(a.) Any animal which is unusually small, as compared with others of its kind; -- applied particularly to domestic animals.
(a.) A variety of domestic pigeon, related to the barb and carrier.
(a.) A dwarf; also, a mean, despicable, boorish person; -- used opprobriously.
(a.) The dead stump of a tree; also, the stem of a plant.
Example Sentences:
(1) Moreover, the presence of a loss-of-function runt mutation masculinizes triploid intersexes.
(2) In rabbits starved for 24 hours, and in runt rabbits body temperature did not rise, but a decline started 60 min after endotoxin administration, corresponding to the transient fall observed in well-fed animals and continuing until about the 100-120th min; thereafter body temperature tended to stabilize at the low level.
(3) Reduced function of runt results in female-specific lethality and sexual transformation of XX animals that are heterozygous for Sxl or sis loss-of-function mutations.
(4) The effect of malabsorption syndrome (stunting or runting syndrome) on the thyroid function of broilers was investigated in control and inoculated broilers from 1 to 29 days of age.
(5) Under specific pathogen-free conditions, NZB nude mice survive less than 3 weeks, dying of a runting-like disease with infection by local normally noninvasive organisms.
(6) Ever since the abnormalities of runt disease were first described they have repeatedly been compared to those observed in patients with certain lymphomas (17).
(7) Some runts failed to increase their metabolic rate in the cold and these had the lowest deep body temperature.
(8) This results in "multisuckling", with its large number of runts.
(9) Possible candidates include the primary pair-rule genes, hairy and runt.
(10) The role of selenium deficiency in the etiology of the runting-stunting syndrome (RSS) of broiler chickens in Australia was investigated.
(11) The runt gene is required in a developing Drosophila embryo for proper segmentation.
(12) Attempts to cause lethal runting of F1 hybrid mice injected at birth with spleen cells from unresponsive mice gave variable results.
(13) Immunization of females prior to mating altered the size of their litters and the incidence of postnatal death and runting, and the effect varied with the antigen used.
(14) In the absence of defectives all animals died, but in their presence 17 of 23 animals survived and 15 of 23 became runted and chronically infected.
(15) Newborn mice, runting-like disease; bacterial inoculation; immunological response in.
(16) Alternatively maternal HLA homozygosity may predispose to fetal changes comparable to runting.
(17) Long-term effects of tolerant infection included mild runting, decreased survival time, and almost total sterility among females, largely caused by fatal virus infection of embryos.
(18) The affected mice were moderately runted and had deformities in all four limbs.
(19) The influence of prenatal growth retardation on epidermal growth and keratinization was studied in small-for-dates human babies, runt piglets and in rat fetuses subject to maternal protein deprivation.
(20) The heat productions of newborn runt and normal piglets were estimated over a range of ambient temperatures.
Rust
Definition:
(v. i.) To contract rust; to be or become oxidized.
(n.) The reddish yellow coating formed on iron when exposed to moist air, consisting of ferric oxide or hydroxide; hence, by extension, any metallic film of corrosion.
(n.) A minute mold or fungus forming reddish or rusty spots on the leaves and stems of cereal and other grasses (Trichobasis Rubigo-vera), now usually believed to be a form or condition of the corn mildew (Puccinia graminis). As rust, it has solitary reddish spores; as corn mildew, the spores are double and blackish.
(n.) That which resembles rust in appearance or effects.
(n.) A composition used in making a rust joint. See Rust joint, below.
(n.) Foul matter arising from degeneration; as, rust on salted meat.
(n.) Corrosive or injurious accretion or influence.
(v. i.) To be affected with the parasitic fungus called rust; also, to acquire a rusty appearance, as plants.
(v. i.) To degenerate in idleness; to become dull or impaired by inaction.
(v. t.) To cause to contract rust; to corrode with rust; to affect with rust of any kind.
(v. t.) To impair by time and inactivity.
Example Sentences:
(1) The reasoning in Rust v Sullivan allows government to limit freedom of speech in federally funded programs.
(2) Here, abandoned cars don’t just sit and rust, they are swallowed by the jungle.
(3) The cause, they claimed, was emissions from the mine's sulphuric acid factory as well as outflow from mountains of rust-red waste, dumped over 15 years with little concern for the environment.
(4) The bean rust fungus, Uromyces appendiculatus, undergoes thigmotropic differentiation to produce infection structures.
(5) Pain relief is more rapid after electric drill removal; this is probably related to the complete removal of the rust.
(6) And no wonder: unemployment in the Garden State is at a 35-year high of 9.8% – the fourth-worst in the nation – and unlike in the Rust Belt states or other hard-hit regions, in Jersey unemployment is still climbing .
(7) Hill, who cut an unusual touchline figure in green jacket and rust cords, preferred to praise Wednesday for the quality of their set plays rather than blast his defenders for their inability to defend them.
(8) Worse, pests like the berry borer beetle and leaf rust fungus are flourishing as the world warms.
(9) The rusted bike was found in a large white container where its owner, Ikuo Yokoyama, had kept it.
(10) Mr X invested money into buying old equipment from other abandoned coal mines – this was not difficult because abandoned mines with rusting equipment are not in short supply in North Korea today.
(11) This week a beachcomber in British Columbia found a moving crate containing a rusting Harley-Davidson motorcycle registered to Japan's Miyagi prefecture, which absorbed the brunt of the tsunami.
(12) One white lump sits beside the rusted-out remains of a bucket.
(13) In the glow of the thing's own flame they saw edificial flanks, the concrete and rust of them, the iron of the pylon barnacled, shaggy with benthic growth now lank gelatinous bunting.
(14) The Trump vote contained rednecks and inhabitants of the rust belt, just as south Wales and Sunderland turned out for Brexit – but in neither case was that the whole story.
(15) The best actress award Last year Marion Cotillard's turn in Jacques Audiard's Rust & Bone , as a waterpark trainer who loses her legs, was beaten to the best actress award by two troubled nuns in Romanian drama Beyond the Hills.
(16) Basidiomycetes, a complex and common group of fungi, which include mushrooms, rusts, smuts, brackets, and puffballs, have not been well studied.
(17) Naturally, insider accounts suggest electoral calculation : Trump reckoned that the people who put him in the White House, especially blue collar workers in the rust-belt states, have long seen global warming as a con.
(18) We cannot let that happen.” “He says he has foreign policy experience because he ran the Miss Universe pageant in Russia,” she said, adding at another point in the speech: “This isn’t reality television, this is actual reality.” Later, Clinton added: “It is not hard to see how a Trump presidency could lead to a global economic crisis.” The former secretary of state’s speech, staged in front of a wall of US flags, rebutted a foreign policy address Trump made in April in which he promised to save “humanity itself” and “shake the rust off America’s foreign policy”.
(19) Where other politicians might be accused of dog-whistle politics, Trump was broadcasting at a frequency accessible to all, exploiting the nation’s three biggest weaknesses: rust, race and ignorance.
(20) Steel surfaces can be treated with zinc and chromates to prevent the steel from rusting.