(n.) A pointed instrument for piercing small holes, as in leather or wood; used by shoemakers, saddlers, cabinetmakers, etc. The blade is differently shaped and pointed for different uses, as in the brad awl, saddler's awl, shoemaker's awl, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) Thus, humidifying devices should be carefully selected from the viewpoint of not only humidifying capability but also AWL.
(2) We have isotopically determined rates of whole-body protein synthesis and catabolism in a group of normal volunteers and in two groups of cancer patients: 20 patients with advanced weight-loss (AWL) upper gastrointestinal cancer and 7 patients with early non-weight-loss (ENWL) lower gastrointestinal cancer.
(3) For other hair types G1 and G3 (awl, auchene, zigzag) the duration of the growth period is approximately 3 days longer than in the control.
(4) Restorative treatment can be started in the early postoperative period if a screw-awl has been applied.
(5) Judges and infiltrators in Labour’s civil war | Letters Read more Even under Tony Blair’s leadership, there were Trotskyist groups involved in the Labour party, ranging from the AWL to Socialist Action.
(6) The difficulties and risks inherent in the use of the starting awl are eliminated.
(7) Mountford, who has been a member of the AWL for 33 years, denies bullying, taking over the organisation or wanting to form a new party.
(8) Utilizing Langer's technique for skin tension lines, we punctured the auricular cartilage of 10 human cadavers and 2 mature rabbits and 24 immature rabbits with a conical awl to determine their tension lines.
(9) That aside, Watson highlighting efforts by the Alliance for Workers’ Liberty (AWL) to get involved in the Labour party will undoubtedly fuel a media narrative that Labour is falling under the spell of revolutionary zealots.
(10) Using a special needle (awl) under laparoscopic monitoring, U-stitches are placed and then knotted epifascially.
(11) In the AWL cancer patients the rate of net protein catabolism was significantly higher than in either the volunteer or ENWL group (p less than 0.05), and glucose infusion did not result in a decrease in net protein catabolism.
(12) The AWL was affected significantly by the pressure monitoring site for the ventilator.
(13) Vertical sections of articular cartilage show different directional orientations of collagen fibers through all zones of cartilage depending upon whether the sections are parallel or perpendicular to the cleft pattern produced when the surface of articular cartilage is pierced with a round pointed awl.
(14) The AWL backs Labour in elections,” the group said.
(15) The width of the middle portion of the broadest, awl, hairs measured 12 days after irradiation decreases with increasing dose.
(16) The 30-cm-long side arm of this awl protects the surgeon's hand from direct radiation, and measurements of X-ray exposure show that the protection against radiation is sufficient.
(17) A specially designed awl makes the interlocking procedure simple and efficient.
(18) The AWL should “organise and politically hegemonise these people, and Labour clubs on campuses”, the motion said .
(19) The large follicles contain similar numbers of mitotic cells, but the BALB-c mice are more sensitive both in terms of the radiation-induced apoptosis and in terms of a reduction in awl hair width.
(20) According to Alice Gregory at the New Yorker , in fact, it was one particular Gawker writer, Choire Sicha, who now runs the excellent indie site the Awl .
Cobble
Definition:
(n.) A fishing boat. See Coble.
(n.) A cobblestone.
(n.) Cob coal. See under Cob.
(v. t.) To make or mend coarsely; to patch; to botch; as, to cobble shoes.
(v. t.) To make clumsily.
(v. t.) To pave with cobblestones.
Example Sentences:
(1) He was able to cobble together a one-off £2.5bn package of support for business by shifting spending around and because the bankers' bonus tax has raised almost four times as much as expected.
(2) • +30 24240 65245 Don't miss Alonissos is great for hiking and one of the easiest trails is up the cobbled kalderimi, or old mule path, to Hora.
(3) But the scene in the 250-seater conference centre on an unassuming cobbled mews in central London was a far more serene affair.
(4) But throw the book at them and find all kinds of charges and cobble them together so that they’ll plea to a ‘lesser included’ is a technique that I think can sometimes be inappropriately used.” On January 11 2013, Swartz hanged himself.
(5) While having a coffee in the beautifully preserved, almost Disney-like, cobbled market square, he noticed me staring at a bright pink Trabant car parked up next to us.
(6) Much of the detail, however, could be got right quickly, by making internal changes in Whitehall or rewriting the Commons' rule book: allow MPs as a whole to appoint committee chairs in secret ballots, instead of in motions cobbled together by the whips; create more time for backbench bills; establish new conventions to restrict the guillotining of debate; extend the use of free votes; complete the half-hearted reform of the attorney general by freeing this partisan minister from providing supposedly independent legal advice.
(7) Further back there’s cobbled roads with white farm gates.
(8) The opposition has been cobbled together largely from politicians who have flip-flopped from various parties, including some who jumped ship from the incumbent party.
(9) The hotel has six individually-styled suites, which are cleverly incorporated into a building originally built by the Crusaders on a quiet cobbled lane.
(10) JJ Abrams' Star Trek Into Darkness opens this week and it's a big, loud science fiction movie, cobbled together from the scripts of two Kirk-era movies, with action scenes rehashed from Abrams' last Trek outing.
(11) Outside, the empty, narrow cobbled streets are quite silent in the beautiful hill-top Tuscan town of Volterra – a stillness through which footsteps echo loudly off the ancient stone.
(12) Night-time in Búzios is when its cobbled and immaculately manicured central area really comes alive.
(13) In later stage a "cobble stone" relief is demonstrable.
(14) We went with the grains of fashion: football became mainstream, cobbled streets were heritage, working class was a lifestyle choice, the north became a mini-break destination.
(15) The painful reality for the party is that its leader cobbled together an inchoate platform that masked fierce ideological differences in the ranks and hoped to steer it through an electoral window opened up by Lib Dem collapse and Ukip insurgency.
(16) More than 100 world leaders will have descended on Rio this week to sign up to some kind of high-level communique currently being cobbled together by droves of "sherpas" grinding their way through the most God-forsakenly inadequate draft statement I've ever seen .
(17) Sinn Féin could try to cobble together a new coalition with a host of independent, mainly leftwing deputies, many of whom are deeply suspicious of the republican party.
(18) It might not look like it from the government May is cobbling together, but I believe equality is going to storm straight to the front of the national agenda.
(19) Now in a state of advanced panic, they’ve cobbled together more devolved powers and sent David Cameron to Edinburgh to plead for the union: the embodiment of Tory rule without a mandate that is the main reason many yes voters will opt for independence.
(20) Families wash clothes and themselves on the side of the road, using water from boreholes, or cook pasta over open fires cobbled together from wooden debris.