(n.) A measure for fresh herrings, -- as many as will fill a barrel.
(n.) A wading bird of the genus Grus, and allied genera, of various species, having a long, straight bill, and long legs and neck.
(n.) A machine for raising and lowering heavy weights, and, while holding them suspended, transporting them through a limited lateral distance. In one form it consists of a projecting arm or jib of timber or iron, a rotating post or base, and the necessary tackle, windlass, etc.; -- so called from a fancied similarity between its arm and the neck of a crane See Illust. of Derrick.
(n.) An iron arm with horizontal motion, attached to the side or back of a fireplace, for supporting kettles, etc., over a fire.
(n.) A siphon, or bent pipe, for drawing liquors out of a cask.
(n.) A forked post or projecting bracket to support spars, etc., -- generally used in pairs. See Crotch, 2.
(v. t.) To cause to rise; to raise or lift, as by a crane; -- with up.
(v. t.) To stretch, as a crane stretches its neck; as, to crane the neck disdainfully.
(v. i.) to reach forward with head and neck, in order to see better; as, a hunter cranes forward before taking a leap.
Example Sentences:
(1) Pilgrims have been undeterred by the collapse of a construction crane in Mecca earlier this month, which killed more than 100 people and injured at least 200.
(2) Throughout his career he has continued to champion Crane, seeing him as the direct heir to Walt Whitman – Whitman being "not just the most American of poets but American poetry proper, our apotropaic champion against European culture" – and slayer of neo-Christian adversaries such as "the clerical TS Eliot" and the old New Critics, who were and are anathema to Bloom, unresting defender of the Romantic tradition.
(3) Although the cranes swing, much of the new living zones now being created range from the ho-hum to the outright catastrophic.
(4) Video of Mecca pilgrim on 'hoverboard' divides opinion Read more The Indian prime minister, Narendra Modi, whose country is home to tens of millions of Muslims, said on Twitter: “My thoughts and prayers are with the families of those who lost their lives in the crane crash in Mecca.
(5) The ONS said employees working in lower skilled jobs, such as crane drivers and heavy goods vehicle drivers, worked the longest paid hours a week in the UK at a respective 52.8 and 48.4 hours – longer than the 48-hour limit set in the EU Working Time Directive, for which UK employees have a right to opt out.
(6) Sasaki, like other machinery operators, spends his shift inside crane and digger cabins, the only way they can clear dangerously radioactive debris.
(7) The tail of the plane, with its red AirAsia logo, was lifted out of the water on Saturday using giant balloons and a crane.
(8) Historically, this was the farm and winery of the château of Saint-Victor des Oules, but it's been sympathetically converted into eight houses and apartments (sleeping from two to six people) by its British owners Emma and Michael Crane, who moved here with their young family in 2012.
(9) In the weeks that followed, the crosses on 15 churches in the Wenzhou region were destroyed and removed by crane.
(10) This week we see that the ramifications of corporate prostitution continue to hurt her as juniors (looking at you, Harry Crane) use the knowledge of what happened to both blackmail the company and denigrate her.
(11) Filming was difficult in 3D and 10,000ft up a mountain, requiring 70ft camera cranes and a 100 crew.
(12) They waited, swaying like new calves, still wet from their tarry sacs, swinging umbrella-sized cranes.
(13) Workers in the following job categories experienced the highest annual mean PbB levels: paste machine operators (battery plants), solder-grinders (assembly plants), and crane operators (foundries).
(14) During the first meiotic division in crane-fly spermatocytes, the two homologs of a metaphase bivalent each bear two sister kinetochores oriented toward the same pole.
(15) Areas of reduced birefringence (ARBs) produced on chromosomal fibres of crane-fly spermatocyte spindles by ultraviolet microbeam irradiation move poleward.
(16) Engineers have beefed up the cranes that will move the fuel.
(17) We subjected individuals of four species of cranes (Anthropoides virgo, Balearica regulorum, Grus grus and Grus japonensis) to acute heat stress to investigate the effectiveness of this trait as a thermoregulatory adaptation.
(18) Mark Crane also emails: The main fights usually start with ring entrance about 10pm Central USA (4amBST?)
(19) Bird and the cast have shot only 20 seconds or so, after being flown out to Malia last year to film a sweeping crane shot of them walking along a Cretian nightclub strip.
(20) However, only alanine aminotransferase was higher in clinically affected cranes than in normal cranes collected from the same area.
Davit
Definition:
(n.) A spar formerly used on board of ships, as a crane to hoist the flukes of the anchor to the top of the bow, without injuring the sides of the ship; -- called also the fish davit.
(n.) Curved arms of timber or iron, projecting over a ship's side of stern, having tackle to raise or lower a boat, swing it in on deck, rig it out for lowering, etc.; -- called also boat davits.
