(n.) An artistic worker; a mechanic or manufacturer; one whose occupation requires skill or knowledge of a particular kind, as a silversmith.
(n.) One who makes or contrives; a deviser, inventor, or framer.
(n.) A cunning or artful fellow.
(n.) A military mechanic, as a blacksmith, carpenter, etc.; also, one who prepares the shells, fuses, grenades, etc., in a military laboratory.
Example Sentences:
(1) The authors describe a technical artifice, the use silicon-impregnated compresses, to help in the peroperative ultrasonographic detection of these section planes.
(2) The seriousness and sincerity were almost shocking in that den of artifice.
(3) More recently, Iain Sinclair, in his novel Dining on Stones, an elegy to the A13, describes it as: "A landscape to die for: haze lifting to a high clear morning, pylons, distant road, an escarpment of multi-coloured containers, a magical blend of nature and artifice."
(4) As I signed up, I decided to ask Martha a few questions to see how much of her was artifice.
(5) All of the suffering in Europe – inflicted in the service of a man-made artifice, the euro – is even more tragic for being unnecessary.
(6) There never will be sufficient financial resources, organizational artifice, or measurable standards to safeguard quality any other way.
(7) Poisonous and deleterious components are deemed to be "added," even if they are natural constituents of food, if any amount is present through the artifice of man.
(8) As such, the migration amendment bill seeks to implement a staggering legal artifice for a nation that claims to walk tall among the civilised.
(9) Technical artifices are described to assist compliance with these imperatives.
(10) "These are legal artifices created to result in paying less tax," he said.
(11) But this operation imposes technical artifices when direct urtero-vesical implantation is not possible.
(12) Close friends say this is not artifice, but reflects his personality; in any case positioning himself as the polar opposite of the frequently choleric Sarkozy has paid off in the polls.
(13) The less visible in the context of individual's facial architecture the more esthetic the prosthetic artifice is.
(14) It's almost as though the more outmoded a politician becomes, the more artifice is required to keep him fresh.
(15) We think that this artifice could also be used in case of anatomic variations of the hepatic artery like trifurcation.
(16) The essence of camp is its love of the unnatural: of artifice and exaggeration.
(17) Barnard's unusual technique, highlighting the artifice in film-making, showed that no single person has a monopoly on truth – and certainly not the documentary director who shapes truth into a narrative in the editing process.
(18) The proper manoeuvres and artifices to avoid intraoperative accidents are suggested.
(19) Remarkable for its relentless skewering of artifice and pretension, Lucky Jim also contains some of the finest comic set pieces in the language.
(20) As Susan Sontag wrote, camp is artifice and theatricality and flamboyance.
Discoverer
Definition:
(n.) One who discovers; one who first comes to the knowledge of something; one who discovers an unknown country, or a new principle, truth, or fact.
(n.) A scout; an explorer.
Example Sentences:
(1) There are also problems with gestures such as swiping the screen because they're "inherently vague", and "lack discoverability": there's no way to tell what a gesture will do at any particular point.
(2) The company hired by Royal Dutch Shell plc in 2012 to drill on petroleum leases in the Chukchi — Sugarland, Texas-based Noble Drilling US LLC — in December agreed to pay $12.2m after pleading guilty to eight felony environmental and maritime crimes on board the Noble Discoverer.
(3) It has been named the Skywalker hoolock gibbon by its discoverers, who are Star Wars fans.
(4) Anatomists may take an especial interest in the letters No 1903 to HERDER and No 1904 to CHARLOTTE v. STEIN (both dated the March 27, 1784) which demonstrate the discoverer's mirth in finding out the human os intermaxillare.
(5) Politicians like to tell voters that their policies are a rational response to a perfectly discoverable set of facts.
(6) One of those funded is Discoverables Ltd, a company limited by shares set up by youth charity Spark+Mettle.
(7) The conclusion is that to Wells belongs the singular honor and title of discoverer.
(8) Yet for decades we thought it was just a hill made of glacial moraine," says discoverer Nick Card of the Orkney Research Centre for Archaeology .
(9) The word "scopolamine" is derived from "Scopolia carniolica", a solanaceous plant so named by Carl von Linné in honour of supposed discoverer, J.
(10) During an eclectic address – in which he questioned the audience of vice chancellors on basic science, including the name of the discoverer of sodium – Johnson said: "I looked at the recent figures for foreign students coming to this country, and I do not regard what seemed to me to be a reduction in those numbers as necessarily a positive economic indicator.
(11) The oil company was forced to send both ships – the Noble Discoverer and the Kulluk – to Asia for repair , effectively ruling out a return to drilling this calendar year.
(12) On Sunday, the birthday celebrations go public, with talks on cosmology by the Astronomer Royal Martin Rees, Nobel laureate Saul Perlmutter, one of the discoverers of dark energy, and long-time Hawking collaborator Kip Thorne.
(13) Due to the lowered resistance of the organism, acute pulpitic manifestations without discoverable external cause or exacerbation of chronic periapical processes may occur in the cours of influenza infections.
(14) "We think we have a really good relationship with the Journal because they recognise that even with the pay model they felt it was really important to ensure that their content is still discoverable.
(15) Whether incident reports are discoverable depends on the purpose of the reports and the laws of the state where the reports are filed.
(16) An account is given of teachers and discoverers of venereological importance after von Hebra and Sigmund to Arzt.
(17) Thus notions of the newborn as an isolated amoral id, and of the infant as an egocentric discoverer of the object concept, must be rejected.
(18) But there was still the problem of discoverability.
(19) Two of these patients had no discoverable primary tumour.
(20) In the meantime, BP has placed a containment cap on Deepwater Horizon's failed blow-out preventer which takes some of the oil and gas to a drillship, the Discoverer Enterprise .