(n.) The back or hindmost part; that which is behind, or last in order; -- opposed to front.
(n.) Specifically, the part of an army or fleet which comes last, or is stationed behind the rest.
(a.) Being behind, or in the hindmost part; hindmost; as, the rear rank of a company.
(v. t.) To place in the rear; to secure the rear of.
(v. t.) To raise; to lift up; to cause to rise, become erect, etc.; to elevate; as, to rear a monolith.
(v. t.) To erect by building; to set up; to construct; as, to rear defenses or houses; to rear one government on the ruins of another.
(v. t.) To lift and take up.
(v. t.) To bring up to maturity, as young; to educate; to instruct; to foster; as, to rear offspring.
(v. t.) To breed and raise; as, to rear cattle.
(v. t.) To rouse; to stir up.
(v. i.) To rise up on the hind legs, as a horse; to become erect.
Example Sentences:
(1) The first group was reared in complete darkness while the second one was subjected to permanent noise.
(2) Laboratory-reared Ixodes scapularis Say, Amblyomma americanum (L.), and Dermacentor variabilis (Say) were fed on New Zealand white rabbits experimentally infected with Borrelia burgdorferi (JDI strain).
(3) Heavy death losses (59%) occurred in adult Mystromys 3--14 days after muscle biopsies were taken from their rear legs.
(4) Maternal age had a significant effect (P less than .05) on live body weights of broilers reared either separately or intermingled.
(5) Slight but significant shortening of the latency of initial positivity in the evoked potential was observed after rearing in the enriched condition as compared to the data obtained from the littermates that were reared in the standard or impoverished conditions.
(6) Here we show that the subsequent survival and reproductive success of subordinate female red deer is depressed more by rearing sons than by rearing daughters, whereas the subsequent fitness of dominant females is unaffected by the sex of their present offspring.
(7) Infected ticks were reared from larvae feeding on each of 11 rabbits taken from the same site.
(8) But in each party there are major issues to be dealt with as the primary phase of the contests slips gradually into the rear-view mirror.
(9) The external and internal rear-view mirrors of automobiles should be positioned within the binocular field of vision.
(10) This time, the syndrome was observed on adult cattle reared in the Accra Plains (Ghana) and infected by S. typhimurium.
(11) Serum somatomedin A was significantly reduced in the growth-retarded rats as compared to those whose growth was enhanced by rearing in small litters.
(12) This measure was significantly greater by 17.2% in chicks trained for 140 min than in dark-reared controls.
(13) It was caused at the frequency close to 100% in dysgenic offsprings reared above 25 degrees C, of which gonads were morphologically clearly different from those of usual GD sterility, whereas there was no indication of GD-3 sterility at temperatures below 24 degrees C. Temperature sensitive period of GD-3 sterility was estimated to the prepupal stage by shift-down experiment.
(14) a 45-mg pellet every 45 s) induces considerable locomotion, rearing and other motor activities in food-deprived rats.
(15) In contrast, when hamsters reared under LD conditions at 25 degrees C for 12 weeks were transferred to SD, testicular regression was associated with a decrease in plasma testosterone and the total LH binding per two testes and an increase in LH binding per unit testicular weight.
(16) Nevertheless, there are farms on which satisfactory results are obtained in rearing calves with low Ig levels.
(17) Littermate pigs were reared artificially or on the sow.
(18) There were no significant differences in the adrenal weights of males or females, but females reared by bisexual pairs had larger absolute and relative adrenals than females reared in populations.
(19) sp., described from wild-caught and laboratory-reared females, males, nymphs, and larvae parasitizing the Humboldt Penguin, Spheniscus humboldti Meyen, is the fifth species of the Ornithodoros (Alectorobius) capensis group to be recognized in the Neotropical Region.
(20) In cats that viewed lines of the same orientation with both eyes during rearing, a substantially smaller proportion of units were selective for orientation; the preferred orientations of these units also tended to match the orientation to which the cats had been exposed.
Wheelie
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) The results of this analytical study of wheelchair wheelie performance can be summarized into two wheelchair design equations, or rules of thumb, as developed in the paper.
(2) Snap – they're my photos 8 Extreme Mountain Unicycling This is wheely dangerous, said a spokesman … 9 How to win Chess in 4 moves Pawn movie 10 Dog Jumps Over A River Cute – you'll want to stream this video Source: Viral Video Chart .
(3) Wheelie balance is the other aspect of performance considered; where the user balances the wheelchair on the rear wheels for going down curbs or just for fun.
(4) Thus, a simple test of determining the shortest length of rod one can balance in the palm of the hand (plus measuring handrim force capability and simple reaction time) may indicate if a wheelchair user will find it easy to do a wheelie balance.
(5) The former wheelchair basketball player, British junior powerlifting champion, tennis contender (he reached 69th in the world), l eading face of the famous BBC ident (featuring three wheelchair dancers, spinning and doing wheelies) actor and TV presenter is visiting the tiny terrace road where he grew up in Newham, east London.
(6) And one of those wheelie suitcases, the Trunki, I liked that too.
(7) People were smoking heroin in the open in the yard, bubbling up hooch in wheelie bins, taking ecstasy.
(8) The wheelie bins overflowed into the courtyard every single week.
(9) About five minutes after wiping the sweat from her brow and drop-kicking her placenta into a nearby wheelie bin, she stuck on a tabard and poached enough cleaning clients to buy all the bum cream her little heart desired.
(10) Yeah if I don’t take insulin for three days … you’d a had to carry me out in a wheelie bin,” he said.
(11) However, balancing a rod is done primarily by using visual perception, whereas wheelie balance involves human joint proprioceptors and visual plus vestibular (inner ear) perception.
(12) He had strapped a pink and purple umbrella to a small wheelie suitcase that held, he said, his “whole kit and caboodle”.
(13) Phil Mitchell’s Rock Bottom sounds like a tip for the 2.15 at Lingfield, but as he realised the pink wheelie suitcase buried beneath the rubble belonged to his runaway daughter Louise, he hit it hard.
(14) Three men on motorcycles arrived and performed death-defying wheelies.
(15) The equation containing the significant parameters involved in popping a wheelie for curb climbing is: fh = 0.8 mg theta c.g.
(16) Tensions were still high: wheelie bins were set on fire, a police van was attacked with bricks, a female officer was injured, and a police dog bit a 14-year-old boy.
(17) Timothy’s passion is industrial strategy, Godfrey specialises in pensions, housing and longterm care – while one of few survivors from the Cameron era, special adviser Sheridan Westlake, who famously persuaded Eric Pickles to focus on the unglamorous issues that suburban voters cared about, such as the Daily Mail obsession with wheelie bins .
(18) It can be used for a variety of jobs from cleaning cars and bikes to patios, decking, fences, guttering, garden furniture and even smelly wheelie bins.
(19) I've even seen a picture of a giant wheely trash can in pepto bismol pink with a ribbon on it.
(20) A couple of minutes from now, I'll be trundling my little wheelie suitcase out of the door, stepping into a taxi for one last interview while being driven back to obscurity.