(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.
Hole
Definition:
(a.) Whole.
(n.) A hollow place or cavity; an excavation; a pit; an opening in or through a solid body, a fabric, etc.; a perforation; a rent; a fissure.
(n.) An excavation in the ground, made by an animal to live in, or a natural cavity inhabited by an animal; hence, a low, narrow, or dark lodging or place; a mean habitation.
(n.) To cut, dig, or bore a hole or holes in; as, to hole a post for the insertion of rails or bars.
(n.) To drive into a hole, as an animal, or a billiard ball.
(v. i.) To go or get into a hole.
Example Sentences:
(1) But the wounding charge in 2010 has become Brown's creation of a structural hole in the budget, more serious than the cyclical hit which the recession made in tax receipts, at least 4% of GDP.
(2) Undaunted by the sickening swell of the ocean and wrapped up against the chilly wind, Straneo, of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, one of the world's leading oceanographic research centres, continues to take measurements from the waters as the long Arctic dusk falls.
(3) The speed of visiting holes and the development of a preferred pattern of hole-visits did not influence spatial discrimination performance.
(4) Macular holes, formerly believed to be rare in these injuries, were found in two of the five patients.
(5) Jane's life clearly still has a massive Spike-shaped hole in it.
(6) It would cost their own businesses hundreds of millions of pounds in transaction costs, it would blow a massive hole in their balance of payments, it would leave them having to pick up the entirety of UK debt.
(7) Bar manager Joe Mattheisen, 66, who has worked at the hole-in-the-wall bar since 1997, said the bar has attracted younger, straighter crowds in recent years.
(8) Guzmán was sent to Altiplano high-security prison, 56 miles outside Mexico City, but in July 2015, he absconded again, squeezing through a hole in his shower floor then fleeing on a modified motorbike through a mile-long tunnel fitted with lights and a ventilation system.
(9) If the attacker's plan was to make important ideas disappear down the memory hole, it looks as if it has backfired spectacularly.
(10) In contrast, eyes with macular holes had a greater reduction in the steady-state VEP amplitude than eyes with optic neuritis.
(11) An 8-French right Judkins guiding catheter with a single side hole (USCI), a 3.0 mm balloon dilatation catheter (ACS), and a 0.018 high torque floppy guide wire (ACS) were used.
(12) Four hours p.i., a clustering of the p60 antigen and, 12 h p.i., a formation of finger-like holes, penetrating the nucleus, occurred.
(13) Campbell, Ann E. (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, Mass.
(14) We don't whip homeless vagrants out of town any more, or burn big holes in their ears, as in the brutish 16th century.
(15) The chancellor deliberately made cautious assumptions for the deficit in the budget, but the 5.6% contraction in the economy has blown an even bigger hole in the public finances than feared in April.
(16) He avoided everyone he didn't want to see when he was in Hong Kong, the first place he escaped to, and for several weeks he remained beyond the reach of the world's media, and doubtless a small army of spies, while holed up in a hotel room in the transit area of Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport.
(17) There were no thromboses among infants with long end-hole catheters while infants with short end-hole catheters had thrombosis in 26%, long side-hole catheters in 33% and short side-hole catheters in 64%.
(18) The animal model was induced by left frontal burr hole opening and inoculation of a small piece of G-XII glioma tissue to 6- to 8-week-old rats.
(19) In February last year the BBC was forced to apologise to the Mexican ambassador after a joke made by the three presenters that the nation's cars were like the people "lazy, feckless, flatulent, overweight, leaning against a fence asleep looking at a cactus with a blanket with a hole in the middle on as a coat".
(20) Thus, VP2 and VP5 together form a continuous layer around the inner shell except for holes on the 5-fold axis.