(n.) Any one of numerous species of small gallinaceous birds of the genus Perdix and several related genera of the family Perdicidae, of the Old World. The partridge is noted as a game bird.
(n.) Any one of several species of quail-like birds belonging to Colinus, and allied genera.
(n.) The ruffed grouse (Bonasa umbellus).
Example Sentences:
(1) A film sequel to 2013’s Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa is also on the cards.
(2) You had to admire the party’s commitment to its Alan Partridge roots.
(3) Testing the bone models to failure in tensile mode showed that the perforations weakened the bone and that the Partridge plates and bands decreased the weakening effects of the perforation.
(4) Baby Cow is owned by his friends, Henry Normal and Partridge star Steve Coogan, and for Iannucci, who doesn't live in London, its offices are a useful base for future projects.
(5) Erysipelas was diagnosed in chukar partridges (Alectoris graeca) kept as hunting stock.
(6) The photoperiodic control of puberty in birds was studied using hybrid red-legged partridges (Alectoris graeca chukar).
(7) Anderson (Men's) 10:30 – 12:30 huntergather 11:00 Margaret Howell (Men's) 1 11:30 – 13:00 Kit Neal e 11:30 – 14:30 Christopher Kane (Men's) 12:00 Oliver Spencer 12:30 – 14:00 Fashion East Men's Presentations 12:30 – 14:30 John Smedle y 13:00 Richard James 13:30 – 15:30 Maharishi 14:00 Hackett London 14:30 – 16:00 COMMON 15:00 Jimmy Choo 15:30 – 17:30 Ducham p 16:00 Alexander McQueen (Men's ) 16:30 - 18:30 Pringle of Scotland (Men's) 17:00 James Long 17:00 – 19:00 Solange Azagury-Partridge 17:30 – 19:00 Alex Mullins 18:00 Moschino 19:00 Casely-Hayford Updated at 9.01am BST
(8) This study examines the anatomic and biomechanical effects of femoral shaft perforation at arthroplasty, and the effects of supporting the perforated bone with Partridge plates and bands.
(9) It's hardly experienced the development hell of "Monkey Tennis", but after seven years of waiting the Alan Partridge movie seems finally to be making its way to the big screen.
(10) Chukar partridges were fed diets containing 1.25, 2.5, or 5 ppm aflatoxin; 1, 2, or 4 ppm ochratoxin A (OA); or 4, 8, or 16 ppm T-2 toxin.
(11) Molecular modeling studies [Islam, S.A., Neidle, S., Gandecha, B.M., Partridge, M., Patterson, L.H., & Brown, J.R. (1985) J. Med.
(12) In a show like I'm Alan Partridge, Partridge feels like less of a monster because of the presence of the audience.
(13) "But, whilst the commentary of David Harmon and Sean Kelly is pretty good, it isn't a patch on Alan Partridge."
(14) However, it is difficult to determine whether this biochemical "rescue" results in any improvement in the structure or function of the treated muscle, because the vigorous regeneration of mdx muscle more than compensates for the degeneration (Coulton, G. R., N. A. Curtin, J. E. Morgan, and T. A. Partridge.
(15) We are pleased that the BBC Trust's editorial standards committee has agreed that these comments "strayed into an offensive stereotypical assumption [and] was not editorially justified in this context," said James Partridge, Changing Faces founder and chief executive.
(16) As far as SRBC is concerned, the antibody response was sex independent, but declined markedly in partridges older than 1 year.
(17) The last series of I'm Alan Partridge aired on BBC2 in 2002.
(18) Presence and the relation of the nerve endings with associated structures in the lund of Rattus rattus rufescens (Indian black rat) and Francolinus pondicerianus (grey partridge or safed teeter) has been studied by cholinesterase technique.
(19) And on that bombshell … we await The Alan Partridge movie, which should be hitting cinemas in 2013.
(20) We were so blessed to spend five weeks with him last Christmas and January.” Head of Flinders’ junior school, Greg Partridge, said Luke was a confident boy with a positive impact on students around him.
