(n.) Any detached mass of masonry, whether insulated or supporting one side of an arch or lintel, as of a bridge; the piece of wall between two openings.
(n.) Any additional or auxiliary mass of masonry used to stiffen a wall. See Buttress.
(n.) A projecting wharf or landing place.
Example Sentences:
(1) In north Wales, Llandudno town council has had to cancel its annual display at short notice after it was told it would have to pay at least £22,000 to insure the wonderful Victorian pier in case of a fire.
(2) The centre-left PD party, for example, is in turmoil - with leader Pier Luigi Bersani resigning over the weekend after both his favoured candidates for the presidency were rejected.
(3) In between, I watch a parade of Berliner life: women chain-smoking in the pool’s trademark wicker chairs, fully clothed men sipping a morning beer in the 26C heat, kids jumping off the diving pier and screaming down the large waterslide.
(4) The Piers Harris Self-Concept Scale was administered to 174 fourth and sixth graders, half of whom attended SDP schools and half control schools.
(5) For all that it might suggest seaside breaks and afternoons whiled away on the pier, the Norfolk town of Great Yarmouth does not feel like a happy place.
(6) You think that your experiences are anything compared to mine?” In response to the recording journalist, Piers Morgan tweeted: “This tape is outrageous.
(7) Model Katie Price's interview with Piers Morgan, in which she spoke about her breakup with husband Peter Andre and her recent miscarriage, brought 4.5 million viewers to ITV1 on Saturday, 11 July.
(8) "I ask because I saw Piers Morgan on TV suggesting that Arsenal were the best team ever because they went a season without losing.
(9) Two reservation groups, matched for age and sex, received four administration of a personal (Piers-Harris) and an Indian self-concept scale, in a repeated measures counterbalanced design, varying language and order.
(10) "I have a lot of admiration for Rupert Murdoch personally," Brown told GQ's interviewer, Piers Morgan.
(11) Abbado's land cascades down a steep slope into the Mediterranean, and you have to negotiate a series of crazily angled wooden walkways, designed by him, to get to his beach and the pier for his yacht.
(12) Jeremy’s older brother Piers – a self-employed weather forecaster – was a prime example.
(13) Is it any wonder that Piers Morgan has moved to the US?
(14) He would soon find strong allies in Pier Luigi Bersani, leader of the Italian left, who would sweep Italy off her feet, and in the German Social Democrats who would finally oust Angela Merkel from power.
(15) That wasn't a problem, as long as there was a high turnover of new initiates, all figuratively staggering out of Margate pier at six in the morning, convinced they had just discovered the future of music.
(16) Piers Morgan has spent a bitter week hitting out at his former CNN colleague Anderson Cooper, blaming the dismal ratings for Piers Morgan Tonight on Cooper’s poor lead-in.
(17) Because – and I hate to break this to Piers – if you are emasculated by the notion of a woman making her own reproductive choices, then you were never much of a man to begin with.
(18) What's always puzzled me about the charge sheet against Boris is the Piers Gaveston problem.
(19) Compared with the other designs, prostheses with nonrigid connectors at the pier exhibited greater apical and horizontal stress particularly with one-point loading on the pier.
(20) There are bad days, increasingly so for them, but then there are days like this that break new boundaries of cataclysmic play and make those of us who predicted a close series seem like end-of-the-pier charlatan soothsayers.
Stanchion
Definition:
(n.) A prop or support; a piece of timber in the form of a stake or post, used for a support or stay.
(n.) Any upright post or beam used as a support, as for the deck, the quarter rails, awnings, etc.
(n.) A vertical bar for confining cattle in a stall.
Example Sentences:
(1) Slight modification of the stanchion housing has increased the longevity of the preparations.
(2) In south Texas it is necessary to stanchion animals in order to elicit patent infestation during summer months.
(3) Conception rate was 2.9% higher in stanchion than loose housed herds and 2.3% higher in grade than registered cows.
(4) Three inseminators probed cows during February--April, 1977, in nine herds in stanchion barn housing.
(5) A typical farm with a stanchion barn had manure removal costs of $0.348 per cow per day.
(6) Coincident with the developing infestation was a suppression of T-cell function that appeared to be stress-related as a result of stanchioning.
(7) Yes, injuries can happen at any time, but that’s little comfort for the Indiana Pacers whose 2014-15 title hopes, as meager as they were, essentially died the moment George’s leg got caught in a Las Vegas stanchion.
(8) Serum concentrations of thyroxine (T4), beta-carotene (beta K), vitamin A and conception after the first insemination on the zero, sixth and 21st day were studied in 63 heifers fed synthetic beta K supplement in groups I to IV at stanchion housing and low-carotene diet.
(9) More dystocia was experienced on farms where the stated policy was to administer extra vitamin D to dry cows, where dry cows were housed with the milking cows, or where calving occurred in maternity pens rather than stanchions.
(10) Starting on Days 27, 40, 68 and 82 after bolus administration, four replicates were confined to individual tick-collection stanchions for 4 to 5-day periods.
(11) However, stanchioned animals exhibit varied levels of susceptibility to infestation, suggesting that the noted variability may be influenced by the host immune response.
(12) Accident reconstruction revealed that the victim was the driver of the automobile and was transected by the highway sign stanchion as he protruded through the passenger side window of his moving vehicle.
(13) 2, lambs (n = 6 per treatment) were given a 6-h RIS treatment and control lambs remained in their home stanchions (CON).
(14) To study the effect of individual housing on behavior and adrenocortical activity, eight bulls were moved to a novel housing environment and subjected to 5 weeks of tethering in individual stanchions with a concrete and partially slatted floor.
(15) Heifers were randomly allotted to receive either 80, 100 or 120% of the National Research Council (NRC) requirements for energy, protein and dry matter intake for 139 d. Heifers were fed their respective diets in groups in outdoor lots for 114 d at which time individual feeding of diets was initiated in a stanchion barn.
(16) The results indicate that lying down in tether stanchions is aversive to the heifers and avoided as much as possible.
(17) Daytime activity of four lactating Holstein cows housed in total confinement in stanchion stalls for about 14 wk was observed continuously, and activities such as eating, drinking, resting, ruminating, and socializing were recorded.
(18) Lambs were stanchioned individually in environmental rooms; photoperiod treatments commenced on that day (d -14).
(19) Cows that were housed in stanchion barns were about twice as likely to be infested (24.7%) as were those in free stalls (11.1%).
(20) In this study, animals were infested with Psoroptes ovis while in stanchions.