(n.) A round vessel or cask, of greater length than breadth, and bulging in the middle, made of staves bound with hoops, and having flat ends or heads.
(n.) The quantity which constitutes a full barrel. This varies for different articles and also in different places for the same article, being regulated by custom or by law. A barrel of wine is 31/ gallons; a barrel of flour is 196 pounds.
(n.) A solid drum, or a hollow cylinder or case; as, the barrel of a windlass; the barrel of a watch, within which the spring is coiled.
(n.) A metallic tube, as of a gun, from which a projectile is discharged.
(n.) A jar.
(n.) The hollow basal part of a feather.
(v. t.) To put or to pack in a barrel or barrels.
Example Sentences:
(1) But soon after aid workers departed, barrel bombs dropped by Syrian helicopters caused renewed destruction.
(2) The C-terminal sequence contains an amphiphilic alpha-helix of four turns which lies on the surface of the beta-barrel.
(3) Two long loops extend from the beta-barrel and have numerous interactions with the other two domains.
(4) The pieces include a barrel-shaped diamond worth at least $5m (£3.3m) and a Cartier diamond tiara estimated to be worth more than $100,000.
(5) Cholinergic muscarinic receptor binding and acetylcholinesterase (AChE) histochemistry were studied in the barrel cortex of adult, vibrissae deprived and vibrissae denervated mice.
(6) We have an operation an hour away on the border and the barrel bombs cause horrific injuries.” Islamic Relief and MSF said the health system in Syria is decimated and the need for reconstructive surgery and burns treatment is enormous.
(7) These include a redistribution of the neurons that originally were in barrel sides; a reduction in the neuropil between the neurons that originally were within hollows; and differential growth of layer IV dendrites.
(8) In the context of a simplified diamond lattice model of a six-member, Greek key beta-barrel protein that is closely related in topology to plastocyanin, the nature of the folding and unfolding pathways have been investigated using dynamic Monte Carlo techniques.
(9) In layer IV high NMDA receptor densities were specifically confined to the barrel hollows.
(10) The oil price tumbled by as much as $3.25 a barrel on Tuesday after the world's biggest commodity trader called the top of the market for crude and a range of other commodities – at least for the time being.
(11) Adult hosts underwent unilateral transection of the infraorbital nerve and two days later the contralateral barrel field cortex was lesioned enough to insert an embryonic neocortical graft.
(12) Interestingly, the helical motif prefers to assemble parallel to the wall, whereas the beta-barrel, predominantly assembles with its principal axis perpendicular to the wall.
(13) "A typical day in London would be: wake up hungover, try to get some breakfast in you," he says, barrelling along green-tunnelled country lanes through – as he puts it in Jerusalem – the "wild garlic and May blossom" that mean winter is over.
(14) Although less than the targeted 600,000 barrels, it was the largest ever contribution to production cuts by non-Opec members and was the first such agreement between Opec and non-Opec members for 15 years.
(15) Bleak jokes and cartoons have been circulating for weeks in the anti-Assad camp on the theme of barrel bombs serving as ballot boxes.
(16) Studies were performed on the correlation between the hypothalamic temperature-sensitive neurons and hypothalamic neurons sensitive to LHRH, TRH, conjugated estrogen and clomiphene in 103 castrated matured female rats by the technique of microiontophoresis using a multi-barrel glass microelectrode.
(17) When Matt Slater went swimming with his dog Mango in a Cornish estuary this month, he bumped into a barrel jellyfish.
(18) Read more on Scottish independence • ' I believe in solidarity with the folk living south of Carlisle ' • ' The UK is on shifting sands – we can't assume survival ' • ' Better Together is truly scraping the barrel now ' The fact is that far from fearing the breakup of the UK, the English are looking at the benefits that devolution has brought the Scots and asking why they are not able to enjoy the same.
(19) Brent crude surged by $1.05, or 1%, to $124.65 a barrel on Friday, while US crude jumped by 98 cents to $111.90, its highest level since September 2008.
(20) Impalement of identified principal cells from the serosal side with single-barrelled conventional or double-barrelled Cl(-)-sensitive microelectrodes was performed at x500 magnification.
Burrel
Definition:
(n.) A sort of pear, called also the red butter pear, from its smooth, delicious, soft pulp.
