(n.) A defensive covering for the head. See Casque, Headpiece, Morion, Sallet, and Illust. of Beaver.
(n.) The representation of a helmet over shields or coats of arms, denoting gradations of rank by modifications of form.
(n.) A helmet-shaped hat, made of cork, felt, metal, or other suitable material, worn as part of the uniform of soldiers, firemen, etc., also worn in hot countries as a protection from the heat of the sun.
(n.) That which resembles a helmet in form, position, etc.
(n.) The upper part of a retort.
(n.) The hood-formed upper sepal or petal of some flowers, as of the monkshood or the snapdragon.
(n.) A naked shield or protuberance on the top or fore part of the head of a bird.
Example Sentences:
(1) It follows that he would not allow a biker to give evidence while wearing a crash helmet with the visor down.
(2) The design of motor cycle helmets has been changing over the years and at the present time there are two basic types in popular use: "full-face" and "jet" helmets.
(3) Ultimately, we hope such a program will increase helmet use and consequently reduce morbidity and mortality from head injury in Indiana's children.
(4) The study showed surprising results: in the majority of cases, the helmet does not protect the wearer, but instead intensifies the damage caused by the bullet.
(5) 9.18am GMT Johnson says he does not wear his helmet all the time when he cycles.
(6) The front door is open; outside, a line of police carrying riot helmets files past.
(7) Fifty-seven percent of riders were wearing helmets during the mishap.
(8) The protective performance of the helmet shells, impact absorbing liners, and retention systems were evaluated, and the severity of the impacts sustained by the helmets was simulated in the test laboratory.
(9) Members of the elite police squad wearing helmets came running out of the building and a police union representative at the cordon around the area shouted: "He's dead, he's dead."
(10) Ten subjects took part in the trial in a tropical environment by wearing helmets repeatedly (6 h a day) for one month.
(11) Here's one entry: 1995: The government is full of jack-booted thugs in bucket helmets.
(12) The analysis of the results allowed a conclusion that the latter are concerned with a discoupling effect of substances on oxidative phosphorylation in mitochondria of helmets and their host.
(13) To better understand motion in the cervical spine related to helmet wearing and removal, normal volunteers underwent videotaped fluoroscopy during helmet removal and lateral spine X-rays in various positions.
(14) We describe the mechanics of a multifaceted campaign undertaken to alter this situation, involving a coalition of health, bicycle, and helmet industry organizations.
(15) Japan's prime minister, Shinzo Abe, wearing a red helmet, during a tour of the Fukushima Daiichi plant.
(16) This article presents 1990 self-reported data from U.S. students in grades 9-12 regarding the prevalence of three behaviors that reduce the risk for injuries from motor-vehicle crashes-safety-belt use, motorcycle-helmet use, and bicycle-helmet use.
(17) The helmet usage was analyzed in two clinical study populations including 200 injured from the county of Västerbotten from two periods 1979-1980 and 1985-86.
(18) These data support the need for both increased public education regarding helmet use and mandatory helmet use legislation.
(19) The relative frequency of serious head injury was highest for drivers not wearing helmets who were involved in collisions at low or high speeds.
(20) Women's lacrosse is potentially hazardous because, unlike men's lacrosse, helmets and face masks are not required.
Visor
Definition:
(n.) A part of a helmet, arranged so as to lift or open, and so show the face. The openings for seeing and breathing are generally in it.
(n.) A mask used to disfigure or disguise.
(n.) The fore piece of a cap, projecting over, and protecting the eyes.
Example Sentences:
(1) It follows that he would not allow a biker to give evidence while wearing a crash helmet with the visor down.
(2) Visor osteotomies of various designs, supplemented with illiac bone grafts, were used to augment 63 cases of severely atrophic mandibles.
(3) This is a report on the long term results of Visor-Sandwich Osteotomy.
(4) I'm slightly annoyed that you can't wave at people or flash at them - we ought to be like bikers and raise our visors.
(5) Visor said the shooting victim spent his time collecting cans and kicking a soccer ball.
(6) Stricter enforcement of rules and more widespread use of visors would reduce the number of facial injuries.
(7) Rarely wearing hats, visors, or sunglasses while in the sun was a risk factor for the disease (relative risk, 1.9; 95 per cent confidence interval, 1.6 to 2.2).
(8) "The instruction came to put your visors down, and everyone's shields come up then," said a 35-year-old sergeant.
(9) Three hundred people literally came round the corner into the side street and started attacking us … Because I had my visor down, it was like watching a TV screen."
(10) One wears a flat cap, one wields a sledgehammer, one has a welder's visor.
(11) Outside, the din of ambulances would not be noteworthy until the driver and passenger appear in regulation yellow overalls, mask, goggles, hood and visor.
(12) Both visors and goggles are equally safe but there are slight differences in the types of clothing worn with each, and in the protocols for putting the equipment on and taking it off.” Taking off the protective suits, gloves and visors at the end of a shift inside the high-risk red zone of the centre is the most dangerous time.
(13) The Central Security Forces – suddenly back on the streets as the "Anti-Riots Troops", with brand new visored helmets and longer, more supple sticks – opened barriers and let us pass through their Holy of Holies, the street that runs between the American and the British embassies.
(14) 92 patients, 31 with and 61 without signs of metabolic bone loss, were treated with a combined sandwich-visor osteotomy.
(15) A reduction of minor and moderate injuries should be possible by stricter enforcement of the hockey rules, and more widespread use of visors.
(16) Photograph: Warner Bros “For my first scene where I walk up to Tobey’s character in the party and take off my little visor and say, ‘I thought I’d see you here,’ there really were 400 extras, and seven cameras on cranes,” she remembers of her first day on The Great Gatsby set.
(17) A method is described in which the visor osteotomy and the vestibuloplasty are performed in one stage.
(18) Cafferkey was trained in the UK in the use of personal protective equipment, including a visor.
(19) Youths in hooded track suit tops and scarves over their faces were also shining laser pens into the faces of visored PSNI riot squad officers as well as the police helicopter hovering above, which was used on Saturday to identify a gunman in nearby Newtownards Road.
(20) Visor and Grant, a couple, said that they have been living in one of those tents for about a month, since moving to San Francisco from Colorado about a month ago.