(n.) A flexure; a bend; a twist; a turn; a coil, as in a rope; as the boughts of a serpent.
(n.) The part of a sling that contains the stone.
() imp. & p. p. of Buy.
(p. a.) Purchased; bribed.
(imp. & p. p.) of Buy
Example Sentences:
(1) If Charles Spencer, 3rd Duke of Marlborough, who bought the island in 1738, were to return today he would doubtless recognise the scene, though he might be surprised that his small private buildings have grown into a sizable hotel.
(2) Anti-corruption campaigners have already trooped past the €18.9m mansion on Rue de La Baume, bought in 2007 in the name of two Bongo children, then 13 and 16, and other relatives, in what some call Paris's "ill-gotten gains" walking tour.
(3) Two fully matured specimens were collected from the blood vessel of two fish, Theragra chalcogramma, which was bought at the Emun market of Seoul in May, 1985.
(4) United believe it is more likely the right-back can be bought in the summer but are exploring what would represent the considerable coup of acquiring the 26-year-old immediately.
(5) The odds are that Zuckerberg will one day face an opponent that can't be bought."
(6) Shares in the bank have fallen more than 30% since Britain voted to leave the EU and the share closed on Monday at 167p, well below the 502p average price at which taxpayers bought their stake in the bank.
(7) Absolute has raised its profile with big-name signings such as Frank Skinner and bought live Premier League football rights for the first time for this season .
(8) In March, the independent manufacturer of a forthcoming VR gaming headset, the Oculus Rift, was bought by Facebook for $2bn.
(9) AB InBev has cut costs ruthlessly as it has bought up companies around the world, including Anheuser-Busch, the brewer of US beer Budweiser.
(10) In the past when banks have been bought, there has been a period where the cover has applied to accounts held in both the "bought" bank and the buyer to give customers who now have more than £85,000 in a single institution time to move the excess.
(11) Data from a sample of completed property sales provided by mortgage lenders, representing about 65%-70% of homes bought with mortgages.
(12) It will make entering the market more difficult still for new buyers, further highlighting the importance of the right timing, advice, support and financial planning; and not just having a mum and dad who bought a house, but a grandparent, too.” Average UK house price reaches £288,000 Read more The average property price in the UK, currently £283,565, is expected to double by 2030, breaking through the £500,000 mark to £557,444.
(13) I tried desperately hard not to influence her, but I did steer her away from a baby that I've already bought her for her Christmas present.
(14) Rawlins bought a stake in Stoke City in 2000, where he'd been a season ticket-holder from the age of five, after selling off his IT consultancy company and joined the board.
(15) Japan's debt-to-GDP ratio is widely seen as sustainable, at least in the short term, as its bonds are bought up in large part by domestic investors.
(16) Tesco uniforms can be bought through the supermarket's Clubcard Boost scheme, where £5 in Clubcard vouchers equals a £10 spend on clothing, while Asda is offering free delivery on uniform purchases of over £25.
(17) "I can't believe we nearly bought this," says the wife.
(18) Fenway, which also owns the Boston Red Sox baseball team, bought Liverpool for £300m in 2010 and pledged to return the club to the top of English football, following what was then a 20-year gap since the club last won the top flight.
(19) Some were bought by corporate breweries that turned them into straight venues.
(20) But Erik Britton, of City consultancy Fathom, said: "The LTRO [long term refinancing operation] and all those things, all it's done is bought a bit of time, but it hasn't addressed the structural problems, even slightly, even for Greece."
Flexure
Definition:
(n.) The act of flexing or bending; a turning or curving; flexion; hence, obsequious bowing or bending.
(n.) A turn; a bend; a fold; a curve.
(n.) The last joint, or bend, of the wing of a bird.
(n.) The small distortion of an astronomical instrument caused by the weight of its parts; the amount to be added or substracted from the observed readings of the instrument to correct them for this distortion.
Example Sentences:
(1) This ranged from heads inclined at a slight angle to the tail through to complete flexure.
(2) This report presents a patient with a tumor of the splenic flexure invading the diaphragm, greater curvature of the stomach, splenic hilum, and tail of the pancreas.
(3) These results confirm the success of sphincter-saving anterior resection combined with total mesorectal excision, routine full mobilization of the splenic flexure and cancercidal lavage of the distal rectum in the treatment of low rectal carcinomas; morbidity, local recurrence and survival are not compromised.
(4) In 1 case epidermoid epithelial metaplasia were found in the splenic flexure and in the rectum.
(5) Surgery of the perforated caecum and ampulla recti was carried out during the first 24 hours, and that of the sigmoid flexure on the seventh day.
(6) Flexural and torsional testing revealed that the use of an inclined lag screw or a prebent plate increases stability compared to the one achieved with an exactly contoured plate alone.
(7) Peritoneal signs warranted early laparotomy, which revealed coagulation necrosis of the anus, rectum, and colon up to the hepatic flexure without any free perforation.
(8) A llama, a miniature horse, and a miniature donkey with severe bilateral congenital flexural deformities of the metacarpophalangeal and metatarsophalangeal joints were treated successfully by arthrodesis with dynamic compression plating or external skeletal fixation.
(9) A suubsequent elective segmental distal transverse and descending colectomy revealed chronic ulcerative colitis; localized marked inflammatory giant pseudopolyp formation near the splenic flexure was responsible for the bleeding.
(10) In all the animals, enterokinase values were unequivocally the highest in the duodenal mucosa; in the other intestinal segments it displayed a marked aboral decrease, so that we found about 30% of duodenal activity in the jejunum, trace amounts in the ileum and zero values in the caecum and the sigmoid flexure.
(11) A study of the biaxial flexure strengths of polished vs. glazed specimens is needed to verify that current laboratory methods are appropriate for planned fatigue studies.
(12) The development of ciliary folds begins at the stage 45 by the flexure of the external layer in the ciliary zone.
(13) The lesions are predominant in the transverse colon and at the splenic flexure.
(14) The ceramic veneering had worse results only in the flexural strength test compared with the two bonding systems.
(15) The creep rates of six alloys for porcelain-fused-to-metal (PFM) restorations were determined as a function of flexural stress and temperature.
(16) This study tested the load transfer effectiveness of cast-joined structures under flexural loading conditions.
(17) The normal duodenojejunal flexure was found to be readily displaceable in neonates and could be pushed to the right of the spine in over two-thirds of patients less than 4 months old.
(18) Radical tumour resection requires complete mobilisation of the left colonic flexure, high ligature of the inferior mesenteric artery, and--in cases of extraperitoneal tumours--dissection along the fascias.
(19) The hernia contained the terminal ileum (20 cm) with caecum, part of the appendix, the ascending colon, hepatic flexure and the first third of the transverse colon.
(20) ISO or HSO were created 40 cm from the pelvic flexure and maintained for 60 mins under general anaesthesia.