(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.
(superl.) Firm; tough; materially strong; enduring; as, a stout vessel, stick, string, or cloth.
(superl.) Large; bulky; corpulent.
(n.) A strong malt liquor; strong porter.
Example Sentences:
(1) Second, Stout felt that the high mitotic rate was the best predictor of malignancy, but he recognized that some tumors, even with low rates, could metastasize.
(2) The cell bodies are usually between 8 and 10 mu in diameter and have dividing pseudopodial processes which may be broad or narrow, flat or stout, smooth or varicosed.
(3) The Lib Dems and Labour, after frantic consultations, announced they would table alternative amendments to introduce an element of statute and ensure the new press regulatory body was free from industry interference – two issues that the majority of newspaper proprietors have stoutly opposed.
(4) It also highlights law professor Lynn Stout’s recent book, The Shareholder Value Myth .
(5) Stout – even the name is robust: broad-mouthed and curtly clipped at the end.
(6) Tune into BBC1 on Sunday morning and you will find the corporation complicit in Marr's convalescent strategy of stout denial.
(7) Against my will I had to keep watching those two black companions who persistently marked out our movements ahead of us, like walking silhouettes, and it gave me – our feelings are sometimes so childish – a certain reassurance to see that my shadow was longer, slimmer, I almost said "better-looking", than the short, stout shadow of my companion.
(8) A stout man with close-cropped hair, Jones was dressed in denim, his temples soaked with sweat.
(9) Heat the sugar, cocoa powder, double cream, stout and salt in a small pan until scalding.
(10) Aside from history enthusiasts and couples seeking privacy from the crowded city, few enter the red sandstone gate between the fort’s stout bastions.
(11) Chocolate stout pudding (above) Admittedly, with summer creeping in and temperatures rising, it's hardly pudding season.But I'm a firm believer in the restorative powers of stodge, and I'd hate for the pleasures of pudding – steamed sponges, sticky toffee, spotted dick and custard – to be out of bounds for part of the year.
(12) This investigation is a replication and extension of an earlier study by Stout, Holmes, and Rothstein (1977) of the predoctoral clinical psychology intern graduates at the William S. Hall Psychiatric Institute.
(13) The differential diagnosis of the morphological substrate is discussed and the preference of the termination introduced by Stout and Lattes is established.
(14) The pyriform cells had a short stem from which extended 4-5 stout dendrites, while the fusiform cells extended similar dendrites from the soma.
(15) All these characters are fictionalised, but they are based on real people: Frank Stokes is modelled on George Stout ; Campbell on Robert K. Posey ; Garfield on Walker Hancock ; Granger on James Rorimer .
(16) There’s nothing flash or trendy about it, just an immaculate, traditionally brewed, higher alcohol stout; a reminder that, for all the cool stuff going on in the beer world today, you can always learn from the past.
(17) At the pub on the island there was a concertina-player and we got the feeling – fuelled by pints of rich dark stout – that we were being absorbed into a community.
(18) The stout-candied air, high beams and heavy pews are reminiscent of church-scale pubs on Galway’s Quay Street, but the beams are hung with Arthurian standards.
(19) Cysteines 358, 421, and 424 are ligands to the Fe-S cluster in the inactive [3Fe-4S] (Robbins, A. H., and Stout, C. D. (1989) Proteins 5, 289-312) and active [4Fe-4S] (Robbins, A. H., and Stout, C. D. (1989) Proc.
(20) Solid and traditional, all acres of dark wood and stained glass, it prides itself on its list of around 18 mainly bottled Irish beers from such breweries as Kinsale, Hilden, Station Works, Farmageddon, Clever Man (look out for its Ejector Seat turf-smoked stout) and Hercules.