(n) An implement for impelling a boat, being a slender piece of timber, usually ash or spruce, with a grip or handle at one end and a broad blade at the other. The part which rests in the rowlock is called the loom.
(n) An oarsman; a rower; as, he is a good oar.
(n) An oarlike swimming organ of various invertebrates.
(v. t. & i.) To row.
Example Sentences:
(1) To determine which dimensions of the Older Americans Resources and Services (OARS) would best predict the status of the medically disabled elderly, veteran inpatients, outpatients, and nonpatient volunteers were administered the multidimensional functional assessment portion of the OARS.
(2) Although the vast majority (83.2%) of subjects were fully independent on the Katz Activities of Daily Living Scale, a broader scope of functional difficulty was reported on the Spector-Katz, five-item OARS, and Rosow-Breslau scales.
(3) In the simpler method, used for rotation techniques, the off-axis ratio (OAR) is calculated from the equation.
(4) 5.41pm BST 38 min: Now it's Oar terrorising the Netherlands!
(5) Recent refinements in the OARS methodology include new information about validity and reliability, computerized summary ratings for the five dimensions of functional status, and eleven scales that measure specific aspects of functioning within the five dimensions.
(6) From a midfield freekick, Oar drops the ball on the penalty spot and the only player there to welcome it is Spiranovic!
(7) The differences at the finish were a result of the lifting of the oar from the water not exhibited in ergometer rowing.
(8) 6.20pm BST 62 min: Janmaart takes Oar's legs from him but he retrieves them to curl in a freekick towards the gold shirts lining up along the edge of the Dutch penalty area.
(9) Oar exploded into space and, really, should have taken the opportunity to shoot.
(10) Kinetics for the base-catalyzed hydrolysis of compounds 9--13 were investigated by UV and NMR methods and are considered in connection with service of these compounds as pro(phosphorodiamidic acid mustards) [MP(O)(NHR)OAr leads to MP(O)(NHR)OH] via an E1cB mechanism involving the intermediacy of a mustard-bearing metaphosphorodiimide [MP(O)=NR].
(11) Kobach, who took a doctorate in politics from Brasenose college, Oxford, has a rowing oar from his 1991 Isis crew on the wall of his state office, along with the heads of two deer that he shot, he says, with a bow.
(12) Athletes in Rio test events have tried many tricks and treatments to avoid falling ill, including bleaching rowing oars, hosing off their bodies the second they finish competing, and preemptively taking antibiotics which have no effect on viruses.
(13) Inpatients showed significantly more impaired ratings on all five of the OARS subscales than the outpatients and nonpatients, while outpatients were more impaired than nonpatients on two of the subscales (mental health and activities of daily living).
(14) An approximate calculation of the ratio of the power put into the boat's motion to the power lost as water movement in the oar "puddle" suggests that increasing the blade area of the oar will result in improved efficiency.
(15) Measures included assessments of social network using components of the OARS, family satisfaction using the APGAR, family cohesion and adaptability using the FACES II, alcohol abuse using the CAGE, and indicators of health-protective behaviors.
(16) The oar-like crossbridge cycle, developed up to the mid-1970's, was shown to be inconsistent with more recent biochemical results.
(17) Davidson and Oar combine wonderfully on the left with a one-two and Oar almost gets clear in the Dutch box, which is an unfortunate combination of words, but what can you do?
(18) Axopods of the planktonic protozoan, Sticholonche, are used as oars to propel the organism through seawater.
(19) A measurement model of mental health for the Older Americans Resources and Services (OARS) questionnaire is described.
(20) 5.11pm BST 7 min: Leckie, then Oar, give Cillessen something to think about.
Roar
Definition:
(v. i.) To cry with a full, loud, continued sound.
(v. i.) To bellow, or utter a deep, loud cry, as a lion or other beast.
(v. i.) To cry loudly, as in pain, distress, or anger.
(v. i.) To make a loud, confused sound, as winds, waves, passing vehicles, a crowd of persons when shouting together, or the like.
