(n.) A sort of light spear, to be thrown or cast by thew hand; anciently, a weapon of war used by horsemen and foot soldiers; now used chiefly in hunting the wild boar and other fierce game.
(v. t.) To pierce with a javelin.
Example Sentences:
(1) "Then came the javelin and I threw a personal best.
(2) Echocardiographic studies and radiological measurements of heart volume were performed in 30 female track athletes, 17 female shot-putters or javelin throwers, 12 nonathletic women and 8 female patients with arterial hypertension.
(3) Since the new javelin introduced in 1986 requires a greater explosive force, a tendency to an increased incidence of these alterations must be reckoned with in the future.
(4) Szczesny was also an athlete – he excelled at the javelin – but football gradually took over.
(5) There was more encouraging news for Britain with the 17-year-old Morgan Lake finishing in 17th place having also set a personal best in the javelin as she broke the 6,000 points mark with 6,081.
(6) Likely to go head to head with the London 2012 gold medallist Jessica Ennis-Hill at the world championships in Beijing in August, as well as at next year’s Olympics, Johnson-Thompson easily tops 1,000 points in five of her events but she struggles in the javelin and the shot.
(7) The shot and javelin are the clear weak points in my heptathlon so when Barrie thought of it [teaming up with Sayers] and brought it to me, it felt a stroke of genius for sure,” says Johnson-Thompson, who will compete in the British indoor championships in Sheffield this weekend and then the Birmingham indoor grand prix.
(8) After consoling a dejected Johnson-Thompson, who finished her heptathlon with a slow trudge round the 800m, Ennis-Hill refocused for a javelin competition that she knew could all but secure victory.
(9) And her achievement in winning with a total of 6,669 points following consistently impressive results in the long jump, javelin and 800m on Sunday was in some ways greater than that era-defining exercise in managing pressure three years ago.
(10) I try to mentally prepare for the javelin like I do all the other events, but you can’t help but have it in the back of your head that you are going to lose points.
(11) Consideration is also given to the effects of wind velocity, air density, javelin weight and the flutter and spin of the javelin on its flight.
(12) The incidence of spondylolysis is unusually high in ballet dancers and certain athletic groups, such as gymnasts, javelin throwers, and weight-lifters.
(13) If the news is confirmed, it would lead to Goldie Sayers, the British javelin record holder , and the British men’s 4x400m relay team, who both finished fourth in Beijing, belatedly being awarded bronze medals .
(14) "The big thing last year was getting ready for and then delivering an excellent Olympics because the Javelin service travelled over our line," says Shaw.
(15) Some of my events have been pretty poor or pretty standard but if I can go and get some proper training in there’s a lot more to come.” Ennis-Hill started day two in third place, behind Theisen-Eaton and the Dutch athlete Dafne Schippers, but after a moderate long jump of 6.16m and a javelin of 42.60m – both way below her best – she had slipped to fifth.
(16) Three different forms of enthesopathy involved the arm, principally the elbow, and may be tentatively correlated with javelin throwing, wood cutting, and archery.
(17) Among the names it mentioned were Mariya Abakumova, the javelin silver medallist, and Denis Alekseyev, who anchored Russia’s 4x400m team to bronze.
(18) The trouble with more effective weapons, such as the UK's Javelin, is that they need extensive training by experienced soldiers to be useful.
(19) I’ve got a great long jump and then I go into the javelin and everyone catches up, gains points or goes ahead of me and then I have to run my heart out in the 800m.” Improving her javelin would give her a mental edge too, she believes.
(20) In this paper, the scientific literature and that on the sports sciences relevant to javelin throwing is critically reviewed.
Jereed
Definition:
(n.) A blunt javelin used by the people of the Levant, especially in mock fights.
Example Sentences:
(1) As Jere Longman would write in the New York Times: “In a country where it is considered valorous to pass up the annual vacation for more work, Hiddink seemed to be having too much fun.” But the manager was not the only one enjoying himself after the World Cup had begun.
(2) We report two cases of acute renal failure that followed the ingestion of jering.
(3) Features of jering poisoning included clinical presentation of bilateral loin pain, fever, nausea, vomiting, oligo-anuria, haematuria and passage of sandy particles in the urine.
(4) Wilson and Jered Weaver are steady, but after that it’s hit or miss.
(5) Mike Trout's minuscule-sophomore slump (by his standards) was just that; pitching was more problematic – they lost Jered Weaver for close to 10 starts and put up a staff ERA that's anything but titleworthy.
(6) See the full version here Photograph: Katharine Duncan ReGina Jane Jere, who travels frequently between Africa and her home in London, said she had noticed little discernible difference during her arrival (video) – apart from the presence of a sign.
(7) I wasn’t asked where I had come from,” said Jere, who had travelled from Gambia via Dakar and Brussels.
(8) Jere Miles, deputy special agent in charge of ICE’s homeland security investigations in Los Angeles, said lowering the amount of cash a business can receive without reporting the transaction to authorities will make it tougher to disguise suspicious transactions from banks and investigators.
(9) Facebook Twitter Pinterest ReGina Jane Jere tells Ben Quinn about her Ebola screening experiences at Heathrow and in Gambia “I travelled to [the capital of Gambia] Banjul on Friday and as I walked into the airport terminal everyone was actually screened and somehow I felt really quite comfortable that I was screened and I was going into a country that was doing that.
(10) Another Missouri legislator, Jered Taylor, has introduced an alternative piece of more moderate gun rights legislation.
(11) In two days we were able to watch RA Dickey , David Price , Clayton Kershaw , Matt Cain , Justin Verlander , CC Sabathia , Stephen Strasburg , Félix Hernández , Cole Hamels , Jered Weaver , Johnny Cueto , Adam Wainwright and Chris Sale ( Yu Darvish didn't open up for Texas but he did pretty well , more on that below).
(12) For the area around Jere Local Government Area, they equally farm Irish potatoes which is a common delicacy in Borno even in the markets of the insurgents in the Sambisa.