(n.) A discharge pipe with a valve and spout at which water may be drawn from the mains of waterworks; a water plug.
Example Sentences:
(1) A patient with acute Leber's optic neuropathy had a large splinter retinal hemorrhage noted after he had strained to install fire hydrants.
(2) We are seeing a significant rise in the number of referrals each month from the Goddard inquiry, and these allegations relate to abuse in a range of institutions from the church, to schools, the scouts and hospitals.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Simon Bailey, head of the coordinating unit Operation Hydrant.
(3) The report adds that it would then take 10 to 20 minutes to refill from a hydrant depending on the pressure of the hydrant.
(4) Simon Bailey, the head of Operation Hydrant – the nationwide inquiry into historical child sexual abuse – said forces were operating beyond capacity because of the sheer volume of reports.
(5) It's a strong and symbolic image, even without the extended caption that reads: "Sitting on a fire hydrant in New York City , Nick tries to relax from a cramp.
(6) Adults were present at more than 90% of injury scenes, but had no effect on the safety of fire hydrant play.
(7) In government, they have to drink from a fire hydrant of bureaucratic briefing, trying to secure and communicate policy outcomes while working with a public service that naturally wants to compete for the attention of ministers.
(8) She has made a statement to the police, and her allegations against Freud will be passed to Operation Hydrant, the overarching national investigation into “non-recent” child abuse.
(9) We are rising to and meeting the challenge, this is what Operation Hydrant is about.” Bailey said the Hydrant team was working to create a database which would try to ensure that the failures of the past – as identified in the Jimmy Savile case – would not be repeated.
(10) A team from Operation Hydrant is liaising with Justice Goddard to support the independent inquiry into child sexual abuse.
(11) Information that could lead to a prosecution will be funnelled back to Operation Hydrant.
(12) A total of 86 children treated for injuries that occurred while playing in water from fire hydrants are described.
(13) Public education targeting adults to remove glass from the street, insist that children wear footwear, and open only those hydrants that have sprinklers could further reduce injuries to urban children who play in water from fire hydrants.
(14) Apart from Falcao falling over in the act of taking a free kick then hitting the roof of the stand with a shot from near the penalty spot the most fun the crowd had after that was an out of control water hydrant at one corner of the pitch briefly halting play.
(15) You are still getting accustomed to the driving controls and come into frequent contact with jaywalkers, oncoming traffic, street lights, fire hydrants.
(16) Operation Hydrant – the supervisor Operation Hydrant is not an investigation into child abuse but the name given to a coordination hub, led by the National Police Chiefs’ Council (NPCC), to oversee the huge array of inquiries into allegations of child sexual abuse within institutions or by people of public prominence.
(17) Sprinkler attachments on the hydrants were associated with significantly fewer motor vehicle-related injuries (P less than .001) and water pressure-related injuries (P = .02).
(18) Simon Bailey, head of the national coordinating unit Operation Hydrant, said his team was expecting to be given 30,000 reports of new child sexual offences by the end of the Goddard inquiry, and predicted the rate of referrals of allegations of abuse would increase.
(19) George, Chast's father, was terminally anxious, while her mother, Elizabeth – "built like a fire hydrant" and with a personality to match – ruled the home with an iron will.
(20) They had trouble finding homeowners' insurance because the house lies more than a mile from the nearest fire hydrant.
Outlet
Definition:
(n.) The place or opening by which anything is let out; a passage out; an exit; a vent.
(v. t.) To let out; to emit.
Example Sentences:
(1) Steady-state values of cell, glucose, and cellulase concentration oxygen tension, and outlet gas oxygen partial pressure were recorded.
(2) John Lewis’s marketing, advertising and reputation are all built on their promises of good customer services, and it is a large part of what still drives people to their stores despite cheaper online outlets.
(3) In Japan, particularly, there is a feeling that they were built less out of need than as another outlet for the aggressively proactive concrete industry.
(4) The orientation of the dilating balloon in the inlet and outlet portions of the left ventricle, change of the catheter-dilator is controlled due to a loop of the conductor connecting the right and left parts of the heart.
(5) The survey also found that department stores – which include general retailers such as Marks & Spencer as well as traditional outlets such as John Lewis – had enjoyed their strongest surge in sales for 30 years.
(6) Tesco, the UK’s biggest petrol retailer with 499 outlets and more than 16% market share, cut petrol and diesel by 1p a litre at all of its petrol stations from lunchtime on Thursday.
(7) Venous ectasias and varices which can be encountered, associated with DVA constitute an acquired feature in relation to a venous outlet obstacle.
(8) We report on two cases of bladder outlet obstruction caused by massive dilatation of persistent müllerian duct remnants.
(9) The clinical and anatomic findings were reviewed in 17 patients with double-outlet right ventricle and atrioventricular discordance.
(10) His committee had spent only $75,000, which included adverts in media outlets read by members of Congress and their staff.
(11) So, in these patients there was predominantly a left colon dysfunction and the called outlet obstruction syndrome, likely related to their evacuatory habits.
(12) Antral mucosal diaphragm is uncommon, and presents with manifestations of obstruction to the pyloric outlet.
(13) Also last week, Medium said more than a dozen media outlets would start publishing on its site, an arrangement that would have allowed publications whose websites are blocked in China to reach users in the country.
(14) The energy of radiation at the guide outlet being 9 mJ, the resources of fiber work remained at a high level (greater than 10(4) impulses) whereas high velocity of tissue evaporation allowed elimination of an area 3 mm3 in volume during 1 minute, with the rate of impulse repetition amounting to 10 Hz.
(15) Manning on contacting other media outlets Here is Manning describing how he first contacted traditional news outlets about what he found; listen on the player above.
(16) Unlike Saudi Arabia, where consensual phone relationships between men and women are struck up to circumvent the gender segregation in the country, in Egypt these calls are one-sided and predatory – an outlet for lewd and violating language.
(17) The outlet should provide adequate outflow resistance to allow expulsion of urine under voluntary control and at convenient intervals.
(18) The news wasn’t a surprise, exactly: when a newspaper is available in more outlets than it sells copies, the future obviously looks a little cloudy.
(19) By now seemingly every print and online outlet has had a crack at explaining why the Sunday shows are so phenomenally useless.
(20) Officials and almost all media outlets say Morsi's Muslim Brotherhood is a terrorist group that is behind all attacks on the Egyptian state – but have thus far provided no evidence of their involvement.