(n.) A quoit; a circular plate of some heavy material intended to be pitched or hurled as a trial of strength and skill.
(n.) The exercise with the discus.
(n.) A disk. See Disk.
Example Sentences:
(1) So much so that the Olympic discus champion Robert Harting even withdrew from consideration.
(2) Drama in the woman's discus Perkovic leads after throwing a Croatian record of 69.11m and Pishchalnik, the pre-competition is down in fifth.
(3) But his achievements in that short period are so staggering as to merit such predictions having already broken a senior British record, a world-age record, won an Under-23 European gold medal and with a throw of 67.63m earned himself a fourth-place ranking amid the world's best discus throwers this season.
(4) He might be full of blunt confidence but even Okoye seems mildly stunned by the distance he has travelled from an Olympic final in the discus last summer to the brink of another transformation.
(5) The implications of pore diameter (Sephadex- and Sepharose derivatives), of purity of the PG, of protein content of the PG-carrier-complexes as well as the presence of substrate during the coupling reaction, are discused in relation to the relative and specific activity of the bound protein and to the efficiency of the coupling reaction.
(6) Their performances at the Games belie this deep-rooted problem: 15 of India's 38 gold medals were won by women, including that of the discus thrower Krishna Poonia, who achieved the country's first Commonwealth athletics gold for 52 years.
(7) X-ray diffraction examinations were performed on different cartilages (epiphysis, joint, rib, nose-cartilage and discus intervertebralis) of 10 young and 10 old rats.
(8) A perforation of the discus triangularis was confirmed by arthrography, and the disc removed.
(9) A case of acute rupture of an abdominal aortic aneurysm is presented mimicking the symptoms of a discus hernia syndrome and paraplegia.
(10) Obviously he's disappointed I'm not throwing the discus this year but he's happy I'm doing well."
(11) It was discused about immunological problems in pernicious anemia which are very important and required continued investigations.
(12) Mr Jones told the Guardian he was under "restriction" and could not discus his dealings with the Abachas.
(13) The case of an adolescent is presented, who had two operations because of twice slipped discus in one year.
(14) The reliability and validity of the Dyskinesia Identification System: Condensed User Scale (DISCUS) are presented for mentally ill (n = 2,822) and mentally retarded (n = 4,649) populations, as are DISCUS item means and standard deviations.
(15) The author discuses the type of inervation of m. sphincter pylori as well as the vesicular content of axons.in view of the eventual functional significance.
(16) After deferring an offer from Oxford University to study law, he began to train seriously for the discus less than two years before the London Olympics .
(17) After all that success on Saturday evening, there have been a string of disappointing British performances on Monday and Tuesday, culminating in Lawrence Okoye's last-place finish in the men's discus.
(18) We discuse some of the implications of the use of this measure of distance and compare it to others which have been proposed.
(19) Real Eritreans love their country.” A sticker with the words “I love Eritrea” adorns a locker in the offices of the government-backed National Union of Eritrean Youth and Students , whose courtyard has a full-size replica of the classical statue Discus-thrower (Discobolus).
(20) This is done by considering the two stages of the throw--the launch (the movements in the circle) and the discus flight.