(n.) A female stageplayer; a woman who acts a part.
Example Sentences:
(1) I read somewhere that one of the actresses you admire is Charlize Theron and she's another great beauty who started out modelling but whose breakthrough role came when she uglied up [to play serial killer Aileen Wuornos in Monster ].
(2) Baker was proud of having fired her dramatic coach from the set and needing a maximum of only five takes for the difficult actress.
(3) But 30 minutes before takeoff on our private jet – like a top-end Lexus limo with wings – actress Rosamund Pike has heroically stepped in for the year's hot meal ticket: an El Bulli supper, pitch perfect for a selection of rare champagne, devised by Adrià with Richard Geoffroy, Dom Pérignon's effervescent chef de cave.
(4) Might she crown them all with a best actress Oscar?
(5) The song also features Tatum's Magic Mike co-star Olivia Munn and Precious actress Gabourey Sidibe – plus a cameo role for Miley Cyrus who gets trapped under a vending machine.
(6) Hotel Rwanda actress Sophie Okonedo, Jonathan La Paglia (Cold Case), Melissa George (Grey's Anatomy) and Neighbours actor Alex Dimitriades feature in the TV adaptation of Tsiolkas's book.
(7) I know a lot of actresses, but I don't have that kind of relationship with them."
(8) Each actress was programed to act the part of a difficult-to-interview patient and an easy-to-interview patient.
(9) Earlier this month it emerged that the paper's news editor, Ian Edmondson, had been suspended amid allegations relating to the hacking of actress Sienna Miller's phone.
(10) Or as Rowan Blanchard , a 13-year-old actress, neatly put it, “the way a black woman experiences sexism and inequality is different from the way a white woman experiences sexism and inequality”.
(11) He said that it is often a lack of scripts that holds actresses back, before adding: "Hopefully the studios will develop more movies for them.
(12) However indignant Hollande may have been about a glossy celebrity magazine revealing the details of his affair with a French actress – and he said his indignation was "total" – whatever reflections and considerations were going through the presidential grey matter on Tuesday morning, the idea of sitting down and drafting his resignation was almost certainly not among them.
(13) Shonda auditioned everyone and their mother, because for African American actresses this was the glass slipper – so she let everyone try it on."
(14) As well as being an actress, you're also a published journalist, have edited a book on film and are currently producing and writing a series on Dickens for the BBC.
(15) There may be lingering doubts over whether Meryl Streep , Viola Davis or outside bet Rooney Mara will claim the Academy Award for best actress later this month, and no-one is absolutely certain if Jean Dujardin , George Clooney or Gary Oldman will be picking up the equivalent male gong at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood.
(16) People want us to cheer that black actors from The Butler and 12 Years a Slave are likely to be up for best actor and actress awards, yet it feels like a throwback, almost to the Gone with the Wind era.
(17) Riva, the oldest nominee ever for best actress category, has a very Gallic disdain for such public adulation.
(18) More predictable were the three awards that went to Tom Hooper's Les Misérables – two technical, and a best supporting actress gong for Anne Hathaway's showstopping role as warbling prostitute Fantine.
(19) Zoe's client Anne Hathaway is nominated in the supporting actress category for Les Misérables.
(20) That same year, he married his partner, the French actress Sunrise Coigney, reportedly after she turned down his proposal once before.
Spinner
Definition:
(n.) One who, or that which, spins one skilled in spinning; a spinning machine.
(n.) A spider.
(n.) A goatsucker; -- so called from the peculiar noise it makes when darting through the air.
(n.) A spinneret.
Example Sentences:
(1) Countings were made of the number of glassfibers present at the skin of the spinners after the end of the work.
(2) Oxygen diffusion distance was measured in solid tumor "cubes" prepared by excising the tumor from the mouse and incubating 1-2 mm sided tumor cubes in spinner culture flasks with fluorescent drugs (AF-2 or DM113) which bind to hypoxic cells.
(3) We have recently shown that the semi-continuous cultivation of a mouse hybridoma line in spinner flasks, with a basal defined medium (BDM) devoid of serum and protein, increases the secretion of the immunoreactive monoclonal antibody (MAb) by a factor of ca.
(4) Cells were cultured in spinner flasks of 500 ml liquid volume for adaptation to stirred culture conditions.
(5) Blood smears were prepared with the use of a spinner, which rotated with a fixed velocity for a fixed time.
(6) Six water-jacketed 500-ml Bellco spinner flasks were equipped to monitor and control environmental variables to study their effects on the growth and metabolism of mammalian cells.
(7) Two hybridoma cell lines were cultivated in an indirectly aerated 10-1 reactor in batch, fed-batch and continuous (perfusion) operations and in spinner flasks.
(8) To examine the growth of these transfected cells in vivo, cells were grown in spinner culture flasks to form spheroids 250-300 microns in diameter.
(9) In contrast to these results, all the phospholipid to protein and the cholesterol to protein ratios of the internalized plasma membranes were higher in monolayer than in spinner cells, and the proportions of all phospholipids, except phosphatidylethanolamine, were similar in both cell types.
(10) The potential toxicity of these agents was examined in the absence of sparging (i.e., in spinner flasks) by using the attachment-independent Sf9 insect cell line as a model system.
(11) Tourism is an increasing money-spinner, with trips to see the Mountains of the Moon and the rare mountain gorillas in western Uganda especially popular.
(12) Aggregation of NR cells was inhibited by macrophages from mice and rats, and to a greater extent by cancer cell suspensions of mouse Ehrlich and rat Walker 256 lines from spinner culture or in the ascites form.
(13) Isis has been a real beneficiary.” For years, other, often anonymous critics, briefers, spinners and leakers have kept up a running commentary on Chilcot in the newspapers.
(14) Although continuous culturing was not achieved in spinner flasks, the production of litre quantities of heavily parasitised erythrocytes was achieved more simply than by using MASP cultures.
(15) A significant reduction in forced expiratory volumes (FEV1 after a shift) was observed in spinners of both factories.
(16) While influential, it has never been a massive money-spinner, and one estimate suggests it has seen a 57% drop in advertising on a circulation of around 500,000 copies.
(17) A reversion to Type I collagen synthesis occurred when the spinner-cultured cells were returned to monolayer flasks.
(18) Alpha fetoprotein (AFP) synthesis by adult rats during gestation and hepatoma growth was determined in vitro with specific precipitations of radiolabeled AFP antisera after incubation of Spinner cultures of various rat tissues in arginine-free culture medium containing radiolabeled arginine.
(19) IDS's spinners are continuing an increasingly popular political tactic in both the US and UK of using telly references to connect with the electorate.
(20) Spheroids were initiated in bacteriological grade petri dishes seeded with 10(6) 9L rat glioma cells, cultured for four days and thereafter transferred and further developed in a spinner flask.