(n.) A distaff used in spinning; the staff or frame about which flax is arranged, and from which the thread is drawn in spinning.
(n.) A large concreted mass of stony material; a large fixed stone or crag. See Stone.
(n.) Any natural deposit forming a part of the earth's crust, whether consolidated or not, including sand, earth, clay, etc., when in natural beds.
(n.) That which resembles a rock in firmness; a defense; a support; a refuge.
(n.) Fig.: Anything which causes a disaster or wreck resembling the wreck of a vessel upon a rock.
(n.) The striped bass. See under Bass.
(v. t.) To cause to sway backward and forward, as a body resting on a support beneath; as, to rock a cradle or chair; to cause to vibrate; to cause to reel or totter.
(v. t.) To move as in a cradle; hence, to put to sleep by rocking; to still; to quiet.
(v. i.) To move or be moved backward and forward; to be violently agitated; to reel; to totter.
(v. i.) To roll or saway backward and forward upon a support; as, to rock in a rocking-chair.
Example Sentences:
(1) I approached the public inquiry after much soul-searching, weighing up the ramifications of "rocking the boat" with the potential longer-term gains of a more robust and sustainable regulator.
(2) He had links to networks including the Hammerskin Nation and was involved in an underground music scene often referred to as "white power music" or "hate rock".
(3) The Ibiza Rocks hotel is aimed at a young clientele who'd never make it into the VIP section of Pacha.
(4) Meanwhile, Brighton rock duo Royal Blood top this week's album chart with their self-titled album, scoring the UK's fastest selling British rock debut in three years.
(5) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Trump signs order reviving controversial pipeline projects “The Obama administration correctly found that the Tribe’s treaty rights needed to be respected, and that the easement should not be granted without further review and consideration of alternative crossing locations,” said Jan Hasselman, an attorney for the Standing Rock Sioux tribe.
(6) One species (the goldfish) has an extensive fundus circulation while the other (the rock bass) has a minimal one.
(7) You can tell them that Deutsche Bank remains absolutely rock solid, given our strong capital and risk position.
(8) Rocking the hepatocyte-splenocyte cultures changed the elution profile from linear to convex.
(9) The 180-acre imperial palace appears to send ripples through the surrounding urban grain like a rock thrown into a pond, forming the successive layers of ring-roads.
(10) Russell is a former director of Northern Rock while Crosby is the former chief executive of HBOS.
(11) Gunfire and explosions rocked Bangkok following clashes between pro-government "red shirts" and protesters, leading to fears of further violence as Thais head to the polls.
(12) "And if you're pursuing music as the equivalent of your nine-to-five, and you'd quite like to be doing that for years to come, it's in your interest not to rock the boat."
(13) It was sparked by Ferguson's decision to sue Magnier over the lucrative stud fees now being earned by retired racehorse Rock of Gibraltar, which the Scot used to co-own.
(14) The involvement of one of South Korea’s most powerful men has rocked the country’s business world, as it signalled that prosecutors were prepared to use the full force of the law against the head of a company whose revenues are equivalent to a fifth of the country’s GDP.
(15) Emotional reactivity of patients with endogenous depression and healthy test subjects towards classic and rock music was compared.
(16) The Volkswagen Group has announced €1bn (£750m) of spending cuts at its core VW division to help pay for a product overhaul following the emissions testing scandal that has rocked Europe’s biggest carmaker.
(17) Loss-making Northern Rock is axing another 680 jobs as it cuts costs in preparation for a return to the private sector after being nationalised in February 2008 .
(18) Big musical acts (such as BB King, Keith Urban and Queens of the Stone Age) appear during the summer concert lineup but there are also drop-in yoga sessions, and hiking and biking trails wind through sculpted rocks and wildflowers.
(19) Just about.” That one went over like a sublime Chris Rock riff.
(20) For a while yesterday, Hazel Blears's selfishly-timed resignation with her rude "rock the boat" brooch send shudders of revulsion through some in the party.
Vein
Definition:
(n.) One of the vessels which carry blood, either venous or arterial, to the heart. See Artery, 2.
(n.) One of the similar branches of the framework of a leaf.
(n.) One of the ribs or nervures of the wings of insects. See Venation.
