and having applied my mind thereto, I am of the view that the bill as it stands does not pass constitutional muster."
(15) They didn't manage to muster a threat but the mere fact that they prevented Celtic from getting off a shot for a few minutes has audibly raised the tension in the crowd ... 8.03pm BST 18 min: "I hope that the distance travelled explains Celtic's result last week," blubs Ian Kay.
(16) Chaffetz expressed his dissatisfaction with the status quo in the House GOP caucus and said: “Realistically, we can’t vote to promote the existing leadership.” He also suggested that while McCarthy could muster support from a majority of House Republicans in a secret ballot, he would be unable to get the absolute majority of congressmen in a vote on the floor of the House.
(17) Even after giving ground on the bill, the White House and Democrats were forced to go to extraordinary lengths to muster enough support for passage.
(18) City had never previously lost a Premier League game when their thrilling Argentinian had scored and, had David Silva not been guilty of over-elaborating and Javi García mustered a more convincing header from the Spaniard's free-kick delivery, that record might have been maintained.
(19) The biggest problem of all is a political one: the Bank is in charge of securing a recovery with whatever technical armoury it can muster; the government makes cuts and invests token sums in new projects.
(20) Photograph: Mike Bowers for The Guardian The government had its first win: Parry easily secured the job of the new president, with 63 votes, while Ludlam mustered support from only 10 senators.
Peafowl
Definition:
(n.) The peacock or peahen; any species of Pavo.
Example Sentences:
(1) The deaths of peafowls and a cockatoo were respectively traced to insecticide and lead toxicities.
(2) Brusatte said their function was a mystery, but they might have been used in colourful sexual displays, just as peacocks parade their tail feathers to court peafowls.
(3) Multilocus profiles were investigated in five different species of Galliformes (ring-necked pheasant Phasianus colchicus, Indian peafowl Pavo cristatus, Japanese quail Coturnix coturnix japonica, domestic chicken Gallus gallus, and red grouse Lagopus lagopus scoticus) using two human multilocus probes (33.6 and 33.15) in combination with each of four restriction enzymes (AluI, DdeI, HaeIII or HinfI).
(4) Among semidomestic species, ducks, quail, chukars, pheasants, peafowl, pigeons, and doves were found to be infected.
(5) The electrophoretic properties of the peafowl isoenzymes are unusual in that the isoenzyme from heart tissue can be either more or less anodic than that of muscle, depending on the pH.
(6) The phylogenetic tree constructured by the comparison of amino acid sequences of phasianoid birds lysozymes revealed a minimum genetic distance between these pheasants and the turkey-peafowl group.
(7) Further studies on the distribution of sulfated sugar nucleotides in egg white of various birds (chicken, quail, pheasant, peafowl, turkey, goose, and duck) demonstrate that each species has a characteristic composition, differing from one another regarding the relative amounts of 4-sulfated, 6-sulfated, and 4,6-bissulfated derivatives of uridine diphosphate N-acetylgalactosamine.
(8) There are no field records of this association outside of Africa, where the parasite, herein reported from another introduced and domesticated bird (the common peafowl, Pavo cristatus Linnaeus), was recently listed from 2 native Phasianidae of the genus Francolinus.
(9) Treated peafowl could strut normally but could not cross a 1.3-meter fence.
(10) The element was detected in DNA from different chickens and in peafowl, but not in quail, pheasant, or turkey.
(11) The Mendelian inheritance and independent segregation of the fragments detected using AluI was investigated in three species (ring-necked pheasant, Indian peafowl and red grouse).
(12) This library was screened using two multilocus hypervariable probes, 33.6 and 33.15 and also, in a "probe-walking" approach, with five of the peafowl minisatellites initially isolated.
(13) Susceptibility to infectious laryngotracheitis virus was studied in peafowl (Pavo cristatus), various species of pheasant (Phasianus colchicus, Lophura swinhoeii, Lophophorus impejanus), guinea-fowl (Numida meleagris), canaries (Serinus canaria), budgerigars (Melopsittacus undulatus) and Japanese quail (Coturnix coturnic japonica).
(14) Peafowl, like other vertebrates, contain multiple forms of lactate dehydrogenase.
(15) We report here for the first time the large-scale isolation of hypervariable minisatellite DNA sequences from a non-human species, the Indian peafowl (Pavo cristatus).
(16) Only peafowl and pheasants were found to be susceptible, pheasants responding more strongly than chickens to ocular vaccination and intratracheal inoculation.