(n.) Any rough or prickly envelope of the seeds of plants, whether a pericarp, a persistent calyx, or an involucre, as of the chestnut and burdock. Also, any weed which bears burs.
(n.) The thin ridge left by a tool in cutting or shaping metal. See Burr, n., 2.
(n.) A ring of iron on a lance or spear. See Burr, n., 4.
(n.) The lobe of the ear. See Burr, n., 5.
(n.) The sweetbread.
(n.) A clinker; a partially vitrified brick.
(n.) A small circular saw.
(n.) A triangular chisel.
(n.) A drill with a serrated head larger than the shank; -- used by dentists.
(n.) The round knob of an antler next to a deer's head.
(n.) A prickly seed vessel. See Bur, 1.
(n.) The thin edge or ridge left by a tool in cutting or shaping metal, as in turning, engraving, pressing, etc.; also, the rough neck left on a bullet in casting.
(n.) A thin flat piece of metal, formed from a sheet by punching; a small washer put on the end of a rivet before it is swaged down.
(n.) A broad iron ring on a tilting lance just below the gripe, to prevent the hand from slipping.
(n.) The lobe or lap of the ear.
(n.) A guttural pronounciation of the letter r, produced by trilling the extremity of the soft palate against the back part of the tongue; rotacism; -- often called the Newcastle, Northumberland, or Tweedside, burr.
(n.) The knot at the bottom of an antler. See Bur, n., 8.
(v. i.) To speak with burr; to make a hoarse or guttural murmur.
Example Sentences:
(1) But Burr admitted the bill would still allow companies to share directly with the NSA, and could potentially receive liability protections if information is shared “not electronically”.
(2) Incumbents facing competitive re-election battles in November, including Ron Johnson of Wisconsin, Marco Rubio of Florida, Rob Portman of Ohio, John McCain of Arizona and Richard Burr of North Carolina, voted for that bill, which had the backing of the NRA.
(3) The animal model was induced by left frontal burr hole opening and inoculation of a small piece of G-XII glioma tissue to 6- to 8-week-old rats.
(4) A number of predictions were derived from the work of Cristensen, Reiss, and Burr.
(5) Patients were treated with observation, serial percutaneous needle drainage, drainage through burr holes, drainage into a closed external drainage system, or subdural to peritoneal shunt.
(6) Burr said that language in the bill would require companies to “remove all personal information before that data is transferred to the federal government”, and that the Department of Homeland Security would scrub any data not cleaned by companies.
(7) A limited craniectomy was performed at the fronto-temporal junction using three adjacent burr-holes.
(8) Together with William Burr of the National Security Archive, Aid has co-authored an article in Foreign Policy that explores the significance of the new disclosures.
(9) The ideal drill is a slim straight instrument, which rotates dental burrs and is operated by a light finger pressure.
(10) "I'll be brief," Burr said at the start of his second-round question for Brennan.
(11) In a letter addressed to Richard Burr and Mark Warner, chairman and vice-chairman of the Senate intelligence committee, Page notes media reports that secret court orders were issued last October to allow the FBI to conduct surveillance of “US persons” in an investigation of possible contacts between Russian banks and the Trump Organization.
(12) All patients were managed with diagnostic burr-hole procedures.
(13) None of the patients initially managed with craniotomy were worse or died, whereas of the four patients initially managed with burr holes, two were worse (25 per cent) and two died (25 per cent).
(14) Warner indicated in a statement, issued alongside his statement with Burr, that he did not necessarily view the intelligence panel’s inquiry as the final investigative option.
(15) 2) Technique for release of ventricular catheter obstruction by percutaneous management through the "8-shaped" burr hole.
(16) It has previously been demonstrated that pp60v-src is associated with a detergent-insoluble matrix containing the cellular cytoskeleton (J. G. Burr, G. Dreyfuss, S. Penman, and J. M. Buchanan, Proc.
(17) Burr said it was safe to assume the Russians were “actively involved” in the forthcoming French election, adding: “We feel part of our responsibility is to educate the rest of the world what’s going on because it’s now into character assassination of candidates.” Burr, who served as a security adviser to Trump’s campaign, confirmed that he voted for the Republican nominee but said he had not coordinated with the White House on the reach of the investigation, which he described as one of the biggest of his congressional career.
