(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.
Wren
Definition:
(n.) Any one of numerous species of small singing birds belonging to Troglodytes and numerous allied of the family Troglodytidae.
(n.) Any one of numerous species of small singing birds more or less resembling the true wrens in size and habits.
Example Sentences:
(1) Yesterday streams of worshippers and tourists entered Sir Christopher Wren's building for Sunday services, apparently unconcerned by events outside.
(2) For me, though, it would make no difference whether or not One New Change had been designed by Frank Gehry or Alvaro Siza , or by today's equivalent (should they exist) of Wren or Hawksmoor .
(3) Paramyxovirus type 2(PMV-2) (Yucaipa-like), unreported in free-flying passerines in the Americas, was recovered from a finch, wren, and chicken, each from a different location.
(4) On virtually every street corner, there's a gorgeous church designed by Christopher Wren to fill the gaps after the great fire of 1666, which destroyed the medieval city.
(5) Nurse, whose predecessors at the Royal Society include Sir Christopher Wren and Sir Isaac Newton, said the merger could be beneficial for British research and the economy if Pfizer was really in it for the science rather than a quick buck: "I could imagine it being quite a good deal if they are really serious about investing in the business – a business that is trying to make drugs to cure people."
(6) John Wren, the chief executive of Omnicom, was paid $15.4m last year, a 40% rise over 2010.
(7) Where Heal nodded politely to Wren, Nouvel winks at him cheekily as if saying: "Come on, grandpa; get down with the bling, and get shopping."
(8) "Since these strains acquired resistance to this frontline antibiotic, not only is it now virtually useless against this organism, but resistance seems to have been a major factor in the continued evolution and persistence of these strains in hospitals and clinical settings," said Brendan Wren, a professor at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
(9) The Oxford economist Simon Wren-Lewis argued that point in a blogpost last week.
(10) Out At key stages 2 and 3 (ages seven-11), far fewer historical figures are specified in the latest draft, with Isaac Newton, Christopher Wren, Adam Smith, the anti-slavery campaigner Olaudah Equiano, William Gladstone, Benjamin Disraeli, Winston Churchill, Clement Attlee and even Margaret Thatcher no longer featuring.
(11) Christopher Wren's forte was not 'Jesus born in a stable'.
(12) I am curious to know if Sally thinks it is possible to contact the spirit of a fictional character, or if she coincidentally contacted the spirit of a real person whose life and death matched the experiences of Toby Wren, or if there is an alternative explanation.
(13) Wren-Lewis comments: “In short, the performance of the coalition government has been a disaster.” “Disaster” is a strong word from such a rigorous academic as Wren-Lewis, but I fully agree with him and have tried to explain the reasons in my new book, Mr Osborne’s Economic Experiment, which compares austerity during the postwar years 1945-51 with 2010 to … well, to the end of the decade if the Tories are re-elected and adhere to their plans for a lot more austerity.
(14) Her embellished knitwear was by the US designer and wife of Mick Jagger, L'Wren Scott, which she wore with wide Gatsby-esque trousers that suited her tennis moment perfectly.
(15) Thomas, 45, a former Wren who also served as a police officer for five years, told the Guardian she had seen around 1,600 videos of interrogation sessions, a number of which showed prisoners being abused, humiliated and threatened.
(16) In December Guardian reporter Paul Lewis was stopped and searched while taking pictures of the Gherkin building in London and Grant Smith, an architecture photographer, was apprehended around the corner while photographing Sir Christopher Wren's Christ Church.
(17) Wrens breaking codes at Bletchley Park during the second world war.
(18) There he was a very close professional associate of Christopher Wren who originated the practice of iv injection.
(19) I walked through flocks of goldfinches and starlings and watched mistle thrushes warble and wrens gobble berries.
(20) So far, the only statement on the possible reunion from the band has come from their former drummer, Alan "Reni" Wren, who contacted the NME to deny involvement.