(n.) The band which encompasses the waist; esp., one on the upper part of breeches, trousers, pantaloons, skirts, or the like.
(n.) A sash worn by women around the waist.
Example Sentences:
(1) He argued that he had intended to tase Grant, but accidentally shot him after seeing him reach for his waistband.
(2) He was wearing a beautiful tweed jacket, which had a slightly high waistband and he looked so beautiful.
(3) He put his right hand into his waistband and his left hand into a fist, “and he starts charging at me,” Wilson.
(4) In our American imagination, the feared objects which might come out of the waistband of unarmed black male children like Mike Brown or Tamir Rice so frightened armed white men, they’re allowed to kill them.
(5) Officially known as bib shorts, these cruellest of garments are designed to keep kidneys warm during cold, rainy stages and to eliminate any problems with waistbands, which can dig in.
(6) Today we're in a different century, a different millennium, a very different era than the one that first offered up twerpy, earnest, high-waistbanded Astley.
(7) Authorities said the officers told Tamir to raise his hands, and shot him when he pulled the pellet gun from his waistband .
(8) Aged five, he joined Barnard Castle rugby club , his local team, and started playing tag rugby, where opponents try to swipe a swatch of cloth from their waistband instead of tackling.
(9) I could show you if you really want,” he says jokingly tugging at his waistband.
(10) Two workers on a construction site told police that Alexis walked out of a next-door home on 6 May 2004, pulled a pistol from his waistband and fired three shots into the rear tyres of their parked car .
(11) "His hands were always up your skirt or your top and if you were wearing trousers, he'd find a way to slip them down your waistband.
(12) The boy was confronted on Saturday by officers responding to a 911 call about a male who appeared to be pulling a gun in and out of his waistband.
(13) Female ushers in flowing white robes, gold waistbands and gold shoes smile serenely in the aisles as they collect donations.
(14) Authorities said officers told Tamir to raise his hands, and shot him when he pulled the pellet gun from his waistband.
(15) Deputy chief Ed Tomba said one officer fired twice after the boy pulled the fake weapon, which was lacking the orange safety indicator usually found on the muzzle, from his waistband but had not pointed it at police.
(16) Loehmann claimed he shot because Tamir pulled the pellet gun from his waistband, “had been threatening others with the weapon and had not obeyed our command to show us his hands”.
(17) Agents in Washington spoke to him again in late August after Gonzalez was found near a White House fence with a small hatchet in his waistband.
(18) Photograph: Screen capture The 911 caller also suggested that Tamir was repeatedly pulling the BB gun out of the waistband on his pants.
(19) US army researchers have developed smart underwear, with sensors secreted inside elastic waistbands that track heart rate, body temperature and perspiration, and beam the stats back to a central monitor.
(20) It has always been a favourite spot for guys who prefer to wear their T-shirt tucked into their waistband than on their actual person.
Yoke
Definition:
(n.) A bar or frame of wood by which two oxen are joined at the heads or necks for working together.
(n.) A frame or piece resembling a yoke, as in use or shape.
(n.) A frame of wood fitted to a person's shoulders for carrying pails, etc., suspended on each side; as, a milkmaid's yoke.
(n.) A frame worn on the neck of an animal, as a cow, a pig, a goose, to prevent passage through a fence.
(n.) A frame or convex piece by which a bell is hung for ringing it. See Illust. of Bell.
(n.) A crosspiece upon the head of a boat's rudder. To its ends lines are attached which lead forward so that the boat can be steered from amidships.
(n.) A bent crosspiece connecting two other parts.
(n.) A tie securing two timbers together, not used for part of a regular truss, but serving a temporary purpose, as to provide against unusual strain.
(n.) A band shaped to fit the shoulders or the hips, and joined to the upper full edge of the waist or the skirt.
(n.) Fig.: That which connects or binds; a chain; a link; a bond connection.
(n.) A mark of servitude; hence, servitude; slavery; bondage; service.
(n.) Two animals yoked together; a couple; a pair that work together.
(n.) The quantity of land plowed in a day by a yoke of oxen.
(n.) A portion of the working day; as, to work two yokes, that is, to work both portions of the day, or morning and afternoon.
(v. t.) To put a yoke on; to join in or with a yoke; as, to yoke oxen, or pair of oxen.
(v. t.) To couple; to join with another.
(v. t.) To enslave; to bring into bondage; to restrain; to confine.
(v. i.) To be joined or associated; to be intimately connected; to consort closely; to mate.
Example Sentences:
(1) They include the Francoist slogan "Arriba España" and the yoke-and-arrows symbol of the far right Falange, whose members killed the women.
(2) In the control condition incentives were actually given on the basis of performance of yoked feedback partners.
(3) Britain should withdraw from the European convention on human rights during wartime because troops cannot fight under the yoke of “judicial imperialism”, according to a centre-right thinktank.
(4) To avoid a possible confound between the effects of sleep loss and disturbed circadian rhythms in previous studies of total sleep deprivation (TSD) by the disk-over-water method, TSD rats and their yoked control (TSC) rats had been maintained in constant light both before and during the experiment.
(5) Feedback subjects acquired lower EMG levels than control subjects, and the yoked-incentive subjects acquired lower levels than no-incentive subjects in the control condition.
(6) As the government comes to an end, they're still yoked together.
(7) Interference with escape was shown to be a function of the inescapability of shock and not shock per se: Rats that were "put through" and learned a prior jump-up escape did not become passive, but their yoked, inescapable partners did.
(8) Both plasma ACTH and corticosterone levels were measured at various times following escapable and yoked inescapable electric shock conditions known to produce differential behavioral outcomes.
(9) Relative to animals in the yoked condition, place training significantly reduced HACU in both the young rats and in a subpopulation of the aged animals that learned the task rapidly.
(10) After 3 days of stress, plasma corticosterone and prolactin levels were elevated in both stress groups compared to controls; yoked rats had higher levels of corticosterone than rats in the group with control over shock termination, while prolactin levels in both stressed groups were similar.
(11) We might wear the yoke of work and shoulder the burdens of citizenship and parenthood during the week, but come Friday night, or high summer, or festival season, there's some aspect of our otherness that we still want to celebrate and keep alive.
(12) Methods to control for unconditioned drug effects include reversing the direction of change in heart rate required for infusions and addition of a yoked control subject.
(13) Oculo-motors Paralysis, in acoordance to the Cüpper's principle: "paresis versus paresis" reducing the rotational force of the innervational impulsion of a muscle induces an increasing of innervational impulsion in the yoke muscle.
(14) Plasma cortisol increased in both groups, but its increase was greater in the yoked subjects.
(15) Simultaneously the experimenter struck the yoke, clenched in the subject's teeth, with a rubber hammer.
(16) Performance in this task caused an increase in the number of cells showing fos-like immunoreactivity in layers V and VI of the forelimb motor-sensory cortex with respect to yoked animals which had received the same amount, frequency and duration of aversive stimulation and manipulation as the trained animals.
(17) No significant differences were found in norepinephrine turnover or concentrations between kindled and yoked control rats in any of the brain regions examined.
(18) Patients with frontal lobe damage required more moves to complete the problems and a yoked motor control condition revealed that movement times were significantly increased in this group.
(19) The next conquest by William in 1066 crushed Anglo-Saxon England, but that in turn would produce the idea of “the Norman yoke”, which had supposedly subjugated the English people.
(20) The other animals were equally divided between two groups, one receiving saline and noncontingent reinforcements on the same schedule as those trained to discriminate cathinone; the other group, the "yoked-control" rats, received the same cathinone and saline regimen of administration as the discrimination-trained animals.