(n.) A bent portion of an axle, or shaft, or an arm keyed at right angles to the end of a shaft, by which motion is imparted to or received from it; also used to change circular into reciprocating motion, or reciprocating into circular motion. See Bell crank.
(n.) Any bend, turn, or winding, as of a passage.
(n.) A twist or turn in speech; a conceit consisting in a change of the form or meaning of a word.
(n.) A twist or turn of the mind; caprice; whim; crotchet; also, a fit of temper or passion.
(n.) A person full of crotchets; one given to fantastic or impracticable projects; one whose judgment is perverted in respect to a particular matter.
(n.) A sick person; an invalid.
(n.) Sick; infirm.
(n.) Liable to careen or be overset, as a ship when she is too narrow, or has not sufficient ballast, or is loaded too high, to carry full sail.
(n.) Full of spirit; brisk; lively; sprightly; overconfident; opinionated.
(n.) To run with a winding course; to double; to crook; to wind and turn.
Example Sentences:
(1) A crank arm length of 170 mm and pedalling rate of 100 rpm correspond closely to the cost function minimum.
(2) Known as crank, crystal, ice, crystal meth, and speed, MAP can be produced easily from ephedrine, and it is widely available.
(3) Eighty degrees further forward, along the minor axis, was the crank arm orientation for the second ellipse, Eng90.
(4) Vote for me, and I will complete the job of rebalancing it... January 28, 2014 12.03pm GMT Britain's businesses need to stop sitting on their cash piles and crank up their investment, argues IPPR’s chief economist Tony Dolphin: “The news that manufacturing is growing is welcome.
(5) A defeated Trump could be expected to be even busier, cranking up what many expect will be a far-right Trump TV network, which he’s already been road testing on Facebook.
(6) It’s a sweet, tender, funny reintroduction to a classic character, and after a few recent PR missteps by Archie Comics – which cranked up Kickstarter campaigns to quickly relaunch other modernised versions of some of its classic titles, before abandoning the idea after complaints from fans and industry professionals – looks like a solid launchpad for its 75th-anniversary celebrations.
(7) The method consists of simultaneously measuring both the normal and tangential pedal forces, the EMGs of eight leg muscles, and the crank arm and pedal angles.
(8) Seven subjects were successively submitted to LBNP exposure, arm cranking physical exercise, and to a combination of both procedures (LBNP + arm cranking) in order to check whether this combination enhances RAAS activity.
(9) A progressive continuous arm cranking test, modified for each group, was employed to elicit maximal responses with pulmonary and metabolic determinations made with open circuit spirometry and selected cardiovascular measurements made by impedance cardiography.
(10) Orgasms were the stuff of the academy and of politics in the 1970s, but now, to go anywhere near that stuff would be a fast and effective way to sound like a crank.
(11) Who else would have decided to leave the relative cosiness of Ditchling Village for Hopkins Crank, an unreconstructed Georgian squatter's cottage and outbuildings on Ditchling Common?
(12) A ceiling fan cranked to full capacity was useless against the oppressive summer heat.
(13) In recent weeks Trump has been cranking up his gender attacks on Clinton, accusing her of playing the woman card and criticising her for being an “enabler” of her husband’s infidelities.
(14) And that allows the viewer to read into them his or her own view of the world, and then cranks up the emotional volume as high as it will go.
(15) This system consists of a flexible rod, sheath, crank, and cam to transmit the muscle power to a pusher plate pump and actuate it.
(16) Analysis of variance (ANOVA) indicated that both peak heart rate (HR) and rate pressure product (RPP) increased significantly with increases in cranking rate across the three tests (p less than .05).
(17) Then came Twitter, which really cranked things up in terms of the terror around your own public persona.
(18) The royal soap opera soon cranked up into a Hollywood blockbuster: the wedding at St Paul’s, the babies, infidelities on both sides, divorce, Diana’s shocking death in Paris, national mourning, Elton John at the funeral.
(19) The first of the extra 12,000 Syrian refugees should arrive in Australia before Christmas as officials crank up a $700m process to select, check and resettle them.
