(n.) A short piece of rope or line for fastening something in ships; as, the lanyards of the gun ports, of the buoy, and the like; esp., pieces passing through the dead-eyes, and used to extend shrouds, stays, etc.
(n.) A strong cord, about twelve feet long, with an iron hook at one end a handle at the other, used in firing cannon with a friction tube.
Example Sentences:
(1) "In that process I didn't see many blue lanyards, I didn't see many Gatwick people.
(2) The high-pitched squeal of F1 engines and lanyard-wearing, flag-waving fans have melted away in Melbourne to be replaced by what is becoming an annual debate in the Victorian capital – do we really want or need the Australian Grand Prix?
(3) Careful measurements and overlay construction of the wounds relative to the magazine catch, lanyard ring, magazine chamber, and butt of a 32-caliber Eistegui Hermanos fibar (España) automatic pistol led to the conclusion that either the alleged weapon or one identical to it caused the fatal injuries.
(4) Inside are three booths, in each one a lanyarded-up, clipboard-wielding Kiss employee on a stool.
(5) The idea became the focus of many trust board meetings; lanyards and badges with the logo were produced; reminders popped up in clinics, on computer screensavers and trust intranets; chief executives began to blog about the campaign, and it was a frequent topic of conversation at many healthcare conferences.
(6) As I walk in to conference, blue “Conservative Friends of India” lanyard around my neck, I endure the rather novel experience of being called “Fucking Tory scumbag!” As I turn to confront my detractors, one man continues to angrily jab the air, yelling, until he realises he’s only causing collateral damage.
(7) The former chief secretary to the treasury and shadow everything produces her lanyard with dazzling insouciance and continues to fish-dance her way in.
(8) Twitter was briefly awash with speculation that some athletes hid their security pass lanyards bearing the Atos logo as they entered the stadium.
(9) That’s $700 just to walk around conference rooms with a lanyard, pressed khakis and a titanic sense of entitlement to American hegemony.
(10) And who can forget Ed Balls, locked outside Bilderberg, fumbling through an entire suitcase full of papers looking for his lanyard .
(11) The IPC president also defended the involvement of Atos, the IT giant whose name adorns the lanyards of all accredited Games athletes and staff but has been criticised by disability rights campaigners for its involvement in assessing whether benefit claimants are "fit for work".
(12) Ed wasn’t comfortable in his own skin.” On the beach, close to the Metropole, three young women are relaxing in their Girlguiding uniforms and Labour conference lanyards.
(13) At the gates of St George’s hospital in Tooting in south-west London, doctors handed out leaflets, turquoise stickers and lanyards with the caption “one profession”, while some passing motorists beeped in support.
(14) They’ve either got a table reservation or they’re wearing a lanyard.
(15) Keogh was, he pointed out, born at the hospital that was later replaced with the Armadale health campus, where he addressed the media on Tuesday with Plibersek, the WA senator Sue Lines, an assorted crew of lanyard-wearing hospital workers and, briefly, a bus – happily marrying his two of his three campaign platforms of health cuts and public transport investment.
(16) This week we found that even the lanyard set are impressed by the fact that protests and direct action are constraining Donald Trump’s capacity to act.
(17) West’s record label has since pulled the audio, so that particular video now features middle-managers swinging their lanyards to deathly silence.
(18) Thus, for example, the Royal Devon and Exeter NHS Foundation Trust's concern about infections on its wards was unanimously deemed by the judges to qualify its duty to respect nurse Shirley Chaplin's wish to wear religious jewellery, and management's rejected suggestion that she could tie her cross to her staff ID lanyard was an adequate workaround.
(19) ParalympicsGB, was adamant there was no protest: it was windy, and the lanyards had been tucked away to stop them rattling.
(20) Workers will wear lanyards around their necks, fitted with miniature cameras.
Rope
Definition:
(n.) A row or string consisting of a number of things united, as by braiding, twining, etc.; as, a rope of onions.
(n.) A large, stout cord, usually one not less than an inch in circumference, made of strands twisted or braided together. It differs from cord, line, and string, only in its size. See Cordage.
