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Broomstick


Definition:

  • (n.) A stick used as a handle of a broom.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) All had been treated by an extremely rigorous conservative regime in which the patients were kept in hospital for an average period of twenty-six months, during which time they were confined to bed with the legs in wide abduction, first in traction and later in "broomstick" plasters to ensure "containment" of the femoral head.
  • (2) People might not be facing an incident, but they can still have an acoustic experience of it.” Deprived of their visual sense for months and years on end, the Saydnaya detainees developed an acute aural sensitivity, able to identify the different sounds of belts, electrical cables or broomsticks on flesh, and the difference between bodies being punched, kicked or beaten against the wall.
  • (3) LoveFilm subscribers will be able to watch more than 50 Disney titles, including Dead Poets Society and Bedknobs and Broomsticks, as part of the deal.
  • (4) But riding high above them all, although no longer on a broomstick, is that accomplished paragon of virtue Emma Watson, the 24-year-old English actress still known to millions of fans of the Harry Potter films as Hermione Granger and the winner this spring of the “Most Flawless Woman of the Decade” accolade from the internet news service Buzzfeed.
  • (5) The splinters were identified as the same type of wood as the broomstick.
  • (6) Hogwarts Castle will sit at the apex of each attraction, and visitors can also dine at the Three Broomsticks pub, pick up a wand at Ollivander's store or snack on sweets from Hogsmead's famous Honeyduke's sweet shop.
  • (7) Two years ago, the city paid $8.75m in damages to a Haitian immigrant, Abner Louima, who was beaten and sodomised with a broken broomstick at a Brooklyn police station after being mistaken for a man who threw a punch at a police officer.
  • (8) While a full accounting of what the photos show remains elusive, the ACLU believes that among the still-suppressed photos are imagery of a female soldier sexually abusing a detainee with a broomstick; an Iraqi civilian farmer executed by US troops while his hands were tied behind his back; and autopsy photos of an Afghan detainee known as Dilawar, whose death was the subject of Alex Gibney’s acclaimed 2007 documentary Taxi to the Dark Side.
  • (9) Anyone who's ever done a ropey Yoda voice, or gone to a fancy dress party in a brown dressing gown, or filmed themselves swinging a broomstick around with dangerous abandon; all they've ever wanted was to be in a Star Wars film.
  • (10) Two hundred ninety-six cases of Perthes' disease with 334 affected hips (38 children had bilateral involvement) were treated by the principle of containment in a "broomstick cast" in abduction and internal rotation, preserved motion in the hip, and continuous traction.
  • (11) Then, in the bathroom of a precinct house, with his hands cuffed behind his back and his pants down, he was sodomized by a cop with a broken broomstick.
  • (12) Rooftop pixos require guts and the right equipment – black ink and a paint roller attached to a broomstick – but sometimes that’s not enough, and to extend their reach, pixadores have to dangle their bodies over the roof ledge.
  • (13) From now until the end of October, Alnwick is hosting regular Battleaxe to Broomstick Tours in which kids learn from costumed guides about the estate's film career and learn about the similarities between the castle's very own knight Harry Hotspur and JK Rowling's boy wizard.
  • (14) Musk has described the feat as “like trying to balance a rubber broomstick on your hand in the middle of a wind storm”.
  • (15) Landing the craft on the barge was akin to “trying to balance a rubber broomstick on your hand in the middle of a wind storm,” said a statement on the company’s website before the mission .
  • (16) The company has compared landing the rocket, roughly the height of a 14-storey building, to “trying to balance a rubber broomstick on your hand in the middle of a wind storm”.
  • (17) Not only has she had to field 1,000 chat-up lines involving magic and broomsticks, she complains, but she has had to shield her partners from her fame.
  • (18) A broken wooden broomstick was used in the attack to impale the victim through the rectum.
  • (19) Slings and springs, broomstick casts, soft tissue releases, and day or night bracing all have a place in obtaining and retaining a good range of abduction.
  • (20) In the company’s words , stabilizing the rocket for re-entry and an upright landing will be “like trying to balance a rubber broomstick on your hand in the middle of a wind storm”.

Computer


Definition:

  • (n.) One who computes.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) We attribute this in part to early diagnosis by computed tomography (CT), but a contributory factor may be earlier referrals from country centres to a paediatric trauma centre and rapid transfer, by air or road, by medical retrieval teams.
  • (2) Since MIRD Committee has not published "S" values for Tl-200 and Tl-202, these have been calculated by a computer code and are reported.
  • (3) Theoretical computations are performed of the intercalative binding of the neocarzinostatin chromophore (NCS) with the double-stranded oligonucleotides d(CGCG)2, d(GCGC)2, d(TATA)2 and d(ATAT)2.
  • (4) This computer is connected to a fileserver via a local area network and is used exclusively for data acquisition.
  • (5) Twenty patients with non-small cell bronchogenic carcinoma were prospectively studied for intrathoracic lymphadenopathy using computed tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI).
  • (6) Serially sectioned rabbit foliate taste buds were examined with high voltage electron microscopy (HVEM) and computer-assisted, three-dimensional reconstruction.
  • (7) Core biopsy with computed tomography (CT) or ultrasound (US) guidance may be such an alternative, particularly when a spring-loaded firing device is used.
  • (8) By means of computed tomography (CT) values related to bone density and mass were assessed in the femoral head, neck, trochanter, shaft, and condyles.
  • (9) We present a mathematical model that is suitable to reconcile this apparent contradiction in the interpretation of the epidemiological data: the observed parallel time series for the spread of AIDS in groups with different risk of infection can be realized by computer simulation, if one assumes that the outbreak of full-blown AIDS only occurs if HIV and a certain infectious coagent (cofactor) CO are present.
  • (10) Excellent correlations were observed between computer and manual methods for both systems.
  • (11) The programs are written in Fortran and are implemented on a Rank Xerox Sigma 6 computer.
  • (12) Blood gas variables produced from a computed in vivo oxygen dissociation curve, PaeO2, P95 and C(a-x)O2, were introduced in the University Hospital of Wales in 1986.
  • (13) Angus (A), Charolais (C), Hereford (H), Limousin (L), and Simmental (S) breeds were included in deterministic computer models simulating integrated cow-calf-feedlot production systems.
  • (14) The method is implemented with a digital non-causal (zero-phase shift) filter, based on the convolution with a finite impulse response, to make the computation time compatible with the use of low-cost microcomputers.
  • (15) Odds ratios were computed by multiple logistic regression analysis and revealed no additional relationships; however, there were suggested dose-response gradients for height, weight at age 20, and body surface area in the Japanese women and for breast size in the Caucasian women.
  • (16) DATA Modern football data analysis has its origins in a video-based system that used computer vision algorithms to automatically track players.
  • (17) The computer tomographic appearances of lesions of parenchymatous organs following blunt abdominal trauma are described in 13 patients (five liver, four renal, two splenic and two pancreatic injuries).
  • (18) 3 patients had complete disappearance of the symptoms but did not have a computed tomography scanning control, 3 patients had clinical and CT recovery.
  • (19) Second, is it possible - by combining the two technologies of endoscopy and computers - to provide an individual patient with a short-term prognostic prediction sufficiently accurate to affect patient management.
  • (20) Computed tomography does not allow differentiation between these lesions and surrounding normal tissues.

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