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Springbok


Definition:

  • (n.) Alt. of Springbuck

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Positive reactions were recorded in the following game species: impala (Aepyceros melampus), lechwe (Kobus leche), kudu (Tragelaphus strepsiceros), blue wildebeest (Connochaetes taurinus), gemsbok (Oryx gazella), springbok (Antidorcas marsupialis) and tsessebe (Damaliscus lunatus).
  • (2) He added: "I hope the Springboks will have more black players.
  • (3) In my opinion the greatest enemy of the old apartheid system was not the ANC and the black masses but white liberals and traitors.” The Springbok Club still runs a blog, which just two weeks before Cox’s murder urged UK readers to vote to leave the EU in order to renew links with their “ethnic brothers and sisters” elsewhere in the world.
  • (4) And when I was 14, I demonstrated against the Springboks rugby tour [South Africa's whites-only team].
  • (5) Springbok and gemsbok were shot in both the Etosha National Park in the north and the Hardap Nature Reserve in the south of Namibia.
  • (6) Prior to kick-off Zimbabwe had been the only side the Cherry Blossoms had beaten in the tournament’s history, at the second World Cup in 1991, yet anyone expecting them to wilt in the face of a mighty Springbok side boasting 851 caps between them was in for a shock.
  • (7) In my youth I had taken part in protests against the visit of the Springbok rugby team and I was a long-time supporter of the anti-apartheid movement.
  • (8) Turning to murder The question remains as to why Mair turned to murder in June, 25 years after he first made contact with the Springbok Club and 17 years after he purchased a manual describing the assembly of a homemade pistol.
  • (9) He also subscribed to a rightwing magazine called SA Patriot, which was initially published in South Africa by the Springbok Club, but moved to the UK and became SA Patriot in Exile in 1991.
  • (10) The helminth species composition and helminth burdens of 4 grey duikers, 12 bushbuck, 2 nyala, 2 giraffe, a steenbok, an oribi, a waterbuck and a tsessebe from the Kruger National Park (KNP); of a steenbok and a greater kudu from the farm Riekerts Laager, Transvaal; of a single blue duiker from the Tsitsikama Forest National Park, and of a blue wildebeest, a red hartebeest, a gemsbok and 2 springbok from the Kalahari Gemsbok National Park (KGNP) were collected, counted and identified.
  • (11) Without that element of the game we would not have the glory of players like Richie McCaw and David Pocock , we would not have a game where players of the size and shape of Eben Etzebeth, Richie Gray or Adam Jones could shine and nor would we have the joy of seeing the way a team determined to keep the ball alive like Japan can triumph against the superior size and strength of the Springboks.
  • (12) Back in Brighton, Springbok fans applauded the Japan team on to their bus as they travelled back to their Warwick base.
  • (13) The new president sets the team's captain (François Pienaar, played by Matt Damon) the improbable goal of winning the World Cup; the tournament is to be held in South Africa in a year, and the Springboks are given little chance.
  • (14) There are no easy games in this competition.” South Africa’s Fourie du Preez, who plays his club rugby in Japan, described the result as the low point of his career and said the Springboks had been outsmarted.
  • (15) From July 1979-December 1980, 48 springbok were culled for a parasite survey at Benfontein.
  • (16) Staff charter a weekly flight from Cape Town to the Northern Cape village of Carnarvon , then drive for an hour into a wilderness where only sheep, springboks and hardy farmers venture.
  • (17) Among those who did is Springboks wing Bryan Habana, who went to a prestigious, formerly all-white school.
  • (18) Like other tourists and daytrippers from Jo'burg, I pay a more modest £3.50 to hug the lions at Moreson, a game ranch which on its website invites tourists to come and enjoy the canned hunting of everything from pretty blesbok and springbok – South Africa's national symbol – to lions and crocodiles.
  • (19) So loathed were the Springboks that those few blacks who showed up for matches rooted loudly for the other side.
  • (20) South Africans celebrate from townships to townhouses, white policemen hold a black boy aloft, and president Nelson Mandela (Morgan Freeman) blesses the triumphant captain of the Springboks rugby team (Matt Damon).

