(n.) The creation of an artifical flood by the sudden letting in of a body of water; -- called also flushing.
(n.) Pieces of metal, built into the joints of a wall, so as to lap over the edge of the gutters or to cover the edge of the roofing; also, similar pieces used to cover the valleys of roofs of slate, shingles, or the like. By extension, the metal covering of ridges and hips of roofs; also, in the United States, the protecting of angles and breaks in walls of frame houses with waterproof material, tarred paper, or the like. Cf. Filleting.
(n.) The reheating of an article at the furnace aperture during manufacture to restore its plastic condition; esp., the reheating of a globe of crown glass to allow it to assume a flat shape as it is rotated.
(n.) A mode of covering transparent white glass with a film of colored glass.
Example Sentences:
(1) Osman had gone close before that, flashing a shot over from seven yards after a corner.
(2) The data indicate that hot flashes may start much earlier and continue far longer than is commonly recognized by physicians or acknowledged in textbooks of gynecology.
(3) 'frequent' and probability of 'rare' flashes was 20%.
(4) All are satisfied by [Formula: see text], where N is the size of rod signal, constant for threshold; theta, theta(D) are steady backgrounds of light and receptor noise; varphi is the threshold flash with sigma a constant of about 2.5 log td sec; B the fraction of pigment in the bleached state.
(5) The flash visually evoked cortical potential (VECP) was recorded in 18 human albinos.
(6) The mixed-valence-state cytochrome oxidase mixed with O2 at -24 degrees C and flash-photolysed at -60 to -100 degrees C reacts with O2 and initially forms an oxy compound (A2) similar to that formed from the fully reduced state (A1).
(7) Dementia produced a slowing of the major positive (P2) component of the flash VEP but did not affect the latency of the flash P1 component or the P100 pattern-reversal component.
(8) We have investigated the relationship between rhodopsin photochemical function and the retinal rod outer segment (ROS) disk membrane lipid composition using flash photolysis techniques.
(9) The signal recovers rapidly (approximately 90 s) and can be repeated in a succession of flashes.
(10) Repeated flashes above a few per second do not so much cause fatigue of the VEPs as reduce or prevent them by a sustained inhibition; large late waves are released as a rebound excitation any time the train of flashes stops or is delayed or sufficiently weakened.
(11) Three types of behavior of the compound eye of Daphnia magna are characterized: 'flick', a transient rotation elicited by a brief flash of light; 'fixation', a maintained eye orientation in response to a stationary light stimulus of long-duration; 'tracking', the smooth pursuit of a moving stimulus.
(12) The instrument is based on an established procedure for dark adaptation measurement in which the subject continuously adjusts the threshold luminance of a recurrently flashing stimulus.
(13) Justice League, a followup to Dawn of Justice featuring Batman, Superman and Wonder Woman, arrives in May 2017, with a film starring Flash and the Green Lantern debuting the following Christmas.
(14) A 300 mus decay component of ESR Signal I (P-700+) in chloroplasts is observed following a 10 mus actinic xenon flash.
(15) A comparative study is made, at 15 degrees C, of flash-induced absorption changes around 820 nm (attributed to the primary donors of Photosystems I and II) and 705 nm (Photosystem I only), in normal chloroplasts and in chloroplasts where O2 evolution was inhibited by low pH or by Tris-treatment.
(16) In the presence of dextran sulphate the recombination of hemoglobin with carbon monoxide after flash photolysis is biphasic and the fraction of quickly reacting material increases with dilution of the protein.
(17) For all its posing and grooming, there are no nightclubs - the only flashing lights along this coast are the glowworms strobing across the grass at dusk.
(18) It was a wonderful piece of close control from Cassano, taking out two defenders in one movement, and Balotelli was quicker and more decisive than his marker, Holger Badstuber, to flash his header past Neuer.
(19) The visibility of a 1 degree, 200-msec flash on a large yellow field was measured as a function of the intensity of a coincident pedestal flash (a flash that was the same in both temporal intervals of a two-alternative forced-choice trial).
(20) The mean firing rates were significantly altered by either electrical or flash stimuli repeated 500 times at 0.97 Hz in those units which showed no transitory response.
Upstand
Definition:
(v. i.) To stand up; to be erected; to rise.
Example Sentences:
(1) It's because those upstanding Americans who cheered as Barack Obama's predecessor rode roughshod over the constitution in his war on terror have found a new enthusiasm for a strict adherence to the US's supreme law.
(2) People's perceptions of graffiti writers seems to run along the lines of council-housed and violent, when in reality many of us are upstanding members of the community in our late 30s and early 40s with good jobs and families to support.
(3) Hexagonal upstanding light boxes containing 84 fluorescent bulbs were used as sources of U.V.A.
(4) They'd be much better advised to put all efforts into contributing to the "democratic life of the country" – just as any upstanding Good British Citizen would.
(5) Head added: “It is wholly unfair Maria, an upstanding individual of the highest moral and ethical conduct, was banned from playing competitive tennis while not actively engaging in any behaviors [sic] that could be considered cheating.
(6) She is a bread-baking, gardening, doing-it-all-right, legitimate marriage, equality-loving, upstanding citizen at the beginning of this film.
(7) The film itself is a little deeper: as Mackendrick explained in a book published 2005, Mrs W, with her nods to her Navy husband, and her aged friends, is upstanding Old Britiain – conservative sterness rapping the fingers of economic innovation.
(8) Updated at 10.37pm GMT 10.29pm GMT Feinstein asked Brennan to talk about who Anwar al-Awlaki was, because, she says, when people hear he was an American citizen (New Mexico-born), they might get the idea that he was upstanding.
(9) Plato felt that the protection of being unidentifiable could corrupt even the most morally upstanding person.
(10) You only need to look around to see why their work is needed so urgently,” said Henna Rai from Upstanding Neighbourhoods.
(11) Contrary to ungrounded fears that Siv applicants could be terrorists – one of the excuses Johnson cited as often delaying the process – the US would receive upstanding new residents.
(12) They may find that Campbell Newman has been an upstanding, strong premier that’s done the best for the state, and it should help him get re-elected if that’s the case,” he said.
(13) At this point in the series – spoilers follow – the two protagonists, Jesse and Walt, had become dangerously, inextricably tied up with Mexican drug cartels and are under the sway of an ice-cold, manipulative kingpin named Gus Fring, who poses as the upstanding head of a fried chicken franchise.
(14) The membrane had upstanding plugs, 20 nm in diameter, which could fill the holes in the wall.
(15) During his clinical history, complications of diabetes mellitus, such as diabetic retinopathy and neuropathy, were aggrevated, and upstanding and gait were impossible at 20 years of age.
(16) Only now was he throwing in his lot with a US government that detested the idealistic but ramshackle coalition of six parties headed by Dr Salvador Allende, the country doctor and upstanding freemason who was set on introducing elements of social democracy in a country long organised for the benefit of the landowners, industrialists and money men.
(17) But for corruption to flourish, there needs to be a widespread expectation of dishonesty – which in turn drives even upstanding citizens to underhand behaviour.
(18) Whittingdale signalled that he was far too fine and upstanding a man to knowingly date a sex worker, when he advertised that a woman he presumably had liked had turned out to be beyond the pale.
(19) My colleagues and I must teach harder, mark harder, plan harder so our students blossom (despite their experiences beyond the school gates) into fine, upstanding and successful examples of Britishness – just like my cake.
(20) Gone midnight in Manchester and Billy Joe Saunders is caught between exhaustion, euphoria and a grim determination to be taken seriously as a worthy and upstanding world champion, not fodder for cheap headlines.