(n.) A small inclosure for pasture; esp., one adjoining a stable.
Example Sentences:
(1) Wright said he had recently shown a family moving from London around a four-bedroom house with a paddock, on sale for £375,000.
(2) Six of the WAD goats carried natural infections of H. contortus and T. colubriformis and eight other (tracer) goats acquired their infections from a grass paddock artificially contaminated with H. placei, C. pectinata and C. punctata, during May to October.
(3) The values tended to recover slowly after the removal of the cast, then more quickly after the horses returned to the paddock four weeks later.
(4) Peak infestations in both paddocks also occurred simultaneously in May.
(5) Six experiments were conducted to determine the relationship between the serving capacity of bulls as predicted by a 40-min yard test and their fertility during paddock mating, measured by the conception rate at first oestrus and the pregnancy rate at the end of 10 weeks of mating.
(6) In zoological and judicial terms, the deer habituated to paddock keeping still belong to wild animals that are held captive.
(7) Observations for estrus were conducted three times daily in a dirt paddock containing a testosterone-treated cow.
(8) Theileria infections were induced in cattle by feeding ticks on them from 3 sources: (a) adult rhipicephalid ticks obtained from the vegetation in a paddock containing an eland EAO at the Animal Orphanage, Nairobi National Park, Kenya, (b) Rhipicephalus appendiculatus adults fed as nymphs on the same eland, (c) R. pulchellus adults fed as nymphs on an eland W 68 captured in the Machakos district of Kenya.
(9) Six year-round, all-forage, three-paddock systems for beef cow-calf production were used to produce five calf crops during a 6-yr period.
(10) All 18 2-year-old Brahman bulls grazing in a paddock containing Castanospermum australe trees were diagnosed as heterozygotes for Pompe's disease by measurement of mononuclear cell alpha-glucosidase activity.
(11) Instead Key flailed all round the paddock and was forced to retreat centimetre by centimetre.” The controversy leaves a picture of “loose governance of his office ... and of his cabinet” as well as “bad judgment in talking to Whale Oil”, he says.
(12) Disk meter height responses to SR did not differ (P greater than .10) between steer and cow-calf paddocks.
(13) It reported that the previous evening, Richard Casey, the minister for Australia’s science agency, the CSIRO, had announced that a sheep paddock outside Parkes in western New South Wales would be the site of Australia’s new, £500m giant radio telescope.
(14) Consumption of a sodium chloride based supplement followed by food and water restriction in yards for over 30 hours, resulted in nervous disorders in 5 of 60 three-year-old steers within hours of being released into a paddock.
(15) In Trial 2, eight ruminally cannulated steers (avg wt 234.4 kg) grazed a 2.4-ha paddock of Vona-variety wheat and were assigned randomly to either MRDD or C treatments.
(16) They nudge the soft earth or a companion before snorting and continuing on up through the paddocks to the shed.
(17) Feral pigs were excluded from one paddock for most of lambing by means of an electric fence.
(18) Three paddocks were contaminated with Haemonchus contortus eggs from early spring to mid summer by yearling sheep.
(19) Paddock 1 was used for the controls, paddock 2 for the levamisole group (dosed at 3, 6 and 9 weeks after the start of grazing) and paddock 3 for the ivermectin group (dosed at 3 and 8 weeks after turn-out).
(20) By making use of artificially infected donor sheep, six camps (paddocks) were seeded with a resistant field strain of H. contortus until it was confirmed by means of worm-free tracer lambs that the grazing had become infective.
Padlock
Definition:
(n.) A portable lock with a bow which is usually jointed or pivoted at one end so that it can be opened, the other end being fastened by the bolt, -- used for fastening by passing the bow through a staple over a hasp or through the links of a chain, etc.
(n.) Fig.: A curb; a restraint.
(v. t.) To fasten with, or as with, a padlock; to stop; to shut; to confine as by a padlock.
Example Sentences:
(1) Only shop online on secure sites Before entering your card details, always ensure that the locked padlock or unbroken key symbol is showing in your browser, cautions industry advisory body Financial Fraud Action UK.
(2) Protected by a rusty padlocked gate, Macrinus's tomb was targeted by thieves after it was first excavated in 2008.
(3) In effect, the large number is a digital padlock which you make available to anyone so they can secure a message.
(4) In the middle of the afternoon its few occupants – a noodle joint, a coffee shop, a Japanese restaurant advertising “suisi”– are padlocked.
(5) He's a member of a party whose best hope for its legacy is that the padlock on the trap door holding that legacy in the basement doesn't come loose.
(6) The 45 degrees interconversion angle between the lip and padlock views support this arrangement.
(7) Really, his fridge in the Treasury kitchen is replete with a padlock.
(8) Police told activists on Wednesday they were investigating the theft of a padlock, which Occupy disputes.
(9) My phone battery was dying so I went to my suitcase, and that’s when I realised the padlock was missing.
(10) I saw sick and defeated men crammed behind fences and being denied their basic human rights, padlocked inside small areas in rooms often with no windows and being mistreated by those who were employed to care for their safety.” Morrison’s office has not returned calls seeking his response to the report.
(11) Scotland Yard's inquiry also found no evidence of Williams's fingerprints on the padlock of the bag or the rim of the bath, which the coroner last year said supported her assertion of "third-party involvement" in the death.
(12) Pretending that the job can be finished by spending cuts alone is as bad as pretending that the problem doesn’t exist at all.” The treasury chief secretary also mocked Osborne for being so tight-fisted that he keeps his milk in a padlocked fridge in the treasury.
(13) We’ve got to look for the padlock in our browser when we shop online.
(14) But until last week, when I was on the way to hear the celebrated American economist Paul Krugman and others debate the wisdom of current austerity policies, I had not realised that the ban on potentially offensive weapons also applies to small padlocks of the sort one uses to safeguard one's clothes in the lockers of changing rooms.
(15) Past the handgun factory that has become an arts centre, behind the rebuilt station with its shiny statue of the first Basque president, there’s a long blackened tunnel with a padlocked door.
(16) They exhibit a very special shape resembling a "padlock" in which three different areas can be distinguished: (a) a compact zone corresponding to the fibrillar component, (b) the granular component and (c) a fibrillar center of low density.
(17) What is writ very large in India’s Daughter , but camouflaged in other countries where equality is more strongly embedded in law, is the low value placed on females and the determination of some men, educated as well as the impoverished, to keep women padlocked to the past.
(18) 2) Before purchasing anything, momentarily view that website as a Where's Wally – ie re-read the micro print, check that the web page has a small padlock in the bottom corner (this means it is secure) and ensure that the web address starts with https.
(19) Thondhlana was at the country's last independent daily, the Daily News, in 2003 when armed police stormed the office, ordered journalists out and padlocked the door.
(20) Talking about working with George Osborne at the Treasury, Alexander said : “We do share things – but not the milk, which to my amusement he still keeps under lock and key … Really, his fridge in the Treasury kitchen is replete with a padlock.