(n.) One who, or that which, slides; especially, a sliding part of an instrument or machine.
(n.) The red-bellied terrapin (Pseudemys rugosa).
Example Sentences:
(1) To address whether temperature and estrogen are biologically equivalent, two experiments were conducted with the red-eared slider turtle, Trachemys scripta.
(2) Will Middlebrooks walks the plank, waving at a slider inside to become K-X.
(3) The righty deals to Descalso and strikes him out on six pitches - a slider.
(4) Pagan can't check his swing on a slider out of the zone, 0-1.
(5) 5.53pm GMT Just seven more sliders to slide in the men’s singles luge.
(6) Cell Slider Photograph: CRUK Every two minutes someone in the UK is diagnosed with cancer.
(7) Then Martinez is hit by a slider that barely grazes V-Mart putting him at first with two outs.
(8) Three patients (14%) showed evidence of fixator binding, and another four (18%) had less than predicted slider excursions.
(9) The guests order from the bar menu – beef sliders for £21, £770 for a 50g portion of beluga caviar.
(10) Martinez throws a backdoor slider that goes to the very very back of Victorino!
(11) Jackson throws a nastier slider right in the dirt that makes Freese looks foolish.
(12) 1.56am BST Dodgers 0 - Cardinals 0, bottom of 1st Carlos Beltran is next, and he looks at strike three for the second out - a slider away.
(13) These are respectively a four jack system, a serrated wedge system, a spherical alignment system and a serrated slider.
(14) Jackson fouls off a slider that he probably would want back.
(15) But a large chunk of the £3.4m poured into the sport over four years goes on transporting the team around the world and technology to video the various tracks, which is then analysed and learned off by heart by the sliders.
(16) He's one of those CEOs who believes in rewarding his staff, who get £6.90 an hour (which buys you 30 Chicken Zingy Sliders and a tub of Reduced Fat Coleslaw), and seem to stay with the firm for years, which must mean something.
(17) The Rockies were completely stymied by the reigning National League Cy Young Award winner, who had all of his pitches working on Wednesday – fastball, curveball, change up and a slider, one that finished the Rockies for the night and set off a celebration.
(18) The femoral eyelet was screwed into bone and the tibial eyelet was attached to a force-transducer, which was positioned and locked on a tibial slider track to record forces in the ligament as the tibia was externally loaded.
(19) He finished off the big swinging team from Colorado with ease, Corey Dickerson no match for his final pitch, a slider he swung through for strike three.
(20) Coke throws a slider, but it's out of the zone and Belt didn't offer.
Thumb
Definition:
(n.) The short, thick first digit of the human hand, differing from the other fingers in having but two phalanges; the pollex. See Pollex.
(v. t.) To handle awkwardly.
(v. t.) To play with the thumbs, or with the thumbs and fingers; as, to thumb over a tune.
(v. t.) To soil or wear with the thumb or the fingers; to soil, or wear out, by frequent handling; also, to cover with the thumb; as, to thumb the touch-hole of a cannon.
(v. i.) To play with the thumb or thumbs; to play clumsily; to thrum.
Example Sentences:
(1) Seventy-five hands showed normal distal latency, in which cases, however, the SNCV of the ring finger was always outside the normal range, while the SNCVs of the thumb, index and middle fingers were abnormal in 64%, 80% and 92% of cases respectively.
(2) The anesthesiologist assessed the degree of neuromuscular blockade intraoperatively prior to pharmacologic reversal either by the standard method of visually counting the number of evoked thumb twitches elicited by supramaximal train-of-four stimulation of the ulnar nerve (i.e., thumb train-of-four count), or by an alternative method such as 1) visually counting the number of evoked orbicularis oculi muscle twitches elicited by supramaximal train-of-four stimulation of the facial nerve, or 2) observing the patient for clinical evidence of partial recovery (e.g., swallowing or attempts to breathe).
(3) At the end of each session, he is forced to don a pair of blackened goggles, ear muffs are placed over his head, and he is ordered to place the palms of his hands together so that a guard can grasp his thumbs to lead him away.
(4) Considering the large number of procedures designed for the thumb trapeziometacarpal (TMC) joint, it is evident that none are completely satisfactory.
(5) Osteocutaneous flaps from the foot are being utilized more for thumb and digit reconstruction.
(6) The patient had associated congenital abnormalities of urethral stricture, hypoplastic thumb, and absent radial pulse.
(7) The power users and early adopters of these apps, the ones you're most likely to see tapping their thumbs over a tiny screen, are under 25.
(8) Tiny, tiny... rodents – some soft and grey, some brown with black stripes, in paintings, posters, wallcharts, thumb-tacked magazine clippings and poorly executed crayon drawings, hurling themselves fatally in their thousands over the cliff of their island home; or crudely taxidermied and mounted, eyes glazed and little paws frozen stiff – on every available surface.
(9) My rule of thumb is that if you see a commentator or politician praising a dictatorship, plutocrat or corporation, the best course is to assume that they have been got at unless they can prove otherwise.
(10) These variations could have an influence on proprioception in the thumb ray.
(11) The patient regained good movement at the interphalangeal joint of the thumb.
(12) Sixteen patients obtained full, independent thumb-index finger extension, three had fair function, and two obtained thumb-index extension by tenodesis of the transfer.
(13) Reversals of field direction showed a shift from lateral inferior to medial superior for thumb to little finger.
(14) Informed understanding of the likely progressive development of index-middle finger scissoring, pronation of the index ray with spontaneous broadening of the pulp, and the deteriorating use of an existing hypoplastic thumb may make the decision for ablation easier for parents.
(15) Two cases of thumb replantation and one of finger revascularization complicated by Aeromonas hydrophila infection are reported.
(16) The palmar digital nerves to the thumb were constant in position and course, with a short lateral cutaneous branch from the radial palmar digital nerve in 30 per cent of cases.
(17) Tactile stimuli were applied to the right index fingertip at intervals ranging from 63 to 1,000 msec after the completion of rapid thumb movement.
(18) In six patients with defective sensibility of the thumb the transfer of a neurovascular island flap was performed according to Littler's technique.
(19) In this discussion we have evaluated in detail the surgical treatment indicated for wrist, metacarpophalangeal joint, and thumb deformities.
(20) To the best of our knowledge it is the first reported case of false aneurysm involving the thumb.