What's the difference between racquet and wire?

Racquet


Definition:

  • (n.) See Racket.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) He drops his racquet in disbelief and the pair of them embrace at the net.
  • (2) Because of the recent rapid increase in the number of knee injuries related to racquet sports, the authors undertook a retrospective study of such injuries seen over a 5-year period at the Toronto Western Hospital Sports Medicine Institute.
  • (3) Racquets were more common as the source of injury (61%) than squash balls.
  • (4) Static tests indicated that standards published by the Canadian Squash Racquets Association are inappropriate.
  • (5) In the video posted on YouTube , the supervisor is seen running off court and shutting the gate, at which point Abedini beats the gate with his racquet and kicks it while shouting at the official.
  • (6) The effectiveness of cushion grip bands in reducing impact shock and vibration transfer, and slipping in tennis racquets has been investigated.
  • (7) You have a platform that very few people will ever have ... You hit a tennis ball with a racquet over a little net, and just think what you can do with that, beyond trying to win Wimbledon."
  • (8) The authors report that in a 5-year period, 17% of the injuries seen in a busy sports injuries clinic were associated with racquet sports, and over half of these were injuries to the knee.
  • (9) Frequently during his defeat of Raonic, met with a line call he didn’t like, he would gawp at the linesman in mock shock, and drop his racquet and ball where he stood, drawing inevitable laughter.
  • (10) He hits a shot wide and smacks the barrier with his racquet.
  • (11) Changes in racquet variables, court surface, footwear, and string tension play an important part in treatment of both upper and lower extremity injuries.
  • (12) Laser beams were employed for precision adjustment of the spatial racquet position and the ball impact location.
  • (13) Racquet sports involve sharp, side-to-side movements and impose significant valgus and rotatory stresses on the knee.
  • (14) Within the last decade, there has been a significant increase in racquet sport participation.
  • (15) Some of the more common racquet sport injuries include tennis leg, jumper's knee, patello-femoral pain, meniscal injuries, bursitis, and tendinitis.
  • (16) was used together with a standard tennis racquet for the investigation.
  • (17) Middle-aged men, however, especially those with known coronary disease or coronary risk factors, should approach racquet sports with caution, and might benefit from timely medical advice.
  • (18) With its 1080p screen, 90-degree field of view and 360-degree head-tracking, the fundaments are in place – it seems the device will also recognise Move as a virtual controller, which means you’ll be able to look down in the game world and see it in your hands, perhaps as a gun, a torch, or a tennis racquet.
  • (19) Over 90% of the patients returned to their chosen racquet sport within 3 months of the arthroscopy and most were playing at a similar performance level to that before the initial injury.
  • (20) Most fractures were thought to have occurred while the patient was swinging a racquet, golf club, or baseball bat.

Wire


Definition:

  • (n.) A thread or slender rod of metal; a metallic substance formed to an even thread by being passed between grooved rollers, or drawn through holes in a plate of steel.
  • (n.) A telegraph wire or cable; hence, an electric telegraph; as, to send a message by wire.
  • (v. t.) To bind with wire; to attach with wires; to apply wire to; as, to wire corks in bottling liquors.
  • (v. t.) To put upon a wire; as, to wire beads.
  • (v. t.) To snare by means of a wire or wires.
  • (v. t.) To send (a message) by telegraph.
  • (v. i.) To pass like a wire; to flow in a wirelike form, or in a tenuous stream.
  • (v. i.) To send a telegraphic message.

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) The solution to these problems would seem either to reduce the time spent in rectangular wires or to change to a bracket with reduced torque, together with appropriate second order compensations in the archwire or the bracket.
  • (3) The major difficulty encountered with the current technique is the danger of neurologic injury during the passage and handling of conventional wires, especially in extensive procedures.
  • (4) I have the BBC app on my phone and it updates me, and I saw the wire ‘Malaysian flight goes missing over Ukraine.’ I’m like, well it’s probably the Russians who shot it down.
  • (5) For the attachment of adherent cells, microcarriers or wire springs can be applied to increase the internal surface of the bioreactor.
  • (6) Extraction tools included flexible, telescoping sheaths advanced over the lead to dilate scar tissue and apply countertraction, deflection catheters, and wire basket snares.
  • (7) It is not same to the stainless steel wire of traditional removable appliances which must be activated every time to produce a little tooth movement.
  • (8) Whereas in flexion stress all methods showed a sufficient stability, the rotation tests proved, that in case of a dorsal instability of the lower cervical spine, posterior interlaminar wiring or anterior plate stabilization showed no reliable stabilization effect.
  • (9) Medial canthal tendon resection and tucks or transnasal wiring are then performed.
  • (10) Overhead wire problems were causing delays on the east coast mainline into London King's Cross.
  • (11) The steerable guide wire enabled the angioscopic catheter to be accurately and safely inserted into the target lesion in all cases.
  • (12) The use of wire stylets to facilitate passage of these tubes has increased the chances of unrecognized tracheal intubations, particularly in obtunded patients.
  • (13) Kirschner improved the wire traction procedure decisevely.
  • (14) Conservative treatment (immobilisation in a plaster alone) was compared to percutaneous K-wire fixation.
  • (15) The procedure consists of a Kirschner wire used as the means of traction on the remaining soft tissue of the lower lip, using the upper teeth or pyriform aperture bone as remote fixed points for tissue traction.
  • (16) Electroencephalographic activity and extracellular discharges from neurons in deep temporal lobe structures were recorded from fine wire microelectrodes chronically implanted in seven psychomotor epileptic patients for diagnostic localization of seizure foci.
  • (17) Masseter EMG was recorded by fine wire electrodes and amplified by a specially designed amplifier.
  • (18) Guide-wire fragments retained in the coronary artery system after PTCA are removed either immediately by means of catheter techniques or by urgent operation.
  • (19) It was smaller than that reported for patients who had received stabilization of the maxilla with intraosseous and maxillomandibular wiring.
  • (20) At Charity Hospital in New Orleans transverse Kirschner wires have been routinely used to stabilize the zygoma in these cases.

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