(n.) Something which hangs or depends; something suspended; a hanging appendage, especially one of an ornamental character; as to a chandelier or an eardrop; also, an appendix or addition, as to a book.
(n.) A hanging ornament on roofs, ceilings, etc., much used in the later styles of Gothic architecture, where it is of stone, and an important part of the construction. There are imitations in plaster and wood, which are mere decorative features.
(n.) One of a pair; a counterpart; as, one vase is the pendant to the other vase.
(n.) A pendulum.
(n.) The stem and ring of a watch, by which it is suspended.
Example Sentences:
(1) The reservoir cannula Oxymizer Pendant (Chad-Therapeutics Inc.) is a nasal prong system incorporating a pendant reservoir which stores oxygen during expiration and delivers it as a bolus at the onset of inspiration.
(2) Regarding the pendant phenyl ring, diverse substitution patterns were investigated.
(3) As the number of basic amino acids on the pendant is increased from one to five a 4.7 fold enhancement in the adsorption capacity is seen for arginine while a 9.3 fold enhancement is obtained for lysine.
(4) We evaluated this pendant conserving nasal cannula (PNC) in seven hypoxemic patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
(5) Two types of polycations with pendant active groups were synthesized: one is polymethacrylate containing pendant biguanide units, and the other is poly(vinylbenzyl ammonium chloride).
(6) Model building allows a structure that could stack to form a tunnel with a lipophilic exterior and hydrophilic interior and flexible internal arms formed by the pendant C-terminal glutamine residue.
(7) The calculated complex stabilities of two hitherto unsynthesized covalently constrained DTPA-derivatives and a DOTA-derivative bearing phenoxy groups as pendant arms indicate that these may form Gd(III) complexes with sufficient stability for use in magnetic resonance imaging techniques.
(8) She points to her chest, where she is wearing a post-it note, right under her heart-shaped pendant, bearing Mladic's name.
(9) The polymeric material incorporates the heparin segments as pendant moieties such that their essential functional groups and structural features for specific binding with the selective serine protease coagulation factor inhibitor antithrombin III are preserved.
(10) The photographs in this exhibition showing young Italians in north London or the Jewish woman holding the family pendant she hid in her shoe while in Auschwitz broaden our understanding of the migratory patterns that have energised Britain beyond that particular wave at a time when so much of the immigration is now from Europe.
(11) When patients do PLB they may not receive full oxygen-saving benefit of the pendant.
(12) Love and Treasure follows a peacock pendant on its path from Salzburg in 1945 to present-day Budapest and Israel, then back to 1913 Budapest.
(13) P3FFA, in which fluorines are substituted at the end of the pendant alkyl ester, showed poor mechanical properties.
(14) The apical dendrites of the normal pyramidal cells grow by monochotomous branching on random segments and have much more spines on the first order segments, the apical dendrites of the improperly oriented pyramidal cells grow by branching on pendant arcs (terminal growth model), and have fewer spines.
(15) Oligomers containing pendant isocyanate groups were synthesized from various vinyl monomers, m-isopropenyldimethylbenzyl isocyanate (TMI), and 2-isocyanatoethyl methacrylate (IEM).
(16) By inverting the applicator, the samples are brought into close vicinity to the gel surface and the pendant droplets expand by capillary attraction into the slits between the glass and gel with resultant even distribution across the lanes of 2.5 or 7 mm width.
(17) Mourners at the farewell for Great Train Robber Ronnie Biggs, who died last month aged 84 , had been asked by his son not to wear black "or carry any offensive or aggressive jewellery", and if there were any of the knuckleduster pendants that have appeared at some recent criminal funerals, they were hard to spot.
(18) Her mother, Donna, who wears a photo of Vicki on a square pendant around her neck, and 18-year-old brother, Matthew, were present at the hearing.
(19) The enzyme also degraded glucuronoarabinoxylans derived from maize cell walls to yield a major oligomeric species containing a single glucuronosyl side chain and a single unsubstituted beta 1----4Xyl pendant terminal.
(20) The viscosity measurement of the mixture of Thiokol LP-2, lead monoxide, and di-butyl phthalate was performed at the rates of shear ranged from 10(1.5) to 10(3.9) sec-1 at 20 degrees C. The viscosity of the mixture progressively increases after spatulation of the materials but yield value does not appear for the time being before setting, that is, the infinite network forming via the pendant SH groups could not take place until the most of SH groups were consumed, attributed to low concentration of poly-functional prepolymer in the liquid polymer.
