(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.
Reload
Definition:
(v. t.) To load again, as a gun.
Example Sentences:
(1) Applications of sodium butyrate over the same period of time, on the other hand, was associated with buildup of alkalosis in the second half of the experimental period, with alternation of loading, compensation, and reloading being recordable.
(2) The rate of state 3 respiration increased by ATP-reloading approached that of uncoupler-stimulated respiration measured with ischemic mitochondria.
(3) Muscle atrophy appears to increase the susceptibility to form eccentric contraction-like lesions after reloading; this may reflect weakening of the myofibrils and extracellular matrix.
(4) To determine whether this deficit can be restored by skeletal reloading we measured bone formation rate at the tibiofibular junction and total bone calcium in the tibia and lumbar vertebra in rats whose hindlimbs were unloaded for 2 wk and then reloaded by return to normal weight bearing.
(5) A simple principle of interrupting the complete approximation of the operating slide to the thumb ring was utilized to apply the Falope-Ring to each fallopian tube with one introduction of the Falope-Ring applicator already loaded with two rings, thus eliminating the process of withdrawal, reloading, and reinsertion.
(6) With termination of stimulation, the Ca2+ permeability of the pool membrane rapidly decreased while the pool continued to reload with extracellular Ca2+.
(7) Then again, given that according to Alvarez officer Van Dyke was reloading his service weapon after the 16th bullet had struck Laquan’s body, maybe we do know.
(8) The ADP-depleted F1 preparations were unable to rebind normal amounts of ADP or any ATP in simple reloading experiments.
(9) In addition, choline appears to play a competitive role because its presence during incubation in NE or after reloading results in decreased numbers of dense-cored vesicles.
(10) Reloading of the soleus after 1 or 3 days of unloading increased uptake of 2-deoxy-D-glucose above control and returned it to normal within 6 h and 4 days, respectively.
(11) 3.23am BST Cardinals 2 - Nationals 6, Top 5th Gonzalez walks Beltran to reload the bases, still only one out.
(12) As the sequence is determined on-line during electrophoresis, reloading and running 10 fragments simultaneously allows us to use one gel for sequencing of about 50 different oligonucleotides.
(13) 42 workers reloading sulphur and 25 cargo handling workers unexposed to dusts were examined.
(14) Stimulation of individuals in aerated sea water for 1-2 min caused a partial deoxygenation of the haemoglobin; the pigment reloaded soon after this period of increased activity had ended.
(15) In acini depleted of intracellular Ca2+, increased cellular Ca2+ influx and reloading of the agonist-sensitive pool occurred even if extracellular CaCl2 was added 10 min after the termination of agonist action.
(16) The modern handgun is a precision weapon, modelled on military predecessors; it is light, easily hidden and capable of rapidly and accurately discharging up to 15 rounds without reloading.
(17) Push-through-stem tests of straight and tapered titanium alloy stems, surrounded by cement columns, were performed and the resulting load-displacement behavior and strain distribution on the surface of the cement column were measured for loading, unloading, and reloading.
(18) A student, Erick Cervantes, told local television the teacher intercepted the gunman as he paused, possibly trying to reload.
(19) A rapid reloading of cells previously depleted of Na+ was readily measured by 23Na NMR.
(20) To trace the route of Ca2+ entry and the role of the cytosolic Ca2+ pool in reloading of the internal stores of pancreatic acinar cells, Mn2+ influx into Fura 2-loaded cells and the effect of 1,2-bis(2-aminophenoxyethane-N,N,N',N'-tetraacetic acid (BAPTA) on Ca2+ storage in intracellular stores and reloading were examined.