(n.) The mercury and foil on the back of a looking-glass.
Example Sentences:
(1) A pair took off from the newly tilled bare earth, chasing in tandem, making mazy, quicksilver, patterns with their white tail feathers glinting against the soil, as if they were playing with sparklers.
(2) Maya Yoshida and the excellent Victor Wanyama had threatened earlier and the second goal followed more quicksilver work by Mané, who escaped on the byeline before being body checked by Rochdi Achenteh.
(3) Which there was, before even the Dead: Quicksilver's symphonic epic 'The Fool' being the first taste.
(4) Although Tennant is best-known in the wider world for his quicksilver portrayal of the tenth Timelord in Doctor Who – and more recently, a quizzical detective in ITV's doomy thriller Broadchurch – his theatrical pedigree is impressive.
(5) Alli scored Tottenham’s second goal and he dazzled with his quicksilver incisions while Son was a persistent threat in the No9 role.
(6) Chile need to do more quicksilver, fleet-footed attacking, and rely less on sending free-kicks into the mixer.
(7) The first is that attempting to regulate the things that it creates is like trying to catch quicksilver using a butterfly net.
(8) Dispatches picked up both the home and international current affairs awards, for independent producer True Vision's The Hunt for Britain's Sex Gangs, and Quicksilver Media's Syria: Across the Lines, respectively.
(9) But I suspect that 21st-century politics is much more uncertain, and the way that Corbyn went from zero to hero within weeks is further proof of how politics flips around in a world beyond tribal loyalty, and the quicksilver reality in which we find ourselves.
(10) We in Big Brother wanted to be Indians, tribal, while Quicksilver wanted to be the cowboys, with their boots, carrying rifles around.'
(11) At their core were the Charlatans, Jefferson Airplane, the Grateful Dead, Quicksilver Messenger Service and Big Brother and the Holding company (with Janis Joplin) - leaving Country Joe and the Fish, and the Sparrows (later Steppenwolf), slightly to one, political, side.
(12) De Bruyne’s second strike of this nascent season came courtesy of a quicksilver brain.
(13) In the film, Cumberbatch plays Assange as a quicksilver saviour, humane at times, deceitful at others, never less than human.
(14) Bates was an infinitely versatile actor at home in all media; but what one will remember, especially in modern drama, is his matchless ability to suggest a quicksilver intelligence imbued with mischievous irony.
(15) Feldman's other interests included Ocean Energy, Quicksilver Resources, Prospect Energy, Peabody Energy, Pengrowth Energy Trust, Atlas Energy Resources, and Parker Drilling.
(16) The Glenderamackin Beck shines like a vein of quicksilver in the shade below, while the low-angled light above accentuates the shapeliness of the underlying Skiddaw slate as opposed to the more jumbled forms of the rest of Lakeland.
(17) As for the fight itself , Ali risked destruction by using slackened ropes to lean eccentrically out of reach , back arched, rendering him intermittently safe from the oak-tree arms of the hitherto unbeaten Foreman , draining George’s strength and self-belief until he picked the right moment to launch his quicksilver raid on the crude ogre’s chin.
(18) There was time in prison for possession of marijuana, but Duncan secured 'good money for suits and driving around with show girls' playing casinos in Vegas before coming to San Francisco, hooking up with David Freiberg and the late John Cipollina to form Quicksilver.
(19) Some great vocab – “Quicksilver,” “impoverished” – that lend a terrific punch.
(20) This information is entered onto an IBM compatible computer by the secretary using a quick, user-friendly program written in a dBASE dialect and compiled with Quicksilver.
Tin
Definition:
(n.) An elementary substance found as an oxide in the mineral cassiterite, and reduced as a soft white crystalline metal, malleable at ordinary temperatures, but brittle when heated. It is not easily oxidized in the air, and is used chiefly to coat iron to protect it from rusting, in the form of tin foil with mercury to form the reflective surface of mirrors, and in solder, bronze, speculum metal, and other alloys. Its compounds are designated as stannous, or stannic. Symbol Sn (Stannum). Atomic weight 117.4.
(n.) Thin plates of iron covered with tin; tin plate.
