(n.) That which fends off attack or danger; a defense; a protection; a cover; security; shield.
(n.) An inclosure about a field or other space, or about any object; especially, an inclosing structure of wood, iron, or other material, intended to prevent intrusion from without or straying from within.
(n.) A projection on the bolt, which passes through the tumbler gates in locking and unlocking.
(n.) Self-defense by the use of the sword; the art and practice of fencing and sword play; hence, skill in debate and repartee. See Fencing.
(n.) A receiver of stolen goods, or a place where they are received.
(v. t.) To fend off danger from; to give security to; to protect; to guard.
(v. t.) To inclose with a fence or other protection; to secure by an inclosure.
(v. i.) To make a defense; to guard one's self of anything, as against an attack; to give protection or security, as by a fence.
(v. i.) To practice the art of attack and defense with the sword or with the foil, esp. with the smallsword, using the point only.
(v. i.) Hence, to fight or dispute in the manner of fencers, that is, by thrusting, guarding, parrying, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) The identifiable causes of child drowning are absence of a safety barrier or fence around the water hazard, non-supervision of a child, a parental "vulnerable period", an inadequate safety barrier, and tempting objects in or on the water.
(2) Down the road another group of protesters gathered outside the chain-link fence surrounding the Marriott's perimeter.
(3) The top of the fence can also be manipulated in certain ways such as including curvature outward at the top of the fence to make scaling it much more difficult for most.” Some critics, including Washington DC congressional delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton, have warned against excessive fortification, but the report argues: “We recognise all the competing considerations that may go into questions regarding the fence, but believe that protection of the President and the White House must be the higher priority.” “Every additional second of response time provided by a fence that is more difficult to climb makes a material difference in ensuring the President’s safety and protecting the symbol that is the White House.” The panel also urges that a new head of secret service, to replace ousted head Julia Pierson, be brought in from outside the agency, ensuring it is better staffed and trained in future.
(4) In an attempt to show the public and cabinet colleagues that money being ring-fenced from Treasury cuts will be spent wisely, Mitchell said he wanted to know whether money spent at agencies such as the World Bank and the UN matched up to the government's anti-poverty objectives and delivered real benefits.
(5) These findings indicate a need for Los Angeles County to address the problem of drownings among infants and toddlers in private swimming pools and to investigate the failure of regulations requiring fencing of swimming pools to prevent these deaths.
(6) In February last year the BBC was forced to apologise to the Mexican ambassador after a joke made by the three presenters that the nation's cars were like the people "lazy, feckless, flatulent, overweight, leaning against a fence asleep looking at a cactus with a blanket with a hole in the middle on as a coat".
(7) Ring-fencing of health, education and development budgets means other departments face an average cut of 11.6% over the next five years, with the steepest cuts expected at the start of the parliament.
(8) "You have very difficult and emotional arguments on both sides of the fence.
(9) A requirement for pool fencing is the most promising such strategy and could be implemented soon.
(10) If the EBU wants to engage seriously with a country such as Azerbaijan, it has to get off the fence.
(11) Burnout And if you’re more into chat than science, I can tell you over the garden fence that it works.
(12) The movement pattern of épée fencing results in an asymmetry of the body.
(13) Sophie Jackson, of Museum of London Archaeology , said: "The waterlogged conditions left by the Walbrook stream have given us layer upon layer of Roman timber buildings, fences and yards, all beautifully preserved and containing amazing personal items, clothes and even documents – all of which will transform our understanding of the people of Roman London."
(14) Yet here comes Bloomberg — a former Democrat turned Republican turned independent who many thought might run for president himself on a third-party ticket — throwing his support behind Obama , citing climate as the proximate reason for his hop off the fence: Our climate is changing.
(15) With a population of only 3.3 million, it is hard for politicians and activists not to know personally those on the other side of the ideological fence.
