(n.) A case or bag stuffed with some soft and elastic material, and used to sit or recline upon; a soft pillow or pad.
(n.) Anything resembling a cushion in properties or use
(n.) a pad on which gilders cut gold leaf
(n.) a mass of steam in the end of the cylinder of a steam engine to receive the impact of the piston
(n.) the elastic edge of a billiard table.
(n.) A riotous kind of dance, formerly common at weddings; -- called also cushion dance.
(v. t.) To seat or place on, or as on a cushion.
(v. t.) To furnish with cushions; as, to cushion a chaise.
(v. t.) To conceal or cover up, as under a cushion.
Example Sentences:
(1) Immunostaining revealed that cushion mesenchymal cells cultured on substrata other than vitronectin synthesized vitronectin.
(2) In general, after recording a baseline tympanogram, mechanically created positive and negative air pressures are created in a hermetically sealed ear canal causing increased pressure on the middle ear air cushion.
(3) Despite campaign pledges from both leading parties that, if elected, they will try to cushion the blow, the measures add amount to a daunting legislative programme from which Greece’s new prime minister – whatever his name – will find it difficult, if not impossible, to deviate.
(4) PNA binding sites capped by sialic acid were most abundant in the developing rat heart during the critical period of endocardial cushion formation and decreased as development proceeded.
(5) Pancreatic RNAs were isolated by the guanidinium thiocyanate method and layered onto CsCl cushion.
(6) Updated at 7.20pm BST 7.18pm BST Frame 25 Good break from Ronnie, cue ball tight on the top cushion behind the green.
(7) An increase in the bank’s capital cushion during the first three months of the year has helped fuel expectations that the size of the payout could rise rapidly in the future.
(8) Shrewsbury and University College also cemented a lifelong friendship with Richard Ingrams, one of the founders and editors of Private Eye, for which Foot was to do some of his finest work, cushioning attacks on the scandalous nature of Ingrams' organ with corruption exposed by the "serious side".
(9) In nine specimens removed 5 days to 16 months after embolization therapy, a series of pathologic changes was seen, including patchy mural angionecrosis (adjacent to bucrylate fragments) up to six weeks after embolization, the presence of bucrylate in vessel walls and fibromuscular intimal cushions, and the occurrence (after several months) of entirely extravascular bucrylate.
(10) The plantar cushion reflex in cats was examined as a model system in a mammal for the study of the effects of repeated stimulation on neural transmission.
(11) The EBA found that, among the British-based banks, Royal Bank of Scotland had the lowest capital cushion after the stress tests of 6.3%, followed by Barclays with a ratio of 7.3%, Lloyds at 7.7%, and HSBC the highest at 8.5%.
(12) Ali said the cushioning would have made little difference.
(13) During heart development in the chick some of the endocardial cells that cover the cushion areas leave the cushion endocardium, seed the underlying cardiac jelly, and are transformed into mesenchyme.
(14) The diagnosis of overriding mitral valve should be suspected in any patient with significant conotruncal anomalies and underdeveloped left ventricle, especially the patient with double outlet right ventricle, and in the patient with endocardial cushion defect, hypoplasia of the left ventricle, and obstructive anomalies of the aortic arch.
(15) Her cushions featuring maps of two countries have been popular as wedding gifts for multinational couples.
(16) While sphincteric activity is important for continence, other mechanisms such as the anorectal angle and anal cushions are also of relevance.
(17) The formation of small craterlike defects was observed on the distal ventral and proximal left bulbar cushions.
(18) The Bank of England sends a clear message to banks today to cut staff bonuses and share dividends so that they can bolster their capital cushions while maintaining lending to businesses and households.
(19) The dynamic impact tests at Southwest Research Institute for the first time exposed human volunteers to production-like driver air cushion system depolyments at impact levels equivalent to a 30 mph barrier crash (48 kph).
(20) However, to cushion the blow ministers offered £100m in "transitional grants" to councils that designed schemes that would offer some protection to the poor.
