(n.) One of many species of small singing birds of the family Fringilligae, having conical bills, and feeding chiefly on seeds. Many sparrows are called also finches, and buntings. The common sparrow, or house sparrow, of Europe (Passer domesticus) is noted for its familiarity, its voracity, its attachment to its young, and its fecundity. See House sparrow, under House.
(n.) Any one of several small singing birds somewhat resembling the true sparrows in form or habits, as the European hedge sparrow. See under Hedge.
Example Sentences:
(1) Groups of photosensitive female house sparrows have been kept under night-interruption and intermittent light cycles for a period of 6 weeks.
(2) A clinical study focused on the evaluation of adaptive functioning with use of the Vineland Adaptive Behavior Scales (Sparrow, Balla, & Cicchetti, 1984, 1985) is presented as an example of a way in which occupational therapy can provide assessment data valuable to the interdisciplinary clinical team.
(3) Laboratory and domestic animals: mice, hamsters, rabbits, sparrows, chickens and lambs were inoculated with Orungo virus to determine their susceptibility as evidenced by clinical response, viraemia and antibody development.
(4) Corticotropin-releasing factor (CRF) was localized in the brains of two passerine species, the European starling (Sturnus vulgaris) and the song sparrow (Melospiza melodia), by means of immunohistochemistry.
(5) Body weight was not correlated with foramen magnum area in 25 specimens of savannah sparrow, Ammodramus sandwichensis.
(6) Riga, accompanied by Fraeye, was at Charlton's Sparrows Lane training ground on Tuesday and watched on as Powell's existing coaching staff oversaw the first-team squad.
(7) The continuous administration of low levels of melatonin via intraperitoneally placed Silastic capsules either (i) shortened the free-running period of activity or (ii) induced continuous activity in house sparrows (Passer domesticus) maintained in constant darkness.
(8) Testosterone sensitivity of the seminal sacs of castrated tree sparrows from each of three reproductive states was evaluated by measuring the change in seminal-sac mass per unit change in the logarithm of replacement or plasma testosterone.
(9) There was no effect of B on basal metabolic rate of either species, but nocturnal metabolic rate varied significantly less over the 3-h period of measurement in B-treated sparrows and siskins than in control birds.
(10) Adult song sparrows (Melospiza melodia) were tested for response to songs of conspecific males that had been reared in acoustic isolation or deafened early in life.
(11) It will be streamed live here: Monetary Policy Committee August 2013 Inflation Report My colleague Andrew Sparrow will be live-blogging the whole session here: Mark Carney gives evidence to the Commons Treasury committee: Politics live blog 9.52am BST This graphic shows how most of the Royal Mail's revenues come from its parcels and letters divisions, although its European parcels business, GLS, makes a decent contribution (with revenue of £1.5m, out of a total pie of over £9bn.
(12) In sparrows, pigeons and ducks, liver and kidney activities tended to be similar and increased with body size.
(13) The movie excels in its many trading-floor sequences, great chaotic indoor crowd-scenes worthy of Raoul Walsh, in which we can glimpse the primal, quasi-animalistic governing urges that propel an unregulated – that's to say, totally lawless – free-market economy, as the hawks are granted licence to feast upon the sparrows.
(14) As Andrew Sparrow points out elsewhere, even if McDonnell gets a go and, as now seems certain, Andy Burnham takes the number of ex-ministerial candidates to four, that will hardly solve one big problem: a field built around two siblings, and largely made up of Oxbridge-educated, fortysomething white men, whose adult lives have mostly been played out in SW1.
(15) In addition 11% of mice (Mus musculus), 5% of deer mice (Peromyscus), 3% of rats (Rattus norvegicus) and less than 2% of sparrows (Passer domestcus) were seropositive.
(16) avenue31 I thought it was Captain Sparrow who invented the exercise regime, in Pilates of the Caribbean.
(17) The sparrows resynchronized in 5 days when LD8:16 (8 hr of light alternating with 16 hr of dark) was advanced by 8 hr; however, the sparrows were 1.7 hr from resynchronization after 5 days when the schedule was delayed 8 hr.
(18) The duration of detectable neutralizing antibody in these birds was found to be ephemeral in some species (e.g., black-capped chickadees) and extremely longlasting in others (e.g., gray catbirds, swamp sparrows).
(19) Under physiological conditions (41 C, pH 7.5, PCO2 approximately 35 Torr) the oxygen half saturation pressure P50 are 50 Torr for the chickens, 38 Torr for the pigeon, 43 Torr for the Japanese quail and 44 Torr for the sparrow.
(20) It was shown that these mosquitoes fed principally on House Finches and House Sparrows, the most common passeriform birds found in the collection areas.
Spur
Definition:
(n.) A sparrow.
(n.) A tern.
(n.) An implement secured to the heel, or above the heel, of a horseman, to urge the horse by its pressure. Modern spurs have a small wheel, or rowel, with short points. Spurs were the badge of knighthood.
