(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more conical that the trumpet, sometimes keyed; formerly much used in military bands, very rarely in the orchestra; now superseded by the cornet; -- called also the Kent bugle.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.
Fugle
Definition:
(v. i.) To maneuver; to move hither and thither.
Example Sentences:
(1) Thirty hemiplegic subjects were tested with the MAS and the Fugl-Meyer Assessment (FMA), a reliable and validated test of motor function in stroke patients.
(2) A similar correlation between the objective measures and the Fugl-Meyer motor assessment scale was performed.
(3) For patients with cerebrovascular disease a chart for motor capacity assessment modified after that of Fugl-Meyer et al.
(4) Motor function was measured with the Fugl-Meyer Assessment.
(5) Admission blood glucose concentration, demographic characteristics of patients, 24-hour urinary catecholamine, serum cortisol, and glycosylated hemoglobin levels; outcomes included mortality and functional outcome (Barthel index and Fugl-Meyer score) at 5, 30, 90, and 180 days after stroke.
(6) Fifteen male hemiplegic subjects were tested using the Fugl-Meyer Assessment and Barthel Index to evaluate their level of function.
(7) Subject motor function was also quantified using the Fugl-Meyer motor assessment scale.
(8) At baseline the initial Fugl-Meyer motor scores accounted for only half the variance in 6-month motor function (r2 = 0.53, p less than 0.001).
(9) Significant relationships were found among functional assessments, objective measures of walking, postural stability and between sections of the Fugl-Meyer Assessment.
(10) Physical and functional impairments were measured using a modified form of the Fugl-Meyer test and the Barthel Index, respectively.
(11) The testing battery consisted of a Bobath evaluation, the Brunnstrom scale, the Fugl-Meyer test, the Upper Extremity Functional Test (UEFT) and the Present Pain Intensity (PPI) of the McGill pain questionnaire.
(12) A chart for assessing motor capacity after acute stroke modified after Fugl-Meyer et al.
(13) Standing balance and dynamic weight shifting were evaluated in 10 subjects with hemiplegia using a sensory organization balance test (SOT) and the Fugl-Meyer sensorimotor assessment (FMSA).
(14) Before treatment, upon completion of treatment, and three and nine months after treatment, subjects were evaluated by the Fugl-Meyer (FM) poststroke motor recovery test and by grip strength.
(15) The extent of the disturbance in the spatial patterns of EMG activity was closely correlated with the clinical severity of the spastic-paretic disability, which was quantified using a functional scale patterned after that described by Fugl Meyer et al.
(16) Data from a clinical trial of 167 stroke patients assessed shortly after admission to the hospital and 5 weeks later provided information on clinical, motor, and functional outcomes measured using a neurologic status scale, a stroke severity scale, the Fugl-Meyer Scale, the Barthel Index, and the activities of daily living and cognition subscales of the Level of Rehabilitation Scale.
(17) A new chart for motor capacity assessment, which includes both the paretic and the non-paretic side, modified after that of Fugl-Meyer et al, was tested for its reliability and validity.
(18) Overall, no evidence was found of a significant univariate association between admission blood glucose level and survival (relative risk, 1.02; 95% Cl, 0.94 to 1.09) or functional outcome (univariate regression coefficient for adjusted Fugl-Meyer score at day 30, - 0.36; Cl, - 1.08 to 0.27).
(19) We conclude that (1) both the ramp and hold threshold measurements and pendulum test offer acceptable objective measures of spastic hypertonia since they correlate closely with clinical perception, (2) the Fugl-Meyer motor assessment scale also correlates closely with the severity of spastic tone, and (3) objective measures of spastic hypertonia are often surprisingly reproducible when repeatedly applied to a selected group of chronic hemiplegic patients with long-standing spasticity.
(20) We conducted a double-blind pilot study of 8 patients with established cerebral infarction to evaluate the effect of a single dose of amphetamine on recovery of motor function using the Fugl-Meyer scale.