(n.) An upright wooden or iron post in a boat or on a dock, used in veering or fastening ropes.
Example Sentences:
(1) On Exhibition Road, the scheme is being introduced gradually, with bollards still blocking off car entrances and signs marking traffic directions.
(2) The driving tasks consisted of (1) weaving around a series of bollards while simultaneously responding to an auditory logic task and (2) a gap acceptance task.
(3) It’s available and it can be done.” Ride, hustle, kill, repeat: the underground cycle gangs of Los Angeles Read more An example of this was the part-pedestrianisation of Times Square from 2009, achieved through the simple measure of blocking off Broadway with orange barrel-bollards.
(4) I always remember this guy running because we are all running and he was hobbling and I thought he'd hurt his leg … We were running to the fence, thinking they couldn't get past this bollard, and this guy just went that way and, well, the [police vehicle] just flattened him, and went right over him.
(5) That might be removing unnecessary bollards or other obstructive street furniture to help make walking safer and easier.” The projects in this series: 1.
(6) There are armed police officers at both ends of the street, and security huts, where Crown Estate officials control bollards that sink into the ground allowing cars to enter or leave once they have been cleared.
(7) Government buildings were not protected by bollards or anti-blast curtains.
(8) Moylan also pushed forward the "de-cluttering" of Kensington High Street in west London – the removal of barriers, bollards and signs ("really good quality rubbish", in his words) that were deemed essential to safety, but turned out not to be so.
(9) Differences between the bollards installed in the three units are described and the advantages and disadvantages of each discussed.
(10) Permanent floor-mounted "bollards" have been installed in three Intensive Care Areas in the Oxford Teaching Hospitals.
(11) Porte-cocheres – a bit like black pergolas – nudged people to cross boulevards at specific points, bollards were fluted like those in Baker’s old home of Camden Town, “a tongue-in-cheek classical reference”; street lamps were distinctive globes and the mesh benches made from one curve of metal became a now-ubiquitous design classic.
(12) At least two oxygen and vacuum outlets, one air outlet, six electric power sockets and connections for monitoring cables should be provided on the bollard with further power sockets on the adjacent wall.
(13) Outside the Israeli embassy, which is surrounded by protective green bollards, an armed police officer stops me.
(14) Tensile tests to failure were performed on screws, bollards, toggles and staples which had been implanted into cadaveric bones.
(15) Anti-ramming bollards can stop a lorry travelling at 55mph.” Barclays opened the facility in 2012 to serve both corporate and individual clients of its investment bank, after a 12-year bull run in gold prices pushed the metal to record highs the previous year.
(16) According to first reports from the attack outside Alon Shvut, the assailant had arrived by car close to a popular hitchhiking spot outside the settlement, apparently first ramming the shelter with his car.When the car was stopped by a concrete bollard he got out and stabbed those waiting there.
(17) You will be able to walk around unfamiliar environments, especially at nighttime and get a good idea about obstacles – where gutters are, where overhanging branches are – giving you that confidence to walk down unfamiliar streets and be able to avoid bollards and buggies."
(18) The German police, whose numbers have been bolstered in the wake of recent, smaller terrorist incidents, pledged to increase the number of stone bollards placed at markets and there were calls for better monitoring of heavy-load vehicles on German roads.
(19) From narrow, slanted bus shelter seats – not even suitable for sitting on, let alone sleeping on – to park benches with peculiar armrests designed to make it impossible to recline; from angular metal studs on central London ledges to surreal forests of pyramid bollards under bridges and flyovers.
(20) It is concluded that a bollard should be located to the left of the head of the bed and that it should be about 1100 mm high and 500 mm square.
Capstan
Definition:
(n.) A vertical cleated drum or cylinder, revolving on an upright spindle, and surmounted by a drumhead with sockets for bars or levers. It is much used, especially on shipboard, for moving or raising heavy weights or exerting great power by traction upon a rope or cable, passing around the drum. It is operated either by steam power or by a number of men walking around the capstan, each pushing on the end of a lever fixed in its socket.
Example Sentences:
(1) Rotation of a permanent pacemaker can result in a capstan effect, and the lead is drawn out of the right ventricle.
(2) The same holds for pulley- and capstan-form toric surfaces.