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Flang


Definition:

  • (n.) A miner's two-pointed pick.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A Velcro band attached to two lateral flanges keeps the catheter in place.
  • (2) One hundred patients were treated with the Rydell four-flanged nail and 100 with the Gouffon pins.
  • (3) Some of the patients of the latter group used guide flange prostheses during the postoperative period to return the mandible to the centric position.
  • (4) The impression materials were applied to the denture flanges by two different methods.
  • (5) The article generalizes experience in anesthesiological management of 178 elderly and old-aged patients with fractures of the proximal segment of the femur in endoprosthesis with a Mura-Cito prosthesis, 3-flange nail, Shesterni's fixation device, arched nail, etc.
  • (6) (3) A higher risk of proximal occlusion with flanged ventricular catheter.
  • (7) A subaortic annular aneurysm involving three fourths of the annular circumference was repaired with a valved conduit to which a Teflon felt flange was attached.
  • (8) There were statistically significant differences in the flange form measurement distances among the different materials and method of application of the material.
  • (9) With the next 119 sockets, 111 of which were flanged, the eburnated and subchondral bone was preserved and multiple small anchor holes were used.
  • (10) Fixation included tines or fins (160), screw (40), flange (12), and other (16).
  • (11) A three-flanged nail or three screws were used randomly.
  • (12) Localized cytoplasmic expansions are often present near the periphery of these flanges.
  • (13) In many places erythrocytes were virtually absent from the blood laguna, which was filled with the flanges of pillar cells.
  • (14) No components have migrated despite the absence of adjunct fixation mechanisms such as screws and flanges.
  • (15) The design combined the use of a two-part cobalt-chromium lingual plate bolted together by an anterior flange which replaced missing lower anterior teeth.
  • (16) Two bovine enamel blocks were placed in each buccal flange of the dental appliances of five volunteers.
  • (17) The devices chosen for study were the E-A-R expandable foam plug, the Willson Sound Silencer premolded vinyl plug with double flange, the Bilsom Soft polyethylene encapsulated glass fiber plug, and the MSA Ear Defender (V-51R) premolded vinyl plug with single flange.
  • (18) In the group with the microporous Monostrut mitral valve, 19 animals were put to death and examined: (1) The endothelialized covering over the suture ring, thinner when carbon coated, continued over the microporous flange, tapering off in the center of the orifice in all 19 valves on the ventricular side and in 14 of the 19 valves on the atrial side; (2) the center of the orifice and the struts were never completely covered by endothelialized tissue because of high flow; (3) there was an increased incidence of small thrombus formation on the disc-contacting microporous surface of both inflow and outflow struts.
  • (19) The only significant difference between the groups was the angle overheading to the central point of left coronary orifice anastomosed with intermediate tube from the extensive line of the prosthetic flange obtained in the left anterior oblique views on the angiography.
  • (20) To a basic cup designed with pods, four different types of flange designs were added: a cup without a flange, a cup having a flange with 12 scallops, a cup having a flange with three scallops, and a cup having a continuous flange.

Fling


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To cast, send, to throw from the hand; to hurl; to dart; to emit with violence as if thrown from the hand; as, to fing a stone into the pond.
  • (v. t.) To shed forth; to emit; to scatter.
  • (v. t.) To throw; to hurl; to throw off or down; to prostrate; hence, to baffle; to defeat; as, to fling a party in litigation.
  • (v. i.) To throw; to wince; to flounce; as, the horse began to kick and fling.
  • (v. i.) To cast in the teeth; to utter abusive language; to sneer; as, the scold began to flout and fling.
  • (v. i.) To throw one's self in a violent or hasty manner; to rush or spring with violence or haste.
  • (n.) A cast from the hand; a throw; also, a flounce; a kick; as, the fling of a horse.
  • (n.) A severe or contemptuous remark; an expression of sarcastic scorn; a gibe; a sarcasm.
  • (n.) A kind of dance; as, the Highland fling.
  • (n.) A trifing matter; an object of contempt.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Neither of us are rampant or militant or any of those other descriptors anti-feminists fling about to scare those who stand up for their rights.
  • (2) He brushes past Felipe Melo and flings himself to the floor.
  • (3) If anyone in Macclesfield wants, for a small fee, I will come round to your house, lift the pesky varmint out of the bath with finger and thumb and fling it out of the window.
  • (4) You can see why retailers do everything in their power to lure them in, including flinging open shop doors.
  • (5) Helen aka helenlhelen I became pregnant after an ill-advised fling with a much older man.
  • (6) The kid isn’t feeding a penguin; he’s just flinging fish fingers on to the floor.
  • (7) At one point she had a bodyguard who would take her to the bank to deposit her takings.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Knight’s second-place depiction of a highland fling.
  • (8) Djokovic, though flings his entire corporeal into a forehand that near enough wins the point, and then forces Nadal to save a break point.
  • (9) I know someone whose entire circle of friends consists of ex-flings.
  • (10) Meanwhile in the American League... Steve Busfield (@Busfield) Benches clear in Detroit as Martinez and Balfour fling expletives but no punches thrown.
  • (11) It's a shame he can't just ramble on about his obsessions onscreen, flinging himself from point to point.
  • (12) [But] it does make me chuckle a little bit when Bernie flings around the word ‘revolution’.
  • (13) Gerrard flings over another free kick, much like the ones Liverpool scored from, but it evades everyone at the far post, and drifts away.
  • (14) The visitors might have been spurred into a riposte by a sense of injustice that Branislav Ivanovic was not penalised for going to ground too easily in first-half stoppage time, but by the time Allardyce reacted to fling on Song and Diafra Sakho just before the hour, a salvage mission was unlikely.
  • (15) Costa has managed only one goal in six Premier League appearances – he had scored eight at the corresponding stage last term – and has now completed a three-match suspension having been banned retrospectively for flinging an arm at Laurent Koscielny during the victory over Arsenal last month.
  • (16) After Tony and his shiny head did the dirty with Tracy Barlow, the goddess of pure evil, Liz went straight into a rebound fling with Dan, a man so slimy he glistens.
  • (17) Cahill and Emerson tangled in the last minute, the Corinthians player appearing to fling out an arm to provoke a reaction, then feigning agony after the centre-half had flicked out his shin in riposte.
  • (18) Once in power, relations between the two soured, with stories of Brown flinging telephones across his office in frustration.
  • (19) We had canisters of it with lumps in – and a catapult to fling it.
  • (20) He is flinging canvases around as though they were sacks of coal.

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