(n.) A fern of the genus Pteris, esp. the P. aquilina, common in almost all countries. It has solitary stems dividing into three principal branches. Less properly: Any fern.
(n.) A thicket; a place overgrown with shrubs and brambles, with undergrowth and ferns, or with canes.
(v. t.) An instrument or machine to break or bruise the woody part of flax or hemp so that it may be separated from the fiber.
(v. t.) An extended handle by means of which a number of men can unite in working a pump, as in a fire engine.
(v. t.) A baker's kneading though.
(v. t.) A sharp bit or snaffle.
(v. t.) A frame for confining a refractory horse while the smith is shoeing him; also, an inclosure to restrain cattle, horses, etc.
(v. t.) That part of a carriage, as of a movable battery, or engine, which enables it to turn.
(v. t.) An ancient engine of war analogous to the crossbow and ballista.
(v. t.) A large, heavy harrow for breaking clods after plowing; a drag.
(v. t.) A piece of mechanism for retarding or stopping motion by friction, as of a carriage or railway car, by the pressure of rubbers against the wheels, or of clogs or ratchets against the track or roadway, or of a pivoted lever against a wheel or drum in a machine.
(v. t.) An apparatus for testing the power of a steam engine, or other motor, by weighing the amount of friction that the motor will overcome; a friction brake.
(v. t.) A cart or carriage without a body, used in breaking in horses.
(v. t.) An ancient instrument of torture.
() of Break
Example Sentences:
(1) But, in a sign of tension within the coalition government, the Liberal Democrats home affairs spokesman, Tom Brake, told BBC2's Newsnight that "if [the offenders in question] had committed the same offence the day before the riots, they would not have received a sentence of that nature".
(2) He said: "Advanced economies are still confronted with high levels of public and private debt, which act as brakes on the recovery.
(3) With skills and labour shortages set to continue, there’s a risk that many vacancies will be left unfilled which could act as a brake on output growth in the UK in the years ahead.” The most recent labour market data from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) showed that while EU nationals were still arriving in the UK, they were doing so in smaller numbers than in the past.
(4) Koehler confirmed German media reports that the truck had apparently been slowed by an automatic braking system, bringing it to a standstill after 70 to 80 metres (230-260ft) and preventing worse carnage.
(5) Motor-perceptual performance was measured in terms of reaction times taken by subjects to carry out steering, braking and operation of traffic indicators in the simulator.
(6) The technology is also there for green-laning, says Everett – intelligent traffic lights that recognise where traffic is coming from, allowing cars to flow more freely and cutting down on unnecessary braking and restarting, which wastes energy.
(7) Trade-offs among competing selective demands exert the only brake upon perfection; non-optimality is thereby rendered as a result of adaptation as well.
(8) Decc now proposes to include an "emergency brake" mechanism which would close the RHI scheme down as payments approached pre-set levels.
(9) Simulated braking responses have been tested in relation to blood carboxyhemoglobin (HbCO) levels.
(10) The results during wakefulness indicate that the TA contributes to an active adduction of the vocal cords in expiration and suggest the presence of an active laryngeal braking mechanism during exhalation.
(11) The chancellor stressed that Britain’s relationship with the EU would remain unchanged for the time being – and ditched the idea, launched alongside his predecessor Alistair Darling during the campaign – that an emergency budget would be necessary within weeks, as Brexit slams the brakes on the economy.
(12) My assembly report, Braking Point , showed the big advantages of making 20mph the default speed limit for urban areas and, as the previous mayor's road safety ambassador, I pressed for the adoption of the zero-casualty approach applied in Scandinavian countries.
(13) The eastern European nations balked at the “emergency brake” on benefits to EU migrants.
(14) The perturbation consisted of a braking of the treadmill at different phases in the step cycle.
(15) An automatic control system has been integrated in an electronically braked bicycle ergometer, and a pedal unit from Rodby Electronic bicycle ergometer RE 820 has been coupled to a modified test wheelchair.
(16) Here are 10 things that could put the brakes on your mortgage hopes, and how to try and fix them.
