(n.) A light vehicle having two wheels one behind the other. It has a saddle seat and is propelled by the rider's feet acting on cranks or levers.
Example Sentences:
(1) A novel bicyclic prostaglandin analogue, (1S)-[1 alpha,2 alpha(Z),3 alpha,4 alpha]-7-[3-[(hexylthio)methyl]-7- oxabicyclo [2.2.1]hept-2-yl]-5-heptenoic acid ((-)-10), and its cogeners were found to be potent antagonists at the TxA2 receptor.
(2) The authors report an ocular luxation of a four-year-old girl after a bicycle accident.
(3) In a Bloomberg article last week, for example, one Stanford student compared women who get raped to unlocked bicycles : ‘Do I deserve to have my bike stolen if I leave it unlocked on the quad?’ [Chris] Herries, 22, said.
(4) Considerate touches includes the free use of cruiser bicycles (the best method of tackling the Palm Springs main drag), home-baked cookies … and if you'd like to get married, ask the manager: he's a minister.
(5) Subjects underwent measurement of lung volumes, arterial blood gas analysis and an incremental bicycle exercise test.
(6) Each patient underwent graded bicycle exercise testing to define maximal performance, and prolonged exercise at 70% of their peak work capacity.
(7) The data of bicycle ergometry test and echocardiography were studied and compared in patients with postinfarction cardiosclerosis and type II diabetes mellitus without the clinical signs of heart failure.
(8) We had our bicycles and we were just turned loose all day.
(9) Near maximal supine exercise for 10 min on a bicycle ergometer caused a small increase in plasma renin activity during exertion with a much larger increase during recovery which reached a peak between 10-20 min.
(10) In all patients a standardized bicycle-ergometric exercise sitting and a coronarography as well as a ventriculography were performed.
(11) He has just performed a skit now about his bicycle scheme, which included a swipe at the French (because their scheme resulted in many more cycles being pinched, apparently.)
(12) Seven healthy volunteers were exposed to head-down tilt at -15 degrees for 5 h. Before and after exposure they exercised on a bicycle ergometer in the supine and seated positions.
(13) The pressure waves recorded in the container were added by computer to those recorded intra-arterially during bicycle ergometry.
(14) An incremental, symptom-limited, bicycle exercise test was done one month after the myocardial infarction, and blood samples were taken for determination of plasma potassium.
(15) A bicyclic hexadecapeptide, which corresponds to the sequence 36-51 and contains the chymotrypsin-reactive Leu-43-Ser-44 bond of soybean Bowman-Birk inhibitor, has been synthesized.
(16) Ester already has a second child with her husband, who makes a living using his bicycle to provide a taxi service.
(17) The new protocol (standardised exponential exercise protocol, STEEP) is suitable for use on either a treadmill or a bicycle ergometer.
(18) The most frequent cause of abdominal injury in children was a bicycle accident.
(19) To test this premise, 14 healthy, untrained men trained four days per week for 20 weeks on a bicycle ergometer for endurance (END Group, n = 4), on an isokinetic device for increased torque production (ITP Group, n = 5), or on both devices (COMBO Group, n = 5).
(20) The KB was found to be remarkably tolerant of changes in the electronic constitution and lipophilicity of the bicyclic ring system (template).
Biker
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) I'm really glad Voiceover told me they were the Hairy Bikers or I wouldn't have realised.
(2) It follows that he would not allow a biker to give evidence while wearing a crash helmet with the visor down.
(3) Gnod sound as much like Steppenwolf as they do the Stooges, as much like a cult as they do a biker gang, and there is, we've decided, a deliberate use of repetition to denote the Sisyphean nature of existence.
(4) Elsewhere, historian Dominic Sandbrook will look at the global domination of Britain’s post-empire popular culture, and the Hairy Bikers will take 30 retired people to a secondary school in Old School, attempting to transform the lives and experiences of both.
(5) Adrian Clark, style director of Shortlist , is throwing a trailer-trash curveball: "a pair of vintage black leather Versace jeans with zips – wrong in all the right ways – Gucci biker boots and bespoke tailoring by Gieves & Hawkes , Richard James and Mr Start".
(6) Many have bailout routes offering easy alternatives for bikers whose courage fails.
(7) Diana Nagy, a singer from San Francisco, shouted to an eclectic audience of bikers, veterans, pensioners and others.
(8) The bikers claim to be politically unaligned but say they are "cooperating closely" with the local authorities.
(9) Hikers and mountain bikers aren’t always the best of bedfellows, and the same applies in the snow – where the two are allowed to coexist, there is tension between fatbikers and cross-country skiers.
(10) Bikers for Trump: 'He'll get my vote because he's off his goddamn rocker' Read more Although Cleveland is the most fortified city in America at the moment, with thousands of police, FBI and secret service agents securing the Republican national convention, David – who won’t give me his last name but says he is from Minnesota – worries about “agitators” and “thugs” who make him feel unsafe.
(11) A group from a nearby church meets there weekly, and I recall a couple of very heterosexual, hairy bikers dropping in a few years back to taste the fruit smoothies.
(12) But with what he’s done – he’s clearly off his head too.” Play Video 0:47 Bikers join tribute rally for Manchester victim Olivia Campbell – video Gareth Stansfield, professor of Middle East politics at Exeter University, said Abedi appeared typical of many second-generation migrants drawn to Islamist groups.
(13) In 1954 the BBFC banned the Marlon Brando biker flick The Wild One outright (it was eventually released here in 1968), while the following year Clare Booth Luce, as US ambassador to Italy, intervened to prevent The Blackboard Jungle being shown in competition at Venice.
(14) Other items Editd forecasts to continue to sell well include backpacks and biker jackets.
(15) That night we drank local ales in Dirty Sally’s bar with the manager, biker Bill, clad in black leather Harley jacket with long grey hair in a ponytail.
(16) The murky nature of the seizures – seemingly both methodical and lawless – was amplified when the Russian Night Wolves biker gang, which has close ties to the Kremlin, arrived to guard the latter.
(17) I used to see Clinton from Pop Will Eat Itself and Blitz [top Oi combo] on scooter runs; we used to get attacked by bikers in Stourbridge (the Poppies' home town), till we followed Clinton down an alternative safe route."
(18) I don't drive, I have no interest in cars, I've never had the fantasy of nailing a nurse on the hood of my Buick or of being picked up by a bare-boobed biker chick riding a throbbing Harley.
(19) I'm slightly annoyed that you can't wave at people or flash at them - we ought to be like bikers and raise our visors.
(20) Under the slogan of fighting for democracy there is instead total fear, total propaganda, and no freedom.” Sablin was joined at the launch of anti-Maidan by Russian nationalist politicians, a female mixed martial arts champion and “The Surgeon”, leader of a biker gang known as the Night Wolves.