(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more conical that the trumpet, sometimes keyed; formerly much used in military bands, very rarely in the orchestra; now superseded by the cornet; -- called also the Kent bugle.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.
Valve
Definition:
(n.) A door; especially, one of a pair of folding doors, or one of the leaves of such a door.
(n.) A lid, plug, or cover, applied to an aperture so that by its movement, as by swinging, lifting and falling, sliding, turning, or the like, it will open or close the aperture to permit or prevent passage, as of a fluid.
(n.) One or more membranous partitions, flaps, or folds, which permit the passage of the contents of a vessel or cavity in one direction, but stop or retard the flow in the opposite direction; as, the ileocolic, mitral, and semilunar valves.
(n.) One of the pieces into which a capsule naturally separates when it bursts.
(n.) One of the two similar portions of the shell of a diatom.
(n.) A small portion of certain anthers, which opens like a trapdoor to allow the pollen to escape, as in the barberry.
(n.) One of the pieces or divisions of bivalve or multivalve shells.
Example Sentences:
(1) 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.
(2) External phonocardiography performed at the time of cardiac catheterization revealed that this loud midsystolic click disappeared whenever a catheter was positioned across the mitral valve.
(3) All patients with localized subaortic hypertrophy had left ventricular hypertrophy (left ventricular mass or posterior wall thickness greater than 2 SD from normal) with a normal size cavity due to aortic valve disease (2 patients were also hypertensive).
(4) Valve-related complications were noted in four patients.
(5) Digestion is initiated in the gastric region by secretion of acid and pepsin; however, diversity of digestive enzymes is highest in the post-gastric alimentary canal with the greatest proteolytic activity in the spiral valve.
(6) The aortic area (Torlin) for diseased stenotic aortic valves was calculated in 10 patients using two different methods; data obtained in preoperative cardiac catheterization and by intraoperative flowmetric and aortic and left ventricular pressure-recording measurements, and their mutual correlation was tested.
(7) He underwent a mitral and aortic valve replacement, followed by a complicated postoperative course.
(8) In addition, spontaneous platelet aggregation is increased when vegetations are present on cardiac valves.
(9) This report represents the first comprehensive description of instantaneous and continous phasic blood velocity at the mitral valve during atrial arrhythmias in man.
(10) This study demonstrated that significant global and regional ventricular dysfunction develops immediately after removal of the papillary muscles, whereas myocardial contractility is preserved in patients undergoing mitral valve repair.
(11) The autopsy findings in 41 patients with University of Cape Town aortic valve prostheses were studied.
(12) This developed concept of "valve only" energy loss has the potential of standardising the findings of different research groups by removing the arbitrary selection of measurement points from reported results.
(13) The organisms were predominantly associated with host deposits of erythrocytes, phagocytes, platelets, and fibrinous-appearing material, which collectively appeared on the valve surface in response to trauma.
(14) Autopsy revealed a primary intimal sarcoma with osteogenic elements arising in the posterior leaflet of the pulmonary valve and obstructing the main pulmonary artery and its right branch.
(15) With a series of 117 aortic valve replacements, the authors have examined the results in relation to the method of protecting the myocardium while the aorta is clamped off.
(16) Left ventricular rupture is a serious complication of mitral valve replacement.
(17) Any type of valve element can serve as the expiratory valve.
(18) Echocardiographic findings included an abrupt midsystolic, posterior motion (greater than 3 mm beyond the CD line) in five patients, multiple sequence echoes in six, and posterior coaptation of the mitral valve near the left atrial wall in six.
(19) A block of tissue bounded by the ostium of the coronary sinus, the pars membranacea, the septal leaflet of the tricuspid valve and the atrial and ventricular septa is removed.
(20) A case of tricuspid valve endocarditis with spinal epidural abscess caused by Actinobacillus actinomycetemcomitans is reported in a 74-year-old male with an endocardial pacemaker.