(n.) A male homosexual, esp. one who is effeminate or dresses in women's clothing.
(v. i.) To act the part of a queen.
(n.) The wife of a king.
(n.) A woman who is the sovereign of a kingdom; a female monarch; as, Elizabeth, queen of England; Mary, queen of Scots.
(n.) A woman eminent in power or attractions; the highest of her kind; as, a queen in society; -- also used figuratively of cities, countries, etc.
(n.) The fertile, or fully developed, female of social bees, ants, and termites.
(n.) The most powerful, and except the king the most important, piece in a set of chessmen.
(n.) A playing card bearing the picture of a queen; as, the queen of spades.
(v. i.) To make a queen (or other piece, at the player's discretion) of by moving it to the eighth row; as, to queen a pawn.
Example Sentences:
(1) Queen Alexandra's Royal Army Nursing Corps, Army Reserve.
(2) I liked watching Morecambe & Wise, I liked the Queen's speech because it was on and everyone listened to it.
(3) • Queen Margaret Union, one of the University of Glasgow's two student unions, says 200 students there are marching on the principal's office at the moment to present an anti-cuts petition.
(4) Buckingham Palace was drawn into the dispute when it was revealed that Pownall had sought advice from the Lord Chamberlain, a key officer in the royal household, on the potential misuse of the portcullis emblem due to it being the property of the Queen.
(5) Hopes that the Queen's diamond jubilee and the £9bn spent on the Olympics would lift sales over the longer term have largely been dashed as growth slows and the outlook, though robust with a growing order book, remains subdued.
(6) Governor General Quentin Bryce, the monarch's representative in Australia and the first woman to fill the role, had greeted the Queen by curtsying.
(7) The Queen Boat case was one of three big sex stories that helped to squeeze bad news out of the papers around the same time.
(8) "Throughout America, the Queen stands for decency and civility."
(9) When the plane bringing his friend in touched down, they were greeted with a recorded welcome from the Queen telling them that they had now arrived in a safe country.
(10) Big musical acts (such as BB King, Keith Urban and Queens of the Stone Age) appear during the summer concert lineup but there are also drop-in yoga sessions, and hiking and biking trails wind through sculpted rocks and wildflowers.
(11) Possible options for a temporary, alternative building have previously included the nearby Queen Elizabeth II building and the Central Methodist Hall.
(12) At Queen Charlotte's Maternity Hospital from 1980 to 1987, 195 women had a trial of scar in their second ongoing pregnancy, having been delivered previously by elective caesarean section.
(13) Gove's intervention has been seen as unhelpful by some Conservative party officials who are in the midst of ensuring that this week's expected vote on an amendment to the Queen's speech does not become a vote on Cameron's authority.
(14) In 1835, before she became Queen, a young Victoria stayed at Wentworth Woodhouse, which has almost 400 rooms.
(15) Many businessmen like it.” At the entrance to Jiang’s swish showroom, customers are welcomed by posters of a cigar-smoking Winston Churchill and the Queen Mother, standing beside Land Rovers.
(16) Queen's speech: the day ‘psychoactive drugs’ tripped off the royal tongue Read more The first Queen’s speech of the second term should be golden.
(17) Those fed royal jelly as larvae emerge as queens and do little but lay eggs.
(18) Facebook Twitter Pinterest The Queen hosts the banquet in the Buckingham Palace ballroom.
(19) In its determination to probe the (semi) private lives of the nation's kings and queens, no imperial pyjama leg is left unplundered.
(20) Byrne's Nursie had the same indefatigable garrulousness, the same sense that she knew all the worst things about her charge – Miranda Richardson's bibulous Queen Elizabeth – so Gloriana and the rest had to indulge her.
Tabby
Definition:
(v. t.) To water; to cause to look wavy, by the process of calendering; to calender; as, to tabby silk, mohair, ribbon, etc.
