(n.) A box or inclosure, wholly or partly of openwork, in wood or metal, used for confining birds or other animals.
(n.) A place of confinement for malefactors
(n.) An outer framework of timber, inclosing something within it; as, the cage of a staircase.
(n.) A skeleton frame to limit the motion of a loose piece, as a ball valve.
(n.) A wirework strainer, used in connection with pumps and pipes.
(n.) The box, bucket, or inclosed platform of a lift or elevator; a cagelike structure moving in a shaft.
(n.) The drum on which the rope is wound in a hoisting whim.
(n.) The catcher's wire mask.
(v. i.) To confine in, or as in, a cage; to shut up or confine.
Example Sentences:
(1) Eight-week-old virgin untreated female mice were induced to ovulate using equine chorionic gonadotropin (eCG) and human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG), and were then caged with males overnight.
(2) One ejaculation followed by daily contact with soiled bedding taken from a male's cage did not increase pregnancy rates.
(3) Calves were fed milk replacer twice daily while housed indoors in wooden-slatted floor box crates (metabolism cages).
(4) The feces contained less than 3% of the dose and the expired 14CO2 and cage wash accounted for less than 0.2 and 1% of the dose, respectively.
(5) Each diet was fed to five or six individually caged hens for 42 days.
(6) During this period, the microbial flora of the isolator was unchanged, and the time required to clean the cages was reduced by 50%.
(7) The designs of mechanical prostheses have evolved since the early caged-ball prostheses.
(8) In addition, various tissue cages and the use of skin blisters has been a popular means for testing antibiotic penetration into extra-cellular fluid.
(9) A reduction in tibial breaking strength was also found in caged hens, when compared to deep-litter hens.
(10) Hitchcock's attempts to keep Hedren in a gilded cage arguably ruined her career.
(11) Also the spread of the strain in the cage was examined.
(12) Hens of the same breed and age reared together on deep litter showed no differences in nest site selection and nesting behaviour regardless of whether they had previously been housed in a deep litter house or in cages.
(13) She walks past stack after stack of books kept behind metal cages, the shelves barely visible in the dim light from the frosted-glass windows.
(14) To test the hypothesis that during unsupported arm exercise (UAE) some of the inspiratory muscles of the rib cage partake in upper torso and arm positioning and thereby decrease their contribution to ventilation, we studied 11 subjects to measure pleural (Ppl) and gastric (Pga) pressures, heart rate, respiratory frequency, O2 uptake (VO2), and tidal volume (VT) during symptom-limited UAE.
(15) The tendinous caging of the wrist is the main factor for maintaining rigidity of the carpus and transmitting the torque as muscles are contracted.
(16) However, airborne transmission to rabbits in adjacent cages did not occur.
(17) Mice were exposed to hypoxia by enclosure in cages covered with dimethyl-silicone rubber membranes for 1-14 days.
(18) In fish tests, rainbow trout (Salmo gairdneri) were caged at the discharge site and simultaneously at a reference area.
(19) Five week old female albino mice were grouped two, three, four and five per cage.
(20) A different pattern was observed in the open cage test, where both neuroleptic groups showed significant increases in vacuous OMs during drug administration which rapidly became attenuated upon drug withdrawal.
Discus
Definition:
(n.) A quoit; a circular plate of some heavy material intended to be pitched or hurled as a trial of strength and skill.
(n.) The exercise with the discus.
(n.) A disk. See Disk.
Example Sentences:
(1) So much so that the Olympic discus champion Robert Harting even withdrew from consideration.
(2) Drama in the woman's discus Perkovic leads after throwing a Croatian record of 69.11m and Pishchalnik, the pre-competition is down in fifth.
(3) But his achievements in that short period are so staggering as to merit such predictions having already broken a senior British record, a world-age record, won an Under-23 European gold medal and with a throw of 67.63m earned himself a fourth-place ranking amid the world's best discus throwers this season.
(4) He might be full of blunt confidence but even Okoye seems mildly stunned by the distance he has travelled from an Olympic final in the discus last summer to the brink of another transformation.
(5) The implications of pore diameter (Sephadex- and Sepharose derivatives), of purity of the PG, of protein content of the PG-carrier-complexes as well as the presence of substrate during the coupling reaction, are discused in relation to the relative and specific activity of the bound protein and to the efficiency of the coupling reaction.
(6) Their performances at the Games belie this deep-rooted problem: 15 of India's 38 gold medals were won by women, including that of the discus thrower Krishna Poonia, who achieved the country's first Commonwealth athletics gold for 52 years.
(7) X-ray diffraction examinations were performed on different cartilages (epiphysis, joint, rib, nose-cartilage and discus intervertebralis) of 10 young and 10 old rats.
(8) A perforation of the discus triangularis was confirmed by arthrography, and the disc removed.
(9) A case of acute rupture of an abdominal aortic aneurysm is presented mimicking the symptoms of a discus hernia syndrome and paraplegia.
(10) Obviously he's disappointed I'm not throwing the discus this year but he's happy I'm doing well."
(11) It was discused about immunological problems in pernicious anemia which are very important and required continued investigations.
(12) Mr Jones told the Guardian he was under "restriction" and could not discus his dealings with the Abachas.
(13) The case of an adolescent is presented, who had two operations because of twice slipped discus in one year.
(14) The reliability and validity of the Dyskinesia Identification System: Condensed User Scale (DISCUS) are presented for mentally ill (n = 2,822) and mentally retarded (n = 4,649) populations, as are DISCUS item means and standard deviations.
(15) The author discuses the type of inervation of m. sphincter pylori as well as the vesicular content of axons.in view of the eventual functional significance.
(16) After deferring an offer from Oxford University to study law, he began to train seriously for the discus less than two years before the London Olympics .
(17) After all that success on Saturday evening, there have been a string of disappointing British performances on Monday and Tuesday, culminating in Lawrence Okoye's last-place finish in the men's discus.
(18) We discuse some of the implications of the use of this measure of distance and compare it to others which have been proposed.
(19) Real Eritreans love their country.” A sticker with the words “I love Eritrea” adorns a locker in the offices of the government-backed National Union of Eritrean Youth and Students , whose courtyard has a full-size replica of the classical statue Discus-thrower (Discobolus).
(20) This is done by considering the two stages of the throw--the launch (the movements in the circle) and the discus flight.