(n.) A variety of lignite, of a very compact texture and velvet black color, susceptible of a good polish, and often wrought into mourning jewelry, toys, buttons, etc. Formerly called also black amber.
(n.) A shooting forth; a spouting; a spurt; a sudden rush or gush, as of water from a pipe, or of flame from an orifice; also, that which issues in a jet.
(n.) Drift; scope; range, as of an argument.
(n.) The sprue of a type, which is broken from it when the type is cold.
(v. i.) To strut; to walk with a lofty or haughty gait; to be insolent; to obtrude.
(v. i.) To jerk; to jolt; to be shaken.
(v. i.) To shoot forward or out; to project; to jut out.
(v. t.) To spout; to emit in a stream or jet.
Example Sentences:
(1) Pentamidine aerosol was administered with an MA2 jet nebulizer.
(2) A neodymium YAG (Nd:YAG) laser was evaluated in a dog ulcer model used in the same manner as is recommended for bleeding patients (power 55 W, divergence angle 4 degrees, with CO2 gas-jet assistance).
(3) It was found that there was a substantial increase in mortality rates in the area under the jets where there was large noise radiation.
(4) Fleeting though it may have been (he jetted off to New York this morning and is due in Toronto on Saturday), there was a poignant reason for his appearance: he was here to play a tribute set to Frankie Knuckles, the Godfather of house and one of Morales's closest friends, who died suddenly in March.
(5) Kiev said the jets were downed by a missile launched from Russian territory , and that the pilots had parachuted out.
(6) It's been a busy free-agency period for the Eagles, with Michael Vick going to the New York Jets and Mark Sanchez moving in the opposite direction .
(7) In all cases, the maximal velocity of the tricuspid regurgitation jet was measured by continuous wave Doppler ultrasound and the systolic pressure gradient between right ventricle and the right atrium was calculated by the modified Bernoulli equation.
(8) High-frequency two-way jet ventilation was achieved by adding reverse jet pulses inside the trachea through an intratracheal reverse jet system to the expiratory phase of common high-frequency jet ventilation.
(9) He knew how to shmooze Middle East clients and his al-Yamamah deal - under which jets were sold to Saudi Arabia - was the mid-1980s contract which secured his later position as executive chairman at BAE Systems .
(10) Angiographic features felt to indicate valve tearing were present following 17 of 25 procedures and included increased excursion or straightening of leaflets, localized change in leaflet motion (flail leaflet), and the presence of an additional contrast jet through the valve.
(11) The spatial distribution of simulated regurgitant jets imaged by Doppler color flow mapping was evaluated under constant flow and pulsatile flow conditions.
(12) Both intraobserver and interobserver correlations were excellent for mitral regurgitant jet areas (r = 0.97 and r = 0.93, respectively).
(13) Correlation of all Doppler color flow measurements with angiographic grades of mitral regurgitation were comparable, maximal jet area being closest at r = 0.76.
(14) The design of motor cycle helmets has been changing over the years and at the present time there are two basic types in popular use: "full-face" and "jet" helmets.
(15) He says that two dozen Delta Force commandos, Black Hawk helicopters, drones and fighter jets were involved in the rescue, adding “but we weren’t there”.
(16) But 30 minutes before takeoff on our private jet – like a top-end Lexus limo with wings – actress Rosamund Pike has heroically stepped in for the year's hot meal ticket: an El Bulli supper, pitch perfect for a selection of rare champagne, devised by Adrià with Richard Geoffroy, Dom Pérignon's effervescent chef de cave.
(17) The main damage mechanisms are plasma formation and expansion, emission of acoustic transients, and cavitation with jet formation.
(18) The 777 has enjoyed one of the safest records of any jetliner built.” Besides last year’s Asiana crash, the only other serious incident with the 777 came in January 2008 when a British Airways jet landed 305 metres short of the runway at London’s Heathrow airport.
(19) The researcher is completing a PhD on the superyacht scene and says the vessels are unique among prestige assets: unlike private jets they are not a useful mode of transport; unlike art and property, they always depreciate in value.
(20) IDC high-frequency jet ventilation and high-frequency, conventional mechanical ventilation produced nearly identical histologic injuries.
Spurt
Definition:
(v. i.) To gush or issue suddenly or violently out in a stream, as liquor from a cask; to rush from a confined place in a small stream or jet; to spirt.
(v. t.) To throw out, as a liquid, in a stream or jet; to drive or force out with violence, as a liquid from a pipe or small orifice; as, to spurt water from the mouth.
(n.) A sudden and energetic effort, as in an emergency; an increased exertion for a brief space.
(v. i.) To make a sudden and violent exertion, as in an emergency.
Example Sentences:
(1) During the second month, a variable spurt of growth occurs in the genu, followed by a similar period of rapid growth in the splenium between 4-6 months of age.
(2) [2-3H]Mannose incorporation into cerebellar glycoproteins was greater in malnourished rats during the period of brain growth spurt than in normally fed rats at all ages studied.
(3) The development of signs of puberty and a growth spurt appearing at this late age clearly show the potential for maturation and growth once malnutrition is corrected.
(4) Of 193 patients suffering from peptic ulcer bleeding identified by emergency gastrointestinoscopy, 52 patients were found to have bleeding gastric ulcer (spurt 5, active oozing 9, fresh clot 11, black clot 17, protruding vessel 4, and clear base without stigmata 6); the other 141 had bleeding duodenal ulcer (spurt 5, active oozing 26, fresh clot 43, black clot 23, protruding vessel 15, and clear base without stigmata 31).
(5) In addition, 5 children had GH deficiency so that their growth spurt was blunted and 3 of them were left with an extremely short stature.
(6) Once the growth spurt is over the condition subsides but the results of impaired growth or permanent pelvic deformity will not necessarily be eradicated.
(7) There was blood everywhere … blood was spurting out.
(8) Those children who were in early puberty when GH treatment started went into a rapid growth spurt and have now stopped growing.
(9) The gradual increase in blood pressure for large groups of adolescents would appear to be the result of the aggregate increase in size (weight) resulting from the asynchronous growth spurts of individuals studied.
(10) Whether Philip Hammond is soft snow or a spurting cuttlefish is difficult to say.
(11) Parameters characterizing the growth process, such as peak height velocity (PHV), age at PHV, and age at onset of the pubertal growth spurt (PGS), were calculated directly from the estimated curves.
(12) The patients showed a normal pubertal growth spurt which was, in general, insufficient to restore the growth retardation already established before adolescence.
(13) The results indicate that: (1) The so called adolescent spurt is not well defined among Bod highlanders.
(14) A spurt of corticosteroids was necessary to obtain apyrexia for the patients who had presented multiple auto-immune disorders and a resistance to the classical therapy.
(15) But like them it is at a peak during the prepubertal spurt of growth.
(16) Kyphotic curves tend to progress after the adolescent growth spurt while scoliotic curves do not.
(17) Women who reported sensitive area orgasms were also more likely to report a spurt of fluid at moment of orgasm.
(18) In his dreamlike view of the world, bits of buildings are liberated to take on their own lives and attempt unexpected feats: floors can shift and windows can hover – and now, it seems, planes can spurt out shimmering aluminium vapour trails.
(19) Gonadal steroids influence the skeletal growth and metabolism both during the pubertal growth spurt and in adulthood with aging.
(20) The growth curves for the testes, epididymides and body weight were similar and exhibited a spurt between the ages of 150 and 180 days.