(20) Anyway, grab your party hat and some streamers, crank your German rock way up high and let’s get this party started.
Methamphetamine
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Methamphetamine abuse is increasing and methamphetamine is second only to alcohol as a positive finding in cases submitted to the San Diego Sheriff's Crime Laboratory.
(2) Aggressive behavior was evoked by introducing a group-housed male mouse (intruder) into the home cage of the isolated or nonisolated mouse (resident).d-Amphetamine, methamphetamine, methylphenidate, cocaine, and L-dopa decreased attack and threat behavior by resident mice, the isolates requiring 2--4 times higher drug doses for the antiaggressive effects than the nonisolates, d-Amphetamine, methamphetamine, and methylphenidate caused intruder mice to be more frequently attacked by their non-treated resident opponents, to escape more often, to assume the defensive upright posture less, and to move about more often.
(3) 1-Methyl,1'-hexanoic acid-4,4'-bi-pyridinium, 4-amino-D,L-phenylalanine-diazo-coupled diquat, p-amino-methamphetamine as haptens were synthesized and coupled to bovine serum albumin (BSA) directly or to BSA via glutaraldehyde, and an antigen of MT was prepared by binding MT to BSA with the Mannich reaction.
(4) For a decade, relatively little methamphetamine was submitted to street-drug analytical labs.
(5) ), given 15 min before each dose of methamphetamine, totally prevented the methamphetamine-induced loss of tyrosine hydroxylase activity and partly prevented the loss of dopamine.
(6) Effects of dose, route of administration, and sex and strain differences on the metabolism of methamphetamine in vivo were investigated in rats.
(7) After ingesting 3,4-methylene-dioxy-methamphetamine (MDMA) and the monoamine oxidase (MAO) inhibitor phenelzine, a 50 year old male developed marked hypertension, diaphoresis, altered mental status, and hypertonicity lasting 5-6 hours.
(8) The method has been applied to the analysis of urine samples from monkeys singly and repeatedly treated with methamphetamine.
(9) After a 7-day abstinence period, a challenge test with methamphetamine alone revealed supersensitivity of methamphetamine-sensitized rats to subsequent methamphetamine, whereas rats pretreated with repeated methamphetamine in combination with BMY 14802 exhibited no difference in the intensity of stereotypy from rats pretreated with repeated saline.
(10) The report by University of New South Wales (UNSW) researchers examined available data on drug-related deaths, hospital admissions, and treatment services, and also found that within methamphetamine related deaths, the drug was the underlying cause in 23%.
(11) The effects of quinidine and cimetidine on methamphetamine-induced stereotyped behavior were studied in rats.
(12) Both the presence of arterial inflammation and increased blood pressure caused by sympathomimetic action of methamphetamine are probably the important factors in the occurrence of intracranial hemorrhage associated with methamphetamine.
(13) Remarkable changes in the circadian activity rhythm of rats were observed when they were chronically treated with methamphetamine dissolved in drinking water.
(14) After grafting, however, DOPAC and HVA restored to control levels and responded to methamphetamine with decreases as was observed in control animals.
(15) Compared with placebo and methamphetamine, diphenhydramine caused subjects no experience geophysical time as passing more slowly, but the drug had no significant effects on the visual search or divided-attention tasks.
(16) The present results suggest that the induction of hypothalamic IL-1 beta mRNA by methamphetamine is mediated by beta-adrenoceptors in the brain.
(17) This study proposes a method capable of separating the pharmacodynamic from the pharmacokinetic component in the methamphetamine (MA) hyperactivity potentiation induced by antidepressants.
(18) The effects of 5-HT3 receptor antagonists, MDL72222 and ICS205-930, on cocaine- and methamphetamine-induced place preference were examined.
(19) YM-08050 was more potent than either HPD or CPZ in inhibitory effects on a variety of behaviors such as apomorphine-induced stereotypes behavior and emesis, methamphetamine-induced stereotyped behavior, conditioned avoidance response and open field behavior.
(20) Bilateral injection of CCK-8 (1 microgram per side) into the nucleus caudatus significantly reduced the locomotor hyperactivity induced by methamphetamine.