(n.) The mouth of a river; also, the mouth of a cannon.
(n.) The mouthpiece of a wind instrument.
(n.) The shaping of the lips to the mouthpiece; as, a flute player has a good embouchure.
Example Sentences:
(1) An embouchure aid was constructed as a means of bringing relief to the many clarinet and saxophone players who suffer chronic lip irritation as the result of playing their instruments.
(2) Historically, the concern of wind instrumentalists has been diaphragm control and embouchure.
(3) Focal dystonias may involve part or all of a hand or the muscles forming the embouchure (the position of the lips in wind players).
(4) The authors postulated that the embouchure might be important as the receptor of the airflow rather than controlling the movement for "blow".
(5) In conclusion, the skeletal and denture problem influence the holding position of the clarinet, embouchure and the way of playing it.
Outfall
Definition:
(n.) The mouth of a river; the lower end of a water course; the open end of a drain, culvert, etc., where the discharge occurs.
(n.) A quarrel; a falling out.
Example Sentences:
(1) Neither the stock cultures nor the aquatic strains were capable of growth in autoclaved river water taken above the sewage outfall at the three temperatures tested.
(2) Although the efficiency of the method was influenced by the composition and source of the sediments it was used successfully to detect viruses occurring in marine and freshwater sediments near sewer outfalls.
(3) Generally speaking, fluoridated water loss during use, dilution of sewage by rain and ground water infiltrate, fluoride removal during secondary sewage treatment, and diffusion dynamics at effluent outfall combine to eliminate fluoridation-related environmental effects.
(4) This study provides data for total and non-residual vanadium distributions in the northern Saronikos Gulf and shows that close to the Athens sewage outfall (ASO), the combined domestic and industrial wastes have resulted in a considerable increase in concentrations of vanadium in sediments and suspended solids.
(5) Animals near the Los Angeles County sewer outfall contain over 45 times as much tDDT as animals near major agricultural drainage areas.
(6) All bacterial indices, except for V. parahaemolyticus, declined significantly with distance from the outfall.
(7) Close proximity to sewage outfall was shown to result in significant decreases in AEC values within 24 hr.
(8) Sewage effluent and outfall confluence samples were collected at the Barceloneta Regional Treatment Plant in Barceloneta, Puerto Rico; outfall confluence samples at Ocean City, Md., were also collected.
(9) The presence of long-chain alkylbenzenes in sediment trap particulates and marine sediments collected near a major waste outfall system in southern California indicates that these hydrocarbons can survive exposure to an oxygenated water column during sedimentation.
(10) Vast amounts of these end up in the sea, through inadequate waste disposal systems and sewage outfall.
(11) Four new methane-oxidizing bacteria have been isolated from marine samples taken at the Hyperion sewage outfall, near Los Angeles, CA.
(12) Polluted water samples collected from the River Tigris in the vicinity of a raw sewage outfall were examined for the incidence of antibiotic resistance among coliform bacteria on three occasions during 1983.
(13) Below the outfall of one of the plants that discharges heavily chlorinated unnitrified effluent, NH4+-oxidizers amounted to approximately 200 X 10(5) per g of slime scraped from stream-bed rocks.
(14) Human enteric viruses in urban wastewater often flow into the marine environment through outfall sewers which can cause pollution of adjacent beaches used for bathing and of areas where fish and seafood grow and are harvested for human consumption.
(15) The Manus islanders have a strong tradition of fishing and a dependency on this resource … This is an area of highly diverse reefs that are seriously threatened from dynamite fishing and by phosphate mining on seabird islands as well as sewage outfalls.” [243] It goes on to note that it was a “high-level risk” that wastewater from the site would be released into the marine environment.
(16) The contamination of the river resulted from an incorrect sewage connexion with a surface water drain outfall into the river.
(17) No differences in growth, measured as wet weight gain, were observed between upstream control (UP) and experimental fish located 9 km downstream from the outfall (Down 4).
(18) In this study the seedling of a variety of plants were successfully grown hydroponically on raw wastewater obtained from one of the main sewer outfalls in Beirut.
(19) No viruses were detected near the outfall nor in the bathing area.
(20) Virological examination of water of the Baltic Sea in the neighbourhood of a sewage outfall was done.