(v. t.) To rend asunder by force; to split; to cleave; as, to rive timber for rails or shingles.
(v. i.) To be split or rent asunder.
(n.) A place torn; a rent; a rift.
Example Sentences:
(1) It's a little two-yard reception but it adds up to six points on what was a well rounded, d ominant d rive by D enver - call it a 3D-TD.
(2) Reinnervation, observed in some cases, is not the main factor for the good clinical results obtained with Rives muscle plasty, but can improve adaptability and elasticity of the transplant considerably.
(3) Thus Rives muscle plasty using a flap of the latissimus dorsi muscle to cover large congenital diaphragmatic defects seems morphologically as well as functionally superior to other procedures especially those using plastic material.
(4) It was used on Yves's ready-to-wear line and the Rive Gauche shop front .
(5) PI was increased by renal interstitial volume expansion (RIVE) via injection of 50 microliters of a 2% albumin in saline solution into the renal interstitium through a chronically implanted interstitial catheter.
(6) Rives muscle plasty using a pediculate flap of the latissimus dorsi muscle is an approved method for correction of large congenital diaphragmatic defects.
(7) And in the mid-60s, his ready-to-wear Rive Gauche label became a global phenomenon, offering women an affordable slice of the YSL dream.
(8) Inhibition of prostaglandin synthesis with meclofenamate or indomethacin attenuated the natriuretic response and blocked the increase in UPGE2 associated with RIVE.
(9) YSL Rive Gauche, the ready-to-wear line, was immediately sold to Gucci, netting Saint Laurent and Bergé $70m.
(10) A series of 96 patients who underwent "eventration repair" using Mersilene-Mesh, according to Rives technique between jan 1983 and june 1988 is reported.
(11) Implantation site was the retromuscular space following the J. Rives technique.
(12) After a survey of the state of electrotherapy at the beginning of the 19th century, the author studies the pertinent work of Auguste De la Rive (1801-1873), mainly exposed in the three volumes of his Traité d'électricité théorique et pratique (1854-1858).
(13) The Rives technique was used, placing the prostheses between the posterior sheath and the rectus muscle; in one case it was inserted under the peritoneum.
(14) A standard Rives plasty was performed, emg electrodes were inserted into the diaphragm as well as into the muscle transplant.
(15) As Lauren Bacall put it in 1968 at the opening of the New York branch of Saint Laurent Rive Gauche, while wearing a black jumpsuit, "If it's pants, its Yves"; Helmut Newton's photograph of a woman on a street, smoking in a tuxedo , is part of the label's iconography.
(16) The brand was founded in 1961 as an haute couture house; five years later Yves and Bergé revolutionised the fashion industry with the first ready-to-wear line, Saint Laurent Rive Gauche.
(17) The results demonstrated 9.9% morbidity and 5.7% recurrences by Rives' technique vs 3.1 morbidity and complete absence of recurrences by Stoppa's technique.
(18) On the other hand recurrent hernias in risky patients as well as gross hernias are treated by Rives' method which consists in a prolene mesh placement through the inguinal approach.
(19) Fractional sodium excretion (FENa), renal interstitial hydrostatic pressure (PI), and urinary prostaglandin excretion (UPGE2) were measured before and after RIVE in eight control, seven meclofenamate-treated, and eight indomethacin-treated rats.
(20) Fusion of FISH and of reconstituted influenza (RIVE) or reconstituted Sendai virus envelopes (RSVE) with recipient membranes was determined by the use of fluorescently labeled envelopes and fluorescence dequenching methods.
Rivet
Definition:
(n.) A metallic pin with a head, used for uniting two plates or pieces of material together, by passing it through them and then beating or pressing down the point so that it shall spread out and form a second head; a pin or bolt headed or clinched at both ends.
(v. t.) To fasten with a rivet, or with rivets; as, to rivet two pieces of iron.
(v. t.) To spread out the end or point of, as of a metallic pin, rod, or bolt, by beating or pressing, so as to form a sort of head.
(v. t.) Hence, to fasten firmly; to make firm, strong, or immovable; as, to rivet friendship or affection.
Example Sentences:
(1) Tetrapolar rheovasography was used to medically examine 54 riveters, of equal age and duration of work, who were exposed to the complex action of low-intensity vibration and noise.
(2) It was a riveting and perverse study of decadent Parisian student life, the first of his many films in which Chabrol presents an opposition between a Dionysian character (often called Paul or Popaul) and an Apollonian one (often called Charles), the defender of the status quo.
(3) The "graying" of America has riveted the attention of policy makers in the United States on the potential specter of an excess population of sick, poor, disabled, aged Americans.
(4) Although the exposure time for the riveting hammer was 1 min and the total tool time was 40 min per day, more than 50% of the riveters had symptoms of vibration-induced white finger (VWF) after more than 10 years of work.
(5) History suggests we should not be too surprised when the rivets pop.
(6) Among the remaining patients was a divorced mother of four with a failing liver who was engaged to be remarried; a second world war " Rosie Riveter " who had trouble speaking because of a stroke; and Ma'Dear, an ailing matriarch with long, braided hair, renowned for her cooking and the strict but loving way she raised 12 children.
(7) With the last kick of a riveting final Group F match Agnor Ingvi Traustason, a second-half replacement, scored a memorable goal, and as Szymon Marciniak, the Polish referee, blew instantly for time, a jubilant Iceland bench ran on to the pitch, and the fans celebrated wildly.
(8) The calculated equivalent frequency-weighted acceleration for a period of 4 h was the questionnaire survey 101 riveters reported statistically significant more complaints of pain and stiffness in their hands and arms when compared with 76 controls with no, or little, exposure to vibration.
(9) The real strength of Lean In is in its Rosie the Riveter 2.0 message: "You can do it!
(10) A bit like Desert Island Discs only miles more revealing, the "A Room of My Own" feature showed the rooms of the famous and distinguished in rivetingly detailed colour photographs for 15 years, while in the text below their owners wibbled on about them.
(11) The Sejusa case has riveted many in this east African country that once was prone to violent takeovers of power but which has seen relative stability under Museveni.
(12) The Commissariat of Enlightenment by Sheila Fitzpatrick A riveting account of the institution that implemented the cultural and educational policies of the revolution after 1917.
(13) Bill Gates sipping from a glass of water doesn’t sound like riveting television.
(14) It was just two people sitting at a table talking, but it was electric and riveting.
(15) And Jaye Griffiths in Don't Wake Me: The Ballet of Nihal Armstrong was riveting.
(16) The very substantial riveted plates of the converted Aberdeen-built trawler had had huge holes torn in them, but the jagged pieces of metal that remained were all bent inwards.
(17) An RAF Rivet Joint surveillance plane equipped with listening devices has also been flying missions from al-Udeid air base in Qatar to eavesdrop on Isis communications.
(18) The riveting thing about the CLEWI isn't the headline attached, because that tends to be the same every year.
(19) Adhesion had a tongue-and-groove appearance with corneosomes riveting corneocyte peripheries into a lipped groove on adjoining cells.
(20) That's what's riveting here: the mechanics of the escape.