(n.) A bucket or scoop used in bailing water out of a boat.
(v. t.) To lade; to dip and throw; -- usually with out; as, to bail water out of a boat.
(v. t.) To dip or lade water from; -- often with out to express completeness; as, to bail a boat.
(v./t.) To deliver; to release.
(v./t.) To set free, or deliver from arrest, or out of custody, on the undertaking of some other person or persons that he or they will be responsible for the appearance, at a certain day and place, of the person bailed.
(v./t.) To deliver, as goods in trust, for some special object or purpose, upon a contract, expressed or implied, that the trust shall be faithfully executed on the part of the bailee, or person intrusted; as, to bail cloth to a tailor to be made into a garment; to bail goods to a carrier.
(n.) Custody; keeping.
(n.) The person or persons who procure the release of a prisoner from the custody of the officer, or from imprisonment, by becoming surely for his appearance in court.
(n.) The security given for the appearance of a prisoner in order to obtain his release from custody of the officer; as, the man is out on bail; to go bail for any one.
(n.) The arched handle of a kettle, pail, or similar vessel, usually movable.
(n.) A half hoop for supporting the cover of a carrier's wagon, awning of a boat, etc.
(n.) A line of palisades serving as an exterior defense.
(n.) The outer wall of a feudal castle. Hence: The space inclosed by it; the outer court.
(n.) A certain limit within a forest.
(n.) A division for the stalls of an open stable.
(n.) The top or cross piece ( or either of the two cross pieces) of the wicket.
Example Sentences:
(1) 2010 2 May : In a move that signals the start of the eurozone crisis, Greece is bailed out for the first time , after eurozone finance ministers agree to grant the country rescue loans worth €110bn (£84bn).
(2) She said that in February 2013 she was asked to assist Pistorius in his first court appearance when applying for bail and sat with him in the cells, where he vomited twice.
(3) "Do I think it would be sensible for Liberal Democrats to bail out of a five-year plan at the very hardest point after a year?
(4) The force issued a warning when Jefferies was released on police bail.
(5) Cole said there were a number of reasons why the rate cut may not be passed on, including the need for building societies to fund the cost of the bail-out of the Bradford & Bingley and Icelandic banks, the need to maintain profits, the need to keep savings rates high and competition in the martgage market.
(6) Quiet crisis: why battle to prop up Italy's banks is vital to EU stability Read more The country’s third-largest lender has already been bailed out twice in modern Italian history but is likely to need a third multibillion-euro intervention by the Italian government – a move that would need Brussels to break new rules designed to prevent such taxpayer bailouts after the 2008 global financial crisis.
(7) The governor told business leaders in Edinburgh that Westminster would need to agree that the UK Treasury would help to bail out Scotland in any future financial crisis and act as a guarantor for Scotland's banks.
(8) Bail-out situations were successfully managed in 16 patients.
(9) The euro elite insists it is representing the interests of Portuguese or Irish taxpayers who have to pick up the bill for bailing out the feckless Greeks – or will be enraged by any debt forgiveness when they have been forced to swallow similar medicine.
(10) The Guardian view on Chinese women’s rights: free the feminists | Editorial Read more “Their release is not a victory – they are still on bail and still are suspects,” said Liang, who represents Wu.
(11) The recently bailed-out Belgian-French bank Dexia had a capital ratio well above regulatory limits but a leverage ratio more than 60 times its equity base.
(12) In the good old days the judges looked the other way when radicals were shafted, shocking bail conditions imposed and foreigners unceremoniously thrown out.
(13) His stringent bail conditions prohibited him from visiting the family home, and even Saltdean itself.
(14) Updated at 1.43pm BST 1.10pm BST Portugal's 10-year sovereign bonds ended last month at their strongest level since the country was bailed out in May 2011, a sign that investors may be a little more confident about its prospects.
(15) It is now a little more than five years since Alistair Darling bailed out RBS.
