(n.) An arctic finch (Plectrophenax, / Plectrophanes, nivalis) common, in winter, both in Europe and the United States, and often appearing in large flocks during snowstorms. It is partially white, but variously marked with chestnut and brown. Called also snow bunting, snowflake, snowfleck, and snowflight.
(n.) Any finch of the genus Junco which appears in flocks in winter time, especially J. hyemalis in the Eastern United States; -- called also blue snowbird. See Junco.
(n.) The fieldfare.
Example Sentences:
(1) All the spirometric tests (FVO, FEV1 and FMEF 25-75) were performed in a standard way as recommended by American Thoracic Society in Snowbird Meeting in 1979.
(2) With temperatures exceeding 38C (100F) the usual "snowbird" visitors from Canada who winter here have mostly gone, leaving an eclectic, permanent population of Latino workers and wealthy gay people – and Republicans.
(3) Based on analysis of more than 2,500 forced vital capacity (FVC) maneuvers, we examined 2 aspects of the standards for spirometry recommended by the 1977 Snowbird Workshop concerning the timing of the FVC maneuver.
(4) Between sessions he would retire to his workshop and devise guitar arrangements of pop and jazz standards or of other people's hits, from Anne Murray's Snowbird to Boots Randolph's Yakety Sax.
(5) Of course, in the winter you get the US snowbirds in their campervans and tie-dye T-shirts, but although there’s more development these days, it’s still mostly wild.
Warmer
Definition:
(n.) One who, or that which, warms.
Example Sentences:
(1) "There is sufficient evidence... of past surface temperatures to say with a high level of confidence that the last few decades of the 20th century were warmer than any comparable period in the last 400 years.
(2) Blood samples taken from children at certain ages and during the warmer months contained more lead than samples obtained during the cooler months.
(3) The warmer half-spindle was longer than the cooler.
(4) The same strains were isolated from the baby warmer mattress, baby cot, suction machine bottle and wall of the fridge.
(5) A total of 42% of the clinical isolates and 15% of the environmental isolates were enterotoxigenic (by the suckling mouse assay); these levels were significantly lower than those found in warmer environments.
(6) Less confidence can be placed in proxy-based reconstructions of surface temperatures for AD 900 to 1600, although the available proxy evidence does indicate that many locations were warmer during the past 25 years than during any other 25-year period since 900."
(7) In warmer water (18 degrees C), the parasites reproduced intensively only on the scaly form of fish, whereas no parasites were found on the scaleless form some days after infection.
(8) El Niño is declared when temperatures in the tropical Pacific Ocean are 0.8C above average, and brings a dry winter and spring to southern Australia and a warmer than average spring and summer to the eastern states.
(9) Sadly, this warmer weather has left many fashion retailers with a substantial stock overhang, raising the question of earlier and deeper discounts as we get closer to Christmas.
(10) The median innervated fingertips were warmer than those innervated by the ulnar nerves.
(11) This is considerably warmer than the mid-September average of around 17C (62.6F), the Met Office said.
(12) The statistical evaluation results that all children were dressed nearly in the like wise in spite of a considerable difference of the temperature in both crèches; only the covering of the arms was significant less in the warmer new-builded crèch.
(13) Obama received a rapturous welcome when he visited in 2010, though concrete results of the warmer relationship have been less obvious .
(14) We utilized arterial and venous catheters to create a circulatory fistula through the heating mechanism of a modified commercially available counter-current fluid warmer to achieve simple, rapid extracorporeal rewarming.
(15) But my standard of living is certainly less than when I worked, and I don't see it getting better, so I'm thinking of emigrating to somewhere cheaper and warmer.
(16) Boiling the hand warmers redissolves the sodium acetate in the water in the water released from the crystals, recreating the supersaturated solution, so you are ready for another chilly evening walk.
(17) Certainly Alan has far warmer feelings towards the Kop hero than whoever it was that compared him to Leicestershire's premier plodding lad rockers.
(18) But because meltwater can percolate down to lubricate the undersides of glaciers, and because warmer oceans can lift the ends of glaciers up off the sea floor and remove a natural brake, the ice itself can end up getting dumped into the sea, unmelted.
(19) Higher temperatures in the anaesthetic room, prewarming of infusion fluids and employment of infusion warmers should be employed with all anaesthetics.
(20) Tests run at 37 C were 28% less abrasive than those at room temperature, suggesting a softening of bristles because of the warmer temperature.