(n.) An architectural member, plain or ornamental, projecting from a wall or pier, to support weight falling outside of the same; also, a decorative feature seeming to discharge such an office.
(n.) A piece or combination of pieces, usually triangular in general shape, projecting from, or fastened to, a wall, or other surface, to support heavy bodies or to strengthen angles.
(n.) A shot, crooked timber, resembling a knee, used as a support.
(n.) The cheek or side of an ordnance carriage.
(n.) One of two characters [], used to inclose a reference, explanation, or note, or a part to be excluded from a sentence, to indicate an interpolation, to rectify a mistake, or to supply an omission, and for certain other purposes; -- called also crotchet.
(n.) A gas fixture or lamp holder projecting from the face of a wall, column, or the like.
(v. t.) To place within brackets; to connect by brackets; to furnish with brackets.
Example Sentences:
(1) The solution to these problems would seem either to reduce the time spent in rectangular wires or to change to a bracket with reduced torque, together with appropriate second order compensations in the archwire or the bracket.
(2) In 1:1 saturated complexes with the octamers [d(GGATATCC)]2 and [d(GGTTAACC)]2, [N-MeCys3,N-MeCys7]TANDEM binds to each octamer as a bis-intercalator bracketing the TpA step.
(3) Simply lengthening the working age bracket is a potential disaster, unless the inequalities at the heart of the policy are addressed in a detailed and sensible way and we achieve full employment.
(4) When either predictability or bond strength was considered independently, several bracket systems, coupled with a particular etch time, had either high predictability or high bond strength.
(5) The plaque situation around the brackets and along the gingival margins and the gingival condition were assessed according to the criteria of the plaque and gingival index systems by a dental hygienist at each monthly visit during a test period of 6 months.
(6) When pseudorabies virus (PrV) strains are grown in chicken embryo fibroblasts (CEF), variants ("translocation" mutants) arise in which there is a duplication of the leftmost sequences of the genome and their translocation in inverted orientation next to the internal inverted repeat bracketing the S component.
(7) In 2010 there were 2,525 City workers with in the €1m-plus pay bracket with average pay of €2.3m and with a much higher ratio, 611% of variable pay to fixed salary.
(8) The results showed that moment-to-force values at the bracket level for translation of a tooth decreased with shorter root length and increased with lower alveolar bone height.
(9) The bracket junction is compared with the vertebrate gap junction in terms of both structure and possible roles in facilitating the permeation of the cell by small molecules.
(10) Thirty-seven patients entered the trial, and a total of 407 brackets were placed.
(11) The purpose of this in vitro study was to determine the tensile bond strengths (TBS) of several orthodontic bonding systems and orthodontic brackets to enamel surfaces exposed to different etching procedures.
(12) A pulsed Nd:YAG laser was used to etch the enamel surfaces of teeth in vivo prior to the bonding of orthodontic brackets with composite resin.
(13) 6) The strongest bond strength between bracket and etched enamel was obtained with the direct-bonding adhesive containing 2SEM under all conditions.
(14) The frequencies of 80 HLA antigen phenotypes in 82 centenarians and 20 nonagenarians in Okinawa, Japan, were compared with those in other healthy adults in various age-brackets.
(15) Only three brackets were lost during the experiment.
(16) The tensile bond strength of bracket bases coated with metal plasma were examined.
(17) They certainly aren't anywhere near the middle, as only 14% of earners hit the 40% bracket.
(18) The surface features of incipient caries lesions around bonded orthodontic brackets were assessed longitudinally.
(19) For the point of no-net-flux method, animals were perfused with 4 concentrations of DA or DOPAC, bracketing the extracellular concentrations.
(20) Inherent defects seen in the morphology of polycrystalline ceramic brackets severely limit their fracture strength.
Parens
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) The Canadian Court's decision stated the court should never use its parens patriae powers to authorize non-therapeutic sterilization.
(2) Key features of the Missouri Supreme Court decision include their claims that (1) the authority for surrogate decision-making flows from the parens patriae power of the State rather than from the authority of the incompetent person, (2) the State has an unqualified interest in the preservation of life, and (3) the medical provision of nutrition and hydration ought to be considered differently than other forms of medical treatment.
(3) This meant that the wardship powers of the court had expired and the court had to decide if parens patriae could be invoked.
(4) In Re Eve the Court unanimously decided that non-therapeutic sterilization is excluded from the reach of parens patriae but that it could be authorized by provincial legislation.
(5) The findings are discussed in the context of the controversy over the parens patriae approach v. the legal approach to involuntary admission of psychiatric patients.
(6) Topics to be discussed include paternalism, advocacy, parental responsibility, and legal doctrine of parens patriae.
(7) In the US the Courts have not been consistent in their use of paren patriae by granting or denying non-therapeutic sterilization for a variety of different reasons.
(8) Although society is unlikely to resurrect the broadly defined "in need of treatment" criterion because of its historically demonstrated ever present potential for abuse, the author suggests an alternative criterion for civil commitment which, in perhaps a more well-defined and more practical way, would allow the state to maintain its doctrine of parens patriae toward mental patients.
(9) In addition, clinicians were found to be sensitive to clinical indicators of the patient's need for treatment, a question which is central to the parens patriae approach to involuntary hospitalization.
(10) Lacking parens patriae jurisdiction under the Mental Health Act, the judge granted the request in the best interests of T's health.
(11) The current debate over the "police powers" versus parens patriae rationales for involuntary hospitalization of the mentally ill underscores the need for empirical study of the process of judicial decision making in civil commitment and determinations of competence.
(12) The recommendations made in this paper are grounded in the long-standing tradition of parens patriae and enlightened paternalism; they seek to be deliberately and cautiously careful about the lives of adolescents with disabilities and their families.
(13) This article reviews the medieval law background of the parens patriae jurisdiction of the state as it has been exercised over incompetent persons who formerly were competent adults, concluding that the fiduciary standard implied in the statute De Prerogative Regis (1324), which is the basis for modern guardianship status, requires that the court and guardian adopt an attitude of respectful friendship toward the incompetent person, just as though they were to be accountable to the person himself, were he to recover his faculties and become competent once more.
(14) In England the House of Lords looked at Re Eve as a misapplication of parens patriae and further wrote that in the context of the court's wardship the distinction between therapeutic and non-therapeutic sterilization was irrelevant.
(15) The author believes that a different procedural approach is required depending on whether the patient is committed under the parens patriae or police power of the state.
(16) The lesions of the 10 patients with signs on the onset of hemorrhage were four rectus sheath hematomas, three renal subcapsular and perirenal hematomas, and subcapsular hematoma, pararenal hematoma, perirenal and parenal hematoma, on each.
(17) During the acute phase of the experimental period numerous structures regarded as the tip of growing axons as well as typical nerve fibres appeared around blood vessels and within the paren chyma of the grafted gland.
(18) The decisions of New Jersey and Alaska courts represent one potential method of securing a consent by use of the parens patriae doctrine.
(19) This deficiency in the law might be remedied by restoring parens patriae jurisdiction to the Lord Chancellor.
(20) As a result the right to decide falls on the court and its parens patriae power.