(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.
Santon
Definition:
(n.) A Turkish saint; a kind of dervish, regarded by the people as a saint: also, a hermit.
Example Sentences:
(1) I want to play Champions League football – with Newcastle if possible.” If that delighted Alan Pardew’s successor, the bad news is that Santon’s departure with a view to completing a £3m transfer in May further reduces Carver’s defensive options.
(2) Any disappointment in seeing the club trim their wage bill by returning Davide Santon to Internazionale on loan while failing to recruit the centre-half and striker he wanted was offset by the realisation that Moussa Sissoko was not going anywhere.
(3) 3.17pm GMT 88 mins: Flamini does well to intercept Santon's pass to Ben Arfa.
(4) Hopefully the fans will be a little bit patient but I have to admit myself that my patience is wearing thin – very, very thin indeed.” Allardyce, anxious to sign the West Ham United striker Diafra Sakho, is understood to be angry about the failure to solve a problem position at left-back by signing Santon and described the £3m move’s collapse as “a huge disappointment”.
(5) But in a short statement the club said the deal for Santon – who made more than 90 appearances for Newcastle – was off.
(7) The hapless Santon was on the line and in a position to deal with the downward header, yet made a hash of his attempted clearance and saw the ball bounce over the line off his standing leg.
(8) Arranged in a narrow formation lacking the width usually afforded by their indisposed full-backs Mathieu Debuchy and Davide Santon, Newcastle laboured.
(11) At Eskdale, he took a circuitous route via Irton to Santon Bridge and then doubled back through Irton to the Bower House pub.
(12) The fact that it was Davide Santon lining up a free-kick from 22 yards soon afterwards was an early reminder to Newcastle fans of Cabaye's absence, made crueller when Santon failed to get his shot over the Norwich defensive wall.
(13) After watching Santon once again pick the wrong pass as he sashayed past the technical area, Mourinho wandered over to Pardew, pointed to the Italy left-back he once dubbed "my Bambino ", smiled and seemed to say "it's me".
(14) Courtesy of a deflection, Adebayor's shot whizzed fractionally wide but within minutes the subsequently withdrawn Santon was again deceived, this time by Paulinho whose drive was very well repelled by Tim Krul.
(15) Read more A history of problems resulting in assorted operations on the 25-year-old’s right knee explain why a player mentored by José Mourinho during the first of Santon’s two spells at Inter has never fulfilled his extraordinary teenage promise.
(16) JJ Newcastle United Ins None Outs Davide Santon (Internazionale, loan), Gael Bigirimana, Kevin Mbabu, Shane Ferguson, Remi Streete, Haris Vuckic (all to Rangers, on loan) John Carver arguably needed an extra striker as well as a centre-half to replace the long-term injured Steven Taylor.
(17) Sunderland have pulled out of a deal to sign the former Newcastle defender Davide Santon from Internazionale .
(18) As a preliminary step to using human hepatocytes we have compared the toxic response to chemical toxicants of primary cultures of fresh rat hepatocytes and rat hepatocytes cryopreserved as previously described (G. Powis, K. S. Santone, D. C. Melder, L. Thomas, D. J. Moore, and T. J. Wilke, 1987.
(19) Brandon was encircled by sand; Santon Downham was engulfed, its river choked entirely.
(20) He could also have done without losing the versatile Davide Santon to Internazionale on loan but at least the manager has avoided the worst-case scenario.