What's the difference between berm and shoulder?

Berm


Definition:

  • (n.) Alt. of Berme

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The Berm Sex Role Inventory and the Defense Mechanism Inventory were administered to 66 high school students (31 boys and 25 girls), ages 14-19.
  • (2) Buried in the berm will be radar reflectors, magnets and a “Storage Room”, constructed around a stone slab too big to be removed via the chamber entrance.
  • (3) Each volunteer S completed the Berm Sex Role Inventory, the Interpersonal Style Inventory, and Loevinger's Sentence Completion Test.
  • (4) "No Nato," said Mohammed, the 14-year-old son of a Dafniya rebel fighter drinking tea behind one of the giant sand berms that shield rebel positions from sniper fire.
  • (5) You will capture the berm tomorrow morning.” Once again, Abu Ali’s reactions got the better of him.
  • (6) Facebook Twitter Pinterest The Los Laureles canyon is cut off by an earth berm, a highway and the border wall – all inserted by Homeland Security.
  • (7) Some posting showed extremists weeping with joy as dozens of Iraqi army humvess were driven through a sand berm on the border into Syria.
  • (8) In the past, when they attacked, they tried to fill up the trench beyond our berms with a bulldozer, but this time was different,” said a Kurdish officer, Major Ibrahim, who has fought Isis since August 2014.
  • (9) They were very good fighters, but they also had good guns,” said Kovali, whose forces are on the front berm across from Isis-held Iraqi territory.
  • (10) With almost no formalities, the commander pointed to a large earth berm about 350 metres away.
  • (11) Susie and John Munro, who live in cottages beside the golf course car park, at the foot of the same hill which Milne’s house sits on, have complained about an earth wall or berm built by Trump’s staff which now entirely blocks their view across the old dunes and out to sea.
  • (12) He said he saw crews building a berm around a valve.
  • (13) I think of that configuration of berm, chamber, shaft, disc and hot cell – all set atop the casks of pulsing radioactive molecules entombed deep in the Permian strata – as perhaps our purest Anthropocene architecture.
  • (14) The government has decided to erect a fence and berm around the contours of the camp, Alhmoud told IRIN, "to prevent any foul play from the outside and the inside".
  • (15) The Iraqi army is on the other side of that berm,” he said.
  • (16) The present plans for marking the site involve a berm with a core of salt, enclosing the above-ground footprint of the repository.
  • (17) It looks arid now, but in heavy rains the water courses along the canyon, where these houses are, and can only escape through a drain in the berm wall.
  • (18) ODI cited the examples of Jordan refusing to welcome 70,000 Syrians stranded in the desert area of Berm and Kenya’s plans to shut the long-running Dadaab refugee camp and repatriate its largely-Somali refugee population.
  • (19) Three options have been proposed including an earth berm around the village, upstream storage and house-by-house defences.
  • (20) Like the building, the car park is raised up on a defensive berm, surrounded by gabion walls and hedgerows, reinforcing the feeling that this alien spaceship is cut off from the surrounding streets.

Shoulder


Definition:

