(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!
Transverse
Definition:
(a.) Lying or being across, or in a crosswise direction; athwart; -- often opposed to longitudinal.
(n.) Anything that is transverse or athwart.
(n.) The longer, or transverse, axis of an ellipse.
(v. t.) To overturn; to change.
(v. t.) To change from prose into verse, or from verse into prose.
Example Sentences:
(1) At day 7 MD occupy about 14% area of posterior retina in transverse sections in Campbell rats versus 7% in normal animals.
(2) The myocardium was assumed to be composed of a nonlinear viscoelastic, inhomogeneous, anisotropic (transversely isotropic) and incompressible material operating under adiabatic and isothermal conditions.
(3) The relapse was 80% in the sagittal plane, 70% in the transverse plane, and 12% in the vertical plane.
(4) The perinatal development of the levator ani (LA) muscle in male and female rats was investigated by measuring the total number of muscle units (MU) (i.e., mononucleate cells, clustered or independent myotubes, and muscle fibers) in transverse semithin sections of the entire muscle and the MU cross-sectional area in 22-day-old fetuses (F22), 1-day-old (D1 = day of birth), 3-day-old (D3), and 6-day-old (D6) newborns.
(5) The operational meaning of all the resulting theorems is that when any of them appear to be refuted experimentally, the presence of more than one parallel transport pathway (that is, of membrane heterogeneity transverse to the direction of transport) can be inferred and analyzed.
(6) In order to study cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) absorption across the dural sinus wall, the effect of CSF pressure (recorded from the cisterna magna) on dural venous pressure (recorded from the transverse sinus) was investigated in groups of rats at 2, 10, 20, and 31 days after birth and in adulthood.
(7) An A-to-T transversion, which substitutes asparagine16 with isoleucine (N16I), was identified.
(8) Subsequently, due to the rotation of the original polar axis in one hemisphere, the third cleavage plane through one half of the egg is transverse to the third cleavage plane through the other half.
(9) The normal anatomical position of the point of junction of the superficial cerebral veins with the superior sagittal and transverse sinuses of the rat was studied with an analytical mathematical method.
(10) Steep longitudinal and transverse gradients of glycogen are known to exist in the organ of Corti of the guinea pig, with preferential accumulation in the outer hair cells of the apical turns.
(11) Cytochrome oxidase histochemistry revealed patchy patterns of the enzyme activity in transverse sections through the caudal part of the ventral subnucleus of the principal sensory trigeminal nucleus, interpolar spinal trigeminal nucleus, and layer IV of the caudal spinal trigeminal nucleus in the cat.
(12) The gastrocolic response of monkeys to feeding is most prominent in the right and transverse colon in both duration and frequency of contractions.
(13) Hypertension consequent upon increasing brain edema, and intercerebral pressure gradient which is the cause of transverse dislocation diminish with the use of a method which provides for hydrodynamic equilibrium.
(14) The backbone dynamics of Ca(2+)-saturated recombinant Drosophila calmodulin has been studied by 15N longitudinal and transverse relaxation experiments, combined with 15N(1H) NOE measurements.
(15) It should also be contemplated, as an alternative to elective cesarean section for a transverse lie or breech presentation of the second fetus.
(16) In a third, a GC----TA transversion has created a BstEII (GGTNACC) site.
(17) We found that the Na-Ca exchanger is distributed throughout all membranes in contact with the extracellular space, including the sarcolemma, the transverse tubules (T-tubules), and the intercalated disks.
(18) In the rotatory and transverse gallop (examples of the in-phase form of locomotion) the coupling is asymmetrical: on one side it is comparable to pacing (forelimb flexion precedes hindlimb extension), and on the other side to trotting (forelimb flexion follows extension).
(19) The isointensity bands in the ischemic area on T2-weighted images showed the spared transverse fibers originating from the contralateral pontine nuclei, and this may explain the cause of the unilateral ataxia.
(20) Transverse imaging is important when comparison is made with CT.