(n.) A board which supports the back wen one is sitting;
(n.) A board serving as the back part of anything, as of a wagon.
(n.) A thin stuff used for the backs of framed pictures, mirrors, etc.
(n.) A board attached to the rim of a water wheel to prevent the water from running off the floats or paddies into the interior of the wheel.
(n.) A board worn across the back to give erectness to the figure.
Example Sentences:
(1) The purpose of this study was to evaluate and compare the effects of using seat boards only and a combination of seat boards and backboards on wheelchair posture.
(2) Immobilization on a flat backboard would place 98% of our study subjects in relative cervical extension.
(3) Cinefluoroscopic measurement of maximum cervical displacement during each procedure was made with the subjects supine and secured by hard collar, backboard, and tape.
(4) In general, the forces to which a backboarded subject is subjected during transport range from 0.32g to 0.83g, vary by direction, and are more predictable for air than for ground transport.
(5) This study demonstrated that seat boards and backboards in wheelchairs improve certain postural deviations of patients with hemiplegia, but that these improvements are not maintained when the boards are removed after 5 to 10 weeks of use.
(6) Forces generated during transport were measured using an instrumented, low mass triaxial accelerometer fixed to a standard backboard.
(7) Protective measures include proper immobilisation of the spine with a semi-rigid collar and tape on a long backboard, or on vacuum mattress, taking great care to avoid deleterious in-line compression forces on the spinal column.
(8) But Jenkins had a clean look, and he leapt, and flung, and the backboard glowed blood-red and the buzzer blared and the ball dropped clean through the net, and there was instant bedlam as Villanova jumped and danced at the staggering wonder of their victory, and Carolina’s players walked off straight away, because what else could they do?
(9) There are no hoops on the court’s backboards, so kids don’t bother playing anymore.
(10) Forty-one patients with hemiplegia secondary to cerebrovascular accidents were assigned sequentially to 1) a group that used seat boards only (SB Group), 2) a group that used both seat boards and backboards (SBB Group), or 3) a group that used no boards (Control Group).
(11) The use of computer assisted teaching in medical school could be a valuable adjunct to the more traditionally employed backboard and slides.
(12) The Magic had a chance to tie it in the final seconds, but Jason Richardson's long 3-pointer attempt bounced off the backboard at the buzzer.
(13) In ten children who were less than seven years old, an unstable injury of the cervical spine was found to have anterior angulation or translation, or both, on initial lateral radiographs that were made with the child supine on a standard flat backboard.
(14) When a young child is positioned on a standard backboard, the neck may be forced into relative kyphosis.
(15) To determine the amount of occipital padding required to achieve neutral position of the cervical spine when a patient is immobilized on a flat backboard.
(16) The use of seat boards and backboards combined was associated with decreased lateral pelvic tilt of 3.1 and 1.6 degrees, increased anterior pelvic tilt of 13.1 and 11.1 degrees, and decreased thoracic kyphosis of 13.0 and 14.2 degrees at entry to and at discharge from the rehabilitation program, respectively, while the boards were in place.
(17) To prevent undesirable cervical flexion in young children during emergency transport and radiography, a standard backboard can be modified to provide safer alignment of the cervical spine.
(18) The most common deficiencies in pediatric equipment included backboards, pediatric drugs, resuscitation masks, and small intravenous catheters.
(19) Both the backboard and the Scoop stretcher offered adequate stabilization for thoracolumbar spine instability.
Blackboard
Definition:
(n.) A broad board painted black, or any black surface on which writing, drawing, or the working of mathematical problems can be done with chalk or crayons. It is much used in schools.
Example Sentences:
(1) URL: Kenyan police again disputed this explanation, with the deputy inspector general, Grace Kaindi, claiming that writing on a blackboard found at a junction near Hindi with could implicate the Mombasa Republic Movement (MRC) , a group that campaigns for independence of the coastal region.
(2) In 1954 the BBFC banned the Marlon Brando biker flick The Wild One outright (it was eventually released here in 1968), while the following year Clare Booth Luce, as US ambassador to Italy, intervened to prevent The Blackboard Jungle being shown in competition at Venice.
(3) Le Petit Commerce (+33 5 56 79 76 58, no 22) has an exhaustive choice of seafood on its daily blackboard.
(4) The dominant theories of visual search assume that these modules form a "blackboard" architecture: a set of independent representations that communicate only through a central processor.
(5) Each group must record on the blackboard its answers to key questions before the problems are discussed.
(6) Maybe said: "Hello sir, is that a blackboard rubber or are you just pleased to see me?"
(7) Blackboard and task control modules allow specific knowledge-based modules to act on information available to the blackboard.
(8) Last week in the House of Commons a young Conservative backbencher, who until now would have been listed in the "thoroughly loyal" column on the Tory whips' office blackboard, was asked about talk of Boris Johnson being installed again as an MP so that, at the right moment, he could mount a coup and replace Cameron as leader and prime minister.
(9) The specificity and the use of diapositives, synchronized slide audiotype series, fragmental films, survey films, folding foils, natural models, drawings on the blackboard, and closed-circuit television are dealt with.
(10) We’ve brought large crates of stationery, whiteboards, blackboards, paper, exercise books, pens, pencils and calculators.
(11) A cartoon in South Africa's The Star newspaper showed Malema at a school desk, watching admiringly as Mugabe, in mortar board and gown, pointed to a blackboard and the chalked words: "How to destroy a country."
(12) In order to make students pay attention to content you have to suddenly bang on the desk with your fist or get up and write on the blackboard, and if you're lucky the chalk will squeak, and the people will wake up and pay attention.
(13) The techniques which scored best were giving the questionnaire before the lectures, giving handouts and using the blackboard.
(14) Eight environmental sounds, i.e., playing the harp, cuckoo's song, sound of the waves, cock's crow, noise of the subway, alarm of a clock, sound of a dentist's drill, scratching of the blackboard, and their temporally reverse sounds were presented for 20 sec to 16 college students in a sound-attenuated chamber.
(15) These events became performances in the same way that Joseph Beuys’ blackboard lectures would a century later.
(16) Double denim creates an effect that is the optical equivalent of nails scraping down a blackboard.
(17) The present system makes use of a blackboard architecture and multiple knowledge sources within an integrated model-based system.
(18) Thus this nucleus plays the role of an 'active blackboard' on which the current best reconstruction of some aspect of the world is always displayed.
(19) With the derestriction of broadcasting hours, those Zen-like moments of stillness on British TV – filled with Test Card F , the little girl with an Alice band playing noughts and crosses on a blackboard, or IBA engineering announcements "for the radio and television trade" – began to disappear, to be replaced eventually by an endless flow of programmes, stretching from dawn till daybreak.
(20) What American leaders and their intellectual lackeys seem incapable of understanding is that history cannot be swept clean like a blackboard, so that "we" might inscribe our own future there and impose our own forms of life for these lesser people to follow.