(n.) Specifically: A machine for breaking rocks, or for breaking coal at the mines; also, the building in which such a machine is placed.
(n.) A small water cask.
(n.) A wave breaking into foam against the shore, or against a sand bank, or a rock or reef near the surface.
Example Sentences:
(1) The compound is a weak chromosome breaker in onion root tips and in Chinese hamster cells.
(2) Like, I am well, well equipped for this thing.” For their one survival item each, Rogen brought a role of toilet paper, while Franco brought sunglasses and mugs continually for the camera, giving his best Spring Breakers faces while in the buff.
(3) This is just one of the many blameworthy behaviors that young spring breakers have shown recently in Cancún and that are described as acts of xenophobia and discrimination against Mexicans within their own country, which is (or should be) totally unacceptable.” The story took off.
(4) About 35 million were egg-laying hens that provided 80% of the eggs for the breaker market – eggs broken then liquefied, dried or frozen to be used in processed foods like mayonnaise and pancake mixes, or sold to bakeries to make cakes, cookies and other products.
(5) The clinical results shown that, after twelve years of experience, the stress breaker framework allows the preservation of the abutments as well as the conservation of osseo-mucous tissues (no need of rebase).
(6) The tie-breaker isn't quite the buzzer-beater that Jeff Carter converted with tenths of a second left in the first period of Game 3, but it comes with under 30 ticks left in the second period here and has a similar effect.
(7) Spring Breakers is a good few steps removed from reality.
(8) While those figures may be skewed by one film alone (Harmony Korine's hit teenage skin celebration Spring Breakers ) the overall pattern of sex bias is unmistakable.
(9) Preliminary ultrasonic studies have indicated that these biomolecules behave as structure breakers, hence weak ligands in aqueous medium, while strengthening water structure in semi-nonaqueous medium.
(10) Agüero's deadlock-breaker was undercut by trademark explosiveness.
(11) beta-Breakers can be located automatically using a consensus approach based on algorithmic secondary structure assignment, solvent accessibility and backbone dihedral angles.
(12) Richard Dunwoody briefly set a new high of 1,699 but McCoy passed that 11 years ago and every winner he has ridden since then has been a record-breaker.
(13) Mr Gott argues that 80% of all Rollers ever produced are still being driven, whereas most other cars hit the breaker's yard after a relatively short period.
(14) In reality, says the book that I co-wrote with Nick Timmins, Glaziers & window breakers , the words were quite possibly born of despair – Bevan was the first health secretary to find that there is an impossible tension to navigate a service that is politically accountable to parliament and run day-to-day by its staff.
(15) Indeed, not only are new institutional circuit breakers, such as the European Financial Stability Facility, in place; existing bodies have also been made more flexible and thus more effective.
(16) Clodia Metelli The epitome of the chic, sexy, scandalous aristocrat of 1st century BC Rome, Metelli was supposedly the "Lesbia" to whom the love-lorn poems of Catullus are addressed (and if so, a total ball-breaker).
(17) The UK, French and German governments all had the power to veto the deal but Berlin's concern over the potential size of the French shareholding in the combined company, as well as disagreements over the location of the group's headquarters, proved to be the deal breaker that could not be resolved by the last-ditch round of phone diplomacy.
(18) Administration of the hapten 2,4,6-trinitrobenzenesulfonic acid (5-30 mg) in 0.25 ml of 50% ethanol as the "barrier breaker" produced dose-dependent colonic ulceration and inflammation.
(19) There has to be a circuit breaker and I think it’s a further leap down in the Aussie dollar and to get that we’ll likely require more rate cuts.” Goldman Sachs and RBC Capital Markets also changed their forecasts following the soft GDP figures.
(20) Restraint trainers called themselves Mauler, Breaker and Crusher.
Hazard
Definition:
(n.) A game of chance played with dice.
(n.) The uncertain result of throwing a die; hence, a fortuitous event; chance; accident; casualty.
(n.) Risk; danger; peril; as, he encountered the enemy at the hazard of his reputation and life.
(n.) Holing a ball, whether the object ball (winning hazard) or the player's ball (losing hazard).
(n.) Anything that is hazarded or risked, as the stakes in gaming.
(n.) To expose to the operation of chance; to put in danger of loss or injury; to venture; to risk.
(n.) To venture to incur, or bring on.
(v. i.) To try the chance; to encounter risk or danger.
Example Sentences:
(1) The purpose of this paper is to discuss the potential for integrating surveillance techniques in reproductive epidemiology with geographic information system technology in order to identify populations at risk around hazardous waste sites.
(2) They more precisely delineate the hazard identification process and the factors important in supporting risk decisions for developmental toxicants than does any other document.
(3) These findings suggest that aerosolization of ATP into the cystic fibrosis-affected bronchial tree might be hazardous in terms of enhancement of parenchymal damage, which would result from neutrophil elastase release, and in terms of impaired respiratory lung function.
(4) Therefore, a mortality analysis of overall survival time alone may conceal important differences between the forces of mortality (hazard functions) associated with distinct states of active disease, for example pre-remission state and first relapse.
(5) If there was to be guerrilla warfare, I wanted to be able to stand and fight with my people and to share the hazards of war with them.
(6) The time to recovery of full consciousness, time to parasite clearance, and mortality were examined with Cox proportional-hazards regression analysis.
(7) Classification into hazard categories depends on the overall strength of evidence that an agent may cause mutations in humans.
(8) Results in this preliminary study demonstrate the need to evaluate the hazard of microbial aerosols generated by sewage treatment plants similar to the one studied.
(9) As for workers potentially exposed to selected chemical hazards, the first survey provides no consistent evidence that such workers were more likely to receive exposure-specific tests than other workers.
(10) Ecological risk assessments are used by the US Environmental Protection Agency (US EPA) and other governmental agencies to assist in determining the probability and magnitude of deleterious effects of hazardous chemicals on plants and animals.
(11) Gibbs was sent off in the first half at Stamford Bridge for handball, despite replays clearly showing it was his team-mate Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain who illegally deflected an Eden Hazard shot.
(12) The purification and concentration of these viruses in their monomeric forms is hazardous when conventional "tube" rotors are used since they invariably result in dissociation and aggregation of the virus particles.
(13) The authors consider that this device increases safety during this potentially hazardous procedure by eliminating the flammable polyvinyl chloride endotracheal tube and cottonoid packings most frequently used during this procedure.
(14) The identifiable causes of child drowning are absence of a safety barrier or fence around the water hazard, non-supervision of a child, a parental "vulnerable period", an inadequate safety barrier, and tempting objects in or on the water.
(15) However, occupational hazards, toxic and iatrogenic drug-induced aetiologies should not be overlooked.
(16) Persons responsible for animals may be unaware of the potential hazard or lack good judgment in the use of these chemicals.
(17) This has been infrequently reported to occur during general anesthesia and to cause respiratory embarrassment, representing a significant hazard.
(18) Unvaccinated children had a mortality hazard ratio of 3.0 compared with vaccinated children (P = .002), indicating a protective efficacy against death of 66% (CI 32%-83%) of measles vaccination.
(19) Gallium arsenide has proved to be an ideal substrate material for some uses but is associated with unique health hazards.
(20) Recognition, evaluation and control of hazards were carried out in a typical case where chromium was the major pollutant.