(16) Tsipras meets Merkel amid talk of compromise - live updates Read more After bailing out Europe’s banks, the European establishment handed the job of punishing Greece to the European Commission, central bank and IMF.
(17) The decision on whether to oppose bail will be made by the Swedish authorities, with Britain's CPS merely representing their interests at tomorrow's hearing.
(18) This will include extending the use of police-led prosecutions to cut the time the police spend waiting for the Crown Prosecution Service, overhauling the police complaints and disciplinary systems and making changes to the oversight of pre-charge bail.
(19) Scotland Yard said the 15-year-old was questioned on suspicion of offences under the Computer Misuse Act, but freed on bail on Tuesday morning pending further inquiries.
(20) We are now out of the bailout power that the last government put us into so we are not at risk in the way that we were of being called on to bail out other countries of Europe .
Tethered
Definition:
(imp. & p. p.) of Tether
Example Sentences:
(1) A comparison was made between the Q's estimated by the CO2 rebreathing method during tethered swimming and previously published data on Q determined by the dye-dilution method during free swimming in a flune.
(2) In both conditions about half the number of cases presented clinically before the age of 3 months, when paraplegia was evident in only 5 of the 26 infants with tethered cord and 3 of the 25 with tethered roots.
(3) Alternatively, a loss of collagen tethers or decline in matrix tensile strength can be responsible for regional or global transformations in myocardial architecture and function seen in the reperfused ("stunned") myocardium and in dilated (idiopathic) cardiopathy.
(4) The hypothesis that a localized lordosis, or tethering of the posterior elements of the spine, is the primary cause of the vertebral rotation in idiopathic scoliosis was investigated in anatomic specimens of human and calf spinal columns.
(5) The ultrasound-induced negative phonotactic response of tethered, flying Australian field crickets habituates to repeated stimuli.
(6) In one patient, the fibrous band extended from the distal pole of the patella to the intracondylar notch, tethering the patella inferiorly.
(7) Single-chain antigen-binding proteins are novel recombinant polypeptides, composed of an antibody variable light-chain amino acid sequence (VL) tethered to a variable heavy-chain sequence (VH) by a designed peptide that links the carboxyl terminus of the VL sequence to the amino terminus of the VH sequence.
(8) We have described delayed presentation in an adult with evidence of the tethered spinal cord syndrome following myelomeningocele repair.
(9) We report 2 cases of the tethered spinal cord syndrome.
(10) Internal motions of the tethered Er-labeled ligands may also contribute to the observed anisotropy decay, particularly in the case of cell-bound IgE.
(11) Computerized interpretation of the electrocardiogram has now advanced to computerization of the electrocardiograph, resulting in greatly increased versatility, including the capacity for adapting to a variety of lead systems rather than being tethered to the old Einthoven-Wilson-Goldberger (EWG) system.
(12) Apple was asked to comment on this ability to unlock the iPhone tethering facility for free.
(13) Three cases of tethered cord syndrome are presented with reference of reported literatures.
(14) However visitors to benm.at – an iPhone and iPod touch enthusiasts' website – can download a profile that instantly activates the tethering system free of charge.
(15) A 14-residue peptide based on the tethered ligand stimulated the aggregation of gel-filtered platelets with an EC50 of 7 microM, and a concentration of 10 microM was the minimum concentration necessary to yield a full aggregation response in platelet-rich plasma.
(16) The ratio of the change in the length of the tether to the change in the projection length is proportional to the ratio of the pipette radius to the tether radius.
(17) Surgical repair with release of cord tethering at the time of diagnosis is advocated, regardless of patient age.
(18) In single-channel recordings, tethered agonists opened channels with the same conductance as reversibly bound agonists (30 pS at 15 degrees C and -100 mV).
(19) In a series of 75 patients with surgically treated lipomyelomeningoceles, the neurological condition of six patients deteriorated 6 months to 14 years after the operation due to repeat tethering of the spinal cord.
(20) Failure to release this structure from the proximal ulna caused kinking and tethering of the nerve when transposition was attempted.