(n.) Close-fitting trousers or breeches, as formerly worn, reaching to the knee.
(n.) Covering for the feet and lower part of the legs; a stocking or stockings.
(n.) A flexible pipe, made of leather, India rubber, or other material, and used for conveying fluids, especially water, from a faucet, hydrant, or fire engine.
Example Sentences:
(1) Escherichia coli, Citrobacter freundii and Klebsiella pneumoniae grew after the experimental contamination for many weeks on the rubber hose until the test was finally stopped, in the other pipes and hoses (glass, high-grade steel, PVC, PE, PA, PTFE and silicone) E. coli could be found for maximal 7 weeks, Citrobacter freundii for 1 week and Klebsiella pneumoniae for maximal 3 weeks.
(2) Long breathing hoses should not be used in smaller aircraft since small cabin volume will result in rapid decompression rates and high mask pressure.
(3) The reaction of an unspecific microorganism flora and of Legionella pneumophila in pipes and hoses has been described in the two previous communications.
(4) They – we – had come by bus, plane, train, car and hitch-hiker's thumb to demonstrate to ourselves and a watching world that there was a better, more righteous America than the Birmingham of Bull Connor who had set the dogs and fire hoses on black children.
(5) A spokesman for Pyne then began hosing down the idea by saying it was “not on the current agenda”.
(6) When firefighters arrived to put out the blaze, someone cut through the hose with a knife.
(7) Fracketeering: how capitalism is power-hosing the last drops of value out of us all Read more The source said: “It is incredibly frustrating for the government.
(8) Earlier attempts to cool the reactor by hosing water from fire engines and helicopters left pools of contaminated water and flooded basements, hampering the containment operation and efforts to restart the cooling pumps.
(9) A low dose warfarin prophylaxis combined with anti-embolic hose, elevation of the legs and early ambulation was employed in 415 total hip replacements.
(10) In a 12-year-old boy, air accidentally introduced subconjunctivally from the pointed tip of an air compressor hose, moved to an intracranial position over the sella turcica as demonstrated by x-ray films.
(11) The catheter was inserted and secured into the trachea of 250- to 500-g Sprague-Dawley rats with the adaptor hose of the respirator fitted onto the 15-mm connector following tracheostomy.
(12) The tests were designed to evaluate the performance of monitors as installed on anaesthesia systems under a variety of failure conditions, including endotracheal tube disconnection with and without occlusion of the opening, kinks in the inspiratory and fresh gas hoses, disconnection of the fresh gas hose, leaks in the breathing circuit, excessive high or low pressure in the scavenging circuit, continuing high breathing circuit pressure, and kinks in the circuit pressure sensing hose.
(13) We modified a Bain circuit by placing the circuit into the Y piece of a standard carbon dioxide absorber circle, connecting the fresh gas hose on the anesthetic machine to the Bain's fresh gas inlet, and occluding the circle's fresh gas inlet.
(14) Squirrel monkeys were periodically exposed to brief electric tail shocks in a test environment containing a rubber hose, response lever, and a water spout.
(15) Recommendations to the company included: 1) installation of a warning system or lock-out device on the mixing machine to prevent the opening of the MBOCA hose prior to the release of pressure; and 2) annual medical surveillance of this individual for bladder cancer with urinalysis and urine cytology.
(16) The agent's fragility in water led hospital staff in Syria to uses hoses to drench rooms where they received victims after chemical attacks.
(17) The efficacy of the "hose" as a method of oxygen supplementation in children at low and high risk for developing postoperative hypoxaemia was also compared with the face mask.
(18) Suzanne Moore relaxing in her yurt A friend had said I could recreate the experience of Glastonbury by putting on my garden hose, rolling in mud and listening to bad music.
(19) Earlier attempts to cool the reactor by hosing water from fire engines and helicopters have left pools of contaminated water and flooded basements, hampering the containment operation and efforts to restart the cooling pumps.
