(n.) Originally, the complete dress, especially in a military sense, of a man or a horse; hence, in general, armor.
(n.) The equipment of a draught or carriage horse, for drawing a wagon, coach, chaise, etc.; gear; tackling.
(n.) The part of a loom comprising the heddles, with their means of support and motion, by which the threads of the warp are alternately raised and depressed for the passage of the shuttle.
(v. t.) To dress in armor; to equip with armor for war, as a horseman; to array.
(v. t.) Fig.: To equip or furnish for defense.
(v. t.) To make ready for draught; to equip with harness, as a horse. Also used figuratively.
Example Sentences:
(1) The need here is to promote the development of genuinely participative models – citizens panels and juries, patient and community leaders, participatory budgeting, and harnessing the power of digital engagement.
(2) The case is presented of a patient sustaining cervical spine dislocation and quadriplegia attributed to impingement upon a 3-point attachment harness restraint.
(3) Finally, it is suggested that the gestural approach clarifies our understanding of phonological development, by positing that prelinguistic units of action are harnessed into (gestural) phonological structures through differentiation and coordination.
(4) Each experiment was designed as a 2 x 2 x 3 factorial with normal birds and acclimatization birds fitted with harnesses or housed over collection trays and given one of three dietary treatments.
(5) Harnessing its greatest asset – its authors – PEN is planning to publish an open letter to each of the five imprisoned writers every day this week, in the run up to the 33rd annual Day of the Imprisoned Writer on 15 November.
(6) "We should be looking instead at decentralising the system, and looking closer to home for our energy supplies, such as solar panels on homes or harnessing wind energy on the coasts, or inland," he said.
(7) The dream of harnessing the mighty Congo with the world's largest set of dams has moved closer, with the World Bank and other financial institutions expected to offer finance and South Africa agreeing to buy half of the power generated.
(8) None of us is locked into a harness on a bench, being made unwillingly acquainted with tobacco products.
(9) In LNCaP cells (a prostate tumor cell line) the hAR is a heterogeneous protein which is synthesized as a single 110 kDa protein, but becomes rapidly phosphorylated to a 112 kDa protein.
(10) However, Reinfeldt's majority was undermined by the far right, who have sought to harness anti-immigrant sentiment in a country where one in seven residents is foreign-born.
(11) Shows such as Dave Gorman's PowerPoint Presentation or Alex Horne's Seven Years in the Bathroom demonstrate an impressive ability to harness technology to the cause of live comedy; the visual aspects in both cases contribute enormously to the laughs, but it's hard to imagine how the shows would survive a power cut.
(12) Costs were diminished since with the same harness it was possible to carry out the intraoperative blood salvage and concentrate the erythrocytes contained in the oxygenator and its lines.
(13) Global policymakers know well the immense value of forests – so why have development interventions largely failed to harness the positive contributions of forested landscapes?
(14) Garcia says the movement is currently seeking to harness the anger in a common agenda of clear demands, a difficult task given the multiplicity of visions; it is not yet clear how much can be achieved.
(15) "In a way, it was good for harnessing anger," she continues.
(16) Specificity for the hAR was established by immunoprecipitation, immune-complex density gradient centrifugation and immunohistochemistry on human prostate tissue sections.
(17) In weightlessness, "falls" were achieved using elastic cords running from a torso harness to the floor.
(18) No significant changes in HAF, HAR, or hepatic tissue blood flow (HTF) occurred after the treatment.
(19) Almost a century after they were nearly destroyed by the Bolsheviks, these fierce horsemen – recruited by Ivan the Terrible in 1571 to guard Russia's borders – are back in harness.
(20) AHH and OHH suspension transiently increased interferon-gamma (IFN-gamma) production in response to the mitogen concanavalin A. Harness restraint alone did not affect IFN-gamma response.
Saddleback
Definition:
(a.) Same as Saddle-backed.
(n.) Anything saddle-backed; esp., a hill or ridge having a concave outline at the top.
(n.) The harp seal.
(n.) The great blackbacked gull (Larus marinus).
(n.) The larva of a bombycid moth (Empretia stimulea) which has a large, bright green, saddle-shaped patch of color on the back.
Example Sentences:
(1) He enters the NFL having started just 20 games in his life – eight with Saddleback Community College in California, then 12 with Florida State.
(2) Total scatter of values for blood glucose concentration and total plasma glucose was greater in Edelschwein and Saddlebacks than in Landrace and the crossbred pigs.
(3) A retrospective review was conducted of 53 women with invasive carcinoma of the vagina and without documented exposure to diethylstilbestrol who were seen at the University of California Irvine Medical Center, Long Beach Memorial Medical Center, and Saddleback Memorial Medical Center from 1976-1988.
(4) Last, a detailed description of the Saddleback Memorial Medical Center's new PACU nurses' notes is included along with a case presentation.
(5) The introduction of nursing diagnoses at Saddleback Memorial Medical Center, Laguna Hills, CA, resulted in the nursing process becoming the basis for the documentation system.
(6) Two captive-born Saddleback tamarins (Saguinus fuscicollis) died unexpectedly in the primate colony at the Peruvian Primatological Project.
(7) Learning the rules as he went, Watson made his first start in the fourth game of Saddleback's 2011 season.
(8) The Saddleback team's deeds of daring were part of a sophisticated four-and-a-half-day training session at a special camp in the California mountains.
(9) Watson would dominate there just as he had at Saddleback, giving up only a single quarterback sack in 12 starts at right tackle.
(10) On that same trip to California, however, Orellana took Watson to try out for Saddleback, a local community college chosen for no other reason than its proximity to his parents' home.
(11) Warren, who founded Saddleback Church with his wife in 1980, a group that now boasts 20,000 weekly worshippers, told CNN that he hoped to reduce stigma about mental illness.
(12) The lactic acid curve showed that Edelschwein and German Saddlebacks had a low regulatory capacity while German Landrace and the crossbred pigs had a large capacity.
(13) Known as Saddleback due to its distinctive shape, the mountain was dubbed "one of the grandest objects in Lakeland and one of the best known" by Alfred Wainwright.
(14) The Horse and Farrier pub, basking in the embrace of Saddleback mountain, is the campaign headquarters for Friends of Blencathra (which is the mountain's proper name).
(15) For senior executives at the Saddleback Memorial Medical Center, Laguna Hills, CA, teamwork improvement started last March at the top of a tall pine tree.