(18) 59 cases were treated through burr holes, irrigation and drainage and 57 cases were completely cured after operation.
(19) 79 cases of obstructive hydrocephalus treated between 1972 and 1983 by burr hole third ventriculo-cisternostomy have been analysed together with the published literature.
(20) After rotablation of the posterior lateral branch over 3 cm with a 1.5 mm burr and rotablation with a 1.75 mm burr of the posterior branch of the left circumflex coronary artery the vessel was reopened with a smooth surface without perforation and dissection.
Curr
Definition:
(v. i.) To coo.
Example Sentences:
(1) (c) the NH2NH2-induced transformation S0----'S-2' [Renger, Messinger and Hanssum (1990) in: Curr.'
(2) Pamela Curr, campaign coordinator for the asylum seeker resources centre, said the Shev scheme would create extra processing work unnecessarily.
(3) The theory of dual radiation action (A. M. Kellerer and H. H. Rossi, Curr.
(4) Confirming the previous report by Machicao and Wieland [(1985) Curr.
(5) It has been proposed that regulatory multienzyme complex formation between yeast ornithine transcarbamoylase (OTCase) and arginase is triggered by a conformational change promoted by the binding of ornithine to a regulatory site in OTCase (Wiame, J.-M. (1971) Curr.
(6) (1978) 25, 923; McGrath and Weissman, Cell (1979) 17, 65; Weissman and McGrath, Curr.
(7) A theoretical relative biologic effectiveness, based upon the dual radiation action model of Kellerer and Rossi [Curr.
(8) U.S.A. 82, 4578-4581; Hohman, R. J., Veron, M., & Guitton, M. C. (1985) Curr.
(9) Curr said she had heard from staff that the refugee applications had been processed, but the decisions were yet to be conveyed to people because of the lack of accommodation on the island.
(10) The CDC25 Start gene whose product appears to be required for traversing the Go phase of the cell cycle in Saccharomyces cerevisiae, has been previously cloned (J. Daniel and G. Simchen (1986), Curr Genet 10:643-646).
(11) Instead they’re being left languishing in an environment that is clearly unsafe for women and children.” Pamela Curr, a refugee rights advocate from the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre, said the move from heavy security to an open policy was probably related to the pending high court hearings.
(12) 265 (1990) 10857-10864; Schweingruber et al., Curr.
(13) Pamela Curr, from Australian Women in Support of Women on Nauru, which recently released their own report into the treatment of women on the island, said the situation was so dire “only a royal commission could get to the bottom of the systemic abuse experienced by women, children and men in these camps”.
(14) By expressing the ceuIR gene in the Escherichia coli vectors pKK233-2 and pTRC-99A, we recently demonstrated that the endonuclease is highly toxic to E. coli [Gauthier et al., Curr.
(15) The sites of linkage investigated in this study with respect to their transcriptional activities were those previously cloned and sequenced (W. Doerfler, R. Gahlmann, S. Stabel, R. Deuring, U. Lichtenberg, M. Schulz, D. Eick, and R. Leisten, Curr.
(16) To assess the superiority of indirect calorimetry (IC)-based enteral nutrition in burned patients, 49 adults with mean burns of 47% TBSA received feedings based either on the Curreri formula (CURR), or on IC, using enteral formulas with nonprotein calorie:nitrogen ratios of either 86:1, or 125:1.
(17) Under the current system there’s nothing to stop people going out in the regions and working,” Curr told Guardian Australia.
(18) ADK1 was found to be identical to an adenylate kinase gene recently isolated by an approach entirely different from ours (Magdolen, V., Oechsner, U., and Bandlow, W. (1987) Curr.
(19) Curr stressed the danger of violence aimed at unaccompanied women on Nauru after numerous allegations , including some of sexual assault.
(20) The rationale for determining these limits is developed from both a simple kinetic model and from a linear nonequilibrium thermodynamic treatment of coupled fluxes, using the mechanistic approach [Westerhoff, H. V. & van Dam, K. (1979) Curr.