(v. i.) To bring forth whelps or young, as the female of the canine species.
Example Sentences:
(1) Blood was collected from pups and dams to determine its caffeine concentration.
(2) The PUP founder made the comments at a voters’ forum and press conference during an open day held at his Palmer Coolum Resort, where he invited the electorate to see his giant robotic dinosaur park, memorabilia including his car collection and a concert by Dean Vegas, an Elvis impersonator.
(3) These episodes continued for the duration of the suckling test and were enhanced when a second pup was placed on an adjacent nipple.
(4) A considerably greater increase in the peak plasma OT concentration resulted when hungry foster litters of 6 pups were suckled after the mothers' own 6 pups had been suckled.
(5) At 24 days of age, the pups of HP, M and M-F diet groups, only gained 48%, 30% and 18% respectively, in their body weight, whereas the body-length parameters (LNC and LNRC) showed a reduction of 20%, 35%, and 45%, respectively for the same diet groups.
(6) The results also suggest that both alkali metals most probably have been delivered to the suckling pups and some of their toxic effect was retarded.
(7) The PUP leader told the ABC his announcement would have international significance.
(8) The effects of quinpirole and sulpiride on dopamine (DA), dihydroxyphenylacetic acid (DOPAC) and accumulation of dihydroxyphenylalanine (DOPA) after inhibition of DOPA decarboxylase were determined for the striatum and tegmentum of 11- and 17-day-old rat pups.
(9) These observations indicated a novel mechanism that in the absence of light-dark schedule, mothers taught the circadian rhythm to the pups as they raised them.
(10) Sympathetic nervous system function was blocked in developing male SHR by treating pups from days 0 to 14 with: (1) guanethidine, (2) combined alpha- and beta-receptor antagonists (prazosin and timolol), or (3) vehicle (5% sucrose).
(11) Saline-injected controls started gathering the pups immediately and usually showed all elements of maternal behaviour within 10 min.
(12) Rooting latency showed a significant additive maternal strain effect but little systematic effect of pup genotype.
(13) Only six (43 per cent) of the stores routinely informed clients of the need to continue deworming procedures once the pup left the store.
(14) Reinstitution of suckling after removal of pups causes an immediate rise in PRL and GH.
(15) Pups were weaned either to the diet of their dam or to the diet fed to dams in the other treatment group in a crossover design.
(16) Progressive paraparesis developed in four male English Springer Spaniel pups from a litter of five during the first 10 weeks of life.
(17) 5beta-Dihydrotestosterone was adminstered to mothers for 4 days from Day 12 to Day 15 of pregnancy (prenatal treatment) and to pups for 5 days of postnatal life (neonatal treatment) at daily doses of 1 mg and 200 mug, respectively.
(18) The weight and size of the eyeballs were almost the same as those in normal NC pups.
(19) Their pups continued to consume the caffeine diet until 50 days.
(20) The pups were divided into caffeine and noncaffeine groups.
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Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) As we walk away from the restaurant, he looks up an interview (with himself) on his iPhone and announces his musical credentials: "Yup, two Radiohead songs in both 'Clueless' and 'Romeo and Juliet', back when all anybody knew was 'Creep'.
(2) Readers may recall the Burl Ives record about a poor, cold, tired hobo who sings about the fantastical land with "the birds and the bees and the cigarette trees, where the lemonade springs and the bluebird sings …" Yup, that's where we're living now, although the chancellor might have ruled out "the lake of stew and of whiskey too", since whisky is up 36p a bottle, while stew tax remains unchanged.
(3) And the American people say: ‘Yup, we need more jobs.’ Asking the wealthy and large corporations to pay their share of taxes?
(4) Ravens 6-7 Bengals Yup, this is what happens if you don’t take full advantage of your opportunities.
(5) Yup, that's me - so anti-England I live in the place.
(6) Yup, that's why I've delighted in Brazil's implosion this past week.
(7) Markit ( yup, them again ) just reported that the UK Services PMI rose to 51.5 last month (showing it expanded), up from December's mildly contractionary 49.5.
(8) Yup, like that time that Driving Miss Daisy “deserved” to win, when Do The Right Thing didn’t even get a nomination.
(9) Yup, Mike Miller fouls Leonard in about two seconds.
(10) When Garfield was assassinated that same year, the new president (and, yup, former customs collector) Chester A Arthur attempted to mend fences by offering Conkling a position on the US supreme court.
(11) 1.28pm GMT Three minutes to kick-off and just before the action starts here is a Martin Lloyd re the earlier Van Gaal clip: Yup, those subtitles are a pretty good reflection of the conversation.
(12) Yup, here comes John Farrell for the third John of this update.
(13) hold 6m libor unchange [sic] thanks Yen Trader 6: Yes[,] going over to his desk now[,] yup, 6s going unch, 3s will drop by 1 Senior Yen Trader: domo September 14 and 15, 2009: (Primary Submitter agrees to switch direction of submissions over two consecutive days.)
(14) I've not seen more ardent Morrissey mobbings than in the ballrooms and arts centres of Blackpool, Lancaster and Stoke, or more tearful fan gratitude than when Ash rocked up to play at a hastily converted church in, yup, Hastings in 2000.
(15) Saints 8-23 Seahawks, 2:40, 4th quarter Yup, that’ll do it.
(16) At least some of these are on the list of the seven industries that the Boston Consulting Group identified as being most likely to participate in some kind of big manufacturing revival : transportation goods (check), computers and electronics (yup), fabricated metal products (yes), machinery, plastics and rubber, appliances and furniture.
(17) Meanwhile on Twitter, two major food tips are emerging: Kuma's Corner for burgers, and Hot Dougs for, yup, hot dogs.
(18) Yup, think they're just building momentum for their assault on Mongolia 2026.
(19) Yup, anything that's in front of me usually gets eaten.
(20) Shooting Bar EA Shooting Bar EA is a BB gun target range and bar ... yup, drink up, and shoot things!