(n.) A door, especially one partly of latticework; -- called also heck door.
(n.) A latticework contrivance for catching fish.
(n.) An apparatus for separating the threads of warps into sets, as they are wound upon the reel from the bobbins, in a warping machine.
(n.) A bend or winding of a stream.
Example Sentences:
(1) It might not work, heck it probably won’t work, but something had to change in the Knicks organization.
(2) But it seems a heck of a lot of money for just 54 days in post and after getting things so badly wrong."
(3) This could prevent a person from taking over if a car loses control, making it “even more important that the details of any accidents be made public so people know what the heck’s going on”.
(4) "It's a heck of a lot of money," said the Vermont senator, Bernie Sanders, who is an independent.
(5) Guardian staff JamieJackson 22 April 2014 10:48am That's what we're told on a consistent basis: that there is a heck of amount of money available if needed.
(6) "Heck, you folks even get Fozzie's jokes, but it was the great impresario Lord Lew Grade who gave us our first big break ... and we're forever grateful to him and to everyone here in England."
(7) Zito is looking for that double play to get the heck out of the inning, but is gifted a pop to left that shortstop Brandon Crawford is out to collect.
(8) Heck, maybe these early season struggles were the result of the Curse of the Orange Uniforms .
(9) An epizootic of focal epithelial hyperplasia (FEH) or Morbus Heck in a pygmy chimpanzee (Pan paniscus) colony is described.
(10) Game five's mean a heck of a lot in North American series, and this one is no different.
(11) If a misfiring Manchester City can be a goal away from the final, why the heck not?
(12) Better coordination of all teacher training routes will have to come, with some sort of middle tier at a local level to ensure supply and quality.” Husbands agrees: “You could get a heck of a long way if you went down the route of school-university alliances.
(13) Updated at 1.24am GMT 1.16am GMT Predictions please That is one heck of an act to follow, let me tell ya.
(14) Its amino acid composition and N-terminal sequence agree well with results derived from the sequence of the VRS gene [Heck, J.D., & Hatfield, G.W.
(15) The disorders mentioned include: eczematous processes, rosacea-like dermatitis, steroid rosacea, acne, especially the diagnosis and therapy of cystic acne, psoriasis, atopic dermatitis, viral infection (Heck's disease) and circumscribed scleroderma versus systemic sclerosis and hemiatrophy of the face.
(16) Heck, if the Giants could do it a year ago, why not these Dodgers, who have even better pitching than San Francisco did, not to mention lineup that could wipe the floor with Buster Posey and his buddies on the Bay.
(17) The occurrence of focal epithelial hyperplasia (Heck's Disease) in a 12-year-old Mexican-American female is presented.
(18) Heck, Davidson even won Edinburgh Central, a constituency where previously the Tory candidate had come fourth.
(19) Maybe she lingered over the first chart in the book: That's a heck of a chart.
(20) You don't have to approve the way he went about it, heck this writer doesn't approve of the way he went about it, but LeBron James has won his first ring, and there's a good chance it's not going to be his last.
Latch
Definition:
(v. t.) To smear; to anoint.
(n.) That which fastens or holds; a lace; a snare.
(n.) A movable piece which holds anything in place by entering a notch or cavity; specifically, the catch which holds a door or gate when closed, though it be not bolted.
(n.) A latching.
(n.) A crossbow.
(n.) To catch so as to hold.
(n.) To catch or fasten by means of a latch.
Example Sentences:
(1) Fine, but the most important new political fact is the unprecedented wave of support that has latched on to Corbyn: the hundreds of thousands who joined Labour, the thumping majority that handed him the leadership, the huge sections of the country that have tuned out of Westminster droid-talk.
(2) For studies of motor performance in the baboon, regarding precise finger movements, a new latch-box was developed.
(3) Arrieta recalls: “With my first child I sterilised everything my baby came into contact with and then I realised the American Pediatric Association doesn’t recommend that, while other studies show it increases the risk of allergies and asthma.” Arrieta points out: “A child who breastfeeds constantly will be latched on to skin which, microbiologically speaking, is very dirty.
(4) A campaign involving children in Syrian villages has latched on to the Pokémon Go craze, asking gamers in the west to take a break from their frenzied hunt for digital creatures to turn their attention to young people trapped in war zones.
(5) The time course of light production, myosin light chain phosphorylation, shortening velocity at zero load, and active stress were measured in three stimulus protocols: depolarization with 109 mM potassium chloride at 22 degrees C, 37 degrees C, and 37 degrees C, followed by a reduction in potassium chloride to 20 mM to induce stress maintenance with basal phosphorylation (latch).
(6) Likud then voted in a new list in 2012 full of extremists who latched on to the xenophobia theme.
(7) LATCH has affected the medical library in several ways.
(8) In the bronchus, cross-sectional area of true muscle may constitute only 20-30% of the total tissue cross section, and load-independent cycling rate varies fourfold during the course of a contraction because of the occurrence of normally cycling and latch bridges.
(9) We have proposed a model that incorporates a dephosphorylated "latch bridge" to explain the mechanics and energetics of smooth muscle.
(10) Thus cross-bridge phosphorylation may suffice to determine force generation in vascular smooth muscle if both phosphorylated and dephosphorylated attached cross bridges (or latch bridges) contribute to active stress.
(11) Jimi Heselden, who latched on to an international craze for the upright, motorised "green commuter machines", was testing a cross-country version when he skidded into the river Wharfe which runs beside his Yorkshire estate.
(12) Since latch-up induction occurs at wave-lengths longer than 580 nm, it may depend on the 540 pigment or on an undetected red absorbing pigment.
(13) Koke latches onto a loose ball down the left and fires a low cross through the area.
(14) The moment had come for Defoe – initially very big on economy of effort – to use all that cleverly conserved energy to remind everyone of his enduring ability and, latching on to Johnson’s pass, the 33-year-old duly obliged.
(15) Inside the brain, THC latches on to what are called cannabinoid receptors.
(16) Liverpool 2-0 Cardiff City (Sterling 41) Luis Suarez turns provider, latching on to long defence-splitting pass from the back to catch the Cardiff City back four flat-footed.
(17) 7: 255-318, 1957) to the latch-bridge model to predict the relationship between isotonic shortening velocity and phosphorylation.
(18) On the campaign trail in Iowa on Wednesday, Obama latched on to some of the remarks made by Romney, in particular a bizarre one about being offered "whole binders full of women" when searching for female recruits to his cabinet when he was governor of Massachusetts.
(19) Most problems, such as sore nipples, engorgement and pain with latch-on, subside after several weeks; symptomatic relief and emotional support from the family physician during this period are crucial.
(20) Because stretch should detach cross bridges, I modified the aequorin-based latch-bridge model to account for stretch-induced cross-bridge detachment.