(n.) A narrow mass of rock intersecting other rocks, and filling inclined or vertical fissures not corresponding with the stratification; a lode; a dike; -- often limited, in the language of miners, to a mineral vein or lode, that is, to a vein which contains useful minerals or ores.
(n.) A fissure, cleft, or cavity, as in the earth or other substance.
(n.) A streak or wave of different color, appearing in wood, and in marble and other stones; variegation.
(n.) A train of association, thoughts, emotions, or the like; a current; a course.
(n.) Peculiar temper or temperament; tendency or turn of mind; a particular disposition or cast of genius; humor; strain; quality; also, manner of speech or action; as, a rich vein of humor; a satirical vein.
(v. t.) To form or mark with veins; to fill or cover with veins.
Example Sentences:
(1) These immunocytochemical studies clearly demonstrated that cells encountered within the fibrous intimal thickening in the vein graft were inevitably smooth muscle cell in origin.
(2) The statistical T value calculated for the LP-TAE group showed that the administration of LP, the tumor size, intrahepatic metastasis, portal vein infiltration, and serum total bilirubin and alpha-fetoprotein levels significantly (P < 0.01) affected the patients' survival.
(3) Evaluation revealed tricuspid insufficiency, a massively dilated right internal jugular vein, and obstruction of the left internal jugular vein.
(4) If tracer is introduced into the carotid artery after osmotic treatment, brain uptake is increased by a net factor of 50 (a factor of 70 due to elevation of PA, multiplied by 7 due to infusion by the carotid route) as compared to uptake by normal, untreated brain with infusion into a peripheral vein.
(5) This observation, reinforced by simultaneous determinations of cortisol levels in the internal spermatic and antecubital veins, practically excluded the validity of the theory of adrenal hormonal suppression of testicular tissues.
(6) An anatomic study of the peroneal artery and vein and their branches was carried out on 80 adult cadaver legs.
(7) An intravenous bolus of 300 micrograms.kg-1 of 3-desacetylvecuronium was rapidly injected into the jugular vein.
(8) In one of the cirrhotic patients, postmortem correlation of sonographic, angiographic, and pathological findings showed that the dilated vessels seen on sonography were cystic veins draining normally into the portal vein rather than portosystemic anastomoses.
(9) Rapid injection of 2 m Ci TC 99m into a dorsal vein of the foot produced isotope phlebograms with a Dyna camera 2 C.
(10) The superior mesenteric artery and the abdominal aorta made the mean angle of 35.5 degree in patients with normal left renal vein, the mean angle of 45.4 degrees in those with left renal vein compression without nutcracker phenomenon, and the mean angle of 11.9 degrees in those with nutcracker phenomenon.
(11) Blood samples were collected from an antecubital vein at sea level (S1), in a base camp at 1515 m prior to the summit ascent (S2), on the summit at 3285 m after 6.5 hours of climbing (S3), at base camp immediately after the descent (S4), and at sea level following a trail descent from the base camp (S5).
(12) The most frequent source of the pulmonary circulation thromboembolism was the lower limb veins.
(13) A patient with a history of hypertension had a combined central retinal artery and vein occlusion in one eye.
(14) It is usually associated with a left superior caval vein draining into the coronary sinus and is frequently part of a complex congenital malformation of the heart.
(15) It is concluded that the transcutaneous ultrasound technique provides a reliable, rapidly available, non-invasive method to confirm the diagnosis of deep vein thrombosis.
(16) A fiberoptic flow-directed catheter inserted into the hepatic vein continuously measures hepatic venous oxygen hemoglobin saturation (ShvO2).
(17) The angiographic demonstration of veins was similarly improved by the 2 drugs, the effect of 60 mug.
(18) Attention is paid to the set of problems connected with the nonthrombotic insufficiency of the conducting veins of the leg.
(19) In the other, the proximal fibula was excised and the epiphysis placed across the saphenous artery and vein in the groin.
(20) Our results show that stenosis of about one-third of the original external diameter of the artery and vein of the pedicle in our model did not have any significant influence on the survival of the flap and ligation of the femoral artery distal to the branch to the flap did not produce any statistical difference in the viability of the flap.