Quail
Definition:
(v. i.) To die; to perish; hence, to wither; to fade.
(v. i.) To become quelled; to become cast down; to sink under trial or apprehension of danger; to lose the spirit and power of resistance; to lose heart; to give way; to shrink; to cower.
(v. t.) To cause to fail in spirit or power; to quell; to crush; to subdue.
(v. i.) To curdle; to coagulate, as milk.
(n.) Any gallinaceous bird belonging to Coturnix and several allied genera of the Old World, especially the common European quail (C. communis), the rain quail (C. Coromandelica) of India, the stubble quail (C. pectoralis), and the Australian swamp quail (Synoicus australis).
(n.) Any one of several American partridges belonging to Colinus, Callipepla, and allied genera, especially the bobwhite (called Virginia quail, and Maryland quail), and the California quail (Calipepla Californica).
(n.) Any one of numerous species of Turnix and allied genera, native of the Old World, as the Australian painted quail (Turnix varius). See Turnix.
(n.) A prostitute; -- so called because the quail was thought to be a very amorous bird.
Example Sentences:
(1) Small pieces of anterior and posterior quail wing-bud mesoderm (HH stages 21-23) were placed in in vitro culture for up to 3 days.
(2) The in vivo approach consisted of interspecies grafting between quail and chick embryos.
(3) The findings support our earlier suggestion that the kinetics of spermatogenesis in the quail are fundamentally similar to the pattern which has been described for mammals.
(4) Laminin is a constituent of the basement membrane in both chicken and quail blastoderms.
(5) Bidrin treatment of quail embryos results in axial anomalies as well as malformations of the beak and the limbs.
(6) Sporozoites were inoculated into the allantoic cavity of 7-day-old Japanese quail embryos (Coturnix coturnix japonica), after which the infected embryos were incubated at 41 C. In the chorioallantoic membrane mature first generation schizonts, mature second generation schizonts, and gametes were detected at 48 hr postinoculation of sporozoites (PI), 84 hr PI, and 126 hr PI, respectively.
(7) Respiration frequency increased during exposure to 35 (four birds) and 40 degrees C (six birds) in the normally hydrated quail, while in the dehydrated quail, respiration frequency increased only in three birds during exposure to 35 degrees C, and four birds during exposure to 40 degrees C, the frequencies were lower during dehydration.
(8) We conclude that the cellular mechanisms directing muscle fiber type-specific TnIf gene expression are mediated by cis-regulatory elements present on the introduced quail DNA fragment and that they control TnIf expression by affecting the accumulation of TnIf mRNA.
(9) However the characteristic fine structure and the high Na-KATPase content of the quail nasal gland suggest that it is a salt gland.
(10) The heart of the jungle bush quail is richly innervated.
(11) The presence of glutamic acid decarboxylase (GAD) and gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) was investigated in neuroretina sections from hatching quail embryos by immunocytochemistry.
(12) Lipid biosynthesis in the liver as well as transport into the follicles in Japanese quail were investigated depending on sexual maturity at 5, 7, 9 and 11 weeks of age.
(13) Both monensin and salinomycin had a reasonable safety margin in quail.
(14) The alternative exon sequences TnTf mRNAs expressed in anatomically distinct quail muscles can be correlated with sequences in TnTf protein isoforms in these chicken muscles.
(15) Both intestinal and uterine CaBP levels are higher in laying than in non-laying quails.
(16) The PGCs were picked up with a fine glass pipette, and one hundred were then injected into the terminal sinuses of 2-day-old Japanese quail embryos (24 somites); bubbles were then inserted to prevent haemorrhage.
(17) Of the four CFA determinants normally found in adult quail RBCs, only two were present on quail-chicken hybrid RBCs.
(18) For each of 12 transformed quail clones studied, it was possible to detect, after digestion with Kpn I, unique junctions between viral and cellular DNA.
(19) In eight bands of proteinase isozymes, the variation of band 5 (presence or absence) was detected among quails.
(20) This antibody binds transiently to a small number of brain vesicle cells in developing chick embryo as well as in quail embryo.