(n.) One who captures any person or thing, as a prisoner or a prize.
Example Sentences:
(1) Transesophageal echocardiography (TEE) is a semi-invasive examination that provides better images of the atrium than classical transthoracic echocardiography (TTE) due to the anatomical positioning of the captor and the high frequency Doppler apparatus used.
(2) Or the story about how Rich was en route from Switzerland to Finland and had to order his jet to reverse course at 20,000ft to avoid being arrested by the FBI at Helsinki airport; or the secret tunnel he built between the 'Dallas building' and the Glashof restaurant opposite so he could slip out to lunch without fear of being assassinated; or the time he was held hostage in Azerbaijan while his captors considered whether or not to sell him to the Russians (who were allegedly pissed off with Rich for nicking their reserves of gold and other precious metals), or the rumours that Rich had slipped in and out of Britain and the US on numerous occasions under false passports.
(3) Media had been asked to refrain from reporting this for fear of further increasing the danger to him from his captors.
(4) She was freed by her captor's wife after months of confinement in one room at their home in Riyadh, the Saudi capital.
(5) The head of the Tripoli supreme security committee, Hashim Bishr, said Zeidan was released after his captors were confronted by "revolutionaries" from the eastern Tripoli suburb of Suq Juma.
(6) Thanks to the selectivity of the captor, it is possible to produce magnetic plots of the thorax.
(7) In conclusion, our study suggests, first, to put AC filters upstream of Al captor to avoid Al intoxication, second, to systematically dose Al and may be other metallic substances in every manufactured AC sold for therapeutic purpose.
(8) Speaking before her release, Tebbutt told ITV News she had not been tortured by her captors but had been made to feel "as comfortable as possible".
(9) Above all, the way he responded to the brutality he had endured, his generosity towards his captors and his lack of desire for revenge against the wider white minority they had served established him as a kind of paragon.
(10) She was a meal ticket, and if her captors endangered her life, they endangered their pay-out.
(11) In particular, his mother, Fatima, was extraordinarily persistent.” The coroner said the main issues for the jury to consider after hearing all the evidence were likely to be whether Khan took his own life, was he forced by his captors to take his own life against his will, or was he unlawfully killed by his captors.
(12) Later it became a symbol of solidarity with his son and a way to connect with the captors.
(13) Nzinga Islam, Mobley’s wife, has said that Mobley told her his captors have forced him to drink water from bottles that had contained urine, part of what he described as ongoing torture.
(14) In Ethiopia, girls are abducted on their way to school, raped and then married to their captors; in Ghana, they are married to traditional priests and become "slaves to the gods" to pay for their family's sins; and in Cameroon, girls are promised in marriage to settle debts while still in the womb.
(15) The captors have not contacted their families, nor released any public statements, but Hakim still believes his brothers and cousin are alive.
(16) The government will soon remove legal aid from prisoners who claim that their captors have mistreated them.
(17) To make it stop, Slahi says he signed on to whatever his captors wanted him to voice.
(18) What comes across strongly in the book is that Judith wasn't cowed by her captors.
(19) As a colleague of Amburn's had reported him missing, the police took swift action, and at 4am officers stormed the house, freed him and arrested his captors.
(20) He was interviewed by three Iranian broadcasters, including Press TV, reading answers pre-prepared by his captors from a script.
Sensor
Definition:
(a.) Sensory; as, the sensor nerves.
Example Sentences:
(1) Different measurements were repeated for five sensors.
(2) A pressure sensor in the patient line prevents excessive inflow and outflow pressures by stopping the inflow or outflow pump respectively.
(3) As an inspiratory monitor in the curarized patient, the sensor responds quantitatively to persisting spontaneous tidal volumes of 1 ml.
(4) You're more likely to awake refreshed, because inside your mattress there's a special sensor that monitors your sleeping rhythms, determining precisely when to wake you so as not to interrupt an REM cycle.
(5) Enzyme sensors requiring reagent and controlled pH to detect substrate at non-steady-state conditions are described.
(6) After every third inhalation trial and after the injection the rats were placed on a movement sensor for 3 min.
(7) During the surgery for the purpose of removal of the tumor, needle type-O2 sensors were inserted into femoral artery and in brain tumor to measure PaO2 and intratumoral O2 pressure.
(8) During the measurement, the values of previously selected features of sensor output signal are determined; then they serve as the input data for computation of concentrations of glucose and of interfering substances.
(9) Efforts to obtain long term, reliable direct measurements of blood pressures have not been successful because of blood clotting impairing the function of sensors, baseline drift, artifacts on measurements, and health hazard-related catheterization.
(10) The algorithm is an improvement over the sphere model in that it considers two distinct surfaces: an ellipsoid, to model the region of the skull on which the sensors are placed, and a sphere as the medium in which the current dipole model is considered.
(11) An electromagnetic flow sensor was placed around the middle uterine artery and electromyogram electrodes were attached to the uterus.
(12) This sensor has been used in flow injection to determine oxalate, alkylamines, and NADH.
(13) When the glass pH electrode data were above 5.1, the pH sensor tended to show lower pH values than glass pH electrode.
(14) The sensor's hysteresis is about 8 percent at 40 degrees Celsius (C) and 12 percent at 20 degrees C. The sensor has a maximal nonlinearity of 8 percent and a worst-case nonrepeatibility of 7 percent.
(15) All ports were successfully placed under local anesthesia, with catheter tip location determined by an electronic sensor wand.
(16) The GCN4 protein mediates the response of the transcriptional apparatus to the environmental signal 'amino acid limitation', while PHO2 seems to be the phosphate sensor that adjusts the response to the availability of phosphate precursors.
(17) The non-specific sensor response may be reduced by a combination of biologic sensors.
(18) These data imply that GTP-binding proteins (G-proteins) are not involved in coupling the voltage sensors to Ca2+ release in skeletal muscle.
(19) A ventricular rate responsive pacemaker was implanted in all patients, with sensors responsive to muscular activity in one patient, and to minute ventilation in three.
(20) A single combined transcutaneous sensor for PO2 and PCO2 was evaluated in a neonatal intensive care unit.