(n.) The nose; the snout; hence, the projecting vent of anything; as, the nozzle of a bellows.
(n.) A short tube, usually tapering, forming the vent of a hose or pipe.
(n.) A short outlet, or inlet, pipe projecting from the end or side of a hollow vessel, as a steam-engine cylinder or a steam boiler.
Example Sentences:
(1) The reaction mixture is transferred by injecting a wash solution from a group of nozzles into the incubation well.
(2) Potential dermal exposure from tractor-powered sprayers fitted with conventional hydraulic nozzles was lower than from knapsack sprayers, with exposure from a tractor-powered sprayer fitted with controlled-droplet application equipment intermediate in this regard.
(3) These characteristics were correlated with graft fabrication variables: mandrel rpm, horizontal speed of the spray nozzle, gas and polymer solution flow rates.
(4) While all three were considered effective for symptom relief, there was a clear preference for both of the new longer, snout-like nozzle adapters over the currently available delivery system.
(5) To reduce wastage of insecticide, nozzle tips are changed periodically but the tips are expensive and the replacement schedule should be based on the cost of the tip in relation to the cost of the insecticide wasted.
(6) Measurements indicate stable air outflow temperatures are maintained when proper nozzle design and air flow rates are employed.
(7) Rectal gangrene as a complication of haemorrhoids is rare and, whereas reports have suggested that this complication is due to nozzle injury, we believe that it may be due to a direct necrotizing effect of the phosphate on the rectum.
(8) Being a toddler, she toddled a bit; she knocked over a bottle of Dettol spray, and in a staggering act of pre-school vandalism, broke the nozzle.
(9) Finally, noise control techniques in the use and installation of nozzles and ejectors are reviewed.
(10) For preservation of viability during sampling of microorganisms, it is common to use impingers with the jet nozzle above the liquid surface.
(11) A finger-tip unit (FTU) is the amount of ointment expressed from a tube with a 5 mm diameter nozzle, applied from the distal skin-crease to the tip of the index finger.
(12) One of the main factors controlling dosage is the discharge rate of the sprayer, which depends to a great extent on the ability of the nozzle tip to discharge an even spray.
(13) The authors present its principle and describe the apparatus: a source of liquid nitrogen, a flexible tube and a probe with a skin-suitable nozzle.
(14) A modified personal impinger (MPI) for sampling airborne microorganisms was tested for collection efficiency with the jet nozzle placed at various positions above and below the liquid surface.
(15) This method would facilitate the establishment of a replacement schedule for nozzle tips used in spraying programmes, and periodic adjustments when new formulations of insecticides or other types of nozzle tip are supplied.
(16) At 60 and 100 W of laser power, higher external air flows and greater attention to nozzle positioning were necessary.
(17) Before this sampling both test surfaces were vacuumed using the non-motorized nozzle in order to assess the mite numbers at the beginning of the experiment.
(18) A nozzle produces a hydrodynamically focused sample stream in a liquid jet that id directed onto a microscope cover glass in front of the microscope objective.
(19) Complete control of smoke was achieved when the nozzle was located at 2 in, but significant amounts of smoke escaped when the nozzle was located at 6 and 12 in.
(20) A 'nasal pool' (NP) device, a compressible plastic container with an adapted nozzle, was used to perform a continuous 10-min nasal provocation and lavage.
Vent
Definition:
(n.) Sale; opportunity to sell; market.
(v. t.) To sell; to vend.
(n.) A baiting place; an inn.
(v. i.) To snuff; to breathe or puff out; to snort.
(n.) A small aperture; a hole or passage for air or any fluid to escape; as, the vent of a cask; the vent of a mold; a volcanic vent.
(n.) The anal opening of certain invertebrates and fishes; also, the external cloacal opening of reptiles, birds, amphibians, and many fishes.
(n.) The opening at the breech of a firearm, through which fire is communicated to the powder of the charge; touchhole.
(n.) Sectional area of the passage for gases divided by the length of the same passage in feet.
(n.) Fig.: Opportunity of escape or passage from confinement or privacy; outlet.
(n.) Emission; escape; passage to notice or expression; publication; utterance.
(v. t.) To let out at a vent, or small aperture; to give passage or outlet to.
(v. t.) To suffer to escape from confinement; to let out; to utter; to pour forth; as, to vent passion or complaint.
(v. t.) To utter; to report; to publish.
(v. t.) To scent, as a hound.
(v. t.) To furnish with a vent; to make a vent in; as, to vent. a mold.
Example Sentences:
(1) The goal of the expedition, led by Prof Ken Takai of the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, was to study the limits of life at deep-sea vents in the Cayman Trough as part of a round-the-world voyage of discovery by the research ship RV Yokosuka .
(2) Though the exercises have given the US a chance to vent its frustration at what appears to be state-sponsored espionage and theft on an industrial scale, China has been belligerent.
(3) Despite a 30% rate of luminal blockage in stents retrieved after indwelling times up to 3 months, the incidence of clinical obstruction in stented tracts up to 3 months was 4%, confirming other reports that significant urine flow occurs around rather than through hollow, vented stents.
(4) Methods compared were: (1) aspiration of stomach contents through a large, vented, multi-orificed gastric tube, and (2) indirect determination by a dye dilution method using polyethylene glycol (PEG) as the marker.
(5) For Vent 1, serum hemoglobin levels increased from 40 to 249 mg. per 100 ml.
(6) We found that venting improves the speech intelligibility, especially in background noise simulating modulated speech.
(7) There was a 4-10% increase in His-Purkinje (HP) and ventricular (VENT) conduction time with each anesthetic.
(8) Thus, the clinically feasible intervention of left ventricular venting during reperfusion was not cardioprotective.
(9) 6.39pm BST AstraZeneca shares tumble as investors vent their disappointment over Pfizer bid - closing summary AstraZeneca's site in Macclesfield, Cheshire, today.
(10) The biochemical changes that occurred in the vented culture bottles stabilized more rapidly than those of the unvented bottles.
(11) Whether you're a microbe at a hydrothermal vent, or a computer programmer at a software company, we all function on that same biochemistry."
(12) First, in order to remove that part of the systolic force which is related to intracavitary pressure, left ventricular bypass was created and the left ventricle vented.
(13) In Experiment 1, carbon monoxide (CO) exposure from eight 60 ml puffs increased in an orderly fashion as a function of filter vent blocking.
(14) boluses at a cardiac output of 2 L. At a cardiac output of 4 L., Vent 2 removed 42, 76, and 49 per cent, respectively.
(15) Pringle found these conferences “brilliant and often informative”, but “they used to drive me nearly frantic because of the difficulty of getting a decision.’ Katharine Whitehorn , the women’s page editor, famously declared that “the editor’s indecision is final”, but although Astor would sometimes allow his journalists to vent opposing views in print as well in person – Nora Beloff and Robert Stephens on Israel and Palestine, for example – he always had the final say.
(16) It was shown that parallel and side branch vents produce similar low frequency filtering effects and vent-associated reactance resonances.
(17) "If the fans want to vent their anger at me I can take it.
(18) The measurement has been carried out with and without venting.
(19) Trade union organisers said that the turnout had exceeded their expectations, and thousands had travelled by coach and by train from as far as Edinburgh to vent their anger at the government's cuts by marching through London to a rally in Hyde Park.
(20) She was outraged and turned to Twitter to vent her fury.