(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.
Wire
Definition:
(n.) A thread or slender rod of metal; a metallic substance formed to an even thread by being passed between grooved rollers, or drawn through holes in a plate of steel.
(n.) A telegraph wire or cable; hence, an electric telegraph; as, to send a message by wire.
(v. t.) To bind with wire; to attach with wires; to apply wire to; as, to wire corks in bottling liquors.
(v. t.) To put upon a wire; as, to wire beads.
(v. t.) To snare by means of a wire or wires.
(v. t.) To send (a message) by telegraph.
(v. i.) To pass like a wire; to flow in a wirelike form, or in a tenuous stream.
(v. i.) To send a telegraphic message.
Example Sentences:
(1) They could go out and trade for a pitcher such as the New York Mets’ Bartolo Colón , an obvious choice despite his 41 years, but he would come with an $11m price tag for next season and have to pass through the waiver wires process first – considering the wily mood Billy Beane is in this year, the A’s could be the team that blocks such a move.
(2) The solution to these problems would seem either to reduce the time spent in rectangular wires or to change to a bracket with reduced torque, together with appropriate second order compensations in the archwire or the bracket.
(3) The major difficulty encountered with the current technique is the danger of neurologic injury during the passage and handling of conventional wires, especially in extensive procedures.
(4) I have the BBC app on my phone and it updates me, and I saw the wire ‘Malaysian flight goes missing over Ukraine.’ I’m like, well it’s probably the Russians who shot it down.
(5) For the attachment of adherent cells, microcarriers or wire springs can be applied to increase the internal surface of the bioreactor.
(6) Extraction tools included flexible, telescoping sheaths advanced over the lead to dilate scar tissue and apply countertraction, deflection catheters, and wire basket snares.
(7) It is not same to the stainless steel wire of traditional removable appliances which must be activated every time to produce a little tooth movement.
(8) Whereas in flexion stress all methods showed a sufficient stability, the rotation tests proved, that in case of a dorsal instability of the lower cervical spine, posterior interlaminar wiring or anterior plate stabilization showed no reliable stabilization effect.
(9) Medial canthal tendon resection and tucks or transnasal wiring are then performed.
(10) Overhead wire problems were causing delays on the east coast mainline into London King's Cross.
(11) The steerable guide wire enabled the angioscopic catheter to be accurately and safely inserted into the target lesion in all cases.
(12) The use of wire stylets to facilitate passage of these tubes has increased the chances of unrecognized tracheal intubations, particularly in obtunded patients.
(13) Kirschner improved the wire traction procedure decisevely.
(14) Conservative treatment (immobilisation in a plaster alone) was compared to percutaneous K-wire fixation.
(15) The procedure consists of a Kirschner wire used as the means of traction on the remaining soft tissue of the lower lip, using the upper teeth or pyriform aperture bone as remote fixed points for tissue traction.
(16) Electroencephalographic activity and extracellular discharges from neurons in deep temporal lobe structures were recorded from fine wire microelectrodes chronically implanted in seven psychomotor epileptic patients for diagnostic localization of seizure foci.
(17) Masseter EMG was recorded by fine wire electrodes and amplified by a specially designed amplifier.
(18) Guide-wire fragments retained in the coronary artery system after PTCA are removed either immediately by means of catheter techniques or by urgent operation.
(19) It was smaller than that reported for patients who had received stabilization of the maxilla with intraosseous and maxillomandibular wiring.
(20) At Charity Hospital in New Orleans transverse Kirschner wires have been routinely used to stabilize the zygoma in these cases.