(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.
Slide
Definition:
(v. t.) To move along the surface of any body by slipping, or without walking or rolling; to slip; to glide; as, snow slides down the mountain's side.
(v. t.) Especially, to move over snow or ice with a smooth, uninterrupted motion, as on a sled moving by the force of gravity, or on the feet.
(v. t.) To pass inadvertently.
(v. t.) To pass along smoothly or unobservedly; to move gently onward without friction or hindrance; as, a ship or boat slides through the water.
(v. t.) To slip when walking or standing; to fall.
(v. t.) To pass from one note to another with no perceptible cassation of sound.
(v. t.) To pass out of one's thought as not being of any consequence.
(v. t.) To cause to slide; to thrust along; as, to slide one piece of timber along another.
(v. t.) To pass or put imperceptibly; to slip; as, to slide in a word to vary the sense of a question.
(n.) The act of sliding; as, a slide on the ice.
(n.) Smooth, even passage or progress.
(n.) That on which anything moves by sliding.
(n.) An inclined plane on which heavy bodies slide by the force of gravity, esp. one constructed on a mountain side for conveying logs by sliding them down.
(n.) A surface of ice or snow on which children slide for amusement.
(n.) That which operates by sliding.
(n.) A cover which opens or closes an aperture by sliding over it.
(n.) A moving piece which is guided by a part or parts along which it slides.
(n.) A clasp or brooch for a belt, or the like.
(n.) A plate or slip of glass on which is a picture or delineation to be exhibited by means of a magic lantern, stereopticon, or the like; a plate on which is an object to be examined with a microscope.
(n.) The descent of a mass of earth, rock, or snow down a hill or mountain side; as, a land slide, or a snow slide; also, the track of bare rock left by a land slide.
(n.) A small dislocation in beds of rock along a line of fissure.
(n.) A grace consisting of two or more small notes moving by conjoint degrees, and leading to a principal note either above or below.
(n.) An apparatus in the trumpet and trombone by which the sounding tube is lengthened and shortened so as to produce the tones between the fundamental and its harmonics.
(n.) A sound which, by a gradual change in the position of the vocal organs, passes imperceptibly into another sound.
(n.) Same as Guide bar, under Guide.
(n.) A slide valve.
Example Sentences:
(1) (4) Despite the removal of the cruciate ligaments and capsulo-ligamentous slide, no significant residual instability was found in either plane.
(2) The Pakistan government, led as usual by a general, was anxious to project the army's role as bringers of order to a country that was sliding quickly towards civil war.
(3) For routine use, 50 mul of 12% BTV SRBC, 0.1 ml of a spleen cell suspension, and 0.5 ml of 0.5% agarose in a balanced salt solution were mixed and plated on a microscope slide precoated with 0.1% aqueous agarose.
(4) That piece was placed on the slide and embedded with a mixture of agar and antiserum.
(5) Slides and short films were used in primary and secondary schools.
(6) One cytotechnologist screened the slides for all occurrences of a standard set of classic cytopathologic signs.
(7) It was the ease with which minor debt could slide into a tangle of hunger and despair.
(8) Slide smears revealed the rosette-shaped pattern characteristic of malignant neuroblastoma, many of which were fitted with dendritic plasmatic processes.
(9) In the 55th minute Ivanovic dispossessed Bale and beat Ricketts before sliding the ball across to give Tadic a simple finish.
(10) Perfused or immersion-fixed epithalamic tissues, sectioned, and mounted on glass slides were processed through the avidin-biotin immunofluorescence method.
(11) The staining method consisted of sequential treatment of slides with crest serum, fluorosceinated goat-antihuman and swine-antigoat antibodies, and propidium iodide.
(12) These additional cues involved different sensations in effort of the perfomed movement sliding heavy object vs. sliding light object (sS test), as well as different sensations in pattern of movement and joints - sliding vs. lifting of an object (SL test).
(13) Portugal's slide towards a Greek-style second bailout accelerated after its principal private lenders indicated that they were growing weary of assurances from Lisbon that it could get on top of the country's debts.
(14) Children as young as 18 months start by sliding on tiny skis in soft supple boots, while over-threes have more formal lessons in the snow playground.
(15) In addition to the cytologic characteristics, the possibility of detecting muscle antigens as markers for these embryonal small cells, even in previously stained slides, provides a successful method for defining the specific type of sarcoma.
(16) Tissue slides obtained at autopsy from 80 cases with AIDS were studied immunhistochemically for infection with Toxoplasma gondii.
(17) These results confirmed that 'punctuated' labeling was not an artefact due to a distortion of the cell's shape by having been dried on glass slides.
(18) The proportion of persons with P. malariae in this sample population, as determined by slide examination, appears to be the greatest ever reported for any area before the introduction of control measures.
(19) The new slide latex particle agglutination test gave better results, with 100% specificity, 80% sensitivity, high predictive values (greater than or equal to 91%), and an overall diagnostic efficiency of 93%.
(20) No, Did they invent sliding fingers across substances?