(n.) A mixture of beer, spirit, etc., stirred and heated by a hot iron.
(v. t.) To toss or fillip; as, to flip up a cent.
Example Sentences:
(1) Variations in image orientation, repetition time (TR), and flip angle were evaluated to determine their effects on flow-related enhancement.
(2) After 2 weeks of chronic exposure to 75 mM EtOH, crayfish showed behavioral tolerance as measured by a decrease in righting time and an increase in tail-flip escape behavior to control levels.
(3) The future prospects include shorter imaging times owing to fast-imaging sequences (short T1 with partial flip angle).
(4) 3) Just as lipids do not flip-flop, proteins do not rotate across the membrane.
(5) Two fast magnetic resonance (MR) imaging techniques, advanced Fourier and partial-flip imaging, were used at 0.35 T to examine 21 patients with suspected intracranial lesions; the results were quantitatively compared with a conventional spin-echo study.
(6) The presence of the flip-flop phenomenon in an I-131 Hippuran renal study suggests the existence of some degree of collecting system obstruction that has persisted long enough to result in renal parenchymal damage.
(7) I've never flipped homes, even when I was a minister – my main home has always been in my constituency.
(8) For MR angiography 2D inflow (multiple-single-slice-technique, TR 40 ms, TE 14 ms, flip angle 60 degrees) and flow-adjusted-gradient-sequences (TR 24 ms, TE 10 ms, flip angle 60 degrees) were performed.
(9) Telomeres were generated from both arms of the substrate with equal efficiency, and contained the characteristic "flip" and "flop" sequence inversions observed in vivo.
(10) Does this count as campaigning?” “When was the last time you flipped a steak?” “What does it feel like to be in Iowa?” “Can you bring the reporters some meat?” “Are you running, Hillary,” one reporter shouted, finally, “from us?” Then Bill and Hillary disappeared around the corner; three quarters of the media scrum vanished, deflated.
(11) This value is similar to that obtained for the transbilayer "flip-flop" of phosphatidylcholine molecules in a similar system (Kornberg and McConnell, 1971).
(12) No "flips" to the opposite puckering for this ring were found in the simulations starting from the global minimum, although such a transition was observed for a trajectory initiated with one of the higher local minimum energy conformations.
(13) Hold the left side of the nori with both hands and flip over on the mat, so that the rice is facing down.
(14) This suggests that generalizations on the kinetics of nonmediated flip-flop of membrane-intercalated amphiphiles may not be justified.
(15) Her agony and her rapture stay interior, and they flip-flop like nerves in this beautiful, grave black-and-white movie.
(16) The electorate is furious - from members getting wives, partners and relatives on the parliamentary payroll to expense claims for duck houses, flipping and servants quarters."
(17) The story of the transfer window is the story of a flip-flop by the English elite – the Premier League was initially the driving force behind the idea of a transfer window, but by the time it was introduced it was firmly in the "no" camp.
(18) Overall, optimum clot-flow contrast for imaging of both DHb and MHb clots was achieved with a flip angle of 45 degrees-60 degrees, a TR of 50 msec, and the shortest TE possible.
(19) and lot of them seemed to be mad about missing out on Austin - as ESPN's Jane McManus notes: Jane McManus (@janesports) I did see at least one Jets fan flip the bird in frustration after Goodell announced Tavon Austin to the Rams.
(20) Stimulated echoes can be excited by a sequence of at least three rf pulses with flip angles of 90 degrees or less.
Somersault
Definition:
(n.) Alt. of Somerset
Example Sentences:
(1) Whether it was leaning through the ropes to interview Ali, as he famously did between rounds during a one-sided fight for "The Greatest" against the Dutchman Rudi Lubbers, or coming up with quips such as "the ego has landed" as Hamed somersaulted over the ropes to enter the ring, Reg always managed to remember that he was entertaining his audience.
(2) Athletes were asked to perform one specific movement structure: a backward somersault from the standing position.
(3) Hyperextension somersault trauma is characterized by a plunge from a low height, with the danger of somersaulting of the body and impact at the forehead while the head is retroflected.
(4) Maybe some of these lads who do triple back somersaults and that sort of stuff.
(5) The most serious injuries are head injuries from falls or damage to the spinal cord in the neck (from failed somersaults, or over-bending or over-extending the neck).
(6) Industrial policy with a £2bn green investment bank, stimulus for small business and forcing banks to lend is a somersaulting U-turn from the old New Labour – and Peter Mandelson is the acrobat.
(7) The fast-computing architecture and large memory of this system allow rapid generation of a series of high-quality 3D images in each plane of rotation (x or spinal axis, z or somersaulting axis) that can be viewed as independent static images or as an animated real-time video loop.
(8) Segmental masses and moments of inertia were estimated using the elliptical zone model and the model then repositioned into two configurations: a layout position from a back handspring and a tuck position from a back somersault.
(9) But he was then trumped by Boudia, whose forward four and a half somersaults scored 99.9 to lead at the halfway point followed by Qiu and Lin, who maintained the pressure with scores of 92.4 and 91.8, leaving Daley fourth and out of the medals.
(10) Angular momentum estimates were calculated during the flight phases of nine twisting somersaults performed on trampoline.
(11) Body movements of trampolinists landing upright from forward somersaults, with eyes open and closed, were analyzed to test a theory of how braking and timing of actions are conjointly controlled.
(12) ECV attempted after intravenous injection of 10 micrograms of hexaprenaline, using either forward or backward somersault over a maximum period of 5 min.
(13) It’s not impossible that even after such vitriolic rejection of the EU deal, the Sun could somersault at its master’s bidding: it’s been done before to its perplexed readers.
(14) Rooney’s jubilation manifested itself in the leaping somersault that we first saw from him when he was bludgeoning defences at Euro 2004.
(15) Posterior auricular skin ia attached to the medical aspect of the helical rim, then somersaulted laterally into position, recreating the helical curl.
(16) QPR are “not in crisis,” says the former Bradford somersaulter.
(17) We emerge with wrinkly fingers, while a more recent arrival performs somersaults to assembled applause.
(18) Children from the waterside villages stopped their somersaults into the river to squeal at us.
(19) As he ran through the somersaults and balances he had practised a thousand times, his Ukrainian rival already looked defeated as he prepared for his routine on the rings.
(20) He lost additional points for flubbing the end of the somersault in Israel when he tried to explain the economic differences between Israel and the Palestinian Authority through a cultural prism (that may end up offending Mexican Americans as much as he appeared to offend Palestinians).