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Paintbrush
Paintbrush Background A paintbrush is a handheld tool used to apply paint or sealers to paintable surfaces. The brush picks up paint with filament, includes a ferrule that is a metal band that holds the filament and handle together and gives the brush strength, a spacer plug... Read more |
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honey badger
honey badger or ratel , carnivore, Mellivora capensis, of the forest and brush country of Africa, the Middle East, and India; it is a member of the badger and skunk family. Related to the wolverine and martens, as shown by the resemblance in teeth, the honey badger resembles in fossorial form... Read more |
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Kettering
Kettering town (1991 pop. 44,758), Northamptonshire, central England. It is a road and rail center that manufactures footwear, leather products, and textiles. Industries include iron mining and smelting, cardboard and brush making, and engineering.... Read more |
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microvillus
microvillus One of a number of minute finger-like projections on the free surfaces of epithelial cells. Microvilli are covered with plasma membrane and their cytoplasm is continuous with the main cell cytoplasm. Their purpose is probably to increase the absorptive or secretory surface area of the... Read more |
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Toothbrush
Toothbrush Background A toothbrush is a dental instrument used for cleaning teeth, ideally in conjunction with toothpaste or mouthwash. The toothbrush consists of a plastic handle and nylon bristles attached to the head of the brush. Contemporary designs offer a variety of... Read more |
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pollination
pollination transfer of pollen from the male reproductive organ (stamen or staminate cone) to the female reproductive organ (pistil or pistillate cone) of the same or of another flower or cone. Pollination is not to be confused with fertilization, which it may precede by some time—a full... Read more |
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Eraser
Eraser Background An eraser is a object that is used to remove marks from paper. Most erasers are designed to remove pencil marks. Other erasers are designed to be used on typewriter marks. Some special pens contain erasable ink that can be removed by erasers. While some... Read more |
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Windshield Wiper
Windshield Wiper Background Windshield wipers are used to clean the windshield of a car so that the driver has an unobstructed view of the road. A typical wipe angle for a passenger car is about 67 degrees. The blades are 12-30 in (30-76 cm) long with lengths increasing in... Read more |
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celluloid
celluloid [from cellulose ], transparent, colorless synthetic plastic made by treating cellulose nitrate with camphor and alcohol. Celluloid was the first important synthetic plastic and was widely used as a substitute for more expensive substances, such as ivory, amber, horn, and tortoiseshell.... Read more |
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bee
bee Insect distinguished from other...which they collect pollen; all bees feed their young nectar and pollen...organized colonies, many other bees are solitary, and some species even live in the colonies of other bees. Found worldwide, except in... |
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Telling the Bees
Telling the Bees, poem by Whittier, in an approximation...the hives in mourning and informing the bees of a death. He thinks his Mary's grandfather...stunned to hear the chore girl tell the bees “Mistress Mary is dead and gone!” |
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bee-eater
bee-eater Tropical bird of the Eastern Hemisphere that catches flying bees and wasps. It has a long, curved beak, bright, colourful plumage, and a long tail. It nests in large colonies and builds... |
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Oak Openings, The; Or, The Bee‐Hunter
Oak Openings, The; Or, The Bee‐Hunter, romance by Cooper, published in 1848.In Michigan, at the opening of the War of 1812, the bee‐hunter Benjamin Boden, called Le Bourdon (“The Drone”), is joined at his “Honey Castle... |
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bee blocks
bee blocks, wooden swells on each side of the after end of a boom of a small vessel such as an old-fashioned smack or yacht. It has sheaves through which the leech reef pendants, or reefing tackle, were led. |
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Fable of the Bees, The
Fable of the Bees, The, see Mandeville, B. de. |
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Humble‐Bee, The
Humble‐Bee, The, poem by Emerson, published in 1839 and reprinted in Poems (1847). In six stanzas of irregular four‐stress couplets, the verses celebrate... |
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Hive of the Bee Hunter, The
Hive of the Bee Hunter, The, sketches by T.B. Thorpe. |
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bumblebee
bumblebee (humble bee) Robust, hairy, black bee with broad yellow or orange stripes...hibernation. These become worker bees. Later, the queen lays eggs to produce...The genus Psithyrus, or cuckoo bee, lays its eggs in the nests of Bombus... |
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Frisch, Karl von
