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A non-SI unit of absorbed dose of radiation, equal to 0.01 gray.
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In the International System of Units, the derived unit of plane angular measure of angle equal to the angle subtended at the centre of a circle by an arc of its circumference equal in length to the radius of the circle. Symbol: rad
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Anything which radiates or emits rays.
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A device that lowers engine coolant temperature by conducting heat to the air, through metal fins.
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(of buildings) A finned metal fixture that carries hot water or steam in order to heat a room.
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A type of antenna.
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A way used for travelling between places, originally one wide enough to allow foot passengers and horses to travel, now (US) usually one surfaced with asphalt or concrete and designed to accommodate many vehicles travelling in both directions. In the UK both senses are heard: a country road is the same as a country lane.
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A road; or particularly a car, as a means of transportation.
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We travelled to the seaside by road.
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A path chosen in life or career.
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An underground tunnel in a mine.
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A railway or a single railway track.
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The act of riding on horseback.
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A hostile ride against a particular area; a raid.
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(often in the plural) A partly sheltered area of water near a shore in which vessels may ride at anchor; a roadstead.
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A journey, or stage of a journey.
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A way or route.
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A circular or spherical object or part of an object.
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A circular or repetitious route.
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The guards have started their rounds; the prisoner should be caught soon.
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A general outburst from a group of people at an event.
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The candidate got a round of applause after every sentence or two.
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A song that is sung by groups of people with each subset of people starting at a different time.
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A serving of something; a portion of something to each person in a group.
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They brought us a round of drinks about every thirty minutes.
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A single individual portion or dose of medicine.
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One sandwich (two full slices of bread with filling).
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A long-bristled, circular-headed paintbrush used in oil and acrylic painting.
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A firearm cartridge, bullet, or any individual ammunition projectile. Originally referring to the spherical projectile ball of a smoothbore firearm. Compare round shot and solid shot.
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One of the specified pre-determined segments of the total time of a sport event, such as a boxing or wrestling match, during which contestants compete before being signaled to stop.
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A stage, level, set of events in a game
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(drafting, CAD) A rounded relief or cut at an edge, especially an outside edge, added for a finished appearance and to soften sharp edges.
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A strip of material with a circular face that covers an edge, gap, or crevice for decorative, sanitary, or security purposes.
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All furniture in the nursery had rounds on the edges and in the crevices.
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(butchery) The hindquarters of a bovine.
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A rung, as of a ladder.
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A crosspiece that joins and braces the legs of a chair.
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A series of changes or events ending where it began; a series of like events recurring in continuance; a cycle; a periodical revolution.
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the round of the seasons a round of pleasures
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A course of action or conduct performed by a number of persons in turn, or one after another, as if seated in a circle.
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A series of duties or tasks which must be performed in turn, and then repeated.
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A circular dance.
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Rotation, as in office; succession.
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A general discharge of firearms by a body of troops in which each soldier fires once.
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An assembly; a group; a circle.
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a round of politicians
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A brewer's vessel in which the fermentation is concluded, the yeast escaping through the bunghole.
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A vessel filled, as for drinking.
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A round-top.
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A round of beef.
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A whisper; whispering.
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Discourse; song.
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The distance between the front and rear sights of a firearm.
Examples of rd in a Sentence
The feast falls on the 2nd of November; or on the 3 rd if the 2nd is a Sunday or a festival of the first class.
In the list of Hundreds where the same name was used for the RD the three letter abbreviation is repeated.
Bullock JL, Massey FM, Gambrell RD Jr. Use of medroxyprogesterone acetate to prevent menopausal symptoms.
Also on the 3 rd a male blackcap was singing in Lower Moors.
In 1916 Miss Hogg became the first woman churchwarden at St Paul's Church, Church Rd St Leonards.
They will be formally co-opted at the next meeting on 3 rd April.
At roundabout take 3 rd exit toward town center passing former Alloa Brewery on the right.
At best this information is inadequate 3 rd hand hearsay.
September 3 rd 1919 There was a rather hurried meeting called at Cavendish to discuss the proposed war memorial.
