(n.) One employed to solicit patronage, as for a steamboat, hotel, shop, etc.
(n.) A slender trailing branch which takes root at the joints or end and there forms new plants, as in the strawberry and the common cinquefoil.
(n.) The rotating stone of a set of millstones.
(n.) A rope rove through a block and used to increase the mechanical power of a tackle.
(n.) One of the pieces on which a sled or sleigh slides; also the part or blade of a skate which slides on the ice.
(n.) A horizontal channel in a mold, through which the metal flows to the cavity formed by the pattern; also, the waste metal left in such a channel.
(n.) A trough or channel for leading molten metal from a furnace to a ladle, mold, or pig bed.
(n.) The movable piece to which the ribs of an umbrella are attached.
(n.) A food fish (Elagatis pinnulatus) of Florida and the West Indies; -- called also skipjack, shoemaker, and yellowtail. The name alludes to its rapid successive leaps from the water.
(n.) Any cursorial bird.
(n.) A movable slab or rubber used in grinding or polishing a surface of stone.
(n.) A tool on which lenses are fastened in a group, for polishing or grinding.
Example Sentences:
(1) In common with other studies, we found that the injury occurred in competitive runners, especially females, and was likely to develop during competitive races or intensive training sessions.
(2) "Runners, for instance, need a high level of running economy, which comes from skill acquisition and putting in the miles," says Scrivener, "But they could effectively ease off the long runs and reduce the overall mileage by introducing Tabata training.
(3) For recreational runners who have sustained injuries, especially within the past year, a reduction in running to below 32 km per week is recommended.
(4) In combined groups of male runners and controls, there was a highly significant positive correlation between the serum HDL-cholesterol level and the LPL activity of adipose tissue expressed per tissue weight (r = +0.72, p less than 0.001) or per whole body fat (r = +0.62, p less than 0.001).
(5) 50 runners with exertion induced injuries of the lower extremity were provided with appropriate running shoe insoles.
(6) When I had that keyhole surgery, I thought: ‘Maybe, if I come back, it won’t be to that top level.’ But with the support I have been getting from my coach, family and friends, I think that really motivated me to come back strong.” Kenya is more famed for its distance runners and steeplechasers than its hurdlers, but the country was left celebrating a surprise gold medal in the 400m hurdles when Nicholas Bett powered home from lane nine to smash his personal best to win in 47.79sec.
(7) Runners at the corners for Daniel Descalso who he hits a hard ground ball right to Barmes at shortstop (not second base), he steps on the bag at second to get Freese for one out, fires to first to get the second out, and that's what we call an inning ending double play...or sometimes we call it a pitchers best friend.
(8) The runners showed less rapid eye-movement activity during sleep than the nonrunners under both experimental conditions, indicating a strong and unexpected effect of physical fitness on this measure.
(9) Blade Runner: the Final Cut is re-released on 3 April
(10) The best advertisement for the format came four hours before the final even started, when, in ITV1's coverage of the FA Cup Final, the teenager Faryl Smith, a 2008 runner-up, sang the national anthem solo and faultlessly in front of a full crowd at Wembley.
(11) We tested the hypothesis that the neuroendocrine control of gonadotropin secretion is altered in certain women distance runners with secondary amenorrhea.
(12) Afternoon Delights doesn't have anything approaching a mission statement – it's just two middle-aged men arsing about, frankly – but its gleeful anarchism can be riotously funny: witness the pair as free runners, declaring "war against the urban environment", or their magnificently coiffed Rock'n'Rollers, with the aid of subtitles, showing off their moves on the streets of Ashford, Kent.
(13) To determine the prevalence of various gastrointestinal disturbances related to long-distance running and its effect on weight, diet and everyday digestive problems, we gave a questionnaire to 279 leisure-time marathon runners, comprising 10% of the participants in a local marathon race.
(14) Runner up: Newcastle University A project inspired by the childhood game Kerplunk is being used to slow the flow of water in order to improve water quality and reduce flood risk for a Northumberland town hit by floods in recent years.
(15) The middle distance runners were all highly trained, but had significantly slower performance times than the elite runners at distances greater than 3 miles.
(16) However, as we watch Blade Runner , Deckard doesn’t feel like a replicant; he is dour and unengaged, but lacks his victims’ detached innocence, their staccato puzzlement at their own untrained feelings.
(17) The athletes were mostly volley ball players, jumpers or runners.
(18) The runners were divided into 2 groups: group A, who competed the 160 km within 24 hours and group B, who either ran for 24 hours, or who retired before completing the distance.
(19) The effects of L-carnitine on respiratory chain enzymes in muscle of long distance runners were studied in 14 athletes.
(20) Further, previous work has, almost exclusively, examined male runners.
Toboggan
Definition:
(n.) A kind of sledge made of pliable board, turned up at one or both ends, used for coasting down hills or prepared inclined planes; also, a sleigh or sledge, to be drawn by dogs, or by hand, over soft and deep snow.
(v. i.) To slide down hill over the snow or ice on a toboggan.
Example Sentences:
(1) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Tobogganers at Gallagher Park What’s the best place for a conversation?
(2) It functions as a pair of easy-to-use skis for walking uphill, then when it’s time to head down, it quickly transforms into a toboggan for riding safely and enjoyably back to the resort, perhaps even with a few powder turns along the way.
(3) Winning tip: Tobogganing in Zurich The best way to see Zurich is from the top of its own mini mountain, Uetliberg, from where you get a view of the whole city, the lake and the countryside with mountains in the distance.
(4) A series of 271 children, injured in tobogganing and sledging accidents was studied.
(5) Most accidents occurred on a slope especially designated for tobogganing and sledging.
(6) I was tobogganing with friends in the village, and we saw something astonishing in the sky: great columns of white light shifting and shimmering, breaking and floating away, rising from behind the hills.
(7) Another pupil, with whom he was racing on improvised toboggans, was killed when he hit a tree.
(8) By means of this score it can be shown that the most severe injuries occur during horse riding, skating, tobogganing and bicycle riding.
(9) In the Antarctic they lived in tents and spent 15 days travelling by motor toboggan.
(10) Tobogganing accidents caused injuries to the kidneys as well as to bladder and urethra.
(11) It’s particularly magical in winter when everything is dusted with snow and the toboggan run is open – two miles of downhill fun from Uetliberg to Triemli!
(12) Eighty-eight patients suffered skiing injuries, 20 tobogganing injuries, and one injury each was caused by ski jumping and bobsleighing accidents, two traumas resulted from a fall from a chair lift.
(13) Twenty-four cases of vertebral column injuries associated with tobogganing accidents are presented.
(14) Beyond the festival, Geilo has plenty of other exciting winter activities, including snowshoeing, dog-sledding, tobogganing and fat biking.
(15) Facebook Twitter Pinterest The toboggan ride back from Monte.
(16) 51% of the accidents were caused by the typical winter sports: skiing, tobogganing, ice-skating and ski-jumping with skiing accounting for 75% of the accidents.
(17) The authors review the exceptional causes that may not be considered: drug anaphylaxis, to foods, hymenoptera, effort anaphylaxis, to hydatic antigens, to toboggans, to progesterone.
(18) In contrast to traumas caused by skiing, tobogganing injuries were mostly multiple.
(19) There's an outlandish car chase that, with Kara's cello case doubling as a toboggan, morphs into a yet more outlandish ski chase.
(20) We urge safer and better organization of tobogganing facilities.