(n.) Any one of several species of large odd-toed ungulates belonging to Tapirus, Elasmognathus, and allied genera. They have a long prehensile upper lip, short ears, short and stout legs, a short, thick tail, and short, close hair. They have three toes on the hind feet, and four toes on the fore feet, but the outermost toe is of little use.
Example Sentences:
(1) On the basis of structural similarity of the PP molecules, however, it would appear that the tapir is more closely related to the horse than to the rhinoceros.
(2) There are troops of spider and woolly monkeys, frogs smaller than a fingernail, tapirs the size of horses, as well as ants which taste of lemon and berries so poisonous you could die in seconds if you ate one.
(3) In the Tapiridae represented by the Malayan tapir (Tapirus indicus), high density and low density lipoproteins were present in approximately equal amounts.
(4) The rhinoceros-sized wombat, the ten-foot kangaroo, the marsupial lion, the monitor lizard larger than a Nile crocodile, the giant marsupial tapir, the horned tortoise as big as a car – all went, in ecological terms, overnight.
(5) In this, the first of his so-called Cosmic Trilogy, a man called Ransom is taken to the planet Malacandra (that's Mars to you and me) where he meets intelligent space otters, tall, feathered humanoids, workaholic frog-tapirs and angelic spirits of the ether.
(6) They use this to swat a tapir to death, and divide its flesh up between them.
(7) Schematic fundamental frequency curves of simple statements and questions are generated for Hausa, a two-tone language of Nigeria, using a modified version of an intonational model developed by Gårding and Bruce [Nordic Prosody II, edited by T. Fretheim (Tapir, Trondheim, 1981), pp.
(8) Gross lesions suggestive of severe hepatoenteropathy and myopathy were noted in a 4.5-yr-old Brazilian tapir (Tapirus terrestris) from a zoo in Michigan (USA).
(9) Jaguars, tapirs, giant anteaters and spider monkeys have become "virtually extinct" in Brazil's Atlantic forest, while other species are being lost faster than previously believed due to the fragmentation and emptying of the once dense canopy by farmers and hunters, according to research published on Tuesday.
(10) As for the cost to conservation consciousness-raising, it’s a measure of how much that bothers the visiting public, how rarely reviewers mention a zoo’s research into, say, the lowland tapir as compared to its food or signage.
(11) But since the water was unexpectedly high, many animals – tapirs, anteaters, deer, jaguars – had been pushed deeper into the bush.
(12) Unlike kidneys with a medullary crest in diverse eutherian mammals, tapirs lacked pelvic extensions along the major intrarenal blood vessels and thus lacked pelvic intervascular eminences.
(13) Pancreatic polypeptide (PP) has been purified from extracts of the pancreas of four species of odd-toed ungulates (Perissodactyla): Przewalski's horse, mountain zebra, white rhinoceros, and mountain tapir.
(14) There were tracks of deer, tapirs, anteaters and even the paw-print of a jaguar.
(15) "With a bow and arrow, it was hard to kill an animal like the tapir, but now it's easy.
(16) Zebra PP was identical to Przewalski's horse PP, rhinoceros PP contained three substitutions relative to the horse (Ser for Ala1, Leu for Met3, and Glu for Gln16), and tapir PP contained one substitution relative to the horse (Leu for Met3).
(17) C. labilis was seen attacking elephant, C. orthograpta also water buffalo and sambar, C. minuticornis also zebu and tapir but not sambar.
(18) The renal cortex of tapirs, water-loving primordial ungulates, was continuous, nonlobed, and about 80% of renal mass in adult and 71% in term-neonate.
Tapis
Definition:
(n.) Tapestry; formerly, the cover of a council table.
(v. t.) To cover or work with figures like tapestry.
Example Sentences:
(1) If Lagarde had been placed under formal investigation in the Tapie case, it would have risked weakening her position and further embarrassing both the IMF and France by heaping more judicial worries on a key figure on the international stage.
(2) You need everything.” – Bordeaux coach Willy Sagnol on the ‘typical African player’ “The intelligence I wanted to talk about was tactical intelligence.” – Sagnol clears things up “I want to buy your monkey with the square feet.” – What former Marseille president Bernard Tapie reportedly told then Auxerre coach Guy Roux before signing Basile Boli in 1990.
(3) The case dates back to 2008, when Lagarde, as Sarkozy's finance minister, ordered private arbitration in a long-running business dispute between Tapie and the French state.
(4) In the soap opera of French political eccentrics, few are as colourful and controversial as Tapie: a rags-to-riches businessman who began as a failed popstar and wannabe racing driver, hosted TV shows, became a minister under François Mitterrand, owned Olympique de Marseille football club but then served time in jail for match-fixing, and finally reinvented himself as actor and now press baron, recently buying the newspaper La Provence.
(5) Marseille were consumed by scandal after it emerged that the president, Bernard Tapie, had bribed three Valenciennes players to take it easy against his team in a league fixture at the end of the 1992-93 season.
(6) Although she is based in London, where she loves her "little garden", she and her long-time partner, the photographer Gilles Tapie, have been living a privileged nomadic existence for the past 17 years as they've followed the international trajectory of her career.
(7) Ini tidak hanya menyebabkan frekuensi banjir yang lebih sering, tapi juga berpotensi merusak saluran air bersih terpipa maupun sistem pembuangan air kotor.
(8) Tapie is a former Socialist minister and flamboyant business tycoon turned chatshow host who, as head of Olympique de Marseille football team, had served a prison sentence for match fixing.
(9) The then-socialist opposition claimed the arbitration process was rigged to reward Tapie for his support of Sarkozy in the 2007 presidential election.
(10) Although only the Valenciennes match was proved to have been corrupt, Wenger had his suspicions about much of the Tapie era at Marseille and feared that his own players had been approached.
(11) Once Sarkozy was in office, Lagarde moved to stop the court action and instead authorised three judges to decide an out-of-court settlement that meant Tapie was awarded a massive €400m in compensation at the expense of the French taxpayer – over €280m of which he pocketed, after tax and costs.
(12) Lagarde said there was "nothing new under the sun" and she was ready to be heard in the case, involving businessman Bernard Tapie.
(13) Was there something that resonated with the money coming in – albeit legally – that reminded you of your experience in fighting the financial doping of Bernard Tapie’s Marseille when you were with Monaco?
(14) Tapie, a supporter of former president Nicolas Sarkozy, won the award in arbitration in 2008 to end a dispute with the government over his company's sale of Adidas.
(15) Tapie affair While Sarkozy was president, a complicated legal case involving businessman Bernard Tapie was sent by his government to arbitration, that eventually awarded Tapie €403 million.
(16) Tapie was later jailed and Marseille were stripped of the title they won that year.
(17) Dapat dimengerti bahwa kita sering kali menggantungkan harapan di pundak para politisi, tapi berharap politik akan dapat mengubah status quo secara mendasar hanyalah khayalan.
(18) The return might also have been significant for his long-standing assistant Boro Primorac, who was the Valenciennes coach in 1993 and who testified at Tapie's trial.
(19) It also attacked Lagarde’s reputation saying it was sullied by criminal allegations of negligence over €400m (£314m) of payments in the Bernard Tapie affair , dating back to when she was French finance minister.
(20) Investigators are examining whether the vast sum was deliberately rigged in favour of Tapie.