(n.) Visible or sensible presentation; appearance; a sensible percept received by the imagination; an image.
(n.) A group of individuals agreeing in common attributes, and designated by a common name; a conception subordinated to another conception, called a genus, or generic conception, from which it differs in containing or comprehending more attributes, and extending to fewer individuals. Thus, man is a species, under animal as a genus; and man, in its turn, may be regarded as a genus with respect to European, American, or the like, as species.
(n.) In science, a more or less permanent group of existing things or beings, associated according to attributes, or properties determined by scientific observation.
(n.) A sort; a kind; a variety; as, a species of low cunning; a species of generosity; a species of cloth.
(n.) Coin, or coined silver, gold, ot other metal, used as a circulating medium; specie.
(n.) A public spectacle or exhibition.
(n.) A component part of compound medicine; a simple.
(n.) An officinal mixture or compound powder of any kind; esp., one used for making an aromatic tea or tisane; a tea mixture.
(n.) The form or shape given to materials; fashion or shape; form; figure.
Example Sentences:
(1) The variation in thickness of the LLFL may modulate the species causing damage to the cells below it.
(2) Comparison of the S100 alpha-binding protein profiles in fast- and slow-twitch fibers of various species revealed few, if any, species- or fiber type-specific S100 binding proteins.
(3) The data indicate that ebselen is likely to be useful in the therapy of inflammatory conditions in which reactive oxygen species, such as peroxides, play an aetiological role.
(4) These membrane perturbation effects not observed with bleomycin-iron in the presence of a hydroxyl radical scavenger, dimethyl thiourea, or a chelating agent, desferrioxamine, were correlated with the ability of the complex to generate highly reactive oxygen species.
(5) When compared with lissencephalic species, a great horizontal fibrillary system (which is vertically arranged in gyral regions) was observed in convoluted brains.
(6) The TxA2 antagonistic effects of KW-3635 were compared with that of daltroban in PRP from various animals species.
(7) Only the approximately 2.7 kb mRNA species was visualized in Northern blots of total cellular and poly(A+) RNA isolated from cardiac ventricular muscle.
(8) Comparison of developmental series of D. merriami and T. bottae revealed that the decline of the artery in the latter species is preceded by a greater degree of arterial coarctation, or narrowing, as it passes though the developing stapes.
(9) The immunological methods based on the use of a flagellum-specific serum have confirmed the presence of a common flagellum antigen for all Legionella species described to date.
(10) This observation not only provides definitive evidence for the photogeneration of O2-, but also indicates that only a fraction of this species is transformed into H2O2 in the absence of SOD.
(11) To further characterize the molecular forms of GnRH in each species, the extracts were injected into a high pressure liquid chromatograph (HPLC).
(12) Each species has approximately 500 core histones cluster repeats per haploid genome.
(13) After immunoadsorbent purification, the final step in a purification procedure similar to that adopted for colon cancer CEA, two main molecular species were identified: 1) Material identical with colon cancer CEA with respect to molecular size, PCA solubility, ability to bind to Con A, and most important the ability to bind to specific monkey anti-CEA serum.
(14) Both of these species belong to the serotype B. MCAs T11 and T15, the first recorded with a specificity for only sub-serotype A2 EF, were tested further against 28 sub-serotype A2 and three sub-serotype A2B2EFs from L. tropica strains.
(15) The results suggest that involucrin-like proteins have a wider species distribution than originally appreciated.
(16) Sequence specific binding of protein extracts from 13 different yeast species to three oligonucleotide probes and two points mutants derived from Saccharomyces cerevisiae DNA binding proteins were tested using mobility shift assays.
(17) The genome characterization of the typing strains for all 13 species of the genus Staphylococcus, included into the Approval List of the Names of Bacterial (1980), is presented.
(18) Two lectins, wheat germ agglutinin (WGA) and peanut agglutinin (PNA), were used to compare domains within the interphotoreceptor matrices (IPM) of the cat and monkey, two species where the morphological relationship between the retinal pigment epithelium (RPE) and photoreceptors is distinctly different.
(19) The regional distribution of the receptor showed insignificant species differences.
(20) Temelastine produces these species-specific changes by enhancing thyroxine clearance from the circulation in the rat, but not in the dog or mouse.
Stinker
Definition:
(n.) One who, or that which, stinks.
(n.) Any one of the several species of large antarctic petrels which feed on blubber and carrion and have an offensive odor, as the giant fulmar.
Example Sentences:
(1) We were immediately sure he despised the movie more than any of the other Hollywood McCarthy adaptations – and there had been a few stinkers.
(2) Instead, it was a stinker, at least for countries in the developed world.
(3) Remember, for example, that everyone was doing excitable discharges about 2006 after the first week, and it turned out to be a stinker.
(4) 9.12am BST Michael Cox gets forensic to explain why last night's match was such a stinker.
(5) Stones is another player whose performances have impressed Hodgson recently but the jittery young Everton defender picked the wrong time to have a stinker.
(6) It was this break with reality that sunk the genre in the nineties, causing big-name stars to turn in a series of stinkers, including Body of Evidence starring Madonna and the plain uncomfortable Bruce Willis vehicle Colour of Night.
(7) Every class has a stinker; mine doesn't believe in deodorant.
(8) Politics is like getting a really bad review: a stinker that you know all your friends are reading."
(9) As Jack Nicholson's con-man brother in The King Of Marvin Gardens , he embodies the self-delusion of the American dream of success and wealth, while his brutish Tom Buchanan in the 1974 version of The Great Gatsby is one of the few worthwhile things about that stinker.
(10) And he has lifted them up.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Hillary Clinton: ‘half of Trump’s supporters go into the basket of deplorables’ And so the “basket of deplorables” has found its place alongside other debris in the gaffe sewer of recent elections, including this stinker from a fundraiser in San Francisco in 2008: “You go into these small towns in Pennsylvania and, like a lot of small towns in the midwest, the jobs have been gone now for 25 years and nothing’s replaced them.
(11) Walsh has pointed to the financial crisis and downturn that hit Spain harder than many countries in Europe as one reason why BA's deal was starting to look a potential stinker.
(12) There have been some fantastic ones in the CoD lifeline – Crash, Terminal, Crossfire – but also some stinkers that somehow made it though; maps with horrible camping spots and site lines that strafe the whole arena.
(13) And with Giround having such a stinker, they only really threaten when a midfielder runs forward from deep, something that Ramsey is doing with curious infrequency.
(14) Only I had two genuine stinkers, Algeria v Slovenia and Paraguay v Japan, which is a pretty good return, all told.
(15) His chief pleasure, he noted, was "writing stinkers to people who attack me in the press".
(16) In case you missed it, The Sun called Cameron’s deal “a steaming pile of manure” , “a derisory offer” and “a stinker” that’s “an abject defeat on immigration”.
(17) Seriously, there were too many stinkers, but losing 3-1 against Philadelphia was particularly rough, because Chivas went ahead before a terrible refereeing decision torpedoed any hopes of getting a result.