(n.) One who lances; one who carries a lance; especially, a member of a mounted body of men armed with lances, attached to the cavalry service of some nations.
(n.) A lancet.
(n.) A set of quadrilles of a certain arrangement.
Example Sentences:
(1) • The Queen's Royal Lancers are to be amalgamated with the 9th and 12th Royal Lancers.
(2) Corporal Matthew Millington, 31, of the Queen's Royal Lancers, was stationed in Iraq in 2005 when he was diagnosed with an incurable condition which left him unable to breathe; he was told that he would die unless he had a lung transplant.
(3) The badge, known as "the motto", is worn by the Queen's Royal Lancers.
(4) The Queen's Royal Lancers emerged from a number of regiments which took part in the Charge of the Light Brigade in the Crimean war, Waterloo, the last great British cavalry charge at Omdurman in Sudan in which a young Lieutenant Winston Churchill led a troop, and Ypres in the first world war.
(5) The present study was undertaken to determine the effects of the primer component of Mono-Lok (Rocky Mountain) and the primer component of Control (Lancer Pacific) on skin.
(6) The English killed our king Llywelyn [who is regarded as the last leader of a united and independent Wales and died at the hand of an English lancer in 1282].
(7) Also examined are two independent studies made of the informational adequacy of the LANCER project documents.
(8) This finding was recorded in all the cases when wound direction was perpendicular to Lancer's lines of the skin area in which the wound was located.
(9) An evaluation of a photoelectric clot timer, the Lancer Coagulyzer, in measuring the one-stage prothrombin time has been carried out.
(10) Flexible fibreoptic rhinolaryngoscopy has been shown to be an accurate, reliable, inexpensive and safe method of examining the upper aero-digestive tract (Lancer and Moir, 1985).
(11) It was joined by a sapphire and silver brooch given by HMS Ocean, a navy helicopter carrier, and a diamante brooch from the Queen’s Royal Lancers.
(12) Four automated coagulation instruments were evaluated for performance of prothrombin time and activated partial thromboplastin time (APTT): the Dade Auto-Fi, General Diagnostics Dual Channel Coag-a-Mate, MLA Electra 600D, and Sherwood Lancer Coagulyzer.
Lanier
Definition:
(n.) A thong of leather; a whip lash.
(n.) A strap used to fasten together parts of armor, to hold the shield by, and the like.
Example Sentences:
(1) "There is no question he would have kept shooting," Lanier said.
(2) Here, Lewis Lanier and colleagues describe recent studies of fetal ontogeny and thymic development that provide support for this hypothesis, and propose an integrated scheme for NK-cell and T-cell development.
(3) Computer philosopher and virtual reality entrepreneur Jaron Lanier, a scheduled speaker at Moogfest, says he polled trans friends when the issue came up.
(4) As far as we know this association in more than one member of the same pedigree has been published only in two papers (Schmidt and Faulborn, 1972; Lanier, McCrary and Justice, 1976).
(5) And Jaron Lanier has made a convincing case for VR's role in personal development.
(6) Jaron Lanier: I'm not the only technical person who thinks this way, but I'm the only one who also writes.
(7) Or Jaron Lanier , who calls him "a genius" but "a product of a narcissistic age".
(8) 'We warned of a vulnerability - but they claimed we were hacking their systems' Lanier said that after finding severe vulnerabilities in an unnamed “embedded device marketed towards children” and reporting them to the manufacturer, he received calls from lawyers threatening him with action.
(9) The threat of a CFAA prosecution forced Lanier and his team to walk away from the research.
(10) To buttress her suspicions, the White Teeth author, born in north-west London, now a professor of fiction at New York University, calls on Jaron Lanier, author of the recent book You Are Not a Gadget .
(11) "There were multiple engagements with the suspect who was ultimately deceased," said Cathy Lanier, chief of police in Washington DC.
(12) Imidazoline-guanidinium-receptive site (IGRS) is a membrane protein that, even if recognized by a series of imidazoline and guanidinium alpha 2-adrenergic compounds, is insensitive to catecholamine and physically distinct from alpha 2 receptors (Parini, A., Coupry, I., Graham, R. M., Uzielli, I., Atlas, D., and Lanier, S. M. (1989) J. Biol.
(13) The web has gone from being what geeks call a client-server model to one dominated by what Lanier calls "siren servers" such as Facebook, which hold billions of internet users in thrall without sharing the wealth that they generate with the people who create that wealth in the first place.
(14) This report describes the use of a word-processing micro-computer, the Lanier Text Editor, for preparation of surgical tissue reports.
(15) "We had tried to work with them and sent them all the details," said Lanier.
(16) Are we supposed to accept this kind of thing?” says Lanier.
(17) One of Lanier's heroes is Ted Nelson, the visionary who invented hypertext and foresaw a world in which everything ever written would be dynamically linked in such a way that humanity could be endlessly creative by combining ideas.
(18) Lanier's been thinking along these lines for a while.
(19) A study of the Flat Creek Embayment of Lake Sidney Lanier near Gainesville, Georgia revealed three genera of algae, Chlorococcum, Fragillaria and Nostoc, to be prominent in this eutrophic region of the lake.
(20) The Lanier LTE-2S required the shortest training period for routine tasks.