...deciphered the ‘language’ of bees by studying their dance patterns in which one bee tells others in the hive the direction...earlier work, he showed that fish and bees see colours, fish can hear and that bees can distinguish various flower scents... |
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bee
bee traditionally taken...productive worker. Bees are also the emblem...disappearance of the bees.a bee in one's bonnet an...Herrick's reference to a bee in his ‘bonnet brave...Hesperides, 1648).where bees are, there is honey... |
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humble-bee
humble-bee large wild bee, bumble-bee. XV. cf. MLG. hummelbē, homelbē, and BUMBLE-BEE. |
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bumble-bee
bumble-bee XVI. f. †bumble frequent. of ME. bumme, bumbe, bombe boom, buzz (see -LE3) + BEE. Cf. HUMBLE-BEE. |
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solitary bees
solitary bees The majority of bees, which are not social (i.e. there is no worker caste and the bees do not live in colonies). Each nest is the work of an individual female and, although nests may be aggregated, there is no co-operation among individuals. |
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bee wine
bee wine Wine produced by the usual fermentation of sugar, but using yeast in the form of a clump of yeast and lactic bacteria; the clump rises and falls with the bubbles of carbon dioxide formed during fermentation, hence the name ‘bee’. |
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bee bread
bee bread A mixture of pollen, honey, and, in some species, plant oils and Dufour's gland exudates, that comprises the food of bee larvae. |
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Palestine bee
Palestine bee See bee wine. |
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mason bee
mason bee Any member of the genera Anthocopa, Chalicodoma, Dianthidium, Heriades...g. rocks, or leaves and branches of woody plants). According to the bee species, the collected materials may be mud, pebbles, quartz chips, resin... |
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sweat bees
sweat bees Small, stingless bees belonging to the families Halictidae and Apidae, which are attracted to human sweat, especially in warm-temperate and tropical climates. Although stingless, some (e.g. Melipona) can bite. |
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Flight of the Bumble Bee, The
Flight of the Bumble Bee, The. Orch. interlude in opera The Legend of Tsar Saltan (1900) by Rimsky-Korsakov in which a prince becomes a bee and stings his villainous relatives. Many arrs. (some highly spurious) for variety of solo instr. |
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brush
brush • noun 1. a styling brush | camel-hair brushes | a brush and dustpan synonyms: hairbrush; toothbrush; paintbrush; scrub brush; whisk broom, sweeper, broom. 2. he gave the seat a brush with his hand synonyms: sweep, wipe, ... |
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brush-off
brush-off • noun informal the brush-off was the last thing he expected from hersynonyms: rejection, dismissal, refusal, rebuff, repulse; snub, slight; informal kiss-off, gate. |
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insect
...lionaphid army ant assassin bugbackswimmer bee bedbug beetle blackfly blowfly bluebottleboatmanboll...butterfly caddisfly carpenter ant carpenter bee carpet beetlecarrion beetle chaferchinch...beetlecorn borer crane fly cricket cuckoo bee cucumber beetle damselflydarner ... |
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buzz
buzz • noun 1. the buzz of the bees synonyms: hum, humming, buzzing, murmur, drone. 2. the buzz...glow, tingle; informal kick, rush, high, charge. • verb 1. bees buzzed synonyms: hum, drone, bumble, murmur. 2. the intercom... |
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hang-up
hang-up • noun 1. a hang-up about/with misspelled wordssynonyms: preoccupation, fixation, obsession, bee in one's bonnet, idée fixe; inf. thing. 2. she has a hang-up about/with mathsynonyms: mental block, psychological block... |
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murmur
...mumble. 2. they left without a murmur synonyms: complaint, grumble, grouse; informal gripe, moan. 3. the murmur of bees synonyms: hum, humming, buzz, buzzing, thrum, thrumming, drone; sigh, rustle; literary susurration, murmuration... |
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cheep
cheep • verb the summer sounds of bees buzzing and birds cheepingsynonyms: chirp, chirrup, twitter, tweet, peep, chitter, chirr, trill, warble, sing. |
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industrious
...steady, painstaking, sedulous, persevering, unflagging, untiring, tireless, indefatigable, studious; busy, as busy as a bee, active, bustling, energetic, on the go, vigorous, determined, dynamic, zealous, productive; with one's shoulder... |
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obsession
obsession • noun synonyms: preoccupation, fixation, idée fixe, ruling/consuming passion, mania, enthusiasm, infatuation, compulsion, phobia, complex, fetish, craze; inf. bee in one's bonnet, hang-up, thing.antonyms: indifference; unconcern. |
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perfection
...a paragon, the ne plus ultra, a nonpareil, the crème de la crème, the last word, the ultimate, the best; informal one in a million, the tops, da bomb; dated, informal the bee's knees, the cat's meow/pajamas/whiskers. |
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Exiles give Bees the brush-off.
