(n.) A contrivance somewhat in the form of an umbrella, by means of which a descent may be made from a balloon, or any eminence.
(n.) A web or fold of skin which extends between the legs of certain mammals, as the flying squirrels, colugo, and phalangister.
Example Sentences:
(1) Kiev said the jets were downed by a missile launched from Russian territory , and that the pilots had parachuted out.
(2) Two dogs, Dezik and Tsygan, survived a sub-orbital flight after their capsule parachuted them back to earth.
(3) A substantial percentage of female parachutists could not exert the maximum ripcord release pull force permitted by the relevant parachute specification.
(4) Eyewitnesses said the driver was wearing a black beret, indicating that he was not a member of the Parachute Regiment.
(5) At lower concentration, "parachute" and "butterfly" structures composed of two Hc molecules and one monoclonal immunoglobin G (IgG) molecule were obtained.
(6) Then the parachute unfurled and guided the vehicle to an ocean splashdown about three hours later.
(7) Welsh, but London-based, Jones's real offence to leftwingers - heirs to Nye Bevan - was to be a Blairite, "parachuted" into Blaenau Gwent.
(8) Dan Jarvis is Labour MP for Barnsley Central and a former officer in the Parachute Regiment
(9) The echocardiographic features recorded in a patient with a congenital anomaly, single papillary muscle (parachute mitral valve), were identical with those seen in patients with idiopathic hypertrophic subaortic stenosis (IHSS).
(10) Fifty-nine freefall parachutists completed a survey which dealt with parachuting experience, levels of perceived stress, sources of stress, episodes of altered consciousness, and use of hypnotic techniques in preparation for freefall.
(11) Hollande was parachuted into Corrèze shortly after his mentor, François Mitterrand, was elected in 1981.
(12) According to the newspaper, special forces personnel from the Royal Navy's Submarine Parachute Assistance Group were carrying out training jumps into the sea when the vessel approached.
(13) Ban’s spokesman, Stephane Dujarric, told reporters: “He hopes that a credible and thorough review will clarify the events and help prevent future recurrences.” Turkmen militiamen in Syria claimed to have shot the pilots as they descended on parachutes from the stricken Su-24 bomber.
(14) The anomalies involving the mitral valve were classified into 4 groups according to the different components of the valve: A) specimens with anomalies of the leaflets--2 cases with mitral cleft; B) those with anomalies of the commissures--1 case with a mitral gap; C) those with abnormalities of the chordae tendinae--2 cases of malattachment of the chordae tendinae to the ventricular septum and 2 with bridging chordae between the papillary muscles; and D) those with abnormalities of the papillary muscles--5 cases with a parachute valve, 10 with a "form fruste" of the parachute mitral valve (hypoplasia of one papillary muscle and short chordae tendinae) and 2 with abnormally placed papillary muscles, which reached the pulmonary annulus.
(15) RBS's share price was just 9p when he arrived in January 2009, three months after Hester had been parachuted into replace Sir Fred Goodwin .
(16) The other, who appeared to have deployed an emergency parachute, was airlifted to a hospital with serious injuries.
(17) A year ago it had reported a $4.2bn profit but since then Winters has been parachuted in to replace Peter Sands as chief executive .
(18) There had been parallels with Munich to all this, the Londoners parachuted into enemy territory with the vast majority hostile within a heaving crowd, though there was to be no magical finale.
(19) An attempt to evaluate parachute-drop related stress by determining the blood lipid profile (cholesterol, LDL, HDL, apo-A, apo-B, and triglycerides) is reported.
(20) One is how, when parachuted behind enemy lines, he landed on a cactus bush and was horribly injured.
Web
Definition:
(n.) A weaver.
(n.) That which is woven; a texture; textile fabric; esp., something woven in a loom.
(n.) A whole piece of linen cloth as woven.
(n.) The texture of very fine thread spun by a spider for catching insects at its prey; a cobweb.
(n.) A band of webbing used to regulate the extension of the hood.
(n.) A thin metal sheet, plate, or strip, as of lead.
(n.) The blade of a sword.
(n.) The blade of a saw.
(n.) The thin, sharp part of a colter.
(n.) The bit of a key.
