(v. i.) To lean or tip to one side, as a ship; as, the ship heels aport; the boat heeled over when the squall struck it.
(n.) The hinder part of the foot; sometimes, the whole foot; -- in man or quadrupeds.
(n.) The hinder part of any covering for the foot, as of a shoe, sock, etc.; specif., a solid part projecting downward from the hinder part of the sole of a boot or shoe.
(n.) The latter or remaining part of anything; the closing or concluding part.
(n.) Anything regarded as like a human heel in shape; a protuberance; a knob.
(n.) The part of a thing corresponding in position to the human heel; the lower part, or part on which a thing rests
(n.) The after end of a ship's keel.
(n.) The lower end of a mast, a boom, the bowsprit, the sternpost, etc.
(n.) In a small arm, the corner of the but which is upwards in the firing position.
(n.) The uppermost part of the blade of a sword, next to the hilt.
(n.) The part of any tool next the tang or handle; as, the heel of a scythe.
(n.) Management by the heel, especially the spurred heel; as, the horse understands the heel well.
(n.) The lower end of a timber in a frame, as a post or rafter. In the United States, specif., the obtuse angle of the lower end of a rafter set sloping.
(n.) A cyma reversa; -- so called by workmen.
(v. t.) To perform by the use of the heels, as in dancing, running, and the like.
(v. t.) To add a heel to; as, to heel a shoe.
(v. t.) To arm with a gaff, as a cock for fighting.
Example Sentences:
(1) A distally based posterior tibial artery adipofascial flap with skin graft was used for the reconstruction of soft tissue defects over the Achilles tendon in three cases and over the heel in three cases.
(2) Forty heels in 32 patients were reviewed either by a clinical and radiographical examination (35 heels), or by a questionnaire (5 heels) after an average of 6 years (range 1-12 years).
(3) The expansion comes hot on the heels of another year of stellar growth in which Primark edged closer to overtaking high street stalwart M&S in sales and profits.
(4) And I have come to tell you this: the trends for this coming season will be extremely expensive furs, very high-heeled shoes and full-length ballgowns.
(5) Resistance was applied in reaction time trials via an electromagnet placed below the subject's heel.
(6) Hot on the heels of the secret justice green paper – which seeks to shut claimants out of their own cases against the state to defend the "public interest" – comes a major expansion of powers to monitor the phone calls, emails and website visits of every person in the UK .
(7) Computer digitization revealed that distal anastomotic intimal hyperplasia occurred exclusively at the heel and the toe of the graft and the floor of the host artery.
(8) In follow-up examination of 71 cases for periods longer than one year, 79 per cent of the patients showed that the UCBL shoe insert and the Helfet heel seat improved the clinical and roentgenographic appearance of the foot.
(9) FBI v Apple hearing: 'Apple is in an arms race with criminals and hackers' – live Read more This all comes on the heels of a judge in New York strongly rebuking the FBI and Department of Justice in a court decision on Monday.
(10) The tension required for release of the bindings laterally at the toe and vertically at the heel was measured and compared with the values recommended by the International Association for Skiing Safety.
(11) But Spurs built up a final head of steam and after Gomes punched clear Trippier’s initial cross, a second fell to Son at the near post and he back-heeled the ball past Gomes.
(12) His achilles heel would be reconciling disparate sections of the grassroots party and restoring the fissures in the parliamentary party.
(13) Despite the spring-heeled bounce in their hair-raising hardcore storm – and their productive affair with Funkmaster George Clinton – the Peppers’ soul stew remains predominantly, ragingly punky.
(14) A second recession hard on the heels of the first gives the (accurate) impression that the economy is a disaster area and makes a downgrade more likely.
(15) We self-censure because it would put us all back, it would diminish who we are.” Of course she’s a feminist: “That just means believing that women can do everything men can but backwards in heels with a cherry on top.
(16) Warming the heel produced no significant improvement in results.
