(adv. & a.) Near or towards the stern of a vessel; astern; abaft.
Example Sentences:
(1) All values for the AFT were on an equal level for normal subjects younger than 65 years.
(2) This caused variations in fore-and-aft motion with position along the vertical axis of the head and variations in vertical motion with position along the fore-and-aft axis of the head.
(3) Here, we report a combined biochemical and microscopical attempt to determine whether the protein reduction occurs throughout the excised, in vitro-cultured root and whether the plasmalemma proteins which are affected by AFTs can be both solubilized and characterized.
(4) The impulses of fore-aft force were closely correlated with step length.
(5) The design considerations and trade-offs associated with the choice of slit width, slit separation distance, and aft slot depth are discussed along with the effect of these parameters on the SMSA's performance.
(6) A total of 792 ATCs and 2,366 AFTs completed the Strong Vocational Interest Blank (SVIB) and questionnaires concerning job satisfaction and job attitudes.
(7) The data indicate that the biological activity of AFT-6 is partly due to the molecules having antigenic determinants of AgT-1.
(8) Electronic scanning-slit fluorography involves replacing paired fore and aft slits for scatter rejection with only one beam-defining tantalum fore aperture.
(9) Since the vestibulospinal level of vestibular function is frequently neglected in the evaluation of vertiginous patients, we developed a new posture equilibrometer for recording body swaying X (left-right) and Y (fore-aft) components of angular displacement, velocity, and acceleration with its transducer on the head of the subject.
(10) During the assault, which began in earnest 40 miles from the coast, several journalists continued to broadcast from the aft deck, sharing a microphone in a relay as they broadcast to the world.
(11) Using the transducer AFT was monitored noninvasively over extended periods in about 200 normal and sick neonates.
(12) These results indicate that for a period of approximately 5 days afte r ovulation, the development of the rabbit ectopic corpus luteum and the secretion of progesterone are autonomous from estradiol secreted by ovarian follicles.
(13) There was no rebound decrease in AFT up to 65 minutes.
(14) Onsets and magnitudes of lateral and fore-aft reactive forces associated with the movement and of electromyographic (EMG) activity of the ipsilateral deltoid and external abdominal oblique and contralateral paraspinal muscles were monitored.
(15) At sacrifice there was extensive bile ductule cell proliferation and numerous precancerous changes evident in AFT-treated animals.
(16) Substituting the IM fat estimate at the 12th rib for adjusted fat thickness (AFT) in the equation explained 60% of the variation in percentage of chemical fat.
(17) No changes in AFT or VFT were noted in control experiments.
(18) UK defense hardware firm BAE Systems makes the airplane’s aft section; Californian company Northrop Grumman makes the plane’s center fuselages, as does Ankara’s Turkish Aerospace Industries.
(19) The body sway response signals are digitized for the calculation of the following parameters by a computer: average velocity of body sway, mean value for fore-aft and lateral body sway, and maximal amplitude of body sway.
(20) For the frontal patients, significant correlations were found between the number of prompts on the AFT and the number of perseverative errors on the WCST.
Gig
Definition:
(n.) A fiddle.
(v. t.) To engender.
(n.) A kind of spear or harpoon. See Fishgig.
(v. t.) To fish with a gig.
(n.) A playful or wanton girl; a giglot.
(n.) A top or whirligig; any little thing that is whirled round in play.
(n.) A light carriage, with one pair of wheels, drawn by one horse; a kind of chaise.
(n.) A long, light rowboat, generally clinkerbuilt, and designed to be fast; a boat appropriated to the use of the commanding officer; as, the captain's gig.
(n.) A rotatory cylinder, covered with wire teeth or teasels, for teaseling woolen cloth.
Example Sentences:
(1) I first saw them live at the location of the terror attack, Manchester Arena – then the MEN – aged 15, a teen at a gig with my friends, as many of the Grande’s fans were.
(2) The next day on his blog he called the job "the Holy Grail of animation gigs".
(3) Matthew Taylor was appointed by Theresa May last October to review employment practices in the light of concerns about the precarious nature of work, particularly in the gig economy.
(4) I'm sure Evan wouldn't mind me saying that he makes no secret of an occasional discomfort about conventional chord-change playing in jazz, and tends to sit out occasions where it's required, as he did last year in London on a gig in which the pianist Django Bates was reworking Charlie Parker tunes.
(5) Riccardo Vastola, 28, studied marketing and communications but founded a music business in 2009, organising indie rock gigs, events, club nights in and around Bologna.
(6) You know, I don't mean to be unkind but I think you should put your phone down because you're just being a dick, really, just enjoy the gig because it's a better … it's a dick job, filming the show.
(7) The arts and social space in Deptford opened in 2015 after three years of fundraising and it now runs a programme of gigs, screenings, talks and performances, as well as being home to Tome Records, which has a distractingly good selection of vinyl, as well as tapes and zines.
(8) [When he comes to a gig] it’s like a mate at school turning up.” Watson’s record of campaigns against phone hacking and establishment child abuse have also won him cross-party admiration and a public profile as a righteous crusader.
(9) In 2004, fewer than 100,000 tickets were sold for arena standup gigs.
(10) That was one of the advantages of having a gay "uncle" – he took me to gigs.
(11) And if you're really funny, then provided you're not punching people when you come off, or stealing people's belongings, then you'll get a gig.
(12) Calling London … Prince and 3RDEYEGIRL at Shepherd's Bush Empire Fresh from his Valentine's night double-header of shows at King's Place, beneath the Guardian's offices in north London, Prince has announced his Sunday night appearance at Koko in Camden Town will take the form of three separate gigs.
(13) The boys have just done eight gigs in nine nights and they're knackered.
(14) Their lives are all different: they are creating and organising challenging contemporary art, others setting up literary resources, working as DJs and educators, re-entering education or still progressing in karate at age 43, organising gigs and working in the professions.
(15) White is doing his own bit to turn back the clock: at his gigs, he enforces a strict ban on the audience shooting pictures or video; at home, he only allows his children – Scarlett, eight, and Hank, six – to play with mechanical toys.
(16) He didn't even mind the National Front turning up and sieg-heiling during gigs, which seems enormously sporting of him, given his raft of horrifying stories about experiencing racism in 60s and 70s Britain, and the scars he still bears as the result of a racially motivated 1980 knife attack.
(17) These data suggest that GAMD is very efficient at priming T cells specific for GIg epitopes and that once primed they can be readily re-triggered by GIg.
(18) Earlier this year, the 2016 Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton said that while the on-demand, gig economy is creating innovations, it is also “raising hard questions about workplace protections and what a good job will look like in the future”.
(19) In London there are generally four types of rock show: the billions of pub gigs where 20 of the band's mates try to convince you there's still a future in grindie; the arena and stadium blowouts where it's customary to express one's appreciation of the band by dousing one's peers in airborne urine; the east London artronica happenings where everyone's only watching everyone else; and the gigs in Hyde Park you can't hear.
(20) She booked a well-paying gig as a Fox News pundit, wrote two bestselling books and starred in her own reality show, Sarah Palin’s Alaska, on TLC.