(n.) A lively dance of the Highlanders of Scotland; also, the music to the dance; -- often called Scotch reel.
(n.) A frame with radial arms, or a kind of spool, turning on an axis, on which yarn, threads, lines, or the like, are wound; as, a log reel, used by seamen; an angler's reel; a garden reel.
(n.) A machine on which yarn is wound and measured into lays and hanks, -- for cotton or linen it is fifty-four inches in circuit; for worsted, thirty inches.
(n.) A device consisting of radial arms with horizontal stats, connected with a harvesting machine, for holding the stalks of grain in position to be cut by the knives.
(v. t.) To roll.
(v. t.) To wind upon a reel, as yarn or thread.
(v. i.) To incline, in walking, from one side to the other; to stagger.
(v. i.) To have a whirling sensation; to be giddy.
(n.) The act or motion of reeling or staggering; as, a drunken reel.
Example Sentences:
(1) If we’re waiting around for the Democratic version to sail through here, or the Republican version to sail through here, all those victims who are waiting for us to do something will wait for days, months, years, forever and we won’t get anything done.” Senator Bill Nelson, whose home state of Florida is still reeling from the Orlando shooting, said he felt morally obligated to return to his constituents with results.
(2) There were still 25 seconds left on the clock when Vernon Davis reeled in a catch at the Baltimore nine-yard line, but San Francisco could not convert on second or third down.
(3) Director Gareth Edwards , who made Godzilla, introduced a tantalizing concept reel to preview the mysterious film, which is part of a series of films exploring other stories outside of the core Star Wars saga.
(4) Europe produced the greatest comeback in the tournament's history to reel in the US and retain the trophy.
(5) Hurst, still reeling, says, "It shouldn't have happened.
(6) DNA reeling, such as done by type I restriction-modification enzymes, is proposed to provide this special mechanism for folding.
(7) But I just felt like strangling him.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest America’s most segregated city: the young black voters of Milwaukee There was the barber in Milwaukee, a city reeling from a succession of police shootings of black men, offended by Trump’s claim African Americans like him have “nothing to lose”.
(8) The surface channelling effect has been observed in GaAs (110) with REELS, which may provide a basis for localizing surface foreign atoms with ALCHEMI.
(9) Christine Ockrent: Elitism is Le Pen's real target In France both the socialists and conservatives are reeling.
(10) Lovejoy was a big deal, with X Factor-sized ratings: McShane's easygoing charisma reeled in up to 16m viewers a week.
(11) He reeled off his speech with the eclat of a wet firework.
(12) But the world's largest insurer has seen its shares plunge in recent weeks as it reels from the effects of the credit crunch.
(13) A pensioner is celebrating a catch of the day that’s closer to Herman Melville than Harry Ramsden’s after reeling in the biggest cod recorded to have been landed by a British angler.
(14) The presidential election in Honduras was heading towards a stalemate, according to the latest polls, in a country reeling from violence, poverty and the legacy of a 2009 coup.
(15) Now, however, the new administration of Hassan Rouhani is taking steps to open up Iran to foreigners in an effort to improve its international image after the gloomy years under Mahmoud Ahmadinejad – and to bring in much-needed foreign currency to an economy reeling from years of sanctions.
(16) We've scored 99 goals before Sunday – that's some highlights reel to come.
(17) On Wattpad, 14-year-old Abby Meyer - who goes by SnowDrop07 online - is still reeling after being shortlisted for a competition judged by Margaret Atwood alongside much older competitors.
(18) We might not be able to do all of that at once,” she said, while reeling off a set of vanilla policy objectives by Democratic standards: healthcare reform, energy independence, new jobs, education standards and pulling troops (carefully) out of Iraq.
(19) Reeling, News Corp could barely give a coherent answer on Monday afternoon – but for the moment, yes, the bid is still on.
(20) So we looped them into the reel-to-reels and crowded round the speakers to hear what their album sounded like – but all we got was the clang of a snare drum.
Resume
Definition:
(n.) A summing up; a condensed statement; an abridgment or brief recapitulation.
(v. t.) To take back.
(v. t.) To enter upon, or take up again.
(v. t.) To begin again; to recommence, as something which has been interrupted; as, to resume an argument or discourse.
Example Sentences:
(1) Eighty-eight patients (97%) had a stable fixation and 77 (85%) had resumed preoperative activity or were working but with a residual deficit.
(2) Menses resumed in all 6 women 7 to 41 days after the injection, galactorrhea disappeared in all 4 patients, and libido and potency become normal in both men with microprolactinomas.
(3) A sharp decrease in oxygen uptake occurred in Neurospora crassa cells that were transferred from 30 degrees C to 45 degrees C, and the respiration that resumed later at 45 degrees C was cyanide-insensitive.
(4) Acid and pepsin output from the denervated pouch in response to pentagastrin and food decreased significantly (P less than 0.001) after parenteral feeding and returned to control levels after the dogs resumed a normal diet.
(5) The majority (55%) of patients were able to resume intercourse one to two months postoperation.
(6) They shouted at her: ‘Keep your hands in the air!’ They told her: ‘We’re going to shoot.’ “The shooting resumed.
(7) Paradigm relies heavily on social science research and analysis to help companies identify and address the specific barriers and unconscious biases that might be affecting their diversity efforts: things like anonymizing resumes so that employers can’t tell a candidate’s gender or ethnicity, or modifying a salary negotiation process that places women and minorities at a disadvantage.
(8) Only NAT activity exhibited daily changes, rising at the onset of darkness and resuming low values shortly before the end of the scotophase.
(9) When reinforcement for competing behavior was withdrawn, however, rats resumed their original behavior and there were no overall savings in total responses to extinction.
(10) Within 2 days after surgical correction of the bronchoesophageal fistula, peristalsis in the thoracic portion of the esophagus returned to normal and the esophagus resumed its normal size.
(11) No one can determine when it will be safe for them to return home or when a normal life in school can be resumed.
(12) The ftsA and ftsE mutants resumed cell division without new protein synthesis; ftsD mutants resumed cell division only if new protein synthesis occured, while ftsB, C, F and G mutants did not resume cell division at all.
(13) The coronavirus JHMV persistently infects rat Schwannoma cells RN2-2 at 32.5 degrees C and enters a host-imposed reversible, latent state at 39.5 degrees C. JHMV can remain up to 20 days in the latent state and about 14 days before the cultures lose the capacity to resume virus production upon return to 32.5 degrees C. Although persistently and latently infected RN2-2 cells display resistance to superinfection by a heterologous agent VSV, these cells do not release detectable soluble mediators (e.g., interferon) of the antiviral state.
(14) Why, they reasoned, would voters invite the architects of the Iraq war to resume control of US foreign policy?
(15) It will resume at 2pm, when David Cameron will resume his evidence.
(16) The toxicity encountered was minimal except for seizures possibly related to vincristine in three children, who were able to resume treatment.
(17) Rubio, whose foreign policy resume includes positions on the Senate foreign relations committee and select committee on intelligence, said on Wednesday there was “no one running for president” who had access to more sensitive information than he did.
(18) Compared with conventional surgery, the advantages of laparoscopic cholecystectomy are well known: the entire peritoneal cavity is explored; the lack of postoperative ileus makes it possible to resume normal feeding, and hence normal activity, after a short interruption; systemic and parietal complications are less frequent, but the biliary tract complication rate is higher, probably in relation to the operator's training.
(19) Radio-frequency lesions were made and testing was resumed after 3 days.
(20) Full-time faculty numbers in academic departments of obstetrics-gynecology have resumed growth in the last three years, and now average 18.3 per department.