(n.) That which holds anything tightly or supports it firmly; a bandage or a prop.
(n.) A cord, ligament, or rod, for producing or maintaining tension, as a cord on the side of a drum.
(n.) The state of being braced or tight; tension.
(n.) A piece of material used to transmit, or change the direction of, weight or pressure; any one of the pieces, in a frame or truss, which divide the structure into triangular parts. It may act as a tie, or as a strut, and serves to prevent distortion of the structure, and transverse strains in its members. A boiler brace is a diagonal stay, connecting the head with the shell.
(n.) A vertical curved line connecting two or more words or lines, which are to be taken together; thus, boll, bowl; or, in music, used to connect staves.
(n.) A rope reeved through a block at the end of a yard, by which the yard is moved horizontally; also, a rudder gudgeon.
(n.) A curved instrument or handle of iron or wood, for holding and turning bits, etc.; a bitstock.
(n.) A pair; a couple; as, a brace of ducks; now rarely applied to persons, except familiarly or with some contempt.
(n.) Straps or bands to sustain trousers; suspenders.
(n.) Harness; warlike preparation.
(n.) Armor for the arm; vantbrace.
(n.) The mouth of a shaft.
(v. t.) To furnish with braces; to support; to prop; as, to brace a beam in a building.
(v. t.) To draw tight; to tighten; to put in a state of tension; to strain; to strengthen; as, to brace the nerves.
(v. t.) To bind or tie closely; to fasten tightly.
(v. t.) To place in a position for resisting pressure; to hold firmly; as, he braced himself against the crowd.
(v. t.) To move around by means of braces; as, to brace the yards.
(v. i.) To get tone or vigor; to rouse one's energies; -- with up.
Example Sentences:
(1) Gains in gait pattern, ease of bracing, and reduced pelvic obliquity were noted.
(2) We assessed the relative restraints that are provided by fourteen currently available functional knee-braces, using six limbs in cadavera.
(3) During the last 21 months, 12 additional children have been managed with a more stringent protocol combining neck immobilization in a rigid cervical brace for 3 months and restriction of both contact and noncontact sports, together with a major emphasis on patient compliance.
(4) The classic scoliosis was resistant to brace treatment; bracing failed in 70% of patients, necessitating spinal fusion.
(5) Cotrel-Dubousset instrumentation (CDI) has been gaining popularity in scoliosis surgery because of their improved rigidity which can obviate the need for a brace in most cases.
(6) The brace extended from the proximal radius and ulna to the level of the radial styloid and allowed a full range of movement at the radiocarpal joint.
(7) The purpose of this project was to determine if commercially available braces could be shown to produce objective evidence of medial stabilization of the knee.
(8) The schemes will be scrutinised for evidence that the government has accepted criticism that it is not acting fast or hard enough to reverse the continuing slump in the economy, with ministers braced for further bad news on jobs and investment over the summer.
(9) Effective bracing of the severely spastic wrist and hand may not be possible.
(10) All patients were placed in Minerva braces postoperatively.
(11) Contact between the owner of the Times and the Sun and Ofcom in the run-up to Christmas left insiders at News Corp's Wapping headquarters braced for a referral.
(12) It is concluded that treatment with a patellar brace with a lateral pad is not likely to succeed in the majority of patients with retropatellar pain syndrome.
(13) Costa got his second while David Silva and substitute Álvaro Morata also got braces and Vitolo opened his international account as the former world champions ran riot.
(14) Rattled investors brace for big week as Federal Reserve considers rate increase Read more The Dow Jones industrial average fell 114 points, or 0.7%, to 16,528.
(15) Anti-globalisation activists and international bankers are bracing themselves for a week of street action and possible confrontation planned to coincide with the annual meeting of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund in Prague.
(16) Then, in English, a simple statement that has come to define a Japanese summer of public discontent, the likes of which it has not seen in a generation: “This is what democracy looks like!” Amid the trade union and civic group banners were colourful, bilingual placards held aloft by a new generation of activists who have assumed the mantle of mass protest as Japan braces for the biggest shift in its defence posture for 70 years.
(17) This retrospective study of lateral electrical surface stimulation (LESS) treatment for patients with progressive idiopathic scoliosis was performed to document patient compliance in the standard electrical stimulation program and to gain objective data to perform a relative comparison of electrical stimulation and bracing compliance.