Rope
Definition:
(n.) A row or string consisting of a number of things united, as by braiding, twining, etc.; as, a rope of onions.
(n.) A large, stout cord, usually one not less than an inch in circumference, made of strands twisted or braided together. It differs from cord, line, and string, only in its size. See Cordage.
(n.) The small intestines; as, the ropes of birds.
(v. i.) To be formed into rope; to draw out or extend into a filament or thread, as by means of any glutinous or adhesive quality.
(v. t.) To bind, fasten, or tie with a rope or cord; as, to rope a bale of goods.
(v. t.) To connect or fasten together, as a party of mountain climbers, with a rope.
(v. t.) To partition, separate, or divide off, by means of a rope, so as to include or exclude something; as, to rope in, or rope off, a plot of ground; to rope out a crowd.
(v. t.) To lasso (a steer, horse).
(v. t.) To draw, as with a rope; to entice; to inveigle; to decoy; as, to rope in customers or voters.
(v. t.) To prevent from winning (as a horse), by pulling or curbing.
Example Sentences:
(1) Old fishing nets and briny ropes enclose the gardens, and lines of washing flap in the Atlantic breeze.
(2) The blue skipping rope – that’s the key to this race.” My eight-year-old daughter looked at me like I was mad … but when it came time for the year 3 skipping race, she did as she was told – and duly chalked up a glorious personal best in third place.
(3) Right now, with Kabila already 10 years in power and looking immovable, despotism seems to have democracy on the ropes.
(4) The rope suddenly breaks in Götterdämmerung, and that's the end of their role – they can no longer foresee the future because the structured and predictable world of the gods is about to be replaced by the chaos of human existence.
(5) On the contrary, a plant with a THC level below 50 per cent of the cannabinoids and 0.3 per cent of the dried substance, in addition to a low level of total cannabinoids, has low intoxicant potential and can be used in industry for the production of oil and rope.
(6) Look,” taking off her headscarf and exposing her neck, “they strangled me with a rope.
(7) Canelo throws a huge right hook, but it only connects with the ropes as Mayweather dances away.
(8) There are some difficult sections but there are ropes to hold on to, so as long as you're wearing good trekking shoes you should be fine.
(9) Six systems for defining and evaluating disease activity in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) (the Ropes system, the National Institutes of Health [NIH] system, the New York Hospital for Special Surgery system, the British Isles Lupus Assessment Group [BILAG] scale, the University of Toronto SLE Disease Activity Index [SLE-DAI], and the Systemic Lupus Activity Measure [SLAM]) were tested on 25 SLE patients who were selected to represent a range of disease activity.
(10) Treatment of cells with 2,4-D (2.5 mM) or 2,4,5-T (1.25 mM) for 20 h resulted in severe MT aggregation and the appearance of large bundles, which were organized in a rope-like structure in the former and a dramatic octopus-like pattern in the latter.
(11) Canelo is back on the ropes taking a series of Mayweather combinations.
(12) I also present a method for teaching this system to residents that makes use of a piece of cotton or nylon rope, a cotton mop refill, and the end of a garden rake.
(13) 1 Muhammad Ali's 'rope-a-dope' Ali's "rope-a-dope" plan for 1974's Rumble in the Jungle – his fight against unbeaten George Foreman for the world heavyweight title – was one of the riskiest strategies ever seen in boxing.
(14) Despite the fact that the children evidenced as a group high self-concept at the outset, a significant improvement on this measure appeared after the jump-rope regimen.
(15) Five Rhesus Monkeys (Macaca mulatta), a suitable nonhuman model, performed 5 months of rope-climbing exercise.
(16) We drive to the seafront, where two fishermen are toiling to the rear of the beach, turning cogs that wind a rope attached to their boat to tug it in from the sea over wooden planks.
(17) Then the ropes and helmets came out; my first rock-climbing lesson.
(18) Suddenly, we were back in the age of ropes and pulleys and brute strength to deliver her into the hands of the mechanised world.
(19) Seventy-seven flexor tendon lesions in zone I have been reinserted by the "rope down" technique using the Jennings barb-wire.
(20) For seven sweltering rounds, against all prognoses, Ali allowed Foreman, the brutish, one-blow Goliath, actually to punch himself out on his arms, as Ali himself lay on the ropes, head back as if out of a bedroom window to check if the cat was on the roof.