(n.) An awl; a bodkin; also, a wooden rod or pin, sharpened at each end, used by thatchers.
(n.) A tool of steel, generally tapering, and of a polygonal form, with from four to eight cutting edges, for smoothing or enlarging holes in metal; sometimes made smooth or without edges, as for burnishing pivot holes in watches; a reamer. The broach for gun barrels is commonly square and without taper.
(n.) A straight tool with file teeth, made of steel, to be pressed through irregular holes in metal that cannot be dressed by revolving tools; a drift.
(n.) A broad chisel for stonecutting.
(n.) A spire rising from a tower.
(n.) A clasp for fastening a garment. See Brooch.
(n.) A spitlike start, on the head of a young stag.
(n.) The stick from which candle wicks are suspended for dipping.
(n.) The pin in a lock which enters the barrel of the key.
(n.) To spit; to pierce as with a spit.
(n.) To tap; to pierce, as a cask, in order to draw the liquor. Hence: To let out; to shed, as blood.
(n.) To open for the first time, as stores.
(n.) To make public; to utter; to publish first; to put forth; to introduce as a topic of conversation.
(n.) To cause to begin or break out.
(n.) To shape roughly, as a block of stone, by chiseling with a coarse tool.
(n.) To enlarge or dress (a hole), by using a broach.
Example Sentences:
(1) Patients often fear that resuming sex will be dangerous to their perceived fragile health status, while nursing staff can be reluctant to broach a subject which may cause embarrassment to both parties.
(2) Though it has a relatively small readership, with around 104,000 print and digital subscribers by the end of 2014, it retained an outsize influence for its coverage of the mainland and willingness to broach controversial topics such as the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests in Beijing.
(3) He was also given a book on humour and religion – perhaps as a way to broach the topic lightly.
(4) The state of neuroscientific ideas and methodical possibilities on the theme is not only broached but also discussed in connection with the treatment (in the sense of an optimal coordination between brain and environment).
(5) Auerbach has disappeared before I can broach the subject, but Carney is equable.
(6) Gondry unearths long-buried resentments that he maintains could never even have been broached without the camera running.
(7) This paper focuses on a neglected aspect of combined therapy: broaching and exploring this question with one's individual patient.
(8) The independent inquiry into child sexual abuse in Rotherham, which involved the abuse of predominantly white girls by predominantly Pakistani men, even suggested that the unforgivable failure of the Labour council to take action was associated with a reluctance to broach ethnically sensitive issues.
(9) In a tweet this spring, Rodman asked Kim to "do him a solid" by releasing Bae and last week he told the Huffington Post that he would broach the issue during his trip.
(10) Bone fragments left in the interosseous space and bone screws that broached the opposite part of the cortex were common findings.
(11) A TRIAD OF FACTORS CAN FAVORABLY INFLUENCE THE MAINTENANCE OF SEXUAL POTENCY AFTER RADICAL PROSTATECTOMY: the surgical avoidance of cavernous neurovascular bundles, the preoperative interest of the surgeon in broaching the subject with the patient and the continued encouragement given the patient by his attending physician as to probable preservation of sexual competency following the surgical procedure.
(12) Nevertheless, the simultaneous involvement of those tissues by ethanol has not been broached in medical literature.
(13) In documentation of that fact, we have presented the case of a 50-year-old man who swallowed an endodontic broach during endodontic treatment; the instrument passed through the gastrointestinal tract without difficulty.
(14) Tooth movement was quantified from enlarged cephalograms by measuring the position of a reproducible landmark on the molar cleat with respect to either zygomatic amalgam implants or a barbed broach placed submucosally on the palate.
(15) The US secretary of state, John Kerry , broached this issue again with Sergei Lavrov, the Russian foreign minister, at the weekend.
(16) Newman had been accused of war crimes after broaching the subject of the Korean war with his guide.
(17) "She would never accept outside help if I tried to initiate it and I could never really broach the subject with her."
(18) A barbed broach covered by cotton fibers is used as a matrix to carry blue inlay wax into the canal prepared for a post.
(19) Is it nearer the truth to state that Cameron and Osborne only broached the subject of tax avoidance after being put under pressure to do so after excellent work by investigative journalists and Margaret Hodge’s public accounts committee?
(20) Its site probably determines whether a resulting meningocele widens the intradiploic space or broaches the cranial floor.
Discussion
Definition:
(n.) The act or process of discussing by breaking up, or dispersing, as a tumor, or the like.
(n.) The act of discussing or exchanging reasons; examination by argument; debate; disputation; agitation.
Example Sentences:
(1) The role of the family practitioner in antenatal care is discussed.
(2) This paper discusses the typical echocardiographic patterns of a variety of important conditions concerning the mitral valve, the left ventricle, the interatrial and interventricular septum as well as the influence of respiration on the performance of echocardiograms.
(3) The possibility that the ventral nerve photoreceptor cells serve a neurosecretory function in the adult Limulus is discussed.
(4) The testing of other models and their failure to describe the kinetic observations are discussed.
(5) The use of organophosphorus preparations in the treatment of ectoparasites and endoparasites of pigs is discussed.
(6) Single-case experimental designs are presented and discussed from several points of view: Historical antecedents, assessment of the dependent variable, internal and external validity and pre-experimental vs experimental single-case designs.
(7) The clinical and radiologic characteristics of this unusual tumor are discussed.
(8) Further development of drug formulary concept was discussed, primarily for the drugs paid by the Health Insurance, as well as the unsatisfactory ADR reporting in Yugoslavia.
(9) By drawing from the pathophysiology, this article discusses a multidimensional approach to the treatment of these difficult patients.
(10) These results are discussed in relation to the possible existence of enzyme-bound intermediates of nitrogen fixation.
(11) After a discussion of the therapeutic relationship, several coping strategies which have been used successfully by many women are described and therapeutic applications are offered.
(12) A possible role for mitochondria in myocardial adenosine production is discussed.
(13) The significance of the differences in these two patterns of actin is discussed in terms of differences in the accommodative ability and static lens shape in these two animals.
(14) The effects of glucagon-induced insulin secretion upon this lipid regulation are discussed that may resolve conflicting reports in the literature are resolved.
(15) Training in social skills specific to fostering intimacy is suggested as a therapeutic step, and modifications to the social support measure for future use discussed.
(16) The role of magnetic resonance imaging is also discussed, as is the pathophysiology, management, and prognosis in the elderly patient.
(17) In these liposomes, the amounts and molecular states of SL-MDP were determined from ESR spectra and are discussed in connection with its immunopotentiating property.
(18) 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.
(19) Therapeutic possibilities for hepatogenous anaemia of complex genesis are discussed.
(20) In addition to the phase diagrams reported here for these two binary mixtures, a brief theoretical discussion is given of other possible phase diagrams that may be appropriate to other lipid mixtures with particular consideration given to the problem of crystalline phases of different structures and the possible occurrence of second-order phase transitions in these mixtures.