(n.) One of certain upright timbers on the bilge ways, used to support a vessel in launching.
(n.) An upright support or guide fastened at the bottom only.
Example Sentences:
(1) Excessive poppet wear has also been noted in the aortic position; poppet embolization has occurred on 2 occasions, and a third patient was found, at the time of reoperation for periprosthetic leak, to have opppet wear sufficient to permit embolization.
(2) All four poppets were densely coated with biological debris and microthrombi.
(3) The projected probability of poppet escape using all 11 patients is 12.2% at 5 years; the 70% confidence bands of projected probability of poppet escape separate from those of the risk of re-replacement at 61 months.
(4) Fame Academy – the Blue Peter-like BBC attempt to ape Cowell's more Magpie-esque shows – built Sneddon up because, unlike those ITV poppets, he wrote his own songs.
(5) Several unique features of escaped mitral poppet are discussed.
(6) Embolization of a prosthetic valve poppet, a rare complication following valve replacement, has been, until recently, generally fatal.
(7) The first generation of aortic ball-valve prostheses, used until 1965, was associated with poppet damage owing to fatty infiltration of the silicone rubber ball, a phenomenon termed ball variance.
(8) To facilitate the insertion of prosthetic valves, holders are available which keep the poppet out of the area of suture insertion or keep the open ends of the struts occluded.
(9) The incidence of disabling thromboembolism (42%) and poppet failure (21%) is high with these early models.
(10) Although hemolytic anemia of significant degree was not observed in any of the 16 patients who died late, the occurrence of renal hemosiderosis in 13 of the 16 patients indicates that the poppet disc prosthesis is considerably traumatic to erythrocytes.
(11) Norway Aligned to the Viking Empire bloc Alexander Rybak's song Fairytale is the bookies' favourite partly because Alexander is such a poppet and also because his song is as nelly as the proverbial elephant.
(12) We believe this to be the second reported case of survival following successful reoperation for embolization of a prosthetic poppet.
(13) Ball variance was discovered at necropsy in two patients and clinically in one in whom the poppet was replaced.
(14) Similar measurements were obtained for two unused silicone rubber poppets.
(15) M-mode echocardiography showed dense, linear echoes from the prosthetic valve between the interventricular septum and the mitral valve, along with loss of normal poppet motion within the aortic root.
(16) Interference to poppet movement is attributable to the prosthesis's being too large for the ascending aorta or left ventricular cavity in which it resided.
(17) Eleven patients (5 since the date of follow-up inquiry) have suffered poppet escape, 9 of whom died.
(18) Examination of pressure tracings and cineangiographic films suggested only minor interference with valve poppet movement induced by the catheter transversing the valve.
(19) In contrast, thrombi were observed on a prosthesis in 14 of the 16 patients who died late (4 to 47 months [average 21] postoperatively), but in none did the thrombi appear of sufficient size to alter poppet function.
(20) However, the presystolic murmur was associated with early closure movement of the presthetic poppet.
Timber
Definition:
(n.) A certain quantity of fur skins, as of martens, ermines, sables, etc., packed between boards; being in some cases forty skins, in others one hundred and twenty; -- called also timmer.
(n.) The crest on a coat of arms.
(v. t.) To surmount as a timber does.
(n.) That sort of wood which is proper for buildings or for tools, utensils, furniture, carriages, fences, ships, and the like; -- usually said of felled trees, but sometimes of those standing. Cf. Lumber, 3.
(n.) The body, stem, or trunk of a tree.
(n.) Fig.: Material for any structure.
(n.) A single piece or squared stick of wood intended for building, or already framed; collectively, the larger pieces or sticks of wood, forming the framework of a house, ship, or other structure, in distinction from the covering or boarding.
(n.) Woods or forest; wooden land.
(n.) A rib, or a curving piece of wood, branching outward from the keel and bending upward in a vertical direction. One timber is composed of several pieces united.
(v. t.) To furnish with timber; -- chiefly used in the past participle.
(v. i.) To light on a tree.
(v. i.) To make a nest.
Example Sentences:
(1) A grassed roof, solar panels to provide hot water, a small lake to catch rainwater which is then recycled, timber cladding for insulation ... even the pitch and floodlights are "deliberately positioned below the level of the surrounding terrain in order to reduce noise and light pollution for the neighbouring population".
(2) Navalny, represented by two defence lawyers, will argue that he did not lead a criminal group to embezzle 16m roubles (£333,000) from Kirovles, a state-run timber firm, while advising the region's liberal governor, Nikita Belykh.
(3) As the houses are lightweight and timber-framed, they don’t need foundations.
(4) RSL trying to get their own flowing passing game going now, but the Timbers looking tenacious in midfield to break it up.
(5) Kitchens will be installed, along with new carpets or timber floors.
(6) Sophie Jackson, of Museum of London Archaeology , said: "The waterlogged conditions left by the Walbrook stream have given us layer upon layer of Roman timber buildings, fences and yards, all beautifully preserved and containing amazing personal items, clothes and even documents – all of which will transform our understanding of the people of Roman London."
(7) An undulating lightweight roof is supported by 211 narrow steel columns, sheltering a glass box holding the cafe and shop, and a chestnut timber-covered box holding the displays.
(8) Along the way he also reached the final of the US Open Cup, and in the MLS Cup dispatched the holders LA Galaxy in the conference semi-finals, before beating Porter’s Timbers in both the home and road legs of the Western final (his team had beaten Portland in the US Open Cup semis too).
(9) While BoKlok houses have a limited choice of colour and cladding types, Persimmon's Space4 arm has come up with more than 1,000 different CAD-designed timber-frame house types.
(10) This station, with its quarter-mile, 300kph trains, a huge cocktail bar, a branch of Foyles stocked with 20,000 titles, a smart Searcy's restaurant and brasserie, independent coffee bars, floors covered in timber and stone rather than sticky British airport-style carpet, new gothic carvings, newly cast gothic door handles, and a nine-metre-high sculpture of lovers meeting under the station clock?
(11) Big names and timber were bracketed under Margaret Thatcher's government in the late 1980s, when private investment was encouraged to promote planting.
(12) Timber revenues funded Charles Taylor’s regime during Liberia’s brutal civil war.
(13) It's up to us to take advantage of it when soccer has inspired our country.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Seattle Sounders' Clint Dempsey leaps in the air after scoring against the Portland Timbers.
(14) Here's what happened the last time these two sides played here in mid-October: Facebook Twitter Pinterest Share Share this post Facebook Twitter Pinterest close 3.27am GMT Preamble Hello, and welcome to the Western Conference semi-final second leg between Portland Timbers and Seattle Sounders , in which Portland try to defend a slim lead and Seattle continue their annual quest to make a second leg playoff comeback actually count.
(15) Colbeck told the Australian the protected listing was a “sham” because it locked up areas of plantation timber, as well as pristine old-growth forest.
(16) These factors are often interlinked – trees are cut down for timber and the cleared land can be used for grazing cattle.
(17) He is the Princess Di of the political world …" Or of Margaret Thatcher 's trusty bulldog Bernard Ingham: "Brick-red of face, beetling of brow, seemingly built to withstand hurricanes, Sir Bernard resembled a half-timbered bomb shelter."
(18) At the present time, this timber constitutes the most frequently commercially exported African wood.
(19) It's mainly down to the pink phenolic foam insulation that is injected into the timber-house frame and combined with a thin membrane, while wood is a good natural insulator in itself.
(20) In the past, he explains, 'encroachers' failed to respect the park's boundaries, sneaking into the forest to gather firewood and fell trees for timber.