(n.) A robber that infests the road on foot; a highwayman; -- usually called a footpad.
(n.) The act of robbing on the highway.
(v. t.) To travel upon foot; to tread.
(v. i.) To travel heavily or slowly.
(v. i.) To rob on foot.
(v. i.) To wear a path by walking.
(n.) A soft, or small, cushion; a mass of anything soft; stuffing.
(n.) A kind of cushion for writing upon, or for blotting; esp., one formed of many flat sheets of writing paper, or layers of blotting paper; a block of paper.
(n.) A cushion used as a saddle without a tree or frame.
(n.) A stuffed guard or protection; esp., one worn on the legs of horses to prevent bruising.
(n.) A cushionlike thickening of the skin one the under side of the toes of animals.
(n.) A floating leaf of a water lily or similar plant.
(n.) A soft bag or cushion to relieve pressure, support a part, etc.
(n.) A piece of timber fixed on a beam to fit the curve of the deck.
(n.) A measure for fish; as, sixty mackerel go to a pad; a basket of soles.
(v. t.) To stuff; to furnish with a pad or padding.
(v. t.) To imbue uniformly with a mordant; as, to pad cloth.
Example Sentences:
(1) We describe an enzymatic fluorometric method for determining glucose concentrations in blood samples by analysis on a semi-solid surface (silicone-rubber pads).
(2) Specific antisera prepared in rabbits or in foot-pad-inoculated chickens were adequate for culture typing.
(3) The remaining fat pad was used for calculations of cell numbers in the fat cell and connective tissue cell compartment.
(4) A peculiar emphasis is given to the microarchitecture and functional significance of longitudinal muscle columns as a prevalent structural component of branch pads.
(5) The superficial bacterial flora were sampled by velvet pad imprints, and the deep flora were determined from whole skin biopsies.
(6) Lymphocytes obtained from lymph nodes draining foot pads infected with R. conorii or R. akari demonstrated cross-reactivity similar to that found with immune spleen cells.
(7) It is suggested that this is due to the fact that the small animals have discrete, elevated volar pads.
(8) We present our results with 8 free transfers of the toe pulp and demonstrate the successful restoration of a well-padded and sensitive fingertip.
(9) Some foot-pad dermatitis was still observed in poults fed levels of methionine more than adequate to meet the requirements for optimum growth and feed efficiency.
(10) Minor amounts were deposited in liver, kidneys and epididymal fat pads.
(11) Moontain Hostel is a new pad for skiers on a budget, with dorm beds from just €20 and private rooms from €60.
(12) Human chorionic somatomammotropin extracted and purified from placenta at term was proved to have a lipolytic action in the epididymal fat pad of rats.
(13) Many pharmacy departments in Michigan hospitals can substantially improve their adherence to ASHP and OSHA recommendations related to PADs.
(14) A foot-pad oedema model was used to investigate the presence of free radicals using a chemiluminescence method.
(15) Therefore, the plantar forces acting under the metatarsal heads of the 1st, 2nd and 5th rays and under the pads of the 1st and 2nd toes were measured during walking, so that with the aid of anthropometric information pertaining to the forefoot, reaction forces in the flexor tendons and in the joints could be estimated.
(16) Infections of mice with Mycobacterium leprae in one rear foot pad immunized them against a second infection in the other rear foot pad.
(17) Incorporation of glucose into fat pad glycogen and CO2 was decreased.
(18) In vitro attempts to demonstrate local activated macrophages in the foot pads of M. leprae infected mice failed, but, because of the technical problems encountered, do not preclude their presence.
(19) We performed comprehensive electrophysiologic studies and skeletal muscle histologic analysis in six patients with unilateral PAD and five control subjects matched for age and activity level.
(20) The fat pads were stimulated with continuous-pulse trains for 15 seconds via a hand-held bipolar electrode using constant current (10-15 mA), constant pulse width (0.02-0.05 msec), and at 6.6, 10, 20, 25, and 30 Hz.
Sketchbook
Definition:
(n.) A book of sketches or for sketches.
Example Sentences:
(1) He attended sessions for six years without once speaking, simply keeping a sketchbook which he later published.
(2) Drawing in a sketchbook,” he wrote, “teaches first to look, and then to observe and finally perhaps to discover … and it is then that inspiration might come.” It is particularly untimely for the museum to have introduced the diktat when it is about to unveil an exhibition devoted to the act of copying at the Venice Architecture Biennale.
(3) More information at visitdevon.co.uk • Kari Herbert is co-author of Explorers’ Sketchbooks: The Art of Discovery and Adventure (Thames & Hudson, £29.95).
(4) Autodesk SketchBook What we say: Apple’s iPad has tended to hog the limelight when it comes to artists and illustrators working on tablets, but Android is building up its own library of drawing and painting apps too.
(5) Although the journey to North Africa was Rauschenberg's idea, it profoundly affected Twombly: he brought back a sketchbook filled with motifs and studies of materials, and subsequently produced expressive abstract canvases whose titles were taken from the Moroccan towns Tiznit and Quarzazat.
(6) Painterly and Sketchbook have both been recommended by the Guardian's app reviewers , but there are many, many more.
(7) Sketchbook Ink Autodesk's SketchBook Ink drawing app was as warmly received on Android tablets as it had been on iPad.
(8) Facebook Twitter Pinterest SketchBook Ink for Android.
(9) Autodesk SketchBook was one of the best yet, with plenty of depth yet an accessible interface for the scribblers among us.
(10) SketchBook Pro SKETCHBOOK PRO £2.99 Published by computer graphics veteran Autodesk, SketchBook has quickly found a wide audience of casual scribblers and professional artists alike.
(11) A visit to the sprawling Victorian repository isn’t complete without clattering into a skinny-jeaned art student poring over their sketchbook, trying to render the muscular sinews of the Borghese Gladiator or capture the intricacies of a baroque fireplace.
(12) Some of the drawing and annotation functions within Samsung's apps such as S Note, SketchBook and Scrapbook could be useful for someone who can draw well, but they're lost on me.
(13) Here was a sketchbook Hitler had given him in the 1920s: designs for the rebuilding of the city of Linz, which the Führer-to-be (then only a dog soldier in civvies, an obscure war veteran without any political power) projected as a new world capital and had drawn in a heavy Wilhelmine baroque style (none of those huge white classical colonnades yet).
(14) Allowing students to stand in front of exhibits for hours on end, as they lovingly craft an image of that 1950s Playtex rubber girdle in their sketchbooks, just doesn’t allow the conveyor belt of visitors to flow fast enough.
(15) I remember my father drawing pictures of the prison in his sketchbook in order to do an etching of the fortifications, and being quickly pounced on by gun-toting guards.
(16) It was on a picture of my curvy sketchbook where I’d drawn a pic of a swimsuit I was going to make and hashtagged it “#beachbodyready,” she told the Guardian.
(17) An artistic triumph spanning three decades, the exhibition features more than 60 works by the Turner prize winner, from the ceramics that made him famous to his vast, imposing tapestries and impishly decorated sketchbooks.
(18) So I started drawing fish in my sketchbook, and then I started to realize that there was something in it."
(19) Renoir’s The Skiff I remember diligently trying to copy down in my school sketchbook, and I’m still trying to work out how Henry Moore painted those stormy waves .