(n.) The adult male of the red deer (Cervus elaphus), a large European species closely related to the American elk, or wapiti.
(n.) The male of certain other species of large deer.
(n.) A colt, or filly; also, a romping girl.
(n.) A castrated bull; -- called also bull stag, and bull seg. See the Note under Ox.
(n.) An outside irregular dealer in stocks, who is not a member of the exchange.
(n.) One who applies for the allotment of shares in new projects, with a view to sell immediately at a premium, and not to hold the stock.
(n.) The European wren.
(v. i.) To act as a "stag", or irregular dealer in stocks.
(v. t.) To watch; to dog, or keep track of.
Example Sentences:
(1) Specifically, StAg splicing uses either of two lariat branch points, one of which is located only 4 nucleotides from the 3' splice site.
(2) In particular, all cases of the epithelial predominant type presenting favorable histology, including stag 4 cases, survived over two years.
(3) During a research project on the occurrence of Listeria monocytogenes 194 strains were isolated in southern West Germany during the years 1972 to 1974:154 from soil and plant samples (20.3%), 16 from feces of deer and stag (15.7%), 9 from old moldy fodder and wildlife feeding grounds (27.2%), and 8 from birds (17.3%).
(4) Mean creatine kinase activity and creatinine, albumin and phosphorus concentrations were higher in stags than in hinds.
(5) I started chatting with owner Charlie MacDonald about who would take over from Donnie in a jokey way at first, but then, before I knew it I had left my job and joined Stag as Donnie's replacement.
(6) The combination of intraoperative localization of intrarenal arteries by Doppler flowmetry and cutting through renal parenchyma using the neodymium-YAG laser beam was used in 7 patients with stag-horn calculi or recurrent stones.
(7) Detailed information obtained from 4 stags indicated that there was a fixed relationship between stage of the antler cycle and testis diameter; minimum testis diameter occurred 1-2 months after antler casting whereas maximum testis diameter occurred when stags were in hard antler.
(8) Since lymphatic invasions are unusual in children, surgical exploration of the retro-peritoneal space is no longer considered necessary for the stagging and is replaced nowadays by ultrasonography and CT scan.
(9) Reports of George’s stag do at Ristorante da Ivo near St Mark’s Square with the free £3,000 meal featuring six flavours of ice cream, including takeaway cartons, initially irked me.
(10) We investigated the value of 10 free serum amino acids in continuous therapy monitoring in 9 patients with primary cancer of vulva stag pT1-2pN0M0.
(11) In contrast, THX stags maintained a testosterone response (P less than 0.01) in these 2 months and did not exhibit any signs of a seasonal lack of reproductive activity at this time of year.
(12) Jo, the youngest brother, learned from his earliest years to keep quiet and watch Boris earn his rightful place as top stag.
(13) The 18C2-purified soluble target Ag (STAg) caused inhibition of cytotoxicity when preincubated with fish NCC.
(14) Even if you’re one of those refuseniks who proudly claim “I’m not on Facebook”, you probably are – what about that chemically inconvenienced stag weekend in Tallinn that your pals created a Facebook album for?
(15) There is little evidence that hungover customers struggle, taste-wise, with what one provider calls the Auschwitz Stag Do Package, which could be attributable to amnesia, or to that fact that, as with lap dancing and medieval banquets, what happens at Birkenau stays at Birkenau.
(16) Its 2011 sequel, The Hangover Part II , shifted the stag-do antics of bachelor quartet Phil Wenneck, Stu Price, Alan Garner and Doug Billings from Las Vegas to Bangkok and once again broke box-office records.
(17) Hypothermic in situ perfusion of the kidney in difficult surgical procedures on the renal parenchyma, e.g., multiple stones, stag-horn calculi, benign and malignant tumors in solitary, residual or functionally residual kidneys.
(18) The composition of the antlers did not vary significantly between penned and grazing stags or with age.
(19) These STAG planes are placed in the myocardium in a star pattern so that they intersect on the long axis of the heart and stripes appear through the width of the heart wall.
(20) This study was undertaken to evaluate both technique and aesthetic results of early excision and split thickness autografting (STAG) of full skin thickness face burns.
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.