calving
present participle ofcalve
| 单词 | calving |
| 释义 | calving present participle ofcalve calve verb[I] uk/kɑːv/us/kæv/When acowcalves, it givesbirthto acalf(= ayoungcow): Fourcowscalvedovernight. Animal reproduction
Examplesofcalvingcalving In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. Nearly 50% of the shoreline is dominated by thecalvingice fronts of the large outlet glaciers. From theCambridge English Corpus R 271 samples were taken atcalving, and 8 samples were taken from quarters that entered the population after purchase of animals. From theCambridge English Corpus The effect of infections atcalvingon production in the subsequent lactation was not examined. From theCambridge English Corpus An interaction between season ofcalvingand nutrition on the resumption of ovarian cycles in post-partum beef cattle. From theCambridge English Corpus For subclinical or clinical infections that were first detected atcalving, thecalvingdate was assumed to be the date of onset of infection. From theCambridge English Corpus Individuals entered the lactating herd after purchase or atcalving, and left the lactating herd at dry-off or culling. From theCambridge English Corpus Similarly,calvingdifficulty whose determinants can be variable was not taken into account in the model. From theCambridge English Corpus An indicator of length ofcalvingseason was measured by the date by which approximately 75 % of calves were born. From theCambridge English Corpus Because of a lack of available quantitative data relative to the combined effect of bull stimulation and body condition atcalving, this expression was calibrated. From theCambridge English Corpus Samples were missing atcalvingfor 32 quarters. From theCambridge English Corpus The event ofcalvingappeared to reduce the likelihood of shedding. From theCambridge English Corpus One exception was a milk sample from a heifer atcalving, which yielded two morphologically distinct colony types and two strains. From theCambridge English Corpus Several studies showed a negative correlation of the postpartum anoestrus with thecalvingdate on suckler herds in both the northern and southern hemisphere. From theCambridge English Corpus Effects of precalving feed level on birth weight,calvingdifficulty and subsequent fertility. From theCambridge English Corpus The two other models were comparable in all terms except they added a predictive variable to take into account the effect ofcalvingdate. From theCambridge English Corpus These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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