Springer


Definition:

  • (n.) One who, or that which, springs; specifically, one who rouses game.
  • (n.) A young plant.
  • (n.) The impost, or point at which an arch rests upon its support, and from which it seems to spring.
  • (n.) The bottom stone of an arch, which lies on the impost. The skew back is one form of springer.
  • (n.) The rib of a groined vault, as being the solid abutment for each section of vaulting.
  • (n.) The grampus.
  • (n.) A variety of the field spaniel. See Spaniel.
  • (n.) A species of antelope; the sprinkbok.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Progressive paraparesis developed in four male English Springer Spaniel pups from a litter of five during the first 10 weeks of life.
  • (2) Disseminated aspergillosis attributable to Aspergillus deflectus was diagnosed in a Springer Spaniel with lethargy, lameness, anorexia, weight loss, pyrexia, lymphadenopathy, hematuria, and urinary incontinence.
  • (3) These mutants are also defective in the ability to carry out a protein methylation reaction which has previously been implicated in the adaptation process (Goy, Springer and Adler, 1977).
  • (4) But Springer said funding had been agreed and an application made for ethical approval.
  • (5) In the interim, Phil cut the solo albums Star Spangled Springer (1973), Phil's Diner (1974) and Mystic Line (1975), and appeared on Roy Wood's album Mustard and on Zevon's debut album in 1976.
  • (6) Die Welt are lucky to be part of Axel Springer, Europe's largest newspaper publisher whose portfolio also contains Bild, still the world's bestselling non-Asian newspaper and the Germany's most successful news website: pressure on Die Welt to make a profit is relatively low, so they have the luxury to experiment with new models that may later be rolled out elsewhere.
  • (7) 1-20, Springer, Berlin) has revealed that 2-methyl-5(4H)-thiazolones, prepared by trifluoroacetic acid-catalyzed cleavage of the N-terminal amino acid from a N-thioacetylated polypeptide, were found to react instantaneously with one equivalent of carboxylic acid chloride, sulfonic acid chloride, or chloroformate to yield stable derivatives suitable for identification by high-performance liquid chromatography.
  • (8) In Germany , Axel Springer has in the past been accused of exercising a monopoly role similar to the one Döpfner accuses Google of benefiting from.
  • (9) The suggestions are part of a review article in Springer’s journal Current Environmental Health Reports .
  • (10) A polysystemic disorder was observed in three related English Springer Spaniel dogs that demonstrated regurgitation from an early age, slowly progressive temporal muscle atrophy with partial trismus, and less pronounced generalized skeletal muscle atrophy.
  • (11) This inherited erythroenzymopathy and myopathy is commonly diagnosed in English Springer Spaniels, but the family study of this Cocker Spaniel, although supporting an autosomal recessive mode of inheritance, did not reveal any English Springer Spaniel ancestors.
  • (12) Detergent-soluble HLA antigen heavy chains contain one or two easily reduced sulfhydryl groups not found in papain-solubilized HLA antigens, as demonstrated by amino acid analysis (Springer, T. A., and Strominger, J.L.
  • (13) Despite this functional classification, chemical analyses reveal few patterns unique to regulatory light chains, and, indeed, sequence comparisons suggest structural similarities between both classes of myosin subunits (Collins, J. H. (1977), Nature (London) 259, 699--700; Kendrick-Jones, J., and Jakes, R. (1977), in International Symposium on Myocardial Failure at Tegernsee, Riecker, G., and Boehringer, Ed., Munich, West Germany, Springer-Verlag, pp.
  • (14) Like any right-thinking person, the first priority is a cup of tea before I tend to the dog, Dylan, a Welsh springer spaniel and reluctant morning companion.
  • (15) Retinal dysplasia has been reported in Bedlington Terrier, Sealyham Terrier, Beagle, Labrador Retriever, English Cocker Spaniel, American Cocker Spaniel, English Springer Spaniel, Yorkshire Terrier and Rottweiler.
  • (16) Previously we have shown that adaptation requires methionine, but maintenance of the adapted state and de-adaptation do not [Springer, M. S., Goy, M. F. & Adler, J.
  • (17) Verlag Van J. Springer, Berlin, 1937), are superimposed to experimental curves, obtained in the cat jejunum and terminal ileum, but not in the rat stomach strip.
  • (18) The transposons causing the mutations are: P element (5 alleles), gypsy (3 alleles), 17.6, HMS Beagle, springer, Delta 88, prygun, Stalker, and a new mobile element which was named roamer (2 alleles).
  • (19) Yet what is more interesting is Axel Springer’s involvement, which is a leading digital publishing house in Europe, and publishes German tabloid newspaper Bild.
  • (20) 72, 131-141 (1982); Robles et al., Peripheral Auditory Mechanisms (Springer, New York, 1986)].

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