(n.) An artificial bar or obstruction placed in a river or water course to increase the depth of water; as, the barrages of the Nile.
Example Sentences:
(1) The court heard that Criado-Perez, who spearheaded the campaign, received a barrage of abuse on Twitter.
(2) The dynamic sensitivity to minor variations in contraction and stretching was high, and during normal facial movements, as in speech, there was a barrage of impulses originating from mechanoreceptors within large facial areas.
(3) We must be conscious of Slovenia's strengths but also of their weaknesses: in their opening game Algeria seemed technically superior, and in their second they proved unable to resist severe pressure and a barrage of balls into the box.
(4) Three suspected US missile strikes in north-western Pakistan in less than 12 hours have killed at least 38 alleged militants, an unusually heavy barrage at a time when relations between the two countries are badly strained, Pakistani intelligence officials said.
(5) I’m determined that they won’t have to go through all that again.” Lib Dem councillor, Gill Slattery, said the barrage plan could not be rushed through.
(6) Napier returned in the game's second half hitting a barrage of three-pointers against a stunned Villanova, eventually scoring 21 in the second half.
(7) Despite a barrage of health warnings on the white stuff, a report last month from Action on Sugar showed that one in five cereals now contains more sugar than three years ago, and some are 18% sweeter.
(8) According to the Bristol-based group Stop the Barrage Now a barrage would add to local flooding, reduce fish stocks, damage bird life and destroy the Severn bore, as well as ruin mudflats across an area of more than 77 sq miles.
(9) The government's early defence of Jeremy Hunt against the barrage of criticism over his apparent closeness to News Corp centred on the charge that Frédéric Michel , News Corp's in-house lobbyist, had exaggerated, even outright distorted, accounts of his contact with Hunt and his team.
(10) These, and other properties, allow thalamic neurons to possess two distinct states of neuronal activity: an oscillatory mode in which rhythmic bursts of action potentials are generated and in which responsiveness to stimulation of peripheral receptive fields is greatly reduced, and a transfer mode in which action potentials are generated in relative independence of one another and in which the ability to respond to barrages of phasic excitatory inputs is greatly enhanced.
(11) Both released their financial results on Wednesday and faced a barrage of questions about their treatment of customers.
(12) The design requires more turbines than a large barrage but Evans said it saves greatly on weight of concrete in the foundations and installation costs.
(13) He talks up the "experience" aspect of Electric Daisy Carnival, from its dazzling barrage of state-of-the-art lighting to its dance troupes whose costumes are pitched midway between harlequin and hooker.
(14) Steph Merry, head of marine renewables at the Renewable Energy Association, said last year that only the giant barrage made sense.
(15) The house in which they were based was next to a hospital and had been the main refuge for all reporters who had made it to Bab al-Amr in the face of a relentless barrage by regime forces.
(16) In 2010, the government rejected a previous proposal for a barrage across the Severn estuary , reiterating plans at the same time to push ahead with Europe's most ambitious fleet of new nuclear reactors .
(17) Photograph: David Levene for the Guardian Curators: Institute of Architecture – Dorota Jedruch, Marta Karpinska, Dorota Lesniak-Rychlak, Michał Wisniewski A welcome respite from the barrage of information on display elsewhere, the Polish pavilion presents a stark marble tomb, looming in the centre of the bright white space like some gothic fantasy.
(18) The Labor chair, senator Alex Gallacher said: “A $1.2bn contract over 20 months is going to invite some serious scrutiny … and we look forward to your responses to questions on notice and perhaps your reappearance.” The panel faced a barrage of questions from Greens senator Sarah Hanson-Young and Labor senator Kim Carr about complaints from asylum seekers, incident reporting protocols, clinical depression, power failures and mould on tents in the island.
(19) Engineers first proposed plans for a barrage across the Severn in the 1930s.
(20) It was possible to affirm that the acetyl-L-carnitine treated patients showed statistically significant improvement in the behavioural scales, in the memory tests, in the attention barrage test and in the Verbal Fluency test.
Bombardment
Definition:
(n.) An attack upon a fortress or fortified town, with shells, hot shot, rockets, etc.; the act of throwing bombs and shot into a town or fortified place.
Example Sentences:
(1) The most important characteristics of various interfaces, such as direct liquid introduction, Magic, continuous flow fast atom bombardment and thermospray, are discussed.
(2) A method is described for measuring the stable isotopic enrichment of taurine in cat urine samples by high resolution fast-atom bombardment mass spectrometry, after 15N labelled taurine was given to cats for the purpose of investigating taurine metabolism.
(3) The variability in response is attributed to interaction between nearby, on-going synaptic bombardment and the stimulus, implying that surface cathodal stimuli directly activate corticospinal neurons at the spike trigger zone (presumably the initial segment).
(4) Analysis of these polar lipids by fast atom bombardment mass spectrometry established that they were F2-isoprostane-containing species of phosphatidylcholine.
(5) 5-10%), according to analysis by high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) and fast atom bombardment mass spectrometry (FAB-MS).
(6) Its structure was determined by permethylation and fast atom bombardment-mass spectometry analyses.
(7) Their chemical structures were determined by gas-liquid chromatography, methylation analysis, enzymatic hydrolysis, negative-ion fast atom bombardment mass spectrometry, and proton nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy.
(8) Tim Krul had already made a splendid save to keep out Agüero, and Dzeko had put another effort narrowly wide, before the early bombardment conjured up the opening goal.
(9) Meanwhile, rebel-held eastern Aleppo has been overrun by pro-regime forces led by Lebanese Hezbollah and Iranian-led Shia militias supported by Russian and Syrian regime aerial bombardment.
(10) In this method, the Staphylococcus aureus protease V8 digest of the CNBr-treated B subunit of the classical biotype toxin was examined directly by fast-atom-bombardment mass spectrometry without separation of individual peptides.
(11) High-energy radiation bombardment of intact frozen telencephalon resulted in a biphasic inactivation curve for [3H]AMPA binding.
(12) After a week of the most intensive bombardment of the five-year war, forces loyal to the Syrian leader are in control of most of the countryside immediately to the north.
(13) The number of civilian casualties from Russian bombardment is far higher than the number caused by American and French airstrikes,” said Wael Aleji, spokesman for the Syrian Network for Human Rights.
(14) spectroscopy, fast-atom bombardment mass spectrometry (f.a.b.-m.s.
(15) France immediately extended its bombardment of the Islamists with air strikes in central Mali.
(16) The beheading of British aid worker David Haines on 13 September and the start of US-led bombardment of Isis positions in Syria on 23 September were followed by large anti- then pro-Isis reactions.
(17) US and coalition aircraft have been bombarding the territory in and around Kobani for days, launching airstrikes on dozens of locations and taking out militants, weapons and other targets.
(18) These results indicate the usefulness of low-energy collision-activated dissociation tandem mass spectrometry in the daughter and parent scan modes for the analysis of ganglioside structure, in combination with fast atom bombardment mass spectrometry and high-energy collision-activated dissociation mass spectrometry.
(19) Fast atom bombardment mass spectrometry has already been used for the identification of mutations in abnormal human hemoglobin chains.
(20) The positive and negative ion fast atom bombardment spectra of myo-inositol hexakis(disodium phosphate) and myo-inositol hexakis(dihydrogen phosphate) are described.