(superl.) Living in a state of nature; inhabiting natural haunts, as the forest or open field; not familiar with, or not easily approached by, man; not tamed or domesticated; as, a wild boar; a wild ox; a wild cat.
(superl.) Growing or produced without culture; growing or prepared without the aid and care of man; native; not cultivated; brought forth by unassisted nature or by animals not domesticated; as, wild parsnip, wild camomile, wild strawberry, wild honey.
(superl.) Desert; not inhabited or cultivated; as, wild land.
(superl.) Savage; uncivilized; not refined by culture; ferocious; rude; as, wild natives of Africa or America.
(superl.) Not submitted to restraint, training, or regulation; turbulent; tempestuous; violent; ungoverned; licentious; inordinate; disorderly; irregular; fanciful; imaginary; visionary; crazy.
(superl.) Exposed to the wind and sea; unsheltered; as, a wild roadstead.
(superl.) Indicating strong emotion, intense excitement, or /ewilderment; as, a wild look.
(superl.) Hard to steer; -- said of a vessel.
(n.) An uninhabited and uncultivated tract or region; a forest or desert; a wilderness; a waste; as, the wilds of America; the wilds of Africa.
(adv.) Wildly; as, to talk wild.
Example Sentences:
(1) In contrast, resting cells of strain CHA750 produced five times less IAA in a buffer (pH 6.0) containing 1 mM-L-tryptophan than did resting cells of the wild-type, illustrating the major contribution of TSO to IAA synthesis under these conditions.
(2) Comparison of wild type and the mutant parD promoter sequences indicated that three short repeats are likely involved in the negative regulation of this promoter.
(3) Insensitive variants die more slowly than wild type cells, with 10-20% cell death observed within 24 h after addition of dexamethasone.
(4) But when he speaks, the crowds who have come together to make a stand against government corruption and soaring fuel prices cheer wildly.
(5) RNAs encoding a wild-type (RBK1) and a mutant (RBK1(Y379V,V381T); RBK1*) subunit of voltage-dependent potassium channels were injected into Xenopus oocytes.
(6) One rat strain (TAS) is susceptible to the anticoagulant and lethal effects of warfarin and the other two strains are homozygous for warfarin resistance genes from either wild Welsh (HW) or Scottish (HS) rats.
(7) No reversions to wild-type levels were observed in 555 heterozygous offspring of crosses between homozygous Campines and normals.
(8) The kinetics of endocytosis and recycling of the wild-type and mutant receptors were compared.
(9) Genetic regulation of the ilvGMEDA cluster involves attenuation, internal promoters, internal Rho-dependent termination sites, a site of polarity in the ilvG pseudogene of the wild-type organism, and autoregulation by the ilvA gene product, the biosynthetic L-threonine deaminase.
(10) In contrast, strains carrying the substitutions Ile-30----Phe, Gly-33----Leu, Gly-58----Leu, and Lys-34----Val and the Lys-34----Val, Glu-37----Gln double substitution were found to possess a coupled phenotype similar to that of the wild type.
(11) With one exception, the mutant control regions showed elevated beta-lactamase activity in comparison to the wild-type.
(12) Intercistronic complementation of these mutants with pm1493 and dl121, two SV40 mutants that are defective in agnoprotein but encode wild-type T antigen, results in an increased synthesis of agnoprotein in the infected cells.
(13) For example, stem pairing with a sequence other than wild-type resulted in normal protein binding in vitro but derepression of protein synthesis in vivo.
(14) Phage lysates of wild-type cells are capable of transducing auxotrophs of strain 78 to prototrophy at frequencies ranging from 0.3 x 10(-7) to 34 x 10(-7) per plaque-forming unit adsorbed.
(15) The mutant spores are pleomorphic and differ both in shape and size from the wild-type spores.
(16) Addition of streptomycin restores much of the wild-type behaviour.
(17) She read geography at Oxford, where Benazir Bhutto (a future prime minister of Pakistan, assassinated in 2007) introduced May to her future husband, Philip May: "I hate to say this, but it was at an Oxford University Conservative Association disco… this is wild stuff.
(18) A plasmid carrying this mutation, along with wild-type genes encoding the c and b subunits, was unusual in that it failed to complement a chromosomal c-subunit mutation on succinate minimal medium.
(19) Using allozymes as the genetic probe, data are presented which show that wild Drosophila buzzatii females and males engaged in copulation mate at random.
(20) Intact wild-type cells, or those of a mutant in which the core region of the lipopolysaccharide was absent, were equally resistant to pronase treatment.
Wildling
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Refusing to play in the Seven Kingdoms league, the all black kit helps the team in matches against Wildling FC, who never bother to wear the same colours.
(2) Qhorin Halfhand is revered for his ability to live deep into Wildling territory for years on end.
(3) When Game of Thrones finally – finally – returns on 6 April, the most eternal of authors George RR Martin ’s conflicts will be an engine of the show’s fourth season: the battle between the men of the Night’s Watch, who guard the 700ft-high icy border of The Realm and the Wildling army that seeks to cross it.
(4) Substitute the Wildlings for the Taliban and the White Walkers for al-Qaida, and Game of Thrones has a fair amount of wisdom to impart about an actual war.
(5) The Wildling, Ygritte, born of a cold world, now simmers with love, rejection and violence.
(6) For Arya and the similarly transgressive Brienne of Tarth, though, the stifling conventions of a woman's place in the Seven Kingdoms offer none of the freedoms, military, social or sexual, enjoyed by the wildling fighter Ygritte among the tribes of the Free Folk north of the Wall.
(7) Finally, Ned Stark's bastard, Jon Snow, rejoined the Night's Watch after a jaunt with the Wildlings left him with the lesson that love hurts.
(8) The united Wildling forces are attempting a pincer assault on the Watch, slipping a small force beyond the Wall to attack the Night’s Watch stronghold while the main advance will march on the Wall directly.
(9) Wildling woman Ygritte hits at the heart of the Night’s Watch strategic blindness after her captor, Jon Snow, says that they’re both people of the North.
(10) In the north, a depleted Night's Watch seems overmatched against the inexorable Wall advances of Mance Rayder's army of wildlings, which in turn is being trailed by an even more formidable foe: the undead White Walkers.
(11) Since 2009, Sall has practised farmer-managed natural regeneration (FMNR), protecting wildlings and pruning stumps that coppice so they rapidly grow or regrow into trees.
(12) But Jon Snow betrayed Rayder's, and the Night's Watch will be ready for Jon's spurned girlfriend Ygritte and Mance's merry Wildlings.
(13) In the meantime, here's what we learnt today: Raul Meireles looks a bit like a Wildling Parking an octopus in the middle of Oxford Street is likely to get the Twitter gag merchants going The name Ting Tings will never stop being funny Good night.
(14) But instead of disbanding once the threat receded, the Watch allowed its mission to creep, embracing the folly that it protects The Realm against the odd Wildling who crosses the Wall and steals people’s stuff.
(15) The coming reckoning is the wages of the Watch attacking the Wildlings when they should have been defending them against a common enemy.
(16) One table features the King, the Don, and the Plan, none of whom would look out of place as a wildling general in Game of Thrones.
(17) The King beyond the Wall Finally, Mance Rayder, with an army of Wildlings and the name of a terrible glam rock band, is marching south on the Wall.
(18) He forms raid squads to disrupt Wildling armies by emulating flat Wilding organizational structures and light-footprint tactics.