(n.) One who pitches anything, as hay, quoits, a ball, etc.; specifically (Baseball), the player who delivers the ball to the batsman.
(n.) A sort of crowbar for digging.
(n.) A wide-mouthed, deep vessel for holding liquids, with a spout or protruding lip and a handle; a water jug or jar with a large ear or handle.
(n.) A tubular or cuplike appendage or expansion of the leaves of certain plants.
Example Sentences:
(1) They could go out and trade for a pitcher such as the New York Mets’ Bartolo Colón , an obvious choice despite his 41 years, but he would come with an $11m price tag for next season and have to pass through the waiver wires process first – considering the wily mood Billy Beane is in this year, the A’s could be the team that blocks such a move.
(2) That is the question facing Major League Baseball pitchers who are faced with the horrendous looking but protective hat that made its debut this week.
(3) Runners at the corners for Daniel Descalso who he hits a hard ground ball right to Barmes at shortstop (not second base), he steps on the bag at second to get Freese for one out, fires to first to get the second out, and that's what we call an inning ending double play...or sometimes we call it a pitchers best friend.
(4) Electromyography and high-speed film were used to examine the muscle activity in the elbows of pitchers with medial collateral ligament insufficiency compared to the activity in uninjured elbows.
(5) 2.05am BST Cardinals 0 - Red Sox 0, top of the 4th We have a pitcher's duel ladies and gentlemen!
(6) Their acquisition of starting pitcher Ubaldo Jimenez however, well, that’s a wild one.
(7) When hall-of-fame pitcher Tom Glavine signed with the Mets, he agreed to build a new baby nursery in team-mate Joe McEwing’s home for his No47.
(8) 1.51am GMT Cardinals 2 - Red Sox 1, top of 5th AlisonW (@AlisonW) #RedSox finally doing what they do best: making the pitcher make more pitches.
(9) 1.06am GMT Red Sox 0 - Cardinals 0, bottom of the 3rd And Clay faces Lance Lynn to start off the third, and the Superman-character named pitcher works a decent at-bat, working the count to 2-2 and then fouling off the next two pitches and taking ball three to a full count.
(10) Matt Cain became the latest Giants All-Star pitcher to slide , joining Barry Zito , who started the trend, and Tim Lincecum, whose 4.37 ERA was rewarded with a two-year $35m deal, a curious decision from the front office.
(11) Five of the best S. flava : bright yellow trumpet pitchers and sulphur-yellow flowers.
(12) All of the pitchers returned to professional or college league baseball without recurrence of the ulcer.
(13) All four pitchers returned to professional baseball the year following surgical excision of the bursa.
(14) I will refrain on saying my thoughts on the National League and pitchers hitting, but all I'm saying here is that maybe it would have been more fun to see a David Oritz or Victor Martinez hitting there instead.
(15) The tying run is coming to the plate and a new pitcher is coming to the mound... Jon Smalldon (@jonsmalldon) Brandon Crawford!
(16) Manager Mike Scioscia may have one-time slugger Josh Hamilton back in time for the postseason, should he heal from rib inflammation ( if they even need him ); same goes for starting pitcher Matt Shoemaker, who has carried the team down the stretch and is recovering from a mild left rib-cage strain , not to mention his rookie hazing role as a Saudi oil tycoon.
(17) 1.05am BST Jake Peavy Dave Leese (@dl_1009) @Busfield @LengelDavid I especially like watching a pitcher who's been declared legally blind, have a go at hitting a 90mph fastball October 26, 2013 Yes, the Sox starter is legally blind without corrective lenses.
(18) These pitchers have had symptoms for some time with progressive loss of full extension of the elbow and increasing pain.
(19) Sox on the Beach (@SoxontheBeach) Also, why are the A's fans behind home plate waving towels when THEIR pitcher is in the mound?
(20) Even more so if "rookie" Hyun-jin Ryu doesn't get his act together tonight - the first Korean pitcher to start in the playoffs looked nothing like the impressive hurler he was in the regular season, getting hit hard by the Braves in the NLDS.
Tubular
Definition:
(a.) Having the form of a tube, or pipe; consisting of a pipe; fistular; as, a tubular snout; a tubular calyx. Also, containing, or provided with, tubes.
Example Sentences:
(1) It is concluded that during exposure to simulated microgravity early signs of osteoporosis occur in the tibial spongiosa and that changes in the spongy matter of tubular bones and vertebrae are similar and systemic.
(2) Measurement of urinary GGT levels represents a means by which proximal tubular disease in equidae could be diagnosed in its developmental stages.
(3) We studied 15 renal transplant recipients for evidence of tubular dysfunction.
(4) The role of adrenergic agents in augmenting proximal tubular salt and water flux, was studied in a preparation of freshly isolated rabbit renal proximal tubular cells in suspension.
(5) Diminished CMD was most common with AR (7 of 12) but was also seen with acute tubular necrosis (2 of 6) and cyclosporin toxicity (2 of 3).
(6) Histopathological studies confirmed that mice fed 933cu-rev died from bilateral renal cortical tubular necrosis consistent with toxic insult, perhaps due to Shiga-like toxins.
(7) Our study suggests that a major part of the renal antimineralocorticoid activity of spironolactone may be attributable to minor sulfur-containing metabolites or their precursors having a high renal clearance that affords access to their site of activity via the renal tubular fluid.
(8) Mitochondria with tubular christae are described for the first time in such a tumour.
(9) In this study, we examined renal tubular cell handling of digoxin and ouabain using LLC-PK1 cells, a model of proximal renal tubular cells.
(10) The present results suggest that TMB-8 blocks twitches by preventing the release of Ca++ ions bound to the intracellular surface of the t-tubular membrane which is often called the store of 'trigger-calcium' ions.
(11) Tubular and colloid carcinomas were more likely to present with T1 lesions, hormone receptor positivity, and node negative status than the other histologic subtypes.
(12) Persistence of hypercalcaemia combined with an increase in tubular reabsorption of calcium in response to cellulose phosphate may be of diagnostic value in suspected primary hyperparathyroidism.
(13) Furthermore, 75% of cases of intestinal metaplasia in gastric mucosa and 30% of tubular adenomas, 50% of villous adenomas and 70% of tubulovillous adenomas in the colon co-expressed Lea and Leb antigens.
(14) This also implies that both tubular secretion and tubular reabsorption are susceptible to competition between similar substrates for a common carrier site.
(15) The blockage of the tubular system by the calcium oxalate deposits leads to a temporary reversible increase in serum urea and serum creatinine.
(16) After 35 and 43 days, spermatogenesis was complete in 99.6% of the tubular cross sections, and most tubular cross sections were in stages IV-VII of the cycle of the seminiferous epithelium.
(17) Serial sections from over a hundred such structures show that these are tubular structures and that the 'test-tube and ring-shaped' forms described in the literature are no more than profiles one expects to see when a tubular structure is sectioned.
(18) Experimental data were analysed by a 2-compartment nonlinear model that describes both tubular secretion and cellular uptake in Michaelis-Menten terms.
(19) The findings support the assumption that changes in tubular Na+ transport probably participate in the changes of tubular amino acid transport in elderly individuals.
(20) At 4 degrees C or after fixation, anti-renal tubular brush border vesicle (BBV) IgG bound diffusely to the surface of GEC and to coated pits.