(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.
Thong
Definition:
(n.) A strap of leather; especially, one used for fastening anything.
Example Sentences:
(1) The guy walking [by me] had on nothing more than a thong and a pair of platform snakeskin boots.
(2) Fifty percent of Pong Nam Ron children had antiHAV antibodies at the age of 8-9 years and at the age of 12-13 years of Bo Thong children.
(3) Forty-two percent of the population at Pong Nam Ron and fifteen percent at Bo Thong went to drug-stores or groceries when they developed minor illness, while 85.2% of the subjects interviewed at Bo Thong went to the local health center.
(4) Certainly, Gagaʼs thong flash seemed mild in comparison to Cyrusʼ over the top follow up act, but it was still a totally gratuitous bit of self exploitation in an otherwise interesting and well put together number.
(5) As he ambles into the small interview room at Munich’s Säbener Strasse in a plain black T-shirt and trainers, Alaba is unassuming to the point of being shy, a little at odds with his reputation as a social-media prankster – his oeuvre contains a series of shots of the midfielder Franck Ribéry dozing and a nearly-nude double-selfie with his former team-mate Mitchell Weiser, in thongs – and as a typically Viennese lausbub (rascal) who once told the club’s former president Uli Hoeness that he had to “think about” an allegation by a concerned member of the public that he was painting the town red with Ribéry in Munich.
(6) The two layers of subunits are held together largely by the apolar COOH terminus, a helical thong, which inserts into a hydrophobic pocket formed by two neighboring subunits on the opposite ring.
(7) Rihanna has treated her fans to Instagrammed selfies of her enjoying the view at a strip club, of her buttocks barely concealed by a tiny denim thong and of her posing with two oversize cannabis joints while in Amsterdam.
(8) Facebook Twitter Pinterest When Minaj released the artwork for her Anaconda single – a striking image of a squatting Minaj in a hot pink thong, squatting on the floor with her ample backside facing the camera – she did so with a message.
(9) The girls favour bikinis the size of Dairylea triangles with thongs that could cut their own slice of cheese, while boys see no shame in skimpy white briefs that look like they were bought from Versace Junior.
(10) splashed across the chest – and has outraged people for selling thongs for children with "wink wink" printed on the front, and last year for selling "push-up" (its description) bikini tops for girls as young as seven .
(11) One of the Sábado Gigante’s best-known segments, for instance, is Miss Colita (roughly translated, it means Miss Ass); a pageant in which women parade around the stage in thongs while Don Francisco comments and audience members vote for their favorite buttocks.
(12) While 10 years ago the stockings, the tincy thongs, the half-cup bras were only available here, in the past decade Agent Provocateur's kink has gone mainstream – this year high-street chain Peacocks reports sales of "sexy lingerie" increasing by 73% on last year.
(13) A cross-sectional descriptive survey was conducted among 253 local inhabitants during the beginning of the transmission season in July 1989 at Bo Thong District, Chonburi Province, Eastern Thailand where malaria transmission was likely to be moderately high.
(14) She shook everyone's hand ("That's new," remarked the lighting producer, sotto voce), gave me a selfie and then said to her people, "Do we have a thong?"
(15) Plus: moving on Argentina: Playboy model Cinthia Fernández – ex-partner of San Lorenzo's Jonathan Ferrari, Racing's Iván Pillud and self-styled "Queen of Thongs" – says having twins with Huracán's Matías Defederico will change her.
(16) Jackie St Clair was dressed in a tiny thong and high heels, Sinitta undid her top, and Cowell smoked and watched as the two women wrapped themselves around him and fondled his crotch.
(17) A high resonance frequence in thong-minded trained was not observed, only one time a normal, 63 times a reduced arterial resonance frequence.
(18) Ninety-four percent of the subjects interviewed at Bo Thong and eighty-seven percent at Pong Nam Ron gave a history of having used ya-chud in the past.
(19) Ryan Shapiro, CEO of JPay, drawn by prisoner Thong Vahn Louangrath.
(20) Like the original one-step Hypaque-Ficoll procedure (Ferrante and Thong, 1978), a single centrifugation at 500 X g for 30 min resulted in the formation of two distinct leukocyte fractions.