(n.) The front part of the leg below the knee; the front edge of the shin bone; the lower part of the leg; the shank.
(n.) A fish plate for rails.
(v. i.) To climb a mast, tree, rope, or the like, by embracing it alternately with the arms and legs, without help of steps, spurs, or the like; -- used with up; as, to shin up a mast.
(v. i.) To run about borrowing money hastily and temporarily, as for the payment of one's notes at the bank.
(v. t.) To climb (a pole, etc.) by shinning up.
Example Sentences:
(1) Hardy has a 10in tattoo of Lee along his left shin.
(2) The 70-year-old describes a life of comfortable detachment from mainstream society, but with long periods in which he and his 74-year-old wife, Shin-yeol, are at the mercy of the elements.
(3) Rich, clear and with real depth, these are the prize awaiting anyone who picks up the shin, cheeks and tails before they're put in the mincer.
(4) Then there was his finish – it came off his shin but did anybody in Wales really care how he scored?
(5) The idea came to Kim, he said, when he heard that Seoul's repressive, militaristic Park regime had closed down Shin Films.
(6) Shin Dong-hyuk said he was tormented to see his father alive and speaking in the video released by Pyongyang in October.
(7) Tommy Banks, Bolton's left back, was exhausted by his efforts to halt Matthews, contracting cramp in his shins, and four times leaving the field for treatment in the final quarter hour.
(8) Sometimes resigned to his stay, Shin took comfort in his increasing material well-being, and in making movies again.
(9) 9.33pm BST 73 min: Pedro this time looks for Torres in behind – but his pass rattles straight into the shins of Francisco Silva.
(10) To know how CA125 proceeds from tumor cells into the circulation, a CA125-producing, ovarian-cancer-cell line (SHIN-3) was transplanted sub-cutaneously into nude mice.
(11) This puzzling confession, Shin writes, lingered in his mind as he drove in a Mercedes to the new office of Shin Films.
(12) Training for a marathon is a real challenge for your joints, tendons and cartilage, and so we tend to see regular distance runners developing problems with their knees, hips and shins,” says Vollaard.
(13) A spokesman for North Korea’s Association for Human Rights Studies said on Wednesday that Shin’s admissions “self-exposed” the flimsy foundations of efforts to censure Pyongyang for its rights record.
(14) 465 cases of exertion pain (18%) were located in the shin.
(15) Many pictures in the book – of families cutting cane, of men shinning up coconut trees – replicate the rural sights I see when I visit.
(16) The police station at Shin Kalay is not much to look at.
(17) A popular theme in Shin's films - not unlike the Hollywood weepies of the 1950s - concerns the plight of women chafing under the limits of society's expectations, such as The Evergreen Tree (1961), in which Choi played a reform-minded woman struggling against provincialism to teach rural children how to read and write.
(18) Rheograms of the shin have shown a decrease and asymmetry of the specific blood flow, less elasticity of arteries, less velocity of their blood filling in patients with malformations of the fibular bone.
(19) One of the South Korean investigators, Shin Sang-cheol, sacrificed his career to express his belief that the Cheonan had run aground in a tragic accident and with reports of evidence tampering circulating, even the South Korean public wasn't widely convinced of North Korean involvement: a survey conducted in Seoul found less than 33% blamed the DPRK.
(20) Lee Young-pyo executes an elaborate series of stepovers down the left - Cristiano Ronaldo eat your heart out - but just as he looks to have Maxi Pereira beaten, he lets the ball clank off his shin and out of play.
Twist
Definition:
(v. t.) To contort; to writhe; to complicate; to crook spirally; to convolve.
(v. t.) Hence, to turn from the true form or meaning; to pervert; as, to twist a passage cited from an author.
(v. t.) To distort, as a solid body, by turning one part relatively to another about an axis passing through both; to subject to torsion; as, to twist a shaft.
(v. t.) To wreathe; to wind; to encircle; to unite by intertexture of parts.
(v. t.) To wind into; to insinuate; -- used reflexively; as, avarice twists itself into all human concerns.
(v. t.) To unite by winding one thread, strand, or other flexible substance, round another; to form by convolution, or winding separate things round each other; as, to twist yarn or thread.
(v. t.) Hence, to form as if by winding one part around another; to wreathe; to make up.
