(n.) Anything set up to frighten crows or other birds from cornfields; hence, anything terifying without danger.
(n.) A person clad in rags and tatters.
(n.) The black tern.
Example Sentences:
(1) Every transfer back to MLS from Europe is written about with the "eurosnob" as the argument's scarecrow.
(2) At least if he had to join the Army, he decided, he would apply for the Royal Army Medical Corps, but his diminutive stature (he was just over five feet tall) disqualified him from anything but the Bantam units, "a horrible rabble - Falstaff's scarecrows were nothing to these", he wrote.
(3) Among women, a majority favoured the Scarecrow (37 per cent as opposed to 36 per cent for the Tin Man).
(4) Across the board, 46 per cent of voters said they would prefer to be governed by the Tin Man, compared with 27 per cent who chose the Scarecrow.
(5) Stuntdriver George Cottle went through four Batmobiles during filming of Batman Begins, a retelling of Bruce Wayne's pre-cape capers that sees him do battle with a scarecrow on a fire-breathing horse hell-bent on, as ever, poisoning Gotham's water supply.
(6) When it came to keeping hungry lions at bay, an old-fashioned scarecrow just wasn't up to the job.
(7) I grew up not just gay but tall, speccy and scarecrow-skinny, the child of divorced parents from opposing sides of a sectarian divide.
(8) The program SCARECROW has been developed to help the molecular modeler to analyze and display the very big and complex data files produced by molecular dynamics programs.
(9) The molecular graphics program SCARECROW is written to support the display, animation, and extensive analysis of molecular dynamics trajectories.
(10) Ed Miliband is the Scarecrow, who has persuaded people his heart is in the right place while so far failing to prove that Labour could govern with no money.
(11) The Scarecrow from the classic movie "The Wizard of Oz" is but one example.
(12) We invited people to imagine they lived in the Land of Oz, and the candidates for power were "the tin man, who's all brains and no heart, and the scarecrow, who's all heart and no brains.
(13) His biographer wrote: "He offered as his personal motto the legend hung around the neck of a ragged scarecrow of a man in a painting by Goya : A ú n aprendo .
(14) Late-night TV roundup: Kellyanne Conway is a 'truth scarecrow' Read more But his favorite news organization appears to be the far-right site Breitbart, which Oliver said contained “the kind of headlines you see your old high school friend share on Facebook and think, ‘Oh that’s a shame, I guess Greg sucks now’”.
(15) Turere said he tried various ideas for a more peaceful solution, such as a kerosene lamp and a scarecrow.
(16) They will come the first day and they see the scarecrow, and they go back, but the second day, they'll come and they say, this thing is not moving here, it's always here.
(17) Late-night hosts took aim at Donald Trump’s counselor Kellyanne Conway last night, referring to her as a “truth scarecrow”.
(18) When it comes to any vision for a new economy, they are the scarecrow, the tin man and the cowardly lion – no brain, no heart and no courage."
(19) Having figured in the two previous Batman movies and Inception, it's hardly a stretch to imagine the Scarecrow returning.
(20) More immediately, the task facing both parties is to convince voters that they are neither tin man nor scarecrow.
Whale
Definition:
(n.) Any aquatic mammal of the order Cetacea, especially any one of the large species, some of which become nearly one hundred feet long. Whales are hunted chiefly for their oil and baleen, or whalebone.
Example Sentences:
(1) A sperm whale myoglobin gene containing multiple unique restriction sites has been constructed in pUC 18 by sequential assembly of chemically synthesized oligonucleotide fragments.
(2) Japan needs to sell whale meat at a competitive price, similar to that of pork or chicken, and to do that it needs to increase its annual catch."
(3) Australia is hoping to put a permanent end to Japan's annual slaughter of hundreds of whales in the Southern Ocean, in a landmark legal challenge that begins this week.
(4) Earlier today Liz Sandeman, a marine mammal medic who went out in a lifeboat to examine the whale, said: "It looks quite healthy and quite relaxed.
(5) If anything, we empathise with the whales more than the humans because they're treated like animals.
(6) In 2011, a young sperm whale was found floating dead off the Greek island of Mykonos.
(7) At higher pH, this signal changes in a way different from that observed for whale myoglobin.
(8) Campbell said that if all signatories to the convention killed as many minke whales as Japan does, then more than 83,000 would be slaughtered in the Southern Ocean every year.
(9) Crystals have been grown of "sperm whale" myoglobin produced in Escherichia coli from a synthetic gene and the structure has been solved to 1.9 A resolution.
(10) Next year they will target 50 fin whales, 50 endangered humpbacks, and another 925 minkes.
(11) Crystalline myoglobin was isolated from the skeletal muscle of the finback whale and fractionated, in its cyanmet form, into nine components (I-IX) by chromatography on CM-cellulose.
(12) While in detention in Tokyo he indicated he no longer wished to take part in anti-whaling activities.
(13) Between June 20 and the end of August, whalers in Wadaura and three other villages will be permitted to catch 66 Baird's beaked whales that, because of their relatively small size, are not covered by the 1986 International Whaling Commission's ban on commercial hunting.
(14) Although Migaloo’s rough itinerary can be figured out, it is still a lucky whale watcher who spots him, Oskar Peterson, from the White Whale Research Centre , told Guardian Australia.
(15) Japan should undertake some DNA research in Japanese fish markets, where endangered whales - including orcas and humpbacks - are being sold as minke whales.
(16) The Institute of Cetacean Research, a quasi-governmental body that oversees the hunts, had hoped to use sales from the meat to cover the costs of the whaling fleet's expeditions, she said.
(17) 3.06pm BST More scientific reaction Ken Collins, a senior research fellow at the University of Southampton, said there was no justification for using lethal methods for researching whales.
(18) Ben Lewis (@ben_lewis10) The 'vibe' of the #ICJ decision so far- #Whaling can be done for scientific research... but Japan doing on too big a scale.
(19) Occurrence of BaP adducts in the brain of three whales of this population coincides with the high incidence of tumours.
(20) Only one bryde's whale sample was available for investigation.