(n.) A pliant strip of wood or metal bent in a circular form, and united at the ends, for holding together the staves of casks, tubs, etc.
(n.) A ring; a circular band; anything resembling a hoop, as the cylinder (cheese hoop) in which the curd is pressed in making cheese.
(n.) A circle, or combination of circles, of thin whalebone, metal, or other elastic material, used for expanding the skirts of ladies' dresses; crinoline; -- used chiefly in the plural.
(n.) A quart pot; -- so called because originally bound with hoops, like a barrel. Also, a portion of the contents measured by the distance between the hoops.
(n.) An old measure of capacity, variously estimated at from one to four pecks.
(v. t.) To bind or fasten with hoops; as, to hoop a barrel or puncheon.
(v. t.) To clasp; to encircle; to surround.
(v. i.) To utter a loud cry, or a sound imitative of the word, by way of call or pursuit; to shout.
(v. i.) To whoop, as in whooping cough. See Whoop.
(v. t.) To drive or follow with a shout.
(v. t.) To call by a shout or peculiar cry.
(n.) A shout; a whoop, as in whooping cough.
(n.) The hoopoe. See Hoopoe.
Example Sentences:
(1) It offered maternity coverage without any extra hoops.
(2) The mood is fantastic: upbeat, from a crowd of older locals reliving their youth to cool young thangs attracted by Margate’s burgeoning reputation as Dalston-sur-Mer; fiftysomething men in braces and Harringtons, candy-floss-chomping teens… People are picnicking on the fake lawn beside the hair and beauty caravan, children gyrating newly bought hula-hoops to the strains of I’ve Got a Lovely Bunch of Coconuts.
(3) When the acquisition was announced, Google spokespeople were cock-a-hoop, and with good reason: the guys who founded DeepMind are among the best in a very competitive field.
(4) Yes, April Fools' Day is the hoop and stick, the cup-and-ball game, the Michael McIntyre of comedy, if you will.
(5) Their determination to use it as a stick to beat abortion providers with is simply one more reason why this paternalistic and meaningless little bureaucratic hoop needs to be terminated forthwith.
(6) The Way Home, To Save a Life, and hoop-shooting nuns drama The Mighty Macs are, similarly, self-fulfilment yarns in which God is a bit of a backdrop.
(7) I asked Kennie how it felt having been through so many hoops only to be told that he still couldn’t vote because of a bureaucratic cock-up that occurred 45 years ago.
(8) On the basis of their isotopic shifts upon deuterium labeling, we have assigned the band at 887 cm-1 to C10H and C14H HOOP modes, and the band at 940 cm-1 to C11H = C12H Au-like HOOP mode.
(9) • Savage is every Friday and Saturday at Metropolis Studios, London, from 4 March (tickets £5), savagedisco.com The Mighty Hoop-la Facebook Twitter Pinterest Skewering the type of weekender you’d usually associate with Butlins (Redcoats, awkward cabaret, warring families), The Mighty Hoop-la has gathered many of the best alternative club nights – including those on this list, except Torture Garden, Hip Hop Karaoke and Savage – and performance troupes for a festival dedicated to high camp, high energy and high-concept fun.
(10) Furthermore, perturbations of the unique bathorhodopsin hydrogen out-of-plane (HOOP) vibrations in E113Q and E113A indicate that the strength of the protein perturbation near C12 is weakened compared to that in native bathorhodopsin.
(11) It could be that it is used by people who are renting, or by people who are happy to pay more so they don’t have to jump through the hoops to remortgage – however, you have to be one of their customers to apply, so they will know quite a lot about you,” says Andrew Hagger of Moneycomms.com.
(12) Older and shrewder by the late 2000s, the early 90s pioneers involved in Hard Events and Insomniac (the company behind Electric Daisy Carnival) learned how to work with the system, going through the bureaucratic hoops required to get permits, and providing the level of intensive security, entrance searches and overall safety provisions that would give political cover to their local government enablers.
(13) Celtic are in their traditional green and white hoops – a friend, she shall remain nameless, once tried to argue that Celtic's jersey was in fact stripes and not hoops – and Shakhter are clocking and rocking a natty orange number.
(14) • The Mighty Hoop-La, Bognor Regis, 26-29 February (three-night tickets from £85), themightyhoopla.com
(15) Retrospective review of 730 consecutive primary uncemented and cemented total hip arthroplasties revealed 19 intra-operative hoop-stress fractures of the femoral neck.
(16) On the basis of a comparison with the vibrational calculations, the low frequency (803 cm-1) and the reduced intensity of the C15 HOOP mode in Pr suggest that the chromophore in Pr adopts the C15-Z,syn conformation.
