(n.) The eighth sign of the zodiac, which the sun enters about the twenty-third day of October, marked thus [/] in almanacs.
(n.) A constellation of the zodiac containing the bright star Antares. It is drawn on the celestial globe in the figure of a scorpion.
Example Sentences:
(1) The company choose the event to announce, not one, but two new consoles: an updated version of the Xbox One with a simple “S” suffix, and a more powerful upgrade – codenamed Project Scorpio – due out next year.
(2) We’re focused right now on what we announced on Scorpio, but Xbox Live and VR opens a lot of doors that we’re looking into for sure,” he says.
(3) Taking advantage of dynamic scaling and things like that, a game they make for Xbox One today will run beautifully on S and run beautifully and look better on Scorpio”.
(4) We’re not getting distracted.” Perhaps then, we’re looking at a future market where Xbox One titles will feature VR modes and augmentations that will only be accessible to Scorpio owners – but not a future where we’ll see totally dedicated VR titles.
(5) Furthermore, at E3 we saw Phil Spencer on stage saying, “The next step change for gamers and developers must deliver true 4K gaming and high-fidelity VR.” So was VR support a key part of the Scorpio vision?
(6) SCORPIO involves delivering a syllabus through a series of lecture-demonstrations at which students, teachers and patients gather at a defined area.
(7) Four species of scorpions live in Sfax area: Androctonus australis, Androctonus aeneas, Buthus occitanus and Scorpio maurus.
(8) We announced three platforms – today’s Xbox One, Xbox One S and Scorpio.
(9) Microsoft has said that there will be no Project Scorpio exclusives, that all games will be compatible across the whole range.
(10) Around the time of Sontag's seminal essay, there emerged a series of influential "outrageous" camp films such as Jack Smith's Flaming Creatures (1963), which depicted a transvestite orgy, Andy Warhol's Blow Job (1963) and Kenneth Anger's gay biker movie Scorpio Rising (1964).
(11) It resonates with them because other devices are doing that.” Microsoft is promising that there will be no Project Scorpio-exclusive titles.
(12) Despite a preference for theatre, he worked steadily on screen and, excepting Michael Winner's zoom-laden Scorpio (1973), showed a commitment beyond a desire to pay school fees.
(13) And while Xbox One S will run 4K movies and promises to upscale games to that resolution, it’ll be Scorpio that delivers true, native 4K gaming.
(14) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Microsoft’s Phil Spencer unveils Xbox One S and Project Scorpio It will be the first major change to the console since its original launch in 2013, and was a widely expected move.
(15) Scorpio rising: Microsoft's plans for Xbox One and the future of video games Read more Among the morass of virtual reality demos, the biggest news from this year’s show was of two sort-of-new console launches: PlayStation Neo and Xbox Scorpio .
(16) Scorpio followed it, when, playing a Russian agent, he was reunited with Lancaster.
(17) It looks like each disc will include content or builds that will be accessible to those with the more powerful Scorpio iteration.
(18) But if publishers begin to create high-end virtual reality titles that will only run on Scorpio-level hardware – that’s market fragmentation, right?
(19) A new, more compact version called Xbox One S is launching in August, while Christmas 2017 will see the arrival of Xbox One Project Scorpio, a significantly more powerful update, that will support high definition virtual reality as well as games designed to exploit new 4K Ultra HD technology.
(20) They wondered whether holding a .44 Magnum in a suspect's face was the best way to pursue justice; they wondered whether the San Francisco setting was a slap at one of America's most liberal cities; even the CND belt buckle sported by Scorpio, the serial killer in the film, was interpreted as a swipe at the left.
Taurus
Definition:
(n.) The Bull; the second in order of the twelve signs of the zodiac, which the sun enters about the 20th of April; -- marked thus [/] in almanacs.
(n.) A zodiacal constellation, containing the well-known clusters called the Pleiades and the Hyades, in the latter of which is situated the remarkably bright Aldebaran.
(n.) A genus of ruminants comprising the common domestic cattle.
Example Sentences:
(1) He is Taurus and I'm Pisces; my dad was Pisces and my mum was Taurus.
(2) It contains 64 amino acid residues including one phosphoserine and differs from its bovine (Bos taurus) B counterpart by 10 amino acid substitutions.
(3) Balanorchis anastrophus Fischoeder, 1901, from the reticulum of Bos taurus is reported for the first time in the State of Pará, Brazil.
(4) We measured baseline plasma cortisol concentration over a 44-day study in Bos indicus and Bos taurus calves.
(5) The claim made by astrologers that people can be characterized according to their sign of the zodiac (sagitarius, taurus, cancer, scorpion) must be refuted.
(6) Oestrus in domestic animals was synchronized satisfactorily during the normal breeding season by both of the standard treatments with prostaglandins or progestagens initially developed for use in Bos taurus cattle.
(7) To determine whether some of these adaptations may be present in a domain of tubulin that participates directly or indirectly in lateral contact between microtubule protofilaments, we have examined the energetics of the binding of colchicine, a drug thought to bind to such a site, to pure brain tubulins from an Antarctic fish (Notothenia gibberifrons) and from a mammal (the cow, Bos taurus).
(8) Studies have been made on the peroxidase activity of metmyoglobins in animals from various ecological groups--the horse Equus caballus, cattle Bos taurus, beaver Castor fiber, otter Lutra lutra, mink Mustela vison and dog Canis familiaris.
(9) The results were compared with the findings in 28 specimens of Bos taurus aged 1-4 years.
(10) Many of the European antisera, which are operationally monospecific in Bos taurus cattle, were multispecific in the African animals.
(11) Average log densities of nymphal and adult ticks on B. taurus cattle are significantly higher than on B. indicus cattle but neither cattle genotype differs in this regard from B. indicus X B. taurus cattle.
(12) WIM-8, an IgG2b monoclonal antibody, identified the 44,000 dalton protein of the bovine MHC class I molecule present on Bos taurus and Bos indicus animals.
(13) The arrangement, origin, course and opening of the ductuli efferents testis of the bull (Bos taurus) were visualized using scanning electron microscopy.
(14) Plasma haptoglobin (Hp) in cattle (Bos taurus) has a molecular mass so large that it is virtually unable to penetrate 4% polyacrylamide gels and is excluded from gel filtration media with an upper exclusion limit of greater than 1000 kDa.
(15) The chromosomes of five gaur (Bos gaurus hubbacki) domestic cattle (B indicus cross B taurus) hybrids (three females, two males) were studied using the leucocyte culture method and centromeric (C) banding technique.
(16) B. bigemina infection at 18 months and A. marginale infection at 13 or 24 months resulted in slightly less severe reactions in pure-bred Bos indicus cattle than in Bos taurus.
(17) In preliminary studies with Sarcocystis from bovine (Bos taurus) and mule deer (Odocoileus hemionus hemionus), a coccidia-free laboratory dog (Canis familiaris) and captive coyote (Canis latrans) were fed flesh from a local Sarcocystis-infected bovine and later flesh from an infected mule deer from Eastern Oregon.
(18) Bovine (Bos taurus) trypsin and trypsin activity in rat (Rattus norvegicus) pancreatic extract were inhibited by soybean trypsin inhibitor and by bovine basic pancreatic and colostrum inhibitors.
(19) The frequencies of the two alleles, which have been designated Bo5.1 and Bo5.2, in the cattle populations tested were 100% and 0%, respectively, in Bos taurus, and 10% and 90%, respectively, in Bos indicus.
(20) N-terminal analysis of the proteins extracted from ox (Bos taurus) erythrocyte membranes by dilute EDTA is used as a means of estimating the heterogeneity of the protein fractions.