(n.) A missile, usually of lead, and round or elongated in form, to be discharged from a rifle, musket, pistol, or other small firearm.
(n.) A cannon ball.
(n.) The fetlock of a horse.
Example Sentences:
(1) The severity of injury in a gunshot wound is dependent on many factors, including the type of firearm; the velocity, mass, and construction of the bullet; and the structural properties of the tissues that are wounded.
(2) Half the bullet got me and the other half went into a shop window across the road.
(3) It became fully operational in 1975, replacing its predecessor the rubber bullet.
(4) "Every bullet that killed those people was a bullet in the heart of all of us," she said.
(5) Sadly, the bullet will not only kill off Greece’s future in Europe.
(6) In the case presented, this aided investigators in determining how many bullets actually struck the victim.
(7) He joined the Coldstream Guards, while Debo and her mother went to Berne to collect Unity, who had put a bullet through her brain but survived, severely damaged; they coped with Unity's resultant moodiness and incontinence through the first year of war.
(8) When the Washington Post reports a boom in bullet-proof backpacks for children, it is not a good time to be a resident of a place colloquially known as The Arms.
(9) "Only one bullet that we're aware of hit, the second Australian returned fire and critically injured and possibly killed the Afghani," said Lieutenant General Rhys Jones, chief of the New Zealand Defence Force, who identified his injured soldier as an instructor from the officer academy.
(10) Fielding said: "He [Stewart] mentioned that on the day before the execution, when Allen was visited by his wife for the last time, they were separated by a piece of what was supposed to be bullet-proofed glass.
(11) He fired four bullets through a lavatory door, killing Steenkamp, who was in the cubicle inside the athlete's house in an upmarket housing complex in the capital Pretoria.
(12) Early bullet removal did not appear to be a significant factor in the prevention of infection.
(13) Another man who is not moving fast enough is shot with a rubber bullet.
(14) "There is no debate over the conclusion that Abir was injured by a rubber bullet shot by border guards, which in turn leads to the conclusion that the shooting of Abir occurred out of negligence, or in violation of the rules of engagement," said Judge Orit Efal-Gabai.
(15) The case of a patient with a hepatic vein bullet embolus complicating a left ventricular gunshot injury is described.
(16) He said the bullet passed through the right-hand upper part of his chest and exited through his shoulder.
(17) Since 2010, he has worked for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (Darpa), the wing of the US defense department devoted to funding and developing new technologies, from a self-steering bullet called Exacto to the packet-switching system, Arpanet, that became the internet.
(18) The location of the bullet and the type of pain that subsequently developed were not correlated with the initial decision to surgically remove the bullet.
(19) The rough spot where protesters say shots were fired from Rice recalled in a telephone interview that he “heard gunshots go off and felt a bullet whizz by my head,” prompting him to take cover from the direction of the shots by hiding behind a car, while facing the police line.
(20) The study showed surprising results: in the majority of cases, the helmet does not protect the wearer, but instead intensifies the damage caused by the bullet.
Cartridge
Definition:
(n.) A complete charge for a firearm, contained in, or held together by, a case, capsule, or shell of metal, pasteboard, or other material.
Example Sentences:
(1) We have compared two new methods (a solvent extraction technique and a method involving a disposable, pre-packed reverse phase chromatography cartridge) with the standard method for determining the radiochemical purity of 99Tcm-HMPAO.
(2) The recoveries using the cartridges were between 90-102% for urine and 81-93% for plasma.
(3) When imitation examination was carried out using pontamine blue dye solution in 7 kinds of syringes for the use of cartridge, dye reflux was observed in all of them.
(4) Following incubation of tissue fractions with desferrioxamine, the parent compound and its iron-bound form, ferrioxamine, are extracted using solid-phase cartridges and quantitated by reversed-phase HPLC using uv detection.
(5) The vigilantes use shotguns and cartridges and have been short in supply, so the leader left yesterday for Maiduguri to procure more in the event of any attack,” he told AFP.
(6) The method uses a highly fluorescent dienophile, 4-[2-(6,7-dimethoxy-4-methyl-3-oxo-3,4-dihydroquinoxalyl)ethyl]-1, 2,4- triazoline-3,5-dione (DMEQ-TAD), to fluorescence-label vitamin D. Vitamin D metabolites were roughly purified with a short cartridge column followed by HPLC, labeled with DMEQ-TAD, and the product was analyzed on HPLC.
(7) The water was analysed after purification and concentration on a C18 cartridge.
(8) A Puf- strain of Rhodobacter sphaeroides (PUFB1) was constructed by deleting a portion of the proximal region of the puf operon and inserting a kanamycin resistance gene cartridge.
(9) We obtained stable mutants in which the chromosomal lysA gene, encoding meso-diaminopimelate decarboxylase, was interrupted by a chloramphenicol resistance cartridge, or in which an essential internal part of the lysA gene was deleted.
(10) A C18 solid-phase extraction cartridge is used to ensure quantitative salt-free recovery of the HGs, and the purified glycolipids are then rendered uv-absorbing by a per-O-benzoylation derivatization reaction for which optimal conditions have been established.
(11) The samples were extracted into a hydrochloric acid - glycine solution and the extracts concentrated and purified on cyclohexyl-bonded reversed-phase cartridges.
(12) Bile acids in human bile were first prefractionated into free, glycine- and taurine-conjugated bile acids using a Seppak C18 cartridge and a piperidinohydroxypropyl Sephadex LH-20 (PHP-LH-20) column.
(13) Multipolar cells with cell bodies distal (MP1) or proximal (MP2) to the plexiform layer send processes to several cartridges.
(14) The best conditions for extractions of free pyrroloquinoline quinone (PQQ) from crude biological samples were investigated with various organic solvents and Sep-Pak C18 cartridges.
(15) In addition to their behavior on Sephadex G-50, the immunoactive insulin-related materials from the microbial sources behaved like authentic vertebrate insulins in their ability to be adsorbed to and eluted from disposable octadecasilylsilica cartridges, DEAE-Sephadex, DEAE-cellulose, and one system of high-pressure liquid chromatography (HPLC).
(16) The 2-methyl derivatives of tamoxifen (2-methyltamoxifen and 2-methyl-4-hydroxytamoxifen) were extracted from a cell culture medium at pH 5.4 (Earle's Minimum Essential Medium) with an internal standard (tamoxifen) on a phenyl sorbent cartridge.
(17) A number of veins and arteries were penetrated with 25- and 27-gauge needles attached to standard dental aspirating cartridge-type syringes.
(18) A cartridge was constructed which contained the divergent tet promoters of transposon Tn10 between an exoglucanase gene (cex) and an endoglucanase gene (cenA) of Cellulomonas fimi.
(19) ANF was extracted from plasma using an octadecasilyl silica cartridge with a recovery of 78.7%.
(20) The extract is then cleaned up on a silica cartridge.