(n.) The block or strip of wood or similar material which stops, at the right place, the shutting of a door.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Treasurer Joe Hockey walks to a doorstop interview with the media this morning at the Ministerial entrance to Parliament House in Canberra, Tuesday 13th May 2013 Photograph: Mike Bowers, Guardian Australia There is a certain commonality associated with the annual rituals of the treasurer.
(2) Their loss has been our gain as the longlist casts a wide net in terms of both geography and tone, ranging from the slimmest of novels – Colm Tóibín's stark, surprising The Testament of Mary conjures the gospel according to Jesus's mother in a mere 100-odd pages – to vast doorstops, playful with genre and form.
(3) The intention is to convert social media clicks and shares into practical action: the demand for Momentum’s election campaign training and turnout on the doorstop has shown that there is a desire to get involved, given the means, confidence and skills to do so.
(4) It took nine years to produce and runs to a doorstopping 1,461 pages.
(5) At one point, during cross-examination by Mr Dein about using a Geiger counter to measure radiation, Mahmood drew laughs from police detectives but not from the jury when he said he did not know all the uses of a Geiger counter but that one could possibly be used for a doorstop.
(6) The demand for this 800-page doorstop was nothing short of remarkable.
(7) Not that this is something people have ever demanded on the doorstop, so it is not a "real" issue.
(8) This year's chair of judges, the writer and critic Robert Macfarlane, admitted readers needed to make a "huge investment" in the doorstopping book; it is challenging with a slow start but the dividends were more than worth it.
(9) He said the old processes associated with policy reform – delivering a large “tome” that didn’t deliver the desired result – tended to mean the tome became little more than a doorstop.
(10) … as far as I'm aware you couldn't even do that kind of thing without the cooperation of the states, so it doesn't look to me like the sort of things that are likely.” In a separate doorstop interview, Abbott said of the drug-testing suggestion: “It’s not something that we’re planning; simple as that.” In coming weeks, the government is expected to release a report on welfare reform, prepared by the former chief executive of Mission Australia, Patrick McClure.
(11) Bishop replied that she had made the comments in response to a question during a doorstop interview and had noted she “wasn’t an expert in the area”.
(12) The Treasurer Joe Hockey at a doorstop interview with the media this morning at the Ministerial entrance to Parliament House in Canberra, Tuesday 13th May 2013 Photograph: Mike Bowers, Guardian Australia Joe Hockey: Say it again sorry?
(13) At a doorstop interview, the immigration minister said he was “confident” it would pass “because it’s sensible”.
(14) In Maraniss's doorstop of a book, Obama first meets Siddiqi at a New Year's Eve party in San Francisco, the young, gangly, would-be president greeting his future roommate with pitch-perfect Urdu, asking: "How are you, Boss?"
(15) I wouldn’t want to see Australian farmland become under the control of the government of another nation.” He stood by the comments at a doorstop interview in Parliament House on Tuesday, while being careful not to reiterate his desire for a blanket ban on state-backed companies owning farmland.
(16) After the event Turnbull used a doorstop press conference to make what appeared to be a pitch to those in the party room who might be jittery about his carbon credentials, labelling any return to an emissions trading scheme “ridiculous”.
(17) In a doorstop on the way into parliament on Tuesday, Morrison said the budget would deliver a plan for jobs and growth.
(18) Her conduct at the doorstop was a departure from her demeanour at a press conference earlier this month, shortly after being forced to pay back the $5,000 used to hire the chopper flight.
(19) The report found that the decision of mainstream banks to refuse credit to the less well off has led to a dramatic increase in the demand for short-term credit – from payday lenders, pawnbrokers and doorstop lenders – which is now worth £4.8bn a year.
(20) But in Westeros, the medieval-ish land of fleshpot diplomacy and lethal realpolitik described in George RR Martin 's fantasy doorstops, there's a high degree of natural wastage.
Motion
Definition:
(n.) The act, process, or state of changing place or position; movement; the passing of a body from one place or position to another, whether voluntary or involuntary; -- opposed to rest.
(n.) Power of, or capacity for, motion.
(n.) Direction of movement; course; tendency; as, the motion of the planets is from west to east.
