(n.) A game, similar to lawn tennis, played with shuttlecocks.
(n.) A preparation of claret, spiced and sweetened.
Example Sentences:
(1) It was highest in men, and there was no difference between elite and recreational badminton players; 92% of the injured were playing with their injury.
(2) Many contributors had planned to attend the Badminton Horse Trials which have been cancelled for the first time since 1987 due to severe flooding.
(3) Mother, all I regret is that those people moved before we got our badminton set.
(4) Twelve expert and 15 novice badminton players viewed a film task which attempted to simulate the perceptual display of the sport of badminton.
(5) Another message that she retweeted – from Malaysia's badminton world champion, Lee Chong Wei – expressed the bewilderment so many felt: "I don't think we are ready to accept this so soon after the #MH370 tragedy."
(6) The mean VC of the basketball, boxing, cricket, football, hockey and the table tennis groups, the mean MVV of all the groups except the athletic, badminton and football groups, and the mean FEV 1.0 of football, hockey, swimming and volleyball groups were significantly higher than those of the sedentary group.
(7) Table tennis, like tennis, squash and badminton, is a racket sport.
(8) Deng, who was head of her school's athletic association and excelled at basketball and badminton, burst on to the US social scene after meeting Murdoch at a company party in Hong Kong.
(9) The prevalence of shoulder pain ranked highest among volley ball players (N = 28) followed by swimmers (N = 22), while badminton, basketball and tennis participants were equally affected (N = 10).
(10) However, although 18 sports had their investment increased, swimming and badminton had theirs cut.
(11) Hugh Thomas, the event director, issued a statement, which read: "The recent exceptional rainfall has left the ground at Badminton totally waterlogged and partially flooded.
(12) When VO2max was expressed in ml.kg-1.min-1, the long-distance runners registered the highest mean value (43.0), which was significantly higher than that of basketballers (34.9), handball players (36.2), badminton players (34.4), and swimmers (36.0).
(13) For this measurement, the sprinters (40.0), pentathletes (40.3), javelin throwers (40.0), and jumpers (39.4) did not differ significantly with each other, but each of the groups was significantly superior to basketballers, handballers, badminton players, and swimmers.
(14) Very sadly, therefore, the 2012 Mitsubishi Motors Badminton Horse Trials has been cancelled."
(15) "I was thinking of getting everyone to wear Bryan Ferry masks and then I'll dress up as the Jelly Fox and challenge them to a mass game of badminton.
(16) A Badminton Injury Questionnaire (BIQ) was developed to survey the type and frequency of injuries that are likely to occur from playing competitive badminton.
(17) The badminton injury pattern overlapped the others.
(18) Clubs for golf, fishing, hockey, badminton, land yachting and skiing on a dry slope were stopped from using the barracks to make way for the Libyans, allowing an estimated £1m worth of facilities to lie unused.
(19) The results also apply, in principle, to badminton and squash racquets, and to golf clubs.
(20) When the badminton or swimming association hasn’t got its money, it’s Kwesi Nyantatkyi … It’s ridiculous … Kwesi Nyantakyi must be crucified by all means.” • Most resilient: Zimbabwe FA head Cuthbert Dube - denying wrongdoing and demanding a £650,000 payout after officials deposed him and his board.
Shuttlecock
Definition:
(n.) A cork stuck with feathers, which is to be struck by a battledoor in play; also, the play itself.
(v. t.) To send or toss to and fro; to bandy; as, to shuttlecock words.
Example Sentences:
(1) There was also a plastic balloon attached to a plastic line, a Sainbury's plastic bag urging its owner to recycle it, a car wheel, myriad unidentifiable pieces of plastic, a shotgun cartridge and a shuttlecock.
(2) The move is intended to make the space plane fall like a shuttlecock until it reaches 70,000 feet, when the tailbooms return to normal position and the plane glides the rest of the way down.
(3) When the feathering system is deployed, the space plane’s twin tail booms rotate forwards and upwards, dramatically increasing aerodynamic drag and making the craft fall like a shuttlecock.
(4) SpaceShipTwo is designed with Rutan’s revolutionary “feathering mechanism”, a shape-changing airfoil that creates a shuttlecock effect on re-entry, and helps the aircraft – unlike those used by Space X and Blue Origin – to land on a runway.