(n.) The art of making fireworks; the manufacture and use of fireworks; pyrotechny.
Example Sentences:
(1) Leadership is not always about pyrotechnics at EU summits or staying one step ahead of the posse.
(2) It wasn’t just that she was overawed by the spectacle, although she was: stuff I took for granted – lasers, pyrotechnics, confetti cannons, all the usual bells and whistles of a big pop show – were a constant source of overwhelming sensory overload.
(3) Breathtaking motorbike stunts, laser effects, rock music and pyrotechnics: the story of the second world war has never looked so sexy.
(4) That the Turks shot down the jet and did so within 17 seconds – with the president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan , saying he gave the order to fire himself – suggests very strongly they were waiting for a Russian plane to come into or close enough to Turkish airspace with the aim of delivering a rather pyrotechnic message.
(5) KC look ready to lay siege - but they need to be careful not to be caught on the break... 2.11am GMT 1 min It's very misty inside the Cauldron, but that's a result of a lot of pre-game pyrotechnics.
(6) Sated by three years of Special One pyrotechnics, the British press might be ready to be charmed by Ramos' brand of quietly pithy humour.
(7) Conventional wisdom suggests that Manchester United's defence is the rock on which their serial title successes have been built, the reliable platform that allows all the pyrotechnics up front to take place.
(8) The method used here could be applied to other pyrotechnic mixtures which give rise to complex mixtures of products.
(9) No verbal pyrotechnics here, nothing to challenge a conservative aesthetics biased against the house of fiction itself.
(10) But officials at Peta were much less happy with Beyoncé's half-time appearance – not because of the pyrotechnic electric guitar, the subsequent power outage , or even her decision to skip the song, If I Were a Boy.
(11) We also don't know what type of pyrotechnics were used."
(12) Gunpowder was difficult and dangerous to ignite at sea so, using pyrotechnic technology, Coston found a way that the flares could be hand-held and incorporate an ingenious self-igniting device.
(13) The Gavin & Stacey star showed no sign of going through the motions, interrupting Prince on-stage to take a selfie – which he subsequently tweeted – and using Arctic Monkeys' pyrotechnics to set his arm alight, albeit as a joke.
(14) Past outlandish displays from the American have included full facial masks, exploding bras and pyrotechnics.
(15) 8.34pm: From the emails: Susan Smillie - "The person responsible for the pyrotechnics on stage at the brits toneet is the nephew of Henry Cooper, he's called Alex Cooper (he works with my partner).
(16) In his youth Peter Brook was famed for his pyrotechnic dazzle.
(17) Click here to watch video Given its huge success and indeed the hullaballoo that surrounded its release – the snatches of it dropped into ad breaks during Saturday Night Live, the rapturously-received premiere of the video at the Coachella Festival – there's something appealingly low-key and unassuming about Get Lucky itself, particularly in the context of current pop music: no vocal pyrotechnics, no chorus signposted by a huge instrumental breakdown, and – a short burst of vocoder aside – none of the sonic trademarks of Daft Punk records that have subsequently become the sonic trademarks of noughties pop ("gimmicks that didn't used to be gimmicks," as Thomas Bangalter wryly described them).
(18) It appears that cases occurred only where this oily lubricant was used to manufacture near submicron-sized pyrotechnic flake (ie, United Kingdom, Germany, Sweden), but never where similar flake has been manufactured for almost a century using polar lubricants.
(19) The standard criticism of Wallace's work is that for all its peerless pyrotechnics, it lacked heart.
(20) Metallica offered, in many ways, the most stripped-down show of all – though they had screens, they didn't have the enormous pyrotechnics and effects of their traditional stage show.
Technology
Definition:
(n.) Industrial science; the science of systematic knowledge of the industrial arts, especially of the more important manufactures, as spinning, weaving, metallurgy, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) The availability and success of changes in reproductive technology should lead to a reappraisal of the indications for hysterectomy, especially in young women.
(2) The purpose of this paper is to discuss the potential for integrating surveillance techniques in reproductive epidemiology with geographic information system technology in order to identify populations at risk around hazardous waste sites.
(3) This technology will provide better information to the surgeon for preoperative diagnosis and planning and for the design of customized implants.
(4) Second, is it possible - by combining the two technologies of endoscopy and computers - to provide an individual patient with a short-term prognostic prediction sufficiently accurate to affect patient management.
(5) We are firmly opposed to that," an unidentified spokesman from the ministry of industry and information technology told the state news agency, Xinhua.
(6) On a weekend that sees the country celebrate 50 years of independence it is certain that despite all things – good and bad – that have taken place in 2013, the next 50 years will be transformed by personal technology, concerned citizens and the media.
(7) While there has been almost no political reform during their terms of office, there have been several ambitious steps forward in terms of environmental policy: anti-desertification campaigns; tree planting; an environmental transparency law; adoption of carbon targets; eco-services compensation; eco accounting; caps on water; lower economic growth targets; the 12th Five-Year Plan; debate and increased monitoring of PM2.5 [fine particulate matter] and huge investments in eco-cities, "clean car" manufacturing, public transport, energy-saving devices and renewable technology.
(8) Two high-resolution (Hi-Res) ECG systems (MAC-12, Marquette Electronics, Inc (MEI), Milwaukee, WI and LVP101, Arrhythmia Research Technology (ART), Austin, TX) were tested on 143 subjects (13 controls and 130 cardiac patients, 21 of whom were tested for inducible ventricular tachycardia [VT]).
(9) Perplexed, from being absorbed into some undateable future world governed by an advanced technology whose capacities have to be learned as one reads.
(10) Her story is an incredible tale of triumph over tragedy: a tormented childhood during China's Cultural Revolution, detention and forced exile after exposing female infanticide – then glittering success as the head of a major US technology firm.
(11) To assist in understanding the experiences families face in adapting to either short- or long-term dependence on technology, a model was developed from literature and research review.
(12) The second area of improved SPECT technology is camera collimation and related imaging techniques.
(13) As the number of children with chronic illness increases due to advances in medical technology, general pediatricians are faced with the challenge of providing continuing care for such patients.
(14) Despite a few initial concerns about the technology and how it would fit into their daily routines, staff really see the benefit and find it rewarding to see the messages and be able to respond straight away.
(15) Before we embark on the next steps of the global technological revolution, we must ensure that the most basic of online tools are accessible to all.
(16) That left Google, which has outfitted 23 Lexus SUVs with driverless technology.
(17) Only "a tiny minority" of countries presently control space technologies, which play a major role in everything from broadcasting to weather forecasting, agriculture, health and environmental monitoring, the document notes.
(18) At the same time, however, he has backed the quality of the technology that the company is developing and resisted pressure to sell off underperforming businesses.
(19) There are other ways to deploy this same technology.
(20) These steps signify a willingness for engagement not seen before, but they have been overshadowed by the "nuclear crisis" triggered in October 2002 when Pyongyang admitted to having the "know-how", but not the technology, for a highly enriched uranium route to nuclear weapons.