(n.) One of the sloping sides of the lower part of a blast furnace; also, one of the hollow iron or brick sides of the bed of a puddling or boiling furnace.
(n.) The lower part of a blast furnace, which slopes inward, or the widest space at the top of this part.
(n.) In forging and smelting, a trough in which tools and ingots are cooled.
Example Sentences:
(1) He made a great pass and CB hit a big shot.” Bosh praised his team-mate’s unselfishness.
(2) With this in mind, his new deal feels like Miami paying for past results, rewarding Bosh for his often overlooked contributions during the Heat's four-season reign on top of the East.
(3) Chris Bosh finished with 18 points as the Heat equaled the mark set by the 2007-08 Houston Rockets.
(4) Chris Bosh is on the line here, the whole Big Three are getting in on the freebies, and he makes both.
(5) Chris Bosh told those folks not to bother coming for Game 7.
(6) 1.23am BST Heat 13-5 Spurs, 6:54 remaining, 1st quarter Chris Bosh makes a layup and then, close to halfway through the first quarter the Spurs finally get their first field goal of the game, a Kawhi Leonard three-pointer.
(7) Because of the size and timing of Bosh's new contract, it felt like something of a panic move, one the Heat could regret around years four and five when Bosh will be far from his peak.
(8) Bosh and Wade - the other members of the Big Three who sat alongside James as he promised titles at his Miami welcoming party two summers ago - both had strong games.
(9) With Bosh back in the fold, it was all but inevitable that Miami would re-sign Wade, who also opted out of his contract earlier in the offseason .
(10) Needless to say, it would be a huge blow to the Heat if James took his talents anywhere else, particularly if there is any truth in the rumors that Bosh will head elsewhere, possibly to the Houston Rockets , if Miami fails to re-sign James.
(11) A big reason that the Heat have been surviving without Chris Bosh has been that they’ve gotten meaningful contributions from the likes of Luol Deng, Joe Johnson and Amar’e Stoudemire.
(12) The Boshe raid was part of Operation Thunder, which was launched in July 2013 and has resulted in the detention of 11,000 suspects and the seizure of eight tonnes of drugs.
(13) Who would have thought coming in that in a game featuring LeBron James, Dwyane Wade, Paul George, Roy Hibbert, Chris Bosh and Ray Allen, Indiana's Lance Stephenson would be the best player on the court by far.
(14) Yes, we all understood that he was the metaphorical Naked Chef because of the pared down bish-bash-bosh style of cookery, but he might as well genuinely have got his kit off for all the difference it made.
(15) Ignore the criticism and the played out, ( often transphobic ) jokes: there's a reason the Heat ran into trouble when Bosh was out with an abdominal injury in the 2012 playoffs.
(16) Dwyane Wade (3-13 FG, 10 points) was subdued and perhaps feeling his troublesome knees again and Chris Bosh had just 12 points, while point guard Mario Chalmers’ almighty struggles continued.
(17) If Wade and Bosh are healthier and more effective than they were during the Eastern Conference finals, the Heat should be able to the defeat the Spurs.
(18) Chris Bosh finally breaks through with a jumper and someone calls a timeout.
(19) Updated at 2.22am BST 2.20am BST Pacers 29-39 Heat - 5:52 remaining, 2nd Quarter West makes a jumper, but unfortunately for him that's completely overshadowed by the reappearance of Chris Bosh from the multiverse, he knocks off five straight points, the last three on a downtown shot assisted by the also recently resurrected Ray Allen and the Pacers call mercy... er, timeout.
(20) If we learned anything from LeBron’s last Decision, when very few real or self-styled insiders had him joining Bosh and Wade in Miami, it’s that nobody truly knows how the NBA offseason will pan out until all the contracts are signed (and sometimes not even then).
Figure
Definition:
(n.) The form of anything; shape; outline; appearance.
(n.) The representation of any form, as by drawing, painting, modeling, carving, embroidering, etc.; especially, a representation of the human body; as, a figure in bronze; a figure cut in marble.
(n.) A pattern in cloth, paper, or other manufactured article; a design wrought out in a fabric; as, the muslin was of a pretty figure.
(n.) A diagram or drawing; made to represent a magnitude or the relation of two or more magnitudes; a surface or space inclosed on all sides; -- called superficial when inclosed by lines, and solid when inclosed by surface; any arrangement made up of points, lines, angles, surfaces, etc.
(n.) The appearance or impression made by the conduct or carrer of a person; as, a sorry figure.
(n.) A character or symbol representing a number; a numeral; a digit; as, 1, 2,3, etc.
(n.) Value, as expressed in numbers; price; as, the goods are estimated or sold at a low figure.
