(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.
Framework
Definition:
(n.) The work of framing, or the completed work; the frame or constructional part of anything; as, the framework of society.
(n.) Work done in, or by means of, a frame or loom.
Example Sentences:
(1) We have examined overlapping octapeptides from the kappa IIIb light chain variable region and show that some framework peptides have the ability to bind aggregated IgG.
(2) Neal’s evidence to the committee said Future Fund staff were not subject to the public service bargaining framework, which links any pay rise to productivity increases and caps rises at 1.5%.
(3) Nice (the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence) has also published new guidance on good patient experience that provides a strong framework on which to build good engagement practice.
(4) "We have determined that an unprecedented framework has been established, where an organisation that can make decisions at a national level ... will be at the forefront of the investigations," Abe said.
(5) Two different approaches were developed within the framework of Relational LABCOM to address both the intermediate and long-term storage of data.
(6) The paper develops a model as a framework for monitoring the course of the program through the policy cycle and recommends that the policy process be considered as dynamic, interactive, and evolutionary.
(7) We have operated within the policy and regulatory framework set out by the Commonwealth government.
(8) These findings provide a framework for future investigations of our congenital syphilis model.
(9) We interpreted these results within an attributional framework that emphasizes the salience of upsetting events within a social network.
(10) Given that patient preferences constitute a central concept within the framework of HRQL, further empirical evaluation of utility measures of preference is fundamental to improving the HRQL measurement tool-kit.
(11) Different techniques for attaching the gold cylinders to the frameworks were used.
(12) The interface between these nutritional factors and the normal regulation of vascular smooth muscle is discussed, providing a theoretical framework in which to assess the current information and to formulate the necessary future research.
(13) We found that in the patient's view an adequate result requires establishment of a proper lip sphincter--either by restoring muscular tone, or by creating an anatomical framework to which can be added either a motor unit or stabilization to aid the opposite intact muscle.
(14) Comparison of the main coding sequence of this gene to another member of this subgroup reveals germline sequence differences that occur not only in complementarity determining regions but also in framework regions.
(15) Designing and fabricating the metallic framework for a fixed partial denture requires planning and an understanding of what is desired in the final form.
(16) The primary myosymplasts serve as a framework along which the myoblasts move and participate in the myofibrilles formation.
(17) In stage I, a tympanoplasty is performed before transplantation of the carved cartilage framework.
(18) With the City's regulatory framework being tightened by the coalition government, which is disbanding the FSA and handing control of bank oversight to the Bank of England , there is concern in London that the US politicians are being opportunistic.
(19) Full integration of professional activities from training to education is accomplished within the framework of Emergency Medical Services.
(20) To overcome some of these problems it is suggested that an investigation of lay evaluation of health care should be carried out within a conceptual framework which incorporates the following elements.