(n.) A glove of such material that it defends the hand from wounds.
(n.) A long glove, covering the wrist.
(n.) A rope on which hammocks or clothes are hung for drying.
Example Sentences:
(1) Britain threw down the gauntlet to donors on Monday by announcing that it would commit £1bn to replenish the Global Fund to Fight Aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria on condition that other countries agreed to follow suit.
(2) Draghi threw down the gauntlet to fiscal policymakers, arguing for infrastructure spending while lowering the ECB’s own growth forecasts,” said Cavalla.
(3) It was a gauntlet that had nearly broken them by February but had them battle-hardened for the challenges ahead.
(4) "The rich countries of this world have thrown down the gauntlet to the poorest.
(5) Juncker voiced resentment that his entire team of 28 commissioners was being put on the spot by the censure motion, throwing down the gauntlet to the far right.
(6) Convoys that try to get out of here must run the gauntlet of taunting Christian mobs.
(7) He throws down the gauntlet to directors and actors alike to make it anything other than that.
(8) In 10 subjects, a comparison has been made between a below-elbow plaster, a moulded plaster gauntlet and an above-elbow plaster.
(9) Imagine showing up to work just to run the gauntlet of hundreds of people telling you how worthless you are.
(10) We are taken ashore and forced to run the gauntlet of rows of soldiers while military TV films us.
(11) Gauntlet thrown there, Mr Android and Mr Windows 8.
(12) Its chair Maria Millerpromised she would "throw down the gauntlet to companies such as Google, Facebook, Microsoft and Twitter".
(13) The Coalition is banking on Labor’s support to get its national security legislation passed rather than having to run the gauntlet of the senate crossbench.
(14) Emboldened by the ratings, Tsipras threw down the gauntlet, taunting his opponents to go ahead with the formation of a government.
(15) The prime minister threw down the gauntlet to the Senate crossbench declaring “the time for games is over”, saying three weeks was ample time for senators to consider and pass the bills reconstituting the Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC) and regulating registered organisations.
(16) It is a poor country, but here we have a government that is throwing down the gauntlet to the rich, highly polluting countries."
(17) "I've often thought that the gauntlet of American politics is more individualistic, more expensive, more unpredictable than in many other democracies.
(18) The apparent high Km values in slices were probably due to depletion of the GABA concentration in the extracellular fluid as the exogenous GABA ran the gauntlet of competing uptake sites on its way to sites deep within the slice, thereby bringing about a requirement for higher GABA concentrations in the incubation medium in order to maintain the internal GABA levels at the "Km level."
(19) "I think Andrew Lansley has really thrown down the gauntlet to us.
(20) Liberal backbencher Russell Broadbent has thrown down the gauntlet to his own side of politics by labelling the indefinite detention of asylum seeker children “unacceptable”.
Stile
Definition:
(n.) A pin set on the face of a dial, to cast a shadow; a style. See Style.
(n.) Mode of composition. See Style.
(v. i.) A step, or set of steps, for ascending and descending, in passing a fence or wall.
(v. i.) One of the upright pieces in a frame; one of the primary members of a frame, into which the secondary members are mortised.
Example Sentences:
(1) Psychophysical results on human colour matching (Stiles & Burch, 1955; Stiles & Burch, 1959) were well predicted from the spectral sensitivities of the monkey cones.
(2) I conclude that there is not strong evidence for discrete lambda max variations in the Stiles-Burch matches.
(3) Such functions were obtained for 2-deg and 10-deg fields from twelve subjects, and the difference between the two fields was compared with the macular pigment density tabulated in Wyszecki and Stiles's book.
(4) She was shortlisted for a Forward prize at the age of 30 for her first collection, The Thing in the Gap-Stone Stile, took the TS Eliot prize with her second , a remarkable book-length poem about the river Dart, and is now, 15 years later, widely hailed as one of British poetry's finest, brightest voices.
(5) The possibility of a rod contribution to the peripheral functions could not be eliminated although several different techniques, including the Stiles-Crawford effect, were used to try to isolate cone mechanisms.
(6) The sensitivities of an S and an M cone pathway were assessed in patients with retinitis pigmentosa, insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus and open-angle glaucoma using Stiles two-color increment threshold technique.
(7) Both techniques are unaffected by coma or by the Stiles-Crawford effects, thus optical TCA rather than the TCA perceived in normal view is measured.
(8) Needing to win by two clear goals in the return leg, Ramsey picked Nobby Stiles and Norman Hunter and Peter Storey.
(9) The two reference lights (441 and 481 nm) differ only in their stimulation of S This novel technique utilizes the different magnitudes of the rod and cone Stiles--Crawford effects.
(10) The present analysis is discussed in relation to Stiles' model of independent eta mechanisms.
(11) There are some steep sections, and quite a lot of stiles and gates.
(12) Such recaptured light makes a previously unknown contribution to the various Stiles-Crawford effects.
(13) The light-adaptation properties of goldfish photoreceptor mechanisms were examined using Stiles' two-color threshold technique.
(14) Comparable estimates of the sources and range of interobserver differences in color matching were obtained from a similar analysis of the Stiles-Burch 2 degrees color matches [Opt.
(15) Finally, the Stiles-Crawford effect was examined with a green test light at 12 degrees in the nasal visual field.
(16) Two blue cone monochromats and four rod monochromats have been studied by increment threshold measurements applying the Stiles' principle.
(17) The importance of the Stiles-Crawford apodization depends on the wave aberration of the individual subject, but in general it produces an improvement in image quality, and the modulation transfer function becomes more symmetrical.
(18) Psychophysical experiments have demonstrated that self-screening in cones depends on the direction of the light in the same manner as the Stiles-Crawford efficiency.
(19) Stiles said he had told police he had been physically abused by Captain Lawrence Wilson, who was managing the home, and sexually abused by XI7.
(20) We have used a factor analysis of the Stiles-Burch [Opt.