(n.) A shelf on which articles may be laid; also, that which resembles such a shelf in form or use, as a projecting ridge or part, or a molding or edge in joinery.
(n.) A shelf, ridge, or reef, of rocks.
(n.) A layer or stratum.
(n.) A lode; a limited mass of rock bearing valuable mineral.
(n.) A piece of timber to support the deck, placed athwartship between beams.
Example Sentences:
(1) This bony strut reduces inferomedial displacement of the muscle cone and provides a medial supporting "ledge" in cases requiring late orbital reconstruction.
(2) The continuous ledge will be covered with a cast continuous bar, intended to restore the lingual crown morphology.
(3) The number of two-year sojourns in a hospital and other data are reported on the basis of an evaluation of the signature ledges of the clinical histories in the district Dresden.
(4) In April 2001, he secured the con- viction of Klan member Thomas Blanton for driving the men to the church in the middle of the night to lay a dozen sticks of dynamite on the window ledge.
(5) The ledges of some pleats partly grow toward each other as ring like diaphragms, leaving openings whose boundary is composed of alveolar epithelium separated by a basal lamina from a connective tissue sheath with capillaries.
(6) All the determinants for ledging were not identified with this study, and further research is indicated.
(7) In the outer and middle layers of the spiny deposits, the Ca, P, and Mg concentrations were all significantly higher than those of the ledge-type deposits.
(8) Calculus components of the ledge-type deposits contained crystal types quite similar to sandy grain-shaped hydroxyapatite (HAP), plate-shaped octacalcium phosphate (OCP), and hexahedral Mg-containing whitlockite (WHT).
(9) Geologists sort the waterfalls into two types: wedding-cake falls, which descend in multiple tiers, and bridal-veil falls, that plunge over a ledge into a pool.
(10) Ridge POAMES occurred most frequently, followed by combined, ledge and the nodular exostose types.
(11) The edges of the breaks appear clinically as glassy ridges or ledges and are also called Haab's lines.
(12) 15 had a significantly higher incidence of ledging.
(13) Hypoplasia of the labial enamel of 15 out of 19 teeth from sheep killed after recovery from the infection was classified according to the extent and depth as pits, grooves or larger areas of missing enamel with ledge-formation cervically.
(14) Immature spores in the strain studied had a ledge which disappeared during maturation.
(15) Shaping effectiveness of the tested files was qualitatively evaluated in terms of respect for conservation of the apical constriction and the presence or absence of ledging, specially in the apical third of the root canals.
(16) By following the continental ledge in search of sardines, sardinella, and mackerel, it hopes to catch 3,000 tonnes of fish in a four- to six-week voyage before it offloads them, possibly in Las Palmas in the Canary Islands.
(17) This preliminary study suggests that such a wheelchair feature might improve the safety of wheelchairs in conditions involving inadvertent loss of caster support, as when they drop off a stair or ledge.
(18) A complicated system of low lying slanting, diagonal mucosal ledges forms between the tall longitudinal folds.
(19) Ten of the 107 had small enamel fractures, primarily occurring on cingulum ledges.
(20) Each of the nine objects was placed on a ledge inside a dummy television screen next to the video screen, the food items alternating with the neutral objects, and 20 female patients with anorexia nervosa and 20 female controls matched for age were asked to adjust the size of the video recording to that of the real object.
Sledge
Definition:
(n.) A strong vehicle with low runners or low wheels; or one without wheels or runners, made of plank slightly turned up at one end, used for transporting loads upon the snow, ice, or bare ground; a sled.
(n.) A hurdle on which, formerly, traitors were drawn to the place of execution.
(n.) A sleigh.
(n.) A game at cards; -- called also old sledge, and all fours.
(v. i. & t.) To travel or convey in a sledge or sledges.
(v. t.) A large, heavy hammer, usually wielded with both hands; -- called also sledge hammer.
Example Sentences:
(1) The need for additional postoperative analgesia was seen earliest in the patients who received a knee prosthesis of the sledge type (P less than 0.05).
(2) The mechanical efficiencies (ME) of pure positive and pure negative work as well as of stretch-shortening cycle (SSC) exercise were investigated with a special sledge apparatus.
(3) A series of 271 children, injured in tobogganing and sledging accidents was studied.
(4) With a sledge cryomicrotome, we sectioned 273 lumbar facet joints in 38 adult cadavers and correlated the anatomic appearance of the joints with CT and magnetic resonance (MR) images.
(5) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Watch Sister Sledge perform We Are Family It was fun, but challenging.
(6) Take in the views and then hire a sledge for the journey down the Schlittelweg.
(7) Half of the 27 sledge dogs at the station were found to carry coagulase-positive staphylococci but this did not appear to be of pathological significance to their human handlers.
(8) A consecutive prospective series of 102 knees (90 patients) had unicompartmental knee arthroplasty (St. Georg "sledge") between 1973 and 1979 for gonarthrosis, Stages 2-4.
(9) A child once asked me – and you know that kids ask difficult questions – he asked me, ‘Father, what did God do before he created the world?’” The audience, which included Franklin, Sister Sledge, Mark Wahlberg, the comedian Jim Gaffigan and other warm-up acts, laughed, and the pope continued with a smile.
(10) Most accidents occurred on a slope especially designated for tobogganing and sledging.
(11) First experiences in allo-arthroplastics of the knee with 82 Guepar- and 28 sledge protheses are reported.
(12) Detailed electromyographic (EMG) analysis of primarily triceps brachii muscle was carried out on subjects who performed 100 repeated and exhaustive stretch-shortening cycle (SSC) exercises on a special sledge apparatus incorporating a force plate.
(13) Between November 1985 and January 1986, three men manhauled sledges 875 miles, following Scott's original route to the South Pole.
(14) The fatigue contractions were performed on submaximal levels but the before-after comparison included also maximal "drop jumps" on the sledge as well as falls on to the floor.
(15) 'Kokkinakis banged your girlfriend': Nick Kyrgios sledges Stan Wawrinka Read more On a changeover during the second set of their match at the Rogers Cup in Montreal, Kyrgios told the world No5: “Kokkinakis banged your girlfriend, sorry to tell you that mate.” Wawrinka ignored the insult and withdrew in the third set with a back injury.
(16) The presented scheme of tissue treatment involving standard sledge microtome, acetone, thermostat heat provides 25-35 micron sections.
(17) For the man who has swum through ice and hauled sledges for 1,200km it will surely be a walk in the park.
(18) Over this time, I have completed six expeditions on the Arctic sea ice, sledge-hauling more than 1,500 miles and spending more than 223 days in temperatures well below zero.
(19) He told a story about a day when he was 12 years old, soon after he had lost a leg to bone cancer, when his father took him out sledging.
(20) The ad, which cost about £1m to make, features a young boy and what appears to be a real penguin playing together, going sledging, visiting the park and bouncing on the trampoline to the tune of John Lennon’s Real Love sung by British singer-songwriter Tom Odell, who was used by Burberry in its online Christmas film last year.