(n.) A vehicle on runners, used for conveying loads over the snow or ice; -- in England called sledge.
(n.) A small, light vehicle with runners, used, mostly by young persons, for sliding on snow or ice.
(v. t.) To convey or transport on a sled; as, to sled wood or timber.
Example Sentences:
(1) The two completely different total knee-endoprostheses (hinge type and sled or runner type) have been compared concerning construction and ability for take up or transmission of forces and moments.
(2) In order to assess the effect of extravestibular gravity receptors on perception and control of body position against that of the otoliths, the subject (S) is exposed to gravitoinertial forces along the spinal (Z) axis on a tiltable board and on a sled centrifuge.
(3) Eighteen young male subjects with NAMRL sled test experience to 15 G in --Gx acceleration were measured for physical characteristics of the head and neck and general body anthropometry.
(4) A Teflon sled, Proplast malar implant and ptosis correction acheived the desired results.
(5) No difference in risk of injury was found regarding the type of sled used, the number of children, or their position on the sled or for those children with a history of prior sledding experience.
(6) A state law enforcement agency, SLED, has taken over the investigation into the shooting along with the Justice Department and FBI.
(7) Each year, the winning team takes a special trip with him: this year’s winners will go dog-sledding on a glacier in Iceland; when Reilly and the DeAngeluses won in 2012, their team spent a weekend in a Scottish castle.
(8) These burs were tested utilizing custom-built equipment consisting of a frictionless air sled to which the Macor substrate was attached.
(9) In February he will leave northern Canada to trek more than 1,000km to the North Pole; what's different this time is that he is travelling with two fellow polar explorers, his friends Ann Daniels and Martin Hartley, and they will be dragging with them not just food and repair kits but 100kg sleds each, laden with equipment to take up to 12m readings of the depth and density of snow and ice beneath their feet.
(10) Gross examination revealed that the sleds were secured in position until well encapsulated.
(11) Over 150 Navy enlisted men have been subjected to impact acceleration on a sled propelled by a nitrogen-powered horizontal accelerator.
(12) By a systematic analysis of the so called sled-prostheses is to be shown to differantiate between real sled-prostheses with rotation and sliding mobility and pseudo-sled-prostheses (better rotation-segment-prostheses).
(13) When the MAbs produced against CDV were tested, 37 of 39 antibodies reacted with a virus isolated from a sled dog diseased in an outbreak of distemper in Greenland prior to the epizootic among seals in the North Sea.
(14) Some were mounted in a rearward firing sled; others were placed in standard cars during collisions.
(15) David Cameron was a master stunt-artist: the husky-sledding in the Arctic circle, the bicycle-riding to Westminster.
(16) They had provisions for several more weeks on the ice, the first leg of a year-long expedition (named "180 Degrees") from geomagnetic north pole to geomagnetic south pole by dog sledding, sailing and cycling.
(17) So, even after a massive snow fall, we don’t get much time to enjoy its pleasures – digging out igloos once the storm has passed, pretending we’re Laura Ingalls Wilder and trying to make maple candy in the snow , sledding down that one big hill.
(18) Coming from the position of being a high Tory with great personal wealth and aristocratic family ties, Cameron needed to ride a husky sled across a glacier and go on about global warming to persuade people he was half-way normal.
(19) Posterior fixation of the sled may be difficult, as the sled tends to migrate anteriorly.
(20) A canine distemper outbreak in a highly susceptible sled dog population of Northern Greenland was recognized in the beginning of January 1988.
Sleigh
Definition:
(a.) Sly.
(n.) A vehicle moved on runners, and used for transporting persons or goods on snow or ice; -- in England commonly called a sledge.
Example Sentences:
(1) A general practitioner practising from 1940 onwards on the Gruyère region describes visually his former task: permanence on call, daily journeys of 80 km for house calls, often on skis or by sleigh, surgery under most primitive conditions, serious decisions taken lonely, diphtheria-epidemics, frequent tuberculosis, penicillin as a major break-through, picturesque human encounters...A lively testimony of times gone by.
(2) Perhaps pop stars are simply too arch or self-conscious to write from the heart about their dreams of a white Christmas; with everybody having fun and Santa bringing that sleigh all along the Milky Way.
(3) In 2006, Woodhouse began filming Cameron for WebCameron but it stopped at the election; Parsons was the photographer who captured Cameron on a sleigh in Norway in 2006.
(4) Bob Sleigh, the leader of Solihull council, said: “The establishment of a combined authority gives us a unique opportunity to drive forward a series of objectives in support of economic growth and progressive public service reform.
(5) Oliver also suggests that Sedan have been led out at two recent Coupe de France finals by boars, while "FC Cologne has always employed a (real) goat as a mascot, I kid you not," chuckles Robert Sleigh.
(6) The Major Lazer producer had previously worked on Beyoncé's Run the World (Girls) single, and allegedly brought the singer and Sleigh Bells together in the studio .
(7) In a patient properly treated for a previous cavitary tuberculosis, we had the surprise, after hemoptyses, to find a sleigh-bell shaped picture suggesting an intra-cavitary aspergilloma with a very special mycosis with Allescheria Boydii.
(8) For screening purposes Griess'test modified by Sleigh was used.
(9) The complex of ski runs, resort chalets and sleigh rides will open formally on Thursday, though late last month the main hotels appeared to be little more than shells, potholes filled the access roads and foundations were still being dug for secondary buildings.
(10) According to Reuters, the couple rode in an old-fashioned sleigh drawn by three white horses.
(11) The only thing better than this news would be Santa driving an Aston Martin sleigh.” Spectre, which is due to open in UK cinemas on 23 October and in the US on 6 November next year, arrives with the spy saga at an all-time high in terms of critical cachet and box office clout.
(12) They trekked for a week across the frozen ocean in temperatures of -30C, each pulling heavy sleighs weighing 80kg behind them.
(13) So David Cameron went to Norway, drove a dog sleigh and posed for a picture.
(14) This case shows that the so-called "sleigh-bell" image is not pathognomic of aspergilloma and that this disease is far from being exceptional in Africa.
(15) One particularly triumphalist message doing the rounds across Belfast and beyond has a festive feel to it: "Sleigh bells ring, are you listening, the union flag has gone missing, the Huns smashed up the town as the crown rag came down, walking in a Fenian wonderland."
(16) New excursions being offered on all ships include a “mountain hike with husky” in Kirkenes (£80) to a reindeer sleighing trip with overnight stay in a Sami tent near Tromsø (£308).
(17) Six months before Santa shakes a sleigh bell, the toy store Hamleys is predicting which presents he will be loading up with this year.
(18) A seven-night Lakeside Auroras trip to Torassieppi with sleigh ride, ice fishing, snowshoe hike and husky safari costs £1,490pp, including dome supplement.
(19) We developed a highly sensitive procedure for assaying chloramphenicol acetyltransferase (CAT) enzyme activity in extracts of eukaryotic cells transfected with the CAT gene expression vector, by modification of the partition extraction procedure described by Sleigh [Anal.