(v.) A small line composed of two strands a little twisted, used for winding around ropes and cables, to prevent their being weakened by fretting.
(v. t.) To wind marline around; as, to marline a rope.
Example Sentences:
(1) Other brands in the group include Remington Arms, the country's largest and oldest maker of rifles; Marlin Firearms, a manufacturer of lever-action rifles; and Advanced Armament, a maker of pistol silencers.
(2) Top young arms such as the New York Mets’ Matt Harvey and Miami Marlins’ José Fernández have gone under the knife.
(3) UKAR still owes taxpayers £42.1bn, which it is repaying as customers pay back their mortgages, although it raised a further £400m by selling its unsecured personal loans to OneSavings Bank and Marlin Financial last month.
(4) Fifty-seven samples of juvenile black marlin fish were analyzed for inorganic and methyl mercury, and total mercury was calculated by addition of the 2 values.
(5) A cladistic analysis of blue marlin cytochrome b variants indicates two major divergent evolutionary lines within the species.
(6) First off, Tulo leads the NL in an array of statistics – batting average, on-base percentage, slugging percentage, runs scored, offensive WAR, trailing the Miami Marlins slugger Giancarlo Stanton by two home runs with 18.
(7) Marlin red and white muscle buffer capacity was two times higher than trout with white muscle, buffering being two times greater than red in both species.
(8) The HRC contribution to total cellular buffering varied from a high of 62% for marlin white to a low of 7% for trout red.
(9) The blood of the striped marlin (Tetrapturus audax) contains one major Root-effect haemoglobin.
(10) Even if he is lights out as he was as a Marlin while pitching against the Giants (3-1, 1.98 ERA, two shutouts), who cares if you can't hit?
(11) As the Republican congressman Marlin Stutzman pointed out in a particularly candid moment 18 months ago, when Republican obduracy caused a government shutdown, “We have to get something out of this.
(12) Just because an opportunity exists doesn’t mean that we’re going to close on that deal, because we want to be sure that any new team has the opportunity to be successful.” Putting the squeeze on the Orange Bowl site In July, a possibility sprang at the old Orange Bowl site adjacent to Marlins Park , a setting Beckham had originally rejected.
(13) Blood from capture-stressed striped marlin cannot be fully saturated with oxygen in the presence of lactic acid because of a substantial Root effect.
(14) The Miami Marlins considered and rejected the site during its own search for a new baseball stadium several years ago, according to the Miami Herald, in part because of the cost of transporting large rocks from elsewhere as landfill.
(15) Less than a decade ago, the city and county granted a hugely controversial public investment of $490m to fund the Miami Marlins baseball park.
(16) The ligand binding properties of the Root effect haemoglobin of the marlin have been investigated in the temperature range 12-35 degrees C. An essentially symmetric displacement of the binding isotherms to higher concentration is observed on raising the temperature.
(17) Alschuler told The Guardian on Tuesday that he welcomed the mayor’s letter as an “expansion of alternatives” for the location of the stadium, which also included the less favoured inland sites at Florida International University and next to Marlins Park in Little Havana.
(18) Suggestions included a giant squid, whose eyes can be as large as soccer balls, a bigeye thresher shark, which can reach can reach 16ft, a marlin or a particularly large sailfish.
(19) Their failure to win with those players acquired in the post 2012 blockbuster deal that brought Jose Reyes, Mark Buehrle, Josh Johnson and Emilio Bonifacio to Ontario from Miami, makes it seem like the Marlins actually knew what they were doing when they broke up their core after one losing season.
(20) What’s also worth considering is the as-yet-unnamed MLS team (which may initially share Marlins Park when it joins MLS as planned in 2016) isn’t the only sporting enterprise in the city seeking permission for home improvements.
Rack
Definition:
(n.) Same as Arrack.
(n.) The neck and spine of a fore quarter of veal or mutton.
(n.) A wreck; destruction.
(n.) Thin, flying, broken clouds, or any portion of floating vapor in the sky.
(v. i.) To fly, as vapor or broken clouds.
(v.) To amble fast, causing a rocking or swaying motion of the body; to pace; -- said of a horse.
(n.) A fast amble.
(v. t.) To draw off from the lees or sediment, as wine.
(a.) An instrument or frame used for stretching, extending, retaining, or displaying, something.
(a.) An engine of torture, consisting of a large frame, upon which the body was gradually stretched until, sometimes, the joints were dislocated; -- formerly used judicially for extorting confessions from criminals or suspected persons.
