(v.) That which hinders or impedes motion; hence, an encumbrance, restraint, or impediment, of any kind.
(v.) A weight, as a log or block of wood, attached to a man or an animal to hinder motion.
(v.) A shoe, or sandal, intended to protect the feet from wet, or to increase the apparent stature, and having, therefore, a very thick sole. Cf. Chopine.
(v. t.) To encumber or load, especially with something that impedes motion; to hamper.
(v. t.) To obstruct so as to hinder motion in or through; to choke up; as, to clog a tube or a channel.
(v. t.) To burden; to trammel; to embarrass; to perplex.
(v. i.) To become clogged; to become loaded or encumbered, as with extraneous matter.
(v. i.) To coalesce or adhere; to unite in a mass.
Example Sentences:
(1) Recent research has shown that more than two-thirds of internet users would ignore warning letters, and with more than 6 million internet users in Britain regularly downloading illegally copied music and films, the media industry believes so-called "technical measures", such as slowing down broadband connections, should be introduced before the courts system is clogged up with thousands of lawsuits.
(2) Additional modifications include design of a reliable sampling catheter and of a method for quickly and atraumatically replacing clogged catheters.
(3) Clogging of endoscopic stents necessitates their replacement in many patients with malignant obstructive jaundice and limits their use in benign strictures.
(4) The outcome is a belief that the Earth is being slowly strangled by a gaudy coat of impermeable plastic waste that collects in great floating islands in the world's oceans; clogs up canals and rivers; and is swallowed by animals, birds and sea creatures.
(5) Indeed, while people might be annoyed or alarmed at the idea of being given placebos, medics probably wouldn't need to were it not for the modern blight of the Worried Well clogging up consulting rooms.
(6) Malfunctioning of the balloon was due to leakage in 12 cases and to clogging of the inflation catheter in three cases.
(7) The clogged sewage drains, road-side garbage dumps and unplanned industrial waste management pose severe health hazards.
(8) It’s no stretch to anticipate, should Obamacare go, a return to emergency rooms clogged with patients using them for primary care, healthcare costs again creeping up and lower wage earners going without care because it’s too expensive.
(9) The reasons for failure were: (1) separation of the inner PEJ tube from the outer gastrostomy tube (59%); (2) clogging (32%) due to small PEJ tube diameter; and (3) kinking and knotting (9%).
(10) It’s an indicator that you do not have good enough cycling infrastructure.” This can be seen in New York, he points out, where on busy, traffic-clogged Manhattan streets, perhaps 80% of cyclists will be male, while along the five-mile segregated cycle path that runs along the Hudson River, more than half will be women.
(11) Nobody cares about us or our families.” The doorless, green-and-yellow three-wheelers that clog Delhi’s streets were converted to compressed natural gas years ago, so they create little pollution.
(12) Factors leading to injury included rapid onset of colder temperatures, sudden reuse of snowblowers after storage for the summer, a heavy mid-week storm that created a sense of urgency to clear snow in dusky light conditions after a day at work, frustration as exit chutes became repeatedly clogged with heavy wet snow and limited operator education.
(13) It was naïve to expect to get ambitious measures through Congress in a debate clogged up with scientific detail.
(14) Older cars and diesel engines produce particulates that clog up the lungs and may enter brain tissue, and nitrogen oxides that affect breathing.
(15) At least three stretches of an expressway were clogged with cars still submerged in water and mud; in Zhaoxindian, three dozen vehicles could be seen and more were thought to be entirely covered.
(16) A clogged Dobbhoff tube ruptured while it was being flushed manually with a syringe containing normal saline under great pressure.
(17) Coaxial trocar technique (19 patients) permits initial insertion of softer and often larger catheters (9-14 French feeding tubes), which are less likely to clog or require exchange; the intragastric balloon support method facilitates trocar insertion.
(18) Blood samples from nine healthy men were studied to determine the effect of ouabain and elevated serum calcium concentration on blood viscosity, measured by a rotational viscometer, and on red cell filterability by the St George's Filtrometer, giving values for clogging particles (CP) and red cell transit time (RCTT).
(19) When it is not clogged with weekend traffic, Container – the English word is used in Arabic – is a desolate spot: a lonely stretch of asphalt, four dingy tollbooth-like structures painted white and green, a few bored Israeli soldiers with automatic rifles.
(20) Filth and smoke hangs everywhere, clogging the very soul.
Heel
Definition:
(v. i.) To lean or tip to one side, as a ship; as, the ship heels aport; the boat heeled over when the squall struck it.
(n.) The hinder part of the foot; sometimes, the whole foot; -- in man or quadrupeds.
