(n.) The upper hand; advantage; superiority; mastery.
(a.) Over and over; -- applied to a style of sewing, or to a seam, in which two edges, usually selvedges, are sewed together by passing each stitch over both.
(a.) Done (as pitching or bowling) with the hand higher than the elbow, or the arm above, or higher than, the shoulder.
(adv.) In an overhand manner or style.
Example Sentences:
(1) The enzyme was capable of ligating phi X174 (+) strand DNA to double-stranded oligonucleotides that contained 5'-overhang, 3'-overhand, or blunt ends.
(2) Eight kindergarten classroom teachers with high generic teaching skill competence taught a 6-week overhand throwing unit to the children in their intact classes.
(3) In summary, performance status of the overhand throw by preschool age children can be improved beyond maturational expectations through guided instruction.
(4) Three beam-walking tests (the beam at different heights and angles) and the overhand throw comprised the criterion measures used for assessment of program effectiveness in stability and object projection.
(5) Ulnar neuritis at the elbow is a common entity affecting the athlete especially those involved in overhand sports.
(6) When he snapped Groves’ neck back with a thudding overhand right early in the ninth, it appeared the Londoner was in trouble.
(7) The structure is dominated by a left-handed four-helix bundle with an unusual topology comprising two overhand connections.
(8) These data indicate that the helices of interleukin-4 are arranged in a left-handed four-helix bundle with two overhand connections.
(9) In the first task, darts were thrown overhand at a stationary target.
(10) Using accessible surface contact area as a criterion, the most suitable structures were right handed all antiparallel four-helix bundles with two overhand loop connections.
(11) The young athlete involved in overhand sports is at risk for injury, and must be clinically evaluated and treated differently from the rest of the population.
(12) A depression of the exercised shoulder was found among highly trained tennis players, and in other athletes employing the overhand motion.
(13) I should have got the knockdown but I didn’t.” From the opening bell the fighters circled one another clockwise trading jabs to the head and body, but Jack connected with a sharp right hand upstairs that hurt Groves then followed it up moments later with a heat-seeking overhand right that dumped the Englishman to the canvas.
(14) Stability measures were distance divided by time, and object projection scores were determined by velocity of the overhand throw.
(15) 131 deaf boys and girls were evaluated on development of the overhand throw.
(16) Post hoc tests revealed that for the overhand throw, the IVD and TD groups were superior to the SD group but not different from each other.
(17) Shoulder pain in the overhand or throwing athlete can often be traced to the stabilizing mechanisms of the glenohumeral joint.
(18) Analysis by age and by sex showed a significant difference in the performance of the Overhand Throw.
(19) The helices are arranged in a left-handed antiparallel bundle with two overhand connections.
(20) A depression of the exercised shoulder was found in skilled tennis players, and in other athletes employing the overhand motion.
Overland
Definition:
(a.) Being, or accomplished, over the land, instead of by sea; as, an overland journey.
(adv.) By, upon, or across, land.
Example Sentences:
(1) There is a close association between air temperature and the amount of sea ice we see, so if we reduce the temperature globally it looks like it will stabilize the Arctic,” said Dr James Overland, oceanographer at Noaa.
(2) These changes are happening much earlier than scientists thought, said James Overland, an oceanographer and researcher at the University of Washington.
(3) The Palestinian capital would be in East Jerusalem, with sovereignty over the holy site known to Jews as the Temple Mount and to Muslims as the Noble Sanctuary or al-Aqsa mosque compound, and overland contiguity with the rest of the Palestinian state.
(4) • A longer version of this article will appear in Overland 212
(5) He was arrested on Sunday after a shooting spree that killed a 14-year-old boy and his grandfather outside a popular Jewish community center, and a third victim outside a nearby Jewish retirement home in the Kansas City suburb of Overland Park.
(6) The numbers reaching the US overland halved almost immediately as Mexican authorities doubled the number of migrants they detained and deported .
(7) Of those, only a few thousand make their way overland across Europe to Calais.
(8) Like all Amerindian groups they show limited HLA polymorphism, which probably reflects the small founder populations that colonized America by overland migration from Asia 11,000-40,000 years ago.
(9) The 16-year-old had started his journey by being smuggled overland with an older brother who was killed when they reached Iran.
(10) Manning Clark, Julia Gillard, Simon Overland, Christine Milne, virtually anyone with progressive ideas slightly to the left of the soup spoon, are among the cohort who have been targets of the paper.
(11) Those vaccinations, later distributed overland throughout eastern Syria, nevertheless bypassed villages blockaded by government forces just a dozen miles from the UN headquarters in Damascus, where polio has already been detected.
(12) • Pitches from £3pp, hostalnaylamp.com 10 Camping Quinta LaLa, Cusco This site, which attracts overlanding vehicles and tents, has only basic facilities, but what it lacks in luxury it makes up for by being quiet, secure and within walking distance of Cusco, Peru’s most stunning, and heavily touristed, colonial city, the capital of the Inca empire at the time of the Spanish conquest.
(13) Rudd's parents were originally from London, and his father was a TWA employee who moved around America but kept a semi-permanent base in Overland Park, Kansas.
(14) The cost will depend on whether the kit will go overland to the Pakistani port of Karachi or via countries bordering the north of Afghanistan.
(15) The UN does not have enough helicopters to deliver aid to Jonglei where overland travel is impossible in the rainy reason.
(16) He also is accused of fatally shooting 53-year-old Terri LaManno, who was visiting her mother at the retirement home in Overland Park.
(17) 8.56pm GMT Half-time emails "Er, that was a penalty," reckons Ben Overlander.
(18) My cousins helped me arrange the overland journey from Lebanon.
(19) Now they embark on the dangerous 2,500-mile journey overland through Africa and across Libya before making an equally hazardous crossing by sea to Italy on migrant boats.
(20) The contents of the bag are not known, nor why it was being taken overland across the border.