(a.) Full and rolling, or staring; -- said of the eyes.
(v. i.) A strained or affected rolling of the eye.
(v. i.) A kind of spectacles with short, projecting eye tubes, in the front end of which are fixed plain glasses for protecting the eyes from cold, dust, etc.
(v. i.) Colored glasses for relief from intense light.
(v. i.) A disk with a small aperture, to direct the sight forward, and cure squinting.
(v. i.) Any screen or cover for the eyes, with or without a slit for seeing through.
Example Sentences:
(1) At the end of each session, he is forced to don a pair of blackened goggles, ear muffs are placed over his head, and he is ordered to place the palms of his hands together so that a guard can grasp his thumbs to lead him away.
(2) The use of goggles appeared to provide the greatest degree of protection.
(3) Gloves were the barrier worn most frequently when appropriate (74%), followed by goggles (13%), gowns (12%), and masks (1%).
(4) Imagine enjoying a court side seat at a game, studying in a classroom of students and teachers all over the world or consulting with a doctor face-to-face — just by putting on goggles in your home," he said.
(5) The answer, for the billionaire entrepreneur, is contained in the purchase of Oculus, the maker of the distinctive $350 Rift headset – which looks like a massive pair of opaque diving goggles.
(6) The science is too young for certainties though; better to goggle and stare at its curious ways.
(7) In these cases, optic nerve function can be monitored by means of flash-evoked visual potentials elicited by use of a LED-goggle stimulator.
(8) The glass goggle, which was designed specifically for use at the 510.5-nm wavelength, sustained no visible damage from the specified laser light at the highest power levels the authors could achieve.
(9) Dressed in protective suits, masks and goggles, they have been given just two hours to survey the damage to the houses they have been barred from entering since the triple disaster struck north-east Japan on the afternoon of 11 March.
(10) The authors studied the performance of laser protective eyewear currently in use at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory: a goggle with a cellulose propionate filter from Glendale Protective Technologies and a goggle with a glass optical filter from Spectra Optics.
(11) The use of gloves and goggles as preventive measures to protect the aeromedical crew from the potential hazards of body fluid contact and transmission of disease during their treatment of patients is low.
(12) A dark brown plastic goggle has been found which meets the theoretical criteria previously postulated for such protection.
(13) In one category, the health care workers entering the child's room did not wear masks and goggles; in the other category, the workers did wear masks and goggles.
(14) Rwanda is accused of equipping M23 with sophisticated arms, including night-vision goggles and 120mm mortars.
(15) But we're growing out of the initial goggle-eyed utopian phase that new technological leaps tend to induce, and settling down into the reality of the power of the crowd.
(16) It was Collision, aka 22-year-old graduate trainee Brett Collis, who took the £1,000 prize in this new event in which pale young men sporting special goggles synched with flying cameras navigated an illuminated 3D obstacle course in the dark.
(17) We describe here a comparison of three methods for producing VOR increases in cats: (i) optokinetic drum; (ii) a pair of 2.2 x telescopic lenses; (iii) Fresnel lens goggles.
(18) Many in the crowd were wearing surgical masks, hard hats, goggles and construction-style eye protectors.
(19) According to this logo, the future is so bright, we've got to wear goggles.
(20) This limitation is avoided by viewing through argon filter goggles with the indirect ophthalmoscope while applying treatment with the endophotocoagulation argon laser probe through a pars plana entry site.
Toggle
Definition:
(n.) A wooden pin tapering toward both ends with a groove around its middle, fixed transversely in the eye of a rope to be secured to any other loop or bight or ring; a kind of button or frog capable of being readily engaged and disengaged for temporary purposes.
(n.) Two rods or plates connected by a toggle joint.
Example Sentences:
(1) Animals were tested in a toggle-floor box apparatus, 30 min after saline or oxotremorine treatment (ip).
(2) Locomotor activity of CD-1 mice, tested in an unfamiliar environment (toggle-floor box), was increased either by a subhypnotic dose (20 mg kg-1) of pentobarbitone or after recovery from pentobarbitone-induced (50 mg kg-1) anaesthesia.
(3) A new toggle latch has provided nearly a year of failure-free operation on the bench, without measurable wear.
(4) Interleaved sagittal sections are broken into two groups, one on each side of the head, and the MR receiver is toggled between the two coils.
(5) There are Google satellite and street maps networked to the city’s information systems, which staff can toggle for close-ups and additional data overlays.
(6) Aligner is an editor for the manual alignment of up to 100 sequences that toggles between display of matched characters and normal unmatched sequences.
(7) Just on Android Facebook Twitter Pinterest The Android Quick Settings panel varies in style, but contains toggles for Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and Airplane mode.
(8) Two distal bolts reduce the toggle of the nail in the femoral shaft.
(9) When subjected to pull-out, toggle, and compression testing, in a cancellous bone calf model, it was demonstrated to be biomechanically inferior to the 4.0 mm ASIF cancellous screw.
(10) In a first set of experiments, which was carried out with the toggle-floor box, U-50,488 depressed locomotor activity in both strains.
(11) One potential complication of blind abomasopexy techniques, including the toggle-pin technique, is the possibility of creating pyloric outflow obstruction.
(12) Chiropractic mechanical force, manually assisted short lever adjusting is a spinoff of the specific toggle recoil adjusting techniques, which were based on the original chiropractic subluxation theory propounded by Daniel David Palmer in 1895.
(13) Skull roentgenograms showed the toggle switch, and the patient was referred to our institution for definitive care.
(14) The external coil sends an electromagnetic pulse to the implant, triggering a CMOS "D" flip-flop connected as a toggle switch--its state is toggled on or off upon receiving the external pulse.
(15) Some Android phones also have a Sync toggle in Quick Settings, which disables Sync for all accounts on the device.
(16) This is achieved by using a relatively small toggle and drills with small diameter.
(17) A toggle switch penetrated the anterior and posterior tables of his frontal sinus and lodged in the frontal lobe.
(18) On Android, use the screen brightness toggle in Quick Settings (swipe down from the top to bring down the Notification Shade and tap the top right had quick settings toggle if needed) the brightness slider under display settings.
(19) He said he had previously thought that "trade dress" should not be patentable – but that my "opinion toggled" [in favour] as he considered the evidence.
(20) The present experiments were aimed at comparing morphine effects in CD-1 mice under three conditions, namely, Varimex apparatus (VAR), toggle floor box (TOGGLE), videotape recording (VIDEO) in a home cage environment.