(n.) A variety of dog, of remarkable ferocity, courage, and tenacity of grip; -- so named, probably, from being formerly employed in baiting bulls.
(n.) A refractory material used as a furnace lining, obtained by calcining the cinder or slag from the puddling furnace of a rolling mill.
(a.) Characteristic of, or like, a bulldog; stubborn; as, bulldog courage; bulldog tenacity.
Example Sentences:
(1) The MP for Romford urged Cameron to show "bulldog spirit" at the talks.
(2) In each case a small bulldog clamp was applied to the renal artery for less than 30 minutes.
(3) He is the Princess Di of the political world …" Or of Margaret Thatcher 's trusty bulldog Bernard Ingham: "Brick-red of face, beetling of brow, seemingly built to withstand hurricanes, Sir Bernard resembled a half-timbered bomb shelter."
(4) The chief justice is pursuing him with bulldog determination and the letter of the law is on his side.
(5) The former MEP called for the British "bulldog confidence" to come to the fore to push for the completion of the single market.
(6) Duplication of a kidney and ureter in an 18-month-old male English Bulldog was demonstrated radiographically and was confirmed surgically.
(7) Unilateral ataxia of the head and trunk and right-sided paralysis of the trigeminal, facial, and hypoglossal nerves were the major neurologic dysfunctions in a nine-year-old male French bulldog.
(8) They rallied to make the top eight and were outstanding last week to beat the Western Bulldogs in their elimination final.
(9) Rosie Redknapp chose to give his his Monaco bank account the password Rosie47 after his beloved pet bulldog.
(10) The Conservative mayor of London, Boris Johnson , said the coalition looked like "a kind of cross between a bulldog and a chihuahua".
(11) Redknapp told the court that when asked to chose a password for the account, he had opted for Rosie47, in honour of his pet bulldog and the year of his birth.
(12) You battered the Canterbury Bulldogs to win the World Club Challenge in February - was that the highlight of your career so far?
(13) We go out on the field together and it’s 26 blokes knocking seven shades out of each other.” The 27-year-old captained his Batley Bulldogs side against their local rivals, the Dewsbury Rams, on Sunday.
(14) Spina bifida was diagnosed in four English Bulldogs and one Collie dog.
(15) Dogs of the Poodle, Pug, German Shepherd Dog, Cocker Spaniel, Bulldog, Schnauzer, Doberman Pinscher breeds, of mixed breeding, and of terrier breeds other than the 2 aforementioned were not found to have a higher prevalence, when compared with the general hospital population.
(16) In order to test whether the use of vascular rings to assess residual vascular function may be a better method, rabbit thoracic aortas were occluded by five types of clamps: a Fogarty softjaw bulldog, a Fogarty Hydragrip, a 6-inch Satinsky clamp, an Edslab bulldog, and a silicone vessel band.
(17) It is a model of temporary intestinal ischemia and consists of occluding both superior mesenteric vessels with a bulldog clamp for varying periods of time.
(18) Even by the seldom conventional standards of the professional football world, the saga of bonuses, offshore bank accounts and a beloved bulldog that has unfolded in the sober confines of Southwark crown court over the last three weeks has been a remarkable one.
(19) Single right coronary artery (CA) associated with pulmonic stenosis was found in 3 English Bulldogs and a Boxer, suggesting a genetic predisposition for the associated anomalies.
(20) Did I skulk in dodgy pubs with bull-necked men with shaved heads and bulldogs?
Undershot
Definition:
(a.) Having the lower incisor teeth projecting beyond the upper ones, as in the bulldog.
(a.) Moved by water passing beneath; -- said of a water wheel, and opposed to overshot; as, an undershot wheel.
Example Sentences:
(1) Profits undershot analysts' forecasts as weak refining profit margins, higher production costs and output stoppages in Nigeria weighed on its performance.
(2) Relative errors were comparatively larger for very short and very long times-to-collision throughout, where events of the first kind were overshot, the latter ones undershot.
(3) Subjects undershot or overshot the target when opposing or assisting loads were presented, respectively.
(4) Illustration: CBI The CBI’s monthly figures undershot expectations in financial markets.
(5) Silver's model slightly undershot it by having Obama take the election by about 3pt .
(6) This definition is contrasted with situations in which the new viability optimum is undershot.
(7) Serum LDH activity declined to control within 8 hr, while serum CPK undershot controls at 8 hr and returned to the control value by 24 hr.
(8) If an anticipatory saccade was made after reaction times below 75 ms, it frequently undershot the target by more than 20% and was followed by a corrective saccade.
(9) Britain's growth performance has consistently undershot both government and IMF forecasts.
(10) When cells were subjected to hypoosmotic shock they occasionally undershot the new projected density, but the undershoot was not as dramatic as the overshoot seen with hyperosmotic shocks.
(11) The penetrance of the gene could possibly be masked in populations in which undershot jaw occurs.
(12) But it undershot economists' forecasts for 52.6 and was the weakest for four months.
(13) He deliberately allowed the forecast deficit to rise as growth undershot in the early years of the parliament,” said Paul Johnson, the IFS’s director.
(14) On this view, the tree would be so thoroughly hollowed-out that it may no longer be able to support itself.” Artificial intelligence: ‘Homo sapiens will be split into a handful of gods and the rest of us’ Read more Haldane said the increasing automation of the workplace might already be helping to depress wage growth, explaining why inflation has consistently undershot the government’s 2% target.
(15) Even after completion of a corrective saccade following the primary saccade, subjects systematically undershot target direction and overshot target depth, suggesting that visual feedback normally plays an important role in the fine guidance of gaze after the completion of a primary saccade.
(16) "The fourth-quarter GDP figures may have undershot predictions.
(17) The public finances undershot economists’ forecasts in January, but mainly because of a change in a way the Office for National Statistics (ONS) accounts for tax revenues.
(18) Again, that undershot forecasts, which had been for modest growth of 0.2% on the month.
(19) Even stripping out more volatile prices, such as fuel and food, the so-called core measure of inflation undershot expectations in September.
(20) It was above the 50-mark that separates growth from contraction but undershot forecasts of a 52.7 reading in a Reuters poll of economists.