(n.) Corundum in the form of grains or powder, used in the arts for grinding and polishing hard substances. Native emery is mixed with more or less magnetic iron. See the Note under Corundum.
Example Sentences:
(1) Not for Spain but I played a couple of games there with Unai Emery at Valencia.
(2) The original Virginia family with X-linked muscular dystrophy with early contractures and cardiomyopathy (Emery-Dreifuss type) has been reinvestigated 25 years later.
(3) Unstained fibers were observed in mitochondrial myopathies, in Becker, Emery-Dreifuss, limb-girdle, facio-scapulo-humeral muscular dystrophies, muscle infarction, polymyositis, motor neuron diseases and neuropathies.
(4) The instruments that were used to measure the study variables were the General Cognitive Error Questionnaire (Lefebvre, 1981) and the Beck Depression Inventory (Beck, Rush, Shaw, & Emery, 1979).
(5) Emery-Dreifuss muscular dystrophy is particularly worthy of recognition because of the preventable occurrence of sudden death in young patients with an otherwise excellent prognosis.
(6) The clinical features to establish the diagnosis of X-linked Emery-Dreifuss muscular dystrophy (EMD) were recently redefined at the European EMD workshop in Baarn 1991.
(7) A modification is given of the original density function formula of EMERY and MORTON for estimating heterozygosity in X-linked Duchenne muscular dystrophy.
(8) Kearns, 26, performs his eccentric show in a monk's tonsure wig and Dick Emery-style protruding false teeth.
(9) We have searched for linkage between polymorphic loci defined by DNA markers on the X chromosome and X-linked Emery-Dreifuss muscular dystrophy (EDMD).
(10) "I think that the best team did win," said the Sevilla coach, Unai Emery.
(11) Completed specimens emery polished were stored in lactic acid at 37 degrees C for 3 months, and sand-blasted were for 6 months.
(12) The Sevilla coach, Unai Emery, has not beaten Barcelona in 19 matches but has the new signings Yevhen Konoplyanka and Ciro Immobile, although Adil Rami is a doubt due to illness.
(13) We report that an increased chloride efflux with respect to controls is present not only in fibroblasts from DMD, but also from two other X-linked muscular dystrophies, Becker and Emery-Dreifuss, as well as in clones from DMD carrier females.
(14) Emery-Dreifuss muscular dystrophy is an X-linked recessive condition characterized by mild muscular weakness predominantly in a humero-peroneal distribution with variable facial involvement.
(15) Linkage studies have narrowed the interval to which the Emery-Dreifuss muscular dystrophy (EDMD) gene maps, raising prospects for isolating this locus.
(16) We present five patients, three of whom suffered from a rigid spine syndrome and two from Emery-Dreifuss muscular dystrophy.
(17) Lung weight: body weight ratios (LW:BW) were calculated, and morphometry was determined by the radial alveolar count (RAC) (Emery and Mithal, 1960).
(18) "You'd rather we didn't... You are awful... but I like you," he answers in his best Dick Emery voice.
(19) Unai Emery has informed Sevilla of his wish to leave the club amid interest from Paris Saint-Germain , with the La Liga club confirming they have lined up the Argentinian Jorge Sampaoli as his replacement.
(20) Emery-Dreifuss muscular dystrophy is a syndrome with five salient features: early and unusual contractures; humeroperoneal muscle wasting; the slow progression of weakness, beginning in childhood; cardiac conduction defects; and X-linked inheritance.
Rifle
Definition:
(v. i.) To commit robbery.
(v. t.) To seize and bear away by force; to snatch away; to carry off.
(v. t.) To strip; to rob; to pillage.
(v. t.) To raffle.
(v. i.) To raffle.
(n.) A gun, the inside of whose barrel is grooved with spiral channels, thus giving the ball a rotary motion and insuring greater accuracy of fire. As a military firearm it has superseded the musket.
(n.) A body of soldiers armed with rifles.
(n.) A strip of wood covered with emery or a similar material, used for sharpening scythes.
(v. t.) To grove; to channel; especially, to groove internally with spiral channels; as, to rifle a gun barrel or a cannon.
(v. t.) To whet with a rifle. See Rifle, n., 3.
Example Sentences:
(1) He's Billy no-mates with a Heckler & Koch sniper-rifle, drowning in loneliness, booze and depression.
(2) A tall young Border Police officer stopped me, his rifle cradled in his arms.
(3) Types of weapons involved included handguns (48%), shotguns (22%), rifles (17%), unspecified weapon (12%), and air rifle (1%).
(4) Snipers fired from rooftops, and plainclothes Saleh supporters armed with automatic rifles, swords and batons attacked the protesters.
(5) Sky News has apologised profusely after one of its presenters was shown rifling through the personal belongings of a stricken passenger at the MH17 crash site.
(6) Deaths due to air rifles are extremely rare; only four other cases were found in the recent English-language literature.
(8) The drug was administered from a distance by means of a projectile syringe shot from a special rifle.
(9) We sampled a sawn-off shotgun and an assault rifle, but cops do get tasers and tear gas to add some urban flavour.
(10) Armed with an assault rifle, he then allegedly headed into two poor villages in Kandahar province, the Taliban's heartland, and went on a murderous rampage in which six people were also injured.
(11) District head Baba Abba Hassan said most victims are children, women and elderly people who could not run fast enough when insurgents drove into Baga, firing rocket-propelled grenades and assault rifles on town residents.
(12) Officers took up positions on rooftops and along railroad tracks and scanned the terrain through rifle scopes and binoculars.
(13) That proposal, similar to a Senate measure backed by the National Rifle Association, would let the attorney general delay a gun purchase by a suspected terrorist for three days, and let law enforcement officials ask a judge to block the purchase altogether.
(14) It can also be seen as a comment on the NSA debate, with Samantha gleefully rifling through Theodore's emails.
(15) Two men in a car tried to drive into the parking lot, jumped out with automatic rifles.
(16) A Royal Military police officer who was attached to the Rifles regiment, Pritchard had been put on duty at an observation post in the Sangin area of Helmand province, where the Taliban had fought hard for control.
(17) And with every heartbeat the blood was pumping up in the air from my thigh.” A man pointed a rifle at his head and threatened to finish him off.
(18) Via al-Aan correspondent Jenan Moussa: Jenan Moussa (@jenanmoussa) I asked a rebel sniper in #Syria : Drop ur rifle for a day & document life through lens of a camera.
(19) Heller called Bundy’s militia supporters, many of whom had trained semi-automatic rifles on government rangers during the stand-off, “patriots”; now his spokesman is saying that the senator “completely disagrees with Mr Bundy’s appalling and racist statements”.
(20) ", but nothing helped, there was so much other noise – both the helicopter above us and the bastard's rifle.