(n.) The arctic fulmar (Fulmarus glacialis). Sometimes also applied to other sea birds.
(n.) An old game at cards.
(n.) A small two-wheeled one-horse vehicle.
(n.) An inverted pendulum consisting of a short vertical flat spring which supports a rod having a bob at the top; -- used for detecting and measuring slight horizontal vibrations of a body to which it is attached.
Example Sentences:
(1) The oxygen consumption (MO2) of the semi-precocial Brown Noddy embryos at different stages of development was measured at 36 degrees C and again after 5-hr exposure to lowered ambient temperatures (30 and 32 degrees C).
(2) I believe that a lighthearted exchange could have taken place.” “PC Plod is the Toyland constable in the Noddy stories isn’t he?” Browne said.
(3) In Australia, levels of lead and mercury were higher in black noddy (A. minutus) and lower for sooty tern; and cadmium levels were highest for brown noddy (A. stolidus) and sooty tern, and lowest for black noddy.
(4) Even now, he's negotiating a treaty with Noddy Holder, the cultural attache for British Sausage Week , to establish an international standard for toad-in-the-hole.
(5) Alfie, Doodles, Lofty, Sooty (who won best individual), Noddy, Bentley, Pedro and Cracker are so well trained they walk in formation down the beach and back again without being led.
(6) This year’s Venice work draws from his exhibition called All That Is Solid Melts Into Air (the title derives from a passage in the Communist Manifesto) that toured the north of England in 2013-14, and featured family trees of musicians that found the ancestors of Bryan Ferry, Noddy Holder and Shaun Ryder included a blacksmith, a button filer and a clogger’s apprentice.
(7) The precocial chicken and semi-precocial noddy previously studied are intermediate in their metabolic response between the duck and the pigeon.
(8) British animation has been in decline in recent years as other countries have offered generous subsidies for cartoonists to move abroad, with Bob the Builder and Thomas the Tank Engine produced in the US and Noddy made in Ireland, and the industry believes the result is British pre-schoolchildren now see largely foreign-made content.
(9) In contrast to precocial chickens, the semi-precocial Noddy had no apparent metabolic response to cooling before hatching.
(10) But theimage of electric vehicles as dowdy "Noddy" cars has begun to change, due to luxury electric sports cars such as California's Tesla Roadster and the British-designed Lightning GT.
Roddy
Definition:
(a.) Full of rods or twigs.
(a.) Ruddy.
Example Sentences:
(1) Roddy was told he wouldn't live beyond 30 and used to drive everywhere at full pelt while smoking exploding cigarettes.
(2) After running the 49ers close at Candlestick Park last weekend, they are giving Carolina everything they’ve got here at the Georgia Dome, Matt Ryan hitting Roddy White down the seam for a 39-yard score.
(3) The FA and Premier League are often seen as being at loggerheads but a Premier League spokesman stressed that, as Roddy's work emphasises, this is not the case.
(4) When he was at Heinemann in the 1980s, he was rummaging through unsolicited manuscripts and came across Roddy Doyle's The Commitments and the first chapter of Bill Bryson's The Lost Continent.
(5) "It is something Ged Roddy [the Premier League's director of youth], Dan Ashworth [the FA director of elite development] and I have worked closely on with the EPP [Elite Player Performance Plan].
(6) Facebook Twitter Pinterest No helmets required: Scotland’s Roddy Grant is tackled by New Zealand’s Scott Curry at the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow.
(7) She seemed to have been on screen for ever, with Lassie, National Velvet, Mickey Rooney and Roddy McDowall.
(8) There are certainly some who see a little irony in Facebook demanding more privacy for users ... Roddy Mansfield (@roddymansfield) @GuardianJessica @jamesrbuk all that is 'huge' is the hypocrisy of tech firms who colluded with the NSA for years.
(9) The first resulted in the deaths of McKerr, Burns and Toman; the second led to the death of Michael Tighe, shot on a farm near an IRA arms cache; and the third involved the killing of two INLA members, Seamus Grew and Roddy Carroll, at another checkpoint.
(10) Forearm vasodilation occurred promptly as previously observed by Roddie and Shepard (7).
(11) The show, presented by Thornton and "Rowdy" Roddy Piper, featured C-list celebrities such as former EastEnder Marc Bannerman, James Hewitt, athlete Iwan Thomas, Big Brother winner Kate Lawler, TV presenter Jenny Powell and glamour model Victoria Silvstedt.
(12) I had 50 people I could invite to this game but I only have one friend who’s a Cubs fan and I knew what it would mean to him,” said Roddy, 28, sporting an Indians cap and shirt.
(13) Russell Wilson, Marshawn Lynch and company are well balanced on offense, but will have to play without sack man defensive end Chris Clemons who suffered a season ending injury - that will put more pressure on a strong secondary that will have its hands full with Julio Jones and Roddy White.
(14) Like the men shot dead in Lurgan, Seamus Grew, 30, and Roddy Carroll, 21, were terrorists: members of the Irish National Liberation Army.
(15) Falcons 20 - Seahawks 0, 4:16 2nd quarter Ryan goes for it all and HAS RODDY WHITE!
(16) Roddy McCuish, the council leader, told BBC Radio 4 that he had ordered an immediate reverse of the ban, imposed earlier this week.
(17) Frank Roddy supports the Cleveland Indians and Donald Trump.
(18) The receiving tandem of Julio Jones and Roddy White remains one of the best in the league, and on defense Osi Umenyiora could help upgrade the pass rush.
(19) When Roddy had a pair of tickets for game 2 of the World Series in Cleveland, Ohio, he knew who to call.
(20) (Roddy Hawkins, via email) They seemed like radical consumerism.