(n.) The city and tower in the land of Shinar, where the confusion of languages took place.
(n.) Hence: A place or scene of noise and confusion; a confused mixture of sounds, as of voices or languages.
Example Sentences:
(1) Two of his three substitutions appeared to inflame Anfield: Ryan Babel was jeered on while Paul Konchesky was almost laughed off.
(2) There are other arguments too, including the assumption that a return to the pre-euro Babel of currencies would see the resurrection of tariffs and protectionism, jeopardising the single market.
(3) Meanwhile, the folk four-piece Mumford & Sons shot straight to the top of the album chart with Babel.
(4) Kapoor said one of his references was the Tower of Babel.
(5) The very use of the term "assassination" - however inappropriate - and the insertion of the arch, anachronistic phrase "the coward" sends a subliminal message to the audience that this is art, that the Brad Pitt up there on screen is not the Brad Pitt of Mr & Mrs Smith or Oceans 13, but the Brad Pitt of Seven Years in Tibet and Babel.
(6) The event also saw Daniel Glass of Mumford & Sons' US label Glassnote Entertainment Group appear on stage to voice his support for Spotify and streaming music, citing the 600k first-week US sales of the group's ast album, Babel, as proof.
(7) Babel was signed by the former Liverpool manager Rafael Benítez from Ajax for £11.5m after impressing at the European Under-21 championships.
(8) The Liverpool forward Ryan Babel has completed his move to Hoffenheim after signing a two-and-a-half-year contract, according to the German club.
(9) Liverpool's dependence on Torres and the lack of back-up – Dirk Kuyt, Ryan Babel and David Ngog have just eight league goals between them – has led to speculation that Benítez may look to buy the Real Madrid striker Ruud van Nistelrooy, but a lack of funds makes a move difficult.
(10) Out Fernando Torres (Chelsea, £50m), Nathan Eccleston (Charlton, loan), Ryan Babel (Hoffenheim, £6m) , Victor Palsson (Hibernian, undisc), Stephen Darby (Notts County, loan), David Amoo (MK Dons, loan), Paul Konchesky (Nottm Forest, loan).
(11) DSM-III, in addition to pointing the way out of the era of psychiatric Babel, has suggested empirical studies which have challenged its assumptions.
(12) It has become a diplomatic Babel of grandstanding, war-mongering, neo-imperialism and general half-heartedness, its signatures the missile strike and the punitive sanction.
(13) Babel has requested a personal hearing, which will take place on Monday 17 January.
(14) For anyone not familiar with the early parts of the Bible, these be the facts: God created everything in six 24-hour days; Adam and Eve were the first humans; all the bad stuff in the world, from murder to animals eating other animals, is a result of Eve's choice of afternoon snack; Noah built an ark to house two of every kind of land-dwelling animal (including dinosaurs) and his extended family, while God wiped everything clean with a worldwide flood; then God linguistically confused Noah's descendants and dispersed them around the world with the Tower of Babel incident.
(15) For McCarthy this was a kind of justice 12 months late — Ward had been sent off here on Boxing Day last year with the Wolves manager adding pithily that ‚ÄúPepe Reina had run 70 yards to make sure he was dismissed.‚Äù At Old Trafford earlier in the season, Wolves had been denied a point in the final minute, which saw McCarthy kick a nearby water bottle a sight harder than Babel kicked anything last night.
(16) It seems likely that no one individual even knows what this Babel of documents actually contains.
(17) Liverpool's endeavour was an unsatisfactory alternative for the command demanded of aspiring champions, but their spirit did deserve to be saluted when Yossi Benayoun, with his second goal, levelled in stoppage time after Javier Mascherano and the substitute Ryan Babel gave him the opening.
(18) Ajax should have scored when Ilkay Guendogan needlessly lost possession to Ryan Babel in the 12th minute, only for Weidenfeller to block Christian Eriksen's shot.
(19) The Colossus of Rhodes was destroyed by an earthquake after standing for only a few decades, and the Tower of Babel was, the book of Genesis tells us, constructed to glorify those that constructed it.
