(n.) A vertical cleated drum or cylinder, revolving on an upright spindle, and surmounted by a drumhead with sockets for bars or levers. It is much used, especially on shipboard, for moving or raising heavy weights or exerting great power by traction upon a rope or cable, passing around the drum. It is operated either by steam power or by a number of men walking around the capstan, each pushing on the end of a lever fixed in its socket.
Example Sentences:
(1) Rotation of a permanent pacemaker can result in a capstan effect, and the lead is drawn out of the right ventricle.
(2) The same holds for pulley- and capstan-form toric surfaces.
Saucer
Definition:
(n.) A small pan or vessel in which sauce was set on a table.
(n.) A small dish, commonly deeper than a plate, in which a cup is set at table.
(n.) Something resembling a saucer in shape.
(n.) A flat, shallow caisson for raising sunken ships.
(n.) A shallow socket for the pivot of a capstan.
Example Sentences:
(1) So intense was the pre‑match excitement in Dortmund over the return of the prodigal Jürg – much of it media-led – that walking around this flat, functional city on the afternoon of the game you half expected to stumble across Klopp shrines, New Orleans-style Klopp jazz funerals, to look up and find his great beaming visage looming over the city like some vast alien saucer.
(2) Two different flying saucers can appear on screen – a large one that fires inaccurately, and a smaller one that is much more deadly.
(3) And these are not just breadsticks and saucers of olives, but a choice of sizeable, filling mini-meals.
(4) The opening lines sounded a bit like a personal manifesto for a new kind of lightness (they were, he later claimed, something of an admonition from Rachel): "No more going to the dark side with your flying saucer eyes.
(5) The guidelines now being proposed by Mr Abbott mean that basically the only thing the CEFC could invest in is flying saucers, because anything that is any closer to development than that, Mr Abbott has conveniently saying is an established technology.” Shorten said is “personally supportive” of having the CEFC continue beyond 2020.
(6) The saucer-like defects of lymphocyte migration that are present in the basal lamina beneath the squamous epithelium of the skin were not observed in rat foregut.
(7) Rising 70 metres above the treetops on the edge of Flushing Meadows in New York are a trio of concrete watchtowers, their circular platforms topped with rusting rotor blades, like flying saucers retired from service.
(8) The models' hair was styled into outsize saucers, their lashes and brows powdered white; they wore Black Watch tartan and scowled as they stomped.
(9) Of these cases, 71.4% were treated by saucerization, followed by secondary closure or by skin grafting.
(10) People often proclaim: "I won't believe in ghosts [or flying saucers, angels, etc.]
(11) The preferred treatment is repair of the posterior capsular disruption with saucerization of the remaining meniscus.
(12) The edges of the defects were usually thickened; in some areas they were saucer-shaped but in two cases there was erosion of the outer table of the skull at a distance from the margin of the defect, the erosion being related to an extracranial fluid-filled cavity in continuity with a porencephalic cyst.
(13) It started to produce super-stable, saucer-like short boards designed to make it virtually impossible to catch an edge.
(14) Cup by saucer, manufacturing was farmed out – to Indonesia in the case of Royal Doulton – and hundreds of years of Irish and English glass and ceramic making began to topple.
(15) In addition, the use of the SA primer (3% N-methacryloyl 5-aminosalicylic acid in 80% ethanol) and the LVR (visible light-cured, 33% microfilled low viscous Bis-GMA resin) dramatically improved the adhesion and adaptability of the composite restoration in the saucer cavity at the cervical area.
(16) restorations with margins located 50 per cent in dentine and 50 per cent in enamel) using Scotchbond VLC or Scotchbond 2 bonded to dentine in conventional and saucer-shaped cavities were evaluated.
(17) With further incubation, some of these colonies do not increase in diameter (arrested dome), some form an expanding annular monolayer of cells around the central mount (fried egg), and some grow by enlarging the central mound into a low multilayered disc (saucer).
(18) His Museum of Contemporary Art in Niterói, a flying saucer on a stalk outside Rio, has some of the worst spaces ever conceived – all sloping walls and curves and glass in the wrong places – for showing art.
(19) We all remember the terrible letdown of The Phantom Menace , all of us saucer-eyed nostalgists and nerds excitably gathered outside the Odeon Leicester Square in London's West End, ready for the first-ever showing, and hardly able to believe that it was actually happening.
(20) The treatment consisted chiefly of sequestrectomies and saucerizations supported by 3--12 months of lincomycin treatment.