(n.) A kind of waved silk, usually called watered silk, manufactured like taffeta, but thicker and stronger. The watering is given to it by calendering.
(n.) A mixture of lime with shells, gravel, or stones, in equal proportions, with an equal proportion of water. When dry, this becomes as hard as rock.
(n.) A brindled cat; hence, popularly, any cat.
(n.) An old maid or gossip.
(a.) Having a wavy or watered appearance; as, a tabby waistcoat.
(a.) Brindled; diversified in color; as, a tabby cat.
Example Sentences:
(1) Looking up we saw a large tabby on top of a wooden hoarding which was covering a building site in Vauxhall.
(2) I have suggested that the X-linked gene Tabby (Ta) and its autosomal mimics in the mouse may be homologous with the genes for sex-linked anhidrotic (hypohidrotic) ectodermal dysplasia (Christ-Siemens-Touraine syndrome, CST) and its apparent autosomal mimics in the human.
(3) Tabby (Ta), a murine X-linked mutant gene, produces a syndrome of ectodermal dysplasia including anhidrosis (absence of sweat glands).
(4) The findings have potential clinical significance; firstly, because the Tabby gene shows genetic homology to the human gene for hypohidrotic ectodermal dysplasia, and disturbed eyelid opening is a trait of some forms of human ectodermal dysplasia, and secondly, because the gene for epidermal growth factor receptor is an oncogene.
(5) It is possible that deficiency of epidermal growth factor at the tissue level may be involved in the development of some of the traits seen in Tabby mutants.
(6) In addition to analysing the effects of the Tabby gene and of epidermal growth factor on eyelid opening in the mouse, this study appears to be the first detailed histological description of normal eyelid opening.
(7) These probes have been positioned with respect to existing DNA markers utilizing a new interspecific backcross segregating for the Tabby (Ta) locus.
(8) Because Tabby appears to be genetically homologous to the gene for human X-linked hypohidrotic ectodermal dysplasia, these results may have potential clinical significance.
(9) We have also demonstrated that tabby has abnormally elevated epidermal sulphydryl (SH): disulphide (SS) ratios, in common with an autosomal form of ectodermal dysplasia.
(10) Three alleles of the tabby locus (T) have been identified, namely, Abyssinian (Ta), striped (T), and blotched (tb).
(11) Studies from our laboratory have previously shown that the syndrome produced in the mouse by the X-linked gene tabby (Ta) has many features in common with human X-linked hypohidrotic ectodermal dysplasia.
(12) The preputial gland can be excluded as the site of pheromone synthesis since males which are hemizygous for the Tabby-J gene and have no preputial glands blocked pregnancies as effectively as their normal littermates.
(13) Both sequences map to the region of 10 centimorgan lying between the Tabby (Ta) and St14-1 (DxPas8) loci, close to the phosphorylase b kinase locus (Phk).
(14) Nor is it easy to determine how much hybridisation has occurred between the Scottish wildcat, a close relative of the European wildcat, and the domestic tabby, a cousin of the near-eastern wildcat, a separate subspecies.
(15) The first is the apparent absence of blotched tabby and a relatively high frequency of Abyssinian tabby.
(16) We tried to measure the distances between arterioles in about 30 postmortem injected hearts using India ink to produce a kind of reflected imitated tabby (tiger) heart pattern.
(17) Thus epidermal growth factor appears to accelerate eyelid opening by stimulating these morphological processes and the Tabby gene appears to delay eyelid opening by impairing them.
(18) We performed histological studies to explore the mechanisms of action of the Tabby gene and of epidermal growth factor in these processes.
(19) Linkage data relative to the markers tabby and glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase are presented to locate X-linked cataract (Xcat) in the distal portion of the mouse X-chromosome between jimpy and hypophosphatemia.
(20) Grafts of the combination tabby epidermis-normal dermis and tabby epidermis-tabby dermis produced hairs with a morphology similar to hairs found in tabby mice.