(n.) A mark or depression in the middle of the abdomen; the umbilicus. See Umbilicus.
(n.) The central part or point of anything; the middle.
(n.) An eye on the under side of a carronade for securing it to a carriage.
Example Sentences:
(1) The cryptoxanthin esters varied from 5 to 10% of the total carotenoids in Valencia orange juice concentrates and from 10 to 15% of the total carotenoids in Navel orange juice concentrates.
(2) The sniping followed an article by Cameron in the Sunday Times , in which he called on the coalition to provide a "strong, decisive and united government" in the wake of acrimonious splits over Lords reform, warning that the public will not stand for "division and navel-gazing" at a time of social and economic insecurity.
(3) The cut of the skin makes two flaps suppressing the navel which is generally salient.
(4) Similarly, devices used in the cutting of the umbilical cord and placenta were not properly sterilized and potentially dangerous substances were applied at the navel after cutting the umbilical cord or placenta.
(5) A place to study your navel, if you can still locate it.
(6) The simian and human Navel strains comprised a single serogroup, distinct from the established Mycoplasma and Acholeplasma species of the class Mollicutes.
(7) Retropneumooperitoneum following the increasingly popular method of intermittent respiration by above atmospheric pressure respiration of the newborn is now more frequently observed, as is necrosis of the wall of the bladder by instillation of medication and catheters in the arteries of the navel.
(8) Revealed: how developers exploit flawed planning system to minimise affordable housing Read more The furore over the opening of the cafe in late 2014 exemplified the problem with hipster-hating: that it is often little more than middle-class navel-gazing.
(9) Incidentally, I'm aware this is Olympic-level navel gazing, but you're a human being with free will who can stop reading any time.
(10) An increased incidence of lesions of the navel, hocks, and nares was observed, but regression analyses showed them to be relatively unimportant in the determination of body weights.
(11) His torso was cut open, gashed deep to the navel, and the index finger of his right hand torn off.
(12) The authors describe an umbilical anomaly marked by confluent erythematous and crusted plaques, spreading beyond the navel limits and histologically regarded as a choristia that is to say a displacement of intestinal tissue within the epidermis.
(13) During the course of observation, navel-like lesions developed in one of the other 27 eyes with other abnormalities and in 4 of the 17 eyes without any abnormality.
(14) A 16-month-old girl was referred to our clinic with a complaint of a cystic mass in the region of the navel.
(15) We will not take the Senate for granted in 2015, as perhaps sometimes we were tempted to do in 2014, but the important thing is not to navel gaze, it’s not to focus on ourselves; the important thing it to get on with the job of being a better government today than we were yesterday, being a better government tomorrow than we are today.” The defence minister, Kevin Andrews, dismissed suggestions Abbott should step down.
(16) In a 1969 European title defence at the Palazzo dello Sport in Rome, against another Italian, Piero Tomasoni, Cooper suffered the lowest blow of his career – a dent seven inches below his navel in the aluminium cup covering his genitals.
(17) In spite of isopropanol being reported as a more efficient skin disinfectant than ethanol in several experimental models, no significant differences were seen in the frequency of navel colonization or in infection rates between the two treatment groups.
(18) People-watching, navel-gazing, and gentle meandering are all that are really required of you, and doing so little actually allows you to find yourself too.
(19) Yet this is rarely what mainstream politics is now about.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Jon Glasby ‘It’s not about ivory towers or navel gazing, it’s about high quality research making a dfference to people’s lives’ Jon Glasby, professor and head of school designate, school of social policy, University of Birmingham, says: “With so much emphasis on Stem, social sciences can sometimes appear to take a back seat.
(20) Interestingly, in the conical incisor teeth, the enamel navel, septum and knot are absent, and Hox-8 has a symmetrical expression pattern.
Ravel
Definition:
(v. t.) To separate or undo the texture of; to take apart; to untwist; to unweave or unknit; -- often followed by out; as, to ravel a twist; to ravel out a stocking.
(v. t.) To undo the intricacies of; to disentangle.
(v. t.) To pull apart, as the threads of a texture, and let them fall into a tangled mass; hence, to entangle; to make intricate; to involve.
(v. i.) To become untwisted or unwoven; to be disentangled; to be relieved of intricacy.
(v. i.) To fall into perplexity and confusion.
(v. i.) To make investigation or search, as by picking out the threads of a woven pattern.
Example Sentences:
(1) Dominic Fifield Facebook Twitter Pinterest Ravel Morrison, who has been on loan at QPR, may be set for a return to Loftus Road.
(2) Maurice Ravel had been subject to psychiatric disorder for many years when signs of organic brain disease appeared at the age of 52.
(3) The team's response to the goal was to look for the pair with every attack but the closest they came was through Ravel Morrison's 20-yard free-kick in the 23rd minute, which would have crept under the crossbar had Karl Darlow not made a fine save.
(4) What makes Ravel's history interesting to the public as well as to physicians is not only the tragic toll exacted in this composer's personal and creative life but also the resultant loss of the output of one of the 20th century's towering musical geniuses.
(5) Having offloaded Jonjo Shelvey amid rumours that he was a disruptive, brooding influence, Swansea City have decided to enquire about bringing disruptive, brooding influence Ravel Morrison to the Liberty Stadium from Lazio.
(6) The last time I saw Ravel Morrison he was in the dock at Salford magistrates' court, fiddling with his tie and waiting to hear whether he was going to be locked up.
(7) FC Astana FC Shakhter Karagandy FC Aktobe Ravel Morrison moved to Lazio in 2015.
(8) West Ham's Matt Jarvis cut in from the left wing and slipped the ball to Ravel Morrison, whose strike was deflected into the net off the chest of Phil Jagielka.
(9) Ravel Morrison starts, though, which is good news for fans of football.
(10) But Big Sam's tactic of endless high crosses appears to have been rumbled and there's no sign of Plan B. Allardyce has to convince the board he can play more expansive football to fill the Olympic Stadium, settle his differences with Ravel Morrison and learn some PR skills.
(11) (Lax, S.R., Lauer, S.J., Browning, K. S., and Ravel, J.M.
(12) It consists of a basal knitted scrim with strongly entangled ultrafine polyester fibers, lined with a fine velour of entangled ultrafine fibers that provide high ravel and tear resistance, a perfect matrix for preclotting, and an anchor for cell adhesion.
(13) (Browning, K. S., Lax, S. R., Humphreys, J., Ravel, J. M., Jobling, S. A., and Gehrke, L. (1988) J. Biol.
(14) We showed previously that wheat germ extracts contain two forms of protein synthesis initiation factor 4F that have very similar functional properties (Browning, K. S., Lax, S. R., and Ravel, J. M. (1987) J. Biol.
(15) This observation is in agreement with our previous finding (Lax, S., Fritz, W., Browning, K., and Ravel, J.
(16) Ravel left no completed composition after an accident to the head in 1932.
(17) At 58, Ravel was struck with aphasia, which quelled any further artistic output.
(18) Previous work has shown that eukaryotic initiation factor (eIF)-4B from wheat germ is a complex containing two subunits, 80 and 28 kDa, and eIF-4F from wheat germ is a complex containing two subunits, 220 and 26 kDa (Lax, S., Fritz, W., Browning, K., and Ravel, J.
(19) Hmmm ... On the subject of Ravel Morrison , who has been linked with a move to Fulham, McDonald said "I would imagine Ravel will be staying until I'm told otherwise."
(20) They will remember the second half for many years and, if any gloss were required,, which is highly debatable, it was provided by Ravel Morrison, the mercurially gifted midfielder, who scored a goal that had the wow factor stamped all over it.