(n.) A channel or runner which receives the rows of molds in the pig bed.
(n.) The bar of metal which remains in such a runner.
(n.) A mass of solidified metal in a furnace hearth; a salamander.
(n.) A kind of covered shed, formerly used by besiegers in filling up and passing the ditch of a besieged place, sapping and mining the wall, or the like.
(v. t.) To scatter, as seed, upon the earth; to plant by strewing; as, to sow wheat. Also used figuratively: To spread abroad; to propagate.
(v. t.) To scatter seed upon, in, or over; to supply or stock, as land, with seeds. Also used figuratively: To scatter over; to besprinkle.
(v. i.) To scatter seed for growth and the production of a crop; -- literally or figuratively.
Example Sentences:
(1) Milk yield and litter weights were similar but backfat thickness (BF) was greater in 22 C sows (P less than .05) compared to 30 C sows.
(2) Plasmid profiling was used to distinguish strains of lactobacilli inhabiting the digestive tract of piglets and the feces of sows.
(3) Serum from piglets of vaccinated sows had no more bactericidal activity than did sera from non-vaccinated sows.
(4) The results indicate that additional feed in late gestation improves reproductive performance in sows.
(5) The latter animals were raised in an automated feeding device (Autosow) with an artificial diet simulating the nutritional composition of sow milk.
(6) In acute experiments on pregnant sows under sodium pentobarbitone anaesthesia, acid base balance, oxygenation and plasma metabolite concentrations were well maintained in the dam and all fetuses which remained undisturbed in utero, irrespective of the duration of the experiment.
(7) Littermate pigs were reared artificially or on the sow.
(8) The animals were sold only to smaller farms (less than 500 sows for breeding) with concentional keeping patterns which were kept under constant diagnostic supervision.
(9) Sow had a couple of chances and the substitute Emmanuel Emenike drew a sharp last-minute save out of Szczesny but Giroud's penalty, after Kadlec's foul on Walcott, represented Arsenal's emphatic final word.
(10) Incubation of normal pig lymphocytes in serum samples collected from 10 sows immediately before, and at daily intervals after mating with a vasectomized boar significantly elevated the rosette inhibition titre (RIT) of a standard antilymphocyte serum in 6 animals on the first but not on the 2nd and 3rd day after copulation.
(11) Landrace sows lost less weight during lactation (P less than .05) when fed diet F than when fed diet N. The total number of pigs born, born alive, and alive at 21 d and at weaning were higher (P less than .01) for S-line Duroc sows, and litter size at 21 d and at weaning was higher (P less than .01) for S-line Landrace sows than for C-line litters within each breed.
(12) Patterns of estradiol and LH secretion around estrus were similar in normal sows and those treated with GnRH.
(13) The adrenocortical response and open field behavior of a random sample of 37 individually confined gestating sows in different parities were tested around day 85 of pregnancy.
(14) The possibility of transplacental transmission of PRCV was investigated in two litters born to sows that had been inoculated with this virus in late pregnancy.
(15) Isolations were made from the kidney and genital tract of each sow.
(16) Critics have warned that the boom is benefiting only a narrow elite while leaving the poor and jobless behind, exacerbating inequality and potentially sowing seeds of unrest.
(17) Add to this the fact that sows in China are almost certain to be kept in stalls.
(18) Despite hypocalcaemia and hypophosphataemia of the homozygote sows at term, fetal Ca and Pi concentrations were normal.
(19) Number of pigs born alive was lower for sows treated with P.G.
(20) Sera from adult sows showed a higher rate (73.1%) of positive titers than those from 3-6 month-old pigs (40.7%).
Sower
Definition:
(n.) One who, or that which, sows.
Example Sentences:
(1) The long-lived fusogenic state induced in spherical-shaped erythrocyte ghosts by electric field pulses (Sowers, A.E.
(2) Classical studies on mutagenesis with prototype mutagens like 2-aminopurine (2-AP) and 5-bromouracil clearly show that mutations can occur by incorporation of deoxynucleotides of tautomeric or ionized (Sowers et al., 1987) bases into newly synthesized DNA (Ronen, 1979; Lasken and Goodman, 1984, Coulondre and Miller, 1977).
(3) Facebook Twitter Pinterest The Sower by Eric Gill, at the BBC’s Broadcasting House in London.
(4) We are a messenger of peace, stability and security in the region and the world.” He said that the only people who were not happy were “Zionists, warmongers, sowers of discord among Islamic nations and extremists in the US” and it that “opened new windows for Irans’ engagement with the world”.
(5) Aliquots of the suspensions (microrganism++ + disinfectant) were transferred at regular intervals (1, 3, 5 and 10 minutes) to the two substrates in liquid and solid state, and the growth of microorganisms was followed at 28 degrees C for 48-72 h in the case of yeasts, and for up to 21 days in the case of sower growing fungi.
(6) The electrophoretic freeze-fracture electron microscopy method (Sowers, A.E.
(7) "But I think it's more like the parable of the sower .
(8) It seems possible that a localised, surface exposure of acidic phospholipids may contribute to the 'long-lived fusogenic state' (Sowers, A.E.
(9) A seed sower will help; you can pick up of these little devices for few quid.
(10) Although most readers, in Britain especially, will know him principally for The Scarlet Letter (which sat unread on my father's shelf of "Classics" until one dark November day I started reading it with goggle-eyed disbelief), and so think of its author as the epitome of New England austerity and demon-driven repression, he was, in fact, the most luxuriant of the seed-bed sowers of American literature.
(11) He followed a course where students had to copy plaster casts,” Van Heugten says, “and ended last of the class.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Van Gogh’s The Sower (after Jean-François Millet), 1890.
(12) On histological sections of testes, inhibition of spermatogenesis (manifested by a sower frequency or even absence of tubules producing mature sperm, reduced frequency of tubular cells and their degenerative changes) was observed in almost all males immunized with the higher dose of the conjugate.
(13) In the early years of the 1930s, the sculptor Eric Gill was commissioned to carve an imageof a sower for the entrance hall of Broadcasting House.
(14) In the end, it goes back to the sculpture of the sower.