(n.) A copper instrument of the horn quality of tone, shorter and more conical that the trumpet, sometimes keyed; formerly much used in military bands, very rarely in the orchestra; now superseded by the cornet; -- called also the Kent bugle.
(n.) An elongated glass bead, of various colors, though commonly black.
(a.) Jet black.
(n.) A plant of the genus Ajuga of the Mint family, a native of the Old World.
Example Sentences:
(1) Every morning, we were were woken by a bugle and hurriedly changed into our gym attire for the exercise session '.
(2) He took his cameras to a school run by Save the Children in Kenya, for homeless boys from Nairobi, for instance, that was set up along the lines of a British public school; the children are shown blowing bugles, marching, reading books including The Inimitable Jeeves and Tom Brown's Schooldays.
(3) Lateral thinking was needed to decipher old signs: Adam and Eve meant a fruiterer; a bugle’s horn, a post office; a unicorn, an apothecary’s; a spotted cat, a perfumer’s (since civet, a fashionable musky perfume, was scraped from the anal glands of African civet cats).
(4) Complaints to Ryanair were down 40% to 80,000 letters a year, O’Leary said, adding that many of those were about the landing bugle, played to herald an on-time arrival, the theme tune of which was recently modified to “some Spanish dribble”.
(5) The supporters' band emerged from the terraces at Hillsborough, Sheffield Wednesday's ground, when – following Hemmingham's decision to smuggle a bugle into the ground in 1993, which met with a favourable response – then manager Trevor Francis asked him to form a club band.
(6) In the mating season, mid-September to mid-October, the sound of bull elk bugling fills the air.
(7) Three hundred and ninety-nine infantry, little toy men, ran about when the bugle sounded, and formed up in stiff lines below the black building till there was no more bugling: then they scattered, and after a few minutes the smoke of cooking fires went up.
(8) They created an underground satirical newspaper, the Bletchley Bugle, with headlines such as "Nasa photo of Earth’s most inhospitable place is Bletchley Park Management Offices" and "Park to replace staff with docile clones".
(9) A full-length black gown with long sleeves and a bugle-beaded shoulder detail was surely a sartorial shout out to Jolie come Oscar night.
(10) Suddenly there was a roar that became a bugle call for the charge.
(11) "Win, lose or draw, Italy will still need a result against Uruguay to advance," bugles Mark Weiner.
(12) "If I were supreme leader, I'd simply keep those awkward foreigner teams out of my World Championships," bugles Justin Kavanagh.
(13) A bugle call is the signal for a Korean marching band to strike up, trumpeting the arrival of the country’s futuristic white space-blob, just as an Argentinian drumming troop thunders into action next door.
(14) The English have no need to beat the drum or blow the bugle.
(15) Entrapped between the bubbles is a horn- or bugle-shaped fluid collection that we theorize emits a continuous sound wave back to the transducer when struck by an ultrasound pulse.
(16) Many of the C-17 cargo planes were towed into position because they can no longer fly, fuelling accusations that the ceremonies, which include bugles and bagpipes, were misleading theatre.
(17) The Bugle is available for free at soundcloud.com and iTunes .
(18) In the stones, and statues, and archives, and exhibitions, and, on Remembrance Day, in the notes of bugles calling from sad shires.
(19) Moving to New York forced him to cancel an Edinburgh run with another good friend, the comedian Andy Zaltzman , but the two now co-present a weekly podcast, The Bugle , which they record down the line, Oliver in New York and Zaltzman in Britain.
Bulge
Definition:
(n.) The bilge or protuberant part of a cask.
(n.) A swelling, protuberant part; a bending outward, esp. when caused by pressure; as, a bulge in a wall.
(n.) The bilge of a vessel. See Bilge, 2.
(v. i.) To swell or jut out; to bend outward, as a wall when it yields to pressure; to be protuberant; as, the wall bulges.
(v. i.) To bilge, as a ship; to founder.
Example Sentences:
(1) Where the PGCs bulge out into the coelomic cavity, they stretch the somatic cell covering to a thin, cytoplasmic layer.
(2) On admission she was found to be a well-nourished infant with a head circumference of 56 cm, bulging anterior fontanelle and mental retardation.
(3) An unusual appearance of echoes behind the aorta bulging into the left atrium in diastole on both the M-mode and cross-sectional echo suggested this diagnosis prior to cardiac catheterization.
(4) These indicators included temperature elevation, inability to be consoled, level of alertness, nuchal rigidity, bulging fontanel, decreased appetite, rash, referral, and febrile seizures.
(5) Bulge formation, due to the presumed action of an autolysin(s), may be an initial step in the septation sequence when the mucopeptide is modified to allow construction of the septum.
(6) Regional myocardial wall function was improved in the central and peripheral ischemic region as demonstrated by a significantly reduced systolic bulging.
(7) Some birds were subjected to unilateral eyelid-suture, a protocol which usually induces axial lengthening and corneal bulging.
(8) I look out at this brilliant audience here today, bulging with ideas, and I ask you possibly to solve it.
(9) The chief characteristics of stage 18 (approximately 44 postovulatory days) are rapidly growing basal nuclei; appearance of the extraventricular bulge of the cerebellum (flocculus), of the superior cerebellar peduncle, and of follicles in the epiphysis cerebri; and the presence of vomeronasal organ and ganglion, of the bucconasal membrane, and of isolated semicircular ducts.
(10) In 10 dogs with acute posterior wall ischemia the B-C excursion (aneurysmal bulging) increased (P less than 0.01), but the mean systolic posterior wall velocity and posterior wall excursion decreased (P less than 0.01).
(11) If there is no evidence of a canine bulge, and the tooth appears to be tipped medially in the frontal radiograph, with the crown medial to the lateral border of the nasal cavity, a future impaction of the maxillary canine is a significant possibility.
(12) In a 50-year-old patient with complex ventricular arrhythmia (monotopic ventricular extrasystoles in bigeminy and triplet form), coronary angiography with ventriculography revealed an aneurysm of about 2-3 cm diameter that bulged visibly into the right ventricle during the systole.
(13) Fabregas hammers it down the middle, the ball sailing slightly to the left before bulging the net.
(14) Intravenous ISO injection now induced regional dysfunction in the LCX-dependent segment with the occurrence of systolic bulging.
(15) The results indicate that tat interacts with both the bulge and loop regions of TAR.
(16) A 51-year-old female patient, admitted with a chief complaint of dizziness, had bulging of the occipital area, which had started insidiously.
(17) The original "root area" widens with the broadening of the back and can still be demonstrated as an homogeneous "root area" of the "intestinal bulge", after the typical adult situs has developed.
(18) Five of the hairpins have single-base bulges at different positions.
(19) They topped a list of eight "triggers" that could rupture aneurysms – bulges in the walls of blood vessels – in the brain.
(20) Removal of d-alanine from a growing population of cells resulted in cell bulging 25% of the cell length from one cell pole, followed by cell lysis.