(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.
Murr
Definition:
(n.) A catarrh.
Example Sentences:
(1) But Elias Murr complained that the cables were "inaccurate" and taken out of context.
(2) We propose that the major site of gluconeogenesis from amino acids in the murre is the liver, since this is a much larger organ than the kidney and has a cytosolic form of PEPCK necessary for gluconeogenesis from oxidized substrates.
(3) Gluconeogenesis in vitro was determined in both hepatocytes and kidney tubules isolated from 3-day-fasted murres.
(4) Natural pox infection occurred in a free-living, immature common murre (Uria aalge) in northern California.
(5) A novel toxic cyclopeptide from Amanita suballiacea (Murr.)
(6) At the University of Missouri Research Reactor (MURR), the code MCNP has recently been used to calculate doses in a phantom.
(7) PEPCK in murre kidney was present only in the mitochondrial compartment.
(8) Cubes of Douglas-fir wood decayed by Poria weirii (Murr.)
(9) An epidemiological study on caries in 1,091 primary school pupils in the Rems-Murr area revealed improvement in oral health as compared with results of earlier studies in the Federal Republic of Germany.
(10) Therefore, a second beam that is less difficult to build and install, but of lower neutron current, has been designed to fit in MURR port F. This beam is designed using inexpensive A1, S, and Pb.
(11) In 2006 the Lebanese defence minister, Elias Murr, told US diplomats that Mughniyeh was "very active in Beirut", hinting that he was involved in a spate of murders of Lebanese politicians who were hostile to Syria.
(12) While in chickens, the existence of a liver form of pyruvate kinase is controversial, the liver form of pyruvate kinase in pheasants, murres and puffins is electrophoretically distinct from that in muscle, brain, kidney, lung and small intestine.
(13) Total body lipogenesis was similar in the murre and the chicken.
(14) Adenovirus-like particles were identified by transmission electron microscopy in intranuclear inclusion bodies in the renal collecting tubules of a male common murre.
(15) Bioassay-directed fractionation of the n-hexane extract of the stem of Rhus semialata Murr.
(16) This tick infests nesting colonies of the common tern, roseate tern, sandwich tern, herring gull (northern and Mediterranean races), common cormorant, shag, razorbill, common murre, black-legged kittiwake, and probably other marine birds nesting nearby.
(17) Lebanon's defence minister, Elias Murr – reported in other leaked documents as telling US officials that the army would not involve itself in a future Israeli attack on Lebanon – said the allegations sought to cause unrest.
(18) Sequence analysis of one cloned MuRRS element revealed several possible open reading frames with partial sequence homologies to retroviral gag, pol and env genes.
(19) Phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase (PEPCK) in murre liver occurs in both cytoplasmic and mitochondrial forms.
(20) The liver contributes 10.4% to whole body lipogenesis in fed murres when measured in vivo using 3H2O.