(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.
Fletcher
Definition:
(n.) One who fletches of feathers arrows; a manufacturer of bows and arrows.
Example Sentences:
(1) During placement of the Fletcher suit one of the ureters is catheterized by a special stent which appears on the X-rays control used for dosimetry.
(2) As for Scotland Soccer Club, Altidore's deputy at franchise level, Steven Fletcher, is gonna be the guy that the hosts will look to kick the soccer ball in to the soccer goal interior.
(3) Karen Fletcher, Sheffield • So it's a "government sponsored scheme".
(4) A total of 90 Fletcher-Suit radium applications were analyzed to explore relationships between point A doses, milligram-hours, and the ICRU guidelines.
(5) Fibrinolytic studies in euglobulin fractions of Fletcher trait plasma (deficient in prekallikrein) revealed reduced activities as compared to normal plasma.
(6) The implications for ethics committees of the pending federal Patient Self-Determination Act are discussed here by John C. Fletcher in "The Patient Self-Determination Act: yes," and by Alexander Morgan Capron in "The Patient Self-Determination Act: not now."
(7) In the request for reconsideration, Gissendaner’s lawyers cite a statement from former Georgia supreme court chief justice Norman Fletcher, who argues that Gissendaner’s death sentence is not proportionate to her role in the crime.
(8) Admittedly, minutes earlier Steven Fletcher’s header from a Lens cross had flown only marginally off target but it represented a rare shaft of sunlight.
(9) It is concluded that the inheritance is as described by Veltkamp and that the Kallikrein release from the prekallikreinogen (Fletcher factor) "in vitro" is related to the amount of Factor XII procoagulant protein.
(10) Javier Hernández, Shinji Kagawa, Darren Fletcher, Nani, Young, Cleverley, Alexander Büttner and Ryan Giggs are other members of Moyes's squad whose futures are likewise in doubt.
(11) Assays for known coagulation factors were nromal while Fletcher factor (pre-kallikrein) was 45%, insufficient to account for the observed markedly prolonged partial thromboplastin time.
(12) More here: European Central Bank must heed eurozone warning signs And I'm handing over to my colleague Nick Fletcher .... thanks all GW 1.59pm BST Photos: Italian vote of confidence debate A couple of photos from today's confidence debate in the Italian senate, which the new government won confortably ( see 1.26pm ) Former Premier Silvio Berlusconi shakes hands with an unidentified lawmaker as he attends a session for a second vote of confidence to confirm the new government, in the Italian Senate in Rome, Tuesday, April 30, 2013.
(13) Other coagulation factors (fibrinogen, II, IX, XI, Fletcher and Fitzgerald) assay within or close to the human range.
(14) It was so I could tell Jeremy that I had backed him.” Corbyn has defied not only Fletcher’s expectations but everyone else’s.
(15) Jessica Fletcher, though, will surely find a new home in the schedule, while the actor could be a guest on the replacement programme, talking about what George Lansbury might have made of Jeremy Corbyn.
(16) Fletcher denied Ofgem was unable to influence behaviour, saying it had acted robustly with its call for an investigation by the CMA, and believed its latest initiatives would help.
(17) With Altidore's lack of movement glaringly apparent, the crowd agitated for Steven Fletcher's liberation from the bench and, taking the hint, Sunderland's manager threw him on.
(18) Revitalised, Sunderland scored again after Wickham’s defender-disorientating surge, during which the England Under-21 international did extremely well to remain on his feet, carried him into the area and Fletcher’s left-foot shot did the rest.
(19) A deficiency in the contact phase of blood coagulation, depending on the specific isolation of Fletcher's factor (prekallikreins) from blood plasma, was observed after chromatography of blood plasma on a column with noradrenaline-Sepharose.
(20) Fletcher’s bill, which carries a penalty of up to 14 years in jail for the most serious cases, requires every police force in England and Wales to develop and adopt domestic abuse policies within a year of it becoming law.