(n.) That which goads to action; an incitement.
(n.) Something that projects; a snag.
(n.) One of the large or principal roots of a tree.
(n.) Any stiff, sharp spine, as on the wings and legs of certain burds, on the legs of insects, etc.; especially, the spine on a cock's leg.
(n.) A mountain that shoots from any other mountain, or range of mountains, and extends to some distance in a lateral direction, or at right angles.
(n.) A spiked iron worn by seamen upon the bottom of the boot, to enable them to stand upon the carcass of a whale, to strip off the blubber.
(n.) A brace strengthening a post and some connected part, as a rafter or crossbeam; a strut.
(n.) The short wooden buttress of a post.
(n.) A projection from the round base of a column, occupying the angle of a square plinth upon which the base rests, or bringing the bottom bed of the base to a nearly square form. It is generally carved in leafage.
(n.) Any projecting appendage of a flower looking like a spur.
(n.) Ergotized rye or other grain.
(n.) A wall that crosses a part of a rampart and joins to an inner wall.
(n.) A piece of timber fixed on the bilge ways before launching, having the upper ends bolted to the vessel's side.
(n.) A curved piece of timber serving as a half to support the deck where a whole beam can not be placed.
(v. t.) To prick with spurs; to incite to a more hasty pace; to urge or goad; as, to spur a horse.
(v. t.) To urge or encourage to action, or to a more vigorous pursuit of an object; to incite; to stimulate; to instigate; to impel; to drive.
(v. t.) To put spurs on; as, a spurred boot.
(v. i.) To spur on one' horse; to travel with great expedition; to hasten; hence, to press forward in any pursuit.
Example Sentences:
(1) Schneiderlin, valued at an improbable £27m, and the currently injured Jay Rodriguez are wanted by their former manager Mauricio Pochettino at Spurs, but the chairman Ralph Krueger has apparently called a halt to any more outgoings, saying: “They are part of the core that we have decided to keep at Southampton.” He added: “Jay Rodriguez and Morgan Schneiderlin are not for sale and they will be a part of our club as we enter the new season.” The new manager Ronald Koeman has begun rebuilding by bringing in Dusan Tadic and Graziano Pellè from the Dutch league and Krueger said: “We will have players coming in, we will make transfers to strengthen the squad.
(2) Recognition of this deficiency in our knowledge spurred a belated explosion of research that began with an exploration of the fine structure of the mesothelium.
(3) A 57-year-old man was envenomated via two spur wounds to the right hand from each hind leg of a male platypus.
(4) But it should also be noted that this Spurs team might be the best Spurs team ever, and they've had lots of good teams (including four previous championship teams).
(5) Traction spurs with segmental hypermobility were found more commonly at the L4-5 level in patients whose spines were not fused, particularly women.
(6) She would often say to me, “Don’t go under the house.” And just as her order to not look at the sexy films had spurred me on to do so, I would indeed look under the house.
(7) The uveal protrusion was replaced and a deep corneoscleral block was removed in front of the scleral spur in three cases, and electrocoagulation of the anterior edges of the trabeculectomy fistula was done in other three cases.
(8) Minutes later, Bolton demanded a penalty when Gary Cahill collapsed in the Spurs box after a tackle by Pienaar.
(9) Boris Johnson , the London mayor, got into hot water last week when he praised the value of greed as a spur to progress and controversially suggested some people struggle to get on in life because of their low IQs.
(10) A similar rally in 2007 is widely credited with spurring on Malaysia's opposition movement, which won a landslide victory in the 2008 elections.
(11) As the political pendulum has swung over the decades, these competing archetypes have spurred endless innovations from inflation-linked bonds to free TV licences.
(12) He explains: "Spurs spend a lot of money but only sign players who are 20 or 22 because they're thinking of future sales.
(13) "It was a great debut for Christian," said the Spurs manager.
(14) The council took CPO proceedings after the firm would not agree a price to sell up to Spurs; a judgment is expected next month.
(15) 1.44am BST Heat 19-30 Spurs, 11:00 remaining in 2nd quarter Splitter assists Ginobili who hits a jumper, this Spurs run continues.
(16) The pope, whose foray into diplomacy helped spur negotiations between the US and Cuba , is expected to address the topic in a speech before the UN in New York in September.
(17) Rapid population growth, exacerbating a chronic lack of jobs and economic opportunity, is another powerful spur.
(18) A belated acknowledgement of the damage inflicted by decades of stagnated earnings and inequality have meant pay levels have rightly climbed to prominence, in part spurred by Vermont senator Bernie Sanders who put fair pay at the heart of his campaign attempts to secure the Democratic nomination for president.
(19) Iran Saudi Arabia China Which Chinese Super League club signed former Spurs midfielder Paulinho in 2015?
(20) But Spurs built up a final head of steam and after Gomes punched clear Trippier’s initial cross, a second fell to Son at the near post and he back-heeled the ball past Gomes.