(n.) A ticket from a public officer directing soldiers at what house to lodge; as, a billet of residence.
(v. t.) To direct, by a ticket or note, where to lodge. Hence: To quarter, or place in lodgings, as soldiers in private houses.
(n.) A small stick of wood, as for firewood.
(n.) A short bar of metal, as of gold or iron.
(n.) An ornament in Norman work, resembling a billet of wood either square or round.
(n.) A strap which enters a buckle.
(n.) A loop which receives the end of a buckled strap.
(n.) A bearing in the form of an oblong rectangle.
Example Sentences:
(1) At the St George Hotel in Darlington, where they were billeted for the group stage, there was endless confusion at orders of rice and soy sauce for breakfast.
(2) Were she honoured in Stockholm, it would also be a generous and welcome boost to the morale of all those struggling manfully to honour Frau Merkel’s confident ‘Yes, we can’ by coping practically with the asylum seekers billeted daily on their towns and villages.
(3) The misogynist masterpiss billets half the population to the whorehouse.
(4) The measured (3)JHNHalpha coupling constants and the intensity of the intraresidue HN-Halpha NOEs agree well with the solution structures of three of the proteins, using the existing parametrization of the Karplus curve (Pardi, A., Billeter, M. and Wuthrich, K. (1984) J. Mol.
(5) The nucleotide sequences (13 to 26 nucleotides) and map positions of these oligonucleotides were known from previous work (Billeter, M. A.
(6) Supplier relations Since Adelca’s demand for scrap metals is greater than the supply – and recycled scrap costs less than imported billets – the company has invested in building up its network of recyclers, including donating metal cutting equipment, offering loans, providing and paying for training and promising the best price for the scrap metals provided.
(7) According to Isabel Meza, head of integrated management at Adelca, by importing fewer billets, they are saving $12m (£7.6m) on the 20,000 tonnes of steel they produce every month.
(8) Untreated beech waste -- forest billets -- showed a low digestibility (5.6%) and that of zero fibre was somewhat higher (12.6%).
(9) Occasionally it is alleged that the billet began to totter during the stroke and that the left hand responded to this stimulus by an unwilled movement to the billet.
(10) Objects were beech-billets with relatively big cross-section areas.
(11) A map of the large T1 oligonucleotides of the RNA of Prague Rous sarcoma virus, strain B (Pr RSVb) has recently been established (Coffin and Billeter, submitted for publication).
(12) Rozanne used to bicycle from what she describes in wartime slang as her "billet" with a working-class couple, the Dickenses, in Fenny Stratford.
(13) Those billeted on the other side of the building will look out at the intriguing, if bizarre, sight of a huge deserted, cylindrical former hotel in a typically bold Oscar Niemeyer design.
(14) Clearly running Centrica – or SSE or npower, both of which have also changed their chief executives in the past year or so – is not the easiest billet in the commercial universe.
(15) 246, 5003-5024) and the cognate nucleotide sequence recently determined in our laboratory (C. Escarmis and M. A. Billeter, unpublished results).
(16) Seven young soldiers, billeted in their house, made a mascot of young Alfred, who was profoundly impressed by the encounter.
(17) Complete sequence-specific assignments of the 1H NMR spectrum of bungarotoxin were reported in the previous paper [Basus, V.J., Billeter, M., Love, R.A., Stroud, R.M., & Kuntz, I.D.
(18) The working assumption is all billets are going to be open by the end of the year,” he said.
(19) She has always hunted out old letters from antique markets, little scraps of billets-doux and deeds of sale, faint tracings of forgotten human hope in copperplate, the ink faded to brown and grey.
(20) If Clegg returns to the Cabinet Offices, where the deputy prime minister is billeted, and insists that the terrorism laws are indeed changed in line with the wishes of his party conference, I will take all this back.
Bullet
Definition:
(n.) A small ball.
(n.) A missile, usually of lead, and round or elongated in form, to be discharged from a rifle, musket, pistol, or other small firearm.
(n.) A cannon ball.
(n.) The fetlock of a horse.
Example Sentences:
(1) The severity of injury in a gunshot wound is dependent on many factors, including the type of firearm; the velocity, mass, and construction of the bullet; and the structural properties of the tissues that are wounded.
(2) Half the bullet got me and the other half went into a shop window across the road.
(3) It became fully operational in 1975, replacing its predecessor the rubber bullet.
(4) "Every bullet that killed those people was a bullet in the heart of all of us," she said.
(5) Sadly, the bullet will not only kill off Greece’s future in Europe.
(6) In the case presented, this aided investigators in determining how many bullets actually struck the victim.
(7) He joined the Coldstream Guards, while Debo and her mother went to Berne to collect Unity, who had put a bullet through her brain but survived, severely damaged; they coped with Unity's resultant moodiness and incontinence through the first year of war.
(8) When the Washington Post reports a boom in bullet-proof backpacks for children, it is not a good time to be a resident of a place colloquially known as The Arms.
(9) "Only one bullet that we're aware of hit, the second Australian returned fire and critically injured and possibly killed the Afghani," said Lieutenant General Rhys Jones, chief of the New Zealand Defence Force, who identified his injured soldier as an instructor from the officer academy.
(10) Fielding said: "He [Stewart] mentioned that on the day before the execution, when Allen was visited by his wife for the last time, they were separated by a piece of what was supposed to be bullet-proofed glass.
(11) He fired four bullets through a lavatory door, killing Steenkamp, who was in the cubicle inside the athlete's house in an upmarket housing complex in the capital Pretoria.
(12) Early bullet removal did not appear to be a significant factor in the prevention of infection.
(13) Another man who is not moving fast enough is shot with a rubber bullet.
(14) "There is no debate over the conclusion that Abir was injured by a rubber bullet shot by border guards, which in turn leads to the conclusion that the shooting of Abir occurred out of negligence, or in violation of the rules of engagement," said Judge Orit Efal-Gabai.
(15) The case of a patient with a hepatic vein bullet embolus complicating a left ventricular gunshot injury is described.
(16) He said the bullet passed through the right-hand upper part of his chest and exited through his shoulder.
(17) Since 2010, he has worked for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (Darpa), the wing of the US defense department devoted to funding and developing new technologies, from a self-steering bullet called Exacto to the packet-switching system, Arpanet, that became the internet.
(18) The location of the bullet and the type of pain that subsequently developed were not correlated with the initial decision to surgically remove the bullet.
(19) The rough spot where protesters say shots were fired from Rice recalled in a telephone interview that he “heard gunshots go off and felt a bullet whizz by my head,” prompting him to take cover from the direction of the shots by hiding behind a car, while facing the police line.
(20) The study showed surprising results: in the majority of cases, the helmet does not protect the wearer, but instead intensifies the damage caused by the bullet.