(a.) An instrument for bending a bow.
(a.) A grate on which bacon is laid.
(a.) A frame or device of various construction for holding, and preventing the waste of, hay, grain, etc., supplied to beasts.
(a.) A frame on which articles are deposited for keeping or arranged for display; as, a clothes rack; a bottle rack, etc.
(a.) A piece or frame of wood, having several sheaves, through which the running rigging passes; -- called also rack block. Also, a frame to hold shot.
(a.) A frame or table on which ores are separated or washed.
(a.) A frame fitted to a wagon for carrying hay, straw, or grain on the stalk, or other bulky loads.
(a.) A distaff.
(a.) A bar with teeth on its face, or edge, to work with those of a wheel, pinion, or worm, which is to drive it or be driven by it.
(a.) That which is extorted; exaction.
(v. t.) To extend by the application of force; to stretch or strain; specifically, to stretch on the rack or wheel; to torture by an engine which strains the limbs and pulls the joints.
(v. t.) To torment; to torture; to affect with extreme pain or anguish.
(v. t.) To stretch or strain, in a figurative sense; hence, to harass, or oppress by extortion.
(v. t.) To wash on a rack, as metals or ore.
(v. t.) To bind together, as two ropes, with cross turns of yarn, marline, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) More than 250 borrowers contacted the Guardian to tell us how and why they borrowed and how their debts racked up.
(2) When the two sides played here 77 days earlier Stoke had racked up a 5-0 lead by half-time, the first time that had happened to Liverpool since 1976, but this time Hughes’s attackers had no delicacy around the penalty area.
(3) In one clothes shop, with racks of discounted Calvin Klein and DKNY, the manager, Sav, explains what's happened: "In this crisis, the middle classes have been hollowed out."
(4) But Nel said that for Steenkamp to have fallen on to the rack, given she was found with her head slumped over the toilet, she would have had to have got up.
(5) Around 50 suburban Chicago police departments and sheriff’s offices assisted, racking up more than $300,000 in overtime and other costs, according to an analysis that the Daily Herald newspaper published in early October.
(6) Against small diurnal fluctuations, stable vertical gradients (about 1 degree C between tops and bottoms of racks) were observed among one hour averages of room air temperatures.
(7) TfL has tried to minimise congestion by issuing permits for roadworks but said it had encountered a “repeat offender” in BT, which has racked up thousands of pounds in fines.
(8) The prospect of further demonstrations and strikes has raised fears of social unrest in a country that has been racked by street violence for the past 18 months.
(9) The second biggest YouTube channel in July 2014 was DisneyCollector, with its collection of toy-unboxing videos racking up 268m views in the month, putting it ahead of musician Shakira’s 226.6m views.
(10) Contact time (in seconds) to a circular metal rack positioned in the center of the animal activity monitor was also recorded as goal-directed exploratory activity.
(11) The spark for the longest-running protest in modern Tunisian history was lit on 17 December in the town of Sidi Bouzid, in the rural interior of Tunisia, a region of olive groves and agriculture which is racked by vast unemployment, repression and poverty a world away from the riches of the Tunisian tourist coast and the propaganda of Tunisia's "economic miracle".
(12) Removal of a cage from the rack and getting out a rat caused increase in plasma concentrations of corticosterone in its remaining cage mates.
(13) For example, the Pacers lost 107-97 , at home on Tuesday, in a game where their starting center Roy Hibbert's disappearing act reached nearly-comical levels as he racked up 0 points, 0 rebounds, 1 meager assist and four personal fouls in 12 minutes of playing time.
(14) Adoboli racked up the giant losses undetected through three means, Wass said.
(15) Certain smears, such as from semen or from serous fluids where malignancy is suspected or known, must be stained on separate racks.
(16) That enthusiasm for elegant, understated clothing and bags has paid off, as Prada has bucked the downturn to open stores around the world – 63 in the year to last September – and rack up €409m (£352m) in profit in the first three quarters of 2012, a huge rise of 50% year on year, boosted by an increase of 41% in Asian sales.
(17) At any other moment, Chilcot would have been the all-consuming subject of national debate for days or even weeks, with Blair on the rack.
(18) Over the next few years, he racked up a series of successful expeditions to peaks in the Himalayas and elsewhere, including in 1983 the first ascent of the south face of Annapurna II, just shy of 8,000m.
(19) Utensil drying racks were found in 56.0% of the households.
(20) A film based on a smutty book that now litters the racks of every last charity shop.