(v. t.) To draw, or cause to follow, by displaying something pleasing or desirable; to allure by some bait.
Example Sentences:
(1) Multiple attempts at contacting Toles, who now lives in Wisconsin, were unsuccessful.
(2) He wasn’t the most credible witness: Toles promptly stated on the stand that he lied in order to get better housing placement in jail.
(3) The tolE mutation causes tolerance to colicins E2 and E3 as well as other effects on the phenotype of Escherichia coli K-12.
(4) A possible tole of UV-damaged phage DNA in propagation of infection and in maturation of phage particles is discussed.
(5) Toles related that Harris’s admissions upset him because what Harris did was wrong,” the police recorded the snitch explaining.
(6) Despite Harris’s vociferous protestations that he would never say such a thing to a total stranger, and his public defender Andrea Lyon’s objections, Toles testified at Harris’s trial.
(7) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Both Lee Harris’s friend and a former colleague remember this letter as being from David Toles, a jailhouse snitch who said he overheard Harris admitting to a murder and whom an appellate judge called an ‘admitted liar’.
(8) So did a former co-worker, John Innis, who remembered the letter and vouched for Toles’ authorship of it to the Guardian.
(9) David Toles, who was 26 and locked up for burglary and auto theft at the time, said he overheard Harris in a Cook County jail dayroom confess to the murder shortly after he introduced himself to Harris, so they could play blackjack.
(10) The map position is shown by the gene order trp-purB-tolE-tolD-galKETO.
(11) Asked if it was difficult to remember his lies, Toles stated to the court: “Well, not really, if it is for your own benefit.” Conspicuously, after his testimony, Toles pleaded guilty on a burglary charge that and received a three-year sentence.
Vole
Definition:
(n.) A deal at cards that draws all the tricks.
(v. i.) To win all the tricks by a vole.
(n.) Any one of numerous species of micelike rodents belonging to Arvicola and allied genera of the subfamily Arvicolinae. They have a thick head, short ears, and a short hairy tail.
Example Sentences:
(1) It is concluded that in its hormonal requirements for a successful DCR the bank vole is similar to the mouse.
(2) The concentrations of several acidic and neutral amino acids of brain, liver, and skeletal muscle were determined in field voles, Microtus montanus, and compared to values obtained from voles harboring a chronic infection of Trypanosoma brucei gambiense.
(3) Meadow vole dams, housed in a 14L:10D photoperiod were injected daily 3 h before onset of darkness with 10 micrograms melatonin.
(4) When female voles were allowed contact with the stud male for only 1 h at the time of mating, 55% exhibited pregnancy failure when exposed to a strange male 48 h later.
(5) Citing the noted study by Larry Young into voles, which went some way to proving their monogamy was a function of the way in which the hormone oxytocin was transmitted in the brain, Faulkes believes something similar will likely be revealed in the naked mole rats.
(6) Body mass and food intake increased substantially during pregnancy and lactation and the magnitude of the increase was unaffected by daylength; by contrast, body weight was significantly reduced in non-impregnated voles kept in short as compared to long days.
(7) The regression is less pronounced in voles than in shrews.
(8) Revertant vole cells appear morphologically similar to normal, uninfected cells, yet, like transformed vole cells, they are fully capable of growing in agar suspension and producing tumors in athymic nude mice.
(9) A survey in Essex in 2006 found most main rivers “utterly devoid of water voles”.
(10) The hypothesis that sex differences in maze learning result from sex differences in activity was tested with wild-caught prairie (Microtus ochrogaster) and meadow (M. pennsylvanicus) voles.
(11) Meadow voles exposed to house dust mites from the homes of patients did not develop serologic or pathologic evidence of infection due to rickettsiae in the spotted fever and typhus groups or Coxiella burnetii.
(12) The results suggest that in northern red-backed voles: the pineal does not mediate seasonal changes in thermogenic capacity, the pineal may mediate reduction of body weight and regression of reproductive organs but, in addition to day-length, other cues or factors may be important, populations may exhibit variability in sensitivity of reproduction to photoperiod which could allow for opportunistic breeding.
(13) Bank vole (Clethrionomys glareolus) monoclonal antibodies (MAbs) against the two envelope glycoproteins (G 1 and G 2) of the Puumala (PUU) virus were generated and characterized.
(14) Look and listen out for Little owls hunting voles and mice and badgers crossing over the summit from a set on the hillside below.
(15) The X chromosome of voles captured in Oregon was 39% longer than that of voles trapped in Washington.
(16) One vole of the 15 on the .001% PLCN treatment died.
(17) Water voles have recently been returned to Cornwall after being declared extinct in the county, to the South Downs national park and to Gwent in south Wales .
(18) Partial immunological cross-reaction was detected in a radioimmunoassay system between rat prolactin and either extracts of vole pituitaries or media on which vole pituitaries had been cultured; vole placental lactogen showed no cross-reaction with rat prolactin.
(19) For the first time in 30 years, and possibly longer, fresh water from deep underground is not filling the ditches and reedbeds of the 40-hectare reserve known for its bitterns, water voles and marsh harriers.
(20) The basic infective cycle of the parasite is a zoonosis between foxes as final hosts and small rodents such as common voles as intermediate hosts.