(17) Hot on the heels of the Beijing Olympics, Shanghai’s 2010 Expo was the biggest in history, spread across an area five times the size of Milan’s exposition at a cost of $50bn (£32bn) – a level of ambition that saw 18,000 families forcibly displaced , according to Amnesty International.
(18) You will have to offer leadership and a sense of belonging to the civil service's lowly clerks and frontline staff in the Department for Work and Pensions, struggling not just with Iain Duncan Smith's fantasies of benefit rationalisation, but sharp contractors snapping at their heels.
(19) The brothers said they were pleased that after “a great deal of dragging of their heels” the Mail and Hopkins had accepted the allegations were false.
(20) The patient's main phenotypic features were short-limb dwarfism, craniofacial disproportion with prominent forehead, short neck and trunk with pectus carinatum, and platyspondyly, protuberant abdomen, acromesomelic shortness of limbs, bilateral palm simian crease, short feet with brachydactyly of the 2nd toe, and prominent heels.
Heep
Definition:
(n.) The hip of the dog-rose.
Example Sentences:
(1) Remarkably, Fight the Power contains a sample of the English rock band Uriah Heep (3) .
(2) Some of the city’s best known modernist buildings date back to this period, including David Libeskind’s Conjunto Nacional , Franz Heep’s Edifício Itália , and Oscar’s Niemeyer’s iconic S-shaped Copan building .
(3) (3) Heep's 1970 prog-metal opus Bird of Prey is sampled.
(4) In truth, I did not much care for Heep, finding him a deeply aspirant member of the lower orders, but I bore myself with the dignity expected of distressed gentlefolk and treated him with a patronising contempt disguised as good manners.
(5) It does have to be admitted that there is something irresistible about the delivery of a custard pie to a face, even when the victim is a confused octogenarian belatedly starting a new life as Uriah Heep.
(6) As for you, Heep, I shall visit you in prison to lecture you once more."
(7) The inclusion of a Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS) Registry Number index in HEEP has led to the need for a special database designed to link substance names with their appropriate CAS chemical compound Registry Numbers.
(8) rarities or Uriah Heep bootlegs, because, hey, it’s all vinyl, huh, vinyl’s great, it’s what we do downtown.
(9) Mr Cooke himself even described the late BCCI chairman Agha Abedi as "the living personification of Uriah Heep".
(10) "Why I have been investigating your business dealings with Mr Wickfield, Heep, and it seems you are a crook …" "So my father wasn't totally incompetent," cried Agnes.
(11) With Heep having finally been exposed as the crook I had always assumed his petit-bourgeois aspirations would lead him to be, I never enquired how someone as feckless as Mr Micawber should be such an astute accountant.
(12) It’s a treaty, he said, just that, and should not be viewed as a tablet brought down from on high with Australians behaving as Uriah Heeps grateful to be in the glow of American greatness.
(13) Just don't marry Uriah Heep now he's running your father's business."
(14) Tim Lott and Josephine Cox opted for Pip and Oliver respectively; Freya North chose Uriah Heep, describing him as a "loathsome character who seeps from the pages like a noxious gas"; Daisy Goodwin went for "the anti-heroine of Bleak House", Lady Dedlock, while Adele Parks favoured the "morally ambiguous" Nancy from Oliver Twist.
(15) And our hero proprietor, so famously fastidious about such matters, has to tell Uriah Heep: "That is not my job."
(16) But I certainly don’t feel that I need to be Uriah Heep-ish about it in any way.
(17) It really isn’t lost on me what a privilege it is to be given a show like this,” this latterday Uriah Heep tells his audience, “and I will really do my best not to let any of you down.” The reviews suggest Corden’s passed this supposed trial-by-fire, but what’s interesting is the criteria applied.
(18) I did not hesitate to work still harder for Mr Micawber's release and the only break in my day was the invitation to take tea with an unattractive clerk by the name of Uriah Heep.