(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”.
Paddock
Definition:
(n.) A toad or frog.
(n.) A small inclosure or park for sporting.
(n.) A small inclosure for pasture; esp., one adjoining a stable.
Example Sentences:
(1) Wright said he had recently shown a family moving from London around a four-bedroom house with a paddock, on sale for £375,000.
(2) Six of the WAD goats carried natural infections of H. contortus and T. colubriformis and eight other (tracer) goats acquired their infections from a grass paddock artificially contaminated with H. placei, C. pectinata and C. punctata, during May to October.
(3) The values tended to recover slowly after the removal of the cast, then more quickly after the horses returned to the paddock four weeks later.
(4) Peak infestations in both paddocks also occurred simultaneously in May.
(5) Six experiments were conducted to determine the relationship between the serving capacity of bulls as predicted by a 40-min yard test and their fertility during paddock mating, measured by the conception rate at first oestrus and the pregnancy rate at the end of 10 weeks of mating.
(6) In zoological and judicial terms, the deer habituated to paddock keeping still belong to wild animals that are held captive.
(7) Observations for estrus were conducted three times daily in a dirt paddock containing a testosterone-treated cow.
(8) Theileria infections were induced in cattle by feeding ticks on them from 3 sources: (a) adult rhipicephalid ticks obtained from the vegetation in a paddock containing an eland EAO at the Animal Orphanage, Nairobi National Park, Kenya, (b) Rhipicephalus appendiculatus adults fed as nymphs on the same eland, (c) R. pulchellus adults fed as nymphs on an eland W 68 captured in the Machakos district of Kenya.
(9) Six year-round, all-forage, three-paddock systems for beef cow-calf production were used to produce five calf crops during a 6-yr period.
(10) All 18 2-year-old Brahman bulls grazing in a paddock containing Castanospermum australe trees were diagnosed as heterozygotes for Pompe's disease by measurement of mononuclear cell alpha-glucosidase activity.
(11) Instead Key flailed all round the paddock and was forced to retreat centimetre by centimetre.” The controversy leaves a picture of “loose governance of his office ... and of his cabinet” as well as “bad judgment in talking to Whale Oil”, he says.
(12) Disk meter height responses to SR did not differ (P greater than .10) between steer and cow-calf paddocks.
(13) It reported that the previous evening, Richard Casey, the minister for Australia’s science agency, the CSIRO, had announced that a sheep paddock outside Parkes in western New South Wales would be the site of Australia’s new, £500m giant radio telescope.
(14) Consumption of a sodium chloride based supplement followed by food and water restriction in yards for over 30 hours, resulted in nervous disorders in 5 of 60 three-year-old steers within hours of being released into a paddock.
(15) In Trial 2, eight ruminally cannulated steers (avg wt 234.4 kg) grazed a 2.4-ha paddock of Vona-variety wheat and were assigned randomly to either MRDD or C treatments.
(16) They nudge the soft earth or a companion before snorting and continuing on up through the paddocks to the shed.
(17) Feral pigs were excluded from one paddock for most of lambing by means of an electric fence.
(18) Three paddocks were contaminated with Haemonchus contortus eggs from early spring to mid summer by yearling sheep.
(19) Paddock 1 was used for the controls, paddock 2 for the levamisole group (dosed at 3, 6 and 9 weeks after the start of grazing) and paddock 3 for the ivermectin group (dosed at 3 and 8 weeks after turn-out).
(20) By making use of artificially infected donor sheep, six camps (paddocks) were seeded with a resistant field strain of H. contortus until it was confirmed by means of worm-free tracer lambs that the grazing had become infective.