(n.) A game of ball, originating among the North American Indians, now the popular field sport of Canada, and played also in England and the United States. Each player carries a long-handled racket, called a "crosse". The ball is not handled but caught with the crosse and carried on it, or tossed from it, the object being to carry it or throw it through one of the goals placed at opposite ends of the field.
Example Sentences:
(1) Women's lacrosse is potentially hazardous because, unlike men's lacrosse, helmets and face masks are not required.
(2) On Monday it issued a recall for another 3.36m cars including Chevrolet Impala, Cadillac Deville and Buick Lacrosse for an ignition issue that can lead to power steering and power braking being turned off while the car is being driven.
(3) As part of a continuing investigation on the ecology of LaCrosse virus in Wisconsin, field and laboratory studies were conducted to explore the possibility that the virus is transmitted transovarially in A. triseriatus mosquitoes.
(4) I was in my second season as the head women’s lacrosse coach at Drew University, and there was a game on the spring 2014 schedule that I dreaded: the University of Scranton.
(5) Few children will experience hockey, netball, lacrosse, rugby or trampolining without it.
(6) Aedes triseriatus mosquitoes became dually infected after ingesting two mutants of LaCrosse (LAC) virus simultaneously or after ingesting, by interrupted feeding, the two viruses sequentially within a 2-day period.
(7) Clavicular fractures and acromioclavicular joint dislocations occur frequently in high school lacrosse players.
(8) Disruption of the medial supporting structures of the knee occurs commonly in contact sports such as American football and lacrosse.
(9) Should a LaCrosse virus variant or reassortant evolve that was efficiently vectored by Ae.
(10) The purpose of this article is to document one case of a finger fracture and another of a nasal fracture caused by an impact injury from lacrosse sticks in women field-lacrosse players.
(11) The development of this injury is attributed to a defect in the design of the lacrosse chest protector.
(12) Some other infectious diseases such as LaCrosse encephalitis and Lyme disease are caused by agents closely dependent on the integrity of their environment.
(13) LaCrosse virus was recovered from F1 eggs, larvae, and adults that originated from the infected parent mosquitoes.
(14) Ann Thornber said that her son was a keen lacrosse player and he believed that a criminal conviction would destroy his life chances.
(15) It is seen almost exclusively in adolescentes or young adults engaged in active sports, notably basketball, but also football, lacrosse, tennis, and so forth.
(16) MANOVA analysis revealed that bracing did not significantly affect the performance of football players (males) but did inhibit the overall performance of lacrosse players (females) (P less than 0.05).
(17) His columns for The Chronicle range in subject from multiculturalism (which he calls “ segregation ”); to paid family leave (which results in men “getting laid off because [their] boss was losing too much money by paying absent employees ”); to the Duke lacrosse scandal (“a large number of people – instead of rejoicing at our peers’ innocence – will insist it is a conspiracy of white privilege ”).
(18) It is anticipated that when women midshipmen begin to participate in the same vigorous sports as men, e.g., soccer, lacrosse, and others, that injuries will increase.
(19) It’s like shutting down the Australian cricket team, saying we need a lacrosse team, and spending three decades investing in that.” He said several key capabilities will be lost from the country and the world.
(20) An immunoglobulin M (IgM) antibody capture enzyme immunoassay (MAC-EIA) was developed for the rapid and early diagnosis of LaCrosse (LAC) virus infections.
Net
Definition:
(v. t.) To make into a net; to make n the style of network; as, to net silk.
(v. t.) To take in a net; to capture by stratagem or wile.
(v. t.) To inclose or cover with a net; as, to net a tree.
(v. i.) To form network or netting; to knit.
(a.) Without spot; pure; shining.
(a.) Free from extraneous substances; pure; unadulterated; neat; as, net wine, etc.
(a.) Not including superfluous, incidental, or foreign matter, as boxes, coverings, wraps, etc.; free from charges, deductions, etc; as, net profit; net income; net weight, etc.
(v. t.) To produce or gain as clear profit; as, he netted a thousand dollars by the operation.
Example Sentences:
(1) Manometric studies with resting cells obtained by growth on each of these sulfur sources yielded net oxygen uptake for all substrates except sulfite and dithionate.
(2) M NET is currently installed in referring physician office sites across the state, with additional physician sites identified and program enhancements under development.
(3) External exposures to a contaminated fishing net and fishing boat are considered pathways for fishermen.
(4) If tracer is introduced into the carotid artery after osmotic treatment, brain uptake is increased by a net factor of 50 (a factor of 70 due to elevation of PA, multiplied by 7 due to infusion by the carotid route) as compared to uptake by normal, untreated brain with infusion into a peripheral vein.
(5) Short incubations with heparin (5 min) caused a release of the enzyme into the media, while longer incubations caused a 2-8-fold increase in net lipoprotein lipase secretion which was maximal after 2-16 h depending on cell type, and persisted for 24 h. The effect of heparin was dose-dependent and specific (it was not duplicated by other glycosaminoglycans).
(6) Only those derivatives with a free amino group and net positive charge in the side chain were effective.
(7) When labelled long-chain fatty acids or glycerol were infused into the lactating goat, there was extensive transfer of radioactivity into milk in spite of the absence of net uptake of substrate by the mammary gland.
(8) PYY inhibited the reduction in net absorption of sodium chloride and water evoked by vasoactive intestinal peptide (VIP), but did not affect the VIP-evoked increase in net potassium secretion.
(9) A relative net reduction of 47% in lactose malabsorption was produced by adding food, and the peak-rise in breath H2 was delayed by 2 hours.
(10) In assessing damaged nets and curtains it must be recognised that anything less than the best vector control may have no appreciable impact on holoendemic malaria.
(11) No net hepatic uptake of glucose was observed before or after feeding.
(12) This force will be numerically similar to the net driving Starling force in small pores, but distinctly different in large pores.
(13) Increased amino acid incorporation into hepatic proteins in tumor-bearing animals and also probably in cancer patients is due to a net increased hepatic protein synthesis, probably not confined to acute-phase reactants only.
(14) In this study, protein efficiency ratio and net protein utilization together with the kinetic estimates of protein turnover were used to compare the effect of different protein and fat sources in healthy rats.
(15) Meanwhile the Brooklyn Nets, who have been dealing with nothing but bad news since the start of the regular season, will be without Paul Pierce for 2-4 weeks, also due to a right hand fracture.
(16) In the postprandial state net acid (4.9%) and sulfate (2.2%) had much less importance as determinants of calciuria.
(17) Proper maintenance of body orientation was defined to be achieved if the net angular displacement of the head-and-trunk segment was zero during the flight phase of the long jump.
(18) The authors tested their own technique, using transplants or implants of corium, fascia, dura mater and polyester net, internally in the tendons, fastening them with an external cross suture.
(19) These studies indicate that, in three models of acute liver injury, the net influx of calcium across the plasma membrane is increased early in the evolution of the injury before irreversible damage occurs.
(20) A state of net secretory fluid flux was induced in isolated jejunal loops in weanling pigs by adding theophylline or cholera toxin to the lumen of the isolated loops.