(n.) A shell; esp. a spherical shell, like those fired from mortars. See Shell.
(n.) A bomb ketch.
(v. t.) To bombard.
(v. i.) To sound; to boom; to make a humming or buzzing sound.
Example Sentences:
(1) But soon after aid workers departed, barrel bombs dropped by Syrian helicopters caused renewed destruction.
(2) It comes in defiant journalism, like the story televised last week of a gardener in Aleppo who was killed by bombs while tending his roses and his son, who helped him, orphaned.
(3) The number of dead from the bombing has been put at up to 1,654.
(4) It became just like a soap opera: "When Brookside started it was about Scousers living next to each other and in five years' time there were bombs going off and three people buried under the patio."
(5) True, Syria subsequently disarmed itself of chemical weapons, but this was after the climbdown on bombing had shown western public opinion had no appetite for another war of choice.
(6) In the process, the DfE's definition of extremism has shifted from actual bomb-throwers to religious conservatives.
(7) The risks are determined, mainly by expert committees, from the steadily growing information on exposed human populations, especially the survivors of the atomic bombs dropped in Japan in 1945.
(8) At least 12 people were killed and dozens injured by a car bomb at a funeral in Jaramana at the end of August.
(9) Even regional allies disagree with American priorities about Isis, Biddle noted, which is why Turkey continues to bomb Kurds and Saudi Arabia and the UAE arm groups around the region , most notably in Syria but also in the ruins of Yemen .
(10) The weapon is 13 metres long, weighs 60 tonnes and can carry nuclear warheads with up to eight times the destructive capacity of the bombs that hit Hiroshima and Nagasaki in the second world war.
(11) Espinosa wrote that time has now come, with 15 of his group of prisoners having been released, six executed, and American humanitarian worker Kayla Mueller killed in a bombing of Isis positions last month.
(12) An Associated Press analysis found no evidence that Texas authorities were investigating threats to pharmacies, though the Oklahoma attorney general said he was examining an alleged bomb threat to a pharmacy in Tulsa .
(13) It paves the way for Iran to get nuclear weapons.” Under the deal, Iran committed to reducing the number of its centrifuges by two-thirds, capping its level of uranium enrichment well below the level needed for bomb-grade material, reducing its enriched uranium stockpile from around 10,000kg to 300kg for 15 years, and submitting to international inspections to verify its compliance.
(14) On 26 April 1937 this market town was obliterated in three hours of bombing by Nazi planes, allies of Generalísimo Francisco Franco’s fascists in the Spanish civil war.
(15) It was quiet on the main Manshiya front near the border with Jordan, which he said had been the site of some of the heaviest army bombing in recent weeks.
(16) Campbell's assessment came the day after a United Nations report found that ground battles between Afghan forces and the Taliban insurgents had overtaken insurgent bombs as a leading cause of civilian deaths and injuries .
(17) We have an operation an hour away on the border and the barrel bombs cause horrific injuries.” Islamic Relief and MSF said the health system in Syria is decimated and the need for reconstructive surgery and burns treatment is enormous.
(18) Many of the windows in the road shattered.” This was France’s – and western Europe’s – first ever female suicide bombing.
(19) Losing paradise: the people displaced by atomic bombs, and now climate change Read more Climate change won’t be the only source of tension.
(20) Gaddafi's residence, now gutted and covered with graffiti, was also targeted in a US bombing raid in April 1986, after Washington held Libya responsible for a blast at a Berlin disco that killed two American servicemen.
Decelerate
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) The characteristic heart rate deceleration shown immediately prior to the aversive stimulus by control subjects was absent in the schizophrenic group.
(2) The Calspan 3-D Computer Simulator of a Motor Vehicle Crash Victim was used to provide estimates of the head and neck response to be expected for the very specific deceleration profiles simulated.
(3) There is a reasonably good correlation between FHR deceleration areas and UApH (Tab.
(4) Total compliance showed an increase with a decelerating flow compared to an accelerating flow in the anaesthetized group as well as in patients with low compliance and high resistance, and also in patients with chronic respiratory disease.
(5) A total of 1552 antepartum nonstress tests performed during the week before delivery are analyzed with respect to both reactivity and the presence of pathologic baseline patterns (tachycardia, bradycardia, diminished beat-to-beat variability) or decelerations.
(6) Children in whom movement is absent or confined to the muscles of facial expression experience heart rate deceleration.
(7) The study group was divided into two subgroups, according to the presence (n = 29) or absence (n = 8) of antepartum late heart rate decelerations.
(8) The results suggest the presence of an alpha-adrenergic pathway from this region of the hypothalamus which projects caudally to increase the gain of the cardio-decelerator baroreceptor reflex in the rabbit.
(9) The incidence of late decelerations during labor, low 5-minute Apgar scores, and small-for-date infants was significantly higher in patients with positive stress tests than in a control group of 257 patients with negative stress tests done over the same period of time.
(10) Late decelerations and contractions registered early in pregnancy were also correlated to a poor outcome.
(11) Significant reduction of arterial pressure and deceleration of pulse were already in evidence in 5 minutes after injection of the drug.
(12) Increase of the inward current amplitude and deceleration of current decay due to the action of low external concentrations of tetrodotoxin (10(-12)-10(-10) M) were observed in a number of the cells tested.
(13) Further reductions in psychotropic medications and the addition of the anticonvulsant medication resulted in continued rapid deceleration of rate of occurrence of maladaptive behaviours with a concomitant increase in lucid statements and independent functioning.
(14) While the term "isokinetics" generally denotes a type of muscular contraction which accompanies a constant rate of limb movement, periods of acceleration and deceleration exist in the context of isokinetic exercise.
(15) The results show that growth deceleration is due to a decrease of the cell production rate kappa p and a simultaneous increase of the cell loss rate kappa l. Both processes contribute to about the same extent to the growth deceleration of the tumor cell population.
(16) The remaining 19 patients with disability due to brain stroke demonstrated deceleration of the cerebral blood flow, most pronounced on the side of brain infarction.
(17) The mean fetal scalp blood pH values were significantly higher in fetuses that showed reactive responses with fetal heart rate acceleration compared with those who had no response or responded with a deceleration to the vibroacoustic stimulation (pH 7.30 and 7.22 respectively).
(18) Previous research with nonhuman subjects has demonstrated that (a) comparable amounts of food are consumed at the same unit price even though different response requirements and reinforcer magnitudes comprise that unit price and (b) increases in unit price decrease food consumption in a positively decelerating fashion.
(19) This paper emphasizes recommendations for deceleration of the normal aging process.
(20) An increase in the stimulation rate as well as an increase in extracellular concentration of Ca ions decelerated the relaxation in the rabbit myocardium, whereas in the rat myocardium a shortening of interimpulse interval accelerated isometric relaxation.