(n.) Originally, any rough and somewhat heavy piece of timber. Now, commonly, one of the timbers of a roof which are put on sloping, according to the inclination of the roof. See Illust. of Queen-post.
(v. t.) To make into rafters, as timber.
(v. t.) To furnish with rafters, as a house.
(v. t.) To plow so as to turn the grass side of each furrow upon an unplowed ridge; to ridge.
Example Sentences:
(1) In the News Corp report , Rafter said the rift with Tomic remained deep and possibly irreconcilable after his dumping from Australia’s Davis Cup team over his Wimbledon post-match outburst.
(2) One identified a blonde woman, smiling as she sold peanuts in paper cones to the rafters, as her sister – alive and well in Cuba, she said.
(3) Especially against Nick Kyrgios Read more Nick Kyrgios has come out in defence of Bernard Tomic , accusing Pat Rafter of being negative after the Tennis Australia performance director had responded to Tomic’s spray following his third-round Wimbledon exit.
(4) Back to the big leather punchbag hanging from the rafters, and Inna admits that the training sessions will not be entirely pacifist.
(5) Christian Radnedge , a Spurs-supporting journalist who was in the Smoking Dog, told the BBC that it had been "full to the rafters" when there was "a huge cacophony of noise and the sound of glass being smashed".
(6) Depending on the water level, which varies with rainfall and snowmelt, the Green is popular with rafters and kayakers when high and with canoeists and tubers when low.
(7) Like the majority of his employees – most of whom have now begun trickling back to work – Romualdez was almost washed away by the super storm and only survived by clutching onto roof rafters as the waters rose around him.
(8) Two others, photographed in a truck, helped the rafters but didn’t join them.
(9) It is proposed that continuous low-dose exposure to aerosolized, biologically active rafter dust could contribute to the respiratory insult of grain workers.
(10) But those crows also gather on the blackened rafters of British-era bungalows, while tanks and artillery pieces on which the wealth of a poor nation was squandered for decades sit rusting on hilltops.
(11) "Africans who refused to take the Mau Mau oath have had ropes tied around their necks and been strung up from rafters until unconscious.
(12) Nick Kyrgios bounces racket into crowd during tantrum at Wimbledon Read more The 22-year-old demanded an investigation into TA’s conduct after Rafter used Tomic’s father and coach John’s “intolerable” behaviour as the chief reason for no longer funding the family.
(13) Maní is more rustic and informal than DOM – simple furniture, whitewashed walls and a ceiling of dried branches laid over rafters – but the food is no less adventurous.
(14) On Friday, the red benches of the House of Lords , which sometimes serve as a quiet spot for a post-prandial nap, will be a hive of activity, packed to the gilded rafters with lords and ladies.
(15) Long-chain diglycerides (LCDGs) found in the human colon are mitogens selective for colon tumor cells, inducing mitogenesis in premalignant cells from each of 13 adenomas and in malignant cells from two of four carcinomas, but having no mitogenic effects on normal colonocytes (E. Friedman, P. Isaksson, J. Rafter, B. Marian, S. Winawer, and H. Newmark, Cancer Res., 49:544-548, 1989).
(16) Had the Elysée's salles des fêtes been packed to the ornate rafters and chandeliers with French media, the sleight of hand might have worked.
(17) Hitting back in sensational fashion after Pat Rafter vowed to stop the governing body’s funding to the Tomic family, including his younger sister Sara, Tomic described Australia’s director of performance as a “mask” for TA boss Craig Tiley.
(18) The painting, which measures 144cm x 175cm (56in x 69in) was found in April 2014, in the rafters of a house on the outskirts of Toulouse.
(19) Fungi did not grow in inside feed hoppers or in dust on rafters in the broiler houses.
(20) The lonely building on this remote Pacific island now contains only a punchbag that someone has strung from the classroom rafters, and a note scrawled on the chalkboard in Niuean: “Keep this place clean so it stays beautiful.” While much of the world worries about how it will accommodate rapidly growing populations, some islands in the Pacific face the opposite dilemma: how to stop everybody from leaving.
Ridge
Definition:
(n.) The back, or top of the back; a crest.
(n.) A range of hills or mountains, or the upper part of such a range; any extended elevation between valleys.
(n.) A raised line or strip, as of ground thrown up by a plow or left between furrows or ditches, or as on the surface of metal, cloth, or bone, etc.
(n.) The intersection of two surface forming a salient angle, especially the angle at the top between the opposite slopes or sides of a roof or a vault.
(n.) The highest portion of the glacis proceeding from the salient angle of the covered way.
(v. t.) To form a ridge of; to furnish with a ridge or ridges; to make into a ridge or ridges.
(v. t.) To form into ridges with the plow, as land.
(v. t.) To wrinkle.
Example Sentences:
(1) The invaginations were classified into four easily recognized types: regular, chunky, filigree, and ridge (present only in axon hillock regions).
(2) On the tangential views the inclinations of the future implants were estimated and the part of the alveolar ridge having a width less than 5 mm, which is the minimum width for housing an implant, was compiled.
(3) After 1 day in vitro the explants were partly encircled by epithelium which had proliferated from the cut edges of the explant and from rete ridges near the cut edge (epiboly).
(4) We have now found that these cells, cultured as a monolayer, are able to undergo rapid morphogenesis forming ridges and balls around collagen fibres, when soluble collagen type I is added to the medium.
(5) Besides the rough, wrinkled, and brown or black surface of the fingertips, microwrinkles of the epidermis occur on the skin ridges, which have so far not been described.
(6) The results of the rapid-freeze and deep-etch procedure showed that the ridges observed by the surface replica method consisted of linear arrangements of elliptical particles on the ES face of the plasma membrane.
(7) The narrow intercellular ridge is smooth, whereas the epithelial cells have small cytoplasmic knobs between the cilia.
(8) The calculations revealed that local hypoxia and lipoprotein accumulation may occur at the ridges, leading to subsequent intimal thickening and ridge growth.
(9) The quality of the alveolar ridge and the denture as well as the functional status of the craniomandibular system were evaluated in detail.
(10) The use of an intraoral alveolar ridge soft tissue expander to aid in reconstruction of the alveolar ridge is described, and the results in five cases are reported.
(11) Sixty-three per cent of the implants were operated in immediately after tooth extraction, whereas the rest were installed in a healed bony alveolar ridge.
(12) After the treatment in toto of the embryos from various species of Anura by cAMP, the number of primordial germ cells (PGC) in genital ridges is strongly reduced; the most part of the PGC are found in the endoderm.
(13) The innervation to the rete ridge is uniquely absent in the rabbit.
(14) The atrial complex was a common chamber with an attempt at division into two parts by a circular ridge of tissue; the ventricular complex was formed by three chambers which were all communicating between each other in the superior margin of their muscular interventricular septum.
(15) The other main sites of expression are the genital ridge, fetal gonad and mesothelium.
(16) Cells with demarcated borders showed rearrangement of microvilli into globular chains or ridges which lined up with the branching membrane.
(17) With the mobilization of the two halves of the face it is possible to approximate the orbits, simultaneously elongating the center of the face and normalizing the maxillary alveolar ridge.
(18) The air pressure in the skin cup was continually adjusted (using an electromechanical servo-control system) to pull the skin upward and to hold it perfectly flat across the upper ridge of the Teflon cylinder.
(19) Clinical findings as well as fingerprint ridge counts were typical of the syndrome.
(20) By design these plants are adjacent to the AEC's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and such a location would seem ideal for an experiment on the wedding of nuclear and fossil sources of energy.