(n.) The stem or main axis of a plant; as, a stalk of wheat, rye, or oats; the stalks of maize or hemp.
(n.) The petiole, pedicel, or peduncle, of a plant.
(n.) That which resembes the stalk of a plant, as the stem of a quill.
(n.) An ornament in the Corinthian capital resembling the stalk of a plant, from which the volutes and helices spring.
(n.) One of the two upright pieces of a ladder.
(n.) A stem or peduncle, as of certain barnacles and crinoids.
(n.) The narrow basal portion of the abdomen of a hymenopterous insect.
(n.) The peduncle of the eyes of decapod crustaceans.
(n.) An iron bar with projections inserted in a core to strengthen it; a core arbor.
(v. i.) To walk slowly and cautiously; to walk in a stealthy, noiseless manner; -- sometimes used with a reflexive pronoun.
(v. i.) To walk behind something as a screen, for the purpose of approaching game; to proceed under clover.
(v. i.) To walk with high and proud steps; usually implying the affectation of dignity, and indicating dislike. The word is used, however, especially by the poets, to express dignity of step.
(v. t.) To approach under cover of a screen, or by stealth, for the purpose of killing, as game.
(n.) A high, proud, stately step or walk.
Example Sentences:
(1) Regeneration and reorganization of the proximal cut end of the pituitary stalk is demonstrated in Ompok bimaculatus with the aid of in situ staining technique.
(2) Thus, the long stalks of Sk1 or phosphate-starved caulobacters are not merely a function of their longer doubling times.
(3) The mesenchyme surrounding the stalk stains positively for fibronectin.
(4) Do know how much stalking is too much stalking Seven pages into Google is too much.
(5) A rich network of fibers was observed in the median eminence coursing towards the pituitary stalk.
(6) ECF1 is separated from the membrane-embedded F0 by a narrow stalk approximately 40 A long and approximately 25-30 A thick.
(7) Hormone secretion was increased by electrical stimulation of the pituitary stalk at different frequencies.
(8) Furthermore, there were differences between anterior and posterior regions of both slime sheaths and stalk tubes.
(9) Five minutes from time a fat red shirt stalked past making the tosser sign and, for emphasis, yelling: "Fucking wankers!"
(10) Septal release slightly decreased during pituitary stalk stimulation, whereas it did increase during stimulation of the supraoptic region.
(11) It is hemispherical in shape and is located at the end of a 1.5 mm long eye stalk.
(12) Since such rats supposedly have a normal pigment distribution and a normal pattern of decussation at the optic chiasm, this finding appears to undermine the suggested role played by stalk melanin in establishing the laterality of retinal fibre projections in other mammalian species.
(13) As culmination proceeds, pstA cells transform into pstB cells by activating the ecmB gene as they enter the stalk tube.
(14) Other steps, such as the introduction of a national stalking helpline and national revenge pornography helpline have assisted victims.
(15) And we know once they leave, men will follow and stalk them.
(16) The ultrastructure of some aggregating microorganisms, including fungal hyphae and sheath-forming and stalked bacteria, was studied in detail, and several modes of aggregation were suggested.
(17) George, a loner who was said to have stalked and photographed hundreds of women, always maintained his innocence.
(18) • One in 10 women have been stalked by a previous partner.
(19) Police investigating the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University massacre, which left 33 dead, mainly students, blamed Cho, a fourth-year English student who lived on the campus, for earlier incidents ranging from stalking women to setting fire to a dormitory.
(20) The editor of the Spectator stalks the corridors reminding all and sundry that the national debt will have risen far faster and higher under Cameron than under Labour in 13 years.
Stubble
Definition:
(n.) The stumps of wheat, rye, barley, oats, or buckwheat, left in the ground; the part of the stalk left by the scythe or sickle.
Example Sentences:
(1) Photograph: Hulton Archive Precisely how Shields achieves his queasy, waking-state guitar sound has long been the subject of stubbly examination.
(2) The experiment extended through the 6 weeks prior to weaning at 8 months of age, 5 weeks of grazing oat stubble and a 16-week finishing phase on a feedlot.
(3) So you don’t have the emotional space or strength to do anything other than just grieve, and that’s a long process.” His sentences become stubbly and broken when he talks about it.
(4) To wit: the near offence taken when speculation first surfaced that Stewart was dating Cargile – what an absurd decision given that she used to go out with the handsome, perfectly stubbled Robert Pattinson, right?
(5) Dern, all windblown white hair and stubble, is often entirely silent and withdrawn, and all the more compelling and poignant for that.
(6) Merino wether weaners were exposed to toxic lupin stubbles for periods of one, two and six to nine weeks, and the effect on their liver copper, selenium and zinc concentrations studied.
(7) Riffs that echo Metallica's Black Album, an encore that references Born to Run, and a band of session musicians straight out of 80s rock central casting; an Eric Church gig reeks of classic rock right down to the lead man's aviators, stubble and Jack Daniel's and Coke.
(8) Supplementation to maintain BW of ewes pregnant while grazing stubble, methods to improve utilization of straw, annual forage legumes to complement grazing of fallow land, and by-product feeds in diets for weaned lambs have been tested in collaborative research trials.
(9) For goodness sake, they even have the sort of designer stubble that you would sell your family into slavery in order to touch it just once .
(10) Alleles of the Stubble-stubbloid (Sb-sbd) locus at 89B9-10 act as dominant enhancers of broad alleles of the BR-C. Sb-sbd wild-type products are necessary for appendage elongation.
(11) Late summer light glances off stubble-filled fields, a delicate breeze rustles through the trees and birds chirp contentedly.
(12) Pregnant ewes grazing cereal stubble for 10 to 12 wk at a modest stocking rate and unsupplemented, or at a heavier stocking rate and supplemented after 5 wk, gained about 3 kg; most of the gain occurred in wk 1 to 4 due to intake of residual scattered grain.
(13) At this time it was found that the lupin hay had lower levels of infection with P. leptostromiformis and had developed virtually no toxicity, when compared with adjacent normal lupin stubble which was very heavily infected with Phomopsis and very toxic.
(14) In the shade of one armoured vehicle, parked on the last bend of the road before the Houthi positions and piled high with bedding, plastic bags and sacks of food, sat a thin old commander, with a white moustache and few days’ stubble.
(15) On either side, there were identical fields of stubble.
(16) Examination of the scalp revealed 90% of the hairs to be broken off, leaving a stubble of hairs less than 1 mm in length.
(17) And when the Economist put him on the cover of their Intelligent Life magazine, his stubble-covered jaw defined by mood lighting, there was more than a touch of Hollywood dreamboat about him.
(18) If I had some other job, I could spend time with my children, relax, go to the market.” It is mid-afternoon and Singh, with a round face and boyish sweetness in his eyes, has not been home since last night; grey stubble covers his cheeks and chin.
(19) Photograph: Sarah Lee for the Guardian At this stage Miliband’s whiskers are little more than glorified stubble – for all I know, he looks like that every day before he shaves a second time at 5PM – but it suits him.
(20) Fifteen lupin stubble samples were tested for toxicity using a sheep bioassay and a chemical assay.