(1) The supporters – many of them wearing Hamas green headbands and carrying Hamas flags – packed the open-air venue in rain and strong winds to celebrate the Islamist organisation's 25th anniversary and what it regards as a victory in last month's eight-day war with Israel.
(2) Hamas members with black face masks and green headbands handed him over earlier today to Egyptian mediators before he was taken by helicopter to Tel Nof airbase in central Israel and re-united with his family.
(3) In order to study how the efficiency of the halo vest is affected by different lengths of the vest, an experimental headband was devised that allowed the head of a normal person to be held securely in the halo attachment.
(4) Yvonne Robertson, who had travelled from Glasgow with her district lodge, spoke of "an absolutely amazing day" as her red, white and blue glitter headband sparkled in the sunshine.
(5) A comparison between counting rates under the derived time-activity curves showed significantly lower values on headband application (p less than 0.01).
(6) Static scintigrams consisting of the first 300,000 counts recorded after bolus release with and without headband application show a clear delineation of the headband position with prevention of "halo" appearance about the cranial cavity.
(7) They talked of sleeves that would slide over paralysed limbs, headbands that would do the work of a brain chip, smartphones that would do what the computer did now.
(8) This research investigated the influence of the user's work-related movement and variations in headband compression force and earcup cushion material (liquid- or foam-filled) on the frequency-specific noise attenuation achieved with earmuffs.
(9) She has gloss-coated lips, and her yellow headband, holding back long hair, glows in the lamplight along Juscelino Kubitschek Avenue, which connects the city to the Castelão arena, one of the venues for the 2014 World Cup .
(10) An implantable magnet is now available for patients who have received the standard Nucleus 22-channel cochlear implant and who are not able to wear the headband satisfactorily.
(11) Theoretical aspects of headband force as well as the implications of attenuation measurements for test room recommendations are discussed.
(12) Six men wearing jackets, despite the wet heat, and red headbands.
(13) Probably the happening of most moment during that 1973 midsummer fortnight was the raucous overture of something rare and special when every day some hundred or so shrieking schoolgirls began following around the concourse and demanding autographs from a slim, blond, bemused Swede with a headband and an ice-blue faraway gaze, just 17 but, perforce, seeded No6.
(14) RunPhones integrate a set of headphones into a comfy headband that won’t move or come lose when you’re really going for it.
(15) Clothing that will get you noticed by street photographers is the name of the game, so expect an eclectic high-low mix of neon sweaters from Scott and couture headbands from Maison Michele .
(16) Dressed in a pink headband and a black jacket, she clutched a white plastic bag containing cash the family had collected to bury her brother, who died in a local hospital on Sunday.
(17) As a simple aid for exact localization of such processes a "rod headband" is presented, which consists of a leather strap with exchangeable plastic rods and can be put on the patient's forehead for a CT examination.
(18) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Young women wear headbands with Joaquín Guzmán’s name, during a march to call for his freedom in his home state in the north-west of Mexico.
(19) This year we'll be selling socks, headbands, handbags and hats with bells on."
(20) Right out of the gate she was getting slammed for the pantsuits, the hair, the headbands, her appearance, her life choices, and everything she said was so heavily scrutinized.
Strip
Definition:
(v. t.) To deprive; to bereave; to make destitute; to plunder; especially, to deprive of a covering; to skin; to peel; as, to strip a man of his possession, his rights, his privileges, his reputation; to strip one of his clothes; to strip a beast of his skin; to strip a tree of its bark.
(v. t.) To divest of clothing; to uncover.
(v. t.) To dismantle; as, to strip a ship of rigging, spars, etc.
(v. t.) To pare off the surface of, as land, in strips.
(v. t.) To deprive of all milk; to milk dry; to draw the last milk from; hence, to milk with a peculiar movement of the hand on the teats at the last of a milking; as, to strip a cow.
(v. t.) To pass; to get clear of; to outstrip.
(v. t.) To pull or tear off, as a covering; to remove; to wrest away; as, to strip the skin from a beast; to strip the bark from a tree; to strip the clothes from a man's back; to strip away all disguisses.
(v. t.) To tear off (the thread) from a bolt or nut; as, the thread is stripped.
(v. t.) To tear off the thread from (a bolt or nut); as, the bolt is stripped.
(v. t.) To remove the metal coating from (a plated article), as by acids or electrolytic action.
(v. t.) To remove fiber, flock, or lint from; -- said of the teeth of a card when it becomes partly clogged.
