What's the difference between redan and tambour?

Redan


Definition:

  • (n.) A work having two parapets whose faces unite so as to form a salient angle toward the enemy.
  • (n.) A step or vertical offset in a wall on uneven ground, to keep the parts level.

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Tambour


Definition:

  • (n.) A kind of small flat drum; a tambourine.
  • (n.) A small frame, commonly circular, and somewhat resembling a tambourine, used for stretching, and firmly holding, a portion of cloth that is to be embroidered; also, the embroidery done upon such a frame; -- called also, in the latter sense, tambour work.
  • (n.) Same as Drum, n., 2(d).
  • (n.) A work usually in the form of a redan, to inclose a space before a door or staircase, or at the gorge of a larger work. It is arranged like a stockade.
  • (n.) A shallow metallic cup or drum, with a thin elastic membrane supporting a writing lever. Two or more of these are connected by an India rubber tube, and used to transmit and register the movements of the pulse or of any pulsating artery.
  • (v. t.) To embroider on a tambour.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A method for continuous registration of perfusion rate of frog blood vessels has been developed utilizing a modified Marey's tambour with lever system, connected to the perfusion bottle.
  • (2) Flight Out of Egypt has a huge crowd of figures at what seems like a desert oasis – to the left there is a rhythmic forest of plumed lances held by horsemen and camel riders, to the right tents and groups of Arabs (including a tambour dancer based on an image at Pompeii).
  • (3) Intracranial pressure sensors and subdural and subgaleal sensing tambours were used to measure the pressure difference between the intracranial and subgaleal spaces in two monkeys.
  • (4) Redesign to decrease tambour permeability should allow a useful life of months or years.
  • (5) Autopsy findings confirmed that the sensing tambours became encapsulated with a pseudomembrane that did not attenuate the pressure signal.

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