(n.) A neatling of a pigeon or other similar bird, esp. when very fat and not fully fledged.
(n.) A person of a short, fat figure.
(n.) A thickly stuffed cushion; especially, one used for the seat of a sofa, couch, or chair; also, a sofa.
(adv.) With a heavy fall; plump.
(v. i.) To fall plump; to strike at one dash, or with a heavy stroke.
Example Sentences:
(1) But it includes other delicious things, too: pot-roasted squab, stewed rabbit, braised oxtail.
(2) Prolactin significantly increased the incidence or frequency of parental regurgitation-feeding episodes in tests with all three squab age groups and, in addition, increased the incidence of parental feeding invitations (squab-oriented bill openings) in tests with 6- to 8-day-old squabs.
(3) These changes suggest that all the food was not being digested by the adult birds during brooding but was almost exclusively regurgitated to feed the squabs.
(4) A simultaneous squab--egg choice test was given on days 1, 4, 10, and 13 of incubation and on the day following hatching in normal reproductive cycles of experienced and naïve male and female ring doves.
(5) The period is made up of 15 days incubating eggs and 4-5 days brooding squabs.
(6) With the use of genetically marked transferrin, a major portion of circulating transferrin from a newly hatched squab was found to be derived from the mother through the egg.
(7) env sequences were not detectable in DNAs from Japanese quail, ring-necked pheasant, golden pheasant, duck, squab, salmon sperm, or calf thymus.
(8) Squabs introduced during late incubation have more of a positive effect on squab choice than when introduced during early incubation.
(9) In the second experiment, birds fed the diet with no supplemental fat did not produce squabs, whereas fat-supplemented diets resulted in production of at least six squabs.
(10) Systemic administration of ovine prolactin (PRL) has been previously reported to stimulate parental feeding behavior toward 7-day-old foster squabs by nonbreeding ring doves with previous breeding experience.
(11) The DNAs of 11 various mammalian and avian species, including both natural predators of mice and squabs from the farms with virus-positive mice, lacked amphotropic envelope-related sequences.
(12) Weekly, when new offspring were banded, a squab data sheet was taken into the pen to record the offspring's permanent leg band number, hatch date, strain, pen number, and parents' band numbers.
(13) Average energy intake was about 235 kcal ME per pair per day for pigeons not producing squabs.
(14) Experiment II shows that squab reared without seed in their home cage do not develop normal levels of pecking unless exposure to seed is followed in close temporal proximity by interaction with parents.
(15) Two experiments were conducted to study the effects on the performance of squabbing pigeons of two feeding systems based on two protein levels, two fat sources, and varying fat and energy levels.
(16) Such feedings may have been essential for producing the previous observation (Graf, Balsam, & Silver, 1985) that pecking develops normally if squab which have been separated from their parents are given a daily 20-min interaction with seed followed by an immediate return to their parents.
(17) However, squab must actually be given experience in handling and ingesting seeds before adult levels of pecking can be obtained.
(18) Young squabs may be permanently sterilized when fed crop milk by treated birds.
(19) In this experiment, 6- to 8-day-old test squabs were used to determine if parental behavior is enhanced by twice-daily intracerebroventricular (ICV) injections of PRL in doses below those required to stimulate peripheral target organs.
(20) It is concluded that an association between some aspect of squab's interaction with seed and a parentally provided unconditioned stimulus is sufficient for normal pecking to develop.
Squat
Definition:
(n.) The angel fish (Squatina angelus).
(v. t.) To sit down upon the hams or heels; as, the savages squatted near the fire.
(v. t.) To sit close to the ground; to cower; to stoop, or lie close, to escape observation, as a partridge or rabbit.
(v. t.) To settle on another's land without title; also, to settle on common or public lands.
(v. t.) To bruise or make flat by a fall.
(a.) Sitting on the hams or heels; sitting close to the ground; cowering; crouching.
(a.) Short and thick, like the figure of an animal squatting.
(n.) The posture of one that sits on his heels or hams, or close to the ground.
(n.) A sudden or crushing fall.
(n.) A small vein of ore.
(n.) A mineral consisting of tin ore and spar.
Example Sentences:
(1) Across a dusty lot sits a heap of scrap metal, patrolled by a couple of emaciated dogs, while a toddler squats in the street, examining the sole of a discarded shoe.
(2) Among the non-standard postures examined were: twisting while lifting or lowering, lifting and lowering from lying, sitting, kneeling, and squatting positions, and carrying loads under conditions of constricted ceiling heights.
(3) While the control group showed no changes in any of the variables studied, the experimental subjects significantly improved their jumping heights in squat jumps with and without extra loads; their jumping heights in drop jumps and mechanical power output in 15 s of jumps.
(4) Some of these are functions that would once have been taken on through squatting – and sometimes still are, as at Open House , a social centre recently and precariously opened in London's Elephant & Castle, an area torn apart by rampant gentrification, where estates are flogged off to developers with zero commitment to public housing and the aforementioned "shopping village" is located in a derelict estate.
(5) Later, when Leven moved to another squat, in Maida Vale, London, he suggested they bring in a bass player and percussionist to form a band, and they started rehearsing "with mattresses around the walls to deaden the sound, but still annoying the neighbours".
(6) "I was in a squatted house that was falling down, with spiders everywhere.
(7) If you squat in the corner of a big cube ( a cubical room, say), you can see at least a floor, a ceiling and three walls.
(8) Five normal men performed seven sets of seven squats at a load equal to 80% of their seven repetition maximum.
(9) The birthing stool was 32 cm high and allowed the parturient to sit upright and to squat.
(10) When the cat was in a standing posture, DTF stimulation simply resulted in a sequential alteration of posture to a squatting and then to a final lying posture.
(11) Contact was made with a ‘mystical-religious’ group that used the gas to accelerate arriving at their transcendental-meditative state of choice.” It increased in popularity with the rise of festival culture – it’s been a mainstay of Glastonbury’s stone circle and squat parties in Bristol and south London for at least a decade – but the equipment needed to dispense it remained relatively expensive.
(12) The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of two different alignments of the pelvis and three different loads on electromyographic (EMG) activity of the erector spinae and oblique abdominal muscles during squat lifting and lowering.
(13) In Afro-Asian countries people are habituated to the squatting posture in their daily activities.
(14) Morphological changes of the other epiphyses were minimal: short and squat colla femorii and reduced size of the aleae ilii.
(15) A healthy male subject performed the following jumps: maximal vertical jump from a squatting position (SJ), maximal vertical jump from an erect standing position with a preliminary countermovement (CMJ), and repetitive submaximal hopping in place with preferred frequency.
(16) The boys were examined in the supine and squatting positions.
(17) Heart rate ranged from 135.9 b X min-1 (71.8% of TM max) for the leg extension exercise to 163.4 b X min-1 (86.3% of TM max) for the squat exercise.
(18) Although it is now a criminal offence to squat residential property it is not a criminal offence to squat commercial premises.
(19) Consultation responses will be collected by the government in October, when the public debate over squatting and housing shortage will continue.
(20) We hear a lot about homes, and rightly so, yet we hear next to nothing about homelessness, about the people forced to sleep on the streets, in hostels and squats or on the sofas of friends and family.