(n.) The act or flying; a passing through the air by the help of wings; volitation; mode or style of flying.
(n.) The act of fleeing; the act of running away, to escape or expected evil; hasty departure.
(n.) Lofty elevation and excursion;a mounting; a soa/ing; as, a flight of imagination, ambition, folly.
(n.) A number of beings or things passing through the air together; especially, a flock of birds flying in company; the birds that fly or migrate together; the birds produced in one season; as, a flight of arrows.
(n.) A series of steps or stairs from one landing to another.
(n.) A kind of arrow for the longbow; also, the sport of shooting with it. See Shaft.
(n.) The husk or glume of oats.
Example Sentences:
(1) In April, they said the teenager boarded a flight to Turkey with his friend Hassan Munshi, also 17 at the time.
(2) Multiple overlapping thin 3D slab acquisition is presented as a magnitude contrast (time of flight) technique which combines advantages from multiple thin slice 2D and direct 3D volume acquisitions to obtain high-resolution cross-sectional images of vessel detail.
(3) Yesterday's flight may not quite have been one small step for man, but the hyperbole and the sense of history weighed heavily on those involved.
(4) An unexpected result of the Greek crisis has been a flight of capital into British government bonds, which has seen gilt prices fall.
(5) Suspensions of isolated insect flight muscle thick filaments were embedded in layers of vitreous ice and visualized in the electron microscope under liquid nitrogen conditions.
(6) She was provided medical treatment and encouraged and supported to seek counselling, including flights for that help to Nairobi.
(7) Proper maintenance of body orientation was defined to be achieved if the net angular displacement of the head-and-trunk segment was zero during the flight phase of the long jump.
(8) When I commiserate about the overnight flight that brought them here, Linney gives a wry grimace.
(9) Manchester United 3-1 Barcelona | match report Read more While, according to Louis van Gaal , Rojo was not on the flight because of an issue with his travel documents, the manager was unsure why Di María had failed to board the plane.
(10) Analysis of this mutant illustrates that indirect flight muscles and jump muscles utilize different mechanisms for alternative RNA splicing.
(11) Aircraft pilots Facebook Twitter Pinterest ‘Getting paid to have your head in the clouds.’ Photograph: CTC Wings Includes: Flight engineers and flying instructors Average pay before tax: £90,146 Pay range: £66,178 (25th percentile) to £97,598 (60th percentile).
(12) I have the BBC app on my phone and it updates me, and I saw the wire ‘Malaysian flight goes missing over Ukraine.’ I’m like, well it’s probably the Russians who shot it down.
(13) If this is the only issue, flight would be fine, but need to make sure that it isn’t symptomatic of a more significant upstream root cause.” Elon Musk (@elonmusk) Btw, 99% likely to be fine (closed loop TVC wd overcome error), but that 1% chance isn't worth rolling the dice.
(14) The infected flight muscle fibres of both "resistant" Aedes aegypti and "susceptible" Aedes togoi are almost totally devoid of glycogen granules, but show no other ultrastructural change from the uninfected state.
(15) As the US and the European Union adopted tougher economic sanctions against Russia over the conflict in eastern Ukraine and downing of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 , Russian officials struck a defiant note, promising that Russia would localise production and emerge stronger than before.
(16) The alterations of dendritic trees of pyramidal neurons of layer III of visual cortex of the rat exposed to the influence of space flight aboard biosputnik "Cosmos-1887" were studied and the results are described to illustrate the methods power.
(17) Pyridinoline was isolated from the cross-linked peptide by preparative amino acid analysis and reversed-phase HPLC and identified by its ultraviolet absorption spectra, its fluorescence excitation and emission spectra and, for the first time, its time-of-flight secondary ion-mass spectrum.
(18) About 250 flights were taken off the Friday morning board at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport and Dallas Love Field.
(19) The two flight attendants feature in February and March in the annual Ryanair charity calendar.
(20) Flight surgeon support of the Libyan Air Strike on April 14-15, 1986 is reviewed.
Screw
Definition:
(n.) A cylinder, or a cylindrical perforation, having a continuous rib, called the thread, winding round it spirally at a constant inclination, so as to leave a continuous spiral groove between one turn and the next, -- used chiefly for producing, when revolved, motion or pressure in the direction of its axis, by the sliding of the threads of the cylinder in the grooves between the threads of the perforation adapted to it, the former being distinguished as the external, or male screw, or, more usually the screw; the latter as the internal, or female screw, or, more usually, the nut.
