(n.) A corner or edge of anything; a piece; a fragment; a part.
(n.) The upwardly projecting rear part of saddle, opposite to the pommel.
(v. t.) To cut in pieces; to cut out from.
Example Sentences:
(1) Ted Cantle's subsequent report on the Bradford riots concluded that part of the problem was segregated communities living "parallel lives", and coined the concept of "community cohesion", later adopted by the Labour government.
(2) (ii) There is a wide variation in GATC frequency both between and within DNA cantles which led to the identification of a void-cluster pattern of GATC arrangement.
(3) This is certainly the view of Ted Cantle, the author of the report into the 2001 disturbances.
(4) There were some middle-class people arrested as well," says Cantle.
(5) Cantle, though, claims that the riots weren't about poverty – a view he shares with the prime minister.
(6) Ted Cantle, chair of the Institute of Community Cohesion and author of a government review into the 2001 northern city riots, is a big believer in the power of resilience.
(7) The group hears disturbing evidence from Professor Ted Cantle , who carried out a review into community cohesion after the Oldham riot 15 years ago, and who says that lessons have still not been learned; communities across the country are living entirely separate or “parallel” lives.
(8) Local government leaders find themselves in a "very serious situation", Cantle warns.
(9) Cantle, now founder and executive chair of the Institute of Community Cohesion, believes that last week's riots were not about race.
Mantle
Definition:
(n.) A loose garment to be worn over other garments; an enveloping robe; a cloak. Hence, figuratively, a covering or concealing envelope.
(n.) Same as Mantling.
(n.) The external fold, or folds, of the soft, exterior membrane of the body of a mollusk. It usually forms a cavity inclosing the gills. See Illusts. of Buccinum, and Byssus.
(n.) Any free, outer membrane.
(n.) The back of a bird together with the folded wings.
(n.) A mantel. See Mantel.
(n.) The outer wall and casing of a blast furnace, above the hearth.
(n.) A penstock for a water wheel.
(v. t.) To cover or envelop, as with a mantle; to cloak; to hide; to disguise.
(v. i.) To unfold and spread out the wings, like a mantle; -- said of hawks. Also used figuratively.
(v. i.) To spread out; -- said of wings.
(v. i.) To spread over the surface as a covering; to overspread; as, the scum mantled on the pool.
(v. i.) To gather, assume, or take on, a covering, as froth, scum, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) This report describes a detailed analysis of the dosimetry of the mantle technique for the therapy of Hodgkin's disease when a 4 MV linear accelerator (Varian) is utilized.
(2) In the mantle of the female sea mussel Mytilus galloprovincialis seasonal variations in the adenylate cyclase activity correlate with gonadal development.
(3) A 21-year old man died of an extensive anteroseptal myocardial infarction 16 months after receiving megavoltage radiotherapy to a mantle field for Hodgkin's disease stage PS IA confined to the midcervical lymph nodes on the left side of the neck.
(4) The outer aspect of the mantle zone constituted the PNS-CNS borderline.
(5) Fetuses that received 0.25, 0.5, 0.75, or 1.0 Gy were examined 24 h after irradiation for changes in the cells of the cerebral mantle of the developing brain.
(6) Forty-nine patients were managed according to the pre-1969 policy consisting of mantle radiotherapy (XRT) only without laparotomy staging and without subdiaphragmatic treatment.
(7) The glial mantle is thicker in the sulci than on the gyri.
(8) The sensory cells of the mantle tentacles are found to be ciliated, primary receptors with subepithelial nuclei.
(9) Only one of these cases was found among the 44 patients who received a dose to the spinal cord of over 5 000 rad via fields of less than 16 cm in length; 7 cases were patients with Hodgkin's disease who were given up to 3 700 rad via mantle fields.
(10) A semi-intact preparation was used to study the effects of classical conditioning on the type of siphon response elicited by a conditioned stimulus to the mantle of Aplysia.
(11) Then, in English, a simple statement that has come to define a Japanese summer of public discontent, the likes of which it has not seen in a generation: “This is what democracy looks like!” Amid the trade union and civic group banners were colourful, bilingual placards held aloft by a new generation of activists who have assumed the mantle of mass protest as Japan braces for the biggest shift in its defence posture for 70 years.
(12) Osteoclasts were not observed; occasional osteoblasts, blue mantles and otosclerotic foci were seen.
(13) The third major isoform, which was enriched in the mantle and branchial sac of adults and localized primarily in the tails of tadpoles, is a muscle actin.
(14) Spontaneous pneumothorax was observed only in patients who had received mantle or mini-mantle radiation therapy (RT).
(15) Shortly after mantle field radiation therapy she developed a mass in the anterior mediastinum.
(16) A literature review aimed at completeness, a study of the hitherto largest case material (24 cases), and a comparative analysis of the bleeding and normal gastric arteries gave the following results: (1) the walls of the pathologic arteries are of normal structure; (2) as submucous arteries, they are of normal diameter; (3) they are attached to the mucosa by virtue of Wanke's musculoelastic mantle; (4) at the level of the muscularis mucosae, they are definitely oversized; (5) in the area of the linkage of the artery to the mucosa, a vulnerable mucosal spot is created; (6) the artery is accompanied by a vein of similar caliber; and (7) perforation of the vein takes place before that of the artery.
(17) However, these specimens have also shown incipient cracks in the acrylic cement that emanate from and connect defects in the cement mantle and at the metal-cement interface.
(18) Aggressive intrapartum management is indicated in most of these cases regardless of cortical mantle thickness.
(19) The results of the various histochemical reactions on mucosubstances indicate that in the middle fold of the mantle edge two types of mucus cells exist, one producing sulphomucins and the other neutral mucosubstances.
(20) Her original concept was that he might shed the kingly mantle, be just a poor player strutting, but he couldn’t get out fast enough from his prosthetic withered arm.