(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.
Saker
Definition:
(n.) A falcon (Falco sacer) native of Southern Europe and Asia, closely resembling the lanner.
(n.) The peregrine falcon.
(n.) A small piece of artillery.
Example Sentences:
(1) Photograph: Richard Saker In the meantime it is being left to dedicated people such as Carmel McConnell and Magic Breakfast, to big brands, to teaching assistants and staff across the country who are prepared to get up early enough to make sure that all of Britain's children have had enough to eat in the morning to prepare them for school.
(2) We have evaluated three quantitative colorimetric methods [bromthymol blue (BTB), Haskins, and Saker-Salomons (S-S)] for measurement of concentrations of chloroquine (CQ) in urine.
(3) Photograph: Richard Saker Among the design cognoscenti of the period, Braun products were the creme de la creme, the must-have objects.
(4) Photograph: Richard Saker for the Observer Corbyn ally Emily Thornberry rejoins the shadow cabinet, replacing the pro-Trident shadow defence secretary Maria Eagle, who now moves to become shadow culture secretary.
(5) KB Jason Williamson: ‘It did my head in having to travel an hour for a pint with a friend’ Musician, Sleaford Mods , Nottingham Facebook Twitter Pinterest Jason Williamson (right) of Sleaford Mods: ‘Now that I don’t live there I much prefer it.’ Photograph: Richard Saker for the Observer I’ve always viewed London as kind of unobtainable.
(6) Photograph: Richard Saker for the Observer The limitations imposed by our financial strictures made themselves felt in every arena, from the poxy rates we paid our poor freelancers to the indignities of accessing our office through an “Editors’ Hallway” featuring portraits of the supremos of our landlords, the Daily Mail.
(7) Photograph: Richard Saker McConnell, who describes herself as a veteran of social protest movements of the 80s – Greenham Common and the miners' strike – decided something more serious had to be done.
(8) Photograph: Richard Saker for the Guardian Lives with her partner, a factory worker, and has grown-up children.
(9) Photograph: Richard Saker for the Observer “From the conversations we have had with other community groups trying to save their pubs this [problem with ACVs] is not unique.
(10) Photograph: Richard Saker for the Observer ‘Labour has just decisively lost an election trying to copy the Conservatives’ He’s the only one who actually talks about child poverty, homelessness, unaffordable housing, progressive taxation, privatisation, and other core issues in a way which resonates with my beliefs.
(11) Photograph: Richard Saker In 2011, Boyega won a British independent film award for most promising newcomer for his turn as Moses in Joe Cornish's well-received sci-fi romp Attack the Block.
(12) Photograph: Richard Saker Making a garden for Nelson Mandela will remain one of my proudest boasts.
(13) Photograph: Richard Saker It's a similar story over at Keyworth primary in Kennington, south London, another outstanding school in an area of high deprivation , which also gets support from Magic Breakfast.
(14) Photograph: Richard Saker Best known for Attack the Block , the 2011 film in which a teenage gang defends their south London block from aliens, Boyega is a 22-year-old actor and presumably a lead in the new Star Wars film.
(15) Photograph: Richard Saker for the Observer Joy and Tony Watson in Eccles are also catalysts in their own community.
(16) Photograph: Richard Saker for the Observer One of my personal commitments from the start was to make a home visit to every secondary pupil (our primary head did the same for the primary pupils).
(17) Photograph: Richard Saker The breakfast club at Kingsmead is run with the support of the charity Magic Breakfast , which is involved with around 200 schools' clubs around Britain, and helps supply bagels, cereals and juices as well as technical support.
(18) Photograph: Richard Saker for the Observer “We’re always thinking up new ways to get a response out of people,” Watt says, sitting in the BrewDog bar in London’s Camden.
(19) The post-Corbyn manoeuvring has already begun Facebook Twitter Pinterest Dan Jarvis: ‘Labour’s Bear Grylls’ Photograph: Richard Saker for the Observer “Jeremy has a huge mandate, which we should respect.” This, or a version thereof, is the refrain of dissidents in Brighton, the formula adopted by those who are not aligned with Corbyn but are holding fire – for now, at least.
(20) Saker Nusseibeh, chief executive of Hermes Investment Management, said: “There is no fundamental reason for the market to be in this state … We think it’s because the market is dominated by people who do not invest on fundamental factors.” What's holding back the world economy?