(n.) A band in the same position as the bend sinister, but only half as broad as the latter.
(n.) The slope of the ditch nearest the parapet; the escarp.
(n.) A steep descent or declivity.
(v. t.) To cut down perpendicularly, or nearly so; as, to scarp the face of a ditch or a rock.
Example Sentences:
(1) This beach is overlooked by a cluster of crofts and cottages with views across the Atlantic to the uninhabited island of Scarp.
(2) The semi-rural suburb, nestled halfway up the Darling Scarp, about a 45-minute drive from the centre of Perth, Western Australia, is one of the major population centres of the electorate of Canning, which will go to the polls on 19 September in a byelection triggered by the sudden death of its longstanding and popular Liberal MP Don Randall .
(3) The effect of the steroid hormones in decreasing the phosphorylation of SCARP was specific for their respective target tissues.
(4) This protein, designated SCARP (steroid and cyclic adenosine 3':5' monophosphate regulated phosphoprotein), was estimated to have an apparent molecular phoprotein), was estimated to have an apparent molecular weight of 54,000 in the gel electrophoresis system used.
(5) A protein synthesis inhibitor, cycloheximide, abolished the effect of the steroid hormones, but not that of cAMP, on the endogenous phosphorylation of SCARP.
(6) Numerical results were generated for two models: a linear fault scarp on the seafloor, and a flat seafloor containing a rectangular channel.
(7) The effect of 17beta-estradiol and of testosterone on SCARP could be observed as early as two hours after a single dose of the steroid.
(8) The results suggest that steroid hormones regulate either the amount of SCARP or its ability to become phosphorylated.
(9) Any walk that follows the top of a scarp is good, but the section of the Cotswold Way overlooking Cheltenham has to be one of the best, with open views and a limestone upland nature reserve.
(10) Scarpe, the vestibular nuclei, the vasomotor centre and the nuclei of n. vagus.
(11) From this, we conclude that the RSL are generated by water interacting with perchlorates, forming a brine that flows downhill.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest These channels, which are between 1 metre and 10 metres wide, are on a scarp in the Hellas impact basin.
Scaup
Definition:
(n.) A bed or stratum of shellfish; scalp.
(n.) A scaup duck. See below.
Example Sentences:
(1) Generally metal levels were higher in the salt gland for mallard and black duck, and in the liver for greater scaup.
(2) During February and March, 1974, an epizootic involving lesser scaup (Aythya affinis) occurred in the Tampa Bay area on the west coast of Florida.
(3) Pintails and lesser scaup gave the poorest results, and pekin duck, black duck, and redhead duck were intermediate.
(4) Concurrent with this epizootic was a red tide caused by heavy blooms of the toxic dinoflagellate Gymnodinium breve intoxication were evident in some of the lesser scaup.
(5) The concentrations of Fe, Zn, Mn, Cu, Pb, Cd, Co, Ni, Cr and Ag in 88 samples of various bones and five samples of trachea prepared from scaup ducks (Aythya marila L.) have been determined.
(6) In comparing tissues cobalt was higher in the salt glands than in livers of all three species; chromium and nickel were higher in the salt gland than liver for mallard and black duck; and lead, manganese and zinc were higher in the liver than the salt gland in greater scaup.
(7) These lesser scaup specialists exhibit interactive patterns amongst themselves and, to some extent, with avocet specialists.
(8) Levels of nine heavy metals were measured in the livers and salt glands of greater scaup (Aythya marila), black duck (Anas rubripes) and mallard (A. platyrhynchos) from Raritan Bay, New Jersey to determine if the functioning avian salt gland concentrates heavy metals.
(9) Adults of Profilicollis botulus were found in 6 species of diving ducks in British Columbia including 3 new hosts: common goldeneye, Bucephala clangula (L.); Barrow's goldeneye, B. islandica (Gmelin); and greater scaup, Aythya marila (L.).
(10) A comparison of susceptibility to experimental infection with C. bushiensis revealed that mallards (Anas platyrhynchos), black ducks (Anas rubripes), blue-winged teal, pintail (Anas acuta) and lesser scaup (Aythya affinis) had similar susceptibilities but that wood ducks were significantly less susceptible to infection.
(11) In contrast, avocets collected from permanent bodies of water in Alberta had communities composed largely of species that are specialists in various duck species, particularly lesser scaup.
(12) A controlled experimental feeding of G. breve toxic material to White Pekin ducklings produced illness and death with signs comparable to some of those seen in the scaup.