(n.) A bed or cot for a baby, oscillating on rockers or swinging on pivots; hence, the place of origin, or in which anything is nurtured or protected in the earlier period of existence; as, a cradle of crime; the cradle of liberty.
(n.) Infancy, or very early life.
(n.) An implement consisting of a broad scythe for cutting grain, with a set of long fingers parallel to the scythe, designed to receive the grain, and to lay it evenly in a swath.
(n.) A tool used in mezzotint engraving, which, by a rocking motion, raises burrs on the surface of the plate, so preparing the ground.
(n.) A framework of timbers, or iron bars, moving upon ways or rollers, used to support, lift, or carry ships or other vessels, heavy guns, etc., as up an inclined plane, or across a strip of land, or in launching a ship.
(n.) A case for a broken or dislocated limb.
(n.) A frame to keep the bedclothes from contact with the person.
(n.) A machine on rockers, used in washing out auriferous earth; -- also called a rocker.
(n.) A suspended scaffold used in shafts.
(n.) The ribbing for vaulted ceilings and arches intended to be covered with plaster.
(n.) The basket or apparatus in which, when a line has been made fast to a wrecked ship from the shore, the people are brought off from the wreck.
(v. t.) To lay to rest, or rock, as in a cradle; to lull or quiet, as by rocking.
(v. t.) To nurse or train in infancy.
(v. t.) To cut and lay with a cradle, as grain.
(v. t.) To transport a vessel by means of a cradle.
(v. i.) To lie or lodge, as in a cradle.
Example Sentences:
(1) A tall young Border Police officer stopped me, his rifle cradled in his arms.
(2) The menace we’re facing – and I say we, because no one is spared – is embodied by the hooded men who are ravaging the cradle of civilization.
(3) He encountered one couple en route to the MSPs’ meeting, who said “Glad you could visit, Jeremy,” and “Well done!” And outside a nearby cafe, a man cradling his baby daughter in the sunshine shouted out to him: “Thanks for bringing humanity back to politics.
(4) Whereas a film documentary might piece together the sweatshop story through footage and anecdote, the game allows players to experience the system from the inside with all its cat's cradle of pressures and temptations.
(5) "What I realised is that the most important thing is China," he says, cradling a beer and still wearing his trademark cowboy-style wide-rimmed hat.
(6) And he said yes, and I was so happy – I would have felt bad if he’d said no.” With the noose tightening around Aleppo, Masri says: “Aleppo is the final revenge against the city that was the cradle of the peaceful revolution - a genocide against everyone that does not flee all they have, and the graves of their families.
(7) But Ward also wants us all to ask some broader, deeper questions about our whole "cradle-to-grave" waste economy.
(8) Pioneer of the ‘cradle to cradle’ concept , McDonough argues that peace is not possible when market activity and “war-like” competition are so closely entwined.
(9) Despite growth outdoing the eurozone since the financial crisis, a housing boom and falling taxes, Löfven hopes to capitalise on voters seeking a return to Sweden's older image of cradle-to-grave welfare and job security.
(10) Protected from the cradle, they are now getting closer to their graves having managed to store up wealth.
(11) The Labour leader visited Essex, regarded as the political cradle of Thatcherism, on Tuesday before a trip to the county by David Cameron and the deputy prime minister, Nick Clegg, billed as an attempt to relaunch the government after difficult local elections.
(12) The authors emphasize the importance of detecting the newborns at audiological risk and screening the neonates in order to get an early diagnosis and treatment of the affection, at least within the first year of life, to avoid or reduce the consequences of hearing loss; then they describe the procedure commonly in use at present for neonatal hearing screening and a number of available different diagnostic tools (electrodermal audiometry, heart rate audiometry--with the possibility of autoregressive analysis--respiration audiometry, autoregressive analysis of EEG, acoustic impedance measurements with study of the acoustic reflex, auditory response cradle which is also named CRIB-O-GRAM).
(13) But it would be a surprise if they did not consider whether there has been too cosy a cat’s cradle between Salazar, Nike, Farah and those at the top of UK Athletics.
(14) DreamWorks production designer Raymond Zibach was in Chengdu, the cradle of the panda in Sichuan province in south-west China, to promote his film last week.
(15) The stuff of sci-fi If you think this sounds a bit like science fiction, you might be recalling the Kurt Vonnegut story, Cat’s Cradle .
(16) Subsequently he has tended to let his audiences find their own cat's cradle of reference points in his work.
(17) Using Smithers Medical Alpha Cradle Kits (AC 325) we have been able to achieve individual casts for our physically challenging patients.
