(n.) An empire in the southeast of Europe and southwest of Asia.
(n.) Any large American gallinaceous bird belonging to the genus Meleagris, especially the North American wild turkey (Meleagris gallopavo), and the domestic turkey, which was probably derived from the Mexican wild turkey, but had been domesticated by the Indians long before the discovery of America.
Example Sentences:
(1) In April, they said the teenager boarded a flight to Turkey with his friend Hassan Munshi, also 17 at the time.
(2) "We examined the reachability of social networking sites from our measurement infrastructure within Turkey, and found nothing unusual.
(3) It is also a clear sign of our willingness and determination to step up engagement across the whole range of the EU-Turkey relationship to fully reflect the strategic importance of our relations.
(4) The protein quality and iron bioavailability of mechanically deboned turkey meat (MDT) and hand-deboned turkey meat (HDT) were determined in rats.
(5) If he is not bluffing, this may cause a total rift with the European family from which Turkey already feels excluded.
(6) I am rooting hard for you.” Ronald Reagan simply told his former vice-president Bush: “Don’t let the turkeys get you down.” By 10.30am Michelle Obama and Melania Trump will join the outgoing and incoming presidents in a presidential limousine to drive to the Capitol.
(7) Since the election on 7 March there has been a bitter contest for power in Iraq led by Iran, Saudi Arabia and Turkey.
(8) Cultures of these isolants were inoculated experimentally into turkeys and produced lesions of chlamydiosis that were indistinguishable from those caused by the strain originally recovered from diseases turkeys on the premises.
(9) Tracheal mucus transport rate (TMTR) and quantitative clearance of aerosolized Escherichia coli from the trachea, lung, and air sac were measured in healthy unanesthetized turkeys and in turkeys exposed by aerosol to a La Sota vaccine strain of Newcastle disease virus (NDV).
(10) The lymphoproliferative disease virus (LPDV) of turkeys is the retroviral agent of etiology of a rapidly developing, naturally occurring, lymphoproliferative process.
(11) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Looking on as his Bolton side take on Besiktas during their Uefa Cup group game in Istanbul, Turkey.
(12) Even regional allies disagree with American priorities about Isis, Biddle noted, which is why Turkey continues to bomb Kurds and Saudi Arabia and the UAE arm groups around the region , most notably in Syria but also in the ruins of Yemen .
(13) Reductions of similar magnitude were obtained following intracranial administration of turkey, ovine or human GH.
(14) A detailed comparison of the interaction of beta-adrenergic receptors with adenylate cyclase stimulation and modification of this interaction by guanine nucleotides has been made in two model systems, the frog and turkey erythrocyte.
(15) We should be grateful the School Food Trust has established this now, before we end up falling down a slippery slope back towards the dreaded Turkey Twizzler that Jamie Oliver campaigned to banish," he added.
(16) But Turkey prefers to deal with the present rather than admit to past crimes.
(17) Circumstantial evidence indicated that in the field; the incubation period of P multocida in a turkey flock may be between 2 to 7 weeks.
(18) Before the AKP came to power, nobody had heard of Turkey and our politicians.
(19) Facebook Twitter Pinterest 11-year-old Karim, who lives and works in a camp for displaced people close to the border with Turkey.
(20) After the Italian prime minister, Matteo Renzi, threatened to veto a deal with Turkey, a reference to media freedom was added to the final summit statement.
Turney
Definition:
(n. & v.) Tourney.
Example Sentences:
(1) Mrs Turney, who lives near Maidenhead, Berkshire, downloaded a model complaint letter from a website after watching a TV documentary about bank charges.
(2) The film included an interview with Faye Turney, the only woman among the group, who apologised for "trespassing" into Iranian waters.
(3) Mrs Turney says she has written to the manager who wrote the letter to say she thinks Nationwide is being "short-sighted".
(4) A Foreign Office spokesman tonight expressed "grave concern" at the way Ms Turney had been interviewed.
(5) It also showed a handwritten letter purporting to be by leading seaman Turney to her parents, saying she had "written a letter to the Iranian people to apologise for us entering into their waters".
(6) One study, said Turney, aimed to provide a new view of the entire planet's ocean circulation which could offer "a legacy of the expedition that will last years after our return."
(7) We have previously reported that rearward migration of surface particles on slowly moving cells is not driven by membrane flow (Sheetz, M. P., S. Turney, H. Qian, and E. L. Elson.
(8) Chris Turney, head of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, says in an article in the Observer that despite the rescue of those on board the Akademik Shikolskiy , the expedition's research ship that has been trapped in ice since Christmas Eve, there was a "growing sense of frustration over what appears to be a misrepresentation of the expedition in some news outlets and on the internet".
(9) "To me, that was admitting they were in the wrong," says Mrs Turney, who is still waiting for her money.
(10) Dressed in a headscarf and smoking a cigarette, Ms Turney said she had been well treated by "friendly and hospitable" people.
(11) Michele Turney incurred the wrath of Nationwide after she and her husband successfully claimed back £1,100 in bank charges going back six years.
(12) Earlier, Mr Mottaki had suggested that Leading seaman Turney, the only woman among the 15 captives, would be released "as soon as possible", although this is hardly likely to defuse a crisis which appeared to escalate by the hour yesterday.
(13) The Foreign Office reacted furiously to the video, calling it "completely unacceptable" and expressed "grave concerns" about the conditions under which Leading seaman Faye Turney was persuaded to admit on film that the 15-strong British naval patrol had strayed into Iranian territory last Friday.
(14) Nationwide's executive director, Stuart Bernau, says that, having seen the letters sent to Mrs Turney, he accepts that "this is not a co-ordinated way to deal with people.
(15) Iranian television also showed a handwritten letter, apparently from Ms Turney to her parents, in which she said she regretted being taking into custody by Iranian naval forces.
(16) A Foreign Office spokesman said of the video broadcast last night: "Given the nature of Leading seaman Faye Turney's statement and the apparent confession that the personnel were 'arrested after they trespassed into Iranian waters' we have grave concerns about the circumstances under which she made this statement."
(17) "Given the nature of Leading Seaman Faye Turney's statement, particularly the apparent concession that the personnel were 'arrested after they trespassed into Iranian waters', we have grave concerns as to the circumstances under which she made this statement," the spokesman said.
(18) Mr Mottaki however appeared to back away from suggestions that Leading seaman Turney was about to be released and said Britain must admit its personnel had made a mistake.
(19) Leading seaman Turney was shown wearing a headscarf and makeup, and smoking while giving an account of the incident, which was translated and voiced over in the broadcast.
(20) Even though Nationwide has shown her the door, Mrs Turney says she would have no hesitation in urging others to follow her example.