(17) Scientists say the drug works by taking the brakes off the immune system.
(18) Less than two months after his arrival at Tesco, Lewis has already put the brakes on three stores as he examines “all aspects of the group in order to improve its competitive position and deliver attractive, sustainable returns for shareholders”.
(19) While the case would bring publicity to the issue of the rights or interests of "non-human persons", something for which some people have been arguing for a long time, if the case fails and there is then case law history against recognising those rights, that would not be helpful for the cause, Brakes warned.
(20) Exercise testing was performed with an electrically braked bicycle ergometer in the supine position, and the load was increased by 25 or 50 watts every two minutes until fatigue, severe angina, more than 0.3 mV ST-segment depression, or 80% of the age predicted maximum heart rate was achieved.
Cage
Definition:
(n.) A box or inclosure, wholly or partly of openwork, in wood or metal, used for confining birds or other animals.
(n.) A place of confinement for malefactors
(n.) An outer framework of timber, inclosing something within it; as, the cage of a staircase.
(n.) A skeleton frame to limit the motion of a loose piece, as a ball valve.
(n.) A wirework strainer, used in connection with pumps and pipes.
(n.) The box, bucket, or inclosed platform of a lift or elevator; a cagelike structure moving in a shaft.
(n.) The drum on which the rope is wound in a hoisting whim.
(n.) The catcher's wire mask.
(v. i.) To confine in, or as in, a cage; to shut up or confine.
Example Sentences:
(1) Eight-week-old virgin untreated female mice were induced to ovulate using equine chorionic gonadotropin (eCG) and human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG), and were then caged with males overnight.
(2) One ejaculation followed by daily contact with soiled bedding taken from a male's cage did not increase pregnancy rates.
(3) Calves were fed milk replacer twice daily while housed indoors in wooden-slatted floor box crates (metabolism cages).
(4) The feces contained less than 3% of the dose and the expired 14CO2 and cage wash accounted for less than 0.2 and 1% of the dose, respectively.
(5) Each diet was fed to five or six individually caged hens for 42 days.
(6) During this period, the microbial flora of the isolator was unchanged, and the time required to clean the cages was reduced by 50%.
(7) The designs of mechanical prostheses have evolved since the early caged-ball prostheses.
(8) In addition, various tissue cages and the use of skin blisters has been a popular means for testing antibiotic penetration into extra-cellular fluid.
(9) A reduction in tibial breaking strength was also found in caged hens, when compared to deep-litter hens.
(10) Hitchcock's attempts to keep Hedren in a gilded cage arguably ruined her career.
(11) Also the spread of the strain in the cage was examined.
(12) Hens of the same breed and age reared together on deep litter showed no differences in nest site selection and nesting behaviour regardless of whether they had previously been housed in a deep litter house or in cages.
(13) She walks past stack after stack of books kept behind metal cages, the shelves barely visible in the dim light from the frosted-glass windows.
(14) To test the hypothesis that during unsupported arm exercise (UAE) some of the inspiratory muscles of the rib cage partake in upper torso and arm positioning and thereby decrease their contribution to ventilation, we studied 11 subjects to measure pleural (Ppl) and gastric (Pga) pressures, heart rate, respiratory frequency, O2 uptake (VO2), and tidal volume (VT) during symptom-limited UAE.
(15) The tendinous caging of the wrist is the main factor for maintaining rigidity of the carpus and transmitting the torque as muscles are contracted.
(16) However, airborne transmission to rabbits in adjacent cages did not occur.
(17) Mice were exposed to hypoxia by enclosure in cages covered with dimethyl-silicone rubber membranes for 1-14 days.
(18) In fish tests, rainbow trout (Salmo gairdneri) were caged at the discharge site and simultaneously at a reference area.
(19) Five week old female albino mice were grouped two, three, four and five per cage.
(20) A different pattern was observed in the open cage test, where both neuroleptic groups showed significant increases in vacuous OMs during drug administration which rapidly became attenuated upon drug withdrawal.