(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.
Wedge
Definition:
(n.) A piece of metal, or other hard material, thick at one end, and tapering to a thin edge at the other, used in splitting wood, rocks, etc., in raising heavy bodies, and the like. It is one of the six elementary machines called the mechanical powers. See Illust. of Mechanical powers, under Mechanical.
(n.) A solid of five sides, having a rectangular base, two rectangular or trapezoidal sides meeting in an edge, and two triangular ends.
(n.) A mass of metal, especially when of a wedgelike form.
(n.) Anything in the form of a wedge, as a body of troops drawn up in such a form.
(n.) The person whose name stands lowest on the list of the classical tripos; -- so called after a person (Wedgewood) who occupied this position on the first list of 1828.
(v. t.) To cleave or separate with a wedge or wedges, or as with a wedge; to rive.
(v. t.) To force or drive as a wedge is driven.
(v. t.) To force by crowding and pushing as a wedge does; as, to wedge one's way.
(v. t.) To press closely; to fix, or make fast, in the manner of a wedge that is driven into something.
(v. t.) To fasten with a wedge, or with wedges; as, to wedge a scythe on the snath; to wedge a rail or a piece of timber in its place.
(v. t.) To cut, as clay, into wedgelike masses, and work by dashing together, in order to expel air bubbles, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) It is suggested that the normal cyclical release of LH is inhibited in PCO disease by a negative feedback by androgens to the hypothalamus or the pituitary, and that wedge resection should be reserved for patients in whom other forms of treatment have failed.
(2) An opening wedge osteotomy is then directed posterior-dorsal to anterior-plantar, to effectively plantarflex the posterior aspect of the calcaneus.
(3) Lisinopril increases cardiac output, and decreases pulmonary capillary wedge pressure and mean arterial pressure in patients with congestive heart failure refractory to conventional treatment with digitalis and diuretics.
(4) It was then determined whether reducing the PA wedge pressure during exercise with prazosin (9 patients) or dobutamine (6 patients) reduced ventilatory levels toward normal.
(5) He elaborates: "Republicans use powerful economic wedge issues to great impact.
(6) The method described uses film DOT-I and DOT-II by Dupont, whereby the exposure of the step wedge takes place on a linear accelerator with a photo energy of 10 MeV.
(7) Indirect methods to evaluate left ventricular function included the use of the Swan-Ganz catheter for pulmonary capillary wedge pressure measurement, systolic time intervals, and cardiac output.
(8) We performed carinal reconstruction in eight patients, sleeve pneumonectomy in eight patients and wedge pneumonectomy in one.
(9) The mitral valve area was less than 1 cm2 in 61%, the wedge pressure over 25 mmHg in 59% and the pulmonary artery systolic pressure over 50 mmHg in 59%.
(10) Lungs were evaluated for the presence of wedge-shaped pleural-based densities and for the presence of an associated vascular sign.
(11) The isodose curves exhibited the desired wedge angles over the range of field sizes from 5 x 5 to 15 x 40 cm.
(12) This is contradicted, however, by maintained blood pressure and pulmonary capillary wedge pressure, increased cardiac output, and reduced peripheral resistance.
(13) Early complications included disc entrapment against the ventricular wall in three cases, wedging of chorda between disc and valve rim in two and posterior perforation of the left ventricle in three patients.
(14) Meanwhile, among hepatic and systemic hemodynamics, wedged hepatic venous pressure, hepatic venous pressure gradient, free hepatic venous pressure, cardiac index, systolic blood pressure, systemic vascular resistance, and stroke volume were found to have changed significantly after tilting.
(15) Cardiac disorders being usually concomitant with this syndrome (interventricular leak, pulmonary arterial wedge stenosis etc.)
(16) As an initial feasibility study of computer-controlled radiation therapy, its application to produce wedge-shaped dose distributions by moving the collimator jaws has been evaluated.
(17) Five shoulders had a posterior opening-wedge osteotomy of the scapular neck to correct the excessive retroversion of the glenoid cavity.
(18) The results showed a satisfactory inter- and intraobserver agreement for wedge (Kappa = 0.72 and 0.90) and compression fractures (Kappa = 0.60 and 0.92).
(19) Among 28 patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) with increasing dyspnea, the resting mean pulmonary arterial wedge pressure was elevated (greater than 12mm Hg) in 4 and became abnormal with exercise in 3 other subjects.
(20) After induction of spinal anaesthesia the mean arterial pressure, right atrial pressure, pulmonary capillary wedge pressure and systemic vascular resistance were significantly reduced.