(n.) A figured stamp, die, or punch, used by goldsmiths, cutlers, etc.
(n.) A short, upright piece of timber in framing; a short post; an intermediate stud.
(n.) A split log or heavy slab with the face smoothed; as, a floor made of puncheons.
(n.) A cask containing, sometimes 84, sometimes 120, gallons.
Example Sentences:
(1) But they were punctured by Puncheon yet again when the midfielder cut across the Everton defence and picked out Jerome inside the area.
(2) City had to grind out this latest success, initially scorched by the pace of Yannick Bolasie, Wilfried Zaha and Bakary Sako and grateful to Joe Hart’s flying save to deny Jason Puncheon after the interval.
(3) Jason Puncheon is a lovely, careful passer of the ball and here he out-Cesc’ed Chelsea’s own midfield creator for long periods of the game, strolling about to great effect in his central playmaker role.
(4) Jason Puncheon curled a free-kick just wide, Dwight Gayle headed over and Yannick Bolasie’s introduction made life more awkward for Calum Chambers.
(5) Jason Puncheon, on as a half-time substitute, cancelled out Juan Mata’s early penalty when his free-kick flicked off Daley Blind’s head in the 57th minute and Palace fancied their chances.
(6) Puncheon's long free-kick was met by Marouane Chamakh on the edge of the six-yard box, and although the substitute's header was saved by David Marshall, using his legs, the ball ran to Ledley who nudged it home, almost apologetically.
(7) Puncheon marked his new four-year contract at Selhurst Park by sweeping the set piece into the bottom corner.
(8) 9.23pm BST 65 min: Crystal Palace substitution: Dwight Gayle on for Jason Puncheon.
(9) If they had hoped to mount a recovery, then a failure to clear Puncheon’s free-kick – another conceded needlessly by Marko Arnautovic – 19 minutes from time scuppered their aspirations.
(10) Puncheon’s goal left Palace on the brink of the greatest result in their 110-year history and the glory could still have gone their way if another substitute, Dwight Gayle, had managed to beat De Gea with their best chance of extra-time, with the score at 1-1.
(11) Ince joins a long list of other new recruits: Joe Ledley from Celtic, Scott Dann from Blackburn, Wolves goalkeeper Wayne Hennessey, and Jason Puncheon of Southampton (whose loan deal has been made permanent).
(12) Mariappa, Puncheon and Chamakh are working some neat moves on that side though.
(13) The ball is eventually worked out to Puncheon, whose neat chipped pass looks to have put Murray in but his shot is blocked and the flag for offside was up anyway.
(14) Marouane Chamakh started ahead of Dwight Gayle, the newly signed Jason Puncheon and José Campaña, the highly regarded young midfielder bought from Sevilla.
(15) Puncheon jinked back inside the area; he felt Mata catch his standing foot and down he went.
(16) After the substitute Graziano Pellè, with a trademark hanging header from Cuco Martina’s cross, had swapped second-half goals with Jason Puncheon – whose clean left-footer was the pick of the afternoon – Mané outpaced Adrian Mariappa to win a penalty that was converted confidently by Ryan Bertrand.
(17) The temperature went up and, with United looking uncertain, it was no surprise when Puncheon fashioned the equaliser, after Smalling had conceded a free-kick 25 yards from goal.
(18) Honourable mentions also to our talented wide players, Yannick Bolasie and Jason Puncheon, who improved significantly as the season unfolded.
(19) The London club have freed up the space for Ince by turning Jason Puncheon's loan from Southampton into a £1.7m permanent transfer.
(20) 4.55pm BST 44 mins Palace almost get one back straight away as Puncheon curls the ball in for Jerome at the far post, which he just misses, though the linesman's flag is up.
Tertian
Definition:
(a.) Occurring every third day; as, a tertian fever.
(n.) A disease, especially an intermittent fever, which returns every third day, reckoning inclusively, or in which the intermission lasts one day.
(n.) A liquid measure formerly used for wine, equal to seventy imperial, or eighty-four wine, gallons, being one third of a tun.
Example Sentences:
(1) The resistance of Plasmodium falciparum, the cause of tertian malaria, to synthetic antimalarials, together with the resistance of the vector mosquitoes to insecticides, has resulted in a resurgence in the use of quinine and a search for new antimalarial agents.
(2) 68 blood samples from tertian malaria cases were examined; 67 (98.5%) were positive.
(3) In the light of two recent cases of severe central nervous system malaria due to neglect in chemoprophylaxis, the authors report the very marked recrudescence in imported malaria and draw attention to the frequency of cases due to P. falciparum, the agent of malignant tertian fever and of malignant episodes.
(4) No epidemic consequence of imported and introduced cases of tertian malaria in malariogenic areas was shown.
(5) The understanding of clinico-epidemiological phenomena of tertian malaria has been the subject of controversy.
(6) A mixture of a special kind is febris semitertiana: a continuous quotidian is accompanied by an intermittent tertian.
(7) In general tertian malaria is rarely fatal to adults, but in children the primary attack can be life threatening.
(8) Initial symptoms developed within one month after the end of exposition in 21 out of 23 patients infected by Plasmodium falciparum, but only in three out of twelve cases of tertian malaria.
(9) The course of induced tertian malaria has been studied in patients in psychoneurological hospitals in Moscow over a long period.
(10) Of 140 patients with malignant tertian malaria seen during 1956 to 1967 10 died.
(11) The import of carriers to malariogenic areas was found to cause a minimal risk of restoration and implantation of tertian malaria.
(12) Physicians should be aware that definite cure of malignant tertian malaria does not prevent future attacks of benign tertian malaria.
(13) Pronounced synchronization was observed when cultures were exposed to periodic elevations of temperature that simulated the 48-h fever cycle of tertian malaria.
(14) The 16S-like rRNA genes of S. muris and T. annulata are more similar to each other than either is to Plasmodium falciparum, the cause of malignant tertian malaria of humans or Plasmodium berghei, the agent of the commonly studied malaria of rodents.
(15) Only two species of plasmodia have been found: the quartan-like Plasmodium brasilianum and the tertian-like P. simium, but the possible presence of other species is not excluded.
(16) Only three of the 35 non-immune patients complied with the appropriate chemoprophylaxis; these three patients nevertheless developed tertian malaria (recurrences caused by "dormant" merozoites).
(17) An epidemic of tertian malaria in some coastal areas of The Netherlands resulted in the setting up of official measures in 1920.
(18) Between 1980 and 1985 falciparum malaria was diagnosed in 28 and tertian malaria in 17 patients.
(19) Lethal risk is 12 fold higher in Malignant tertian form than in the intermittent one.
(20) Had drugs been continued for one month probably not a single overt case of P. falciparum would have occurred.A primary attack of P. falciparum malaria is seldom, if ever, classical in that the fever is never tertian and may resemble clinically many other diseases.Children in boarding-schools returning from the tropics should be supplied with prophylactic tablets and instructions to the matron.