(n.) That by which a lever is sustained, or about which it turns in lifting or moving a body.
(n.) An accessory organ such as a tendril, stipule, spine, and the like.
(n.) The horny inferior surface of the lingua of certain insects.
(n.) One of the small, spiniform scales found on the front edge of the dorsal and caudal fins of many ganoid fishes.
(n.) The connective tissue supporting the framework of the retina of the eye.
Example Sentences:
(1) It is now a well-known fact that the human body is able to use luminous stimulation for aims other than sight; the pineal gland, though no longer directly sensitive to light as in lower animals, is nevertheless the fulcrum of a complex neuro-endocrine system which makes an interaction between light and the human body possible by means of the production of a number of substances of which melatonin is the most widely investigated.
(2) These results are consistent with the interpretation of DF as a zero reference point or fulcrum about which accommodative effort varies.
(3) The letter identified a single point, OcC point (Cervera's occlusal point), as the primary fulcrum from which to perform a correct cephalometric superimposition in order to examine the patient's anticipated growth.
(4) Mayor Rahm Emanuel, the former top adviser to Barack Obama suddenly facing a runoff for re-election, remained at the political fulcrum of a mounting campaign both on social media and the streets of Chicago, where demonstrations were planned for Saturday outside what coordinated campaigners described as mirroring a CIA “black site”.
(5) Two details distinguish this incision from other sutureless closures: the fulcrum in the crotch of the V provides easier access to the anterior chamber for instrument manipulation, and the termination of the scleral tunnel entry posterior to the cornea lessens the likelihood of corneal folds that may interfere with visualization during surgery.
(6) Their firm attachment to the ciliary epithelium and the great number of intercellular junctions known as mechanical structures lend further support to our concept that these structures function as a fulcrum in the process of accommodation.
(7) In case of occlusion, the mandible is elevated by the muscles of mastication with T. M. J. as the fulcrum point, and at this time, the masticatory force concentrated mainly on the dental arch is absorbed into the jaw bone through the periodontal tissues.
(8) The movements and the fulcrums of the prosthesis were changed by the presence of simulated retained roots posterior to the distal abutment.
(9) 10.25pm BST 56 mins Diskerud has done well to be a fulcrum of US attacking play in this half, and Donovan has drifted out to the right to find some space to run at the defense.
(10) The nitrogen of an allylic amine can serve as the fulcrum for stereocontrolled delivery of oxygen to an adjacent trigonal site, and cis-hydroxyamino sugars can thus be prepared.
(11) The shelf attachment to the main maxillary process is progressively undercut by epithelial invagination, producing a fulcrum for shelf elevation.
(12) Standing permanently on guard at the fulcrum of competing privatised arms of the state, armed with his suitcase of his rivals' commercial secrets, is a more tedious occupation.
(13) This is to be avoided because much larger levator resections are required when this ligament's support to the upper lid and the fulcrum effect for the levator are lost.
(14) Due to the superior displacement characteristics of the TMJ, the condyle does not act as the fulcrum in mandibular kinetics.
(15) However, Scholes believes it is the system, rather than the man preferred as the fulcrum of United’s attack, that is flawed.
(16) Rallying supporters at a phone bank on the eve of voting on Monday, Gardner, a congressman, called Colorado the “tip of the spear, the fulcrum of power”.
(17) The instrument differentiated between lateral and rotational parietal bone movements around the fulcrum of the suture.
(18) "Someone has to do it and the ideal would be that you chose the discrete broadcaster of a devolved nation at the fulcrum of the issue," Woodward said.
(19) It was his personality that made Heidelberg a fulcrum of a growing new scientific self-assurance that had no precedent in clinical psychiatry which no longer needed the disciplines of neuropathology and neurophysiology as pillars of support to gain recognition among the experts.
(20) Now the US build a little more inventively with Altidore as the fulcrum and ultimately the intended target of a Johnson cross.
Rowlock
Definition:
(n.) A contrivance or arrangement serving as a fulcrum for an oar in rowing. It consists sometimes of a notch in the gunwale of a boat, sometimes of a pair of pins between which the oar rests on the edge of the gunwale, sometimes of a single pin passing through the oar, or of a metal fork or stirrup pivoted in the gunwale and suporting the oar.
Example Sentences:
(1) He would bring back a gondolier's rowlock from Venice; he would haul hollowed logs or curious roots out of the river to lie on the lawn; he would explain the workings of the Japanese deer-scarer or he would arrange single branches of leaves or flowers, Japanese style, the better to admire the colour of the stems, the shape of the leaves, the streaks in the bark.
(2) A snifter of Clearsky’s Rowlock IPA, another popular local beer, was very citrusy on a lemon-lime axis and, if a bit too sweet, enjoyable.
(3) Give it a few more days and everyone will be talking rowlocks.