(n.) Specifically, a kind of nail with a spiral thread and a head with a nick to receive the end of the screw-driver. Screws are much used to hold together pieces of wood or to fasten something; -- called also wood screws, and screw nails. See also Screw bolt, below.
(n.) Anything shaped or acting like a screw; esp., a form of wheel for propelling steam vessels. It is placed at the stern, and furnished with blades having helicoidal surfaces to act against the water in the manner of a screw. See Screw propeller, below.
(n.) A steam vesel propelled by a screw instead of wheels; a screw steamer; a propeller.
(n.) An extortioner; a sharp bargainer; a skinflint; a niggard.
(n.) An instructor who examines with great or unnecessary severity; also, a searching or strict examination of a student by an instructor.
(n.) A small packet of tobacco.
(n.) An unsound or worn-out horse, useful as a hack, and commonly of good appearance.
(n.) A straight line in space with which a definite linear magnitude termed the pitch is associated (cf. 5th Pitch, 10 (b)). It is used to express the displacement of a rigid body, which may always be made to consist of a rotation about an axis combined with a translation parallel to that axis.
(n.) An amphipod crustacean; as, the skeleton screw (Caprella). See Sand screw, under Sand.
(v. t.) To turn, as a screw; to apply a screw to; to press, fasten, or make firm, by means of a screw or screws; as, to screw a lock on a door; to screw a press.
(v. t.) To force; to squeeze; to press, as by screws.
(v. t.) Hence: To practice extortion upon; to oppress by unreasonable or extortionate exactions.
(v. t.) To twist; to distort; as, to screw his visage.
(v. t.) To examine rigidly, as a student; to subject to a severe examination.
(v. i.) To use violent mans in making exactions; to be oppressive or exacting.
(v. i.) To turn one's self uneasily with a twisting motion; as, he screws about in his chair.
Example Sentences:
(1) Total excision and immediate reconstruction were done with alloplastic material fixated with microplates and screws.
(2) Two hundred and forty root canals of extracted single-rooted teeth were prepared to the same dimension, and Dentatus posts of equal size were cemented without screwing them into the dentine.
(3) The committee's findings include that the attacks were not extensively planned by the perpetrators; the intelligence community did a good job of warning about the risk of an attack but a bad job of summarizing the attack when it happened; the state department screwed up by not beefing up security at the mission; nobody blocked any military response; and that the Obama administration was slow to produce a paper trail but was generally not a sinister actor in the episode.
(4) The pedicle screw systems were always the most rigid.
(5) Closure is accomplished by suture of soft tissues and reattachment of the posterior trochanteric fragment with bone screws.
(6) Two of the 7 sets of iliosacral screws failed postoperatively (28%).
(7) An algorithm is implemented to determine the form and phase shift for inconsistent type II quadrupoles for any space group having glide or screw-axis translations which are not a consequence of lattice centering.
(8) It constitutes an alternative to Ender nailing, screw-plate, and nail-plate.
(9) Changes in radiostrontium clearance (SrC) and bone formation (tetracycline labeling) were observed in the femurs of skeletally mature dogs following the various operative steps involved in bone screw fixation.
(10) Several conventional internal fixation techniques and a three converging screw method were used.
(11) The criteria of failure of pedicular instrumentation or "death" of an implant were defined as 1) screw bending, 2) screw breakage, 3) infection, 4) loosening of implants, 5) any rod or plate hardware problems, or 6) removal of hardware due to a neurologic complication.
(12) Cadaver studies have been carried out and transpedicular screw position has been confirmed by computed tomography scan.
(13) In this study, we performed a series of in vitro tests to compare the breaking strength of plated bone analogues that used either unicortical or bicortical end screws.
(14) Successful treatment of scaphoid nonunions with screw fixation and cast-free after-treatment does not depend on the implant used but rather on careful case selection and precise surgical technique.
(15) The Herbert bone screw was initially developed for management of fractures of the carpal scaphoid.
(16) Plus, unlike planet-screwing fossil fuels, solar could actually be subsidy-free in a few years.
(17) The intensity-measuring device in both apparatuses has a mobile disk attached to a motionless axis by a spiral spring; the clamps have fixing screws in the butts of a spong.
(18) A variety of quality tests, of biomechanical screws, are used, before performing the operations, that flaws may be detected.
(19) Most fractures were fixed with interfragmentary screws and external fixators.
(20) To give variations in the peak flow-rate (from pulsatile to intermediate to non-pulsatile), three types of blood pump (piston-bellows, screw, and centrifugal) were applied to dogs.