(a.) [OE. seer, AS. sear (assumed) fr. searian to wither; akin to D. zoor dry, LG. soor, OHG. sor/n to to wither, Gr. a"y`ein to parch, to dry, Skr. /ush (for sush) to dry, to wither, Zend hush to dry. Ã152. Cf. Austere, Sorrel, a.] Dry; withered; no longer green; -- applied to leaves.
(a.) Dry; withered. Same as Sear.
(n.) Claw; talon.
Example Sentences:
(1) GTT proved to be normal in all the women; there sere no signs pointing to the possibility of prediabetic state.
(2) Ini tidak hanya menyebabkan frekuensi banjir yang lebih sering, tapi juga berpotensi merusak saluran air bersih terpipa maupun sistem pembuangan air kotor.
(3) The estrogen-induced hepatic synthesis of the serine-rich protein, phosvitin, in chickens is accompanied by an increase in the serine acceptance of total hepatic tRNA, which is limited to two sering isoacceptors.
(4) Some of the neutral fractions that have been demonstrated to cause tumor promotion in mice pretreated with 7,12-dimethylbenz-[aA1ANTHRACENE sere inactive as tumor initiators.
(5) Control sere (normal serum, anti-ova or anti-S or anti-P sera are inefficient.
(6) Dapat dimengerti bahwa kita sering kali menggantungkan harapan di pundak para politisi, tapi berharap politik akan dapat mengubah status quo secara mendasar hanyalah khayalan.
(7) The serological cross-reactions of T. mutans (Ationg) with other strains of T. mutans isolated in East and South Africa sere investigated as were the serological cross-reaction of T, mutans (Aitong) and other species of Theileria.
(8) The serine-glycine interconversion is catalyzed by the folic acid containing enzyme sering hydroxymethyltransferase, and a deficiency of this vitamin decreases the effectiveness of serine in meeting the chick's dietary need for glycine.
(9) Yang tidak terlihat bahkan lebih buruk: Jakarta tenggelam dengan kecepatan 20cm setiap tahun Banjir juga bertambah sering: dari yang awalnya hanya setiap lima tahun sekali, menjadi banjir di setiap musim hujan, dan kini banjir hadir saat hujan turun lebih dari tiga jam.
(10) These extracts sere fractionated by micropreparative electrophoresis on polyacrylamide gels.
(11) These probably caused inflammatory changes which sere reflected in an increase of the cellular content and high enzyme levels (acid phosphatase and 5-nucleotidase) of the synovial fluid.
(12) The maximal changes in aerobic metabolism and body temperature sere similar, while the changes in lactate, potassium, hydrogen ion and catecholamine concentrations were smaller than those observed following halothane.
(13) These three instruments are based on the principle of absorption of infra-red radiation in the 9.5 um region and are the Drager Alcotest 7110, Siemens Alcomat V5.2F and Seres Ethylometre 679.
(14) Newly synthesized calsequestrin and adenosine triphosphatase (ATPase) sere isolated by antibody precipitation, followed by separation of the precipitates in SDS-polyacrylamide gels.
Sire
Definition:
(n.) A lord, master, or other person in authority. See Sir.
(n.) A tittle of respect formerly used in speaking to elders and superiors, but now only in addressing a sovereign.
(n.) A father; the head of a family; the husband.
(n.) A creator; a maker; an author; an originator.
(n.) The male parent of a beast; -- applied especially to horses; as, the horse had a good sire.
(v. t.) To beget; to procreate; -- used of beasts, and especially of stallions.
Example Sentences:
(1) Sires of the cows had been divergently selected on yearling weight (YW) and total maternal (MAT) EPD to form four groups: high YW, high MAT EPD; high YW, low MAT EPD; low YW, high MAT EPD; and low YW, low MAT EPD.
(2) Beyond 20 mo, weights were adjusted to a constant condition score within breed of sire.
(3) Genetic parameters were estimated from sire components of variance and covariance obtained from a multiple-trait restricted maximum likelihood procedure.
(4) Simmental sires had significantly heavier calves at birth and S and H dams tended to have more calving difficulty and lower survival rates.
(5) Micromanipulation of sperm and ova has been suggested as a means to produce progeny of two sires instead of a sire and dam.
(6) Each sire family consisted of a sire, his foals, and the dams of those foals.
(7) Records of birth weight (BW), weaning weight (WW) and condition score (CS) from 1,467 Brahman and Brahman X Angus crossbred calves from Brahman and crossbred Brahman sires and Brahman, crossbred Brahman and Angus dams were collected at the Subtropical Agricultural Research Station, Brooksville, Florida, from 1971 to 1982.
(8) Live BW, carcass data, and organ data taken at 34 days of age on approximately 1,000 quail of both sexes from 110 sires and 290 dams were utilized to estimate genetic parameters from the initial generation of a selection study.
(9) Weaning weight records of 44,357 Australian Angus calves produced by 1,020 sires in 90 herds were used to evaluate the importance of sire x herd interactions.
(10) Additive relationships among sires and maternal grandsires were included.
(11) The purebred animals represented progeny of 107 sires.
(12) Repeatabilities and heritabilities of days to first service, days open, and number of services per conception were estimated from 235,589 records on 80,333 Holstein cows, daughters of 306 sires obtained from the Quebec Dairy Herd Analysis Service, by REML.
(13) Calves of mature dams were all sired by Limousin bulls and slaughtered at 12 mo.
(14) In single purpose dairy populations, sire models gave biased estimates of genetic parameters even when all data were included in the analysis.
(15) By including an artificial sire and an artificial dam and choosing appropriate merit values for the artificial matings, this problem can be solved by efficient "transportation" algorithms.
(16) A study of 24 offspring from one sire, heterozygous for W10 and Eu28R, showed that offspring inheriting Eu28R from the sire were significantly more likely to have antibodies to BLV than offspring inheriting the opposing W10 haplotype.
(17) Forty-three Hampshire or Suffolk-sired ram lambs were weaned at 60 d of age (average 23.6 kg of BW) and assigned to a 2 x 2 factorial arrangement of treatments consisting of 1) basal diet (control = BAS), 2) BAS with 6% whole canola seed (CS), 3) BAS with 4.9% deoiled soy lecithin (SL), and 4) BAS with 6% CS and 4.8% SL (CSSL).
(18) The correlation between sire of fetus effect and sire of cow effect on three production traits - milk yield, fat yield, and protein yield - in first lactation cows was investigated.
(19) Corresponding numbers of sires were 298, 289, 305, and 313.
(20) A sire-maternal grandsire mixed model with relationships was used to analyze the data to yield BLUP for the sire and maternal grandsire effects.