Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005 small (smoːl)adjective 1.little in size, degree, importanceetc; not large or great.She was accompa...
This modern colloquialism usually applies to a small living or working space. A common variation often used with “No bigger than” is “As big as a shoe box.” Big as your thumbnail —Julian Gloag He [a very short man] with his chin up, gazing about as though searching for his missin...
Discusses the complement and predicate (or adjunct) short clauses (SCs) in active transitive verb structures. Published Spanish literature is reviewed and evaluated, Spanish SC surface structure (SS) is described, an argument is presented against SS restructuring in Spanish, and analyses of several ...
AIMS AND METHODS: Postnatal growth was evaluated in a cross-sectional study of 486 Spanish children, 241 girls and 245 boys, born small for gestational age (SGA), without height catch-up growth between the ages of 2 and 8 years [height <-2SD of age- and sex-matched controls born approp...
Former short track speed skater Wang Yang combines sporting experience and entrepreneurship Unlike many other entrepreneurs in the field of sporting footwear, Wang Yang used to be a figure skater himself. After four years as a figure skater, he had a career change at fourteen, going into short ...
Recent studies observed a significantly association between maternal short stature and the increased risk of SGA30,31. Shorter mothers may have pelvic stenosis and smaller uterine volumes, resulting in limited intrauterine fetal growth32. They may also suffer from chronic malnutrition, leading to ...
Japanese scrap export prices rose in the week ending 23 June but market participants expect the uptrend t be short-lived. The McCloskey weekly H2 grade scrap FOB Tokyo Bay assessment increased by $1,000/t ($6.99/t) to $49,500/t ($346.10/... ...
Everything was homemade and 100% worth the short wait . The menu is varied and has something for everyone in our group. The children enjoyed homemade burgers with delicious homemade dips and side relishes . More bread for the alioli was no problem ...
Also found in: Thesaurus, Encyclopedia. pi·geon 1 (pĭj′ən) n. 1. Any of various birds of the widely distributed family Columbidae, characteristically having plump bodies, small heads, and short legs, especially the rock pigeon or any of its domesticated varieties. 2. Slang One who...
852 ORFs (see “Materials and methods”): 21,118 canonical ORFs of more than 100 codons in polyadenylated mRNAs; 862 ORFs from annotated coding sequences of 100 codons or less in an otherwise canonical mRNA (short CDSs); and 18,872 upstream ORFs (uORFs) in the 5′ leaders of ...