(adv.) Aloft; above; in or attached to the ceiling or roof; in the story or upon the floor above; in the zenith.
Example Sentences:
(1) As May delivered her statement in the chamber, police helicopters hovered overhead and a police cordon remained in place around Westminster, but MPs from across the political spectrum were determined to show that they were continuing with business as usual.
(2) Overhead wire problems were causing delays on the east coast mainline into London King's Cross.
(3) Jesús Navas played a one-two with Touré down the right and from his awkward cross the England squad goalkeeper fumbled the ball inside his six-yard area from where Fernando scored with an overhead kick as dextrous as it was surprising.
(4) As fighter jets screamed overhead and tanks churned up the sand, it looked and sounded like the violent protests sweeping the Middle East had spread to the wealthy emirate of Abu Dhabi.
(5) A population based case control study of adult haematological malignancy and distance from, and magnetic fields associated with, overhead (OH) power lines has been carried out in the North West and Yorkshire regions of England.
(6) His body was found on the pavement of Portman Avenue, in East Sheen, an affluent west London suburb, shortly before 7.45am on 9 September last year, just after flight BA76 from Luanda, the Angolan capital, passed overhead.
(7) It cites a battery of reasons, including removing the market distortion and overheads involved in trying to set a price that covers an agency's costs and encouraging the uptake of information and the beneficial innovation that will result.
(8) I used to hear Canada geese sail overhead to a Stoke Newington reservoir behind where I lodged in my London days.
(9) The total lender's unit cost per request received, including direct labor, materials, fringe benefits, and overhead, was $1.526 for originals mailed postpaid by lender, and $1.534 for photocopies mailed.
(10) A Guardian analysis has found: A Luxembourg unit of Shire, the FTSE-100 drug firm behind attention deficit pill Adderall, received more than $1.9bn in interest income from other group companies in the last five years, paying corporation tax of less than $2m over four of the years despite minimal overheads.
(11) Nadal takes the advantage with two overhead smashes - one returned, the other not.
(12) Military helicopters hovered overhead as supporters and opponents of the Muslim Brotherhood clashed in the streets below.
(13) Canalization and drainage of rivers, streams and marches since the beginning of malaria outbreak, widespread use of pesticides during the antimalaria spraying campaigns, only overhead irrigation, permanent maintenance of the lined canal system, induced many ecological constraints to possible snail habitats.
(14) Yaya Toure picked him out with a forensic, scooped pass that he played with the outside of his right boot and Bony watched it drop before trying to score with an overhead kick.
(15) This analytical system has the advantage of providing data on distribution of element concentration in a given specimen in overhead view without involving destruction of the tissue architecture.
(16) Charities which play this game – especially those which go to such pains to show how little they spend on “overheads” – are complicit in the perpetuation of an idea which is harming the sector and ultimately harms society.
(17) For repositioning we used a modified overhead-extension (Extensionsreposition).
(18) At 6pm it sounds like a war zone outside the office: you can hear nothing but sirens and the almost continuous drone of helicopters overhead.
(19) I won’t forget Dean Ashton’s overhead kick , Adrián’s goal or singing Paolo Di Canio’s name for the last time at this special stadium.
(20) London Liverpool Street and lines to East Anglia will be affected for even longer, from December 24 until January 2, with rail diversions and the replacement buses in place to allow for work on signalling, track and overhead power lines.
Train
Definition:
(v. t.) To draw along; to trail; to drag.
(v. t.) To draw by persuasion, artifice, or the like; to attract by stratagem; to entice; to allure.
(v. t.) To teach and form by practice; to educate; to exercise; to discipline; as, to train the militia to the manual exercise; to train soldiers to the use of arms.
(v. t.) To break, tame, and accustom to draw, as oxen.
(v. t.) To lead or direct, and form to a wall or espalier; to form to a proper shape, by bending, lopping, or pruning; as, to train young trees.
(v. t.) To trace, as a lode or any mineral appearance, to its head.
(v. i.) To be drilled in military exercises; to do duty in a military company.
(v. i.) To prepare by exercise, diet, instruction, etc., for any physical contest; as, to train for a boat race.
(v.) That which draws along; especially, persuasion, artifice, or enticement; allurement.
(v.) Hence, something tied to a lure to entice a hawk; also, a trap for an animal; a snare.
(v.) That which is drawn along in the rear of, or after, something; that which is in the hinder part or rear.
(v.) That part of a gown which trails behind the wearer.
(v.) The after part of a gun carriage; the trail.
(v.) The tail of a bird.
(v.) A number of followers; a body of attendants; a retinue; a suite.
(v.) A consecution or succession of connected things; a series.
(v.) Regular method; process; course; order; as, things now in a train for settlement.
(v.) The number of beats of a watch in any certain time.
(v.) A line of gunpowder laid to lead fire to a charge, mine, or the like.
(v.) A connected line of cars or carriages on a railroad.
(v.) A heavy, long sleigh used in Canada for the transportation of merchandise, wood, and the like.
(v.) A roll train; as, a 12-inch train.
Example Sentences:
(1) Circuit weight training does not exacerbate resting or exercise blood pressure and may have beneficial effects.
(2) The Trans-Siberian railway , the greatest train journey in the world, is where our love story began.
(3) Pretraining consumption did not predict (among animals) post-training consumption.
(4) Inadequate treatment, caused by a lack of drugs and poorly trained medical attendants, is also a major problem.
(5) Training in social skills specific to fostering intimacy is suggested as a therapeutic step, and modifications to the social support measure for future use discussed.
(6) Accuracy of discrimination of letters at various preselected distances was determined each session while Ortho-rater examinations were given periodically throughout training.
(7) In the case of nonspecific loading highly trained individuals may have low VT values close to the level characteristic for normal subjects.
(8) The results suggest that RPE cannot be used reliably as a surrogate for direct pulse measurement in exercise training of persons with acute dysvascular amputations.
(9) A 24-h test trial employing a dry target demonstrated a robust memory for the training manifested in passive avoidance behavior.
(10) Consequently, the present data indicate that training-induced changes in the CS-evoked activity of PFCm cells are significantly related to aversively conditioned bradycardia in rabbits.
(11) Thus, brain NE levels after training were not predictive of retention performance in amygdala-implanted or -stimulated animals.
(12) In a comparative study 11 athletes and 11 untrained students were investigated at rest, of these 6 trained and 5 untrained individuals during exercise as well.
(13) Before training, SV at VO2max was 9% lower than during exercise at 50% VO2max (P less than 0.05).
(14) I hope I can play a major part in really highlighting the need for far more extensive family violence training within all organisations that deal with women and children, including the police and the department of human services,” Batty said.
(15) Participants were selected from existing classes forming a weight training, aerobic exercise and activity control group.
(16) In common with other studies, we found that the injury occurred in competitive runners, especially females, and was likely to develop during competitive races or intensive training sessions.
(17) Little difference exists between the proportion of programs that offer training in first-trimester techniques and the proportion that train in second-trimester techniques.
(18) There was no significant correlation between mitochondrial volume and number of SO fibers following endurance exercise training.
(19) Following mass disasters and individual deaths, dentists with special training and experience in forensic odontology are frequently called upon to assist in the identification of badly mutilated or decomposed bodies.
(20) Neuromuscular transmission was measured using "train-of-four" stimulation.