(n.) A young oyster or other bivalve mollusk, both before and after it first becomes adherent, or such young, collectively.
(v. i. & t.) To emit spawn; to emit, as spawn.
(n.) A light blow with something flat.
(n.) Hence, a petty combat, esp. a verbal one; a little quarrel, dispute, or dissension.
(v. i.) To dispute.
(v. t.) To slap, as with the open hand; to clap together; as the hands.
() of Spit
Example Sentences:
(1) But the Franco-British spat sparked by Dave's rejection of Angela and Nicolas's cunning plan to save the euro has been given wings by news the US credit agencies may soon strip France of its triple-A rating and is coming along very nicely, thank you. "
(2) If wide notice is taken of a current spat over what we can read about Shakespeare’s sexuality into the sonnets in the correspondence columns of the Times Literary Supplement, Sonnet 20 may be a future favourite at civil unions.
(3) He wanted to stay on longer than the traditional retirement age but became involved in a nasty spat with the then-chairman, Peter Sutherland.
(4) He’s spat on and has wee thrown at him.” Rutherford is also concerned about the governance of the sport.
(5) Venom entered the eyes of 9 patients spat at by the spitting cobra, Naja nigricollis.
(6) The British parliament’s vote against airstrikes has long been cited by Obama and others as a causal factor but Kerry made the link explicit just a week after a diplomatic spat with the UK’s prime minister, Theresa May, over a United Nations resolution that condemned Israel.
(7) The Labour leader, Ed Miliband, has attempted to seize the initiative in the bitter spat on energy prices by pledging a 20-month freeze .
(8) She had been sworn at and spat on – anything to force the expression they wanted on to her face.
(9) Some said they saw stones; others said they had been spat at.
(10) The England winger has been training with the under-21s for the past two and a half months after being frozen out by Mauricio Pochettino in the wake of his public spat with Nathan Gardiner, Tottenham’s fitness coach, following a win against Aston Villa in November.
(11) By the time the latest spat came before the FCC, Karr argues, net activists had sharpened their tactics and raised their game.
(12) Still alive, he was then surrounded by people who cursed and spat at him, kicked him in the head and tried to hit him with a chair.
(13) The Greece midfielder Giannis Maniatis was so enraged after a training ground spat that he booked a himself on a flight back to Athens before being persuaded not to walk out on Fernando Santos’s squad.
(14) Mariano Rajoy said he did not want the dispute to "go further", after a spat about fishing escalated into a full-blown diplomatic row with Britain.
(15) They are saying she needs to realise that she needs to build allies.” The Tory source spoke out after Kenneth Clarke blew into the open a spat between the Conservative leadership and the home secretary’s team after two of May’s special advisers declined to take part in telephone canvassing in the recent Rochester and Strood byelection.
(16) It is understood Cameron and the Lib Dem leader have agreed to cool the coalition tensions that have boiled over into public spats – and there were signs yesterday that was having some effect after it was clear that Labour was making capital from the dispute.
(17) Padoan said the US's budget spat posed significant threats to the US and the global economy but said that Europe presented a larger challenge.
(18) However, after several years of improving relations and increasing trade, China and Japan have much to lose from a prolonged deterioration in ties, and will be wary of letting the spat get out of hand.
(19) Ahmadinejad has been drawn into a bruising power struggle with the conservatives, many of them his former supporters, and has mounted serious challenges to Khamenei, such as engaging in public spats with top-level officials.
(20) Former Netanyahu aide lambasts US ambassador in heated spat Read more “These provocative acts are bound to increase the growth of settler populations, further heighten tensions and undermine any prospects for a political road ahead,” Ban told a United Nations security council meeting on the Middle East.
Spay
Definition:
(v. t.) To remove or extirpate the ovaries of, as a sow or a bitch; to castrate (a female animal).
(v. t.) The male of the red deer in his third year; a spade.
Example Sentences:
(1) The cAMP-dependent protein kinase (ATP:protein phosphotransferase, EC 2.7.1.37), has been studied in the vaginal epithelium, vaginal stroma, endometrium, and whole uterus of spayed mice treated with oestradiol-17 beta, and in the vaginal epithelium and uterus of spayed mice.
(2) Sequential P treatment reduced the degree of nuclear staining in the oviduct and endometrium below that found in spayed animals; however, such treatment only lowered the amount of cytosolic, not nuclear, ER significantly below spayed levels in those same tissues.
(3) Therefore, the effect of E on GH in spayed monkeys cannot be accounted for by a direct action on somatotrophs.
(4) Its concentration was maximal at proestrus and after administering 2-20 microgram of estradiol to spayed rats.
(5) The mean age of dogs with urinary bladder neoplasia was 9.5 years; 6 were males, 13 were females, and 2 were spayed females.
(6) Staphylococcus aureus and Streptococcus canis were the most frequently isolated bacteria in specimens collected from the vagina (in the area of the urethral orifice) of 20 normal intact bitches and 20 spayed bitches.
(7) However, when calculated on the basis of the DNA content of the myometrium, which was 8 times higher in the spayed than in the pregnant animals, the specific activities were lower in the tissue from spayed animals.
(8) Scedosporium inflatum Malloch et Salkin was found to cause osteomyelitis in a 6-year-old spayed female beagle.
(9) Mating during a period of 40 min at the beginning of hormonally induced estrus in spayed female rats resulted in a rapid decrease in receptivity as measured hourly by the lordosis response.
(10) Cerebral phaeohyphomycosis was diagnosed in a 9-year-old spayed dog that had a series of epileptic convulsions a day before death.
(11) Spayed animals were given progesterone for 4 days and then an injection of BCG serum or vaccine in 1 uterine horn.
(12) If the spayed beagle dam can be considered a model in which one may equivalate bone changes occurring in the ovarian hormone-deficient human female, we reach the following conclusions: The presence or absence of quasi-physiological levels of single ovarian hormones do affect the status of trabecular bone.
(13) Resorptive and formative characteristics on the periosteal and corticoendosteal bone envelopes were assessed on the ribs of intact, spayed and medroxyprogesterone acetate (MPA)-supplemented Beagle dams.
(14) A 5-y-old spayed female Corgi dog was dipped with a d-limonene-based compound for flea infestation.
(15) A correspondence between the appearance of vaginal smears and the layers of the epithelium from which the cells had desquamated was established in untreated rats during the estrous cycle, in control ovariectomized rats and in spayed rats injected with either estrogen or progesterone.
(16) Thirteen adult cycling female cynomolgus monkeys were ovariectomized and treated for 28 days with 1) an empty Silastic capsule (Spay), 2) a 2-cm E-filled capsule (E), or 3) a 2-cm E-filled capsule for 14 days plus a 6-cm P-filled capsule implanted for an additional 14 days (E + P).
(17) A 6-year-old, obese, spayed female Doberman pinscher dog was presented for clinical examination with a 1-day history of repeated seizures and a long-term history of periodic bouts of ataxia, circling, and head tilt.
(18) Treatment of carcinomas in spayed (hormone-independent), nonspayed (hormone-dependent) rats, and of tumors which were refractory to treatment with estradiol dipropionate caused regression of the tumors.
(19) The report cites the results of three experiments designed to determine the effect of estrogen treatment on spayed and entire ewes.
(20) When small amounts of this compound were applied to the vulvas of anestrous or spayed females, males placed with these females became sexually aroused and attempted to mount them.