What's the difference between horse and pirouette?

Horse


Definition:

  • (n.) A hoofed quadruped of the genus Equus; especially, the domestic horse (E. caballus), which was domesticated in Egypt and Asia at a very early period. It has six broad molars, on each side of each jaw, with six incisors, and two canine teeth, both above and below. The mares usually have the canine teeth rudimentary or wanting. The horse differs from the true asses, in having a long, flowing mane, and the tail bushy to the base. Unlike the asses it has callosities, or chestnuts, on all its legs. The horse excels in strength, speed, docility, courage, and nobleness of character, and is used for drawing, carrying, bearing a rider, and like purposes.
  • (n.) The male of the genus horse, in distinction from the female or male; usually, a castrated male.
  • (n.) Mounted soldiery; cavalry; -- used without the plural termination; as, a regiment of horse; -- distinguished from foot.
  • (n.) A frame with legs, used to support something; as, a clotheshorse, a sawhorse, etc.
  • (n.) A frame of timber, shaped like a horse, on which soldiers were made to ride for punishment.
  • (n.) Anything, actual or figurative, on which one rides as on a horse; a hobby.
  • (n.) A mass of earthy matter, or rock of the same character as the wall rock, occurring in the course of a vein, as of coal or ore; hence, to take horse -- said of a vein -- is to divide into branches for a distance.
  • (n.) See Footrope, a.
  • (a.) A breastband for a leadsman.
  • (a.) An iron bar for a sheet traveler to slide upon.
  • (a.) A jackstay.
  • (v. t.) To provide with a horse, or with horses; to mount on, or as on, a horse.
  • (v. t.) To sit astride of; to bestride.
  • (v. t.) To cover, as a mare; -- said of the male.
  • (v. t.) To take or carry on the back; as, the keeper, horsing a deer.
  • (v. t.) To place on the back of another, or on a wooden horse, etc., to be flogged; to subject to such punishment.
  • (v. i.) To get on horseback.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Such was the mystique surrounding Rumsfeld's standing that an aide sought to clarify that he didn't stand all the time, like a horse.
  • (2) Hyperimmunization with the tick encephalitis and Western horse encephalomyelitis viruses reproduced in the brain of albino mice, intensified the protein synthesis in the splenic tissue during the productive phase of the immunogenesis (the 7th day).
  • (3) Electron self-exchange has been measured by an NMR technique for horse-heart myoglobin.
  • (4) By adjustment to the swaying movements of the horse, the child feels how to retain straightening alignment, symmetry and balance.
  • (5) Biosyntheses of TXA2 and PGI2 were carried out using arachidonic acid as a substrate and horse platelet and aorta microsomes as sources of TXA2 and PGI2 synthetases respectively.
  • (6) The Sports Network broadcasts live NHL, Nascar, golf and horse racing – having also recently purchased the rights for Formula One – and will show 154 of the 196 games that NBC will cover.
  • (7) Just before Christmas the independent Kerslake report severely criticised Birmingham city council for its dysfunctional politics and, in particular, its handling of the so-called Trojan Horse affair, in which school governors were said to have set out to bring about an Islamic agenda into the curriculum contents and the day-to-day running of some schools.
  • (8) The subjects were divided into 4 ages groups, each comprising 8 horses (4 of each sex).
  • (9) The assay was developed using serum antibodies collected from horses convalescing from strangles.
  • (10) One middle carpal joint of each horse was injected 3 times with 100 mg of 6-alpha-methylprednisolone acetate, at 14-day intervals.
  • (11) Horses in heavy training may require more energy than they can consume on a conventional diet.
  • (12) These melanocytic tumors in young horses are distinct from melanomas in aged horses in their location, epithelial involvement, and age of horses affected.
  • (13) This finding supports the view that their sphincteroid action would be less efficient and that an additional closing mechanism of vascular origin may be required at the ileocaecal papilla of the horse.
  • (14) Report on the results of serological studies on the species Leptospira interrogans in cattle (19,607), swine (6,348), dogs (182) and horses (88) from the Netherlands during the period from 1969 to 1974.
  • (15) When rabbit and horse sera were used instead of human serum for cultivation, in both groups the share of positive cultures increased and more large forms of B. hominis cells were observed.
  • (16) Bacteriologic culturing of fecal samples from 28 clinically normal horses yielded only 2 salmonella isolations, S manhattan in each case.
  • (17) The wide variation in potency explains the variation found in absolute bioavailability, and the increase in release rate when the pellets are crushed explains the differences seen in peak plasma times, since the pellets will be chewed to varying degrees by the horse.
  • (18) Five horses raced successfully and lowered the lifetime race records, 1 horse was sound and trained successfully, but died of colic, and 1 horse was not lame in early training.
  • (19) It’s exhilarating – until you see someone throw a firework at a police horse.
  • (20) Western immunoblot reactivity showed that the antisera collected from these infected horses at 4 to 5 weeks PI recognized some or all of the six major E. risticii component antigens (70, 55, 51, 44, 33, and 28 kilodaltons), all of which were apparent surface components.

