(n.) One who tastes; especially, one who first tastes food or drink to ascertain its quality.
(n.) That in which, or by which, anything is tasted, as, a dram cup, a cheese taster, or the like.
(n.) One of a peculiar kind of zooids situated on the polyp-stem of certain Siphonophora. They somewhat resemble the feeding zooids, but are destitute of mouths. See Siphonophora.
Example Sentences:
(1) For instance, it is hard to get colleagues to contribute to “survey courses” – taster programmes that briefly cover the main topics of a discipline.
(2) The harsh labour market experience of the young over recent years is a mere taster of what's in store.
(3) I decided to develop a 50-minute debut Fringe show and performed previews in London to test the show out and began promoting it.” By giving herself a taster of the Edinburgh experience before jumping in with both feet, Collins prepared herself for what was ahead.
(4) Among the tasters will be the Chicago-based author of Taste of Tomorrow, Josh Schonwald, and an Austrian food trends researcher, Hanni Rützler of the Future Food Studio.
(5) At one point, dissatisfied with their taste – she is an enthusiastic rather than a merely dutiful taster – she tipped seven plated servings of scallops back in a basin and began seasoning them all over again.
(6) Tasters selected milk earlier than did nontasters, suggesting that they like it more.
(7) Sensitive non-tasters demonstrated a distribution of reaction times that was similar to that observed with tasters.
(8) These results are regarded as a probable confirmation of the Indian origin of the Gipsies, as the percentage of non-tasters in the majority of the different Indian tribes is higher than that of the European populations.
(9) Now it provides a poignant taster of a major new British Museum touring exhibition that opens in Bristol on 21 September.
(10) The diminished intensity perception for sweet and bitter taste was much more prominent in non-tasters than tasters hypothyroids.
(11) Significantly more subjects who reported a mother debilitated by depression were PTC tasters (p less than .05).
(12) But they were tasters of what the no campaign thought the electorate deserved, ie not much.
(13) The impact of a rare “ice tsunami” in 2013 on the Canadian municipality of Ochre Beach was just a taster: a wall of melting iceberg on Dauphin Lake was blown by winds on to the shore, splintering every house in its path.
(14) In all the groups the frequency of 'tasters' exceeded that of 'nontasters.'
(15) Sixty percent of subjects of hyperthyroid and 40% of hypothyroid subjects were tasters.
(16) Between overall quality and the contents of total pigments, total anthocyanins, coloured anthocyanins and the tasters' mean colour scores; b. Flavour and the contents of total pigments and total anthocyanins.
(17) The present study examined differences in gustatory processing for tasters and non-tasters of phenylthiocarbamide (PTC) by assessing intensity judgment reaction times in these two groups.
(18) The SWR and CFW mice are both derived from Swiss mice, and the results were consistent with the possibility that the Taster animals share an allele which is identical by descent.
(19) We’ll give you some symbolic tasters – cutting winter fuel payments to wealthy pensioners, for example – but no hideous-sounding, cute-puppy-strangling, gruesome sacrifices that would really frighten people.
(20) Here's a taster: "Soccer" has weathered a long, dusty path for mainstream acceptance but the class of 2006 garnered idol status for Cahill, Kewell and co.
Zooid
Definition:
(a.) Pertaining to, or resembling, an animal.
(n.) An organic body or cell having locomotion, as a spermatic cell or spermatozooid.
(n.) An animal in one of its inferior stages of development, as one of the intermediate forms in alternate generation.
(n.) One of the individual animals in a composite group, as of Anthozoa, Hydroidea, and Bryozoa; -- sometimes restricted to those individuals in which the mouth and digestive organs are not developed.
Example Sentences:
(1) 5-HT antigenicity in the postpharyngeal commissure indicates the initiation of the development of a new zooid.
(2) At the onset of takeover (T = 3 hr), B3F12.9 immunostaining became diffuse or absent at the anterior end, which paralleled the axis of contraction of the dying zooid, whereas the posterior end retained its labeling integrity.
(3) The latter process is similar to the degeneration of old individuals, or zooids, that precedes maturation of each new generation of asexual buds.
(4) The rate of cell fission was retarded in colchicine-containing media, but nevertheless short-stalked colonies with apparently normal zooids were formed.
(5) Site-specific reactions were also observed in larval tail muscle and the siphon muscles of postmetamorphic zooids.
(6) Here we describe a monoclonal antibody (B3F12.9) that recognizes a novel 57 Kd polypeptide (under reducing conditions) localized to the perivisceral extracellular matrix (PVEM) of buds and zooids, as well as blood cells of Botryllus by immunofluorescence and immunogold labeling of tissue sections.
(7) Here we describe comparisons of in vitro reactions of a) mixtures of cells from allogeneic animals and b) cells taken from animals at the zooid-resorption ("takeover") stage of colony development.
(8) Botryllus schlosseri is a colonial ascidian whose asexually derived, clonally modular systems of zooids exhibit developmental synchrony.
(9) The capsule of the dormant bud has some structural features in common with the black stolon of the adult zooids.
(10) A second impulse was recorded from individual zooids, probably generated by the polypide's nervous system.
(11) The colonial tunicate Botryllus schlosseri undergoes cyclic blastogenesis where feeding zooids are senescened and resorbed and a new generation of zooids takes over the colony.
(12) They form the probable route of transfer of yolk from the zooids to the dormant bud.
(13) These findings indicate that takeover is a dynamic process in which extracellular matrix breakdown proceeds in a polarized fashion, beginning at the anterior end of each zooid and gradually propagating toward the posterior end.
(14) In many attributes, these various junctions are more similar to those found in the tissues of vertebrates, than to those in the invertebrates, which the adult zooid forms of these lowly chordates resemble anatomically.
(15) The neoblast and mitosis distributions in the daughter zooid during its asexual reproduction cycle duplicate those observed in the maternal zooid.
(16) No larvae metamorphosed into oozooids with situs inversus viscerum, but in this study two oozooids extruded blastozooids showing this anomaly; these blastozooids budded "reversed" zooids in turn, so that entire clonal lines showed the anomaly.
(17) Under 2,000 rads some of the irradiated zooids within this type of union started to regenerate, and at 1,000 rads no resorption was recorded, even though the number of zooids decreased in the irradiated part.
(18) During their active feeding phase, zooids exhibited a uniform labeling pattern of PVEM along their anteroposterior (A-P) axis.
(19) With doses of 3,000-4,000 rads and above, irradiation arrested the formation of new buds and interrupted normal takeover, turning the colony into a chaotic bulk of vessels, buds, and zooid segments.
(20) During the first few days after fission, the number of neoblasts decreases in the portion of the body immediately adjoining the site of daughter zooid detachment and considerably increases in the regenerative bud.