(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.
Troubadour
Definition:
(n.) One of a school of poets who flourished from the eleventh to the thirteenth century, principally in Provence, in the south of France, and also in the north of Italy. They invented, and especially cultivated, a kind of lyrical poetry characterized by intricacy of meter and rhyme, and usually of a romantic, amatory strain.
Example Sentences:
(1) Blue jean baby, LA lady, seamstress for the band Pretty eyed, pirate smile, you’ll marry a music man Ballerina, you must have seen her, dancing in the sand And now she’s in me, always with me, tiny dancer in my hand For a moment it seemed possible that the person about to get out of the plane was a man of subtle taste and kindness, a man who could appreciate such beauty, who was secure enough in himself to set his arrival in Sacramento to the soundtrack of a 45-year-old song by a gay troubadour.
(2) Whether he liked it or not, women were fascinated by this handsome 6ft 3in troubadour.
(3) Forty years on that's exoneration enough for the "hapless" troubadour Haffey.
(4) And it is nominally this tale that is being told, by BBC Two, in an ambitious 90 minutes: the tale of a couple of pioneering TV troubadours battling daft odds to bring about what would become the world’s first-ever global TV event.
(5) Woody Guthrie was, as his daughter Nora told me yesterday, "the last of the great European troubadours and first singer-songwriter punk rocker".
(6) Haven't heard any of his troubadouring since the 'You're Beautiful' tune a few years back.
(7) Asher Treleaven 's new show, Troubadour (Gilded Balloon), is also autobiographical, a story he tells with the aid of Edward de Bono's Six Thinking Hats.
(8) His confusion was something wrought via his destiny – though friends say there was no choice in the matter: no posing, no poetic gestures of the misunderstood troubadour.
(9) Before we answer that, we should point out that Allen has, according to her press release, been "breathing new life into London's acoustic scene of late", which invites comparisons with Daughter , that other girl who made the switch from sad strumalongs to electronica, perhaps when she realised the female troubadour niche was already quite full.
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(11) Rice, a 30-year-old troubadour from Dublin, is still making his name, but already has fans who are old enough to be his parents.
(12) The BFG shares a common core with Rooster, Rylance’s epoch-making trickster-troubadour-tout in Jez Butterworth’s Jerusalem, which also delved deep into ancient English myths and pagan archetypes.
(13) He is the bard of the Great Recession , a troubadour of the downturn that crashed in on us in 2008 but which had, in truth, been coming for decades.
(14) Here are some of the things we learned from this year’s awards: Drunk Ed Sheeran is more fun than sober Ed Sheeran As with when Sam Fox and Mick Fleetwood hosted the Brits, the reason for pairing meek and lovelorn acoustic troubadour Ed Sheeran with the fiery, unpredictable Ruby Rose was the hilarity of juxtaposition .
(15) Mercury Prize winner James Blake will compete with Lamar, Macklemore & Ryan Lewis and country singer Kacey Musgraves for best new artist, as will English troubadour Ed Sheeran.
(16) Fat White Family – a ramshackle, rancid mess of a band that spawned in Peckham in 2011 and mutated in Brixton – are not your usual chart-tickling troubadours.
(17) (The legend may also have connections with troubadour poetry, in which the woman is all-powerful, all pure and all-denying.)
(18) "I once read that no moving pictures exist of wistful, tragic 70s troubadour Nick Drake.
(19) Minchin – a wild-haired Aussie troubadour who in 2005 won the best newcomer award in Edinburgh – seems to be a paid-up member of the new rationalist comedy movement.
(20) Tortured Troubadour week A theme for people who hate The X Factor .