Knuckle
Definition:
(n.) The joint of a finger, particularly when made prominent by the closing of the fingers.
(n.) The kneejoint, or middle joint, of either leg of a quadruped, especially of a calf; -- formerly used of the kneejoint of a human being.
(n.) The joint of a plant.
(n.) The joining pars of a hinge through which the pin or rivet passes; a knuckle joint.
(n.) A convex portion of a vessel's figure where a sudden change of shape occurs, as in a canal boat, where a nearly vertical side joins a nearly flat bottom.
(n.) A contrivance, usually of brass or iron, and furnished with points, worn to protect the hand, to add force to a blow, and to disfigure the person struck; as, brass knuckles; -- called also knuckle duster.
(v. i.) To yield; to submit; -- used with down, to, or under.
(v. t.) To beat with the knuckles; to pommel.
Example Sentences:
(1) Gallic wine sales in the UK have been tumbling for the past 20 years, but the news that France, once the largest exporter to these shores, has slipped behind Australia, the United States, Italy and now South Africa will have producers gnawing their knuckles in frustration.
(2) The figures, published in the company’s annual report , triggered immediate anger from fuel poverty campaigners who noted that energy suppliers had just been rapped over the knuckles by the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) for overcharging .
(3) Fleeting though it may have been (he jetted off to New York this morning and is due in Toronto on Saturday), there was a poignant reason for his appearance: he was here to play a tribute set to Frankie Knuckles, the Godfather of house and one of Morales's closest friends, who died suddenly in March.
(4) 3.56am BST Rays 4 - Rangers 2, bottom of 8th Martin tries to lay down a bunt but he gets hit on the knuckle, which is not a hit by pitch because Martin was offering.
(5) "I hope that sooner or later he knuckles down and really makes a go of his career.
(6) HNF-4 is a member of the steroid hormone receptor superfamily with an unusual amino acid in the conserved "knuckle" of the first zinc finger (DGCKG).
(7) Frankie Knuckles, the Chicago house legend , has died aged 59.
(8) It is unlikely David Cameron would thank a health secretary who got into a bare-knuckle fight with a profession that the wider public considers almost saintly.
(9) In August the UK ambassador in Cairo, John Casson, was rapped over the knuckles by the Egyptians when he publicly criticised the sentencing of three al-Jazeera journalists accused of supporting terrorism.
(10) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Emmanuel Macron ‘out-alphas Trump with a knuckle-crushing handshake’.
(11) The first couple of laps I was gripping the bars so hard you could see my knuckles.
(12) The prime minister initially appeared simply to rap the peer over the knuckles , condemning the comments and saying that Young would be doing a "little less speaking" in the future.
(13) Knuckles, who is credited to have invented the house genre, begun his residency at the westside club in 1977 at the height of disco fever, but by 1980 a backlash had swept the craze away.
(14) When the Disco Sucks backlash killed the disco movement, Knuckles evolved his sound, making reel-to-reel re-edits for the Warehouse crowd.
(15) Some implications of this occurrence for theories of the evolution of knuckle walking are discussed.
(16) A knuckle of each fallopian tube is ligated and then resected.
(17) In spite of having proved his bare-knuckled skills on behalf of the Conservatives , one only needs to read the Daily Telegraph 's reaction to the news that he is to become BBC Trust chairman to understand why Patten decided to take a different path after losing Bath.
(18) • Frankie Knuckles obituary • Frankie Knuckles - house pioneer and DJ - dies aged 59
(19) It was Bob who gave me the determination to knuckle down and get over it.
(20) Having had to give up Twitter (she's an avid user), her replacement social exchange will now be with the likes of Jedward and Kerry Katona, the most recognisable of the celebrities, or bare-knuckle fighter Paddy Doherty from My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding, a paparazzo, a male model and a couple of actors (American superstars Charlie Sheen, Pamela Anderson and Mike Tyson were conspicuous by their absence).