(n.) A stick or small wooden cylinder used for tightening a bandage, in order to compress the arteries of a limb.
(n.) The European golden-eye.
Example Sentences:
(1) Rumours swirl of a higher death toll, the use of poisonous gas and the body of a pregnant woman garrotted by pro-Ukraine fanatics.
(2) The screens of the handsets shown on the site as "the hottest phones at the coolest prices", meanwhile, depict scenes including a fight between two snowmen, which appears to culminate in decapitation, garrotted turkeys and Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer's severed head.
(3) Ultrasonography shows the intraluminal thrombus better than phlebography, since the gastrocnemic veins, which bypass the larger deep veins, can be opacified only after a garrot is placed above the knee.
(4) Acute separation of the trachea can occur with trauma to the neck, either by garrotting or direct blunt force.
(5) Strangulation techniques include hanging, throttling, garrotting, and chokeholds.
Goldeneye
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Adele will be following in the shoes of Shirley Bassey (who sang the themes to Goldfinger, Diamonds Are Forever and Moonraker), Tina Turner ( GoldenEye ) and Madonna (Die Another Day).
(2) Goldeneye, the first of Brosnan’s efforts, heralded a dramatic renewal: not simply because of a new actor, but more significantly who was behind the camera.
(3) Martin Hollis: Ex-Rare designer and co-creator of Goldeneye, now working on smaller indie projects.
(4) While Santorum struggled through much of the early part of the debate, choosing for instance to discuss the threat of an electromagnetic pulse attack on the US – a WMD which features in the plot of the James Bond movie Goldeneye – he gained momentum in his closing statement.
(5) The justly renowned opening scene of Goldeneye – during which Bond freefalls into a pilotless light aeroplane’s cockpit – did much to reinvigorate and modernise the series on its own.
(6) Recorded discussing a rendering of the James Bond theme GoldenEye by that other vocal heavyweight Tina Turner , Shirley was less than impressed.
(7) He sneered at Pierce Brosnan’s Bond in GoldenEye, shouted at Nicolas Cage in National Treasure and threatened Harrison Ford in Patriot Games.
(8) He spent his final years at the Goldeneye estate in Jamaica, where he had been living for three months annually for more than a decade to write.
(9) Moreover, a whole new generation was reached through a hugely successful Goldeneye video game spinoff , making a significant contribution to perceptions that the Bond film was no longer stale and old-fashioned.
(10) It was the darkly brilliant TV drama Cracker that mesmerised the critics, but cheesy British film comedies such as Nuns On The Run and The Pope Must Die made Coltrane a global movie star, appearing in two consecutive James Bond films ( GoldenEye and The World Is Not Enough ).
(11) The risk of increased exposure to metals for a vertebrate predator foraging on aquatic insects in acidified lakes was investigated through analyses of the content of Al, As, Ca, Cd, Cu, Fe, Hg, Mn, Pb, Ru, Se, and Zn in the liver tissue of 42 non-fledged Goldeneye, Bucephala clangula, ducklings from acidic, circumneutral, and limed lakes in South Sweden.
(12) Adults of Profilicollis botulus were found in 6 species of diving ducks in British Columbia including 3 new hosts: common goldeneye, Bucephala clangula (L.); Barrow's goldeneye, B. islandica (Gmelin); and greater scaup, Aythya marila (L.).