(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.
Cone
Definition:
(n.) A solid of the form described by the revolution of a right-angled triangle about one of the sides adjacent to the right angle; -- called also a right cone. More generally, any solid having a vertical point and bounded by a surface which is described by a straight line always passing through that vertical point; a solid having a circle for its base and tapering to a point or vertex.
(n.) Anything shaped more or less like a mathematical cone; as, a volcanic cone, a collection of scoriae around the crater of a volcano, usually heaped up in a conical form.
(n.) The fruit or strobile of the Coniferae, as of the pine, fir, cedar, and cypress. It is composed of woody scales, each one of which has one or two seeds at its base.
(n.) A shell of the genus Conus, having a conical form.
(v. t.) To render cone-shaped; to bevel like the circular segment of a cone; as, to cone the tires of car wheels.
Example Sentences:
(1) Implantation of the mouse embryo involves the invasion of the secondary trophoblast giant cells of the ectoplacental cone (EPC) into the uterine decidua.
(2) It is commonly assumed that the visual resolution limit must be equal to or less than the Nyquist frequency of the cone mosaic.
(3) In scanning of more than 20 Hz frequency, the spectral pattern also reflected the characteristics of the cone system.
(4) The function of these triple cones can not be deduced from the behavior patterns of these fishes.
(5) Light-induced cone shortening provides a useful model for stuying nonmuscle contraction because it is linear, slow, and repetitive.
(6) As early as E-28 many growth cones have lamellipodia that extend outward from the core region as far as 10 microns.
(7) RCA-1, which is specific for D-galactose, showed patchy fluorescence on the basal and distal portions of the outer segments of the cones and rods, whereas neuraminidase-treated sections had uniform fluorescence throughout the tissues.
(8) Rats permitted to recover for 13 weeks and then sacrificed had lost almost all their rods (p less than 0.001) while the cones were reduced by about 50% (p less than 0.01).
(9) Rod adaptation had no reliable influence on response to rapid onset in cones or bipolar cells.
(10) Unique domains of the retinal interphotoreceptor matrix (IPM), termed cone matrix sheaths, are composed largely of chondroitin 6-sulfate proteoglycan in most higher mammalian species.
(11) Psychophysical results on human colour matching (Stiles & Burch, 1955; Stiles & Burch, 1959) were well predicted from the spectral sensitivities of the monkey cones.
(12) Our model of voltage dependence of GABA uptake predicts that all colors of light should hyperpolarize H1 cone horizontal cells and other investigators have shown by intracellular recording and dye-marking that type H1 cone horizontal cells hyperpolarize to all wavelengths of light.
(13) During the third stage, the dendritic trees of ganglion cells no longer branch or extend by means of active growth cones.
(14) Growth cones from the neurons contacted the muscle fibers within 6-12 h after isolation.
(15) The results indicate that contact Nd.YAG laser conization for CIN is an excellent conservative therapy from the point of cure rate, safety, indication, operation time and cone specimen, even compared with CO2 laser conization.
(16) In the human retina, which has both cones and rods in abundance, cones, cone bipolars, ganglion cells, horizontal cells, and small and large amacrine cells were labeled.
(17) Neither pH nor composition of liner collection cone had an effect on postthaw acrosomal scores, but the time required for a 50% increase in severely damaged acrosomes was greater for spermatozoa collected in polyethylene than in rubber liner collection cones.
(18) These regenerating nerve fibres together with growth cones make terminals in the form of buttons, rings and loops.
(19) Underneath the envelope, p17 forms the matrix protein layer, while the capsid of the double cone shaped core is built up of p24.
(20) On the model of electrical coupling proposed by Lamb & Simon (1976), this suggests that to the extent that the voltage-dependent desensitization results from an increased conductance and hence an increased shunt of the signals at the plasma membrane, there must be a concomitant increase in the conductance of the electrical pathways linking cones to one another.