(n.) A small, plain, brown and gray European song bird (Luscinia luscinia). It sings at night, and is celebrated for the sweetness of its song.
(n.) A larger species (Lucinia philomela), of Eastern Europe, having similar habits; the thrush nightingale. The name is also applied to other allied species.
Example Sentences:
(1) The letter to Florence Nightingale was written by Bernita Decker as part of a nursing course assignment for our Nurse Educator advisor, Betty Pugh.
(2) The interplay of policies and principles to which Miss Nightingale subscribed, the human frailty of one of her women, Miss Nightingale's illness, and the confusion and stress which characterized the Crimean War are discussed.
(3) Nightingale's ability to react to and obstruct progressive movement with which she disagreed is also review.
(4) N was there at that time but Nightingale did not go out until 2007.
(5) The court martial centre at Bulford where sergeant Nightingale was tried, is quite unlike any ordinary court of law.
(6) However, the military prosecutors decided to order a fresh court martial even though Nightingale is being medically discharged early next year.
(7) Nightingale was originally sentenced to 18 months in detention last year but freed after a high-profile campaign.
(8) N said Nightingale had been "agitated and hyper" and sometimes used the wrong words for simple objects.
(9) One of the earliest accounts of nursing research, which indicates the power of making systematic observations, was Florence Nightingale's study.
(10) Nightingale admitted the offences last year and was detained for 18 months, but following a well-organised campaign spearheaded by his wife the sentence was reduced and the conviction quashed because of the way the case had been handled by the court.
(11) Nightingale initially claimed the pistol was a war trophy given to him by Iraqis he had helped during a posting there, and he had accumulated the ammunition because he worked as a range instructor and had failed to book it back through poor administration.
(12) In 2007, Nightingale was posted to Iraq to help combat suicide attacks on allied forces.
(13) N told the court martial that he and Nightingale had known each other for 12 or 13 years and were best friends.
(14) Nightingale was brought back to the UK from Afghanistan where he was serving and told civilian police the pistol had been a present from Iraqis he had worked with in 2007.
(15) Outside the military court in Bulford, Wiltshire, Nightingale's wife, Sally, said the family were devastated by the result.
(16) Blackett, who sat with a five-person board, said if it had not been for a previous court of appeal decision that reduced the original custodial sentence, Nightingale would be going to prison.
(17) Blackett said Nightingale's assertions that he was "a scapegoat or the victim of some wider political agenda" was "absolute nonsense".
(18) Florence Nightingale said that visiting St Peter's was, her death aside, the greatest experience she expected to have.
(19) After the Crimean War, Florence Nightingale persisted in researching the health conditions of British troops throughout the Empire.
(20) The Roy and Nightingale models share more similarities than differences: both describe their metaparadigm (ie, environment, person, health, and nursing) in relation to their models.
Sparrow
Definition:
(n.) One of many species of small singing birds of the family Fringilligae, having conical bills, and feeding chiefly on seeds. Many sparrows are called also finches, and buntings. The common sparrow, or house sparrow, of Europe (Passer domesticus) is noted for its familiarity, its voracity, its attachment to its young, and its fecundity. See House sparrow, under House.
(n.) Any one of several small singing birds somewhat resembling the true sparrows in form or habits, as the European hedge sparrow. See under Hedge.
Example Sentences:
(1) Groups of photosensitive female house sparrows have been kept under night-interruption and intermittent light cycles for a period of 6 weeks.
(2) A clinical study focused on the evaluation of adaptive functioning with use of the Vineland Adaptive Behavior Scales (Sparrow, Balla, & Cicchetti, 1984, 1985) is presented as an example of a way in which occupational therapy can provide assessment data valuable to the interdisciplinary clinical team.
(3) Laboratory and domestic animals: mice, hamsters, rabbits, sparrows, chickens and lambs were inoculated with Orungo virus to determine their susceptibility as evidenced by clinical response, viraemia and antibody development.
(4) Corticotropin-releasing factor (CRF) was localized in the brains of two passerine species, the European starling (Sturnus vulgaris) and the song sparrow (Melospiza melodia), by means of immunohistochemistry.
(5) Body weight was not correlated with foramen magnum area in 25 specimens of savannah sparrow, Ammodramus sandwichensis.
(6) Riga, accompanied by Fraeye, was at Charlton's Sparrows Lane training ground on Tuesday and watched on as Powell's existing coaching staff oversaw the first-team squad.
(7) The continuous administration of low levels of melatonin via intraperitoneally placed Silastic capsules either (i) shortened the free-running period of activity or (ii) induced continuous activity in house sparrows (Passer domesticus) maintained in constant darkness.
(8) Testosterone sensitivity of the seminal sacs of castrated tree sparrows from each of three reproductive states was evaluated by measuring the change in seminal-sac mass per unit change in the logarithm of replacement or plasma testosterone.
(9) There was no effect of B on basal metabolic rate of either species, but nocturnal metabolic rate varied significantly less over the 3-h period of measurement in B-treated sparrows and siskins than in control birds.
(10) Adult song sparrows (Melospiza melodia) were tested for response to songs of conspecific males that had been reared in acoustic isolation or deafened early in life.
(11) It will be streamed live here: Monetary Policy Committee August 2013 Inflation Report My colleague Andrew Sparrow will be live-blogging the whole session here: Mark Carney gives evidence to the Commons Treasury committee: Politics live blog 9.52am BST This graphic shows how most of the Royal Mail's revenues come from its parcels and letters divisions, although its European parcels business, GLS, makes a decent contribution (with revenue of £1.5m, out of a total pie of over £9bn.
(12) In sparrows, pigeons and ducks, liver and kidney activities tended to be similar and increased with body size.
(13) The movie excels in its many trading-floor sequences, great chaotic indoor crowd-scenes worthy of Raoul Walsh, in which we can glimpse the primal, quasi-animalistic governing urges that propel an unregulated – that's to say, totally lawless – free-market economy, as the hawks are granted licence to feast upon the sparrows.
(14) As Andrew Sparrow points out elsewhere, even if McDonnell gets a go and, as now seems certain, Andy Burnham takes the number of ex-ministerial candidates to four, that will hardly solve one big problem: a field built around two siblings, and largely made up of Oxbridge-educated, fortysomething white men, whose adult lives have mostly been played out in SW1.
(15) In addition 11% of mice (Mus musculus), 5% of deer mice (Peromyscus), 3% of rats (Rattus norvegicus) and less than 2% of sparrows (Passer domestcus) were seropositive.
(16) avenue31 I thought it was Captain Sparrow who invented the exercise regime, in Pilates of the Caribbean.
(17) The sparrows resynchronized in 5 days when LD8:16 (8 hr of light alternating with 16 hr of dark) was advanced by 8 hr; however, the sparrows were 1.7 hr from resynchronization after 5 days when the schedule was delayed 8 hr.
(18) The duration of detectable neutralizing antibody in these birds was found to be ephemeral in some species (e.g., black-capped chickadees) and extremely longlasting in others (e.g., gray catbirds, swamp sparrows).
(19) Under physiological conditions (41 C, pH 7.5, PCO2 approximately 35 Torr) the oxygen half saturation pressure P50 are 50 Torr for the chickens, 38 Torr for the pigeon, 43 Torr for the Japanese quail and 44 Torr for the sparrow.
(20) It was shown that these mosquitoes fed principally on House Finches and House Sparrows, the most common passeriform birds found in the collection areas.