(n.) One who contended for a prize in the public games of ancient Greece or Rome.
(n.) Any one trained to contend in exercises requiring great physical agility and strength; one who has great activity and strength; a champion.
(n.) One fitted for, or skilled in, intellectual contests; as, athletes of debate.
Example Sentences:
(1) Compared with conservative management, better long-term success (determined by return of athletic soundness and less evidence of degenerative joint disease) was achieved with surgical curettage of elbow subchondral cystic lesions.
(2) In a comparative study 11 athletes and 11 untrained students were investigated at rest, of these 6 trained and 5 untrained individuals during exercise as well.
(3) During recovery, while the heart rate decreased and the RR interval variance increased, there was a relative increase in LF and a relative decrease in HF in normal subjects (either sedentary or athletic).
(4) When allegations of systemic doping and cover-ups first emerged in the runup to the 2013 Russian world athletics championships, an IOC spokesman insisted: “Anti-doping measures in Russia have improved significantly over the last five years with an effective, efficient and new laboratory and equipment in Moscow.” London Olympics were sabotaged by Russia’s doping, report says Read more We now know that the head of that lauded Moscow lab, Grigory Rodchenko, admitted to intentionally destroying 1,417 samples in December last year shortly before Wada officials visited.
(5) "He's defined by being himself, by being smart, by being a good athlete," Goldwater said of Keller.
(6) "They haven't just got to be able to run like athletes," says Hall.
(7) #Tigers #Athletics @HunterFelt October 11, 2013 David Lengel (@LengelDavid) @HunterFelt Unless you're Yoenis Cespedes of course!
(8) The brightly lit ice palaces themselves are stunning, inside and out, and the sporting facilities have been rightly praised by almost all the athletes.
(9) However, the mean serum EPO concentrations of male and female athletes engaged in a variety of sports were not different from those of sedentary control subjects of both sexes (26.5-35.3 U.ml-1).
(10) Sudden death in healthy athletes is uncommon but, when it occurs, the primary mechanism is cardiovascular.
(11) Thus many athletes sustain dental-related injuries resulting in deformity and discomfort which may persist throughout their lives.
(12) He is big, strong, athletic, very quick and has got a fantastic leap on him," said McClaren.
(13) The increased volume of flowing blood and increased stroke volume in athletes probably allows for a reduction in flow velocity and thereby a reduction in kinetic energy.
(14) In Iten, I heard stories of athletes being told weeks in advance when to attend the testing centre in Eldoret.
(15) Many athletes, particularly female, are iron depleted, but true iron deficiencies are rare.
(16) Maximal power output was on average 81.1 W for the male population and varied from 65.8 W for class II athletes to 92.2 W for class LA.
(17) These results indicate that the increase in glucose storage by acute exercise is not systematically associated with an improved glucose homeostasis, suggesting that other adaptive mechanisms also contribute to the improvement of insulin sensitivity in endurance athletes.
(18) An echocardiographic evaluation of 77 members of a championship childhood swim team showed dimensional variations from normal in most athletes.
(19) Ballet dancers generated significantly less mechanical power than indoor soccer, basketball and bobsled athletes, while wrestlers generated significantly less power than indoor soccer and basketball athletes (all p less than 0.05).
(20) (GL) and M. deltoideus (D) were studied in 89 athletes practising 11 different sport events.
Corinthian
Definition:
(a.) Of or relating to Corinth.
(a.) Of or pertaining to the Corinthian order of architecture, invented by the Greeks, but more commonly used by the Romans.
(a.) Debauched in character or practice; impure.
(a.) Of or pertaining to an amateur sailor or yachtsman; as, a corinthian race (one in which the contesting yachts must be manned by amateurs.)
(n.) A native or inhabitant of Corinth.
(n.) A gay, licentious person.
Example Sentences:
(1) He is likely to become Villas-Boas' second major acquisition of the summer following the signing of Brazil international midfielder Paulinho from Corinthians.
(2) MK Dons v Chelsea: match preview Read more The club annouced Pato’s arrival on an initial six-month loan move from Corinthians on Friday night after he attended a work permit hearing in London.
(3) He represented Colombia at the 1994 World Cup and captained Corinthians to their first World Club Cup title in 2000.
(4) A former defender who packed in a fairly undistinguished playing career to become a fitness coach, Menezes's stints in charge of Gremio and Corinthians were his most high profile management gigs prior to getting the Brazil job.
(5) In the end the Chelsea players who had hoped to conquer the world were left slumped on the turf as the Brazilian drums pounded and the raucous hordes of Corinthians supporters bellowed their celebration into the night sky.
(6) A block north of the waterfront on Merchant Road, workmen up ladders are carefully painting corinthian capitals with yellow limewash and adjusting teak window frames, putting the finishing touches to a restoration project that offers a different model for saving heritage structures, while training local builders in the process.
(7) In 2001, Carson and his wife, Lacena “Candy” Carson, placed a substantial share of that wealth in real estate, buying a 48-acre property outside of Baltimore in rural Maryland, that boasted Georgian décor, interior corinthian columns with gold-leaf capitals, a palace staircase, eight bedrooms and 12 bathrooms.
(8) Arch Bullard, then an assistant district attorney, confirmed to the Daily Corinthian, the local newspaper, in March 2001 that the plea deal meant that the record would show that Gillis “was part of the conspiracy but not the person who actually committed the murder”.
(9) With its stripped-back stone slab, here hovering above a line of Corinthian columns, it speaks volumes about this moment in time, its architecture used to embody rapid modernisation, nostalgia for historical greatness and the imagined national unity of yore.
(10) He was unambiguously a supporter of São Paulo team Corinthians, often commenting on its performances.
(11) He added that according to Fifa's files the transfer of Tevez and Mascherano from Brazilian side Corinthians to West Ham had complied with international transfer regulations.
(12) There are also the three mentions of Bolivian club The Strongest ; in Samuel 11:16, Chronicles 5:2, and Daniel 3:20, while Brazilian outfit Corinthians even share their name with two books in the Bible.
(13) São Paulo's Itaquerão stadium is locked in a dispute with the government over funding and disagreements exist between Odebrecht and the Corinthians club.
(14) He gestures as if to say: “If that happens, well ... let’s see when we get there.” Mascherano has come a long way since his move from Corinthians to West Ham United ended up playing an inadvertent part in the reshuffling of third-party ownership and a Premiership investigation into how transfers are structured.
(15) One of the club's most famous matches was the ' Corinthians Invasion ' of the Maracanã in 1976.
(16) Across Stanley Park, Liverpool are believed to have wrapped up an £11m deal for Corinthians’ Brazilian striker Alexandre “The Duck” Pato .
(17) 100: Paulinho, Corinthians, Brazil; age 24, midfielder On paper he is a defensive midfielder, just like Ramires, with whom he forms the holding partnership for Brazil's national team.
(18) Paulo Padilha also writes in: "Corinthians fans made an impression last year when somewhere between 20,000 and 30,000 of them made the trip to Japan for the Club World Cup.
(19) There is the incredible tale she tells of Bert Trautmann acting as official interpreter for the Manchester Corinthians team who, representing England, won a tournament held in Germany in 1957.
(20) For Mike Hussey, director of Land Securities' London , who was managing the development at the time, that meant an architect working in traditional or classical styles, such as Quinlan Terry, one of the princes' favourite architects, who specialises in building grand houses in historical modes: Ionic, Gothick, Corinthian, Regency, but definitely not "ultra-modern" as Nouvel proposed.