(18) The brace has been used for 22 years and found practical and reliable.
(19) Shortening in severe comminution was the main complication and was not controlled by supplementary cast-bracing.
(20) Defensive players who wore prophylactic knee braces had statistically fewer knee injuries than players who served as controls.
Handle
Definition:
(v. t.) To touch; to feel with the hand; to use or hold with the hand.
(v. t.) To manage in using, as a spade or a musket; to wield; often, to manage skillfully.
(v. t.) To accustom to the hand; to work upon, or take care of, with the hands.
(v. t.) To receive and transfer; to have pass through one's hands; hence, to buy and sell; as, a merchant handles a variety of goods, or a large stock.
(v. t.) To deal with; to make a business of.
(v. t.) To treat; to use, well or ill.
(v. t.) To manage; to control; to practice skill upon.
(v. t.) To use or manage in writing or speaking; to treat, as a theme, an argument, or an objection.
(v. i.) To use the hands.
(n.) That part of vessels, instruments, etc., which is held in the hand when used or moved, as the haft of a sword, the knob of a door, the bail of a kettle, etc.
(n.) That of which use is made; the instrument for effecting a purpose; a tool.
Example Sentences:
(1) The high amino acid levels in the cells suggest that these cells act as inter-organ transporters and reservoirs of amino acids, they have a different role in their handling and metabolism from those of mammals.
(2) The most successful dyes were phenocyanin TC, gallein, fluorone black, alizarin cyanin BB and alizarin blue S. Celestin blue B with an iron mordant is quite successful if properly handled to prevent gelling of solutions.
(3) "The Samaras government has proved to be dangerous; it cannot continue handling the country's fate."
(4) Control of cell calcium handling and transport may be abnormal in hypertension.
(5) Equal numbers of handled and unhandled puparia were planted out at different densities (1, 2, 4 or 8 per linear metre) in fifty-one natural puparial sites in four major vegetation types.
(6) Arrogant, narcissistic, egotistical, brilliant – all of that I can handle in Paul,” Levinson writes.
(7) Isolated renal tubules and renal clearance techniques were used to characterize the renal handling of 2-deoxy-D-galactose (2-d-Gal) by the winter flounder (Pseudopleuronectes americanus).
(8) In this study, we examined renal tubular cell handling of digoxin and ouabain using LLC-PK1 cells, a model of proximal renal tubular cells.
(9) Just before Christmas the independent Kerslake report severely criticised Birmingham city council for its dysfunctional politics and, in particular, its handling of the so-called Trojan Horse affair, in which school governors were said to have set out to bring about an Islamic agenda into the curriculum contents and the day-to-day running of some schools.
(10) The effects of insulin on the renal handling of sodium, potassium, calcium, and phosphate were studied in man while maintaining the blood glucose concentration at the fasting level by negative feedback servocontrol of a variable glucose infusion.
(11) The Nd-Yag-Laser seems to be a useful device in transsphenoidal surgery due to its potent coagulation effect and comfortable handling.
(12) Techniques are described for the special handling of these cells as well as suitable assay procedures.
(13) The decision of the editors to solicit a review for the Medical Progress series of this journal devoted to current concepts of the renal handling of salt and water is sound in that this important topic in kidney physiology has recently been the object of a number of new, exciting and, in some instances, quite unexpected insights into the mechanisms governing sodium excretion.
(14) Possible reasons for the previous discrepancies between direct and isotopic methods are discussed, as are the effects of protein binding, sample handling, and storage conditions on oxalate values in plasma.
(15) In addition to working with hist colleagues on general review and health-policy matters, he also handled issues related to the special needs of children and helped to get third-party benefit packages altered to better suit the treatment needs of children.
(16) Furthermore, this system can be satisfactory handled by technical personnel after short periods of training.
(17) The major difficulty encountered with the current technique is the danger of neurologic injury during the passage and handling of conventional wires, especially in extensive procedures.
(18) Both techniques are used by industry and regulatory agencies to monitor levels of fungal contamination at various stages of food handling, storing, processing and marketing.
(19) The particular advantage of the method described here is the ease with which the supernatants can be collected and transferred to counting vials with minimal handling of radioactive samples.
(20) The greatest care should be exercised by industry in handling tremolite or materials contaminated with it.