  • (n.) The joint, or the region of the joint, by which the fore limb is connected with the body or with the shoulder girdle; the projection formed by the bones and muscles about that joint.
  • (n.) The flesh and muscles connected with the shoulder joint; the upper part of the back; that part of the human frame on which it is most easy to carry a heavy burden; -- often used in the plural.
  • (n.) Fig.: That which supports or sustains; support.
  • (n.) That which resembles a human shoulder, as any protuberance or projection from the body of a thing.
  • (n.) The upper joint of the fore leg and adjacent parts of an animal, dressed for market; as, a shoulder of mutton.
  • (n.) The angle of a bastion included between the face and flank. See Illust. of Bastion.
  • (n.) An abrupt projection which forms an abutment on an object, or limits motion, etc., as the projection around a tenon at the end of a piece of timber, the part of the top of a type which projects beyond the base of the raised character, etc.
  • (v. t.) To push or thrust with the shoulder; to push with violence; to jostle.
  • (v. t.) To take upon the shoulder or shoulders; as, to shoulder a basket; hence, to assume the burden or responsibility of; as, to shoulder blame; to shoulder a debt.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) One developed recurrent dislocation of the shoulder.
  • (2) In dorsoventral (DV) reversed wings at both shoulder or flank level, the motor axons do not alter their course as they enter the graft.
  • (3) To determine the accuracy of double-contrast arthrography in complete rotator cuff tears, we studied 805 patients thought to have a complete rotator cuff tear who had undergone double-contrast shoulder arthrography (DCSA) between 1978 and 1983.
  • (4) Video games specialist Game was teetering on the brink of collapse on Friday after a rescue deal put forward by private equity firm OpCapita appeared to have been given the cold shoulder by lenders who are owed more than £100m.
  • (5) The power spectrum of the EMG was analyzed during isometric contractions of the shoulder muscles.
  • (6) He shrugs his shoulders and laughs: "And they call us thieves!"
  • (7) In April 1986, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the thorax and shoulder girdle was presented to the 99th Annual Meeting of the American Association of Anatomists.
  • (8) Paul Doyle Kick-off Sunday midday Venue St Mary’s Stadium Last season Southampton 2 Leicester City 2 Live Sky Sports 1 Referee Michael Oliver This season G 18, Y 60, R 1, 3.44 cards per game Odds H 5-6 A 4-1 D 5-2 Southampton Subs from Taylor, Martina, Stephens, Davis, Rodriguez, Sims, Ward-Prowse Doubtful Bertrand, Davis, Van Dijk (all match fitness) Injured Boufal (knee, Jan), Hesketh (ankle, Feb), Targett (hamstring, Feb), Austin (shoulder, Mar), Pied (knee, Jun), Gardos (knee, unknown) Suspended None Form DWLLLL Discipline Y37 R2 Leading scorer Austin 6 Leicester City Subs from Zieler, Hamer, Wasilewski, Gray, Fuchs, James, Okazaki, Hernández, Kapustka, King Doubtful None Injured None Suspended None Unavailable Amartey, Mahrez, Slimani (Africa Cup of Nations) Form LDLWDL Discipline Y44 R1 Leading scorers Slimani, Vardy 5
  • (9) Measurements were made of the width of the marginal gap for three sites at each of four stages: (1) after the shoulder firing, (2) after the body-incisal firing, (3) after the glaze firing, and (4) after a correction firing.
  • (10) A prospective randomized study was carried out to discover the influence of the timing of shoulder physiotherapy after-axillary dissection for breast cancer upon the incidence and duration of lymphatic fluid production and seroma after these operations.
  • (11) Five cases of bilateral abduction contracture of the shoulder in adults including the first case of bilateral abduction contractures of shoulder and hip plus bilateral flexion contracture of elbow and extension contracture of a knee are reported.
  • (12) A case of unilateral anterior dislocation of the shoulder after a shock of 380 volts is presented here.
  • (13) We felt that this relatively high redislocation rate was due to failure to immobilize these shoulders for 3 weeks postoperatively.
  • (14) Forty percent of newly synthesized chains eluted on gel filtration as a lower molecular weight (LMW) shoulder and in vivo turned over faster than the larger species.
  • (15) Muscle sparing thoracotomy can be used safely for most thoracic procedures and we believe it permits easier pain control and early preservation of full shoulder motion.
  • (16) In severely impaired limbs, there was a marked shift in both the peak EMG angle and the angular domain of EMG activity for both biceps and triceps muscle groups, away from the normal elbow flexion-extension axis towards external humeral rotation and shoulder girdle elevation.
  • (17) The cervical discogenic (painful disc) syndrome consists of scapular pain radiating to the head, shoulder and upper arm, often associated with paraesthesiae but without neurological deficit.
  • (18) This approach was used in 42 shoulders with rotator cuff tears or posterior instability without complications of infection, failure of deltoid healing, or compromise of suprascapular or axillary nerves.
  • (19) The results suggest that patients with shoulder capsulitis should be investigated to exclude diabetes mellitus particularly when there is no history of antecedent trauma.
  • (20) Five shoulders had a posterior opening-wedge osteotomy of the scapular neck to correct the excessive retroversion of the glenoid cavity.