(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.
Scull
Definition:
(n.) The skull.
(n.) A shoal of fish.
(n.) A boat; a cockboat. See Sculler.
(n.) One of a pair of short oars worked by one person.
(n.) A single oar used at the stern in propelling a boat.
(n.) The common skua gull.
(v. t.) To impel (a boat) with a pair of sculls, or with a single scull or oar worked over the stern obliquely from side to side.
(v. i.) To impel a boat with a scull or sculls.
Example Sentences:
(1) In the men's double sculls Wells and Rowbotham continued the form that has seen them medal in every World Cup event.
(2) The forensic autopsy revealed a fracture of the scull and a severe blunt injury to the head and brain.
(3) WOMEN'S DOUBLE SCULL Katherine Grainger, Anna Watkins Grainger and Watkins have won all three World Cup events this summer and are undefeated since being paired together in 2010.
(4) Most common among these injuries are knee pain associated with the eggbeater kick and shoulder pain associated with sculling.
(5) Under application of 50 muCi of pertechnetate, the exposure of radionuclide dacryocystography amounts to 15-25 mR for the lens and is far below the exposure by scull radiography.
(6) Main rival Netherlands Medal prediction Bronze, possibly LIGHTWEIGHT WOMEN'S DOUBLE SCULL Sophie Hosking and Katherine Copeland British duo won bronze at last year's worlds but this promises to be a close event and it will be difficult for them to improve on that.
(7) The dynamics of local thermoresponses in the brain cortex was studied through the unopened scull under patterned light stimulation of the retina in acute experiments on white rats by means of thermovision and digital image processing technique.
(8) An experimental study of the base deformation of isolated human scull under conditions of scull collision with an obstacle has been carried out.
(9) An examination was conducted in 310 persons surviving injuries of the scull and brain of varying severity.
(10) Grainger, courtesy of a hugely emotional win alongside Anna Watkins in the women's double sculls, now has a gold to add to her three previous wince-inducing silvers.
(11) Oxygen uptake was measured on four male subjects during sculling gondolas at constant speeds from approximately 1 to approximately 3 m.s-1.
(12) Ulsterman Alan Campbell finished fifth in the men's single scull, unable to live with the pace set by three hugely experienced opponents led by reigning world champion Olafe Tufte from Norway after leading for the first 800 metres.
(13) An earlier suggested continuous scull model is modified on the basis of the data obtained.
(14) Hydrocortisone therapy diminishes the development of gross collagen fibers, and causes the formation of a loose glial scar from a wide-looped network of processes of fibrill-forming astrocytes; 127 clinical observations of hydrocortisone therapy with layer-wise plastic repair of the brain and scull, followed-up for to 10 years, demonstrated that this method favours the prevention of epilepsy.
(15) 11.57am Gold women's lightweight double sculls Fifteen minutes later Sophie Hosking and Katherine Copeland start the women's lightweight double sculls final in lane six.
(16) As well as the medal winners so far, Kath Grainger, who has won silver medals at each of the past two Games, will compete with Anna Watkins on Friday in the women's double sculls, in which they are strong favourites to win gold.
(17) Explorative trepanation of the scull was carried out after confirmation of (1) discreet neurologic disturbances on neurologic examination in the right hemisphere, (2) focal sign on the right side in the EEG (focal slowing and focal sharp wave), and (3) a right-parietal increase of radioactive activity in the scintigram.
(18) It is shown that the modified model (a part of spherical shell with the flat base) resembles scull behaviour in statics and dynamics better than the scull model in the form of spherical shell.
(19) The pulp chamber floor of 39 primary first and second molars of 10 mandibuiars of the Indian scull was investigated with a scanning electron microscope for the presence of accessary foramens.
(20) Main rival Germany Medal prediction Bronze LIGHTWEIGHT MEN'S DOUBLE SCULL Mark Hunter, Zac Purchase Last time around in Beijing Hunter and Purchase proved unstoppable and are also the reigning world champions.