(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.
Squat
Definition:
(n.) The angel fish (Squatina angelus).
(v. t.) To sit down upon the hams or heels; as, the savages squatted near the fire.
(v. t.) To sit close to the ground; to cower; to stoop, or lie close, to escape observation, as a partridge or rabbit.
(v. t.) To settle on another's land without title; also, to settle on common or public lands.
(v. t.) To bruise or make flat by a fall.
(a.) Sitting on the hams or heels; sitting close to the ground; cowering; crouching.
(a.) Short and thick, like the figure of an animal squatting.
(n.) The posture of one that sits on his heels or hams, or close to the ground.
(n.) A sudden or crushing fall.
(n.) A small vein of ore.
(n.) A mineral consisting of tin ore and spar.
Example Sentences:
(1) Across a dusty lot sits a heap of scrap metal, patrolled by a couple of emaciated dogs, while a toddler squats in the street, examining the sole of a discarded shoe.
(2) Among the non-standard postures examined were: twisting while lifting or lowering, lifting and lowering from lying, sitting, kneeling, and squatting positions, and carrying loads under conditions of constricted ceiling heights.
(3) While the control group showed no changes in any of the variables studied, the experimental subjects significantly improved their jumping heights in squat jumps with and without extra loads; their jumping heights in drop jumps and mechanical power output in 15 s of jumps.
(4) Some of these are functions that would once have been taken on through squatting – and sometimes still are, as at Open House , a social centre recently and precariously opened in London's Elephant & Castle, an area torn apart by rampant gentrification, where estates are flogged off to developers with zero commitment to public housing and the aforementioned "shopping village" is located in a derelict estate.
(5) Later, when Leven moved to another squat, in Maida Vale, London, he suggested they bring in a bass player and percussionist to form a band, and they started rehearsing "with mattresses around the walls to deaden the sound, but still annoying the neighbours".
(6) "I was in a squatted house that was falling down, with spiders everywhere.
(7) If you squat in the corner of a big cube ( a cubical room, say), you can see at least a floor, a ceiling and three walls.
(8) Five normal men performed seven sets of seven squats at a load equal to 80% of their seven repetition maximum.
(9) The birthing stool was 32 cm high and allowed the parturient to sit upright and to squat.
(10) When the cat was in a standing posture, DTF stimulation simply resulted in a sequential alteration of posture to a squatting and then to a final lying posture.
(11) Contact was made with a ‘mystical-religious’ group that used the gas to accelerate arriving at their transcendental-meditative state of choice.” It increased in popularity with the rise of festival culture – it’s been a mainstay of Glastonbury’s stone circle and squat parties in Bristol and south London for at least a decade – but the equipment needed to dispense it remained relatively expensive.
(12) The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of two different alignments of the pelvis and three different loads on electromyographic (EMG) activity of the erector spinae and oblique abdominal muscles during squat lifting and lowering.
(13) In Afro-Asian countries people are habituated to the squatting posture in their daily activities.
(14) Morphological changes of the other epiphyses were minimal: short and squat colla femorii and reduced size of the aleae ilii.
(15) A healthy male subject performed the following jumps: maximal vertical jump from a squatting position (SJ), maximal vertical jump from an erect standing position with a preliminary countermovement (CMJ), and repetitive submaximal hopping in place with preferred frequency.
(16) The boys were examined in the supine and squatting positions.
(17) Heart rate ranged from 135.9 b X min-1 (71.8% of TM max) for the leg extension exercise to 163.4 b X min-1 (86.3% of TM max) for the squat exercise.
(18) Although it is now a criminal offence to squat residential property it is not a criminal offence to squat commercial premises.
(19) Consultation responses will be collected by the government in October, when the public debate over squatting and housing shortage will continue.
(20) We hear a lot about homes, and rightly so, yet we hear next to nothing about homelessness, about the people forced to sleep on the streets, in hostels and squats or on the sofas of friends and family.