(n.) The dead grass that remains on mowing land in winter and spring.
(n.) Same as Torus.
(n.) The surface described by the circumference of a circle revolving about a straight line in its own plane.
(n.) The solid inclosed by such a surface; -- sometimes called an anchor ring.
Example Sentences:
(1) The first controversy came in the 19th minute, when Bale tore into the penalty area on to Tom Huddlestone's through ball and felt Sebastian Larsson's arm in his back.
(2) The crime problems were enormous, riots tore apart many American cities – and the downside of fiscal decentralisation was that, in the 70s, you had cities like New York on the edge of bankruptcy .
(3) The Daily Beast asked the Trump campaign about a story from Harry Hurt III’s 1993 book The Lost Tycoon: The Many Lives of Donald J. Trump, in which Trump allegedly tore out clumps of then-wife Ivana Trump’s hair before allegedly sexually assaulting her in a way that, according to Hurt, she characterized to friends as “rape,” later clarifying that she felt “violated” but not in “a literal or criminal sense.” It’s depressing to consider how little difference this might make in the GOP race.
(4) A furious Aitor Karanka tore into his Middlesbrough players and aimed a swipe at Boro supporters after squandering the opportunity to go top of the Championship table at Blackburn.
(5) But the following morning Abdullah declared himself the winner in an emotional speech to a crowd of supporters who tore down a portrait of Karzai and replaced it with a photograph of Abdullah.
(6) Abdullah reined in his base but the shift in the tenor of the fans was unmistakeable, especially after some of them tore down a portrait of Karzai.
(7) But then a black hole tore our world very close to us.
(8) Manchester City’s Sergio Agüero ‘in tears’ after injury on Argentina duty Read more Agüero tore a muscle in his left thigh half an hour into the team’s opening South American qualifier for the 2018 World Cup in Russia at the River Plate stadium on Thursday.
(9) Upon his return, in August last year, he tore a hamstring during the warm-up before a league game against the same opponents.
(10) I don't mean the year communism collapsed and democracy-loving Berliners tore through bricks and mortar with their bare hands.
(11) You feel like you are family.” The club confirmed Tore will not link up with the squad, who are on a pre-season tour of the United States, but will begin his build-up to the new season at their Chadwell Heath training base.
(12) The savagery of the murder on 22 May 2013, in which Rigby, 25, was repeatedly stabbed and hacked in the neck with a cleaver, tore at community relations.
(13) Allen, who replaced Andrew Lansley as Tory MP for Cambridgeshire South in May, was heard in silence as she tore into the government over its tax credit plans.
(14) Won’t you take responsibility for that?” In tears, the athlete replied: “I don’t have to look at a picture, I was there.” As the prosecutor tore holes in the defence version of events, Pistorius told the judge: “My memory isn’t very good at the moment.
(15) No disrespect to our opponents but we never look past ourselves.” Wilmots was able to confirm that Vertonghen tore two of his three ankle ligaments in an accident at the end of training, and will probably be replaced by Jordan Lukaku.
(16) Another victim was Tore Eikeland, 21, president of the AUF, whom the Norwegian prime minister, Jens Stoltenberg, has described as "one of the most promising politicians of the next generation".
(17) On the Greek island of Chios, hundreds of people tore down a razor wire fence that had kept them imprisoned in a camp and fled.
(18) All muscles tore at the distal musculotendinous junction, and there was no difference in the length increase at tear between muscles in each group.
(19) She tore up the old controls and you can see the result around you: Sky and Talksport peppered with urgent appeals to give your money to the gambling conglomerates; bookies, stuffed with fixed-odds machines, clogging the high street.
(20) Rose tore the anterior cruciate ligament in his left knee during the 2012 playoffs.
Torus
Definition:
(n.) A lage molding used in the bases of columns. Its profile is semicircular. See Illust. of Molding.
(n.) One of the ventral parapodia of tubicolous annelids. It usually has the form of an oblong thickening or elevation of the integument with rows of uncini or hooks along the center. See Illust. under Tubicolae.
(n.) The receptacle, or part of the flower on which the carpels stand.
(n.) See 3d Tore, 2.
Example Sentences:
(1) In addition, labelled cells were found in the torus semicircularis, in and around the nucleus isthmus pars parvocellularis.
(2) By means of biomicroscopy main regularities in development of the skin capillary network have been revealed in the nail torus in the postnatal ontogenesis.
(3) Patients of the dominant families have often had a torus palatinus.
(4) The torus also received bilateral input from the nucleus ventromedialis thalami, nucleus of lemniscus lateralis, nucleus medialis, anterior octaval nucleus, descending octaval nucleus, and the reticular formation.
(5) We employed intracellular recording and labeling methods to investigate ampullary and tuberous information processing in laminae 1-5 of the dorsal torus semicircularis of Eigenmannia.
(6) A cylinder of endoplasmic reticulum is intimately involved in cross-wall deposition from its earliest stages; as the wall grows in, it becomes increasingly constricted in the pore region, finally assuming a torus-like configuration.
(7) Unlike tuberous afferents to the torus, ampullary afferents had numerous varicosities along their finest-diameter branches.
(8) The anterior end of the olfactory groove was first classified into three types, i.e., normal type, obliterated type (obliterated by cancellous bone) and dangerous type (with Recessus cristae galli and Torus olfactorius).
(9) This independence of the auditory and the second order lateral line nuclei is further substantiated by their separate projection to other brain areas, like the torus semicircularis of the midbrain, and their functional properties.
(11) Of the three neuronal types observed in the torus: fusiform, rounded-ovoid and triangular-stellate, the highest percentage corresponds to the neurons with rounded-ovoid somata, followed by the triangular-stellate and then the fusiform neurons.
(12) Single-unit recordings from neurons in the torus semicircularis of Rana ridibunda were analyzed to determine the degree to which these neurons can detect acoustic stimuli superimposed on continuous, broad-band noise.
(13) Scattered fibers were found in all other parts of the brain except in the cerebellum, the nucleus isthmi and the torus semicircularis, where no immunoreactivity could be detected.
(14) Impulse responses of single units located in the torus semicircularis of the immobilized lake frog (Rana ridibunda) to long-lasting characteristic frequency tones modulated by low-frequency pseudorandom noise were registered.
(15) In the mesencephalon, FMRF-amide-containing fibres appeared in the dorsal tegmentum, in the torus semicircularis and in the deep layers of the tectum opticum.
(16) The lateral preglomerular nucleus receives an electrosensory input from nucleus electrosensorius in the diencephalon, but it also receives auditory and mechanosensory inputs directly from the torus semicircularis.
(17) the laminar nucleus of the torus semicircularis, a cell group which receives spinal afferents and projects to the spinal cord as the mammalian periaqueductal gray.
(18) In the case of squalene-based black lipid membranes (BLMs), in contrast, vesicles do not nucleate lenses but they apparently do fuse with the torus at the bilayer boundary.
(19) Stability of the inner torus ring is achieved when DNA phosphate groups are about 90% neutralized by trivalent cations, another prediction that is consistent with the observed formation of toruses in these conditions.
(20) The present study demonstrates that (i) the lateral lemniscus is supplied by fibers of the medullary acoustic nucleus (nucleus intermedius) and the superior olive; (ii) the subtectal dorsal tegmentum can be clearly separated into a dorsally located torus semicircularis and a ventrally situated dorsal tegmental nucleus, the former processing auditory and vibratory, the latter vestibular signals; and (iii) the hearing capabilities of this animal, as estimated from the tuning of toral units, are comparable to those of anurans with extratympanic sound transmission.