(20) The motley babel of Paul’s Jag and the wheezing camaraderie of the old VW were experiences so cheerful and unusual that, looking back, I remember them better than Paris itself.
Barbel
Definition:
(n.) A slender tactile organ on the lips of certain fished.
(n.) A large fresh-water fish ( Barbus vulgaris) found in many European rivers. Its upper jaw is furnished with four barbels.
(n.) Barbs or paps under the tongued of horses and cattle. See 1st Barb, 3.
Example Sentences:
(1) Renewal of taste bud cells on the barbels of channel catfish was studied.
(2) On the other, a barbell bearing the weight ‘400’, his gold-winning personal best from the previous year’s state championship for Indiana’s Special Olympics.
(3) Using HRP, the relation between the barbels and specific ganglion regions was determined.
(4) The distribution of substance P-like (SP) and vasoactive intestinal polypeptide-like (VIP) structures was studied using an indirect immunoperoxidase technique in the mediterranean barbel Barbus meridionalis and in the rainbow trout Salmo gairdneri.
(5) Isometric tests were performed on both the right and left forearm flexors and during forearm flexion with a barbell: the tests were continued for a 3-week post-experimental period.
(6) The taste neurons in the barbel and lip areas of the facial lobe showed variable responsiveness to chemical solutions, but those in other areas belonged generally to types I or II and did not respond to sucrose.
(7) The rostrocaudal dimensions of each of the barbel lobules correlate well with the relative lengths of the barbels.
(8) The three more medial lobules in the FL receive input (from medial to lateral) from the medial mandibular barbel, the lateral mandibular barbel, and the maxillary barbel, respectively.
(9) Ten male university student volunteers were selected to investigate the 3D articular force at the tibio-femoral joint during a half squat exercise, as affected by cadence, different barbell loads, and fatigue.
(10) The results show that fibers of these two cranial sensory nerves supplying the mandibular barbels converge centrally on the medial portion of the FL, indicating that the FL of the Japanese sea catfish is a highly differentiated center for both gustation and somatosensation.
(11) External taste buds abound on barbels of the adult catfish Corydoras arcuatus.
(12) The bile salts, chloride, sodium, potassium and nitrogen content of the gallbladder bile was studied in goat, sheep, cattle, pig, rabbit, dog, monkey (Erythrocebus patas), chicken, lizard (Lacerta ocellata), frog (Rana esculenta), trout (Salmo gardnieri) and barbel (Barbus barbus).
(13) The two shortest lobules, positioned ventral to the face-flank lobule, receive input from the nasal barbel and the pectoral fin, respectively.
(14) The experimental group (n = 12) performed sets of forearm flexion with a barbell until a 20% decline in maximal force was noted.
(15) While the overall histology of the nasal barbel is similar to that of barbels described previously, this study revealed far greater cellular complexity and variability than was previously reported.
(16) The lateral lobule received input only from the dorsal-most part of the ganglion (recurrens nerve: trunk receptors); the intermediate lobule from the rostro-lateral part of the ganglion (nasal barbel); and the medial lobule from the ventral areas of the ganglion (maxillary and mandibular barbels).
(17) Each subject was required to perform a half squat exercise with a barbell weight centered across the shoulders at two different cadences (1 and 2 s intervals) and three different loads (15, 22 and 30% of the one repetition maximum).
(18) The kinematics of the upper body segments of two male and two female subjects as well as the barbell were described using data obtained by means of an optoelectronic system (CoSTEL).
(19) Neurons in rostrodorsal portions of the nIF responded to tactile stimulation or deflection of the ipsilateral barbels, whereas neurons arranged in a dorsoventral direction in caudoventral regions of the nIF had receptive fields on the ipsilateral lips and the oral cavity, respectively.
(20) Although this latter interval corresponded to a phase of barbell deceleration, it appeared that the concomitant enhancement of the back, hip, and knee extensor activity outweighed any adverse effects.