(n.) A small basket of rushes, reeds, or willow twigs, etc.
(n.) A small box or case for holding tea, coffee, etc.
(n.) A kind of case shot for cannon, in which a number of lead or iron balls in layers are inclosed in a case fitting the gun; -- called also canister shot.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Cavitron Ultrasonic Surgical Aspirator (CUSA) is a dissecting system that removes tissue by vibration, irrigation and suction; fluid and particulate matter from tumors are aspirated and subsquently deposited in a canister.
(2) The other method uses a thermoluminescence dosemeter placed in the charcoal canister, giving an integrated value of the radon concentration.
(3) Most hospital programs use semicontinuous flow centrifugation or canister technology for the intraoperative salvage and reinfusion of shed blood.
(4) The liquid oxygen system was preferred because the oxygen lasted longer, filling was easier, and the canister was easier to carry.
(5) Temperature rise in the canister was found closely related to CO2 output, which was calculated, after a period of stabilization, with the help of a nomogram.
(6) Facebook Twitter Pinterest A picture that has been circulating showing a man on the ground; he appears to have canisters strapped to his body.
(7) The masses attending the president’s election rallies booed the family of 14-year-old Berkin Elvan , who died after he was hit by a gas canister.
(8) But bewilderment quickly turned to horror after the gunman tossed two gas canisters into the room and began firing, spraying the audience with bullets.
(9) Stephen Salter, the innovative Edinburgh University engineer, (known best for his invention of Salter's duck - the 300-tonne floating canister designed to drive a generator from the motion of bobbing up and down on waves) thinks he has the key.
(10) The consequences of this divide-and-rule strategy are evident in Okmeydani, a neighbourhood in Istanbul's central Beyoglu district, that recently made headlines following the deaths of Berkin Elvan, a teenager who died after being hit in the head by a teargas canister during last summer's protests, and of Burakcan Karamanoglu, a 22-year-old who was shot in the head during clashes between opposing groups in the neighbourhood.
(11) The pressurized canisters may be useful in standardizing irrigation in wound management research.
(12) "I hid behind a tree, and all I saw were Morsi supporters throwing stones, or fireworks, or throwing teargas canisters."
(13) It’s a concern that it’s going up, the numbers of people using are quite stunning, but it’s not the most dangerous thing by a mile.” This is a position supported by DrugScience (formerly the Independent Scientific Committee on Drugs) which, while pointing out the dangers surrounding frostbite from the cold temperature of canisters and potential vitamin B12 deficiency from heavy use, describes nitrous oxide as “ one of the least risky drugs ”.
(14) Satisfactory or good compliance was achieved by 52% of these subjects as measured by the chronolog compared with 85% as assessed by canister weighing.
(15) Brian Maddison from the group told ITV's Daybreak that one garage in Kent reported already selling out of fuel canisters: "That's the sort of bizarre behaviour that Francis Maude and the rest of the cabinet seem to have encouraged.
(16) Clashes had continued into the early hours even though the pro-Mubarak supporters had been pushed back to the edge of the square and explosions – possibly from gas canisters – echoed around the area.
(17) Some have been carrying grenade launchers,apparently for shooting gas canisters.
(18) The Venturi entrains exhaled gas from the patient through a soda-lime canister, and carries it to the patient together with fresh gas.
(19) A journalist was blown up by a police officer who fired a teargas canister in his stomach at close range for allegedly "asking the police too many questions" at a rally by an opposition political party.
(20) Ventilation was not influenced by the canisters until 80% of VO2max at which time the mean oxygen ventilatory equivalent became significantly lower.
Cylinder
Definition:
(n.) A solid body which may be generated by the rotation of a parallelogram round one its sides; or a body of rollerlike form, of which the longitudinal section is oblong, and the cross section is circular.
(n.) The space inclosed by any cylindrical surface. The space may be limited or unlimited in length.
(n.) Any hollow body of cylindrical form
(n.) The chamber of a steam engine in which the piston is moved by the force of steam.
(n.) The barrel of an air or other pump.
(n.) The revolving platen or bed which produces the impression or carries the type in a cylinder press.
(n.) The bore of a gun; the turning chambered breech of a revolver.
(n.) The revolving square prism carrying the cards in a Jacquard loom.
Example Sentences:
(1) Sonographic images of the gallbladder enable satisfactory approximation of gallbladder volume using the sum-of-cylinders method.
(2) This apparent lack of centrosomal staining was not due to problems associated with penetration of the antibody probes, since staining adjacent to and within the centriolar cylinder was observed when phosphoprotein antigens recognized by the MPM-2 antibody were localized.
(3) A rubber cuff was fixed on the metal cylinder and let an opening of 8 cm, simulating the cervix uteri.
(4) Different techniques for attaching the gold cylinders to the frameworks were used.
(5) A Teflon cylinder was placed in the mid-left anterior descending coronary artery to create a 33% stenosis.
(6) The nylon group had the second highest amount of induced WTR cylinder at one day, which had decayed to ATR cylinder by five months.
(7) While executing the latter movements no forward locomotion occurred at all; the cats solely executed lateral fore- and hindlimb movements opposite to the direction in which the cylinder rotated.
(8) Values obtained for thebuoyant density, isoelectric point, and extinction coefficient differed minimally; major differences were observed in the molecular weight and the characterisitc width of cylinders formed by in vitro-assembled T-layer of the wild-type and variant.
(9) The phantom combines an inhalation system which allows for the simulation of xenon buildup or washout in the arterial blood as well as a multisection translatable cylinder in which several sections can be scanned during a preselected protocol to simulate the CT enhancement in brain tissue during a study.
(10) The regeneration of myofibers across the scar follows a pattern different from that within BL cylinders.
(11) The change in refractive astigmatism was as high as 1.50DC (diopter cylinder).
(12) Furthermore, it is demonstrated that a thin perforated membrane fitted on the inside of the wall of a glass cylinder filled with water, will detach, with rotatory movements.
(13) Experiments were performed in a cylinder full of beads open at one end and closed at the other in which a mixture of oxygen with helium or argon or sulphur hexafluoride could diffuse with ambient air through the open end.
(14) The air pressure in the skin cup was continually adjusted (using an electromechanical servo-control system) to pull the skin upward and to hold it perfectly flat across the upper ridge of the Teflon cylinder.
(15) The smaller spheres and some of the cylinders exploded and fragments and even whole cylinders weighing around 30 tons, were scattered over distances ranging from a few to up to 1200 m.
(16) In the first, a rotating cylinder is seen, though no variation in optical flow exists across the apparent cylinder.
(17) After curing of the cement in a environment of 37 degrees C the resulting cement rod was released from the cylinder and the diameter of the rod was measured at 37 degrees C. The influence of the "foaming effect" on the transverse dimensions of the rods was studied by curing the cement at 37 degrees C and 2 atm air pressure in a high-pressure-vessel.
(18) A procedure is described to construct a varifocal lens, after that described by Wood in 1905, to produce lenses known as 'non-homogeneous cylinders' or 'pseudo-lenses'.
(19) The free ends of the microtubules appear unraveled; they are seen first as single elements, then as doublets, and finally are arranged into a cylinder.
(20) A mathematical model of ozone absorption, or for any soluble gas that has similar transport properties, is developed for a branching network of liquid-lined cylinders.