(superl.) Foolishly obstinate or resolute; stubborn; unrelenting; unfeeling; stern.
(superl.) Resolute, in a good sense; or firm, unyielding quality; as, a man of sturdy piety or patriotism.
(superl.) Characterized by physical strength or force; strong; lusty; violent; as, a sturdy lout.
(superl.) Stiff; stout; strong; as, a sturdy oak.
(n.) A disease in sheep and cattle, marked by great nervousness, or by dullness and stupor.
Example Sentences:
(1) The device is simple, sturdy and inexpensive and may be used as adjunct for laboratory teaching in physiology and related sciences.
(2) We have refined the technique of vascular corrosion casting with methacrylate to permit the reproduction of physiological states of vascular tone and to produce sturdy castings of ocular microvasculature.
(3) Pony trekking in Glenshiel Think soft velvety noses, shaggy mains, the heady smell of saddle soap and the reassuring squeak of leather as you saddle up for a trek into the mountains on a sturdy, sure-footed Highland pony.
(4) She said the companies should already have been aware of the dangers of dealing with Sturdy Products after a previous investigation in 2007 uncovered similar problems.
(5) His 86-year-old father, Haroldo, still lives in the modest but sturdy house they built on their plot: “Some families didn’t even have a house, especially in the early months,” Celso recalls.
(6) On Tuesday, a Reuters reporter on the island of 29,000 people, about 200km (125 miles) south of the capital, said that while damage was extensive, it appeared most of the population had survived by sheltering in schools, churches and other sturdy buildings.
(7) Roy Ward Baker, who has died aged 93, progressed from teaboy to director of sturdy British dramas to weird Hammer horrors, via Hollywood.
(8) Size matters While infrastructure remains a challenge, especially during the rainy season, Sierra Leone is small and most communities can be reached in a sturdy four-wheel drive within a day's travel from Freetown.
(9) It would never happen with the sturdy 3210, weighing 153g.
(10) The significant forces to which this joint is subjected challenge even the most sturdy prosthetic materials.
(11) PH determinations by means of a sturdy, spear-electrode inserted in the cerebellar tissue immediately after necropsy were carried out in 60 patients suffering from different disorders and dying in hospital, and from 25 individuals killed instantly by violent accidents.
(12) The Lib Dems have pledged to scrap planned cuts , but their chances of gaining influence look as sturdy as a chocolate teapot.
(13) Doubts linger about the strength of the new spine being built at Old Trafford by Mourinho (the sturdiness of the central defence is among the unknowns at this point, with much hinging on the recently recruited Eric Bailly ).
(14) When they first encounter their "admirer and pupil Zola" he strikes them as a "worn-out Normalien, at once sturdy and puny" but with "a vibrant note of pungent determination and furious energy".
(15) While the FTSE is celebrating the UK’s recent, and unexpected, economic sturdiness, the pound has its eye on a time when Britain officially no longer belongs to the European Union.” The FTSE 100 index of bluechip shares rose more than 1% to a 16-month high of 6,996.
(16) Take a sturdy tent or knock on the doors of hunters’ wooden huts when you see them.
(17) He describes himself in his most recent work Consilience as having been "laid backward under the water on the arm of a sturdy pastor" and while his atheism was complete before he went to university, he understands the need of what he calls the transcendental experience at the heart of human nature.
(18) Concerns were raised about conditions at Sturdy Products when a 45-year-old female employee, Hu Nianzhen, jumped to her death from a factory building in May after she was allegedly shouted at by managers.
(19) Eliasson insists that the lamps are sturdy and should not break: "You can drop it from a third-floor window and it still works.
(20) The hills behind and beyond Faro offer many a sturdy dinner.
Workbench
Definition:
(n.) A bench on which work is performed, as in a carpenter's shop.
Example Sentences:
(1) One patient successfully underwent surgery via the "workbench" technique, in which the tumor was dissected from one kidney which was then reinserted as an autograft.
(2) The Sequence Analysis Workbench provides several experimental tools for direct manipulation of sequence data; object-oriented programming makes it possible to construct sophisticated tools quickly, and facilitates critical examination and review of scientific software.
(3) We advocate small-vessel reconstruction in human renal transplantation, either during ex vivo preservation (workbench surgery) or at the time of transplantation.
(4) We conclude that the most important factors for successful reconstruction after craniofacial trauma are to do as much as possible the first time, to obtain wide exposure, to ensure rigid fixation of bone pieces and grafts, and to make use of a workbench procedure where bone fragments are assembled on a side table for subsequent reattachment to the head.
(5) The second experiment investigated whether memory performance would be influenced by mere changes in the label of materials in memory tasks to be biased toward male or female gender background: labelling a shopping list as pertaining to 'groceries' or to 'hardware store'; and a set of directions to 'make a shirt' or to 'make a workbench'.
(6) Dr Ann McKee , a neuropathologist who jointly heads the lab, retrieves a brain from a plastic container and places it carefully on a workbench.
(7) Three commercial products for data acquisition with the Macintosh computer, known by the trade names of LabVIEW, Analog Connection WorkBench, and MacLab were reviewed and compared, on the basis of actual trials, for their suitability in physiological and biological teaching laboratories.
(8) Use of the Menu Workbench program in other bio-medical applications is discussed.
(9) A lamellar microkeratome, an artificial anterior chamber for corneoscleral discs and a refractive workbench for non-freeze modification are shown.
(10) Analog Connection WorkBench offers a combination of versatility and ease of use.
(11) We have developed for this purpose an interactive program, MACAW (Multiple Alignment Construction and Analysis Workbench), that allows the user to construct multiple alignments by locating, analyzing, editing, and combining "blocks" of aligned sequence segments.
(12) This exact model, both in size and shape, may then be used on a workbench to preconstruct an Ilizarov frame that resembles the patient's deformity exactly in three dimensions with respect to size and shape.
(13) The Researcher's Workbench, developed at the University of Utah College of Nursing, is a computer toolkit for nurse researchers.
(14) However that agreement was still on the workbench Monday evening and may yet fall apart.
(15) This article describes the purpose, methods, design, and implementation of the Workbench.
(16) The Workbench is available to all College of Nursing faculty, research associates, and graduate students.
(17) The MICRO system permits performance of biochemical tests at the workbench in the average clinical laboratory without the need for expensive equipment and time-consuming procedures.
(18) Airflow patterns suggested spread into the microbiologic laboratory through an open door located near the implicated workbench station and a false ceiling above the workbench area.
(19) I wrote it in a house full of builders in France, on a synthesiser resting on a Black & Decker workbench, because there was no piano or table.
(20) Removal of the calculi was carried out 3-4 weeks later on a workbench, using microsurgical techniques and ex situ radiographies.