(n.) The detachable fore part of a gun carriage, consisting of two wheels, an axle, and a shaft to which the horses are attached. On top is an ammunition box upon which the cannoneers sit.
(n.) Gutters or conduits on each side of the keelson to afford a passage for water to the pump well.
(v. t.) To attach to the limber; as, to limber a gun.
(a.) Easily bent; flexible; pliant; yielding.
(v. t.) To cause to become limber; to make flexible or pliant.
Example Sentences:
(1) Carriers of the other defect genes have no advantage for milk production, are scored lower for pelvic angle, and limber leg carriers have more desirable udders.
(2) The New York Times opened a report from London thus: "While the world's athletes limber up in the Olympic Park, Londoners are practising some of their own favourite sports: complaining, expecting the worst and cursing the authorities."
(3) Of the two schedules the first one (without a preliminary "limbering" rotation) was more favourable.
(4) Left to its own devices, the world is still planning to spend the next decade or two mostly limbering up, engaging in the kind of impressive-looking stretching that runners enjoy at the start line.
(5) There are rumours that this production of Company is limbering up to transfer to the West End.
(6) LIVE ON BIG WEBSITE LATER Transfer-deadline-day-short-straw-puller Rob Bagchi is limbering up as we type, with – and we kid you not – a computer keyboard and computer mouse in front of him.
(7) In a centrifuge with a 1 m radius 18 animals got ventro-dorsal gravitation stress according to schedule N 1 (with limberung-up) and 18 animals according to schedule N 2 got gravitation stress without limbering-up.
(8) Proteinase K, the extracellular serine endopeptidase (E.C.3.4.21.14) from the fungus Tritirachium album limber, is homologous to the bacterial subtilisin proteases.
(9) The team looked flat and strangely subdued and the crowd longed for Ronaldo's arrival, howling his name and enthusiastically rising to their feet when he appeared on the touchline to limber up.
(10) Now the candidates for the position of chancellor after the election will be limbering up for Monday's debate .
(11) A number of proteinases are induced and secreted into the culture medium of Tritirachium album Limber when the nitrogen source is limited to exogenous proteins.
(12) The program must be tailored to the patient, starting with relaxation and gentle limbering exercises and proceeding ultimately to vigorous muscle-stretching exercises.
(13) British bookmakers remain among the favourites to triumph in the World Cup – they'll take up to £600m online according to a new report by Regulus Insights and Sporting Index – and one of our teams, Betfair , will limber up for the big event this week by unveiling its annual results.
(14) This was not a great way for Tottenham to limber up for the new Premier League season, which kicks off for them at Manchester United at lunchtime on Saturday, as they were convincingly beaten by Real Madrid .
(15) Therefore, routine limbering-up is recommended before sports activities.
(16) Schedule N2 (18 rotations without a preliminary limbering-up) proved to be more effective.
(17) Proteinase K (EC 3.4.21.14) from the fungus Tritirachium album Limber is the most active known serine endopeptidase.
(18) We have isolated the genomic and cDNA clones encoding a novel proteinase from the fungus Tritirachium album Limber, named proteinase T, synthesis of which is induced in skim milk medium.
(19) The cDNA and the chromosomal gene encoding proteinase K from Tritirachium album Limber have been cloned in Escherichia coli and the entire nucleotide sequences of the coding region, as well as 5'- and 3'-flanking regions have been determined.
(20) Otherwise the Premier League champions in waiting did not move outside the Midlands and seemed more than content to limber up for the campaign with friendlies at Lincoln, Mansfield, Burton and Birmingham.
Vehicle
Definition:
(n.) That in or on which any person or thing is, or may be, carried, as a coach, carriage, wagon, cart, car, sleigh, bicycle, etc.; a means of conveyance; specifically, a means of conveyance upon land.
(n.) That which is used as the instrument of conveyance or communication; as, matter is the vehicle of energy.
(n.) A substance in which medicine is taken.
(n.) Any liquid with which a pigment is applied, including whatever gum, wax, or glutinous or adhesive substance is combined with it.
Example Sentences:
(1) They broke in with a battering ram: an armoured vehicle known as a Bearcat.
(2) Six of 7 SAO shock rats treated with U74006F survived for 120 min following reperfusion, while none of 7 SAO shock rats given the vehicle survived for 120 min (P less than .01).
(3) It would be "very easy to manipulate and access one of our vehicles", he said.
(4) A group of rats raised on D-P++ for 4 weeks were fed D-P- for 7 days after which they received 500 pmol of 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D3 [1,25(OH)2D3; SUPP] or an equal volume of the vehicle (ETH).
(5) Neonatal treatment with a low dose of the estrogen diethylstilbestrol (DES) had no significant effect on adult estrogen binding within the assayed vaginal compartments; however, this treatment caused a 2-fold increase in the level of cytosolic progestin binding in the vaginal FMW over that in vehicle-treated mice.
(6) Each subject applied a vehicle cream containing 0.075% capsaicin (Axsain, GalenPharma Inc.) to a 4 cm2 area of skin on one volar forearm and vehicle alone to an identical treatment area on the other forearm, according to a double-blind procedure.
(7) Utilizing the bilateral comparison technique in 30 hospitalized patients with chronic stable plaque-type psoriasis vulgaris, we closely monitored the clinical responses to ultraviolet radiation (Westinghouse fluorescent FS40 bulbs, 290--400 nm) and a variety of tar preparations and lubricant vehicles in combination and separately.
(8) Controls were injected in the same manner with vehicle and microspheres.
(9) Sympathetic nervous system function was blocked in developing male SHR by treating pups from days 0 to 14 with: (1) guanethidine, (2) combined alpha- and beta-receptor antagonists (prazosin and timolol), or (3) vehicle (5% sucrose).
(10) The most common seenario was a vehicle-vehicle collision in which seat belts were not used and the decedent or the decedent's driver was at fault.
(11) Thus, the lymphoid population containing cell-mediated anti-idiotypic responsiveness served as a vehicle of resistance.
(12) Well known buyout firms such as Blackstone and Carlyle appear in the leaked documents, and Luxembourg investment vehicles are commonplace in such investment firms.
(13) Future studies will need to carefully evaluate the vehicle used and the strength of topical CsA employed.
(14) The Calspan 3-D Computer Simulator of a Motor Vehicle Crash Victim was used to provide estimates of the head and neck response to be expected for the very specific deceleration profiles simulated.
(15) "There were around 50 attackers, heavily armed in three vehicles, and they were flying the Shebab flag," Maisori added, speaking from the town, where several buildings including hotels, restaurants, banks and government offices were razed to the ground.
(16) Two officers who witnessed the shooting of unarmed 43-year-old Samuel DuBose in Cincinnati will not face criminal charges, despite seemingly corroborating a false claim that DuBose’s vehicle dragged officer Ray Tensing before he was fatally shot.
(17) Vehicle administration had no effect on pulmonary function.
(18) The best was the oral version of the Symbol Digit Modalities test, which by itself accounted for 70% of the variance of the full-sized-vehicle driving score.
(19) II with melatonin instead of 25.9% in the corresponding vehicle controls.
(20) Twenty-four h prior to the measurement of 45Ca2+ uptake, the cells were transferred to serum-free medium ([Ca2+], 1.0 mM) containing 1.0 nM 1,25(OH)2D3 or vehicle.