June 3 rd 1873 The first stock sale has taken place at Clare on the 24th, it was well patronized.
Learned his trade on central reservation on Prince of Wales Rd.
There is also a 24-hour shift rota, which students will experience in their 2nd & 3 rd years.
With a catch between them of Roach, Perch and three good skimmers they recorded their 3 rd medal in 4 years.
These experiments are performed at several 3 rd generation synchrotron radiation sources throughout Europe.
I lved in the Keelby Rd from 1969 until September 1994 and I live not ta fer now.
Keep ahead thru gate (with river on your L ), under RD bridge.
An articulated lift vehicle was attached at the front to pull the tram and the Unimog went by Road to Bingham Rd LC.
A mounted trooper of the 3 rd Cavalry was outside, calling on the people to open the gate.
By means of negotiations instigated and prosecuted with great perseverance by the university of Paris and the Inquisition, and through the persistent scheming of Pierre Cauchon, the bishop of Beauvais - a Burgundian partisan, who, chased from his own see, hoped to obtain the archbishopric of Rouen - she was sold in November by John of Luxemburg and Burgundy to the English, who on the 3 rd of January 1431, at the instance of the The Porte St Honore where Joan was wounded stood where the Comedic Francaise now stands.
Any difficulties in respect of claims for loss of business goodwill in blight cases should be referred via RD to CEO.
When Lincoln beat the Clarets on 3 rd January they went seventh in the league with 34 points from 23 games.
Keep ahead thru gate (with river on your L), under RD bridge.
Symmetry &and Transformations is available from MicroSMILE Isaac Newton Center 108a Lancaster Rd.
For example, if you live in Atlanta, you'll see that you can find them at the Super Target at 100 Perimeter Center Place, the Target at 3535 Peachtree Rd NE, and the K-mart at 453 E Main Street in Cartersville.
Children and their parents are usually advised to consult a registered dietitian (RD) to create an individualized, easy to manage food plan that fits their family's health and lifestyle needs.
An RD can also teach the family how to use either the dietary exchange lists or carbohydrate counting system to monitor food intake.
Patients have flexibility in choosing which foods they eat as long as they stick with the number of exchanges prescribed by their RD based on their caloric requirements.
Rett's disorder, or RD, is another rare pervasive developmental disorder that appears after a period of normal development, and is almost exclusively found in girls.
Leslie Bonci, MPH, RD, director of sports nutrition at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, thinks that feeding dieters prepackaged meals sets them up for failure once they're on their own.
Included under the denomination of forest N rd are landssurfaces boisieswhich are bush rather than T rrito forest.
It has been universally admitted that " the palaces " or "the palace " (rd, 3aviXeca) burned down by Alexander are those now in ruins at Takhti Jamshid.
Behind these all Prussia was overrun by newly formed units, (3 rd and 4th battalions) raised from depot companies, conscripts for 1807, and old soldiers rejoining after sickness or wounds.
It is one of the most favoured regions of English Miles 400 o L; Barcellos rd o?
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In the rustic parts a knowledge of Greek begins to spread in the 3 rd century; but only in the 4th and 5th centuries, after the transference of the centre of government first to Nicomedia and then to Constantinople placed Galatia on the highway of imperial communication, was Hellenism in its Christian form gradually diffused over the country.
They went back to the later period of Plato's thought, the period when Plato endeavoured to combine his doctrine of Ideas with the Pythagorean number-theory, and identified the Good with the One, the source of the duality of the Infinite and the Measured (rd .bretpov and 71-pas) with the resultant scale of realities from the One down to the objects of the material world.
On the 3 rd of October Beirut fell; and Ibrahim, cut off from his communications by sea, and surrounded by a hostile population, began a hurried retreat southward.
The principal items are those derived from a stamp of rd.
There is no doubt also, that when postage on letters is charged at the rate of rd.
On the 2 3 rd of September 1735 he was seized and conveyed to Ferrara.
In stating that the sum of I rd.
The new elector, born on the 3 rd of November 1597, proved a weak and incapable ruler.
Every year the chairman's award celebrates the dedication and professionalism of RD&E staff.