(18) It had the effect of atomising the previously vibrant urban society into a world of isolated cells, each citizen’s loyalties tied to their danwei , which managed every aspect of their lives, from cradle to grave, issuing permits for marriage, divorce and even childbirth.
(19) A revolution in medical research in Britain is to give academics and the life sciences industry unparalleled access to the cradle-to-grave health records of about 52 million people in England.
(20) When we were finally taken to Dara'a, the southern city that had been the cradle of this insurrection, we travelled in the presence of four government minders and, when we attempted to talk to anyone, we found ourselves surrounded by Mukhabarat who instructed our interviewees to tell us everything was normal.
Rocker
Definition:
(n.) One who rocks; specifically, one who rocks a cradle.
(n.) One of the curving pieces of wood or metal on which a cradle, chair, etc., rocks.
(n.) Any implement or machine working with a rocking motion, as a trough mounted on rockers for separating gold dust from gravel, etc., by agitation in water.
(n.) A play horse on rockers; a rocking-horse.
(n.) A chair mounted on rockers; a rocking-chair.
(n.) A skate with a curved blade, somewhat resembling in shape the rocker of a cradle.
(n.) Same as Rock shaft.
Example Sentences:
(1) Double-limb support was decreased by 9% in the rocker shoes in free walking.
(2) From Springsteen to Jimmy Barnes, is any rocker safe from rightwingers?
(3) The apparatus consists of a set of hand and foot bars mounted at either end of a rocker arm that pivots in a vertical plane.
(4) Certainly Alan has far warmer feelings towards the Kop hero than whoever it was that compared him to Leicestershire's premier plodding lad rockers.
(5) A centrally placed rocker heel leads to increased forefoot loads, especially under the first metatarsal head.
(6) You looked out and it was just a sea of dogs: a lot of rocker dogs, but also some droolers in the front row.
(7) So how did a former punk rocker, DJ and self-confessed party animal who became a chef almost by accident (while bumming around Europe he applied to do a cooking course in Belgium so he could get a visa), and from a country with little reputation on the world food scene, change the way people think about Brazilian food?
(8) Sorrentino, who won the best foreign language film Oscar for The Great Beauty, has worked with English-speaking actors before, having cast Sean Penn in his goth-rocker road movie This Must Be the Place , which was selected for the Cannes film festival.
(9) Bikers for Trump: 'He'll get my vote because he's off his goddamn rocker' Read more Although Cleveland is the most fortified city in America at the moment, with thousands of police, FBI and secret service agents securing the Republican national convention, David – who won’t give me his last name but says he is from Minnesota – worries about “agitators” and “thugs” who make him feel unsafe.
(10) The rockers' 13th studio album is reportedly out in April through U2's new deal with Island Records , with live dates sure to follow.
(11) A detailed ultrasonographic study of the craniofacial structures, intrathoracic organs, and limbs showed scalp edema, multiple ankyloses, camptodactyly, rocker-bottom feet, cardiac arrhythmias, and lung hypoplasia.
(12) Findings compatible with trisomy 18 included postmature delivery, prominent occiput, severe congenital heart disease, overlapping fingers, and rocker-bottom feet.
(13) The night’s other performances maintained the tradition of non-tradition as rapper Kendrick Lamar performed with alt-rockers Imagine Dragons, Robin Thicke sang alongside rock band Chicago and Stevie Wonder took the stage with electronic duo Daft Punk.
(14) He was a rocker and a brilliant dancer and he wore winklepickers and wraparound shades.
(15) A group of homeless juveniles (N = 50) was compared to a group of rockers (N = 46) and a further group of "normal" non-rockers (N = 132) as regards social background, attitudes to others, intelligence, performance motivation and further personality variables such as aggression, extraversion, neuroticism and rigidity.
(16) Their craniofacial skeleton is large and robust, with mandibular size and form (the "rocker" mandible) being especially characteristic.
(17) It had quite an impact, not least that human attractions such as US stadium rockers Heart and Willie Nelson declined to play at the theme park in Orlando.
(18) ITV1's detective drama Lewis pulled in 6 million viewers on Easter Sunday, 12 April, for a special episode featuring Joanna Lumley as an ageing rocker.
(19) Her feature film debut was auspicious and striking – she played the sassy buddy of Jonah Hill in Superbad – and rapidly followed it with roles in The Rocker and The House Bunny .
(20) Madonna has voiced hope that three feminist Russian rockers from the band Pussy Riot who are on trial for performing a "punk prayer" against Vladimir Putin are released soon.