(v. & n.) A muscle that bends a limb, esp. the arm.
(n.) One of the two highest cards in the pack commonly used in the game of euchre.
(n.) Anciently, a chamber; a lodging room; esp., a lady's private apartment.
(n.) A rustic cottage or abode; poetically, an attractive abode or retreat.
(n.) A shelter or covered place in a garden, made with boughs of trees or vines, etc., twined together; an arbor; a shady recess.
(v. t.) To embower; to inclose.
(v. i.) To lodge.
(n.) A young hawk, when it begins to leave the nest.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Treasurer Joe Hockey walks to a doorstop interview with the media this morning at the Ministerial entrance to Parliament House in Canberra, Tuesday 13th May 2013 Photograph: Mike Bowers, Guardian Australia There is a certain commonality associated with the annual rituals of the treasurer.
(2) The first experiment replicates the main finding of Gluck and Bower.
(3) Photograph: Mike Bowers 5.48am BST National leader Warren Truss would like to know if the Prime Minister will apologise for banning live exports when she's in Jakarta.
(4) Chris Bowen gets 94A-ed and yells over the dispatch box during question time in the House of Representatives this afternoon Wednesday 16th July 2014 Photograph: Mike Bowers Bowen's ejection has prompted the MPI, the post QT debate, to be cancelled.
(5) Not only did the Guardian's stories eventually prove correct, but Jefferson's boss, Cynthia Bower, announced her departure a few months later.
(6) Mike Bowers (@mpbowers) Director-General of Security David Irvine and Att.
(7) The website’s photographer, Mike Bowers, applied for a visa to visit the island in November and on Tuesday was reportedly sent an email from the director of Nauru’s government information office, Joanna Olsson.
(8) In February the CQC's chief executive, Cynthia Bower, announced that she would step down later this year after weeks of criticism.
(9) Wednesday 16th July 2014 Photograph: Mike Bowers The two gentleman pictured above foreshadowed new national security laws that will give Asio more powers to snoop on computers and more powers to coordinate with other agencies during investigations.
(10) Photograph: Mike Bowers for The Guardian The government had its first win: Parry easily secured the job of the new president, with 63 votes, while Ludlam mustered support from only 10 senators.
(11) Mike Bowers has wandered down the front to capture a bunch of anti-coal seam gas protesters blocking the entrance of the people's house.
(12) In contrast to various kinds of elastases that are known to produce emphysematous changes in animals, the elastolytic activity of carrageenan solution did not show any such effects, although in the homogenate of the lobes given carrageenan, a moderate but significant increase in the proteinase activities of alveolar macrophages are said to occur (Bowers et al.
(13) Malcolm Bower Gunnislake, Cornwall • It is crazy to have school students reluctant to take language A-levels for fear of low grades and no university place, while university language departments are closing down due to lack of demand from school students.
(14) "There may be some legitimate fear about interfering with other people's cultures, but when you talk to the husbands and boyfriends of the women they're not happy that their wives and girlfriends cannot respond sexually – and that's even without going into the misery that the women suffer," says Bowers.
(15) Once they've healed she sends them literature on discovering masturbation, and Gary and Bowers give all the patients their phone numbers and email.
(16) This year alone, there has been a hostile Blair biography , Broken Vows, by the investigative journalist Tom Bower, which dismissed the inquiry as naive and out of its depth.
(17) Bowers tells FGM patients that "there are no guarantees" but that eight out of 10 report improvements in their sex life after her surgery, ranging from eliminating pain and acquiring some pleasure to full-on orgasm.
(18) She "did not seem to ask for compassion", as Elizabeth notes at the end of her first visit to the marital bower.
(19) Photograph: Mike Bowers for the Guardian And Victorian senator John Madigan said “the welfare of Australian families and Australian manufacturing are both important to me, and I will not undermine either to advance the other.” The Coalition proposed deep cuts to family tax benefits in its first budget in 2014 – but about $6bn of those savings remain stalled in the Senate, opposed by Labor, the Greens and a majority of the crossbench.
(20) Their demand came after the CQC finally named the three people – former chief executive Cynthia Bower, her deputy Jill Finney, and media manager Anna Jefferson – who were said to be present during a discussion at the health regulator when it was decided to suppress a report that had uncovered critical weaknesses in its inspections of University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay Foundation Trust.
Mower
Definition:
(n.) One who, or that which, mows; a mowing machine; as, a lawn mower.
Example Sentences:
(1) Photograph: Mike Williams When the mower went quiet, my neighbor Woods, still sitting in his truck, called me over.
(2) Outside, through the window, the sun is shining and a lawn mower slowly traces lines on the training pitch named after Tito Vilanova.
(3) We have shown a basic biophysical difference between clinically similar hand injuries and suggest that some rotary lawn mower injuries more closely resemble high-velocity missile injuries.
(4) Recent studies (Cynader and Mitchell, '80; Mower et al., '81) have shown that total dark rearing prolongs susceptibility to the physiological effects of monocular deprivation (MD) in visual cortex beyond the normal age limits.
(5) Lawn-mower injuries, a previously unreported mode of injury for this fracture, caused five of the eight Type-IV fractures and were associated with the worst prognosis by far.
(6) Serious injuries from riding power mowers were sustained by 18 children.
(7) Most of these injuries, especially those which occur to children who are passengers on self-propelled mowers, are preventable by observance of simple precautions.
(8) These accidents can be avoided if young children are prevented from playing near or using power lawn mowers.
(9) It's on the Duke of Gloucester's land, so he'll do all right which is why a lot of people are objecting," he explains cheerfully as he gets off his motor mower before it rains.
(10) 'One of the reasons is that there's been an industrial revolution inside and outside: mowers, Hoovers, heating are cheaper and better now.
(11) The first successful surgically treated case of penetrating heart injury, specifically the right ventricle, caused by a fragment of coat hanger wire thrown by a lawn mower, is reported.
(12) Lawn mowers cause severe injuries, particularly to the lower limbs in children.
(13) Kelkoo , which is excellent for flights and lawn mowers, includes the best offers it can find on eBay, too.
(14) A typical 26-inch rotary mower blade rotating at 3,000 revolutions per minute develops a kinetic energy of 2,100 ft lb.
(15) During the course of the coupled oxidation of tetrahydrobiopterin, a pterin 4a-carbinolamine intermediate can be detected by ultraviolet spectroscopy (Kaufman, S. (1976) in Iron and Copper Proteins (Yasunobu, K. T., Mower, H. F., and Hayaishi, O., eds) pp.
(16) This mechanism of injury is possible on account of the relatively large dimensions of the riding-on rotory motor mower.
(17) The study of 52 inpatient cases treated over 12 years shows that ride-on lawn mowers cause the most severe trauma, resulting in longer hospitalization.
(18) The authors suggest that a "dead man's grib" which acts via weight bearing on the driver's seat of the machine should be made legally compulsory in Denmark when the new safety measures for rotory motor mowers are drawn up.
(19) Better education of the dangers of the misuse of these mowers may reduce the incidence of significant forefoot injuries.
(20) "As soon as this drought hit, it has taken a drastic fall from lawn mowers all the way through the ag equipment," he said.