(n.) A goatlike animal (Capra Jemlaica) native of the Himalayas. It has small, flattened horns, curved directly backward. The hair of the neck, shoulders, and chest of the male is very long, reaching to the knees. Called also serow, and imo.
(v. impersonal, pres.) It needs; need.
Example Sentences:
(1) He told BBC Radio 4's Today programme thar areas of departmental "underspends" were being identified along with areas where project deadlines have slipped.
(2) The Indian Meterological Department attributes the record heat to lack of atmospheric humidity, hot dry winds blowing across the south-western Thar desert and the effects of last year's El Nino cycle.
(3) Barmer district of Rajasthan in Thar desert and hitherto a hypoendemic area for malaria came in the grip of a severe malaria epidemic during 1990.
(4) India Across large swaths of the Thar desert in western India , traditional techniques for harvesting the little amount of rain that falls has helped people survive the powerful effects of the sun for centuries.
(5) The first case of mycetoma caused by Aspergillus nidulans has been described from India in a young farmer of Jaisalmer situated in the Thar desert of Western Rajasthan, India.
(6) Instead of Elsie Tanner in a too-tight skirt, it had everybody in satin-sheeted beds with everybody else (by 1985, there must have been more chlamydia than oil in them thar fields).
(7) From the observation tower in the Thar desert and as far as the eye can see, the dark blue arrays of a million solar panels can be seen sitting silently on the red dust.
(8) I’m confident that he will make the step-up to the managing director role quickly and effectively.” The deadline for applicants for the Channel 4 chairman role closes in November and Ofcom has made it clear thar it intends to appoint a successor to Burns before his tenure runs out at the end of January.
(9) You only could play if your belly had stars And the Plain Belly children had none upon thars.
(10) An electron microscopic study was performed of the cells which constitute thar anterior pituitary of the Macaca Mulatta female monkey.
(11) Although the specificity of the assay for quantitating plasma LH in other species was not categorically established, there was a good correlation between plasma LH concentration and reproductive state in the bontebok, impala, spring-hare, thar, cheetah, domestic horse and laboratory rat, suggesting the potential use of the antiserum in quantitating LH in a variety of mammalian species.
(12) As San Thar Myint cradles her baby in the hospital ward, she is in no doubt about what she wants.
(13) The deaths occurred in the Thar desert, part of Tharparkar district, some 350km (200 miles) from Karachi, which runs up to the border with India.
(14) Aridity increases from east to west to the Great Indian Desert or Thar Desert.
(15) Serum and pituitary homogenates from some African mammals (hyrax, reedbuck, sable, impala, tsessebe, thar, spring-hare, ground squirrel and cheetah, as well as the domestic sheep, cow and horse and laboratory rat and hamster) produced displacement curves parallel to that of the ovine LH standards.
(16) Her mother, San Thar Myint, found her lying prone on the ground, bleeding and in shock.
(17) It appears thar rat fetal MAO is under a strong thyroid control.
Thor
Definition:
(n.) The god of thunder, and son of Odin.
Example Sentences:
(1) It's hard to imagine a more masculine character than Thor, who is based on the god of thunder of Norse myth: he's the strapping, hammer-wielding son of Odin who, more often than not, sports a beard and likes nothing better than smacking frost giants.
(2) I have no idea what it would take to kill Thor; nor for that matter does Loki.
(3) The Buffy the Vampire Slayer creator's bosses at Marvel are also bringing sequels to Thor and Captain America to the big screen over the next year, a fact which would also appear to clash with Whedon's clarion call for originality.
(4) The awards were announced by Rush and Thor star Chris Hemsworth and Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences president Cheryl Boone Isaacs.
(5) 'I couldn't imagine a worse scenario than not enjoying being Thor, because it's gonna consume a good 10 years of my life' Hemsworth, a gentle giant who seems both grateful and gracious, talks passionately about Thor, with no winking and no weariness.
(6) Thor Marvel has already made the change in the comic books, revealing earlier this year that Thor’s long-term love interest Jane Foster has become the new female Thor after picking up the hammer Mjolnir and finding herself more worthy of it than the son of Odin himself.
(7) "Apart from anything else, with Superman returning to a cinematic landscape that now also has that other god-alien Thor, not to mention Iron Man, Hulk – hell, all the Avengers – it wasn't a daft move to avoid any winks to his inherent absurdity," he writes.
(8) He duly obliged and the crowd was treated to the first look at Age of Ultron, starting with a witty interchange between the Avengers as each, enjoying a drink and dressed in civilian clothing, tries to lift Thor’s hammer.
(9) He still undid the holster on his thigh, took out Mjølnir – he had named his Glock after Thor’s hammer – and crossed the road.
(10) Oddly enough, Thor (in which Chris Hemsworth plays the Nordic god, come to save us all from Christopher Ecclestone) does pass, since it features a scene in which Natalie Portman and Kat Dennings discuss nuclear physics.
(11) Thor Heyerdahl’s Kon-Tiki expedition was a product of the European enlightenment’s belief in progressive learning.
(12) Cellular sensitization to human myelin A1 protein, peptide L (residues 1-116), peptide T (residues 117-170), and petide Y (residues 154-170) was studied using the Thor-Rocklin MIF assay system.
(13) Bettany, who until now has voiced Tony Stark’s computerised assistant Jarvis, said: “I used to turn up in a dark room for 45 minutes and get a bag of cash and now I have to work for my money.” When Hemsworth was asked what he would still like to do as Thor, he said: “Turning into a woman” – a reference to the pre-Con decision by Marvel Comics to trumpet its upcoming next iteration of the god of thunder as a woman.
(14) Back to article (2) Pacific Rim, Thor: The Dark World and Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom.
(15) Chris Hemsworth, AKA Thor, God of Thunder, crown prince of Asgard, calls me from the M25.
(16) Robin van Persie eventually tuned into him and took Robben’s fine through-ball in his stride but was denied by Hannes Thor Halldorsson, before Robben himself passed up a chance, nodding wide when it looked easier to convert Daley Blind’s cross.
(17) Twelve months ago, Chris Hemsworth, the actor who plays Kevin, was in every multiplex as Thor , he of the unreconstructed chivalry and massive mallet.
(18) And I realised, I ain't Thor without the costume and the hammer."
(19) This thing is starting to get old … Chris Hemsworth as Thor and Chris Evans as Captain America in The Avengers In fact, the rise of superhero movies signals the triumph of the neurotic over the maverick.
(20) The comic, launching in October, is billed by Marvel as "one of the most shocking and exciting changes ever to shake one of the 'big three' of Captain America, Iron Man and Thor".