(20) While relatives hosed down her yard, inches of mud still coated the floors of her home.
Siamese
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to Siam, its native people, or their language.
(n. sing. & pl.) A native or inhabitant of Siam; pl., the people of Siam.
(n. sing. & pl.) The language of the Siamese.
Example Sentences:
(1) Symmetrical cases (the so-called siamese twins) have an obvious predominance (92.3%).
(2) Bloody odd combination but those Orange Foam Headphones would blast those magnificent records into my developing brain over and over again" chernypyos – Björk's Human Behavior and Sinead O'Connor's Fire On Babylon: "bjork's 'human behavior' and sinead o'connor's "fire on babylon" oddly stick in my head from that one evening walking in the woods, breathing the damp air, and feeling pleasantly invisible" Pyromancer – REM – Automatic for the People Blood Sugar Sex Magic Pearl Jam - Vs RATM's first album Portishead Maxinquaye by Tricky Manic Street Preachers – Gold Against the Soul Smashing Pumpkins, Siamese Dream "I used to go to the local library and take out a CD (50p for 3 weeks!
(3) The Siamese cat is a mutant with abnormally crossed visual pathways, which provides a model for studying the effects of visual deprivation in the absence of binocular competitive interactions.
(4) Male cats (19; 66%) and Siamese cats (5; 21%) appeared to be over-represented in comparison to the hospital's cat population.
(5) The Siamese cat superior colliculus receives an abnormally large projection from the ipsilateral half-field so that units with visual receptive fields which extend as far as 40 degrees into the ipsilateral half-field can be found.
(6) Both the AO and the Siamese cats exhibited a convergent squint.
(7) One of the patterns seen in ferrets is comparable to the 'Midwestern' pattern previously described in Siamese cats, while the other is comparable to the 'Boston' pattern.
(8) In two Siamese cats there were suggestions of an entirely different projection pattern, superimposed upon that described above.
(9) Prevalent cases (n = 22) were more likely than general population controls (n = 76), matched by sex and 10-year age group, to have: lived longer in Key West, been a nurse, ever owned a Siamese cat, had detectable antibody titers to coxsackievirus A2 and poliovirus 2, and ever visited a local military base (Fleming Key).
(10) Ganglion cell density maps of the retinas of Siamese cats show the same major features of ganglion cell distribution as are found in normally pigmented cats, in particular the area centralis and visual streak.
(11) In the visual system of Siamese cats, the lateral geniculate nucleus (LGN) receives an abnormally large projection from the contralateral eye and a correspondingly reduced projection from the ipsilateral eye.
(12) It is proposed that that the dual-track theorem generally and the Siamese-twin configuration (with the Moebius-strip twist) specifically offer a unique and useful paradigmatic perspective that allows us to organize and integrate the characteristics and functions of the brain-mind continuum.
(13) The organization of albino visual cortex is therefore different from the organization of Siamese visual cortex.
(14) They are training with Hasadin, a team of elite rangers formed in June 2015, whose mission is to stop the Siamese rosewood tree from being driven to extinction by poachers.
(15) This comparison indicates that the spatial restriction of the retinocollicular pathway occurs after birth in Siamese cats.
(16) In addition, retinocollicular pathways were studied in Siamese cats which were unilaterally enucleated on the day of birth and in Siamese cats which were reared in a stroboscopically illuminated environment.
(17) Seven forest rangers died in 2015 in relation to violent Siamese rosewood crime, according to the Freeland Foundation , an organisation based in Bangkok working to improve ranger training in Thailand.
(18) Siamese cats are known to be resistant to the effects of monocular eyelid suture.
(19) This possibly represents a significant increase in the incidence of Siamese twinning and may be the result of unknown environmental agents.
(20) A Siamese cat raised with both eyes closed had binocular cells in the regions of 17 and 18 subserving the peripheral visual fields, suggesting that the absence of binocular cells seen in the other Siamese cats was indeed secondary to the squint.7.