Example Sentences:
(1) In the present study, comprising a subset of DAVIT-II, 48 h continuous ECG recordings demonstrated transient ST segment deviation indicative of myocardial ischaemia after one week, prior to randomization, in 18% (10 of 57) of the patients.
(2) Accordingly, the most recent trial, DAVIT-II, was carried out in patients in whom preexisting left ventricular failure had been excluded.
(3) death or reinfarction after a myocardial infarction has been investigated in 2 Danish double-blind placebo-controlled verapamil infarction trials (DAVIT I and II).
(4) DAVIT II demonstrated a non-significant reduction of mortality rate (P = 0.11, hazard ratio 0.80, 95% confidence limits 0.61-1.05), a significant reduction of reinfarction rate (P = 0.04, 0.77, 0.58-1.03), and major event rate (P = 0.03, 0.80, 0.64-0.99) in the verapamil group compared with the placebo group.
(5) death or the first re-infarction from the second week after an acute myocardial infarction was investigated in a double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled, multicentre investigation (DAVIT II) in which 878 patients commenced treatment with verapamil in a dosage of 360 mg daily and 897 patients received a placebo.
(6) DAVIT II was a later intervention trial that demonstrated a nonsignificant reduction in the 18-month mortality rate [p = 0.11, hazard ratio 0.80; 95% confidence limits (CL) 0.61 to 1.05], a significant reduction in the reinfarction rate (p = 0.04, hazard ratio 0.77; CL 0.58 to 1.03), and in the major event rate (p = 0.03, hazard ratio 0.80; CL 0.64 to 0.99) in the verapamil group compared with the placebo group.
(7) Maria Sharapova sponsor suggests amnesty for genuine takers of meldonium Read more In the former Soviet nation of Georgia, six athletes from the national wrestling team had provisional suspensions lifted, including the Olympic silver medallist Davit Modzmanashvili and the European silver medallist Beka Lomtadze.
(8) The DAVIT-II trial has shown that the verapamil type of calcium antagonist can beneficially be used in post-infarct patients.
(9) Meta-analyses of DAVIT I (for patients alive at day 8) and DAVIT II showed a statistically significant reduction in the odds ratio of mortality (22%), reinfarctions (27%), and the major event rate (21%) in verapamil-treated patients.
(10) Meta-analyses of the results of DAVITs I and II resulted in a reduction of pooled ratios of 22% (95% confidence limits 1-37, p = 0.04) for death, 21% (5-35, p = 0.02) for first major events (first reinfarction or death), and 27% (6-43, p = 0.02) for first reinfarctions.
(11) DAVIT-II is a double-blind, randomized, multicentre, placebo-controlled study of long-term treatment with verapamil 360 mg per day administered to patients who have suffered an acute myocardial infarction (AMI).
(12) The others are Russian speedskater Semyon Elistratov, Russian ice dancer Ekaterina Bobrova and Georgian wrestler Davit Modzmanashvili.
(13) The findings of the DAVIT II study with verapamil demonstrate a significant reduction in the infarction recurrence rate (18% vs 21.6%) in the treatment group.
(14) Meta-analyses of DAVIT I (including only patients alive on day eight) and of DAVIT II showed a statistically significant reduction of odds ratio of mortality of 22% (P = 0.04), of reinfarctions of 27% (P = 0.02), and of major events of 21% (P = 0.02).
(15) Whereas the Secondary Prevention Reinfarction Israeli Nifedipine Trial (SPRINT) [Israeli SPRINT Study Group 1988] with nifedipine showed no beneficial effect of the drug, studies with verapamil in the Danish Verapamil Infarction Trial II (DAVIT II) [Danish Study Group on Verapamil in Myocardial Infarction 1990] and diltiazem in the Multicentre Diltiazem Postinfarction Trial (MDPIT) [Multicenter Diltiazem Postinfarction Trial Research Group 1988] as secondary prevention have demonstrated improvements in survival and cardiovascular complications, but these improvements were restricted to patients without heart failure.
(16) The effect of verapamil on death and reinfarction after an acute myocardial infarction was studied in two double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled multicenter trials, the Danish Verapamil Infarction Trials I and II (DAVIT I and II).
(17) The effect of verapamil therapy in a dosage of 120 thrice daily on the mortality and re-infarction from the time of admission and for the subsequent six months was investigated in a double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled, multicentre investigation (The Danish Verapamil Infarction Trial (DAVIT I)).
(18) The effect of verapamil on death and major events (i.e., death or reinfarction) after an acute myocardial infarction was studied in a double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled, multicenter trial, the Danish Verapamil Infarction Trial II (DAVIT II).
(19) DAVIT I was an early intervention trial that demonstrated a statistically nonsignificant reduction in mortality and reinfarction after 6 months of treatment.
(20) This article is a review of presented subsets of the Danish Verapamil Infarction Trial II (DAVIT II) regarding the effect of verapamil on postinfarction ischemia, ventricular arrhythmias, and heart rate (HR), and the prognostic implications of these findings.