(n.) The hinder part of any covering for the foot, as of a shoe, sock, etc.; specif., a solid part projecting downward from the hinder part of the sole of a boot or shoe.
(n.) The latter or remaining part of anything; the closing or concluding part.
(n.) Anything regarded as like a human heel in shape; a protuberance; a knob.
(n.) The part of a thing corresponding in position to the human heel; the lower part, or part on which a thing rests
(n.) The after end of a ship's keel.
(n.) The lower end of a mast, a boom, the bowsprit, the sternpost, etc.
(n.) In a small arm, the corner of the but which is upwards in the firing position.
(n.) The uppermost part of the blade of a sword, next to the hilt.
(n.) The part of any tool next the tang or handle; as, the heel of a scythe.
(n.) Management by the heel, especially the spurred heel; as, the horse understands the heel well.
(n.) The lower end of a timber in a frame, as a post or rafter. In the United States, specif., the obtuse angle of the lower end of a rafter set sloping.
(n.) A cyma reversa; -- so called by workmen.
(v. t.) To perform by the use of the heels, as in dancing, running, and the like.
(v. t.) To add a heel to; as, to heel a shoe.
(v. t.) To arm with a gaff, as a cock for fighting.
Example Sentences:
(1) A distally based posterior tibial artery adipofascial flap with skin graft was used for the reconstruction of soft tissue defects over the Achilles tendon in three cases and over the heel in three cases.
(2) Forty heels in 32 patients were reviewed either by a clinical and radiographical examination (35 heels), or by a questionnaire (5 heels) after an average of 6 years (range 1-12 years).
(3) The expansion comes hot on the heels of another year of stellar growth in which Primark edged closer to overtaking high street stalwart M&S in sales and profits.
(4) And I have come to tell you this: the trends for this coming season will be extremely expensive furs, very high-heeled shoes and full-length ballgowns.
(5) Resistance was applied in reaction time trials via an electromagnet placed below the subject's heel.
(6) Hot on the heels of the secret justice green paper – which seeks to shut claimants out of their own cases against the state to defend the "public interest" – comes a major expansion of powers to monitor the phone calls, emails and website visits of every person in the UK .
(7) Computer digitization revealed that distal anastomotic intimal hyperplasia occurred exclusively at the heel and the toe of the graft and the floor of the host artery.
(8) In follow-up examination of 71 cases for periods longer than one year, 79 per cent of the patients showed that the UCBL shoe insert and the Helfet heel seat improved the clinical and roentgenographic appearance of the foot.
(9) FBI v Apple hearing: 'Apple is in an arms race with criminals and hackers' – live Read more This all comes on the heels of a judge in New York strongly rebuking the FBI and Department of Justice in a court decision on Monday.
(10) The tension required for release of the bindings laterally at the toe and vertically at the heel was measured and compared with the values recommended by the International Association for Skiing Safety.
(11) But Spurs built up a final head of steam and after Gomes punched clear Trippier’s initial cross, a second fell to Son at the near post and he back-heeled the ball past Gomes.
(12) His achilles heel would be reconciling disparate sections of the grassroots party and restoring the fissures in the parliamentary party.
(13) Despite the spring-heeled bounce in their hair-raising hardcore storm – and their productive affair with Funkmaster George Clinton – the Peppers’ soul stew remains predominantly, ragingly punky.
(14) A second recession hard on the heels of the first gives the (accurate) impression that the economy is a disaster area and makes a downgrade more likely.
(15) We self-censure because it would put us all back, it would diminish who we are.” Of course she’s a feminist: “That just means believing that women can do everything men can but backwards in heels with a cherry on top.
(16) Warming the heel produced no significant improvement in results.
(17) Hot on the heels of the Beijing Olympics, Shanghai’s 2010 Expo was the biggest in history, spread across an area five times the size of Milan’s exposition at a cost of $50bn (£32bn) – a level of ambition that saw 18,000 families forcibly displaced , according to Amnesty International.
(18) You will have to offer leadership and a sense of belonging to the civil service's lowly clerks and frontline staff in the Department for Work and Pensions, struggling not just with Iain Duncan Smith's fantasies of benefit rationalisation, but sharp contractors snapping at their heels.
(19) The brothers said they were pleased that after “a great deal of dragging of their heels” the Mail and Hopkins had accepted the allegations were false.
(20) The patient's main phenotypic features were short-limb dwarfism, craniofacial disproportion with prominent forehead, short neck and trunk with pectus carinatum, and platyspondyly, protuberant abdomen, acromesomelic shortness of limbs, bilateral palm simian crease, short feet with brachydactyly of the 2nd toe, and prominent heels.