(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.
Fender
Definition:
(v. t. & i.) One who or that which defends or protects by warding off harm
(v. t. & i.) A screen to prevent coals or sparks of an open fire from escaping to the floor.
(v. t. & i.) Anything serving as a cushion to lessen the shock when a vessel comes in contact with another vessel or a wharf.
(v. t. & i.) A screen to protect a carriage from mud thrown off the wheels: also, a splashboard.
(v. t. & i.) Anything set up to protect an exposed angle, as of a house, from damage by carriage wheels.
Example Sentences:
(1) "A very loose taped-up tremolo arm on a Fender Jazzmaster, open chording and a few effects," is as far as he will be drawn.
(2) It has been demonstrated by the computer simulation that this model also explains the mechanism of the hysteresis in the binocular depth perception reported by Fender and Julesz (1967).
(3) In 1963, 'I bought a Fender re-verb amplifier and took LSD during the same week.'
(4) Best known to British audiences would be the late Doug Sahm, whose rocking Tex-Mex blend on hits such as Mendocino and She's About a Mover won him an international following and helped shine the spotlight on local Tejano heroes Freddy Fender and Flaco Jiménez.
(5) "These children often live in the moment," says Fender.
(6) Some pre-match emails: "I have a feeling that little doggy's about to chew on some fenders, Mr. G," writes Byron Whitley from New York.
(7) It acknowledged “a handful of minor fender-benders, light damage, no injuries, so far caused by human error and inattention”.
(8) Griff Fender, best known as a vocalist for the 70s band The Darts, and dancer Laura Street have worked with Oily Cart for many years.
(9) The priority so far is not avoiding fender-benders, but teaching them to avoid causing a serious accident that could set back acceptance of the technology for years, said Raj Rajkumar, a pioneer of the technology with Carnegie Mellon University.
(10) "If we want it to sound like a Gibson we use mahogany and if we want a [Fender] Strat or Telecaster sound we use maple."
(11) "There was one particular child I really thought I wasn't getting through to at all," Fender says.
(12) I have replicated the historic Fender and Julesz stereo hysteresis study [J. opt.
(13) Brendan Joyce, the chief executive of Norfolk Wildlife Trust , does not just admire ash because its wood made his beloved Fender Stratocaster guitar.
(14) The wooden bookrest and three-piece fender of wrought iron were designed by Lawrence.
(15) There is talk of how self-driving cars could reduce accidents on the road, but us just driving less could do that too (and the way that self-driving cars can be hacked or just have their software go south should concern us; when a computer goes haywire, it really goes); and the fender benders to date of Google’s self-driving cars suggest that machines may never quite comprehend human nature.
(16) But imagine if you could see real-time traffic updates from friends and fellow travelers ahead of you, calling out 'fender bender ... totally stuck in left lane!'
(17) Heavy snow in the Philadelphia area led to a number of accidents, including a fatal crash on the Pennsylvania Turnpike that spawned fender-benders involving 50 cars, stranding some motorists for up to seven hours.