(n.) Same as Borrel.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Sunday tabloid snapped it up and later employed him for two decades as he executed stings on everyone from the Duchess of York to the then England football manager Sven Goran Eriksson and Princess Diana's butler Paul Burrell.
(2) He said: “First and foremost my thoughts today are with the family and friends of Kingsley Burrell.
(3) Meanwhile, the Burrell Collection – gifted to the city by shipping magnate Sir William Burrell in 1944 – contains more than 8,000 works of art collected during his lifetime.
(4) "Continuing from Andrew Fletcher's comforting reassurance that you could be El-Hadji Diouf," writes the elegantly-monickered Leticia L'Amour, "just think: you could also be Paul Burrell, Michael Jackson, One True Voice, Gary Glitter, Glenn Roeder, Geri Halliwell's dog, a Stoke City fan, an estate agent, allergic to cheese, Liam Gallagher's anger management counsellor, Liam Gallagher..." By God, she's right.
(5) Trinity Mirror chief executive Sly Bailey, gazing across London from her Canary Wharf eyrie as she contemplates how to capitalise on the Burrell coup and permanently reverse the downward fortunes of the Daily Mirror and its Sunday stablemates, will not be cheered by the reminder that while blondes may have more fun, moguls have more muscle.
(6) Douglas Hodge will play Diana's butler Paul Burrell.
(7) We are demanding that Theresa May fulfils the work she commenced during the last parliament into the effects of death in custody and mental health upon the Afro-Caribbean community by arranging a public inquiry into the systemic failings by four public authorities into the death of Kingsley Burrell.” The inquest heard that the day before Burrell died he was left face down and motionless in a locked seclusion room for nearly half an hour with a blanket draped over his head and his trousers around his knees.
(8) Raw skim milk was processed by a modified No-Bac Unitherm IV System (Cherry-Burrell Corp.) at 143 C for 8 s, vacuum cooled to 71 C, collected, and cooled to 4 C. Raw and ultra-high-temperature processed skim milks were oxidized with performic acid, hydrolyzed with hydrochloric acid, and analyzed for cysteine and cystine (as cysteic acid) and methionine (as methionine sulfone) on a Beckman Automatic Amino Acid Analyzer.
(9) Daniel Taylor The hour before every England match when Arsenal's pitch-announcer, Paul Burrell, subjected us to all that boneheaded drivel – "think of 1966" and "are we ready?"
(10) ‘It’s live and let live.’ Photograph: Rory Carroll Doug Burrell, another Methodist minister, said Blue Ridge remained part of the Bible belt.
(11) This week, myself and CS Emma Barnett, the commander of Birmingham West and Central local policing unit, met with family members and friends of Mr Burrell to listen to their concerns and extend our condolences for the death of Kingsley, and also to talk about what the force is doing moving forward to help vulnerable people.
(12) The overall downward drift in national newspaper circulations, relentless except when a rare jackpot-winner such as Paul Burrell sends sales soaring, means the heads of many media bosses rest uneasily on their pillows as autumn gloom gathers.
(13) The cache is remarkably similar to the memorabilia the former butler Paul Burrell was accused - and acquitted - of stealing from Prince Charles and Princess Diana two years ago.
(14) Burrell says: “To refuse to go along with sexism and to speak out against it amidst such pressure can be really difficult – I know because I have often failed to do it myself.
(15) Pickering and Burrell were among the officials who said they had no knowledge of any cash gifts being offered or received at the Trinidad meeting.
(16) If they think they will come across as a nit-picker or a ‘sissy’, it’s far rarer.” Stephen Burrell, 27, is a PhD student at Durham University researching domestic violence prevention work with young men.
(17) (1972), Trempo (1972), Burrel (1973) (6), Serré et al.
(18) Burrell, banned for six months in the 2011 bribery scandal , keeps his committee roles , including chair of the finance committee; chair of the legal committee overseeing compliance and integrity; and vice‑chair of the security and fair play committee, “supervising the conduct of everyone involved in football within the Concacaf region”.
(19) The silent protest later joined a separate rally outside a police station in central Birmingham where demonstrators demanded to know whether the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) will prosecute police over the death in custody of student Kingsley Burrell , 29, who died of cardiac arrest after being arrested by West Midlands police.
(20) Chantelle Graham, Burrell’s partner, said: “Kingsley needed help and compassion but instead he was treated so brutally by police, ambulance staff and medical staff.