Pirouette


Definition:

  • (n.) A whirling or turning on the toes in dancing.
  • (n.) The whirling about of a horse.
  • (v. i.) To perform a pirouette; to whirl, like a dancer.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Craig Forsyth crossed low from left-back for Hughes to time his run late and pirouette into a position from which he deflected the ball home with the inside of his left heel.
  • (2) The pirouette mutation was tested for possible genetic linkage with naked neck, tardy feathering, the MN t(Z;1) chromosome rearrangement, all assigned to distinctly different regions of Chromosome 1, and the OH inv(2) chromosome rearrangement and shankless (associated with the OH inv(2) rearrangement).
  • (3) Despite the withdrawal of the medication, 4 hours later ventricular tachycardia of the "pirouette" type arose that 2-3 minutes later was followed by ventricular fibrillation with clinical death.
  • (4) Similar anticipation by Baines prevented Fellaini scoring a second after a pirouette with the ball in the Everton area, then when Rashford played Valencia in on the overlap with a showy disguised pass, the United player had to delay his cross because not a single red shirt was waiting in the box.
  • (5) This eliminates specific regions of Chromosomes 1 and 2 as possible locations for the pirouette mutation.
  • (6) No one was hurt in the incident and he escapes punishment Receives another red card March 2011 Balotelli apologises to his team-mates after he is sent off during a Europa League tie with Dynamo Kyiv for a reckless challenge on Goran Popov Enrages Mancini with back-heel July 2011 Balotelli is immediately substituted by an enraged Mancini after performing a pirouette and back-heeling a close-range shot wide when clean through on goal in a pre-season friendly against Los Angeles Galaxy Allows firework to be set off in his bathroom October 2011 The Italian has another run-in with the emergency services after a firework is set off in the bathroom of his home, triggering a fire.
  • (7) About 19 seconds after we first saw him, he twisted in a horrible pirouette and collapsed.
  • (8) During a study to determine if any genetic linkage existed between the chicken mutations pirouette and naked neck, it was found that when both traits are expressed simultaneously in an individual, an "automutilation" condition can be created in some cases.
  • (9) Canada’s 20-year-old Eugenie Bouchard was left embarrassed when the male presenter conducting her on-court interview at the Australian Open asked her: “Can you give us a twirl?” When the Wimbledon runner-up replied “A twirl?”, the interviewer, Ian Cohen, told her: “A twirl, like a pirouette, here you go.” Somewhat uncomfortably, the No7-ranked player did as she was asked, then laughed and buried her face in her hands.
  • (10) Connor Wickham continued to make a case for being the division's in-form player with a slick pirouette and cross from the right that went precisely at the Swede.
  • (11) The tremulous head movements of naked neck-pirouette chicks cause scraping of the skin on the neck against the egg shell during hatching, resulting in lacerations of the neck in varying degrees.
  • (12) In 1987, during two great skating contests--the Universiade in the Tatra Mountains and the Gold Pirouette in Zagreb--a total of 42 world class skaters were asked through a questionnaire if they had ever in their career suffered from a stress fracture.
  • (13) It just stares dumbly at you through the screen while its grotesquely undersized "body" pirouettes through a magical world of animals.
  • (14) You go to dance school, you train your arse off for five years, you can do a triple pirouette on your head and land in the splits, and then you come out and someone's like: 'What are your measurements?'"
  • (15) Ruiz got their first and his pirouette left Wilshere tackling thin air.
  • (16) He pirouettes down the left and reaches the byline, his fancy skills forcing the Liverpool defence to stand back.
  • (17) John Kerry's farce and Barack Obama's pirouettes are temporary.
  • (18) Diskerud tries a little pirouette on the ball on the edge of the box, but it doesn't quite come off.

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