(v. t.) To pick the cured leaves from the stalks of (tobacco) and tie them into "hands"; to remove the midrib from (tobacco leaves).
(v. i.) To take off, or become divested of, clothes or covering; to undress.
(v. i.) To fail in the thread; to lose the thread, as a bolt, screw, or nut. See Strip, v. t., 8.
(n.) A narrow piece, or one comparatively long; as, a strip of cloth; a strip of land.
(n.) A trough for washing ore.
(n.) The issuing of a projectile from a rifled gun without acquiring the spiral motion.
Example Sentences:
(1) The cross sectional area of the aortic lumen was gradually decreased while the length of the stenotic lesion gradually increased by using strips with different width.
(2) Further, the maximal increase in force of contraction was measured using papillary muscle strips from some of these patients.
(3) S&P – the only one of the three major agencies not to have stripped the UK of its coveted AAA status – said it had been surprised at the pick-up in activity during 2013 – a year that began with fears of a triple-dip recession.
(4) But the Franco-British spat sparked by Dave's rejection of Angela and Nicolas's cunning plan to save the euro has been given wings by news the US credit agencies may soon strip France of its triple-A rating and is coming along very nicely, thank you. "
(5) Circular muscle strips from the opossum esophageal body obtained 3-5 cm above the esophagogastric junction were suspended in organ baths for measurement of isometric tension.
(6) Survival and healing of "extremely severe" grade intoxication can only be obtained through a surgical intervention within the first hours; a laparotomy will indicate the depth of the lesions, which is not determined by endoscopy, and will consist of Celerier's stripping method and if necessary a gastrectomy, more seldom a cephalic duodeno-pancreatectomy.
(7) In goldfish intestine (perfused unstripped segments and mucosal strips) the serosal addition of ouabain (10(-4) M) resulted in a vanishment of the transepithelial potential difference and in a continuous increase in transepithelial resistance.
(8) Dopamine at concentrations over 10(-5)M induced contractions of tracheal muscle strips and repeated exposures resulted in desensitization (tachyphylaxis) of the muscle.
(9) Similar results with carbachol in the presence of 8-bromo cyclic AMP and IBMX were also found in rat right atrial strips which had been incubated with [3H]-noradrenaline.
(10) On guinea-pig lung strip the rank order of potency was U-46619 greater than Wy17186 much greater than PGF2 alpha greater than PGE2 and responses to all agonists tested were blocked by AH19437 but not by SC-19220.
(11) Glutathion and ascorbic acid interfere with the test strip method but this error is neglectable because of physiological low concentrations of these substances.
(12) We compared the effects of angiotensin II and endothelin on mass levels of 1,2-diacylglycerol, and endogenous activator of protein kinase C, in cultured rabbit vascular smooth muscle cells with the effects of these vasoconstrictors on contractile responses of rabbit aortic strips.
(13) It was found that within the dorsal part of the well known pressor area there is a narrow strip, 2.5 mm lateral from the mid line, starting ventral to the inferior colliculus and ending in the medulla close to the floor of the IV ventricle, from which vasodilatation in skeletal muscles is selectively obtained.
(14) The tinsel coiled around a jug of squash and bauble in the strip lighting made a golf-ball size knot of guilt burn in my throat.
(15) The effect of p-nitrophenylphosphate (p-NPP) on the release of acetylcholine evoked by drugs and ionic environments known to inhibit Na+, K+-ATPase was studied in isolated cortical slices of rat brain and longitudinal muscle strip of guinea-pig ileum.
(16) Experiments were performed in vitro on strips of diaphragmatic muscle obtained from 21 Syrian hamsters.
(17) Results obtained from a such study are here compared with levels obtained from a comparative determination of the metals in the mosses by three other techniques: Differential pulse anodic stripping voltammetry (DPASV), Direct current plasma (atomic emission) spectroscopy (DCPS) and X-ray fluorescence (XRF) spectroscopy.
(18) In cholesterol stones and cholesterolosis specimens, relatively strong muscle strips had similar responses to 10(-6) M cholecystokinin-8 in normal calcium (2.5 mM) and in the absence of extracellular calcium.
(19) An evaluation of the Ames Leukostix reagent strips for the detection of leukocyte esterase activity in urine was undertaken to determine the interlot precision and between reader reliability, to compare Leukostix and Chemstrip LN results, and to determine if the Ames Leukostix reagent strip provides an alternative to, or supplement for, the microscopic detection of leukocytes.
(20) He was held there for another eight months in conditions that aroused widespread condemnation , including being held in solitary confinement for 23 hours a day and being made to strip naked at night.