(n.) Any part of a mathematical instrument that moves or slides backward and forward upon another part.
Example Sentences:
(1) The bright lines in the difference image represent the paths along which the filaments have moved and are measured using a crosshair cursor controlled by the mouse.
(2) The device consists of a motor-driven shaft which moves the record past a fixed cursor, and an electronic counter which records the movements of the shaft, thereby providing a cumulative tally of the distance of the current position of the cursor from some arbitrary origin on the record.
(3) By simply adjusting a linear cursor, which is parallel to the base line, to the highest and the lowest levels of the lesion, the sagittal image with the lesion clearly depicted is automatically reconstructed.
(4) The cursor was then blanked, with subjects being required to place the now invisible cursor over a target.
(5) Mu rhythm amplitude was assessed by on-line frequency analysis and translated into cursor movement: larger amplitudes moved the cursor up and smaller amplitudes moved it down.
(6) Tracking efficiency was far below that observed for upper articulator control of the cursor.
(7) In the parasternal four-chamber view, the cursor was set so as to cross obliquely the right ventricular inflow tract just below the tricuspid valve and the left atrium, just above the mitral valve.
(8) They were asked to exert forces continuously to draw lemniscates (figure eights) in specified or self-chosen planes and in the presence or absence of a three-dimensional visual feedback cursor and a visual template.
(9) The instantaneous force exerted by the subjects on the manipulandum was shown on the disk in the form of a feedback cursor.
(10) The animals were required to move a cursor from the start box to one of four target boxes by movement of the manipulandum.
(11) Control of fine angular movements of the head and of the distal phalanx of the right thumb were compared by measuring subjects' accuracy in guiding a cursor through a path on a computer screen by turning the head or moving the thumb.
(12) The glottal waveforms measured by sonic-sensing pen tracing, cursor outlining, a photocell technique, and television camera scanning are presented and compared with the conventional polar planimeter method.
(13) The Doppler cursor can be correctly aligned in the jet core and allows accurate measures, and the display of spectral analysis is better with faster computers.
(14) Alternative explanations for the right hand tracking results, and for the nonsignificant trend towards a laterality effect (cursor left field-right hemisphere) for left hand tracking, were discussed.
(15) Monkeys aligned a cursor bar with high-contrast square-wave gratings presented in a variety of orientations.
(16) This study examined a visual analog of the PAT in which subjects matched the vertical position of a continually moving horizontal line (target) presented on one side of their point of fixation, with a second line (cursor) presented on the other side of their fixation point.
(17) Refinements in training procedures and in the distribution-based method used to translate mu rhythm amplitudes into cursor movements should further improve this 1-dimensional control.
(18) Vesicle aggregation (a necessary pre-cursor to membrane fusion) and subsequent membrane destabilization (an essential component of fusion) were examined by freeze-fracture electron microscopy.
(19) Morphometry was done on visually normal, polygonal intermediate cells without signs of human papilloma virus infection, with a graphic tablet and cursor under 40x oil immersion, and data were handled by microcomputer.
(20) We have performed comparative studies of the QWERTY keybord, cursor control keys, mouse and graphics tablet for data entry in two intensive therapy unit (ITU) environments.
Drag
Definition:
(n.) A confection; a comfit; a drug.
(v. t.) To draw slowly or heavily onward; to pull along the ground by main force; to haul; to trail; -- applied to drawing heavy or resisting bodies or those inapt for drawing, with labor, along the ground or other surface; as, to drag stone or timber; to drag a net in fishing.
(v. t.) To break, as land, by drawing a drag or harrow over it; to harrow; to draw a drag along the bottom of, as a stream or other water; hence, to search, as by means of a drag.
(v. t.) To draw along, as something burdensome; hence, to pass in pain or with difficulty.
(v. i.) To be drawn along, as a rope or dress, on the ground; to trail; to be moved onward along the ground, or along the bottom of the sea, as an anchor that does not hold.
(v. i.) To move onward heavily, laboriously, or slowly; to advance with weary effort; to go on lingeringly.
(v. i.) To serve as a clog or hindrance; to hold back.
(v. i.) To fish with a dragnet.
(v. t.) The act of dragging; anything which is dragged.
(v. t.) A net, or an apparatus, to be drawn along the bottom under water, as in fishing, searching for drowned persons, etc.
(v. t.) A kind of sledge for conveying heavy bodies; also, a kind of low car or handcart; as, a stone drag.
