(n.) A professional poet and singer, as among the ancient Celts, whose occupation was to compose and sing verses in honor of the heroic achievements of princes and brave men.
(n.) Hence: A poet; as, the bard of Avon.
(n.) Alt. of Barde
(v. t.) To cover (meat or game) with a thin slice of fat bacon.
(n.) The exterior covering of the trunk and branches of a tree; the rind.
(n.) Specifically, Peruvian bark.
Example Sentences:
(1) The air entrainment devices from oxygen masks of four manufacturers (Henleys Medical Supplies Ltd, Vickers Medical, Intersurgical Ltd, C R Bard International Ltd) were studied.
(2) Bard College, New York, offered him and Christie the possibility of teaching there and provided the facilities he needed.
(3) Patients were supported by percutaneous femoral bypass using a BARD CPS machine, and underwent successful PTCA of either two vessels (three patients) or three vessels (two patients); in addition, one patient had dilatation of a stenotic aortic valve.
(4) Systolic (SBP) and diastolic (DBP) blood pressure, and heart rate (HR) were measured by an automatic recorder (Sentron Bard Biomedical) twice at rest after 5 min in a supine position and after 2 and 5 min in an upright position, 24 h after the last antihypertensive dose.
(5) Unfortunately – like a bad student mis-copying Wikipedia, he mistakenly quoted the wrong Shakespeare: not the Bard, but his modern descendant, Telegraph journalist Nicholas Shakespeare.
(6) One window was repaired using a bioabsorbable polyglycolic acid (PGA) mesh graft, and the other using a nonabsorbable Marlex mesh (polypropylene mesh; PP mesh) (C. R. Bard, Inc., Billerica, MA) graft.
(7) Bard Inc. was assessed as to its clinical usefulness and suitability to regular use with artificial kidney.
(8) Two new catheters with a large distal electrode have been recently introduced for catheter ablation: a low energy 7F bipolar catheter (Bard) with a contoured distal electrode, and a 7F deflectable catheter with a 4-mm tip (Mansfield).
(9) Last summer as part of world Shakespeare season celebrating the Olympics, the Globe invited companies to come and perform every play the Bard wrote in 37 different languages – including Troilus and Cressida in Maori, Two Gentlemen of Verona in Shona (spoken in Zimbabwe and Zambia), and the Henry VI plays divided among the Balkans in Serbian, Albanian and Macedonian.
(10) After heparinization with an activated clotting time of greater than 450 seconds, cardiopulmonary bypass was instituted using the Bard CPS system.
(11) Having evaluated various needles, we found the Bard Biopty instrument more efficient than manual needles and open biopsy techniques, and it provides muscle specimens for pathologic interpretation that are comparable with open surgical procedures.
(12) Privacy is the biggest unanswered question,” says Arthur Holland Michel, director of the Centre for the Study of the Drone at Bard College, in New York.
(13) Results of radiofrequency ablation of the AV junction using a custom-designed catheter with a large, 3-mm-long distal electrode, 2-mm interelectrode spacing, and a shaft with increased torsional rigidity were compared with those using a standard quadripolar electrode catheter (Bard EP).
(14) Six external velour (Bionit C. R. Bard, Inc.; Billerica, MA) and 11 double velour (Microvel Meadox Medicals, Inc.; Oakland, NJ) warp-knit Dacron grafts with lengths of 6 cm and diameters of 8 mm were implanted in the canine upper descending thoracic aorta for 56 days.
(15) They are not so good for the diastolic blood pressure as the Bard-Sentron over-estimates by 33 p. 100.
(16) Shakespeare’s Globe will finally have staged every one of the Bard’s known plays when it puts on King John next year to mark Magna Carta’s 800th anniversary.
(17) Photograph: Alamy 3 Shakespeare Part II Celebrations for the bard's 450th birthday started last year but will culminate on the actual day in 2014, 23 April.
(18) The rise in BARD was accompanied by a significant increase in lymphocyte basal ACA in normotensive subjects, but not hypertensive patients.
(19) Researchers selected three models of syringe pumps for evaluation: the Bard Harvard Mini-Infuser 150XL, the Becton Dickinson 360 Infuser, and the Strato Stratofuse System.
(20) The Bard prostate biopsy gun under ultrasonic guidance provides consistent, high quality prostatic core samples for histopathologic diagnosis.
Celt
Definition:
(n.) One of an ancient race of people, who formerly inhabited a great part of Central and Western Europe, and whose descendants at the present day occupy Ireland, Wales, the Highlands of Scotland, and the northern shores of France.
(n.) A weapon or implement of stone or metal, found in the tumuli, or barrows, of the early Celtic nations.
Example Sentences:
(1) But knowing that you have to stick to the facts of what the Celts wore, or how the Tudors treated illness, concentrates the mind.
(2) Bronze objects of Western European (Scottish, Irish) origin, found in Viking graves widely distributed in Norway, have been taken as evidence of Vikings returning with loot (including a number of Celts) from Western Viking settlements.
(3) The matter was cleared up with the help of a neck chain that was a precursor to the torques worn by the Celts; thus the skeleton was about 2500 years old.
(4) The cape was a sacred location for Celts, Greeks and Romans.
(5) Waves of immigrants, from the Celts through the Romans, Anglo-Saxons, Vikings and Normans to the Dutch in the 17th century, Germans in the 18th and 19th, Russian and German Jews fleeing persecution in the 1890s and 1930s, West Indians, Cypriots, Pakistanis, Indians, Bangladeshis and many others coming to Britain during the disintegration of the empire, and many, many more, have all made their contribution to our multicultural identity.
(6) Cranioplasty with bone allografts dates from the Stone Age Celts.
(7) No relationship was noted between the growth potential of megakaryocyte progenitors and platelet count, number of CD4+ celts, platelet response to azidothymidine, and platelet count 7 days after culture.
(8) His major works on the "primitive" Celts and Germans continue these critiques of racism.
(9) "If you do the history, the Celts are the ancient Britons.
(10) Differences in constitution to the southern neighbours, Celts and Romans, were not so marked, that constitutional changes in Germany, especially in southern Germany, in the middle ages can be explained by mixed race.
(11) Celts, Norwegians and Swedes all have higher incidences of melanoma than people of similar skin colour living in the same latitude.
(12) I think I can speak for the vast majority of petty celts, Christopher, when I say that should USA triumph tonight, Landon Donovan, Jozy Altidore, Tim Howard and chums will never have to buy a drink in Scotland, Wales and the Republic of Ireland again.
(13) Scraping away at the green patina on the new-look, Zac Goldsmith-inspired Conservative environmental policies, puncturing Brown's grumpy greenery and unpicking the carbon contortions of the coal-loving Celts.
(14) The mixed Europeans had a somewhat greater increase in the melanocyte population density following exposure to sunlight than the Celts.
(15) But the idea that it makes Celts more inclined to bend the knee to Whitehall is absurd.
(16) The 268 cases and 1577 controls showed odds ratios of 1.9 for red hair, 2.0 for skin that burns in the sun, and no difference between indoor and outdoor workers or between Celts and other Europeans, consistent with the results of more recent studies.
(17) Biochemical assays indicate that a cel structural gene (celT) specifies a single transport protein that is a beta-glucoside specific enzyme of the phosphoenolpyruvate-dependent phosphotransferase system.
(18) It is also a fascinating meditation on the complexity of the Scots character, half Celt, half Saxon.
(19) Rudeness about Celts may be a political parlour game in London, sometimes justified.
(20) Objectives of current studies are the determination of relationships between performance on CELTs and performance on traditional cognitive abilities tests and the exploration of predictive value of measures of learning ability for academic performance.