(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.
Howitzer
Definition:
(n.) A gun so short that the projectile, which was hollow, could be put in its place by hand; a kind of mortar.
(n.) A short, light, largebore cannon, usually having a chamber of smaller diameter than the rest of the bore, and intended to throw large projectiles with comparatively small charges.
Example Sentences:
(1) At the place where adorable meets obnoxious and the purr becomes a shriek, Leslie Mann is waiting to unload a howitzer of funny in your face.
(2) Although Kiev and the self-declared separatist republics both claimed that the withdrawal of heavy weapons from the frontline had been completed, OSCE monitors reported eight tanks near the line on the government-controlled side and a self-propelled howitzer near the line on the rebel side on Wednesday.
(3) The marines are free to fire their four 155mm howitzers and other artillery unilaterally if they see Isis forces or if nearby Americans or Iraqis come under assault.
(4) Reina punches the inswinger clear for a throw and they eran another when Skrtel nods out Gunnarsson's howitzer.
(5) The Battle of the Somme began on 1 July 1916 and lasted until mid-November; by the time it ended, more than a million soldiers were dead, probably including the Welsh Guards in this photograph, whose hapless task was to recapture the village of Guillemont from the industrialised German army with its howitzers, flamethrowers and big-bellied zeppelins.
(6) An argument could be made for even further cuts in artillery regiments and armoured cavalry units as the army gets rid of heavy tanks and howitzers.
(7) Furthermore, the two impulse sources were equally hazardous when the peak pressure of the rifle impulse was lower than the peak pressure of the howitzer impulse by about 9 dB.
(8) Seoul had deployed multiple rocket launchers and long-range howitzers on Yeonpyeong after last week's artillery exchange, and inhabitants on the tiny island were warned earlier today to take shelter tomorrow morning.
(9) Ambassador David Hale said the equipment includes more than 70 M198 howitzers and more than 26m rounds of ammunition and artillery “of all shapes and sizes, including heavy artillery”.
(10) In terms of A-weighted energy, the exposures were equally hazardous when the rifle exposure contained about 35 times less energy than the howitzer exposure.
(11) Four howitzers were fired in a nearby field, air force fighter jets streaked over the island, with one peeling off in a “missing man” formation, and navy patrol ships blasted horns.
(12) Britain is confident that a deal to buy 145 M777 Howitzer artillery pieces, manufactured by BAE Systems, to India at a cost of around $0.5bn will soon be sealed.
(13) "I have ordered (the military) to secure the defence of Mariupol with howitzers, multiple rocket launchers, tanks, anti-tank weapons and air cover," said the Ukrainian president, dressed in military-style fatigues.
(14) To supplement these data, histological data are reported here for 51 cats that were exposed on one occasion to either rifle or howitzer impulses at peak pressures from 145 to 155 dB or 153 to 166 dB, respectively.
(15) For both types of impulse the losses tended to be in the middle of the cochlea in focused lesions, even though the spectral peaks of the acoustic stimuli had been at about 80 Hz (howitzer) and 1000 Hz (rifle).
(16) The Russian television channel REN-TV reported that one of its cameramen was wounded at the Izvarino crossing when a howitzer shell landed nearby, the latest casualty among the Russian press after a Channel One cameraman was killed by Ukrainian gunfire on Sunday night.
(17) Howitzer shells, mortars and rockets have struck numerous buildings in Slavyansk and nearby towns.
(18) In order to augment the data on hearing loss to low-spectral-frequency impulses, three groups of cats (eight, nine, and ten animals) were exposed on one occasion to 50 impulses from a 105-mm howitzer at peak SPLs of 153, 159, and 166 dB.
(19) A mixed force of Jathran's rebels, Cyrenaican militias and army units complete with howitzers was deployed at the Red Wadi, a valley blocking approaches to the ports.
(20) Pack up from work early, tell your other half the cinema is closed for refurbishment and feast your eyes on these two howitzers: 5pm BST - France v Germany 9pm BST - Brazil v Colombia 8.38am BST Some interesting stuff on the great Philipp Lahm debate from Raphael Honigstein during last night's Germany v Algeria game.