(v. t.) To form into a thread from many fine filaments; as, to twist wool or cotton.
(v. i.) To be contorted; to writhe; to be distorted by torsion; to be united by winding round each other; to be or become twisted; as, some strands will twist more easily than others.
(v. i.) To follow a helical or spiral course; to be in the form of a helix.
(n.) The act of twisting; a contortion; a flexure; a convolution; a bending.
(n.) The form given in twisting.
(n.) That which is formed by twisting, convoluting, or uniting parts.
(n.) A cord, thread, or anything flexible, formed by winding strands or separate things round each other.
(n.) A kind of closely twisted, strong sewing silk, used by tailors, saddlers, and the like.
(n.) A kind of cotton yarn, of several varieties.
(n.) A roll of twisted dough, baked.
(n.) A little twisted roll of tobacco.
(n.) One of the threads of a warp, -- usually more tightly twisted than the filling.
(n.) A material for gun barrels, consisting of iron and steel twisted and welded together; as, Damascus twist.
(n.) The spiral course of the rifling of a gun barrel or a cannon.
(n.) A beverage made of brandy and gin.
(v. t.) A twig.
Example Sentences:
(1) Aberrant forms (elongated and twisted) in the vacuole and double virions in the plasma membrane were observed as early as 65 h after infection.
(2) Electron microscopy shows that at neutral pH, CEA particles consist of homogeneous, morphologically distinctive, twisted rod-shaped particles, about 9 X 40 nm.
(3) Rapid swelling of the knee following a blow or twisting injury is considered a significant injury.
(4) Intermolecular contacts occur in both oligomers in the minor groove: in the B form through twisted guanine-guanine hydrogen bonding, and in the Z form through base-base stacking and the water network.
(5) Ings twisted the knee during his first training session with Klopp in charge and tests have shown the former Burnley forward ruptured an anterior cruciate ligament, meaning that a player who has just broken into England’s senior team will be out for a minimum of six months.
(6) Leicester looked a little sorry for themselves and, with their concentration down, United twisted the knife.
(7) Gowher Rizvi, chief representative of the prime minister, Sheik Hasina, told the Guardian that preparations for the forthcoming elections, were "completely on track" and that the tribunal, probing crimes committed during the 1971 war in which Bangladesh broke away from Pakistan, was about bringing justice previously denied by "the twists and turns" of the country's history.
(8) The base orientations are characterized by a substantial inclination and propellor twist.
(9) Among the non-standard postures examined were: twisting while lifting or lowering, lifting and lowering from lying, sitting, kneeling, and squatting positions, and carrying loads under conditions of constricted ceiling heights.
(10) A vicious feud playing out within Uzbekistan's ruling family took a new twist on Monday , when prosecutors announced that the clan's most flamboyant member faces charges of involvement in mafia-style corruption.
(11) The possible arrangements of molecules within the twisted ribbons have been deduced and are found to be fairly closely related.
(12) Idiopathic torsion dystonia (ITD) is characterized by sustained, involuntary muscle contractions, frequently causing twisting and repetitive movements or abnormal postures.
(13) These results indicate that the polypeptide chain, driven by energetics (nonbonded and electrostatic interactions), is folded into a typical left-handed twisted four-helix bundle with an approximately 4-fold symmetric array, as observed in most four alpha-helix proteins.
(14) In the mutants twist and snail, which fail to differentiate the ventrally derived mesoderm, mitoses specific to the mesoderm are absent.
(15) Fulham were helped by United being forced into a trio of substitutions at the interval, as Rafael succumbed to a twisted ankle, Cleverly had double vision and Evans had back trouble.
(16) Blockage of the balloon system was possibly caused by twisting the system to reach and pass the lesion in the branch of left circumflex coronary artery.
(17) In the tradition of the American author Patricia Highsmith, creator of the charming psychopath Tom Ripley, Rendell used twisting plots to expose twisted minds.
(18) From previous genetic and biochemical studies it was hypothesized that dorsal might be responsible for the activation of the zygotic gene twist.
(19) Finally, the twisted nose was treated by freeing the nasal components, straightening the bone and cartilage, and replacing them in their anatomical positions.
(20) It doesn’t do a lot at the moment, but there’s a lot of potential for a modern twist on board games here.