(n.) One who weaves, or whose occupation is to weave.
(n.) A weaver bird.
(n.) An aquatic beetle of the genus Gyrinus. See Whirling.
Example Sentences:
(1) The pattern of innervation following transplantation indicates that, in repopulating dopamine-deficient cortical areas of recipient weaver mutants, graft-derived dopamine fibres show a preference for those layers which are normally invested by dopamine afferents.
(2) Weaver mutant mice alternated above chance levels but less often than normal mice in a 2-trial spontaneous alternation test.
(3) The metabolism of 5-hydroxytryptamine (5-HT) in the CNS was investigated in four kinds of morphologically different ataxic mice; reeler, staggerer, weaver and Purkinje cell degeneration mutants, and in hypocerebellar mice experimentally produced by injection of cytosine arabinoside.
(4) The immunoreactivity in OZ42, a neural cell specific antibody that recognizes premigratory cerebellar granule cells, was examined in early postnatal wild-type and weaver mouse cerebella.
(5) We suggest that a genetic mutation of the syndrome may be the same in Japanese as other ethnic groups and that Weaver syndrome may be an autosomal dominant disorder with variable expressions.
(6) Weaver said the New York tour, which he called a “cousin” of the Iowa road trip, was executed “brilliantly” by Clinton’s then-campaign team, which launched a successful bid for senate before her confidants squandered an early advantage in chasing the White House seven years later.
(7) The mesencephalic dopamine (DA) cell system was examined in mice homozygous and heterozygous for the weaver (wv) gene and in wild-type controls to estimate the extent of cell losses associated with the genetically determined central DA deficiency observed in weaver homozygotes.
(8) These mutant genes and other ADH2 deletions constructed by BAL 31 endonuclease digestion were studied after replacing the wild-type chromosomal locus with the altered alleles by the technique of gene transplacement (T. L. Orr-Weaver, J. W. Szostak, and R. S. Rothstein, Proc.
(9) Thus, in spite of the degeneration and failure of development of the nigrostriatal innervation in weaver mice, D1 binding in the weaver's striatum undergoes the elaborate change in distribution of these sites that is a hallmark of normal striatal development.
(10) In regard to swimming performance, the weaver mutants swam with less ability but with more vigor than normal mice.
(11) In rather small, photoperiod may not serve as a cue to trigger seasonal reproductive periodicity, it seems that photoperiod can act as a Zeitgeber for the initiation of spermatogenesis in the weaver bird at least.
(12) Eighty-two-year-old Richard “Buddy” Weaver was killed by Oklahoma City police after he allegedly raised a machete at an officer who opened fire; neighbors later described Weaver as having schizophrenia.
(13) After reaggregation with wild-type EGL precursor cells, weaver precursor cells extended neurites equivalent in length to wild-type cells, migrated along astroglial fibers, and expressed TAG-1 and astrotactin.
(14) The abnormalities in the striatal dopamine content of weaver mice are not accompanied by abnormalities in the turnover of dopamine, judging from measurements of the dopamine metabolite dihydroxyphenylacetic acid.
(15) The values of 17-ketosteroids (according toe Drekter, Pearson, Bartezak, modification of Kukuskina and Gurjeva), 5-hydroxyindole acetic acid (according to Sjoerdsma, Weisbach and Udenfriend) and 3-methoxy, 4-hydroxyvanillyl mandelic acid (according to Pisano et al, modification of Georges) were followed up in the 24-hour urine of 37 female-weavers (subdivided into two groups--healthy and neurotics) and 15 males--operators of control boards from the Chemical Combinate--Vratza.
(16) The diagnosis of Weaver-Smith syndrome has been carried out on two patients with facial dysmorphic features, excessive growth and accelerated bone maturation.
(17) Weaver mutant mice engaged less in motor activity and hole poking.
(18) Sitting with him as he spoke were Sigourney Weaver and Joel David Moore, who starred in Avatar , which charts the fight of the fictitious Na'vi people against outside attempts to pillage their resources on the planet Pandora.
(19) Reduced levels of binding in the agranular weaver cerebellum as compared to normals indicated that binding in the normal cerebellum was to receptors on granule cell dendrites.
(20) The Occupational Health Programme in Mirzapur was conceived by the SEU to improve the health and living conditions of child and adult weavers.
Webber
Definition:
(n.) One who forms webs; a weaver; a webster.
Example Sentences:
(1) Wogan says Lloyd Webber – who will join Ewen on stage at the 17,000 seater Olympiyski arena in Moscow in a bid to boost her chances – is "extremely brave" to get involved.
(2) "We are now looking further afield: India, China, the Middle East, South America," said managing director Mark Webber.
(3) Red Bull's Mark Webber, an enthusiastic cyclist himself, felt that the drug revelations had diminished the sport.
(4) In these studies, the linearity of the complementation map of the his-3 cistron (Webber, 1965) was confirmed and mutants were classified as complementing with non-polarized or polarized complementation patterns, or non-complementing.
(5) Webber admitted he was in half a mind about whether to open this weekend.
(6) In addition, "fundamental reform of social care" – which the charity Age UK said was "an absolute disaster" – was vital, otherwise integration would not work, Webber said.
(7) More extensive complementation tests than those performed initially (Webber and de Serres, 1965) on a series of 832 X-ray-induced specific-locus mutations in the adenine-3 (ad-3) region of a two-component heterokaryon (H-12) of Neurospora crassa (de Serres, 1989a) showed that unexpectedly high frequencies of specific-locus mutations in the ad-3 region have additional, but separate, sites of recessive lethal (RLCL) damage in the immediately adjacent genetic regions.
(8) Among Pistorius's defence team, Barry Roux declined to comment and Brian Webber said it was "likely" he would be called on Friday, but Kenny Oldwadge said: "We'll see about that."
(9) As the excitable narrator said: “It will attract young men with bright new ideas.” This was to be a radically decentralised city, inspired by Californian urban theorist Melvin Webber, who believed that the traditional concentric city would be superseded by “community without propinquity”: closely bonded without being physically crammed together, a vision which looks rather like the internet age.
(10) She had three shows in the West End by 1963, triumph on a Lloyd Webber scale, and to incomparably higher standards, but without his managerial back-up.
(11) "We're a bit suspicious of people who use too many superlatives," added guitarist Mark Webber.
(12) "I've been to the factory but there's no real kneejerk reaction," Webber said.
(13) But this weekend, Jade Ewen will be singing one of Warren's songs as the UK Eurovision entry - My Time, with music by Andrew Lloyd Webber.
(14) Joan Webber, principal pathologist at Forest Research, said: "Input from across Great Britain will help us to develop a comprehensive picture of tree health and contribute to the database of information that we are building."
(15) The UK's 2009 Eurovision contestant, Jade Ewen, began rehearsals in Moscow last weekend, and is performing a song written by Lloyd Webber and Diane Warren.
(16) Lloyd Webber today defended his high-risk decision to compose the UK's entry, together with the US's Diane Warren.
(17) Anything less than a top three finish for Lloyd Webber would appear to be a disappointment.
(18) Setting aside the social-climber image fostered by the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical, many now credit her activism and passion for things that are central to Argentinian culture today, from widespread desires for social justice and equal rights to a shared assumption that society's poorest need and deserve the government's help.
(19) Brian Webber, one of Pistorius's lawyers, told : "We don't have a choice.
(20) It’s not in my plans not to race.” Earlier, as Alonso’s close friend Mark Webber described the double world champion as a “ticking bomb”‚ Ron Dennis suggested that his driver could take a break from the sport.