(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 .
Gimlet
Definition:
(n.) A small tool for boring holes. It has a leading screw, a grooved body, and a cross handle.
(v. t.) To pierce or make with a gimlet.
(v. t.) To turn round (an anchor) by the stock, with a motion like turning a gimlet.
Example Sentences:
(1) This was soon accompanied by other “medicinal” drinks such as the gimlet, to avoid scurvy on ship, and pink gin, which was said to help seasickness.
(2) The gimlet-eyed punter can simply enquire: "You'd put money on that, would you?"
(3) She was never off the telephone to rich potential backers and became notorious for her gimlet-eyed vetting of campaign staff.
(4) Bitcoin is a currency created years ago by an obscure hacker in the spirit of subversion, to trade goods while dodging the gimlet eye of financial regulators.
(5) A steady focus on the numbers and a demeanour so serious it can verge on the gimlet-eyed has helped.
(6) The movie Spotlight charts a 2001 investigation of sexual abuse and cover-ups in the Catholic church by the Boston Globe under the editorship of Baron, played with gimlet-minded intensity by Liev Schreiber.
(7) A variety of prosthetic techniques may be incorporated into the Gimlet system, and the implants themselves can be used in a number of locations and employed for multiple purposes.
(8) The Observer's critic singled out Rory Kinnear's "caustic, exact, gimlet-sharp prince", while the Financial Times found an unselfconscious silliness in the hero's antics.
(9) Britain's two greatest living painters spent 3 months in each other's company, Freud sitting for Hockney for four hours before he became the subject of Freud's gimlet eye for considerably longer: 120 hours.
(10) And, without wishing to take anything away from Mo Farah and other sporting heroes, such across-the-board outperformance was largely thanks to record investment, gimlet-eyed targeting and dogged planning.
(11) Goldin, best known for her gimlet portraits of friends and lovers addled by drugs or riven with Aids, has never retreated from showing sex at its most brutal and banal extremes.
(12) A drill or gimlet with a small hole in the tip was employed to bore a hole in the sternum.