(n.) A metallic vessel, with a wide mouth, often without a cover, used for heating and boiling water or other liguids.
Example Sentences:
(1) The previous year, he claimed £1,415 for two new sofas, made two separate claims of £230 and £108 for new bed linen, charged £86 for a new kettle and kitchen utensils and made two separate claims, of £65 and £186, for replacement glasses and crockery.
(2) :-D "Apparently there were 11-12 year olds still being held in the kettle when they finally let Kathy (15) out.
(3) Others will point out that this is a case of pot calling kettle black as Wolff is himself a famous peddler of tittle-tattle – the aggregator website that he cofounded, Newser, even has a section called "Gossip".
(4) Austin said: "Since the House of Lords judgment, the police have increased their use of the tactic of kettling, with disastrous consequences for the right to peaceful protest and the safety of protesters.
(5) The water aerosol inhalation therapy was prescribed for respiratory tract infection and carried out at home using either an electric kettle or a saucepan.
(6) And that’s just how Theresa May likes it | Martin Kettle Read more Russia was the guarantor of a 2013 deal under which Syria would remove all chemical weapons.
(7) Dismore questioned the tactic of containing schoolchildren within a "kettle", an area enclosed by police, and said Stephenson should resist using language that could inflame unrest.
(8) I have to be careful handling things like boiling kettles."
(9) The Met denied it had intended to kettle protesters, despite evidence of metal barriers and rows of officers waiting along Whitehall.
(10) "Today's nationalist focus is all about defending the sense – and to some extent the reality – that Scotland is the last bastion of the 1945 welfare state nation," my colleague Martin Kettle says in the Guardian today.
(11) 7.56pm: This just in from Matthew Taylor: Matthew Taylor Photograph: Guardian Apparently, students in Whitehall told they could be kettled until midnight.
(12) The poll was taken up in the Guardian by Martin Kettle on Thursday.
(13) The most popular items bought online were TV and audio equipment, laptops and games items, but customers also snapped up domestic appliances such as kettles, fryers, slow cookers, toasters and vacuum cleaners.
(14) 3.36pm: Tom Chambers has sent this photo, taken by Simon Richardson, of the police van that was stranded in the middle of the kettle of protesters in central London.
(15) They have not increased our security at home – rather the opposite – and they have caused destabilisation and devastation abroad.” The problem with Labour’s manifesto isn’t the ideas, it’s the credibility | Martin Kettle Read more The former cabinet minister Peter Hain, who served in the Foreign Office with Cook, said he backed the foreign policy rethink in the draft manifesto, especially policies on arms sales.
(16) The simultaneous sound of kettles boiling and computers booting herald the start of the day.
(17) She never fills the kettle with any more than she needs, long ago turned down the washing machine cycle from 60C to 30C, and the whole family have switched from baths to showers, so using less water.
(18) Speaking at New Scotland Yard today, where protesters were expected to attempt to "kettle" police later, he said the inquiry could take months to complete.
(19) The Delabole windfarm marked its 25th anniversary in December, having produced enough power to boil 3.4bn kettles since the blades began spinning.
(20) On a wooden table, a metal kettle stood surrounded by rags and pamphlets.
Tympani
Definition:
(pl. ) of Tympano
Example Sentences:
(1) The lengths and heights of the scalae tympani in ten pairs of serially sectioned temporal bones were measured by an adaptation of the serial section method of cochlear reconstruction.
(2) With the aid of analysis of afferent impulse activity in the cat chorda tympani, it was shown that the effect of application of organic acids solutions of the same pH to the tongue could be represented as follows: propionic acid greater than lactic acid greater than pyruvic acid.
(3) The threshold functions differ from those observed in patients with scala tympani electrodes, primarily at low sinusoidal frequencies and long pulse widths.
(4) At the same time the data are obtained on variations in topography of the chorda tympani at various form of the intratemporal fossa.
(5) One group of rats was tested both before and after bilateral removal of the chorda tympani.
(6) Each mastoid and epitympanum was extensively involved with chronically inflamed tissue which surrounded the ossicles and chorda tympani nerve.
(7) Both chorda tympani of these and 4 control mice were later excised.
(8) The electrodes can be implanted in bundles through the round window or into the modiolus; they can, however, also be introduced individually through several drill holes in the promontory for placement in the scala tympani and vestibuli.
(9) In this respect, round-window and scala tympani stimulation sites are equally efficacious.
(10) Click evoked electromyographic (EMG) recordings were made from the contralateral tensor tympani muscle of anaesthetised mice.
(11) It was hypothesized that abnormal signals mediated by the chorda tympani nerve (CT) could be causally involved in NaCl avoidance by F344 rats.
(12) Ciliated and secretory cells were concentrated around the Eustachian tube orifice; additionally, ciliated cells were seen in two distinct bands extending posteriorly below the cochlea in the hypotympanum and above the cochlea toward the tensor tympani muscle.
(13) It is the purpose of this study to attempt a correlation of function, by electromyographic means, of the tensor tympani and tensor veli palatini muscles in humans.
(14) Taste sensitivity of preweanling mice was studied by examining responses of the chorda tympani (CT) and glossopharyngeal (GL) nerves to various taste stimuli, and was compared to that of adult mice.
(15) Beta-adrenergic blocking drugs reduced or abolished the hyperaemia of isoproterenol and reduced that of chorda tympani nerve stimulation.
(16) Only the scala tympani compartment of the basal cochlear turn remained patent.
(17) The results suggest that under physiological conditions the CSF also flows through the cochleae aqueduct and the protein concentration in the Scala tympani decreases especially in the basal winding.
(18) To determine whether changes in salt and sugar responses occur during development in the hamster, multifiber responses were recorded from the chorda tympani nerve while stimulating the anterior tongue of preweanling, early postweanling, and adult hamsters.
(19) Because there are a lot of contradictory opinions in the literature we investigated the intra- and extraosseous pathway of the Chorda tympani by dissecting the heads of 6 cadavers.
(20) The electrical activity in the chorda tympani proper nerve of two of the monkeys was recorded during the application to the tongues of 0.02% monellin and thaumatin, 0.5% miraculin and stimuli representing the four taste qualities.