(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”.
Wrist
Definition:
(n.) The joint, or the region of the joint, between the hand and the arm; the carpus. See Carpus.
(n.) A stud or pin which forms a journal; -- also called wrist pin.
Example Sentences:
(1) Irradiation of the skin overlying the median nerve at the wrist in humans with a low power (1 mW; 632.5 nm) helium-neon laser produced a somatosensory evoked potential obtained at Erb's point.
(2) His wrists were shown wrapped in tape with “MIKE BROWN” and “MY KIDS MATTER” written on them.
(3) Tension in flexor tendons during wrist flexion may play a role in otherwise unexplained instances of the carpal tunnel syndrome.
(4) Surgery of destroyed joints in the hand and wrist in the arthritic patient can be added to the armamentarium of the reconstructive arthritis surgeon.
(5) The heat uptake that resulted from immersing the hand and wrist into a water-filled calorimeter maintained at temperatures between 37-40 degrees C was measured under standard conditions in a group of eight subjects of either sex.
(6) The results of the Tinel percussion test, the Phalen wrist-flexion test, and the new test were evaluated in thirty-one patients (forty-six hands) in whom the presence of carpal tunnel syndrome had been proved electrodiagnostically, as well as in a control group of fifty subjects.
(7) Tenosynovial biopsy specimens from 177 wrists were obtained from patients at carpal tunnel release, and a control group of 19 specimens was also obtained.
(8) A 31-year-old man was found to have a diffuse infection of the wrist and osteomyelitis of the scaphoid caused by Mycobacterium kansasii.
(9) The index was calculated by dividing the sum of the count rates over both knees and both wrists by the dose of technetium given.
(10) Song appeared to give Bolt a good luck charm to wear around his wrist.
(11) Roentgenograms of hands, wrists, and forefeet were taken at baseline and after 6 and 12 months, and 32 joints were evaluated according to Larsen.
(12) She got it when Alyssa was born and her daughter’s name is inked in black just above her wrist.
(13) Electromyographic reaction times of the left and the right finger extensor muscles in extension movement of the wrist were examined in 42 patients with Parkinson's disease, and 20 normal subjects.
(14) Hand function after surgery in the follow-up period of three to twenty-one months was very satisfactory with the exception of three cases which presented at a very late stage with secondary involvement of the wrists.
(15) A reliability study was conducted to determine (a) the intrarater and interrater reliability of goniometric measurement of active and passive wrist motions under clinical conditions and (b) the effect of a therapist's specialization on the reliability of measurement.
(16) The tendinous caging of the wrist is the main factor for maintaining rigidity of the carpus and transmitting the torque as muscles are contracted.
(17) The data required are recumbent length, nude weight, midparent stature, and hand-wrist skeletal age.
(18) Arthrography before isotope synoviorthesis of the fingers and wrists was carried out in 185 patients suffering from inflammatory rheumatic conditions.
(19) Volar subluxation of the tendons of the first dorsal compartment of the wrist occurred in two patients after surgery for treatment of de Quervain's stenosing tenosynovitis.
(20) Distal (5th finger - wrist) and proximal (wrist - elbow) sensory nerve conduction showed an insignificant increase as hyperglycemia was induced.