(n.) A stack or pile, as of grain, straw, or hay, in the open air, usually protected from wet with thatching.
(v. t.) To heap up in ricks, as hay, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) Michele Bachmann, a Minnesota congresswoman, and Rick Perry, the Texas governor, are both headed to South Carolina for most of the next week.
(2) Some will be here a day, some will be here weeks.” 9.14pm BST Earlier today, Texas governor Rick Perry declared McLennan County a disaster area and said he plans to request federal aid.
(3) Last June, Gov Rick Scott signed into law an ALEC bill that blocks local governments from implementing paid sick leave.
(4) Tour begins 22 November, NIA, Birmingham, thenia.co.uk Black Sabbath Still without original drummer Bill Ward, but with their first US No 1 album (the Rick Rubin-produced 13), the undisputed godfathers of metal play a handful of UK shows.
(5) Jeb Bush, Chris Christie, Mike Huckabee, Bobby Jindal, Rand Paul, Rick Perry, and Paul Ryan are all not so far-fetched names for a run in 2016.
(6) At this stage Rick is committed to solving the problem and I am going to do everything in my power to help … but I am also going to be waiting to see what the results of all this review process yields."
(7) At his presidential announcement last week, former Texas governor Rick Perry called the withdrawal from Iraq “a national disgrace” and argued that the US had “won” the war in 2009 only to see the Obama administration squander its victory by leaving.
(8) So far the Republican primary has spoiled us, from Rick Perry's "oops" to corporate asset-stripper Mitt Romney's admission that he liked firing people, delivered just before he was snapped apparently receiving a sit-down shoe-shine from an underling – not a good look for a would-be man of the people.
(9) The changes in the Arctic are also causing “major challenges” for the indigenous communities in the region, according to Rick Spinrad, Noaa’s chief scientist.
(10) Arguments over SB5 became personal when Texas governor Rick Perry accused Davis of failing to "learn from her mistakes" as a single teenage mother while speaking at a pro-life convention on Thursday.
(11) Several attempts to resolve the site's problems have failed to come to fruition, including masterplans by Sir Terry Farrell, Lord Richard Rogers and the late Rick Mather who drew up the last scheme in 2000.
(12) The early days in custody are a time of heightened suicide rick, and the Samaritans says it is crucial that awareness of the scheme and access to it is embedded into all reception and induction processes for new prisoners.
(13) It featured – and then featured the end of – a new character, Uncle Steve, and banter between Rick (Roiland) and his detested son-in-law Jerry (Chris Parnell).
(14) "It's a very, very large system," Rick Knabb, director of the National Hurricane Center, told Reuters.
(15) Tensions have erupted in recent days, after Kentucky senator Rand Paul attributed Trump’s surprise lead in recent opinion polls to a “ temporary loss of sanity ” among Republican primary voters and former Texas governor Rick Perry claimed his impact on the race represented a “ cancer ” on conservatism.
(16) "The Delta is a kind of Bangladesh story," says Dr Rick Tutwiler, director of the American University in Cairo's Desert Development Centre.
(17) At the core of the Ashmolean Museum 's spectacular new £5m Ancient Egyptian and Nubian galleries, designed by the architect Rick Mather and displaying one of the greatest collections outside Egypt, there lies a man who died almost 3,000 years ago – and has just been revealed as having no heart.
(18) Governor Rick Perry was due to announce a six-figure reward for information leading to arrests in the murders of McLelland and his wife.
(19) Warehime and Jones found moderate correlations between social desirability and short-term mood level scores on the Wessman-Ricks Personal Feeling Scales.
(20) There are online databases of fake rick-roll URLs, and countless jokers have created sham web-browser plugins purporting to block rick-rolls while instead sending visitors to you-know-what.
Sprain
Definition:
(v. t.) To weaken, as a joint, ligament, or muscle, by sudden and excessive exertion, as by wrenching; to overstrain, or stretch injuriously, but without luxation; as, to sprain one's ankle.
(n.) The act or result of spraining; lameness caused by spraining; as, a bad sprain of the wrist.
Example Sentences:
(1) After the diagnosis of a soft-tissue injury (sprain, strain, or contusion) has been made, treatment must include an initial 24- to 48-hour period of RICE.
(2) The distinction between a benign and a severe ligamentous sprain may thus be made.
(3) Arthrography was assessed in 61 cases of recurrent lateral sprains of the ankle more than 2 weeks after acute injury; 38 were considered as positive.
(4) Medial collateral sprains are produced primarily by external rotation and valgus forces.
(5) Thus, prevention of ankle sprains may be by modification of any of these factors.
(6) Rest, ice therapy, compression, and elevation (RICE) are important components of the initial management of acute soft-tissue injuries such as contusions, strains, and sprains.
(7) This lesion is usually associated with ankle trauma, such as lateral ankle sprains, ruptures of the fibular collateral ligaments, and transchondral fractures of the talar dome.
(8) We conclude that the use of weighted radiographs lacks efficacy in unmasking grade 3 AC sprains on radiograph and we recommend that routine use of this technique be abandoned.
(9) In general, sprains and strains account for 40% of injuries, contusions 25%, fractures 10%, concussions 5% and dislocations 15%.
(10) The purpose of this study was to investigate postural responses of healthy subjects and patients with recent ankle sprains following a perturbation that created sway in the frontal plane.
(11) Most injuries were contusions (35.9%), followed by strains or sprains (28.2%), epistaxis (12.8%), lacerations (5.1%), and one finger fracture (2.6%), the most significant injury.
(12) In conclusion, diclofenac potassium has been demonstrated to be effective in the treatment of acute ankle sprains and it had a rapid onset of action and good tolerability.
(13) The purpose of the study was to determine the long-term healing potential of nonoperatively treated isolated sprains of the medial collateral ligament (MCL) of the knee joint.
(14) The most common injury types were lacerations (33%), contusions and abrasions (22%), sprains (16%), and fractures (13%).
(15) In thermographic control studies of temperature profiles legs of 93 patients with a sprained ankle temperature phenomenon was observed, which super-imposes the hyperthermia due to inactivity.
(16) While the morbidity (fractures, strains, sprains, and occasionally more severe injuries) associated with skiing is well recognized and considered by most physicians concerned to be distributed somewhat unevenly within the various skills of skiing, the authors have identified an exceedingly low mortality among the same population.
(17) The "pronation worm", a method of early functional active conservative treatment for sprained ankle, is presented.
(18) These studies suggest that positioning the ankle in dorsiflexion instead of neutral or plantar flexion may have advantages in promoting a stable ankle if immobilization is chosen for treating a grade III sprain.
(19) The treatment of serious sprains and chronic laxity of the knee calls for a knowledge of the mechanical properties of the stabilizing structures.
(20) Girls had more sprains (P less than 0.001) but fewer contusions and wounds (P less than 0.001).