(n.) A sharp, brief, ringing sound, made by a collision of metallic or other sonorous bodies; -- usually expressing a duller or less resounding sound than clang, and a deeper and stronger sound than clink.
(v. t.) To cause to sound with a clank; as, the prisoners clank their chains.
(v. i.) To sound with a clank.
Example Sentences:
(1) Lee Young-pyo executes an elaborate series of stepovers down the left - Cristiano Ronaldo eat your heart out - but just as he looks to have Maxi Pereira beaten, he lets the ball clank off his shin and out of play.
(2) Repeated noise at 1-4 cycles per second evokes an effortless heard rhythmic sensation which is often heard as "clanks" and "rasping."
(3) Muller then slides a ball into the area for Muller, who breaks clear with only Romero to beat, but lets the ball clank off his shin and towards Romero.
(4) In Houston, on any given day, entomologists can be found clanking open manhole covers, wading into ditches or walking through backyards of obliging residents.
(5) 78 min: That could have made things at least a little bit interesting: A clever reverse ball by Benzema releases Grosso down the left-hand side of the Rangers box, but the World Cup winning left-back lets the ball clank hopelessly off his shins and out of play.
(6) The ball clanks off the middle of the left-hand post, in super slow-motion technicolor, Rene Houseman hacks clear, and 51 seconds later, the referee blows the final whistle.
(7) The fourth season of Game of Thrones is looming like an armour-clanking phalanx, ready to maraud into your social life from 7 April onwards.
(8) 8.05pm BST 4 min: ... clank an idiotic effort straight into the wall.
(9) Giroud meets the set piece, but clanks a header well wide.
(10) It's not a great effort, but it clanks into the legs of Giroud, and the striker - just onside when the shot was taken - is suddenly one on one with Stockdale!
(11) The sound of their clanking on the metal floor of the blocks in Camp Delta is still fresh in my mind.
(12) The home team won 8-2 in an eerie atmosphere where foul balls clanked around empty grandstands and mammoth home runs were received in silence.
(13) Cameron and Clegg were more brutal and direct – in keeping with the clanking sounds emanating from the factory floor.
(14) Inside, however, the tiny store smells like smoke and echoes with the electronic clank of four video slot machines that occupy about a third of the floor space.
(15) Then, the wealthiest citizens clanked champagne flutes to their own good fortunes, while the majority of the population struggled in the proverbial alleyways.
(16) A deeper conundrum is that while crowdfunding is happy-clappy on the outside, inside beats the libertarian free-market clank of the Silicon Valley culture in which it was forged.
(17) Juan Mata's delivery is poor and enables Yayya Toure to go on one of his clanking runs down the pitch.
(18) Out of the corner of my eye I saw the motorbike clank over and skid a long way.
(19) They would be increasingly propelled into a world system already clanking away at full speed.
(20) The rain was pattering against the old windows, the steam heat was clanking in the old radiator, and I felt at peace.
Flank
Definition:
(n.) The fleshy or muscular part of the side of an animal, between the ribs and the hip. See Illust. of Beef.
(n.) The side of an army, or of any division of an army, as of a brigade, regiment, or battalion; the extreme right or left; as, to attack an enemy in flank is to attack him on the side.
(n.) That part of a bastion which reaches from the curtain to the face, and defends the curtain, the flank and face of the opposite bastion; any part of a work defending another by a fire along the outside of its parapet.
(n.) The side of any building.
(n.) That part of the acting surface of a gear wheel tooth that lies within the pitch line.
(v. t.) To stand at the flank or side of; to border upon.
(v. t.) To overlook or command the flank of; to secure or guard the flank of; to pass around or turn the flank of; to attack, or threaten to attack; the flank of.
(v. i.) To border; to touch.
(v. i.) To be posted on the side.
Example Sentences:
(1) In dorsoventral (DV) reversed wings at both shoulder or flank level, the motor axons do not alter their course as they enter the graft.
(2) Three overlapping clones, spanning a total of 19 kb of the human SC gene, including 3 kb of the 5' flanking region, were characterized.
(3) Thus, human bronchial epithelial cells can express the IL-8 gene, with expression in response to the inflammatory mediator TNF regulated mainly at the transcriptional level, and with elements within the 5'-flanking region of the gene that are directly or indirectly modulated by the TNF signal.
(4) Peptides from this region bind to actin, act as mixed inhibitors of the actin-stimulated S1 Mg2(+)-ATPase, and influence the contractile force developed in skinned fibres, whereas peptides flanking this sequence are without effect in our test systems.
(5) We present the nucleotide sequence of the galactokinase gene (galK) of Escherichia coli including its 5' and 3' flanking regions.
(6) Hypersensitive sites identified in the 3'-flanking region showed no change with T3 stimulation.
(7) Exons and flanking introns (greater than 14 kb) were sequenced to determine the structural organization of the gene.
(8) IS1106 has a length of 1137 bp and is flanked by 36bp inverted repeats.
(9) These results suggest that the Eco RI site in the flanking region of the 21-hydroxylase gene may be modified in adrenal cancer tissue, and that inadequate 21-hydroxylase is present in some forms of adrenal cancers.
(10) Our results indicate that provirus expression occurs by two different mechanisms: one provirus acquired a single base pair mutation in the retrovirus tRNA primer binding site, permitting provirus expression; expression of three proviruses was mediated by 5'-flanking DNA sequences.
(11) The sequences in the 5'-flanking region of the alpha- and beta-MYHC-encoding genes diverge extensively from one another, suggesting that expression of the alpha- and beta-MYHC genes is independently regulated.
(12) DNA sequence analysis of a 3.8-kb genomic piece allowed identification of (i) an open reading frame (ORF) with striking homology to the previously identified D. melanogaster ORF and (ii) conserved sequence elements of possible regulatory relevance within and flanking the second intron.
(13) To identify DNA sequences that were responsible for the high level of transcription of the gene for adipocyte P2 in vivo, we made a series of transgenic mice containing 168 base pairs (bp), 247 bp, 1.7 kilobases (kb), and 5.4 kb of 5' flanking sequence linked to the bacterial gene chloramphenicol acetyltransferase.
(14) Studies with substrate analogs selectively modified at the basic doublet indicated that the integrity of both basic amino acids is essential but that conformational parameters, probably governed by the amino acid sequences flanking the basic doublet, play an important role.
(15) A prospective study compared the diagnostic accuracy of sonography and excretory urography in determining the cause of acute flank pain in 61 patients.
(16) The regulatory region of the casein gene contains two different TATA signals flanking the duplication site in the promoter region.
(17) Each of the mice received 3 pieces of explants on the s.c. space in both of their flanks.
(18) The 1947 base pairs of 5' flanking sequence contains several putative regulatory elements including two adjacent Oct I binding elements, four glucocorticoid regulatory elements and a sequence very homologous to the previously described fat specific element at--1402 nt.
(19) In earlier studies with the SV40-transformed hamster cell line Elona two different types of DNA amplification could be identified: (i) Bidirectional overreplication of chromosomally integrated SV40 DNA expanding into the flanking cellular sequences ("onion skin" type) and (ii) highly efficient synthesis of extremely large head-to-tail concatemers containing exclusively SV40 DNA ("rolling circle" type).
(20) In addition, the transcriptional behaviour of this tRNALeuCUG gene in various in vitro systems is described and it seems that, although the gene is transcribed in all test systems, the very A + T-rich 5'-flanking sequence of this particular gene may be somewhat inhibitory to transcription in vitro.