(n.) A wind instrument, blown by a single reed, of richer and fuller tone than the oboe, which has a double reed. It is the leading instrument in a military band.
Example Sentences:
(1) The clarinet and trumpet versions were best discriminated in isolated contexts, with discrimination progressively worse in single-voice and multivoice patterns.
(2) commisure of lips and differences were found depending on the parts being studied and the sound played on the clarinet.
(3) An embouchure aid was constructed as a means of bringing relief to the many clarinet and saxophone players who suffer chronic lip irritation as the result of playing their instruments.
(4) Gardner recorded and engineered Cabinet of Curiosities at his Shadow Shoppe Studio in Holland, playing every instrument himself save the drums, having mastered recorder, clarinet, bass, guitar, keyboards and violin as a child.
(5) In 46 years as a director, he hasn't budged on his position that there's only one response: watch a basketball game, play the clarinet.
(6) The subjects don't have identical midline, comparing lower midline to dentofacial midline, when playing, the angle of clarinet to the body was eccentric according to maxillary incisors in frontal cephalo.
(7) In case of mandibular prognathism, when playing, the subjects pressed on their teeth with the clarinet.
(8) However, measurements of the vocal tract impedance (looking into the mouth) give values an order of magnitude less than the impedances of the clarinet air column resonances.
(9) His most recent UK productions have been a staged clarinet concerto and a collaboration with video artist Bill Viola on an acclaimed version of Tristan und Isolde.
(10) Three instrumental timbres were tested in all contexts: clarinet, trumpet, and bassoon.
(11) Concerning the lateral cephalo, we noticed that the angle of the clarinet in relation to the body axis increased in accordance with the prognathism and decreased with the retrognathism.
(12) I locked myself up for six weeks and listened to the music over and over, forcing myself to try to understand what each clarinet and trumpet, each wacky drum beat was saying.
(13) Advances in musical instrument manufacture--particularly the development of the concert piano and the clarinet--may have played a part in the prevalence of overuse syndrome in musicians.
(14) Bush disseminated a new web video on Saturday entitled Judgement [sic], which uses a whimsical clarinet soundtrack and interview lowlights to portray Trump as a clownish figure not suited to the grave responsibilities of the presidency.
(15) For the particular multiphonics analyzed, the correlation dimension ranges from 2.5 to 2.9 for the saxophone and from 1.3 to 2.2 for the clarinet.
(16) For the saxophone and clarinet multiphonics investigated, the two basis frequencies of the biperiodic spectrum are phase locked, that is, their ratio is equal to a ratio of small integers.
(17) The purpose of this experiment is to understand the influence of playing the clarinet on the dentomaxillofacial morphology and function.
(18) The rising clarinet opener conjures up New York in full heat.
(19) His Sonata for Oboe and Clarinet, inspired by a Kurt Schwitters poem, was heard at the Aeolian Hall in London, while his Sonatina for Piano had been performed in New York.
(20) Pain in the regular school was most often attributed to writing, whereas in the music school it was associated with the playing of all instruments, but most particularly with cello, clarinet, and flute.
Elbow
Definition:
(n.) The joint or bend of the arm; the outer curve in the middle of the arm when bent.
(n.) Any turn or bend like that of the elbow, in a wall, building, and the like; a sudden turn in a line of coast or course of a river; also, an angular or jointed part of any structure, as the raised arm of a chair or sofa, or a short pipe fitting, turning at an angle or bent.
(n.) A sharp angle in any surface of wainscoting or other woodwork; the upright sides which flank any paneled work, as the sides of windows, where the jamb makes an elbow with the window back.
(v. t.) To push or hit with the elbow, as when one pushes by another.
(v. i.) To jut into an angle; to project or to bend after the manner of an elbow.
(v. i.) To push rudely along; to elbow one's way.
Example Sentences:
(1) Compared with conservative management, better long-term success (determined by return of athletic soundness and less evidence of degenerative joint disease) was achieved with surgical curettage of elbow subchondral cystic lesions.
(2) The authors describe a new technique for evaluating traumatic conditions to the elbow: the radial head-capitellum view.
(3) Furthermore, it involved mixed clinical and histological changes of epidermal nevus from fingers to elbow.
(4) But there was a clear penalty on Diego Costa – it is a waste of time and money to have officials by the side of the goal because normally they do nothing – and David Luiz’s elbow I didn’t see, I confess.
(5) Five cases of bilateral abduction contracture of the shoulder in adults including the first case of bilateral abduction contractures of shoulder and hip plus bilateral flexion contracture of elbow and extension contracture of a knee are reported.
(6) After 3-5 days of side-arm traction, swelling had usually diminished sufficiently to allow the elbow to be safely hyperflexed to stabilize the fracture after elective closed reduction.
(7) There were no significant effects of training on the time-related contractile properties (time to peak torque, half-relaxation time), CSA, or %MUA of the elbow flexors or knee extensors.
(8) Brachial artery rupture is the usual vascular injury associated with a compound elbow dislocation.
(9) In severely impaired limbs, there was a marked shift in both the peak EMG angle and the angular domain of EMG activity for both biceps and triceps muscle groups, away from the normal elbow flexion-extension axis towards external humeral rotation and shoulder girdle elevation.
(10) The EMG activity in flexors of both shoulder and elbow showed reflex responses at short latency (approximately 25 ms).
(11) The study involved measurement of mechanical resistance of a passive limb periodical movements at the elbow joint.
(12) Whilst developing an elbow endoprosthesis, the joint forces were estimated for patients with rheumatoid arthritis.
(13) Electrical and mechanical responses were evoked in the elbow flexors (EFs) of normal subjects and myopathy patients by maximal stimulation of the musculocutaneous nerve by a wire electrode in the axilla.
(14) Distal (5th finger - wrist) and proximal (wrist - elbow) sensory nerve conduction showed an insignificant increase as hyperglycemia was induced.
(15) In our view, the surgical procedure of choice for a salvage elbow is an elbow arthrodesis.
(16) Degenerative arthritis of the elbow is a poorly recognised condition, usually seen in a middle-aged man with an occupation or activity which involves the repetitive use of his dominant arm.
(17) Rheumatoid arthritis of the elbow is a common condition.
(18) The authors favor conservative treatment of tennis elbow, starting with cessation of the offending activity and prescription of a nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID) and followed by isometric and isotonic exercises when pain and inflammation have subsided.
(19) Radiographic examination revealed ankylotic changes in both wrist and elbow joints.
(20) Thirty-six per cent had axillary occlusion, 52% had a brachial lesion, and the lesion was distal to the elbow in 11%.