(n.) Change in the relative position of the parts of anything; action of a machine with respect to the relative movement of its parts.
(n.) Movement of the mind, desires, or passions; mental act, or impulse to any action; internal activity.
(n.) A proposal or suggestion looking to action or progress; esp., a formal proposal made in a deliberative assembly; as, a motion to adjourn.
(n.) An application made to a court or judge orally in open court. Its object is to obtain an order or rule directing some act to be done in favor of the applicant.
(n.) Change of pitch in successive sounds, whether in the same part or in groups of parts.
(n.) A puppet show or puppet.
(v. i.) To make a significant movement or gesture, as with the hand; as, to motion to one to take a seat.
(v. i.) To make proposal; to offer plans.
(v. t.) To direct or invite by a motion, as of the hand or head; as, to motion one to a seat.
(v. t.) To propose; to move.
Example Sentences:
(1) In attacking the motion to freeze the licence fee during today's Parliamentary debate the culture secretary, Andy Burnham, criticised the Tory leader.
(2) A triphasic pattern was evident for the neck moments including a small phase which represented a seating of the headform on the nodding blocks of the uppermost ATD neck segment, and two larger phases of opposite polarity which represented the motion of the head relative to the trunk during the first 350 ms after impact.
(3) Based on our results, we propose the following hypotheses for the neurochemical mechanisms of motion sickness: (1) the histaminergic neuron system is involved in the signs and symptoms of motion sickness, including vomiting; (2) the acetylcholinergic neuron system is involved in the processes of habituation to motion sickness, including neural store mechanisms; and (3) the catecholaminergic neuron system in the brain stem is not related to the development of motion sickness.
(4) Full consideration should be given to the dynamics of motion when assessing risk factors in working tasks.
(5) It is proposed that microoscillations of the eye increase the threshold for detection of retinal target displacements, leading to less efficient lateral sway stabilization than expected, and that the threshold for detection of self motion in the A-P direction is lower than the threshold for object motion detection used in the calculations, leading to more efficient stabilization of A-P sway.
(6) Local minima of hand speed evident within segments of continuous motion were associated with turn toward the target.
(7) To evaluate the relationship between the motion pattern and degree of organic change of the anterior mitral leaflet (AML) and the features of the mitral component of the first heart sound (M1) or the opening snap (OS), 37 patients with mitral stenosis (MS) were studied by auscultation, phonocardiography and echocardiography.
(8) An unusually high degree of motional freedom is found for both these spin-labels, even in gel phase bilayers.
(9) A more accurate fit of T1 data using a modified Lipari and Szabo approach indicates that internal fast motions dominate the T1 relaxation in glycogen.
(10) However, the effect of prior jaw motion and the effect of the recording site on the EMG amplitudes and on the vertical dimension of minimum EMG activity have not been documented.
(11) Clinical evaluation of passive range of motion, antero-posterior laxity and the appearance of the joint space showed little or no difference between the reconstruction methods.
(12) We present a paradigm to estimate local affine motion parallax structure from a varying image irradiance pattern.
(13) Echocardiographic findings included an abrupt midsystolic, posterior motion (greater than 3 mm beyond the CD line) in five patients, multiple sequence echoes in six, and posterior coaptation of the mitral valve near the left atrial wall in six.
(14) Results show that responses to motion of cortical cells are particularly sensitive to these manipulations.
(15) Interexaminer reliability studies indicate that a standard method of motion palpation is quite feasible and accurate.
(16) Rapid right ventricular pacing increased the extent and degree of dyskinesia of the left ventricle, but premedication with nicorandil improved the wall motion.
(17) A method using selective saturation pulses and gated spin-echo MRI automatically corrects for this motion and thus eliminates misregistration artifact from regional function analysis.
(18) The relative importance of these properties depends critically on the presence and mode of motion of the tectorial plate.
(19) Left ventricular asynchrony was quantified by the phase difference of the first Fourier harmonic between postero-basal and antero-apical wall motion.
(20) The Weinstein Company, which Harvey owns with his brother Bob, lost rights to the title on Tuesday following a ruling by the Motion Picture Association of America's arbitration board.