(n.) A tube for directing a jet of air into a fire or into the flame of a lamp or candle, so as to concentrate the heat on some object.
(n.) A blowgun; a blowtube.
Example Sentences:
(1) An indigenous community in the Ecuadorian Amazon has won a reprieve after building up an arsenal of spears, blowpipes, machetes and guns to fend off an expected intrusion by the army and a state-run oil company.
(2) The people still hunt and fish for their food in the way they always have, but sometimes use guns instead of blowpipes and have a generator that comes on at 8pm and then house music starts pumping at one end of the village.
(3) The animals were darted using a blowpipe or a CO2 gun.
(4) The city authorities carried out their own spay-and-neuter plan in one township late last year, sending municipal workers out with blowpipes loaded with anaesthetic.
(5) Before the expected confrontation,the shaman, Patricio Jipa said people were making blowpipes and spears, trying to borrow guns and preparing to use sticks stones and any other weapons they could lay their hands on.
(6) We used individual cage traps, a group trap, a blowpipe and an air-pressure rifle.
(7) The Tagaeri and the Taromenane – who have fought off illegal loggers and Catholic missionaries with spears and blowpipes to maintain their isolated, nomadic existence – are now at risk from the construction of roads and drilling wells as petroleum firms carve up the Yasuni national park.
(8) Photograph: Aung Naing Soe ‘We just want killing’ In her spacious office in the downtown YCDC building, Dr Hla May Oo, assistant head of the veterinary and slaughterhouse department, pulls a black plastic blowpipe out of a cardboard box and puffs into the tube.
(9) The Kichwa indigenous group have moved from spears and blowpipes to guns and eco-tourism within three generations.
(10) The Kichwa tribe on Sani Isla, who were using blowpipes two generations ago, said they are ready to fight to the death to protect their territory, which covers 70,000 hectares of pristine rainforest.
Burner
Definition:
(n.) One who, or that which, burns or sets fire to anything.
(n.) The part of a lamp, gas fixture, etc., where the flame is produced.
Example Sentences:
(1) As radiation sources, the following ones have proved useful: high-pressure mercury-vapour lamps, compound radiation systems consisting of high-pressure mercury-vapour burner, series coiled filament and reflector bulbs made of special glass as well as halogen metal-vapour lamps.
(2) April's blood was found in the bathroom and hall but, most importantly, on the underside of the carpet in front of the wood burner in the living room.
(3) Over the next year we hope to continue renovating the existing elements: re-insulating the north-facing walls, adding solar panels and linking the wood burner up to the central heating hot water tank."
(4) My regret at not eating these tasty snacks is soon allayed by Sara’s magical wilderness cooking skills: she somehow conjures up a three-course dinner from a few packets and a single burner.
(5) The barn where we ate and did classes was more than spacious enough for our group of 10, with underfloor heating and two wood burners making it feel positively tropical in December.
(6) Extracts of effluents from a modern residential oil burner have been evaluated in several toxicological assay systems.
(7) This is all a result of investment in British stores being put on the back burner as profits from home were poured into the US business.
(8) With this method, there is no burner clogging or adjustment necessary for sample viscosity.
(9) The level of these agents was reduced in effluents from continuous oil burner operation.
(10) For the moment, Garrett says he has put teaching on the back burner; it's nice "to have the option" to go back into it, but he will now pursue his other, more exotic career.
(11) And many of the large NGOs have even put the KXL battle on the back burner until after the elections.
(12) Some of the difficulties in the EMG assessment of this region are reviewed, as well as the clinical and EMG findings with three entities, "burners," acute brachial neuropathy, and rotator cuff tears, which affect it and which occur in athletes.
(13) The main area for improvement was the refinery at Rho where it was aimed to disperse gases at a higher level by raising the chimneys and to use fuel gas in those burners which were connected to lower chimneys.
(14) Common problems--muscle cramps, burners (or stingers), and ankle and shoulder injuries--can be managed effectively with certain basic techniques.
(15) The minimal exposure time was obtained when the standard WL microscope was equipped with a UV light source containing a DC powered mercury burner and a concave mirror.
(16) It will serve no purpose for me to speculate as to what happened but all the indications are that you burned at least a part of her in the wood burner."
(17) Two causes were identified: spilling of the contents of the fondue pot and explosion of the fondue fuel when added to the burner during a meal.
(18) The protests, if you want to call it that, are kind of on the back burner.
(19) Nitroarenes in the environment seem to be ubiquitous; the majority of the compounds are emitted directly from diesel emissions, kerosene heaters, and gas and liquefied-gas burners or heaters.
(20) We can’t afford this issue being on the back burner any longer,” said Khan.