(v. t.) A heavy coach with seats on top; also, a heavy carriage.
(v. t.) A heavy harrow, for breaking up ground.
(v. t.) Anything towed in the water to retard a ship's progress, or to keep her head up to the wind; esp., a canvas bag with a hooped mouth, so used. See Drag sail (below).
(v. t.) Also, a skid or shoe, for retarding the motion of a carriage wheel.
(v. t.) Hence, anything that retards; a clog; an obstacle to progress or enjoyment.
(v. t.) Motion affected with slowness and difficulty, as if clogged.
(v. t.) The bottom part of a flask or mold, the upper part being the cope.
(v. t.) A steel instrument for completing the dressing of soft stone.
(v. t.) The difference between the speed of a screw steamer under sail and that of the screw when the ship outruns the screw; or between the propulsive effects of the different floats of a paddle wheel. See Citation under Drag, v. i., 3.
Example Sentences:
(1) Northern Ireland will not be dragged back by terrorists who have nothing but misery to offer."
(2) Considerate touches includes the free use of cruiser bicycles (the best method of tackling the Palm Springs main drag), home-baked cookies … and if you'd like to get married, ask the manager: he's a minister.
(3) In Belfast, the old quarrels just look likely to drag on in their old familiar way.
(4) Two officers who witnessed the shooting of unarmed 43-year-old Samuel DuBose in Cincinnati will not face criminal charges, despite seemingly corroborating a false claim that DuBose’s vehicle dragged officer Ray Tensing before he was fatally shot.
(5) Finally, it examines Brancheau's death, which played out in front of a crowd, many of whom did not fully understand what was going on as the experienced trainer was dragged under water and flung around the tank.
(6) The longer the problem drags on, the less likely it is we get off lightly," he told the paper.
(7) "Those shows are genuinely moving us forward as an industry, they are dragging the rest of us behind," he says.
(8) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Neighbor Olga Ennis: ‘I watched them drag his body out of the house.
(9) I’m staying in a mobile home called a njalla , designed by artist and architect Joar Nango, which sits on wooden skis that allow you to drag it to a spot of your choosing.
(10) People were holding on to him, trying to pull themselves up by his belt, but only succeeded in dragging him into the water.
(11) The poor trade data indicate that net trade was an appreciable drag on GDP growth in the third quarter and was a major factor why expansion did not come in as high as 1.0% quarter-on-quarter as had seemed possible at one point.
(12) In PT (a) large extracellular markers are dragged by water flow indicating extracellular solute-water interaction, (b) transepithelial Pos is much higher than transcellular Pos.
(13) Consider the open joke that was the repeated European bank stress tests ; the foot-dragging of the central bankers to quell financial panic; the IMF report last week showing that even if Greece took the troika’s medicine it would still be lumbered with “unsustainable” debt .
(14) Tractional water resistance (drag, D, N) was also measured in the same range of speeds.
(15) If you stand on the main pedestrian drag, Ferhadija, and look east, you could be in Istanbul or Cairo.
(16) It would be a mistake to rush it.” But, while revealing disappointing trading figures for the Christmas period and a gloomy outlook for 2017 , Wolfson said he did not think Brexit jitters were stopping people from shopping: “It is more the fact that incomes are likely to be squeezed.” Next's gloomy 2017 forecast drags down fashion retail shares Read more Wolfson was one of a handful of senior business leaders to openly back Brexit but has said in the past that the referendum vote was about UK independence, not isolation, and the country should be aiming for “an open, global-facing economy”.
(17) The brothers said they were pleased that after “a great deal of dragging of their heels” the Mail and Hopkins had accepted the allegations were false.
(18) With the cultures of mycoplasmas obtained from the eyes of human patients suffering from sympathetic ophthalmia, it was possible to produce the same symptoms in chickens as were described by the author in 1950 in sympathizing and sympathized human eyes, namely: torpid uveitis and papillitis, which dragged on for months, and affected not only the inoculated right eye, but also, after 3 weeks and more, the untouched left eye.
(19) Interactions among the important constituents of the fibrocartilage matrix cause meniscal tissue to behave as a fiber-reinforced, porous, permeable composite material similar to articular cartilage, in which frictional drag caused by fluid flow governs its response to dynamic loading.
(20) This enabled the section commander to drag away the fallen soldier, who was dazed but unharmed.