(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.
Yew
Definition:
(v. i.) See Yaw.
(n.) An evergreen tree (Taxus baccata) of Europe, allied to the pines, but having a peculiar berrylike fruit instead of a cone. It frequently grows in British churchyards.
(n.) The wood of the yew. It is light red in color, compact, fine-grained, and very elastic. It is preferred to all other kinds of wood for bows and whipstocks, the best for these purposes coming from Spain.
(n.) A bow for shooting, made of the yew.
(a.) Of or pertaining to yew trees; made of the wood of a yew tree; as, a yew whipstock.
Example Sentences:
(1) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Lee Kuan Yew with Barack Obama in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington in 2009.
(2) The investigational antineoplastic agent, taxol, a natural product from the yew, Taxus sp.
(3) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Lee Kuan Yew, right, and his wife, Kwa Geok Choo, second left, posing with the Japanese Emperor Hirohito and his wife Empress Nagako, in the Imperial Palace in Tokyo in 1968.
(4) A 40-year-old patient attempted suicide by drinking an extract made from 120 g of yew needles.
(5) One feels alone but not lonely amid the tall centuries-old ash, beech, birch, oak and yew, and the woodland is well preserved and conserved.
(6) Christine Cole Northampton • I think Philip Bowring almost completely misses the point in his obituary of Lee Kuan Yew.
(7) Lee Kuan Yew’s grip on Singapore | Letters Read more Ethnic prejudice lurked just under Lee’s image of technocratic rationalism.
(8) Presently, taxol is derived from the bark of the Pacific yew, Taxus brevifolia, a small, slow-growing evergreen tree native to the northwestern United States.
(9) Standing in the shade of a 1,000-year-old yew tree at the front of St Mary's church in Harmondsworth, Ken Hughes says he knows how locals will react if the latest extension plans at Heathrow come to fruition.
(10) The whole “father of Singapore” image has often been taken far too literally, but Lee Kuan Yew’s governing style was nothing if not paternalistic.
(11) Four prisoners drank a decoction of yew (Taxus baccata) needles containing the toxic alkaloid taxine++ B.
(12) Taxol is a chemotherapeutic drug which acts by stabilizing microtubules, preventing normal mitosis and resulting in a block of the cell cycle at G2 and M. The drug is isolated from the yew, Taxus sp.
(13) Data from the literature concerning the toxicity of yew and some (traditional) uses of yew are reported.
(14) In Singapore, however, where a hodgepodge mix of ethnic Chinese, Malay and Indian residents actively aim to maintain what the nation's "founder", Lee Kuan Yew, has termed "racial harmony", supporters are hard to come by.
(15) Lee Kuan Yew’s grip on Singapore | Letters Read more Voting in Singapore is compulsory.
(16) To many Singaporeans, and indeed others too, Lee Kuan Yew was Singapore ,” he said.
(17) Songbirds chatter in the intertwining branches of a yew walk planted over 500 years ago.
(18) Singapore’s founding father, Lee Kuan Yew, who led the city-state for more than three decades, has died aged 91.
(19) Few have demonstrated such complete commitment to a cause greater than themselves.” This article was amended on Monday 23 March 2015 to correct a misspelling of Lee Kuan Yew’s name and to correct the time of the announcement of his death.
(20) The passing of a giant like Lee Kuan Yew is the end of an era,” Bishop told Sky News.