(n.) A plate or thin portion, continuous or perforated, connecting stiffening ribs or flanges, or other parts of an object.
(n.) The thin vertical plate or portion connecting the upper and lower flanges of an lower flanges of an iron girder, rolled beam, or railroad rail.
(n.) A disk or solid construction serving, instead of spokes, for connecting the rim and hub, in some kinds of car wheels, sheaves, etc.
(n.) The arm of a crank between the shaft and the wrist.
(n.) The part of a blackmith's anvil between the face and the foot.
(n.) Pterygium; -- called also webeye.
(n.) The membrane which unites the fingers or toes, either at their bases, as in man, or for a greater part of their length, as in many water birds and amphibians.
(n.) The series of barbs implanted on each side of the shaft of a feather, whether stiff and united together by barbules, as in ordinary feathers, or soft and separate, as in downy feathers. See Feather.
(v. t.) To unite or surround with a web, or as if with a web; to envelop; to entangle.
Example Sentences:
(1) Experts on the red web share their views Read more Earlier this year student Ruslan Starostin posted an image poking fun at Putin on VKontakte.
(2) The latest annual report from the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) has revealed that there was 582,727 requests for phone, web browsing and location data – commonly known as “metadata” – that can reveal detailed information about a person’s personal lives and associations.
(3) One of the reasons for doing this study is to give a voice to women trapped in this epidemic,” said Dr Catherine Aiken, academic clinical lecturer in the department of obstetrics and gynaecology of the University of Cambridge, “and to bring to light that with all the virology, the vaccination and containment strategy and all the great things that people are doing, there is no voice for those women on the ground.” In a supplement to the study, the researchers have published some of the emails to Women on Web which reveal their fears.
(4) Effects of 4-aminomethyl-1-benzylpyrrolidin-2-one-hemifumarate (WEB 1881 FU), a novel pyrrolidinone nootropic, on acetylcholine (ACh) receptors and adrenoceptors were investigated using crude membranes of the rat brain.
(5) And of course, as the articles are shared far and wide across the apparently much-hated web, they become gospel to those who read them and unfortunately become quasi-religious texts to musicians of all stripes who blame the internet for everything that is wrong with their careers.
(6) The terminal web was prominent and the lateral plasma membranes were highly interdigitated.
(7) The rank order of potency was WEB 2086 congruent to L-652,731 greater than BN 52021 and was the same for the two cell types.
(8) Both responses were blocked by the PAF receptor antagonist WEB 2086.
(9) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Taylor Swift: Shake It Off Taylor Swift – 1989 Live web streams!
(10) One of my favorites, on the mission's "Participate" web page , is the "Be a Martian" virtual reality apps (web and mobile).
(11) The new development, which the Californian technology giant dubs "real-time search", aims to bring users more up-to-date information as they scour the web for information.
(12) The iPad is a 9.7in tablet computer with a virtual keyboard which can surf the web, do email, display ebooks and play video.
(13) The forms of lutein in the toe web were diester (66%0, free alcohol (26%), and monoester (8%) and their sensitivity to aflatoxin followed the same order.
(14) Cooper said the Guardian had led the field with the Web We Want series, but said it wasn’t just journalists who were targeted.
(15) The former Friends star Lisa Kudrow won the Webby for outstanding comedic performance as the star, co-writer and co-producer of online show Web Therapy.
(16) Turkey arrests 1,000 and suspends 9,100 police in new crackdown Read more It cited a law that allows it to block access to individual web pages or entire sites for the protection of public order, national security or the wellbeing of the public.
(17) There is a tangled web between Salazar, Nike, Farah and the Nike Oregon Project on one hand, and the British Athletics performance director, Neil Black, and head of endurance, Barry Fudge, on the other.
(18) The lung eosinophilia was not prevented by the cyclooxygenase inhibitors, indomethacin or PAF antagonists (WEB-2086 and L-652731) but was inhibited by methylprednisolone, the 5-LO inhibitor, U-66858 and a series of structural analogs of LTB4, U-75302, U-77692, U-75485 and U-78489.
(19) If a web has a low apex angle and the skin is elastic, the length-width ratio may be as great as 1.5:1.
(20) Signing up Round-robin emails encouraging web users to sign e-petitions have attracted hundreds of thousands of signatures.