(n.) One of a pair of short oars worked by one person.
(n.) A single oar used at the stern in propelling a boat.
(n.) The common skua gull.
(v. t.) To impel (a boat) with a pair of sculls, or with a single scull or oar worked over the stern obliquely from side to side.
(v. i.) To impel a boat with a scull or sculls.
Example Sentences:
(1) In the men's double sculls Wells and Rowbotham continued the form that has seen them medal in every World Cup event.
(2) The forensic autopsy revealed a fracture of the scull and a severe blunt injury to the head and brain.
(3) WOMEN'S DOUBLE SCULL Katherine Grainger, Anna Watkins Grainger and Watkins have won all three World Cup events this summer and are undefeated since being paired together in 2010.
(4) Most common among these injuries are knee pain associated with the eggbeater kick and shoulder pain associated with sculling.
(5) Under application of 50 muCi of pertechnetate, the exposure of radionuclide dacryocystography amounts to 15-25 mR for the lens and is far below the exposure by scull radiography.
(6) Main rival Netherlands Medal prediction Bronze, possibly LIGHTWEIGHT WOMEN'S DOUBLE SCULL Sophie Hosking and Katherine Copeland British duo won bronze at last year's worlds but this promises to be a close event and it will be difficult for them to improve on that.
(7) The dynamics of local thermoresponses in the brain cortex was studied through the unopened scull under patterned light stimulation of the retina in acute experiments on white rats by means of thermovision and digital image processing technique.
(8) An experimental study of the base deformation of isolated human scull under conditions of scull collision with an obstacle has been carried out.
(9) An examination was conducted in 310 persons surviving injuries of the scull and brain of varying severity.
(10) Grainger, courtesy of a hugely emotional win alongside Anna Watkins in the women's double sculls, now has a gold to add to her three previous wince-inducing silvers.
(11) Oxygen uptake was measured on four male subjects during sculling gondolas at constant speeds from approximately 1 to approximately 3 m.s-1.
(12) Ulsterman Alan Campbell finished fifth in the men's single scull, unable to live with the pace set by three hugely experienced opponents led by reigning world champion Olafe Tufte from Norway after leading for the first 800 metres.
(13) An earlier suggested continuous scull model is modified on the basis of the data obtained.
(14) Hydrocortisone therapy diminishes the development of gross collagen fibers, and causes the formation of a loose glial scar from a wide-looped network of processes of fibrill-forming astrocytes; 127 clinical observations of hydrocortisone therapy with layer-wise plastic repair of the brain and scull, followed-up for to 10 years, demonstrated that this method favours the prevention of epilepsy.
(15) 11.57am Gold women's lightweight double sculls Fifteen minutes later Sophie Hosking and Katherine Copeland start the women's lightweight double sculls final in lane six.
(16) As well as the medal winners so far, Kath Grainger, who has won silver medals at each of the past two Games, will compete with Anna Watkins on Friday in the women's double sculls, in which they are strong favourites to win gold.
(17) Explorative trepanation of the scull was carried out after confirmation of (1) discreet neurologic disturbances on neurologic examination in the right hemisphere, (2) focal sign on the right side in the EEG (focal slowing and focal sharp wave), and (3) a right-parietal increase of radioactive activity in the scintigram.
(18) It is shown that the modified model (a part of spherical shell with the flat base) resembles scull behaviour in statics and dynamics better than the scull model in the form of spherical shell.
(19) The pulp chamber floor of 39 primary first and second molars of 10 mandibuiars of the Indian scull was investigated with a scanning electron microscope for the presence of accessary foramens.
(20) Main rival Germany Medal prediction Bronze LIGHTWEIGHT MEN'S DOUBLE SCULL Mark Hunter, Zac Purchase Last time around in Beijing Hunter and Purchase proved unstoppable and are also the reigning world champions.
Sculler
Definition:
(n.) A boat rowed by one man with two sculls, or short oars.
(n.) One who sculls.
Example Sentences:
(1) I wish the rest of the racers good luck – if you are rowing this week you better know how to swim.” Meanwhile, the Irish sculler Sanita Puspure, who finished one place ahead of Negm in second, described the conditions as “horrific”.
(2) One team member, the single sculler Alan Campbell, reckons he will have rehearsed every stroke of his probable Olympic final 36,000 times in the four years prior to it.
(3) The British sculler Alan Campbell, who looked particularly impressive in winning his heat, claimed the conditions reminded him of coastal rowing.
(4) The number of scullers on board in the different trials was one, two or four.
(5) The four's victory came after Britain's men's and women's double scullers claimed the team's first medals of the Olympic regatta, collecting bronze medals within 20 minutes of each other at Shunyi rowing lake.
(6) While the Egyptian sculler Nadia Negm reckoned the conditions were the worst in which she had rowed.
(7) At one point, the American sculler Genevra Stone nearly sunk like, well, a stone.
(8) An equation is developed (and solved) to describe the speed of a rowing boat as a function of the movement of the sculler's center of mass relative to the boat and the force applied.