(16) Other robots in the Boston Dynamics stable include Petman, a robot that tests humanoid chemical protective clothing; the wheeled SandFlea robot that can leap small buildings; a small six-legged robot capable of traversing rough terrain called RHex; and the RiSE robot capable of climbing vertical walls, trees and fences using feet with micro-claws.
(17) These results indicate overall productivity estimates of 51 and 120 kg of weaner calf per cow per year and 86 and 188 kg of 18-month old calf per cow per year for the cattle post and fenced ranch respectively.
(18) The claim has stunned a community who knew him not as a pale spectre in Taliban videos but as the tall, affable young man who served coffee and deftly fended off jokes about Billy Elliot – he did ballet along with karate, fencing, paragliding and mountain biking.
(19) On one occasion, she told the court, she had been seized at a beauty spot near her home where she was walking her dog, raped and left tied to a fence.
(20) Samuel Wurzelbacher, who became famous during the 2008 election as “Joe the Plumber” after he had a heated discussion with Obama on the campaign trail, was championed by presidential nominee John McCain but later made contentious remarks such as a call to “put a damn fence on the border going to Mexico and start shooting”.
Fencer
Definition:
(n.) One who fences; one who teaches or practices the art of fencing with sword or foil.
Example Sentences:
(1) Warren said a Russian Su-24 aircraft, or Fencer, made 12 passes at low altitude near the USS Donald Cook, a destroyer that has been in the Black Sea since April 10.
(2) The former fencer, unknown to most sports fans but an influential figure in German sport and business, takes over when the Olympic movement is at a crossroads.
(3) J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) If the worst they can say about you is you're an OPENLY GAY EX-OLYMPIC FENCER TOP JUDGE, you've basically won life.
(4) We present the case of a fencer who developed this injury.
(5) In fencers and left-handers shorter latencies were found for the large visual field condition, whereas right-handers showed an opposite trend.
(6) A case of intravascular papillary endothelial hyperplasia in the hypothenar eminence of a 23-year-old female fencer is described.
(7) The reaction time in test 3 correlated significantly (p less than 0.01) with competition success within the group of world class fencers.
(9) The results showed that épée fencers have a high maximal aerobic power and high maximal isometric and dynamic strength.
(10) They want to be astronauts, you’ve got fencers at the Olympics and ice skaters going to the Winter Olympics , female air crew for Brunei airways – these are young people who are really battling the fact that they have aspirations that should be unfettered versus a reality that is trying to confine them to a particular box.” But, she acknowledges, not all young Muslims are Generation M. Inclusion does not depend on disposable income or level of education, but sharing the characteristics of faith and modernity.
(11) In a double blind test on 40 men and women high performance fencers the influence of a multivitamin-electrolyte-preparation on reaction time, hit-frequency and neuromuscular irritability was determined.
(12) The results give further evidence of special patterns of visual processing in athletes, like fencers, in agreement with the literature.
(13) The test subjects were ten world class epée fencers from the Swedish national team.
(14) Bach was already a promising fencer at the age of five when his parents forced him into the sport against his will (he preferred football).
(15) An increase of the mean circadian values of T concentration in venous blood was found in females fencers (n = 9).
(16) It accused him of cheating when he was a young fencer by using a wet glove to disable the scoring system, of paying inducements to sports stars when he was an Adidas executive and of being named in Stasi files over an influence-peddling scheme.
(17) The documentary featured allegations that he had cheated as a young fencer by using a wet glove to fool the electronic scoring system and claimed the Arab-German Chamber of Commerce and Industry, of which he is president, is anti-Israeli.
(18) The Mail Online went on to describe one of the judges, Sir Terence Etherton, as “an openly gay ex-Olympic fencer”.
(19) Visual evoked potentials were recorded from occipital and temporal leads in the two cerebral hemispheres of eight fencers and eight control subjects.
(20) Mogulof quotes one teammate as saying Mayer kept speaking of the oak tree presented to each gold medal winner, mourning the fact she couldn’t plant the tree in her homeland where it would bloom as an eternal reminder of the once golden fencer who had come back to win in the face of hate.