(n.) A piece of wood or metal, commonly wedge-shaped, used for fastening together parts of a machine or structure. It is driven into an opening through one or all of the parts. [See Illust.] In the United States a cotter is commonly called a key.
(n.) A toggle.
(v. t.) To fasten with a cotter.
Example Sentences:
(1) Paul O’Connell’s cool head leads Ireland through Six Nations furnace | Andy Bull Read more “We were exposed to a very good team,” said Cotter.
(2) In contrast, the reductive reaction of sperm whale myoglobin with CBrCl3 results in addition of the CCl3.radical to the 2-vinyl moiety of the heme group (Osawa, Y., Highet, R. J., Murphy, C. M., Cotter.
(3) We talked about Brown v Board , the same-sex marriage and Affordable Care Act cases, what happens when you have a vacancy in the supreme court that results in a four-four split ,” said Cotter.
(4) I wish [the Scotland coach] Vern Cotter could come out and say I’m angry.
(5) Police said the bodies had been released to their grieving families by Birmingham and Solihull coroner Aidan Cotter.
(6) The residue is then hydrolyzed with 0.2 M HCl to liberate the "monophosphoryl" lipid A degradation products (Qureshi, N., Cotter, R. J. and Takayama, K. (1986) J. Microbiol.
(7) Luckily for Vern Cotter’s team it was ruled out for a knock-on at the final ruck but a subsequent Foley penalty gave Australia a six-point cushion entering the final quarter.
(8) The base sequence of DNA has been shown to influence the kinds and amounts of alkylation of purine bases by N-methyl-N-nitrosourea [W. T. Briscoe and L-E. Cotter, Chem.
(9) Cork: Cafe Paradiso Rooms Facebook Twitter Pinterest Strictly speaking, you can only book into these two smart rooms above Denis Cotter’s famed Cafe Paradiso restaurant in Cork city as part of a dinner, B&B package for two.
(10) An attempt was made to expand the paradigm published by Spradlin, Cotter, and Baxley (1973).
(11) "We don't have a big enough workforce to get things done," said Tim Cotter, an executive at Falklands Islands Development Corp. "In the short term, we could employ seasonal workers from St Helena and South America, and those who like it, and fit in, will stay.
(12) As Jim Cotter wrote 20 years ago: "There are four stages in the church's response to any challenge to its tradition.
(13) Executive headteacher, Paul Cotter, said: “It simply cannot be the right decision to block more schools from benefiting from solar power.
(14) As part of an ACS project to educate people, Love our Constitution, Dan Cotter, an attorney in Chicago, gave a talk to a troop of Boy Scouts there last Monday night.
(15) Cotter said he intended to review the decision but his Australian counterpart, Michael Cheika, reckoned it was simply another example of rugby’s slim margins.
(16) If Maitland had caught the ball – and he clearly tried to – he would, as his coach, Vern Cotter, pointed out, have been away and may well have scored.
(17) Dennis Cotter's braised turnip galette Denis Cotter's braised turnip galette of portobello mushrooms and chestnuts with a red wine sauce And finally, this lovely Irish recipe from Dennis Cotter, who runs the renowned vegetarian restaurant Cafe Paradiso in Cork.
(18) Just as a fan remonstrated in front of the Scottish coaching box, shouting: “You should be ashamed,” at Vern Cotter, the full-back burst over the Irish line and for all the world appeared to get the ball down.
Fasten
Definition:
(a.) To fix firmly; to make fast; to secure, as by a knot, lock, bolt, etc.; as, to fasten a chain to the feet; to fasten a door or window.
(a.) To cause to hold together or to something else; to attach or unite firmly; to cause to cleave to something , or to cleave together, by any means; as, to fasten boards together with nails or cords; to fasten anything in our thoughts.
(a.) To cause to take close effect; to make to tell; to lay on; as, to fasten a blow.
(v. i.) To fix one's self; to take firm hold; to clinch; to cling.
Example Sentences:
(1) The authors tested their own technique, using transplants or implants of corium, fascia, dura mater and polyester net, internally in the tendons, fastening them with an external cross suture.
(2) A woman who was 30 weeks pregnant was sitting with a three-point seat belt fastened in the front passenger seat of an automobile that was involved in a head-on collision.
(3) Total radioactivity, including the volatile part of the solvents were registered by autoradiography of dried, evaporated tape-fastened sections.
(4) In order to more effectively separate the walls, a protector was applied consisting of a soft polyethylene tube, whose ends were fastened to the cervix uteri and remained there for 3-4 weeks.
(5) A penile problem that physicians are confronted with in the emergency room is entrapment of the foreskin by a zipper fastener.
(6) Mohamedou Ould Slahi: “smart, witty, garrulous, and curiously undamaged” Another team inside the plane dragged me and fastened me on a small and straight seat.
(7) It is made light-impermeable through the use of nylon hook-and-loop fasteners.
(8) Given that the economy is kind of coming back right now, I just didn’t understand why trade was so prominent this race David Lawrence, vice-president, AlphaUSA “Given that the economy is kind of coming back right now, something that is so key to the economy [as trade], I just didn’t understand why it was so prominent this race, and not some other issue,” said David Lawrence, vice-president of AlphaUSA, a fastener manufacturer based in suburban Detroit.
(9) Sheets of oil paper fastened vertically to two wires at a height of 60 cm above the ground at a distance of 20 cm one from another (barriers) and sheets in the form of "flags" (Dergachova and others, 1973) were used simultaneously.
(10) One group was exposed to the regular hospital program and the other group had, in addition: a mock-up demonstration for the mothers on the correct method of fastening the baby into the car seat and the car seat into the automobile seat; written handouts of how to use a car seat with an infant; a physician's order for the mock-up demonstration; and a physician's order to be discharged in a car seat.
(11) Erection, increase in circumference as well as rigidity, can be measured with a simple device consisting of a calibrated felt band with a sliding collar fastened to 1 end.
(12) A supporting harness is attached to the mask by use of three flat straps connected by Dot fasteners.
(13) Prevention includes feeding with human milk in prematures with slow increase of partial and total volumes, early initial fastening in cases of asphyxia and careful and close surveillance of high-risk newborns.
(14) Based on its membrane topology, it has been suggested that MotB might be a linker that fastens the torque-generating machinery to the cell wall.
(15) Spontaneous "overnight" deflation of inflatable prostheses is rather uncommon, but we have had a 5.7% incidence of it in a 24-month period in which we used implants with a suturable tab and fastened them to the subjacent fascia.
(16) In case of a transverse position of the fetal head, a special fastener on the forceps makes it possible to use an excentric handle on the traction hook of the Kielland forceps and thus render possible rotation of the fetal head from the transverse position.
(17) A brightly coloured train rattles across their path and stops abruptly and, after an affectionate hug, the two creatures climb aboard, carefully fasten their seatbelts and are bounced away to a rendezvous with their friends (a lavishly hatted family of peg dolls called the Pontipines; Makka Pakka, a squat, fuzzy troglodyte with OCD, and the Tombliboos, a triumvirate of pastel-coloured pepper pot creatures who live inside a topiary bush).
(18) Over a 0.009 inch flexible tip steel wire a diamond-coated brass burr fastened to a flexible drive shaft that rotates and tracks was advanced.
(19) Granulation tissue grows through the prosthesis which is fastened well to the connective-tissue cuff forming around it.
(20) The extension of the tracheostoma is achieved by means of an parallel incision which widens the trachea with the acid of 2 tough threads on each side, which are fastened to the clavicle.