(1) They had assumed the two explosions were firecrackers, only to be alarmed by the sudden number of policemen mobilising in the streets.
(2) Jérôme Boucer, who was engrossed in the gig nearer the stage, assumed the “pop, pop, pop” sound was part of the show – a firecracker perhaps.
(3) At first the shots sounded like firecrackers, said Agnieszka Kolek, curator of the Passion for Freedom arts festival in London, who was appearing on the panel with Shevchenko.
(4) The commonest cause was splashing of boiling fluids (42% of cases), followed by contact with red-hot firecracker particles (18%) and lit match heads (17%).
(5) Last but not least are the numerous and complex “traditional” mitigation strategies – beating drums, small fires and smoke screens, chasing elephants, firecrackers, intricate trip wires and alarms.
(6) We all live together, and they’ve got completely different qualities.” She says Phoenix is cool and sporty, seven-year-old Angel is a show-off “sassy pants”, and three-year-old Madison is a tough firecracker who has to fight for attention.
(7) He said he then heard what sounded like firecrackers and thought: “Surely they’re not shooting human beings”.
(8) After 23 years in the airforce he recognised the sound of gunfire, while most tourists thought it was firecrackers laid on as part of the entertainment and milled around confused or oblivious as the gunman drew in.
(9) The Arsenal support could afford to gloat in the closing stages of this firecracker, which ended with Wigan Athletic being burnt, and they surely knew the answer.
(10) "It sounded like a firecracker in a pillowcase," said Peter Smith, a traveller from the Netherlands.
(11) "At first I'd thought they were only firecrackers or something until I heard a police whistle.
(12) Patrick Wintour (@patrickwintour) The now traditional firecracker YouGov poll.
(13) Driving along the Galle road, a small band of Sinhalese Rajapaksa supporters lit firecrackers, one of the few celebrations of his victory.
(14) We heard a loud pop we thought was a firecracker,” Katie Domingue told the Louisiana Advertiser .
(15) Nonetheless, before we write off this particular pause, it marks a significant victory for this week's dry-sounding but firecrackingly page-turning report by the former Bishop of Oxford: Non-party Campaigning Ahead of Elections.
(16) Youths let off firecrackers and fire extinguishers and pushed over crowd control barriers.
(17) He was overpowered by passengers and crew members, who smelled smoke and heard what sounded like firecrackers, federal officials said.
(18) The official said Shahzad went back last Saturday and left the Pathfinder loaded with firecrackers, petrol and propane, potentially enough to create a fireball and kill people nearby including tourists and Broadway theatregoers.
(19) I watched as men fired large firecrackers horizontally into the crowd and they police just stood at the side of the square with their hands on their hips”.
(20) We thought it was firecrackers at first, but when the sound of explosions came closer we understood.
Fuse
Definition:
(v. t.) To liquefy by heat; to render fiuid; to dissolve; to melt.
(v. t.) To unite or blend, as if melted together.
(v. i.) To be reduced from a solid to a Quid state by heat; to be melted; to melt.
(v. i.) To be blended, as if melted together.
(n.) A tube or casing filled with combustible matter, by means of which a charge of powder is ignited, as in blasting; -- called also fuzee. See Fuze.
Example Sentences:
(1) Synthetic DNA corresponding to the hydrophobic domain of cytochrome b5 was enzymatically fused in-frame to cloned DNA corresponding to the C-terminus of the Escherichia coli enzyme, beta-galactosidase.
(2) The latter findings reinforce the concept that in pathologic states associated with cerebral oedema, pinocytotic vesicles fuse to form transendothelial channels which transport plasma proteins into brain.
(3) DNA fragments coding for signal peptides with different lengths (28, 31, 33 and 41 amino acids from the translation initiator Met) were prepared and fused with the E. coli beta-lactamase structural gene.
(4) When these sequences were fused to the N terminus of yeast cytochrome oxidase subunit IV lacking its own presequence, they directed the attached subunit IV to its correct intramitochondrial location in vivo.
(5) In addition, 15 double mutant xylS genes were constructed in vitro by fusing parts of various mutant genes to produce mutant regulators exhibiting C-terminal and N-terminal amino acid substitutions.
(6) Descending neurons have opposite structural polarity, arising in the brain and terminating in segmental regions of the fused ventral ganglia.
(7) Some of them situated in a particular environment fused with the tail sequence to produce monomeric ubiquitin genes that were maintained across species.
(8) Fusing equimolecular amounts of 3-oxaspiro[5.5]undecane-2.4-dione with certain amino compounds afforded the corresponding N-substituted azaspirodiones.
(9) Theoretical analyses of parameters for submicron fluorescence recovery after photobleaching measurements in intact mitoplasts support the finding of highly mobile redox components diffusing at the same rates as determined in conventional fluorescence recovery after photobleaching measurements in fused, ultralarge inner membranes.
(10) A simple method has been developed for fusing synaptic vesicles into spherical structures 20-50 micron in diameter.
(11) The results obtained allow to conclude that heterophasic condition of the fused cells is one of the causes of pathological mitosis of polykaryons and of their death.
(12) At high protein concentrations, three footprints fuse to a 106-bp protected region, suggesting that this segment specifically binds several proteins of lower affinity or abundance.
(13) Traction spurs with segmental hypermobility were found more commonly at the L4-5 level in patients whose spines were not fused, particularly women.
(14) As for possible causes of reduced Leydig cell activity it was investigated whether the testis was (1) hypoplastic; (2) abnormally fused with the epididymis; (3) located in the abdomen; (4) or UT was associated with hypospadias.
(15) We report a case of seminoma associated with crossed fused renal ectopia and a duplicated vena cava.
(16) Large intracellular vacuoles, which arose from dilated cisternae of the rough-surfaced endoplasmic reticulum, were fused together, and marked swelling of the mitochondria was also noted.
(17) Apparently the myoblasts have become postmitotic and competent to fuse into muscle fibers during their initial exposure to fusion inducing medium, even though cytodifferentiation has been blocked.
(18) Our results clearly demonstrate that capillary GC analysis of amino acids using fused silica bonded-phase columns provides data with good precision and in general excellent agreement with ion-exchange analyses.
(19) We have perturbed the dynamics of the nuclear lamins by means of cell fusion between mitotic and interphase cells and have studied redistribution of lamins in fused cells as a function of extracellular pH levels.
(20) To identify regulatory elements of these promoters, we fused CSF-1R genomic sequences to bacterial reporter genes and introduced the resulting constructs into human cell lines and mouse fibroblasts.