(17) To determine whether significant regional differences in shortening exist in the canine left ventricle, the shortening characteristics of small segments of the circumferentially oriented hoop axis fibers and the more longitudinally oriented fibers near the epicardium were examined using pairs of ultrasound crystals placed at three levels of the left ventricular free wall in the open-chest dog.
(18) His fourth Jessica Daniel thriller has been sold to Pan Macmillan, who are predictably cock-a-hoop.
(19) 9.15am: Our morning paper view has arrived, with Simon Burnton having thumbed his way through tomorrow's fish and chip wrapping : While Dutch newspapers are predictably cock-a-hoop this morning about developments in South Africa – "FINALE!
(20) Wearing a hooped brown and cream sweater with collar turned up, Mvubu, from KwaThema, stared at the floor with hands behind his back for much of the hearing.
Quart
Definition:
(n.) The fourth part; a quarter; hence, a region of the earth.
(n.) A measure of capacity, both in dry and in liquid measure; the fourth part of a gallon; the eighth part of a peck; two pints.
(n.) A vessel or measure containing a quart.
(n.) In cards, four successive cards of the same suit. Cf. Tierce, 4.
Example Sentences:
(1) One hundred twenty nine patients with T1 N0 M0 breast cancer were selectively treated with QUART.
(2) We conclude first, that small pT2 breast carcinomas may also be safely treated with QUART, second, that the electron beam is a radiotherapeutic technique able to produce a good cosmetic result and to assure a satisfactory local control and, finally, that the use of tamoxifen in postmenopausal stage II breast carcinomas is safe and easy to combine with radiotherapy in the conservative management of early breast cancer due to the lower toxic effects, compared to those observed in premenopausal women treated with chemotherapy.
(3) One thousand two hundred and thirty-two women with invasive breast cancer lesions measuring less than 2 cm in diameter, clinically assessed as T1N0-1M0, were treated from 1970 to 1983 at the National Cancer Institute of Milan with quadrantectomy, axillary dissection, and radiotherapy (QUART).
(4) Our study confirms the role of QUART as an effective and reliable method in the treatment of small breast carcinomas.
(5) The experimental apparatus consisted of a high efficiency particulate air (HEPA) filter, an aerosol generator, spiral UV lamps placed around a quart glass tube, an Andersen air sampler and a vacuum pump.
(6) The upper limits of drinking may be as high as three quarts of 1200 proof per day for a person over 200 lbs.
(7) Kay criticised it in a memo: "Have I got a deal for you: a Honda with a one-quart gas tank."
(8) The majority exhibited defects of the endocardial cushion variety and approximately one quarte had complete atrioventricular canals (CAVC).
(9) At home they greedily chug down a quart of amped-up babyccino .
(10) Annually by household oil disposal in Massachusetts is estimated to be 8.8 million quarts.
(11) Nineteen of 20 healthy Oriental adults living in the United States developed abdominal cramps and diarrhea after ingesting an amount of lactose equivalent to that in one quart of milk; 14 reported similar symptoms after one or two glasses of milk; all had consumed milk as infants without having such symptoms.
(12) Over 42% of the injuries concerned the head and face, about a third the lower extremities and a quart the upper extremities.
(13) The method for the determination of free crystalline silica (quarts), as previously described by two of the authors, has been employed on atmosphere dust of unconfined spaces.
(14) A combination of quadrantectomy, axillary dissection, and radiotherapy (QUART) is the regimen most favored by Japanese surgeons among a variety of breast conserving therapies currently available against breast cancer.
(15) From January 1981 to December 1987, 264 patients affected with small breast cancers were treated with quadrantectomy plus axillary dissection and radiation therapy on the breast remnant (QUART).
(16) One of the best essays on why that happened was from Reuters' culture critic Alissa Quart , who explained that the critics' anger over this film being "politicized" reflects a broader syndrome where political indifference is viewed as some sort of virtue: "In the postwar decades, the best reviewers of the day saw addressing the politics within the cultural works they reviewed as part of their jobs.
(17) The sizes of features in STRFs from this mammal appeared significantly smaller in their temporal and spectral extents than those reported in the torus semicircularis of an amphibian and were roughly comparable to the few units reported from cat ventral CN [Eggermont et al., Quart.
(18) No vitamin D was detected in 3 of the 14 samples of skim milk tested (lower limit of assay, 4.7 IU per quart [5.0 IU per liter]).
(19) Analysis of the dairy's vitamin D-fortified milk revealed concentrations of vitamin D3 (cholecalciferol) that ranged from undetectable to as high as 232,565 IU per quart (245,840 IU per liter).
(20) Regarding the limited power of this compilation a reduction of postoperative wound infections is to be expected in "clean-contaminated" procedures to a quart, in "clean" procedures to a half in comparison with procedures without prophylaxis.