(n.) The use of the bow and arrows in battle, hunting, etc.; the art, practice, or skill of shooting with a bow and arrows.
(n.) Archers, or bowmen, collectively.
Example Sentences:
(1) • €200 for three nights and free access to two archery centres, tiroler-adler.at Road cycling in Ireland Facebook Twitter Pinterest Wild Atlantic Cycling is a new, small travel company running cycling holidays along the Wild Atlantic Way , the route from the southernmost to northernmost tip of Ireland (Mizen to Malin).
(2) The traditional hotel, surrounded by mountains and at the head of the Pillersee Valley, is surrounded by an impressive set of archery courses, where packages offering plenty of time to learn – or perfect – bow-and-arrow skills can be booked.
(3) • From £150 per adult, including camping equipment, naturetravels.co.uk Archery in Austria Facebook Twitter Pinterest For the more target-oriented among us, there are few places that offer such a perfect set-up as the Tiroler Adler hotel in Waidring, Austria.
(4) A standard archery target was used to score tosses.
(5) Essential measures for archery safety include use of archery protective gear, use of a light-weight bow, conditioning of the forearm flexor muscles, and modifications in drawing the bowstring.
(6) Three different forms of enthesopathy involved the arm, principally the elbow, and may be tentatively correlated with javelin throwing, wood cutting, and archery.
(7) She is also close to former Times journalist and education secretary Michael Gove and accompanied him to the London Olympics archery competition in the summer.
(8) When they find him he gets them doing archery and dressing up.
(9) Methanolic extracts of hard and soft varieties of the sponge Verongia archeri were found to contain similar compounds.
(10) The result delivered a timely boost to Team GB after a quiet start to the games saw medal hopes in judo and archery go unfulfilled, and it was welcomed by sports minister Gerry Sutcliffe: "This is a great start to the Beijing Olympics for Team GB and I have no doubt this medal will fire up the rest of the team to do their best in the next two weeks.
(11) Two brominated tyrosine metabolites, fistularin 3 [1] and a new compound 11-ketofistularin 3 [2] have been isolated from a marine sponge, Aplysina archeri.
(12) Beta-blocking agents have been shown to reduce anxiety, hand tremor, and heart rate in precision sports like archery, but susceptible persons may experience serious adverse effects.
(13) An electronic arrow movement detector was used to accurately locate the muscle activity associated with release of the arrow during shooting in archery.
(14) The purpose of the present research was to determine whether EEG biofeedback training could improve archery performance as well as self-reported measures of concentration and self-confidence.
(15) Technical advancements in target archery have been extended to widespread use of "scopes" which magnify the target.
(16) A. archeri contained an extremely long chain fatty acid tentatively characterized as dotricontaenoic (32:1) acid.
(17) Around 20 police officers were bussed in at 6am on Tuesday to the north London venue where the archery competition will take place, the Guardian was told, and stayed there for 10 hours before being replaced by others.
(18) Indoor archery performance provided scores identical to the goal of the task and unaffected by environmental conditions or other competitors.
(19) Twenty-one elite-calibre archers (M = 12, F = 9) were investigated concerning all past and present archery-related shoulder injuries, using a questionnaire and physical examination.
(20) About 20 police officers were bussed in at 6am on Wednesday to the north London venue where the archery competition will take place, the Guardian was told, and stayed there for 10 hours before being replaced by others.
Bowyer
Definition:
(n.) An archer; one who uses bow.
(n.) One who makes or sells bows.
Example Sentences:
(1) In 2004, Adrian Bowyer invented a machine that could print around 50% of its own parts, and in 2008 it successfully managed to print itself.
(2) 2) Relative distances of the individual redox active centers to the P-side and N-side surfaces of the reconstituted Complex III proteoliposome were measured by our paramagnetic probe method (Blum, H., Bowyer, J. R., Cusanovich, M. A., Waring, A. J., and Ohnishi, T. (1983) Biochim.
(3) Szczensy would have been sent off in the second minute for bringing down Lee Bowyer, following a pass from Zigic, had it not been for the mistake by the assistant referee Ron Garfield in raising the flag for offside.
(4) That recent indifferent run has now seen them win just once in the last eight but Bowyer believes with the correct application, the play-offs are still achievable.
(5) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Unite union representative Dave Bowyer outside the Docks Cafe.
(6) But after scoring 20 goals in 39 Championship appearances as Gary Bowyer’s side finished ninth, the Benin international has his heart set on leaving Ewood Park and is understood to want to join Quique Flores’s newly-promoted side despite interest from Norwich City.
(7) After the trial of the Leeds United footballers Lee Bowyer and Jonathan Woodgate the spotlight has been on the public behaviour of footballers, particularly once they have drunk alcohol, and the game has been marred by a series of embarrassing incidents.
(8) "Bowyer was aggrieved because he would be blasted for a challenge like that," McLeish said.
(9) Blackburn 2-1 Leeds Gary Bowyer was delighted with his Blackburn side’s “best win of the season” as they recovered from a goal down and a man down to win.
(10) "In our last game against Arsenal he was banned for a stamp on Bacary Sagna and there were headlines saying that Bowyer was a naughty boy.
(11) "We were on the receiving end of it tonight," said Blackburn's manager Gary Bowyer.
(12) Bowyer was found not guilty of the attack but the court heard that the footballers had drunk large amounts of alcohol.
(13) Dave Bowyer, a 40-year veteran of the plant and member of trade union Unite’s executive council, said: “Central government … has been very weak.
(14) Susannah Bowyer, research and development manager, Research in Practice : “Staff across all services need support to build knowledge and skills in key areas – such as recognition of neglect and assessing parents’ capacity to change.
(15) They are divided into 4 groups according to the classification of Shinebourne, Anderson and Bowyer.
(16) Processing of the D1 precursor has been recently postulated to play a regulatory role in the light-dependent migration of photosystem II units from the unstacked to the stacked thylakoids (Bowyer, J. M., Packer, J. C. L., McCormack, B.
(17) It is for this reason that Bowyer decided to make his designs open source (so anyone can access them), and subsequently build their own printer, using materials costing around £250.
(18) Szczesny might have been sent off in the second minute for a foul inside the penalty area on Lee Bowyer only for play to be pulled back for an erroneous offside flag.
(19) Koscielny was perhaps also fortunate to escape with yellow for an ugly lunge at Bowyer.
(20) Vik Olliver, a long-time collaborator with Bath University's Adrian Bowyer on the RepRap project and seller of 3D printer consumables , points to another elusive goal: as a self-replicating machine, the RepRap was envisaged as colonising to the developing world, where it would be used to make the consumer goods that sustain modern life but which are often inaccessible to poor communities.