(n.) Money.
(v. t.) To cover with tin or tinned iron, or to overlay with tin foil.
Example Sentences:
(1) Hollywood legend has it that, at the first Academy awards in 1929, Rin Tin Tin the dog won most votes for best actor.
(2) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Without the money to begin building permanent homes, residents of Barkobot are living in temporary tin shacks.
(3) A knee simulator was used to study the wear of carbon fiber reinforced UHMWPE (Poly Two) (Poly Two is a registered trademark of Zimmer, USA) tibial and patellar components against Ti-6A1-4V, titanium nitride (TiN)-coated Ti-6A1-4V, and cobalt-chromium-molybdenum femoral components.
(4) It's a small sample, consisting of the folk on the train to Kings Cross this lunchtime, but your MBM correspondent saw: several gentlemen swilling from cans of San Miguel and talking excitedly about the World Cup; two blonde women in frankly disorienting 1980s style football shorts waving flags; and a bloke sitting on his own necking a tin of pre-mixed gin and tonic.
(5) The Meikhtila district chairman, Tin Maung Soe, said one Buddhist man was sentenced to five years' imprisonment on Thursday for causing grievous harm in connection with the killing of two Muslim men.
(6) FreeKachin (@FreeKachin) Nov 10, 5pm, attached object fell off of the sky at Tin Aung Kyaing mining lot in Hpakant Jade tract.
(7) To measure the degree of wetting of the metallic phases, silver, tin, and copper were melted in such proportions as to give specimens of silver, tin, the alpha, beta, and gamma silver-tin phases, the eutectic in the silver-copper system.
(8) Designed seven years ago by Foggo Associates , the 24-storey spam tin has been revived by one of the world’s biggest pension funds, TIAA-CREF.
(9) Logging, cattle farming and soy plantations are key, plus the increased construction of dams and road, and shifting patterns of farming for local people and mining (for diamonds, bauxite, manganese, iron, tin, copper, lead and gold).
(10) The calcium binding activity in the soluble fraction of renal cortex increased significantly at any of the time intervals between 6 and 72 hr after administration of tin, and this increase preceded an elevation of the calcium concentration in the renal cortex.
(11) Comparison of the data from the tin-fed groups with both the control and the reduced diet groups allowed discrimination between effects of reduced feed intake and Sn2+ effects.
(12) Critical verdict The Tin Drum catapulted Grass to the forefront of European fiction and since then he has been Germany's "permanent Nobel candidate"; of the remainder of the Danzig trilogy, Cat and Mouse is the best regarded.
(13) Wearing a white dress, black jacket and patent leather sandals, and clutching her mobile phone and keys, she could be on her way to an office in one of the capital's new skyscrapers, instead of walking past a patchwork of bean and sweet potato fields en route to the village's tin-roofed administration offices.
(14) Lead and tin concentrations in the blood were estimated.
(15) Because of the tin effect 99mTc-DTPA or 99mTc-citrate should be used for brain scintigraphy if this has to be performed within the first 5 or 7 days following a bone scintigraphy with a tin-containing radiopharmaceutical.
(16) Webb agreed, calling Miliband "irresponsible" for "stirring up cheap headlines", sneering: "Why doesn't the government set a price cap on a tin of beans?"
(17) Of the metalloporphyrins examined (Fe, Co, Zn and Sn) all inhibited ferrochelatase at micromolar concentrations, although tin protoporphyrin was the least effective.
(18) This procedure gives the silver-tin amalgam the bactericidal characteristics of a copper amalgam but essentially higher marginal strength.
(19) Jasmin Lorch, from the GIGA Institute of Asian Studies in Hamburg, said: “If the military gets the feeling that its vested interests are threatened, it can always act as a veto player and block further reforms.” The New York-based advocacy group Human Rights Watch said the elections were fundamentally flawed, citing a lack of an independent election commission with its leader, chairman U Tin Aye, both a former army general and former member of the ruling party.
(20) At the beginning of his career, Moreno as Freud, found himself in a transcultural position which allowed him to better observe the "classical occidental individual" captive of his stereotypal "Tinned culture".