(n.) A thong of leather, or a long cord, by which a falconer holds his hawk, or a courser his dog.
(n.) A brace and a half; a tierce; three; three creatures of any kind, especially greyhounds, foxes, bucks, and hares; hence, the number three in general.
(n.) A string with a loop at the end for lifting warp threads, in a loom.
(v. t.) To tie together, or hold, with a leash.
Example Sentences:
(1) The activated matrix (an imidazolyl carbamate) is relatively stable to hydrolysis but smoothly reacts with N-nucleophiles such as those present in either affinity chromatography ligands or leashes, e.g.
(2) Two cases are presented in which radial forearm flaps with a proximal vascular leash are used to cover such defects without the need for microsurgical expertise.
(3) In February, President Barack Obama said drone strikes are "kept on a very tight leash" and "have not caused a huge number of civilian casualties".
(4) ethynyl estradiol), we investigated a series of 17 alpha-substituted estradiol compounds to determine the optimal properties of a leash at this position.
(5) He described them as five bundles of aberrant pyramidal fibres which separate out as leashes from the corticospinal fibres at different levels and each had its territory of bulbar nuclei (like the Reich which is the territory of the German empire of which there were only three).
(6) These findings suggest that the long 'leash' provided by PEO hydrogels may give the heparin more access to the thrombin-antithrombin pair than the tight bond to PVA, and that crowding of heparin units on a surface limits access of the thrombin-antithrombin pair.
(7) The walkers may be the ones with the pockets full of Pedigree Schmackos, barks the subtext, but ultimately it's the walkees who hold the leash.
(8) Thus Singapore’s indigenous capitalists were kept on a short leash.
(9) Two pole-leashes attached to 2 points on the harness gave the handler considerable control over the posture of the monkey, making it easier to teach the monkey to walk with a leash and to climb into its restraint chair or test apparatus.
(10) "And whenever he came out the dressing room he'd be pulling on the leash, tail wagging – let's go, let's get it done."
(11) The sketch show Rubbernecker featured four little-known talents: Robin Ince, Stephen Merchant, Jimmy Carr and Ricky Gervais – familiar, if at all, from Channel 4's 11 O'Clock Show, which also let Sacha Baron Cohen off his leash.
(12) The stationary phase consisted of iminodiacetic acid (IDA) chelate groups, bonded to small particle, wide pore silica gel by means of a polyether hydrophilic leash.
(13) Parliament needs to change the watchdog before it lets the rottweiler off the leash.
(14) Energy efficiency is a no-brainer, as is letting the GIB off the Treasury leash.
(15) A chest harness and pole-leash method to transfer rhesus monkeys (Macaca mulatta) weighing up to 16 kg from home cage to primate restraint chair was designed.
(16) The hope, it seems, is that the outsourcing show will continue, but with better-managed firms on a tighter leash and smaller operators encouraged to enter the market.
(17) "It felt like it was on a leash for years and … we've come off the leash and just responded in that way basically," says one interviewee.
(18) Conditions for the coupling of a range of ligands and leashes have been evaluated.
(19) I think the difficult thing is just having to juggle your career and your spare time with a dog,” she tells me when we meet for our cutesily termed “welcome woof”, a brief rendezvous to check all three of us are happy at the prospect of handing over the leash.
(20) Mundine said the move would “let bigots off the leash”.
Trio
Definition:
(n.) Three, considered collectively; three in company or acting together; a set of three; three united.
(n.) A composition for three parts or three instruments.
(n.) The secondary, or episodical, movement of a minuet or scherzo, as in a sonata or symphony, or of a march, or of various dance forms; -- not limited to three parts or instruments.
Example Sentences:
(1) Additional allotype information is presented for five previously reported South American tribes (Cayapo, Piaroa, Trio, Xavante and Yanomama).
(2) 'Devastated' Peter Greste calls on Egypt's president to pardon trio Read more “It’s ironic that the conviction was for tarnishing Egypt’s reputation when ... this [case] is what’s tarnished Egypt’s image,” Clooney told BBC News.
(3) Social and sexual behaviors were analyzed as a function of trio type (sibling or nonsibling) and fate (survivor or nonsurvivor) across 12-h time blocks.
(4) Fulham were helped by United being forced into a trio of substitutions at the interval, as Rafael succumbed to a twisted ankle, Cleverly had double vision and Evans had back trouble.
(5) The trio were arrested after a brief performance in Moscow's Cathedral of Christ the Saviour of a song calling for the Virgin Mary to "chase Putin out".
(6) We can’t have confidence in a plan that plays fast and loose with global warming and fails to accelerate Europe’s shift to 100% renewable energy.” Wendel Trio, the director of Climate Action Network-Europe, said: “Like all other countries, the EU needs to ensure its policies are coherent with what was agreed in Paris, and needs to substantially increase its targets for 2020, 2030 and 2050.
(7) The report condemns the trio for giving evidence to the committee last month that was "misleading, possibly deliberately".
(8) Deacetylation of the resulting disaccharide derivative, followed by benzylidenation, and condensation with 2,3,4-trio-O-acetyl-alpha-L-rhamnopyranosyl trichloroacetimidate (10) afforded ethyl 4-O-[3-O-allyl-4,6-O-benzylidene-2-O-(2,3,4-trio-O-acetyl- alpha-L-rhamnopyranosyl)-beta-D-galactopyranosyl]-2,3-di-O-benzyl-1-thio - alpha-L-rhamnopyranoside (11).
(9) Dryhurst said the trio were walking in single file out of the arena when the blast struck, breaking Booth’s jaw and her daughter’s legs.
(10) The trio of Glaswegian builders buying me drinks comprised half the audience.
(11) The club would like to thank the trio for their efforts and a further statement will be made in due course.” Luzon’s exit is the fourth managerial change since the Belgian businessman Roland Duchatelet took over the south London club in January 2014.
(12) Croatia will have one of the most creative central midfield trios in the tournament, with Barcelona’s Ivan Rakitic joined by Real Madrid’s Luka Modric and Mateo Kovacic.
(13) So we’ve decided to call it The Grand Tour .” Ex-Top Gear trio Clarkson, Hammond and May to launch DriveTribe website Read more May said he was underwhelmed by the name.
(14) There are strong indications that Episode VII will centre on the key trio of Luke Skywalker, Princess Leia and Han Solo, played by original stars Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher and Harrison Ford.
(15) They sound like a trio of preppy clothing companies, but in fact they are some of the most powerful players in world finance.
(16) A bill that would allow Congress to review the Obama administration’s nuclear deal with Iran has fallen victim to presidential politics, as a trio of Republican senators seeking the White House have seized on the debate as a messaging opportunity for their foreign policy agendas.
(17) The trio reached an out-of-court settlement with WPP last week and issued a carefully worded public apology over the matter.
(18) The trio have filed appeals, but with no new court date set, Omara says she and Fahmy can no longer wait.
(19) The trio at the top – Lord Stevenson, the bank's chairman "from its birth to its death" and successive chief executives Sir James Crosby and Andy Hornby – were roundly blamed for the colossal failures that led to its collapse.
(20) The n-dimensional duo-trio method model is given in this paper and previous work on the triangular method is reviewed briefly.