(n.) A horse, especially a spirited horse for state of war; -- used chiefly in poetry or stately prose.
Example Sentences:
(1) Blood gutters brightly against his green gown, yet the man doesn't shudder or stagger or sink but trudges towards them on those tree-trunk legs and rummages around, reaches at their feet and cops hold of his head and hoists it high, and strides to his steed, snatches the bridle, steps into the stirrup and swings into the saddle still gripping his head by a handful of hair.
(2) A few months ago I visited a house in Rawalpindi with a giant poster over the windows, depicting a heroic warrior on a gallant white steed.
(3) Fulham will break their record transfer fee when they complete the £4.5m signing of the French Under-21 international Steed Malbranque from Lyon today.
(4) Each molecule of E. coli DNA topoisomerase I has been shown to have three tightly bound zinc(II) ions required for relaxation activity (Tse-Dinh, Y.-C., and Beran-Steed, R.K. (1988) J. Biol.
(5) Or the transport bosses determined to make taking bikes on trains as difficult as possible, who threaten to confiscate steeds locked up on railings outside the station when their deeply inadequate bike racks are full.
(6) If he can identify an experienced player to exert the influence that his most inspired recruit, Steed Malbranque , did for him at Stade Gerland, then so much the better.
(7) If you're really keen, this could be the perfect excuse to fork out for a two-wheeled steed.
(8) You spend a couple of hours getting to know your trusty steed, learning how to handle him or her, before setting off on a mapped route along the Rota Vicentina, staying in pre-booked guesthouses or hotels en route.
(9) We do have permission to use this one ... John Steed and Emma Peel ... although I'm not 100 percent sure it ticks all boxes regarding modern sensibilities.
(10) Took free-kick with pace for winning goal Steed Malbranque 6 Showed hustle and forced Cech into a first-half save.
(11) Arsenal were not even excused further pain as Steed Malbranque added a fifth in stoppage time.
(12) Virulent Bordetella pertussis strains survive intracellularly within human polymorphonuclear leukocytes (PMN), at least in part because of inhibition of phagosome-lysosome fusion (L. L. Steed, M. Setareh, and R. L. Friedman, J. Leukocyte Biol.
(13) Colonel John Steed, in charge of the UN's counter-piracy unit in Nairobi, said that as darkness fell it had become impossible to give chase further.
(14) But your hair will still be raised: 17 rides are currently open, more than enough for a day out, ranging from the vintage galloper merry-go-round, its handsome, brightly painted steeds performing a stately dance, to the hectic, waltzer-meets-rollercoaster swoops of the Crazy Mouse which has us screaming like hopped-up teenagers.
Steel
Definition:
(n.) A variety of iron intermediate in composition and properties between wrought iron and cast iron (containing between one half of one per cent and one and a half per cent of carbon), and consisting of an alloy of iron with an iron carbide. Steel, unlike wrought iron, can be tempered, and retains magnetism. Its malleability decreases, and fusibility increases, with an increase in carbon.
(n.) An instrument or implement made of steel
(n.) A weapon, as a sword, dagger, etc.
(n.) An instrument of steel (usually a round rod) for sharpening knives.
(n.) A piece of steel for striking sparks from flint.
(n.) Fig.: Anything of extreme hardness; that which is characterized by sternness or rigor.
(n.) A chalybeate medicine.
(n.) To overlay, point, or edge with steel; as, to steel a razor; to steel an ax.
(n.) To make hard or strong; hence, to make insensible or obdurate.
(n.) Fig.: To cause to resemble steel, as in smoothness, polish, or other qualities.
(n.) To cover, as an electrotype plate, with a thin layer of iron by electrolysis. The iron thus deposited is very hard, like steel.
Example Sentences:
(1) It was found that there is a significant difference in bond strengths between enamel and stainless steel with strength to enamel the greater.
(2) By the 1860s, French designs were using larger front wheels and steel frames, which although lighter were more rigid, leading to its nickname of “boneshaker”.
(3) Utilization of inert materials like teflon, makrolon, and stainless steel warrants experimental and possibly clinical application of the developed small constrictor.
(4) The strongest field distortions and attractive forces occurred with 17-7PH stainless steel clips.
(5) A case of a failed total hip replacement consisting of a Vitallium hip socket and a stainless steel femoral head prosthesis is presented.
(6) Tata Steel, the owner of Britain’s largest steel works in Port Talbot, is in talks with the government about a similar restructuring for the British Steel pension scheme , which has liabilities of £15bn.
(7) The strong magnetic field of the super-conducting MRI (Magnetic Resonance Imaging) apparatus could cause problems in the presence of metallic foreign material, such as the metal clips and loops of intraocular lenses and steel as suturing material.
(8) Superman fans are up in arms at the decision of the publisher to appoint a noted anti-gay writer to pen the Man of Steel's latest adventures.
(9) It is not same to the stainless steel wire of traditional removable appliances which must be activated every time to produce a little tooth movement.
(10) Demolition of a steel railway bridge was carried out by nine workers using flame-torch cutting.
(11) The stainless steel 316 mesh tray with cancellous bone offers a method of mandibular reconstruction which theoretically is appealing from the viewpoint of basic osseous healing.
(12) Glycaemia, glucosuria, plasma insulin, and the rates of appearance Ra and disappearance Rd of glucose (kinetics of double-labelled glucose, evaluated according to Steele's equation in its non-steady-state version) were observed under the following conditions, starting from normoglycaemia during glucose-controlled insulin infusion (GCII): (I) insulin withdrawal, (II) insulin withdrawal and glucose infusion, (III) constant i.v.
(13) Forty-five percutaneous trephine lung biopsies using the Steel apparatus were performed on 38 patients.
(14) It remains an open question whether the syndrom of Richardson-Steele-Olszewski is a syndrome of its own or whether it is just a variety of parkinsonism.
(15) Three female actors, including former Bond girl Olga Kurylenko , are rumoured to be in the running for the lead female role in the upcoming sequel to superhero reboot Man of Steel, reports Variety .
(16) A removable, stainless-steel tube is present around the heated area, and this particular configuration makes it possible to begin every combustion procedure from room temperature, and consequently, to achieve a complete evacuation of air from the line even for heat-labile samples.
(17) Since the heart of the MRI is a large magnet, certain metals such as stainless steel can cause artifacts in the images.
(18) But over the Christmas period the Cahuzac story has continued to dominate headlines as some newspapers suggested Hollande might have a cabinet reshuffle both to detract from the Mediapart allegations and to draw a line under government disagreements over the handling of France's crisis-hit steel industry.
(19) Bipolar stainless steel wire electrodes were placed unilaterally into the costal and crural portions of the diaphragm and into the parasternal intercostal muscle in the second or third intercostal space.
(20) The recovery of haemopoiesis in Steel mutant mice following 1 Gy sublethal irradiation is described.