(n.) The small intestines; as, the ropes of birds.
(v. i.) To be formed into rope; to draw out or extend into a filament or thread, as by means of any glutinous or adhesive quality.
(v. t.) To bind, fasten, or tie with a rope or cord; as, to rope a bale of goods.
(v. t.) To connect or fasten together, as a party of mountain climbers, with a rope.
(v. t.) To partition, separate, or divide off, by means of a rope, so as to include or exclude something; as, to rope in, or rope off, a plot of ground; to rope out a crowd.
(v. t.) To lasso (a steer, horse).
(v. t.) To draw, as with a rope; to entice; to inveigle; to decoy; as, to rope in customers or voters.
(v. t.) To prevent from winning (as a horse), by pulling or curbing.
Example Sentences:
(1) Old fishing nets and briny ropes enclose the gardens, and lines of washing flap in the Atlantic breeze.
(2) The blue skipping rope – that’s the key to this race.” My eight-year-old daughter looked at me like I was mad … but when it came time for the year 3 skipping race, she did as she was told – and duly chalked up a glorious personal best in third place.
(3) Right now, with Kabila already 10 years in power and looking immovable, despotism seems to have democracy on the ropes.
(4) The rope suddenly breaks in Götterdämmerung, and that's the end of their role – they can no longer foresee the future because the structured and predictable world of the gods is about to be replaced by the chaos of human existence.
(5) On the contrary, a plant with a THC level below 50 per cent of the cannabinoids and 0.3 per cent of the dried substance, in addition to a low level of total cannabinoids, has low intoxicant potential and can be used in industry for the production of oil and rope.
(6) Look,” taking off her headscarf and exposing her neck, “they strangled me with a rope.
(7) Canelo throws a huge right hook, but it only connects with the ropes as Mayweather dances away.
(8) There are some difficult sections but there are ropes to hold on to, so as long as you're wearing good trekking shoes you should be fine.
(9) Six systems for defining and evaluating disease activity in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) (the Ropes system, the National Institutes of Health [NIH] system, the New York Hospital for Special Surgery system, the British Isles Lupus Assessment Group [BILAG] scale, the University of Toronto SLE Disease Activity Index [SLE-DAI], and the Systemic Lupus Activity Measure [SLAM]) were tested on 25 SLE patients who were selected to represent a range of disease activity.
(10) Treatment of cells with 2,4-D (2.5 mM) or 2,4,5-T (1.25 mM) for 20 h resulted in severe MT aggregation and the appearance of large bundles, which were organized in a rope-like structure in the former and a dramatic octopus-like pattern in the latter.
(11) Canelo is back on the ropes taking a series of Mayweather combinations.
(12) I also present a method for teaching this system to residents that makes use of a piece of cotton or nylon rope, a cotton mop refill, and the end of a garden rake.
(13) 1 Muhammad Ali's 'rope-a-dope' Ali's "rope-a-dope" plan for 1974's Rumble in the Jungle – his fight against unbeaten George Foreman for the world heavyweight title – was one of the riskiest strategies ever seen in boxing.
(14) Despite the fact that the children evidenced as a group high self-concept at the outset, a significant improvement on this measure appeared after the jump-rope regimen.
(15) Five Rhesus Monkeys (Macaca mulatta), a suitable nonhuman model, performed 5 months of rope-climbing exercise.
(16) We drive to the seafront, where two fishermen are toiling to the rear of the beach, turning cogs that wind a rope attached to their boat to tug it in from the sea over wooden planks.
(17) Then the ropes and helmets came out; my first rock-climbing lesson.
(18) Suddenly, we were back in the age of ropes and pulleys and brute strength to deliver her into the hands of the mechanised world.
(19) Seventy-seven flexor tendon lesions in zone I have been reinserted by the "rope down" technique using the Jennings barb-wire.
(20) For seven sweltering rounds, against all prognoses, Ali allowed Foreman, the brutish, one-blow Goliath, actually to punch himself out on his arms, as Ali himself lay on the ropes, head back as if out of a bedroom window to check if the cat was on the roof.