(n.) A small vehicle moved on wheels; usually, one having but two wheels and drawn by one horse; a cart.
(n.) A vehicle adapted to the rails of a railroad.
(n.) A chariot of war or of triumph; a vehicle of splendor, dignity, or solemnity.
(n.) The stars also called Charles's Wain, the Great Bear, or the Dipper.
(n.) The cage of a lift or elevator.
(n.) The basket, box, or cage suspended from a balloon to contain passengers, ballast, etc.
(n.) A floating perforated box for living fish.
Example Sentences:
(1) In January, Paris taxi drivers attacked an Uber car transporting two passengers from Charles de Gaulle airport.
(2) The PUP founder made the comments at a voters’ forum and press conference during an open day held at his Palmer Coolum Resort, where he invited the electorate to see his giant robotic dinosaur park, memorabilia including his car collection and a concert by Dean Vegas, an Elvis impersonator.
(3) While the majority of EU member states, including the UK, do not have a direct interest in the CAR, or in taking action, the alternative is unthinkable.
(4) "It has done so much to educate people about low emissions cars.
(5) In later years, the church built a business empire that included the Washington Times newspaper, the New Yorker Hotel in Manhattan, Bridgeport University in Connecticut, as well as a hotel and a car plant in North Korea.
(6) He was burnt alive along with three customers as flames from the car set his carpet shop ablaze.
(7) Car manufacturers, for example, are not allowed to insist that buyers only get their car serviced by them.
(8) After all, you can only drive one car at a time or go on one holiday at a time.
(9) While there has been almost no political reform during their terms of office, there have been several ambitious steps forward in terms of environmental policy: anti-desertification campaigns; tree planting; an environmental transparency law; adoption of carbon targets; eco-services compensation; eco accounting; caps on water; lower economic growth targets; the 12th Five-Year Plan; debate and increased monitoring of PM2.5 [fine particulate matter] and huge investments in eco-cities, "clean car" manufacturing, public transport, energy-saving devices and renewable technology.
(10) At least 12 people were killed and dozens injured by a car bomb at a funeral in Jaramana at the end of August.
(11) Slager, 33, was a patrolman first class for the North Charleston police department when he fatally shot Scott, 50, following a struggle that led from a traffic stop when the officer noticed that one of Scott’s car tail lights was broken.
(12) There are men who have been here for 15, 20 years or more who have never even sat in the cars because no one on the floor can afford to buy one.
(13) She has more than made up for it since, building opera houses in China, art museums in America and car factories in Germany, all bearing her unmistakable influence in every detail.
(14) "I was in the car with Matthew and he held out his phone and said: 'We need to talk about this' with a very serious face, and my immediate thought was somebody had found where I lived and had made a direct threat.
(15) "[Zimmerman] shouldn't have gotten out of that car.
(16) Joe Gregory, parked outside the arena while waiting to pick up his girlfriend and her sister from the concert, captured its impact on his car’s dashcam.
(17) Harry was 12 years old when Diana, Princess of Wales, was killed in a car crash but said it was not until his late 20s, after two years of “total chaos”, that he processed the grief.
(18) He wound up repossessing the cars of workers who fled town after the bust.
(19) She began on Friday by urging Republican women at a convention to “look at this face”, meaning her own, condemned Trump’s remarks as “unpresidential”, and then the Super Pac campaigning group, Carly For America, used Fiorina’s words as a voiceover for a video ad posted on YouTube on Monday showcasing dozens of women’s faces as the “faces of leadership”.
(20) Morel was arrested after his car was matched with one caught on camera fleeing the scene, and was involved in a hit-and-run with a cyclist 10 minutes after the shooting .
Saddle
Definition:
(n.) A seat for a rider, -- usually made of leather, padded to span comfortably a horse's back, furnished with stirrups for the rider's feet to rest in, and fastened in place with a girth; also, a seat for the rider on a bicycle or tricycle.
(n.) A padded part of a harness which is worn on a horse's back, being fastened in place with a girth. It serves various purposes, as to keep the breeching in place, carry guides for the reins, etc.
(n.) A piece of meat containing a part of the backbone of an animal with the ribs on each side; as, a saddle of mutton, of venison, etc.
(n.) A block of wood, usually fastened to some spar, and shaped to receive the end of another spar.
