(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.
Gusset
Definition:
(n.) A small piece of cloth inserted in a garment, for the purpose of strengthening some part or giving it a tapering enlargement.
(n.) Anything resembling a gusset in a garment
(n.) A small piece of chain mail at the openings of the joints beneath the arms.
(n.) A kind of bracket, or angular piece of iron, fastened in the angles of a structure to give strength or stiffness; esp., the part joining the barrel and the fire box of a locomotive boiler.
(n.) An abatement or mark of dishonor in a coat of arms, resembling a gusset.
Example Sentences:
(1) A transannular gusset was utilized in 74% of patients in the last 5 years of the study.
(2) The dural grafts were used as an aortic root gusset in 38 patients (35.5%) undergoing aortic valve replacement, for enlargement of the pulmonary artery or right ventricular outflow tract or both in 38 patients (35.5%), and for repair of coarctation of the aorta in 10 patients (9.4%).
(3) This reshaping was done by inserting multiple gussets into one end of the aortic prosthesis so that the flanged end fit precisely to the transverse aortic arch.
(4) This is best done by the insertion of a gusset of dura or other material to lengthen the concave side of the curve.
(5) The aortic incision was repaired with an inverted Y-shaped Dacron gusset.
(6) Discrete obstruction, present in 11, was treated by insertion of a prosthetic gusset placed across the area of narrowing and extending into the noncoronary sinus of Valsalva.
(7) A Dacron gusset was sutured to restore aortic continuity.
(8) "We're constantly bombarded by singers thrusting their gussets in our face, and then there's someone who is doing it in a most meaningful, exquisitely expressive way.
(9) A wide paneled gusset and four-way stretch Warpstreme™ fabric make these pants commute, travel and sweat ready.
(10) From 1979 to 1983, 38 patients had dura mater aortic root gussets placed during aortic valve replacement at the Southampton General Hospital.
(11) The advantages of this approach compared with a conventionally placed heterograft conduit or an outflow tract gusset are discussed.
(12) Two-dimensional echocardiography was used to measure pulmonary artery diameter and assess symmetry after two types of systemic-pulmonary artery shunts: modified right Blalock-Taussig shunt (14 patients) and central shunt (from underside of aortic arch gusset to pulmonary artery confluence) (14 patients).
(13) The present operative method involved the use of an oval pericardial gusset extending from the left auricular appendage into the split anomalous vein so as to obtain a wide anastomotic orifice.
(14) Tailoring of the annulus was performed in 39 cases and a gusset in the non-coronary sinus was used to maintain the shape of the aortic root in 67 patients.