(n.) Any one of numerous species of small singing birds belonging to the families Paridae and Leiotrichidae; a titmouse.
(n.) The European meadow pipit; a titlark.
Example Sentences:
(1) Maybe the world economy goes tits up again, only this time we punish the rich instead of the poor.
(2) Surely the whole point of dressing up is to make a bit of a tit of yourself, not show your actual tits.
(3) However, Superintendent Garry McCarthy told the Chicago SunTimes that the tit-for-tat insult trading on social media was ill-advised .
(4) This year though, the annual fest of tit tape, weepy self-congratulation and sheer star power will be remembered for more than a frock faux pas: there was a serious cock-up .
(5) Despite this exemption, things still managed to go tits-up early last year, when the social network deleted an image of Copenhagen’s Little Mermaid statue .
(6) Then all of a sudden I see her, she’s now got the big phoney tits and everything.
(7) The test will come in the presidential debate on Wednesday night and whether Romney ignores it or uses it as a tit-for-tat with Obama when he raises the 47% video.
(8) The strategy of my aunts and mother is now my default reaction when a 15-year-old on Instagram calls me a cunt or when a grownup reporter writes something about my tits.
(9) tit is shown that a mild digestion of chromatin with staphylococcal nuclease produced not only separate chromatin subunits and their "oligomers' but also deoxyribonucleoprotein particles which sediment more slowly than subunits.
(10) The latter was disillusioning for Patterson, a lifelong indie music fan, especially when the paper published what she terms a “tits ’n’ cocaine” cover for a feature on the Miami scene.
(11) Bingu, who has built strong ties with China, forgives but does not forget the leaked diplomatic cable from the then British high commissioner, Fergus Cochrane-Dyet, that branded him "autocratic", resulting in tit-for-tat expulsions.
(12) Instead, what we get is Cosmopolitan's recent Condom Kama Sutra, which attempts to "make condoms sexy" by suggesting a series of "moves" a woman could do, one of which involves applying one with your tits.
(13) The fact markets pared back this bounce soon after the announcement may in some respects reflect growing market concern that central banks are delving into a tit-for-tat currency devaluation war,” said Angus Nicholson at the online trading firm IG in Melbourne.
(14) Fears of tit-for-tat currency devaluations by the world’s major economic powers eased on Friday after China’s central bank raised the value of the yuan against the US dollar by 0.05%, ending three days of falls instigated by the Beijing authorities .
(15) The results of this study indicate that TIT seems to be a major factor relating to delayed graft function in cadaveric renal transplantation.
(16) Russia’s tit-for-tat ban on imports of European and American produce is already prompting fears of a glut of surplus cheese and yogurt.
(17) Russia responded angrily to the act, imposing a ban on US adoptions of Russian children as a tit-for-tat measure that marked a new low in recent relations.
(18) It was found in the first experiment that monkeys with total removal of the inferotemporal visual area (TIT monkeys) showed a significant elevation of the discrimination limen for visual patterns of reduced sizes even when compared to monkeys with removal of lateral striate cortex (LS monkeys); yet in a food-morsel (raisin) detection test the TIT monkeys performed as well as normal monkeys, although the LS monkeys showed significant deficits.
(19) But recent tit-for-tat discounts in the sector have finally pushed prices down.
(20) The validated assay was used to measure seasonal changes in the in vitro metabolism of T in the anterior (AH) and posterior (PH) hypothalamus and the cerebellum (CER) of free-living juvenile and adult male great tits.
Titmouse
Definition:
(n.) Any one of numerous species of small insectivorous singing birds belonging to Parus and allied genera; -- called also tit, and tomtit.
Example Sentences:
(1) The subfraction compositions of the histone F1 of several tissues from the chicken, pigeon, and titmouse have been compared.