(n.) A sword with a broad and heavy blade, thick at the back, and usually more or less curved like a scimiter; a cavalry sword.
(v. t.) To strike, cut, or kill with a saber; to cut down, as with a saber.
(n. & v.) See Saber.
Example Sentences:
(1) Kim has ruled the country since his father, Kim Jong-il, died in 2011, and his early tenure has been marked by sabre-rattling and repeated nuclear tests.
(2) Known as Global Distribution Systems (GDS), the technology dates back to the 1960s, when one of the first companies in the field, Sabre, was founded.
(3) A s Michael Howard’s flag-waving, sabre-rattling, Madrid-baiting intervention made clear, Gibraltar can occupy an oddly atavistic place in some corners of Britain’s collective psyche.
(4) The local undertakers were pleased to discover the great Henty to be the man they had always imagined - a full-bearded giant, stern and wise, dressed like a warrior hero or - much the same thing - a Victorian gentleman with the whiff of gunpowder and the clash of sabres about him.
(5) A member of the anti-balaka holds a grenade and a sabre at a checkpoint in Pissa, CAR.
(6) The undercover agents also supplied thousands of dollars in cash for Ferdaus to buy the F-86 Sabre miniature plane to be used in an attack.
(7) Accusing Russia’s president, Vladimir Putin, of “sabre-rattling”, he said the UK commitment to a new Nato rapid reaction force is to be extended by three years, with 1,000 troops sent next year and 3,000 in 2017.
(8) Any good economic news is likely to be seized upon by a Spanish government that has had to resort to sabre rattling over Gibraltar to keep a corruption scandal off the front pages.
(9) Russia’s nuclear sabre-rattling is unjustified, destabilising and dangerous Jens Stoltenberg In blunt language, the Nato chief delivered a scathing critique of Russia’s behaviour over the past year – including Moscow’s armed intervention in Ukraine – and vowed the transatlantic alliance would redouble its commitment to “collective defence”.
(10) The WWF has warned that the Iberian lynx, found only in Spain and Portugal, could become the first big cat to go extinct since the sabre-tooth tiger died out 10,000 years ago.
(11) Two cases of 'sabre sheath' trachea in combination with mediastinal lipomatosis are reported.
(12) Internationally, Iran is locked in a stalemate with the west over its nuclear programme and it has recently responded to attempts at banning its oil imports by sabre-rattling and raising the stakes by threatening to close the Strait of Hormuz, a vital passageway in the Gulf where one-fifth of the world's oil passes in tankers.
(13) This sabre-rattling – in the midst of a recession – is beyond stupid.
(14) During a 7-10 day span, circadian rhythms of sleep-wake, self-rated fatigue and mood, oral temperature, eye-hand skill and right and left hand grip strength were investigated in eight subjects: five males (21-28 years of age), members of the French sabre fencing team selected for the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles, and three females (19-26 years of age) practicing fleuret (foil) fencing as a sports activity.
(15) The media might portray Perry as a dumb sabre-rattler, but it takes more than luck to be the nation's longest-serving governor.
(16) Morphological patterns of the retina, cone size and density, rod density, rod-cone ratio, ganglion cell density, convergence of receptor cells, resolving power (RP) and regionalization were examined throughout life history in roach and in adults of asp, bream, common carp, roach and sabre carp.
(17) By winning an imaginary war, the picture reveals sabre-rattling for what it is.
(18) Rincón lists his most significant findings with the contagious enthusiasm of a child reciting the cast of the Ice Age movies: the giant femur of a six-tonne mastodon, a giant ground sloth, a 10-ft pelican, caimans the size of buses and the almost intact skull of a sabre-toothed tiger.
(19) That neglects the regional political dimensions, with arms sales taking place with a lack of regard for that context and without long-term strategic awareness.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest An Al Sabr unmanned aerial vehicle at the Idex arms fair in Abu Dhabi.
(20) Affected skin became atrophic in three cases, "En coup de sabre" lesions were removed surgically in two cases, and there were not recurrences.
Scimitar
Definition:
(n.) A saber with a much curved blade having the edge on the convex side, -- in use among Mohammedans, esp., the Arabs and persians.
(n.) A long-handled billhook. See Billhook.
Example Sentences:
(1) Eight other additional cases of horseshoe lung without scimitar syndrome are mentioned here.
(2) The scimitar syndrome may be indistinguishable from BPS with this technique.
(3) Both patients had intact interatrial septum with partial anomalous pulmonary venous drainage, one to the inferior vena cava (The Scimitar Syndrome) and the other to the superior vena cava.
(5) A case of the scimitar sign due to an anomaly of the right sided pulmonary vein with normal drainage into the left atrium was associated with an azygos continuation of the inferior vena cava.
(6) The scimitar sign, characterised by a vertical opacity crossing the medial part of the right diaphragm, is generally attributed to abnormal pulmonary venous return draining into the inferior vena cava.
(7) A review of the roentgenograms and clinical records of 33 children with primary congenital underdevelopment of one lung showed that 9 patients had simple pulmonary hypoplasia, 8 had anomalous venous return to the right atrium or the inferior vena cava (scimitar syndrome), 7 had an absence of the ipsilateral pulmonary artery, 7 had an accessory diaphragm, and 2 had a pulmonary sequestration adjacent to a small diaphragmatic hernia.
(8) Most patients with such pulmonary fusion share many of those cardiovascular anomalies typical of the "scimitar" or hypogenetic right lung syndrome.
(9) A 26-year-old woman with partial anomalous pulmonary venous drainage into the right atrium (Scimitar syndrome) was successfully operated upon by incorporating an intra-atrial conduit.
(10) A pulmonary angiogram revealed an anomalous pulmonary vein, having the appearance of a scimitar sign draining normally into the left atrium.
(11) The authors describe three new cases in children of abnormal right pulmonary venous drainage into the inferior vena cava, associated with sequestration of the right lower lobe and dextrocardia caused by right pulmonary hypoplasia with a scimitar sign.
(12) The scimitar syndrome, first described by Chassinat in 1836, consists aessentially of an anomalous pulmonary vein draining whole or part of the right lung into the inferior vena cava.
(13) Analysis of regional pulmonary function distribution using radioactive 133xenon gas and eight scintillation detectors was performed in a patient with scimitar syndrome.
(14) A rare case of scimitar syndrome associated with diaphragmatic herniation of the liver is reported.
(15) To our knowledge, this is the first successful surgical case of Scimitar syndrome with pulmonary hypertension in childhood reported in literature.
(16) However, a computed tomography of the chest showed this abnormal vascular shadow draining into the left atrium (pseudo-scimitar sign).
(17) The finding of a "scimitar sacrum" makes it essential to perform a contrast enema of the anorectum and a CT of the pelvic structures in the patient and his family.
(18) During repair, creation of an atrial septal defect in the distorted septal-left atrial junction of scimitar syndrome is facilitated by first incising the anteromedial aspect of the fossa ovalis to better delineate the optimal posterolateral margin.
(19) The term scimitar syndrome used in the literature is to some extent inaccurate as it is neither constant nor pathognomonic.
(20) Four new cases of scimitar syndrome illustrate the complex derangement of the right lung architecture.