(n.) A person, thing, or action, conceived of as analogous to another person, thing, or action, of which it thus becomes a type or representative.
(n.) A mode of expressing abstract or immaterial ideas by words which suggest pictures or images from the physical world; pictorial language; a trope; hence, any deviation from the plainest form of statement.
(n.) The form of a syllogism with respect to the relative position of the middle term.
(n.) Any one of the several regular steps or movements made by a dancer.
(n.) A horoscope; the diagram of the aspects of the astrological houses.
(n.) Any short succession of notes, either as melody or as a group of chords, which produce a single complete and distinct impression.
(n.) A form of melody or accompaniment kept up through a strain or passage; a musical or motive; a florid embellishment.
(n.) To represent by a figure, as to form or mold; to make an image of, either palpable or ideal; also, to fashion into a determinate form; to shape.
(n.) To embellish with design; to adorn with figures.
(n.) To indicate by numerals; also, to compute.
(n.) To represent by a metaphor; to signify or symbolize.
(n.) To prefigure; to foreshow.
(n.) To write over or under the bass, as figures or other characters, in order to indicate the accompanying chords.
(n.) To embellish.
(v. t.) To make a figure; to be distinguished or conspicious; as, the envoy figured at court.
(v. t.) To calculate; to contrive; to scheme; as, he is figuring to secure the nomination.
Example Sentences:
(1) Today’s figures tell us little about the timing of the first increase in interest rates, which will depend on bigger picture news on domestic growth, pay trends and perceived downside risks in the global economy,” he said.
(2) To this figure an additional 250,000 older workers must be added, who are no longer registered as unemployed but nevertheless would be interested in finding another job.
(3) The criticism over the downgrading of the leader of the Lords was led by Lord Forsyth of Drumlean, a former Scotland secretary, who is a respected figure on the right.
(4) Brown's model, which goes far further than those from any other senior Labour figure, and the modest new income tax powers for Holyrood devised when he was prime minister, edge the party much closer to the quasi-federal plans championed by the Liberal Democrats.
(5) According to some reports as many as 30 people were killed in the explosion, although that figure could not be independently confirmed.
(6) As increases to the Isa allowance are based on the CPI inflation figure for the year to the previous September, the new data suggests the current Isa limit of £15,240 will remain unchanged next year.
(7) Shelter’s analysis of MoJ figures highlights high-risk hotspots across the country where families are particularly at risk of losing their homes, with households in Newham, east London, most exposed to the possibility of eviction or repossession, with one in every 36 homes threatened.
(8) Mitotic figures and leukotriene B4 levels in lesions decreased 86% and 64%, respectively, after seven days of cyclosporine therapy.
(9) Even if it were not the case that police use a variety of tricks to keep recorded crime figures low, this data would still represent an almost meaningless measure of the extent of crime in society, for the simple reason that a huge proportion of crimes (of almost all sorts) have always gone unreported.
(10) They urged the Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs to make air quality a higher priority and release the latest figures on premature deaths.
(11) Which must make yesterday's jobs figures doubly alarming for the coalition.
(12) Of particular note is the difference between Black American and Nigerian figures.
(13) At autopsy, this DOCA-hypertensive rat was found to have a form of hepatitis associated with proliferative activity, i.e., cellular unrest, mitotic figures and oval cell hyperplasia.
(14) Okawa, who became the world's oldest person last June following the death at 116 of fellow Japanese Jiroemon Kimura , was given a cake with just three candles at her nursing home in Osaka – one for each figure in her age.
(15) If Lagarde had been placed under formal investigation in the Tapie case, it would have risked weakening her position and further embarrassing both the IMF and France by heaping more judicial worries on a key figure on the international stage.
(16) The figures, published in the company’s annual report , triggered immediate anger from fuel poverty campaigners who noted that energy suppliers had just been rapped over the knuckles by the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) for overcharging .
(17) Figures from 228 organisations, of which 154 are acute hospital trusts, show that 2,077 inpatient procedures have been cancelled due to the two-day strike alongside 3,187 day case operations and procedures.
(18) It seams rational to proceed to an earlier total correction in these cases when well defined criteria are fullfilled, as the mortality figures of the palliative and corrective procedures have a tendency to reach each other: (3,2 versus 5,7%).
(19) It is understood that Cooper rejected pressure from senior Labour figures last week for both her and Liz Kendall to drop out and leave the way clear for Burnham to contest Corbyn alone.
(20) Human figure drawings of 12 pediatric oncology patients were significantly smaller in height, width, and area than were drawings of 12 school children and 12 pediatric general surgery patients paired for sex and age.