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Billow


Definition:

  • (n.) A great wave or surge of the sea or other water, caused usually by violent wind.
  • (n.) A great wave or flood of anything.
  • (v. i.) To surge; to rise and roll in waves or surges; to undulate.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) On Wednesday, fires raged and smoke billowed from the central offices of the Guerrero state government.
  • (2) Though the specific billowing mitral leaflet syndrome almost certainly accounts for some of these auscultatory findings, a significant proportion may have early rheumatic heart disease.
  • (3) Updated at 10.40pm BST 9.12pm BST In this handout photo provided by the USGS, A satellite view shows smoke billowing from the Baiji North refinery complex on June 18, 2014 in Baiji, about 130 miles north of Baghdad.
  • (4) Flames could be seen through the scorched windows and billowing out of the roof of the sandstone building on the corner of Renfrew Street and Scott Street.
  • (5) In the Yellow Wall southern terrace the flags billowed.
  • (6) To assess the contributions of mitral leaflet billowing and exaggerated systolic mitral anular expansion to posterior motion of mitral leaflets recognized as mitral valve prolapse (MVP) by M-mode echocardiography, time-motion reconstructions of the anteroposterior displacement of points equally spaced along the anterior and posterior mitral leaflets were derived by computer-assisted analysis of 2-dimensional echocardiograms.
  • (7) Smoke billows into the air as a firefighter douses the fire at the Glasgow School of Art's Charles Rennie Mackintosh building.
  • (8) Billowing clouds suggest a cold, windy front moving across the desert, perhaps a haboob (intense dust storm).
  • (9) Podolski's first touch isn't great, taking him wide left at a tight angle, but the striker toks the ball between James' legs and sends the inside of the right-hand side netting billowing.
  • (10) The sound of explosions continued for several minutes, and black smoke billowed into the morning sky.
  • (11) Last decade, he was hired by the once-venerable Corcoran Gallery, Washington’s oldest private museum, to design a $200m expansion that featured his signature billowing titanium walls and a mix of traditional and curving galleries.
  • (12) It is Greece's summer ritual: the arrival of the island ferry, funnels billowing, horns blaring, gangplanks screeching as wide-eyed tourists prepare to disembark.
  • (13) He’s only got Mignolet to beat, and fires a low, hard shot which nine times out of ten would billow the net in its centre.
  • (14) The data are compatible with the hypothesis that the aging process is associated with decreased mobility of the mitral valve or annulus with lesser degrees of backward bowing or billowing of the leaflets during systole.
  • (15) My son came up from the cabin saying he could smell smoke as black clouds billowed out of the stern hull.
  • (16) Fighters streamed forward from close to the hospital and fanned out into a series of extensive apartment houses, one of them billowing black smoke.
  • (17) Billowing occurred on the first systolic frame in 8 of 28 Marfan-MVP patients, in whom posterior leaflet chordae arose abnormally from the posterior ventricular wall, and in no other subjects.
  • (18) Flames and billowing black smoke could still be seen long after the 73-car train had derailed, and a fire chief likened the charred scene to a war zone.
  • (19) Below him pipes of natural gas pump flames into the stack, lighting a fire that will burn day and night for 17 days to bake the bricks at 1080 degrees Celsius, sending the stench of sulphur into the air in billows of steam.
  • (20) To test the hypothesis that mitral valve prolapse may be due either to billowing of mitral leaflets into the left atrium or to dynamic expansion of the mitral anulus, mitral leaflet and annular dimensions and motion were measured by computer-assisted two-dimensional echocardiography in 35 normal adults and 48 subjects with auscultatory and M-mode echocardiographic evidence of mitral prolapse.

