(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.
Panton
Definition:
(n.) A horseshoe to correct a narrow, hoofbound heel.
Example Sentences:
(1) A lysogenic conversion by a group A phage to production of Panton-Valentine leucocidin and by a group F phage to staphylokinase production could be demonstrated.
(2) He met Panton and Wallis again, on 29 March 2007 at Santini.
(3) On 9 April 2010, Yates, who said his diary was packed with work from dawn to dusk, lunched at Racine's in Knightsbridge, to brief Panton and two other journalists.
(4) For purification of F and S components of the Panton-Valentine leukocidin, an easy three-step method using fast protein liquid chromatography was developed to replace the time-consuming purification procedures previously published.
(5) Cayman Islands’ financial services minister Wayne Panton told the Cayman Reporter: “This is now yet again a further standard which is being proposed and which seems to be gathering momentum, which we are being asked to give in to.
(6) This mutant strain expressed a pleiotropic phenotype such as a concomitant reduction in the producibility of coagulase, alpha-toxin, and Panton-Valentine leucocidin.
(7) Robert Jay QC, counsel to the inquiry, said the email suggested that Panton had "plied" Yates with champagne and the favour was to be returned.
(8) The groups of patients with a low frequency, high frequency or pantonal hearing loss did not differ with respect to the distribution of coronary risk factors.
(9) Maureen Panton Malvern, Worcestershire • The “problem” of rising life expectancy is being dealt with by this government not only by increasing the state pension age but also by gradually dismantling the welfare state and NHS which gave rise to increasing life expectancy.
(10) Yates replied: "I hadn't been plied with champagne by Lucy Panton, and I think it's an unfortunate emphasis you're putting on it."
(11) The average hearing loss in percent (calculated on the basis of the pure tone audiogram according to D. Röser, 1973) amounted to 71.6% prior to treatment, the average sound audiogram corresponding to a pantonal hearing defect.
(12) Yates also admitted that he might have drunk champagne with the former News of the World crime editor Lucy Panton, whom he saw perhaps three times a year.
(13) One hundred and thirty-nine Staphylococcus aureus strains isolated from various clinical samples of hospitalized patients were screened by immunoprecipitation for Panton-Valentine leukocidin (PVL) production.
(14) Demetrious Panton , an employment lawyer with Artesian Law, representing the NHS administrator who believes she was wrongfully dismissed, said his client would not have been able to afford to take the case if she had had to pay such a fee.
(15) A large second-floor lounge, in cool colours and with classic Panton designer chairs, opens on to the deck area with sun loungers and a swimming pool.
(16) The inquiry was read an email from the former NoW news editor James Mellor to Panton requesting she call in the champagne favours.
(17) Now it has evolved to an ‘automatic exchange’ approach,” Panton explained, “which by definition will effectively mean if you commit to it you have some quasi-central register.
(18) Panton-Valentine leukocidin (PVL) is a Staphylococcus aureus (SA) exotoxin, which kills human granulocytes and monocytes in vitro.
(19) Less than four months after Yates decided not to reopen the phone-hacking case, on 5 November 2009, he went to the Ivy Club with the NoW editor, Colin Myler, and crime editor, Lucy Panton.