(n.) A conical chamber at the breech of the bore in heavy ordnance, especially in mortars; -- named after the inventor.
Example Sentences:
(1) Elderly patients are sometimes stereotyped as "crocks" and "gomers"--crotchety chronic complainers beyond help and hope.
Hebrew
Definition:
(n.) An appellative of Abraham or of one of his descendants, esp. in the line of Jacob; an Israelite; a Jew.
(n.) The language of the Hebrews; -- one of the Semitic family of languages.
(a.) Of or pertaining to the Hebrews; as, the Hebrew language or rites.
Example Sentences:
(1) Then, when he was forgiven, he walked along a moonbeam and said to Ha-Notsri [Hebrew name for Jesus of Nazareth]: “You know, you were right.
(2) Hebrew for voice of justice, Kol Tzedek was described in publicity at the time as "an outreach program aimed at helping sex-crime victims in Brooklyn's Orthodox Jewish Communities report abuse".
(3) Instead, much of Darwish's early reading of the poetry of the world outside Palestine was through the medium of Hebrew.
(4) As Prof Eyal Naveh of Tel Aviv University, one of the Israeli project leaders, says: “This might be possible in a post-conflict situation, but it was not possible in an ‘in conflict’ situation.” So, the authors decided to try the next best thing: to write their own separate narratives and place them side by side, in Hebrew and in Arabic, on the opposite pages of a single book.
(5) This article is a presentation of the background and description of one such clinical program organized by the New England College of Optometry with the cooperation of the Department of Ophthalmology Hadassah Hebrew Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel.
(6) A systematic search was made in the Hebrew Bible for expressions of emotional distress.
(7) As in a mosque, worshippers remove their shoes before entering the historic building, where biblical quotations are emblazoned on the walls in English, Hebrew and Persian scripts.
(8) As anticipated, children in the non Hebrew reader groups performed comparably on this task, but the performance of these subjects was inferior to that of children in the Hebrew groups.
(9) And in response to a freedom of information request from Education Guardian, the DfE has disclosed that although it has met representatives of registered Jewish schools many times, it has no records of any such meetings with the Union of Orthodox Hebrew Congregations – the organisation that represents the wider Orthodox community in London .
(10) Adopting the format of an earlier investigation, a visual recall task was employed as the dependent variable, and it was predicted that poor readers would perform as well as normals with stimuli taken from Hebrew, an unfamiliar orthography.
(11) Rats of the Hebrew University strain, used as donors, received single i.p.
(12) Experiment 2 revealed that semantic priming effects in naming were larger in Hebrew than in English and completely absent in Serbo-Croatian.
(13) Twenty-four Hebrew-speaking dyads (the children about 1;6) were videotaped for 30 min in an unstructured session.
(14) They are simply places to which kids are sent to be indoctrinated from dawn till dusk, and it is a scandal that the government has failed to deal with them for so long.” The Union of Orthodox Hebrew Congregations did not return Education Guardian’s calls.
(15) In two substrains, selected from the Hebrew University strain, for their respective sensitivity (H) or immunity (N) to hypertension induced by DOCA--salt treatment, there were no significant increases in NA or DA in any part of the brain following DOCA--salt treatment.
(16) Rami Younis, 30, a Palestinian activist and writer with the independent Hebrew online magazine Local Call, said he usually boycotts the elections.
(17) The Adelsons are friends of Israel's prime minister, Binyamin Netanyahu, and Adelson purchased a Hebrew-language newspaper to support him.
(18) Hebrew has two forms of spelling, pointed and unpointed.
(19) Biblical Hebrew thus incorporated a powerful and sophisticated language of emotional expression.
(20) Following the discovery of the missing Israeli's bodies on Monday, new details about the teenagers' abduction and murder 19 days ago while hitching home from West Bank religious schools have emerged in the Hebrew press, including the fact that investigators believe that the teenagers were killed within a few minutes of getting into a stolen car near Gush Etzion junction.