(n.) The use of artful subterfuge, designed to draw away attention from the merits of a case or question; -- specifically applied to legal proceedings; trickery; chicanery; caviling; sophistry.
(n.) To use shifts, cavils, or artifices.
Example Sentences:
(1) #FeelTheForce #TheHulk May 25, 2014 1.54pm BST Lap 34: Raikkonen is desperate to make up ground and come back through the field but in doing so makes a mistake at the Nouvelle Chicane and cuts the corner.
(2) Show me someone who likes their meat overcooked and I will show you a picky eater, someone who regards meal times as a set of challenges and insults to be negotiated, like oil-slicked chicanes on a race track.
(3) 2.02pm BST Lap 40 : Grosjean this time does take Kobayashi, at the Nouvelle Chicane.
(4) The umbilical connection between the US marines at Camp Leatherneck and the new model Afghan army in Camp Shorabak is a sandy chicane known as Friendship Gate, where Helmand's Afghan garrison draws sustenance from its departing foreign advisers.
(5) I was approaching a chicane, within 20m, travelling at 12-15mph; with the signage indicating that I had priority.
(6) Lewis Hamilton’s third Formula One world championship did not have the plot twists, the nuances of narrative and head-rattling chicanes that marked his previous two successes in 2008 and last year.
(7) 2.36pm BST Lap 65: Fastest lap of the race from Ricciardo who is throwing his Red Bull through corners, the back swinging in and out as he navigates a chicane, and he's closing on Hamilton who is now 4 secs back from Rosberg.
(8) Always doubtful about the conventional armoury of signs, speed bumps and chicanes, he began to explore the potential for influencing driver behaviour through stripping out highway paraphernalia, using instead simple design measures that emphasised the distinctiveness of each and every place.
(9) The unmetalled roads quickly become genuine offroad challenges, and while the views from the Delfi and other high points are stunning, the road chicanes along the edge of cliffs and there are no barriers except for the pine trees, and no road signs.
(10) It is urgent that all sides show restraint and take all possible steps to avoid further escalation. Updated at 9.08pm GMT 9.02pm GMT Ukraine continues to strengthen defenses along its eastern border , Reuters reports, but “there is no sign of a major troop buildup.” Border defences have been strengthened by an anti-tank chicane of house-high concrete blocks, placed across the highway that links the Russian city of Rostov-on-Don and runs round the coast toward Crimea, 200 miles west.
(11) Valtteri Bottas gains three places via cutting the chicane.
Temporary
Definition:
(a.) Lasting for a time only; existing or continuing for a limited time; not permanent; as, the patient has obtained temporary relief.
Example Sentences:
(1) Schistosomiasis control currently relies primarily on chemotherapy which is both expensive and temporary.
(2) The temporary loss of a family member through deployment brings unique stresses to a family in three different stages: predeployment, survival, and reunion.
(3) Known as the Little House in the Garden, this temporary structure lasted over 50 years.
(4) Electromagnetic interference presented as inhibition and resetting of the demand circuitry of a ventricular-inhibited temporary external pacemaker in a 70-year-old man undergoing surgical implantation of a permanent bipolar pacemaker generator and lead.
(5) The surgical procedure, using a dispensable tendon, could be directly associated to the sutures of the proximal injuries of the cubital nerve as a temporary palliative.
(6) Safety is increased through temporary discontinuation or dosage reduction of lithium in special risk situations.
(7) Percutaneous tenotomy performed only in patients recurring after temporary cure, drops the rate of recurrences to 13%.
(8) Temporary threshold shifts increased for the first eight hours of exposure and then were asymptotic.
(9) Deafferentation of certain brain regions in adult animals results in (1) the disappearance of degenerating axon terminals and (2) in the temporary persistence of vacant postsynaptic sites.
(10) Poults 3 weeks and older developed temporary tracheal resistance to intranasal challenge following inoculation of either Artvax vaccine or formalin-inactivated Bordetella avium bacterin by the intranasal and eyedrop routes.
(11) Freezing may be valuable while quality control procedures are performed following radiolabeling as well as if temporary storage or shipment of radioantibodies prior to patient dosing is undertaken.
(12) The blockage of the tubular system by the calcium oxalate deposits leads to a temporary reversible increase in serum urea and serum creatinine.
(13) The change in the magnitude of conditioned salivation, latencies of secretion and motor reaction was temporary, and by the end of the third postoperative period their initial magnitudes were restored.
(14) But perhaps the most striking example of how differently much of the world sees London – and the importance of religion – from the way the city plainly sees itself came from the US, where Donald Trump caused uproar with a call for a temporary ban on Muslims entering the country.
(15) But this regime is by no means a temporary regime,” Brandis said.
(16) We conclude that infusion system malfunction resulting in interruption of insulin flow is a common occurrence, is often associated with temporary hyperglycemia, and may account for some of the increased incidence of diabetic ketoacidosis previously described in these patients.
(17) The striking improvements in carbohydrate and lipid metabolism in diabetic and non-diabetic Aborigines after a temporary reversion to a traditional hunter-gatherer lifestyle highlight the potentially reversible nature of the detrimental effects of lifestyle change, particularly in young people who have not yet developed diabetes.
(18) Temporary hypertensive increases in blood pressure, or variations in blood pressure when there was an already existing hypertension, in which the blood pressure either moved within the limits of hypertensive blood pressure values or temporarily returned to normal, occurred in 129 men ages 23-85, in whom repeated measurements of the blood pressure and pulse wave rate (PWG) were carried out in the aorta and iliac artery in the course of a longitudinal study over years.
(19) Certain of the schistosomes were covered with a dense mass of interconnected blood platelets resembling a temporary haemostatic plug but not a blood clot.
(20) Emergency indications to operate have become exceptional since the temporary control of inappropriate secretions by pharmacologic agents is available.