() A running or going out or forth; an expedition; a sally.
() A journey chiefly for recreation; a pleasure trip; a brief tour; as, an excursion into the country.
() A wandering from a subject; digression.
() Length of stroke, as of a piston; stroke. [An awkward use of the word.]
Example Sentences:
(1) Increased ventilatory excursions with constant inspired CO2 levels did not cause any elevation of IOT, but a minimal compensatory drop in IOT below resting values occurred when increased ventilatory excursions were discontinued.
(2) The LVOR in the presence of visual targets (VLVOR) was tested by recording human vertical eye and head movements during self-generated vertical linear oscillation (averaging 2.7 Hz at peak excursion of 3.2 cm) while subjects alternately fixated targets at D = 36, 142, and 424 cm.
(3) During five separate excursions (1989-90), observations were made of occurrence, harvesting, use, and marketing of psychoactive fungi by local Thai natives (males and females, adults and children), foreign tourists, and German immigrants.
(4) Angiographic features felt to indicate valve tearing were present following 17 of 25 procedures and included increased excursion or straightening of leaflets, localized change in leaflet motion (flail leaflet), and the presence of an additional contrast jet through the valve.
(5) Before and one, two, three, and seven days after the experiment, the following measures were made: (1) superficial masseter and anterior temporalis muscle tenderness (pain threshold), (2) jaw movement (opening and lateral excursion), and (3) current pain level for the right and left sides of the jaw.
(6) In 10 dogs with acute posterior wall ischemia the B-C excursion (aneurysmal bulging) increased (P less than 0.01), but the mean systolic posterior wall velocity and posterior wall excursion decreased (P less than 0.01).
(7) As a user changes the position of the joints of the simulated hand, the simulation displays the new tendon path and the excursion of the tendon for the new position of the hand.
(8) Inspiratory and expiratory chest X-rays in children often appear to show a very similar diaphragmatic excursion and, unless the object is radiodense, the determination of foreign body aspiration is frequently not possible.
(9) We measured pressure excursions at the airway opening and at the alveoli (PA) as well as measured the regional distribution of PA during forced oscillations of six excised dog lungs while frequency (f[2-32 Hz]), tidal volume (VT [5-80 ml]), and mean transpulmonary pressure (PL [25, 10, and 6 cm H2O]) were varied.
(10) Comparing with formerly reported data for adults, it was thought that the lateral excursions of children with primary dentition shifted more forward and more horizontally.
(11) Using Koufonissi as a base, there are daily excursions by caique and ferry to nearby islands, including Iraklia, where walkers can follow a pilgrims' trail across the high lands to spectacular St John's Cave, carved into a limestone cliff.
(12) We conclude that the observed change in circulating metabolite or hormone concentration is independent of the size of meal eaten, but the duration of the excursion depends on meal size.
(13) The box means he does not have to be hooded for his excursions.
(14) The position of both working and non-working side molars during chewing tended to be inferior to that during lateral excursion.
(15) The recordings from an earlier study regarding the respiratory depth and rate changes induced by exposure to 4% CO2 in air in 13 babies with PM age varying between 32 and 43 weeks were reexamined with regard to the pattern of thoracic abdominal breathing excursion in breathing immediately prior to the CO2 exposure and the type of response induced.
(16) All three types of bar attachment show the least value of lateral excursion.
(17) In both excursion magnitudes and directions of initial rotation, the elderly showed greater variability than the young.
(18) At both 16 and 20 weeks of age, however, preferences for motion were determined exclusively by the velocity of the movement and were unaffected by the excursion of the bar.
(19) The aortic root dimension and aortic valve excursion of 43 normal fetuses were recorded with M-mode echocardiography and the measured dimensions correlated with noncardiac measurements (biparietal diameter, head circumference, abdominal circumference, and femur length) and cardiac measurements (diastolic biventricular inner dimension, diastolic left ventricular internal dimension, and mitral valve excursion).
(20) The proximal end of the TEC system consists of a mechanical housing which controls the vacuum, the rotating cutter (750 RPM) and the cutter excursion (4 cm).
Outing
Definition:
(n.) The act of going out; an airing; an excursion; as, a summer outing.
(n.) A feast given by an apprentice when he is out of his time.
Example Sentences:
(1) The therapist consulted with staff before and after outings, thus providing integration with the over-all treatment plan.
(2) "That's money you could use for a family outing, a treat for the kids, or a meal in town."
(3) If she learns anything from this disastrous outing, I hope itʼs that if sheʼs going to allow the music industry to play her as a sex object, she needs to at least own it.
(4) He said that the BNP wanted a second outing on Question Time to be "re-run in the correct format".
(5) Continuing, unauthorised US drone attacks against insurgents inside Pakistan, a source of deep public outrage, formed the backdrop to a string of ensuing tiffs over visas, reductions in the CIA presence, and the "outing" of the CIA station chief.
(6) The Lakers snapped a six-game skid in their final outing, but their demanding fans could forget about the awful season for one night.
(7) Hitting the slopes here isn’t so much an outing as it is a full-on expedition, albeit one fuelled by hot chocolate and whisky toddies at the bottom of every run.
(8) Carville’s aide-memoire gets an outing whenever politicians are losing an argument about something that isn’t the economy and want to pretend it doesn’t matter.
(9) The Frost Programme Facebook Twitter Pinterest Frost's first outing as a more serious interviewer came with The Frost Programme, for which he returned to Associated Rediffusion, the then-ITV franchise for London for whom he had worked as a trainee after leaving Cambridge.
(10) One of the hottest outings is the Unplugged Backyard Hangout (UBH) sessions: a nomadic all-night gathering, from 6pm to 6am, with a long lineup of the city’s musicians, live art, spoken word, and performances in the Kwazakhele neighbourhood.
(11) Enhanced caller identification pages could also show details of the person on the other end of the line including their location, and prompts such as the names of their children, their last holiday or a recent cinema outing.
(12) However, clever Miss Bennet was not an automatic crowd-pleaser on her first outings.
(13) The only notable change comes in adding multiplayer, a first for the 3D outings.
(14) There’s quite a hidden LGBT element in terms of revenge porn,” adds Noone, who says attackers will sometimes threaten to post pictures “outing” someone to family and friends unless blackmail demands are met.
(15) I wish it would rain down Great Continental Railway Journeys followed the first outing for BBC2's new natural history epic, Africa 2013: Countdown to the Rains, presented by Kate Humble and Simon King in Zambia.
(16) US network ABC has commissioned a new documentary-style series following Kermit, Miss Piggy, Fozzie Bear et al, and their everyday travails rather than the globe-trotting, song-and-dance adventures that have characterised their film outings.
(17) For the serious riders, this outing was a warm-up for the Wolfpack Hustle race on 15 August, which drew international contestants.
(18) It’s hot up there,” said Arsène Wenger as he surveyed the scene at the top end of the Premier League, with everyone winning their midweek outings.
(19) 7 members of a family of 14 developed acute viral hepatitis approximately one month after a family outing.
(20) Here are seven takeaways from our first proper look at Daniel Craig’s fourth outing as the suave British spy.