(n.) A great gun; a piece of ordnance or artillery; a firearm for discharging heavy shot with great force.
(n.) A hollow cylindrical piece carried by a revolving shaft, on which it may, however, revolve independently.
(n.) A kind of type. See Canon.
(n. & v.) See Carom.
Example Sentences:
(1) He is a leader and helps manage the defence, while Pablo Armero can be a bit of a loose cannon but he is certainly a talented player.
(2) The authorities had said they used water cannon, teargas and smoke grenades to break up the protest.
(3) Cannon bone circumference at weaning was increased (P less than .05) by growth implants.
(4) The spectacle earlier this year of London's mayor, Boris Johnson , rushing ahead to buy water cannon for use in the capital before the home secretary had authorised the use of such equipment, is hardly helpful.
(5) Sound velocities, breaking strengths calculated from velocities adjusted for estimated soft tissue cover, measured bone mediolateral diameters and cannon diameters minus estimated soft tissue increased as quadratic functions of chronologic age (r greater than .840; P less than .0001).
(6) A protester is knocked back by a police water cannon as riot police advance towards Gezi Park.
(7) You'd have to throw him, pick him up and then fire him from a cannon.
(8) Security forces deployed teargas and water cannon against around 20,000 protesters in Izmir.
(9) You’re practically handing your personal information over to a fraudster,” says John Cannon, fraud and ID director at credit report provider Noddle.
(10) Barthez may or may not have got a touch, and the ball cannons off the bar.
(11) The coupling of ion channels to receptors by G proteins is the subject of this American Physiological Society Walter B. Cannon Memorial "Physiology in Perspective" Lecture.
(12) The Police Service of Northern Ireland has six water cannon but has told Acpo it is unable to lend them for use in England and Wales.
(13) The water cannons (mentioned at 10.53 ) are also new, Helena explains: The coalition government is keen not to be seen to be heavy-handed during the protests that will mark today's strike.
(14) Outside Sana'a University, riot police armed with water-cannons used batons and shields to disperse protesters.
(15) Walter Cannon with his concept of homeostasis and Henderson, Gamble, Peters and Van Slyke with their definition of the chemical anatomy of the organic fluids and their quantitative analysis, opened the way to Francis Moore's concept of surgery and trauma as metabolic problems.
(16) The policies have begun to infringe on the private lives of media professionals, dictating what they can and can’t say in a private capacity, outside of their work.” SBS colleagues of McIntyre said he is a “contrarian” and “a loose cannon”.
(17) Chief constables are to press the home secretary, Theresa May , to authorise the use of water cannon by any police force across England and Wales to deal with anticipated street protests.
(18) Size 75 Cannon-Manning semimicro viscometers yielded the most precise viscosity measurements.
(19) Sonic cannons are already used in the western Gulf of Mexico, off Alaska and in other offshore oil operations around the world.
(20) Presented here is a case of first degree A-V block with cannon waves.
Canton
Definition:
(n.) A song or canto
(n.) A small portion; a division; a compartment.
(n.) A small community or clan.
(n.) A small territorial district; esp. one of the twenty-two independent states which form the Swiss federal republic; in France, a subdivision of an arrondissement. See Arrondissement.
(n.) A division of a shield occupying one third part of the chief, usually on the dexter side, formed by a perpendicular line from the top of the shield, meeting a horizontal line from the side.
(v. i.) To divide into small parts or districts; to mark off or separate, as a distinct portion or division.
(v. i.) To allot separate quarters to, as to different parts or divisions of an army or body of troops.
Example Sentences:
(1) In almost all the cantons the consent of the parents is necessary.
(2) Member, Canton and Riverside Division, Cardiff, St. John Ambulance.
(3) I sat there thinking that in Canton we never had time to sleep, much less dream.” The late Edward Kennedy called it “the great aria of the civil rights movement”.
(4) A new allele of white-coral (wco2) was isolated from Canton S after mutagenesis.
(5) Most immediately in Zurich is the likely publication of a settlement made in court in the Swiss canton of Zug, in connection with alleged bribes paid to senior Fifa officials in the late 1990s by the marketing company ISL.
(6) Crude and relative survival rates were analyzed using data from 4,199 incident breast cancers in females and 39 breast cancers in males registered between 1974 and 1988 in the Cancer Registry of the Swiss Canton of Vaud.
(7) The follow-up sample consisted of 841 men in the Canton of Zurich who had been selected from a complete survey of men born in 1952.
(8) Separation forces were tested with an Instron machine (Instron Corp., Canton, Mass.).
(9) In the Canton of Graubunden, 33% of the 13-15 year old pupils and 34% of those aged 17-19 from a total of 166 smoked regularly or occasionally; none of the younger, but 8% of the older pupils had already tried drugs once.
(10) The authors study the various aspects of the 484 attempts of suicide examined over the year 1974 at the Psychiatric Policlinic of the Geneva Cantonal Hospital.
(11) Angry demonstrations over the government’s refusal to relieve Kobani , the Syrian canton under siege from the brutal group calling itself Islamic State (Isis), led to a spate of deaths.
(12) In the first survey, based on representative population samples, blood lead level was measured in the cantons of Vaud and Fribourg.
(13) Four spines were mounted in an Instron machine (Instron Engineering Corp., Canton, MA).
(14) We are redeploying 25km [outside Juba] but even if it is one battalion remaining and again they clash, is it really difficult to come back to Juba?” While the cantonment of troops may be a first step to end fighting, fundamental reforms of the security sector are needed to professionalise an army notorious for lack of discipline, human rights abuses and tribalism.
(15) At a lower level, France has the level of "canton."
(16) All renal allotransplants performed at the Cantonal Hospital, Zurich, in 1975 and 1976 were analysed with respect to pre-transplant blood transfusions, excluding secondary transplants, patients on dialysis outside of Switzerland, combined renal and pancreatic transplants, and women with previous pregnancies but without transfusions.
(17) Between 1978 and 1984, the University Hospital of Geneva (Hôpital Cantonal Universitaire) received 46 head injured patients who "talked and died" after their brain insult.
(18) (And even in Switzerland the tax policies vary canton by canton, and are regularly put to the vote.)
(19) The purpose of the present epidemiological study is to investigate and describe panic disorder and sporadic panic attacks among a cohort of young adults, aged 28 years, from the Canton of Zurich in Switzerland.
(20) Velásquez, 23, had been terrified by stories linking Zika to birth defects , so on Christmas Day she drove 25 miles south from the semi-rural canton of Aguilares to the nearest public hospital in the capital, San Salvador.