Wave


Definition:

  • (v. t.) See Waive.
  • (v. i.) To play loosely; to move like a wave, one way and the other; to float; to flutter; to undulate.
  • (v. i.) To be moved to and fro as a signal.
  • (v. i.) To fluctuate; to waver; to be in an unsettled state; to vacillate.
  • (v. t.) To move one way and the other; to brandish.
  • (v. t.) To raise into inequalities of surface; to give an undulating form a surface to.
  • (v. t.) To move like a wave, or by floating; to waft.
  • (v. t.) To call attention to, or give a direction or command to, by a waving motion, as of the hand; to signify by waving; to beckon; to signal; to indicate.
  • (v. i.) An advancing ridge or swell on the surface of a liquid, as of the sea, resulting from the oscillatory motion of the particles composing it when disturbed by any force their position of rest; an undulation.
  • (v. i.) A vibration propagated from particle to particle through a body or elastic medium, as in the transmission of sound; an assemblage of vibrating molecules in all phases of a vibration, with no phase repeated; a wave of vibration; an undulation. See Undulation.
  • (v. i.) Water; a body of water.
  • (v. i.) Unevenness; inequality of surface.
  • (v. i.) A waving or undulating motion; a signal made with the hand, a flag, etc.
  • (v. i.) The undulating line or streak of luster on cloth watered, or calendered, or on damask steel.
  • (v. i.) Fig.: A swelling or excitement of thought, feeling, or energy; a tide; as, waves of enthusiasm.
  • (n.) Woe.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Arterial compliance of great vessels can be studied through the Doppler evaluation of pulsed wave velocity along the arterial tree.
  • (2) This suggested that the chemical effects produced by shock waves were either absent or attenuated in the cells, or were inherently less toxic than those of ionizing irradiation.
  • (3) During the performance of propulsive waves of the oesophagus the implanted vagus nerve caused clonic to tetanic contractions of the sternohyoid muscle, thus proving the oesophagomotor genesis of the reinnervating nerve fibres.
  • (4) In patients with coronary artery disease, electrocardiographic signs of left atrial enlargement (LAE-negative P wave deflection greater than or equal to 1 mm2 in lead V1) are associated with increased left ventricular end diastolic pressure (LVEDP).
  • (5) The water is embossed with small waves and it has a chill glassiness which throws light back up at the sky.
  • (6) The examination of the standard waves' amplitude and latency of the brain stem auditory evoked response (BAEP) was performed in 20 guinea pigs (males and females, weighing 250 to 300 g).
  • (7) The amplitudes of the a-wave and the 01 decreased in dose-dependent manners, but their changes were less striking than those of the 01 latency.
  • (8) Enzymatic activity per gram of urinary creatinine was consistently but not significantly higher before extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy than in control subjects.
  • (9) It is the route the authorities are now adopting, after the wave of taxpayer bailouts in2008-09.
  • (10) Paired tolbutamide and glucose infusions using a square wave technique demonstrated that although early phase insulin secretion is dimished in the fetus, this is not due to an absolute deficiency of stored insulin.
  • (11) It was shown that gradual recovery of spike wave patterns occurred from initial water swallowing to successive dry swalllowing.
  • (12) Total abolition of the CR ensued when the wave of CSD reached the motor (frontal) cortex and again was independent of the CS modality.
  • (13) One thousand singleton low-risk pregnancies were cross-sectionally studied at 36-40 weeks gestation with continuous-wave Doppler ultrasonography in order to assess its usefulness as an antepartum monitoring technique for the identification of fetuses at risk of developing an adverse outcome.
  • (14) Yet in 4 patients in whom no aortic late systolic pressure wave was apparent (group II), nitroprusside did not alter the difference between aortic and radial systolic pressures.
  • (15) Alternatively, try the Hawaii Fish O nights, every Friday from 26 July until the end of August, featuring a one-hour paddleboard lesson, followed by a fish-and-chip supper looking out over the waves you've just battled (£16.75).
  • (16) F-wave latency was consistently increased in the affected hands of the patients, compared with results from the unaffected and control hands.
  • (17) The b-wave in the ERG was lacking and the EOG was flat.
  • (18) In only six patients (14%) the ventricular tachycardia was initiated by an ectopic ventricular complex interrupting the T wave.
  • (19) Analysis of official registers reveals the 38 companies in the first wave of the initiative – more than two-thirds of which are based overseas – have collectively had 698 face-to-face meetings with ministers under the current government, prompting accusations of an over-cosy relationship between corporations and ministers.
  • (20) The following results were obtained: 1) In normal subjects, the changes in ABR waveforms according to the changes of the rise-time, interstimulus interval and frequency of the stimulus were mainly attributed to component wave C. 2) In patients with central disorders, component wave C were initially affected.

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