(v. i.) To be boisterous; to be disorderly.
(v. i.) To laugh out loudly and continuously; as, the hearers roared at his jokes.
(v. i.) To make a loud noise in breathing, as horses having a certain disease. See Roaring, 2.
(v. t.) To cry aloud; to proclaim loudly.
(n.) The sound of roaring.
(n.) The deep, loud cry of a wild beast; as, the roar of a lion.
(n.) The cry of one in pain, distress, anger, or the like.
(n.) A loud, continuous, and confused sound; as, the roar of a cannon, of the wind, or the waves; the roar of ocean.
(n.) A boisterous outcry or shouting, as in mirth.
Example Sentences:
(1) When, against Real Madrid, Nani was sent off, Ferguson, jaws agape, interrupting his incessant mastication, roared from the bench, uprooting his assistant and marched to the touchline.
(2) Far from being depressed, the audience turned into a heaving mass of furious geeks, who roared their anger and vowed that they would not rest until they had brought down the rotten system The "skeptic movement" (always spelt with "k" by the way, to emphasise their distinctiveness) had come to Singh's aid.
(3) As Llewellyn and others reached for their briefcases Ashdown roared that nobody was going anywhere.
(4) A spine-tingling roar rolled off the Kop after an eighth consecutive league win lifted Liverpool above Manchester City and Chelsea with perfect timing.
(5) As Mo Farah charged down the home straight, 80,000 people roaring him on to his second gold medal of these Games, his eyes wide, teeth bared, the whole stadium knew they were witnessing history in the making.
(6) Before things get out of hand, the trophy is presented to Steven Gerrard, who hoists it skywards with a loud roar.
(7) I thought it was like [Joe] DiMaggio’s hit streak.” The arena was covered in blue and gold and roaring for the home team, cheers that were even louder for each of Curry’s 10 three-pointers.
(8) One turns up for bums, rampant historical misrepresentation and a man in a wig roaring "spiritus sanctus" in a 13th-century CGI inferno.
(9) Shortly afterwards normal service was very briefly resumed when, with Cardiff overcommitted to attack, a customary roar greeted Newcastle's third goal, a header from the popular, Geordie-reared substitute Steven Taylor.
(10) By day, the whooshing of skis and scratching of poles and the roar of wind past their ears dominate the explorers' world.
(11) Xinhua, Beijing’s official news service, said Micius, a 600kg satellite that is nicknamed after an ancient Chinese philosopher, “roared into the dark sky” over the Gobi desert at 1.40am local time on Tuesday, carried by a Long March-2D rocket.
(12) Mexican striker Matias Vuoso and Chile midfielder Arturo Vidal both scored twice in a game that roared from end to end and never let up in intensity.
(13) Inside, vendors sold balloons, candyfloss and posters of Sisi with Nasser, Sisi with a roaring lion, Sisi with his trademark sunglasses.
(14) A little roar went up, just for a moment, and then died away almost as quickly.
(15) He performed his debut show , Dicing with Dr Death, as part of the Edinburgh fringe comedy festival, described in its synopsis as “a rip-roaring ride through his 20 years working with life’s one certainty: death”.
(16) Stock markets roared ahead and sterling tumbled after the Bank of England and European Central Bank took unprecedented steps to quash investor fears that they were preparing to reduce monetary stimulus.
(17) Those fed Pb only developed pharyngeal and laryngeal paralysis ("roaring") whereas those fed Zn only and Pb and Zn together developed the same clinical syndrome which included swelling at the epiphyseal region of the long bones, stiffness and lameness.
(18) Analysis of official statistics by the Centre for Research on Socio-Cultural Change (Cresc) at Manchester University backs up Martin's hunch: London and the south-east have come roaring out of the crash, and now account for a greater share of growth than they did even during the boom.
(19) Price remembers a parliamentary Christmas party where Jo and the children raced through parliament, their faces painted as tigers as they roared at each other.
(20) The roar was equally loud when Victor Moses had the first shot two minutes in.