(n.) A part, as a flange, which is hollowed out to fit upon a convex surface and serve as a means of attachment or support.
(n.) The clitellus of an earthworm.
(n.) The threshold of a door, when a separate piece from the floor or landing; -- so called because it spans and covers the joint between two floors.
(v. t.) To put a saddle upon; to equip (a beast) for riding.
(v. t.) Hence: To fix as a charge or burden upon; to load; to encumber; as, to saddle a town with the expense of bridges and highways.
Example Sentences:
(1) Based on our experience with the mark I prosthesis we have designed and developed a mark II model which has freedom of axial rotation of the saddle.
(2) Joaquin Rodriguez Oliver is amusing himself by trying to take a puff of a cigar in his saddle.
(3) To date, 3-dimensional studies have demonstrated that the mitral valve is saddle-shaped in systole, so that apparent superior leaflet displacement in the mediolateral 4-chamber view, often seen in otherwise normal individuals, lies entirely within the bounds defined by the mitral annulus and occurs without leaflet distortion or actual displacement above the entire mitral valve.
(4) Devitalized homologous costal cartilage is widely employed as an implant in the management of the saddle nose.
(5) Our practice of initiating treatment of saddle embolism with immediate systemic heparin infusion resembles that of Blaisdell et al.
(6) Charlize Theron is set to star opposite Seth MacFarlane in the Ted creator's new comedy western A Million Ways to Die in the West, tipped as a homage to Mel Brooks's classic movie Blazing Saddles .
(7) Eleven patients with stones overlying the sacro-iliac joint were treated in the prone position, while 56 patients with stones distal to the sacro-iliac joint, were treated in the saddle (astride) position.
(8) Proteins of normal serum as well as induced serum emerged in two peaks separated by a deep saddle.
(9) In the Russian gallery, for example, the courageous Vadim Zakharov presents a pointed version of the Danaë myth in which an insouciant dictator (of whom it is hard not to think: Putin) sits on a high beam on a saddle, shelling nuts all day while gold coins rain down from a vast shower-head only to be hoisted in buckets by faceless thuggish men in suits.
(10) Serious septal injuries may include comminuted caudal border fractures, septal crushes, and saddling with loss of septal height.
(11) For the saddle coil, signal-to-noise per pixel was superior to the head coil for depths below 8.5 cm for magnifications up to 30%.
(12) But they also saddled governments with large deficits, which soon came to be viewed as an obstacle to recovery – the opposite of what Keynes taught.
(13) Correction of the saddle nasal deformity requires generous elevation and mobilization of the overlying soft tissue, the restoration of skeletal support, and the provision of nasal mucosa lining ("the forgotten link").
(14) The patient showed characteristic features: upper and lower eyelids connected to each other by a string-like epithelium, low hairline, epicanthal folds, saddle nose with a broad, flat root, micrognathia, short neck, high-arched palate, prominent xiphisternum, wide-spaced nipples, bilateral pes equinovarus, fifth toes that overlapped the fourth toes bilaterally, a deep fissure between the first and second toes bilaterally, and abnormal flexions of fingers and toes.
(15) Murdoch’s humblest day didn’t last long, with Rebekah Brooks back in the saddle an James Murdoch back in charge of Sky and angling to take over the whole company.
(16) High-resolution magnetic resonance (MR) images of the skin were acquired with a whole-body MR system at 1.5 T by adding a specific imaging module: A saddle-shaped surface gradient coil was connected in place of one of the gradient coils of the system, and a surface radio-frequency coil with a 1.5-cm radius was placed at the center of the gradient coil.
(17) Other clinical manifestations were saddle nose (3 cases), painful swelling of ear (2 cases), arthralgia (1 case) ophthalmodynia (1 case).
(18) While traditional causes of occlusion (saddle embolus and thrombosis) are the most frequent, vasculitis and hypercoagulable states have recently been suggested as etiologies.
(19) The equipment consisted of a sound transducer applied to the skin adjacent to the trachea and a radio transmitter attached to the saddle.
(20) Successively: correction of the dorsum (resection of the bony hump) with incorrect nasofrontal angle, residual hump, "saddle nose"; lateral osteotomy and bony step; transversal and paramedian osteotomy with possibility of "open roof" so as residual deviation.