(n.) A device for producing a striking display of light, or a figure or figures in plain or colored fire, by the combustion of materials that burn in some peculiar manner, as gunpowder, sulphur, metallic filings, and various salts. The most common feature of fireworks is a paper or pasteboard tube filled with the combustible material. A number of these tubes or cases are often combined so as to make, when kindled, a great variety of figures in fire, often variously colored. The skyrocket is a common form of firework. The name is also given to various combustible preparations used in war.
(n.) A pyrotechnic exhibition.
Example Sentences:
(1) It’s exhilarating – until you see someone throw a firework at a police horse.
(2) As she was laid to rest fireworks illuminated the grey sky.
(3) Families and friends come together and fireworks displays and other celebrations are standard.
(4) Officers in riot gear at a number of points later drew batons and clashed with members of the crowd, hours after the protest began gathering in central London at around 6pm before massing near parliament, where fireworks were let off to cheers.
(5) Residents of five blocks in Nottingham, called City Heights, set off fireworks to celebrate wresting control of their development from Peverel after a long legal battle.
(6) Palestinians barricaded themselves inside al-Aqsa, throwing stones and fireworks at police entering the compound.
(7) The Tunisian delivery driver who killed 84 people when he drove a truck into a crowd watching Bastille Day fireworks in Nice on Thursday sent a text message just before the attack about his supply of weapons.
(8) 11.38am: Mark Deans , dealing manager at Moneycorp, believes we could see some fireworks when the results come out.
(9) He reeled off his speech with the eclat of a wet firework.
(10) While British parliamentarians shouldn't expect rhetorical fireworks, it's possible she will add a personal flavour to her speech, as when she spoke in front of both chambers of the US Congress in 2009.
(11) Proportionally, fireworks throw up far more in the way of dioxins.
(12) Seven tonnes of thunderous fireworks lit up the night sky at Sydney harbour for the 1.5m revellers who lined the shores to welcome the new year in Australia.
(13) And while he got in a few jabs at Jeb Bush and rolled his eyes at the obligatory protesters who shouted “we loved veterans, Trump loves war,” it didn’t have the trademark fireworks of a Trump rally.
(14) Golf balls, bottles, fireworks, umbrellas and even cast iron rain gutter was thrown at republicans marching along Royal Avenue.
(15) Rightwing radicals and racist protesters threw fireworks and bottles at police, injuring 31 of them.
(16) Minor burns due to fireworks which are treated in the Casualty Department have remained constant during the past ten years.
(17) Eva Zhong, the head of exports for a fireworks manufacturer in Hunan province, said that the government's fireworks warnings were misplaced.
(18) I came back out,” she said, “and I heard ‘boom!’ I thought it was fireworks, but everything was shaking, the buildings, my body was shaking.
(19) The firework weighed 460km and, when it was set off, spanned 800m in diameter.
(20) "I hid behind a tree, and all I saw were Morsi supporters throwing stones, or fireworks, or throwing teargas canisters."
Pinwheel
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Pinwheel inclusions (PWs) were found in cells of callus tissue derived from explants of secondary phloem parenchyma of carrot (Daucus carota) storage root and grown on a basal medium containing zeatin and indoleacetic acid or coconut milk, naphthalene acetic acid, or combinations of these.
(2) Like the centers of pinwheels, the centers of blobs also lie along the midline of ocular-dominance columns.
(3) Lamellar inclusions (bundles, circular inclusions, pinwheels), closely associated with endoplasmic reticulum, occurred frequently in areas of cytoplasm showing no vesiculation.
(4) A new weighting factor is introduced into the rf waveform to compensate for nonuniform sampling of k space by the pinwheel near the origin.
(5) Optical imaging based on activity-dependent intrinsic signals revealed that the most prominent organizational feature of orientation preference was a radial arrangement, forming a pinwheel-like structure surrounding a singularity point.
(6) All isolates studied induced cytoplasmic pinwheel and scroll inclusions.
(7) Aggregates were also present, containing two to six rods in a pinwheel-like configuration without measurable overlap between rods.
(8) Two other antibodies that react with epitopes near the NH2 terminus and the middle of the molecule bound to sites more centrally located on the pinwheel structure.
(9) Deflector lofts consist of a 'pinwheel' arrangement of four stationary deflector panels attached to the sides of a cube-shaped cage.
(10) The sensory block was evaluated before surgery and cutaneous anaesthesia was considered to be present when the needles of a Wartenberg Pinwheel were no longer felt in all the dermatomes of the nerves implicated in the surgical site.
(11) Negative-staining electron microscopy reveals that the receptor is a large pinwheel-like structure having surface dimensions of approximately 250 X 250 A with fourfold symmetry.
(12) The pinwheels and orientation centres are such a prominent organizational feature that it should be important to understand their development as well as their function in the processing of visual information.
(13) This conformation has a pinwheel-like orientation of phenyl rings, the direction of which is correlated with a 10 degrees twist about the central double bond and appears to depend upon the orientation of the non-phenyl substituent relative to the double bond.
(14) Pinwheel pulses may be used to advantage on moieties with long spin-lattice relaxation times and short transverse relaxation times and are therefore ideal for applications in phosphorus (31P) NMR.
(15) These iso-orientation patches are organized around 'orientation centres', producing pinwheel-like patterns in which the orientation preference of cells is changing continuously across the cortex.
(16) Empirical energy calculations are insensitive to this intramolecular structural dependence and incorrectly predict that the pinwheel of the opposite direction is of lower energy.
(17) The results support the contention that basal bodies in Marsilea arise de novo, since no preexisting template such as a centriolar pinwheel is observed and sine the intermediates which initially occur are structurally dissimilar from a procentriole.
(18) The purpose of this paper is to describe our experience using the argon laser for coreoplasty, and to report the unique pinwheel configuration of the iris neovascularization that developed around the laser lesions.
(19) The companies involved – which include Twitter, Reddit, Netflix, Vimeo and Mozilla – are just simulating, and will place symbols like the spinning pinwheel or other loading-style animations on their site to make it seem like the internet is slowing down.
(20) The locations of the 49-kDa proteinase-mediated cleavage sites flanking the 71-kDa cytoplasmic pinwheel inclusion protein, 6-kDa protein, 49-kDa proteinase, and 58-kDa putative polymerase have been determined by using cell-free expression, proteolytic processing, and site-directed mutagenesis systems.