(n.) A long, pointed weapon, used in war and hunting, by thrusting or throwing; a weapon with a long shaft and a sharp head or blade; a lance.
(n.) Fig.: A spearman.
(n.) A sharp-pointed instrument with barbs, used for stabbing fish and other animals.
(n.) A shoot, as of grass; a spire.
(n.) The feather of a horse. See Feather, n., 4.
(n.) The rod to which the bucket, or plunger, of a pump is attached; a pump rod.
(v. t.) To pierce with a spear; to kill with a spear; as, to spear a fish.
(v. i.) To shoot into a long stem, as some plants. See Spire.
Example Sentences:
(1) The work, The Spear, by Brett Murray, unleashed a brouhaha that has hogged headlines for more than a week in South Africa and earned that inexhaustible accolade "painting-gate".
(2) To find out if any stone tips were being used on spears any earlier than that, Wilkins examined sharp stones found at a site called Kathu Pan, in the Northern Cape region of South Africa.
(3) If they refuse to do so, make the least show of resistance, or attempt to run away from you, you will fire upon and compell [sic] them to surrender, breaking and destroying the Spears, Clubs, and Waddies of all those you take prisoner.
(5) The spear-phishing tricks we saw the Chinese secret police using against the Dalai Lama in 2008 were being used by Russian crooks to steal money from US companies by 2010.
(6) The wealth magazine Spear’s noted, in an interview with a company that provides contract cleaners to the Dorchester, that a cleaner at the Park Lane hotel would have to work for 56 hours to be able to take an entry-level room for the night , before tax.
(7) Manipulation of intra abdominal embedded spears may require unusual surgical procedures, and no attempt to extract the weapon should be made before emergency laparotomy is carried out.
(8) López and Machado were defeated by Capriles in opposition primaries, but they rejected Capriles's willingness to enter into dialogue with Maduro on public safety following the murder in January of Mónica Spear, a former Miss Venezuela .
(9) Hemicellulose B and holocellulose from spear grass (Heteropogon contortus) were the best sources of carbon, and the optimum temperature was 27 degrees.
(10) Spears joked that she was “thrilled” at being added to the dating app.
(11) To evaluate these hypotheses, the nucleotide sequence of the mitochondrial cytochrome oxidase subunit II gene was determined from a bushbaby (Galago senegalensis), flying lemur (Cynocephalus variegatus), tree shrew (Tupaia glis), spear-nosed bat (Phyllostomus hastatus), rousette bat (Rousettus leschenaulti), and nine-banded armadillo (Dasypus novemcinctus) and was compared with published sequences of a human, cow, and mouse.
(12) Jesus' death was ensured by the thrust of a soldier's spear into his side.
(13) What an incredible contrast between the passionate compassion so emotively expressed in Britain and the ruthless bloodlust in Japan, where tens of thousands of dolphins are killed with spears on beaches every year and where crowds cheer the departure of a huge mechanised fleet whose objective is the mass slaughter of these majestic mammals in the Antarctic whale sanctuary.
(14) Spectra were obtained with synchrotron radiation from the SPEAR storage ring using highly sensitive fluorescence detectors.
(15) Twenty four hours of food and maternal deprivation, shown previously to increase brain serotonin and 5-hydroxyindole acetic acid and their ratio in neonates (L. P. Spear & F. M. Scalzo, 1984, Developmental Brain Research, in press) was observed to induce tail flick analgesia, an effect blocked by metergoline.
(16) Adult male hunters who used dogs and carried only one spear were injured most frequently.
(17) I try not to read my reviews, but there's always some friend who'll come along and, under the guise of trying to comfort you, let you know that you've been speared.
(18) This tusk specimen contains a metal spear with a wooden component, which is surrounded by a quiver-like osseous encasement.
(19) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Armed with a makeshift spear, an Assam man sets out to chase away the elephant that crushed a woman to death in the village of Galighat.
(20) By the 16th century the conduction of sound by a rod or the staff of a spear was reported by a number of writers; however, these writers considered these phenomena as a curiosity rather than having practical value.
Speer
Definition:
(n.) A sphere.
(v. t.) To ask.
Example Sentences:
(1) Speer said if Dhu had been correctly diagnosed on either of her earlier trips to hospital and given appropriate antibiotics it would have prolonged and, depending on how early they were given, possibly saved her life .
(2) Had she been taken to hospital at 7am that morning, when she told police she could not feel her legs and wanted to go to hospital, there may have been some chance of survival, though Speers said at that point her hopes would have rested as much on intervention to help her falling blood pressure than on antibiotics.
(3) The years peeled away and I realised that I was listening to an interview I had once done with, of all people, Albert Speer, Hitler's long-since-dead architect.
(4) Speers asks what are these non-legislative measures you will take to reduce spending?
(5) But there is no doubt who Hitler's architect was: Albert Speer.
(6) Dr Sandra Thompson, an expert in Indigenous health, and Dr David Speer, an expert in microbiology and infectious diseases like staphylococcal infection, both told the coroner that a chest x-ray would have been an ordinary test to perform and would have picked up the infection.
(7) The site was laid out by Albert Speer Jr, son of Hitler’s architect, who also planned the Beijing Olympics – a strangely prescient choice, given his father coined the idea of “ruin value” in his grandiose Nazi works.
(8) Speers asks about other colleagues within the union movement.
(9) That person, implausibly enough, was Albert Speer, a young architect in his 20s from Mannheim, who at the time he met the Führer had built nothing of the least interest.
(10) In his private moments, Speer undoubtedly thought he fitted perfectly into the noble neo-classical Prussian tradition whose canonical exponent was Karl-Friedrich Schinkel (1781-1841), designer of scores of buildings including the Schauspielhaus and the Altes Museum in Berlin.
(11) The pavilion itself, a power-temple designed by Hitler's architect Albert Speer in 1938, acts as a tyrannical shell for a reconstruction of the Kanzlerbungalow, or Chancellor's Bungalow, built in Bonn in 1964 by modernist architect Sep Ruf.
(12) Following the prior work of Rosenberg et al, Rosenberg and VanCamp, and Speer et al, we started clinical trials with cis-dichlorodiammineplatinum(II) in April 1971.
(13) Sky News political editor David Speers asks Howes about the current position of Workplace Minister Bill Shorten.
(14) No credit was given to Speer, who was dead by then.
(15) It seemed a shame not to use it, and so it became the basis of a film about Speer, largely in his own words.
(16) I was with Speer when he paid his first visit to the Zeppelinfeld at Nürnberg, long after the war.
(17) Since the isolation of a recombinant containing a cDNA sequence for human phenylalanine hydroxylase (hPH) (Woo et al., 1983; Speer et al., 1986) prenatal diagnosis by linked restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLPs) has become possible for families in which phenylketonuria (PKU) occurs (Lidsky et al., 1985a).
(18) These had since been moved indoors into a large sun room, and Speer, anticipating our arrival, had picked out some of the better goodies.
(19) Her reaction is as unlikely as the sight of Albert Speer, in another scene, shifting uncomfortably when Hitler congratulates himself on having cleansed Germany of the "Jewish poison".
(20) Japan was initially deeply reluctant to work with Australian shipbuilder ASC or share technology, but Sky news reporter David Speers, who is on a Japanese-government funded trip to Japan, reported on Tuesday that Japan was now “willing to partner with the ASC even though this would require sharing sensitive military technology in an unprecedented manner”.