...front at half-time and, although the Bees fought back with two tries after the break...were always struggling to keep up. Like Bees, London Welsh had lost their opening two...on a show for an expectant home crowd. Bees' hopes had been dealt a blow by the news... |
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VIC:Irishman's midnight brush with bees
...the hive and "all the bees escaped", with about...going like, `Is that a bee sting? Surelyit's worse...Western Hospital withabout 60 bee stings to his upper body...by hisnear-disastrous brush with the bees. "In the high buildings... |
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The birds, the bees, and the makeup brush: you've never read a manual as...
O: What do you say when you're at a cocktail party and someone asks, "So what do you do?" PAUL: I usually say I'm a publisher or an authorpsychoanalyst" tends to make people just as uncomfortable as telling them you're a sex book writer. If anyone pries, I'm very adept at changing the subject. O: |
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USPTO Issues Trademark MAGIC COLLECTION to Bee Sales for Cosmetics, Manicure...
ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 15 -- Bee Sales Co., Niles, Ill., has been issued...scissors; tweezers; nail buffers, Cosmetic brushes, namely, makeup brushes, nail brushes, hair brushes, neck brushes and hair combs... |
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I don't do FAILURE; Two Oscars, 120 films - and now the grandson he's craved...
Byline: Jenny Johnston Who needs RADA anyway? Sir Michael Caine is teaching me how to act dead. It seems to be all about closing your eyes, holding your breath and suppressing the urge to giggle. Easy peasy. He opens one eye, though, to make sure I'm doing it right. I'm not, of course. 'When most |
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Chilly Hoosier bees not so sweet State agriculture officials think the honey...
...was a bad year for Indiana bees. Excessive rain during...cold prevented many Indiana bee colonies from storing enough...Winter kill happens when bees die because they consume...his hives each fall. "Bees brush against the treated strip... |
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In the world of bees, it pays to be tidy; For honey bees, good hygiene can...
...discovered that honey bees genetically resistant...themselves. These busy bees use their legs to brush off tracheal mites...and choke them. Bee researchers Robert...varies from bee to bee - specifically, how resistant ... |
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BEES ON HER BONNET | QUEEN AND 10,000 FOLLOWERS COLONIZE HOOD OF WOMAN'S CAR
...he said. Immediately, the bees began marching into the box...hour later, only a few hundred bees remained on the top of the wipers...protective hood and used smoke and a bee brush to softly move the bees toward the box. "It's better... |
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WELL, HONEY, AIN'T THIS JUST THE BEES' KNEES? SWARM FINDS WOMAN'S CAR...
...he said. Immediately, the bees began marching into the box...hour later, only a few hundred bees remained on the top of the wipers...protective hood and used smoke and a bee brush to softly move the bees toward the box. "It's better... |
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Bent tissue strip gives orchid kick; study dissects how plants hit bees with...
...Harvard University. When a bee lands, brushing the flower...slams a pollen mass onto the bee's back. After studying...uses scents to attract male bees. Near the male flower...at the other end. When a bee brushes against a pair of long ... |
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