(n.) A transverse bar or piece, as a bar across a door, or as the iron bar or stock which passes through the shank of an anchor to insure its turning fluke down.
Example Sentences:
(1) Hazard, nominated for the Ballon d’Or earlier in the day, broke away from his industrious defensive running to curl a shot on to the base of the far post early on while Willian struck the crossbar with a free-kick just after the interval.
(2) Saúl gave the ball away to John Guidetti who powered home a 25-metre drive and Correa struck the crossbar at the other end before Hernández got his second with a header from Hugo Mallo’s cross.
(3) Five minutes into the second half the Nigerian attacker produced an audacious flick over the head of Borges before sending a pinpoint cross to Smith, only for the veteran striker to head on to the crossbar.
(4) He snatches at the ball and shoots it high over the crossbar.
(5) The team's response to the goal was to look for the pair with every attack but the closest they came was through Ravel Morrison's 20-yard free-kick in the 23rd minute, which would have crept under the crossbar had Karl Darlow not made a fine save.
(6) Javier Mascherano went close to scoring for the European champions in the 26th minute when he headed a Messi centre against the crossbar while Carlos Kameni was in fine form in the Málaga goal.
(7) Kane reacted after Christian Eriksen’s 61st minute free-kick had come back off the crossbar and it was one of those efforts that could have gone anywhere.
(8) The crossbar attachment that joins the four implant posts of the substructure provides better force distribution and less potential for resorption below the primary struts of the complete mandibular subperiosteal implant.
(9) Sánchez barrelled through to extend Weidenfeller with a low drive while Oxlade-Chamberlain, on his 100th appearance for the club, hit a marvellous looping shot from Sánchez’s pass that rattled the crossbar.
(10) Not long after the break, and shortly after watching Yannick Bolasie dodge Mapou Yanga-Mbiwa before brushing the crossbar with a shot, Carver introduced Ben Arfa at Luuk De Jong's expense.
(11) Carroll headed narrowly over De Gea’s crossbar in the 88th minute before a flurry of later West Ham pressure resulted in a double save by the goalkeeper.
(12) His header from Gaël Clichy's cross drew a flying save from Lloris and he had another effort cleared off the line by Rose and then fired a third just over the crossbar.
(13) Unfortunately, and I don't know how, the ball went up three metres and flew over the crossbar.
(14) The ball was floated the other way, where it caught the underside of the crossbar and dropped over the line.
(15) Twenty years on, it was almost a surprise Arsenal did not add more goals, the substitute Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain coming the closest in stoppage time with a shot off the crossbar.
(16) All the peptidoglycan 15N peptide resonances observed in the intact cells and isolated cell walls could be accounted for by residues in the bridge or crossbar regions of the peptide chains, which indicated that only the cross-linking groups had a high degree of motional freedom.
(17) Roman Eremenko offered a warning with a shot just over Hart’s crossbar.
(18) Paul Pogba hit the crossbar with a dipping shot in the first half but never did enough to impose himself and, rightly or wrongly, it is hard not to look at the Frenchman and expect so much more from the world’s most expensive footballer.
(19) Danny Welbeck wafted his attempt over the crossbar.
(20) The striker killed it on his chest and then crashed a rash hasty shot past Howard and onto the crossbar!
Piece
Definition:
(n.) A fragment or part of anything separated from the whole, in any manner, as by cutting, splitting, breaking, or tearing; a part; a portion; as, a piece of sugar; to break in pieces.
(n.) A definite portion or quantity, as of goods or work; as, a piece of broadcloth; a piece of wall paper.
(n.) Any one thing conceived of as apart from other things of the same kind; an individual article; a distinct single effort of a series; a definite performance
(n.) A literary or artistic composition; as, a piece of poetry, music, or statuary.
(n.) A musket, gun, or cannon; as, a battery of six pieces; a following piece.
(n.) A coin; as, a sixpenny piece; -- formerly applied specifically to an English gold coin worth 22 shillings.
(n.) A fact; an item; as, a piece of news; a piece of knowledge.
(n.) An individual; -- applied to a person as being of a certain nature or quality; often, but not always, used slightingly or in contempt.
(n.) One of the superior men, distinguished from a pawn.
(n.) A castle; a fortified building.
(v. t.) To make, enlarge, or repair, by the addition of a piece or pieces; to patch; as, to piece a garment; -- often with out.
(v. t.) To unite; to join; to combine.
(v. i.) To unite by a coalescence of parts; to fit together; to join.
Example Sentences:
(1) Small pieces of anterior and posterior quail wing-bud mesoderm (HH stages 21-23) were placed in in vitro culture for up to 3 days.
(2) The patient, a 12 year-old boy, showed a soft white yellowish mycotic excrescence with clear borders which had followed the introduction of a small piece of straw into the cornea.
(3) That piece was placed on the slide and embedded with a mixture of agar and antiserum.
(4) Originally from Pyongyang, the tour guide explains that a “merited artist” from Mansudae, North Korea’s biggest art studio in Pyongyang, was responsible for the main piece, but that it took 63 artists almost two years to complete.
(5) Each daughter merozoite receives a branch or piece of the parent organelle.
(6) Heads you 'own it' Ian Read, the Scottish-born accountant who runs the biggest drug firm in the US carries in his pocket a special gold coin, about the size and weight of a £2 piece.
(7) A modification of a previously described curved ruler, the current model has a hinge for greater ease of maneuverability and a "T" piece on one end to facilitate measurement and marking of both poles of the muscle without repositioning the ruler.
(8) DNA sequence analysis of a 3.8-kb genomic piece allowed identification of (i) an open reading frame (ORF) with striking homology to the previously identified D. melanogaster ORF and (ii) conserved sequence elements of possible regulatory relevance within and flanking the second intron.
(9) I could just banish the app from my phone forever, but deleting a piece of smart tech that makes my life easier doesn’t feel very satisfying.
(10) Dean Baquet, the managing editor in question, does admit in the piece that walking out was not perhaps the best thing for a senior editor like him to do.
(11) Criminal court charges leave me no choice but to resign as a magistrate Read more “This is a terrible piece of legislation introduced through the back door,” he wrote.
(12) The voltage trace is then analysed with a piece of transparent paper, on which lines corresponding to solutions of the diffusion equation convert the time axis of the voltage trace into a concentration axis.
(13) Sculthorpe’s catalogue consists of more than 350 pieces ranging from solos to orchestral works and opera.
(14) Piccoli followed that up with an opinion piece for Fairfax Media on Thursday in which said the SES model never applied to public schools and was not properly targeted to student needs.
(15) I still find that trying to weave together into a visual narrative and cutting together two pieces of a film – two different images.
(16) Each of the mice received 3 pieces of explants on the s.c. space in both of their flanks.
(17) Facebook Twitter Pinterest No shake: Donald Trump snubs Angela Merkel during photo op The piece of pantomime was in stark contrast to the visit of Theresa May in January.
(18) During each test period one group chewed a combination of one piece sorbitol and one piece sucrose flavored gum five times per day, the second group correspondingly chewed xylitol and sucrose flavored gum, while the third group served as a no hygiene control group.
(19) Pieces of spleen of both groups were fixed in formalin and embedded in paraffin.
(20) When Hayley Cropper swallows poison on Coronation Street on Monday night, taking her own life to escape inoperable pancreatic cancer, with her beloved husband, Roy, in pieces at her bedside, it will be the end of a character who, thanks to Hesmondhalgh's performance, has captivated and challenged British TV viewers for 16 years.