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Beater


Definition:

  • (n.) One who, or that which, beats.
  • (n.) A person who beats up game for the hunters.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The tie-breaker isn't quite the buzzer-beater that Jeff Carter converted with tenths of a second left in the first period of Game 3, but it comes with under 30 ticks left in the second period here and has a similar effect.
  • (2) Van Gaal has yet to win away from home – for the first time in 18 years United have gone six Premier League games without a victory on their travels – and with all due respect to their opponents on the road so far, MK Dons, Burnley, Sunderland, Leicester and West Bromwich Albion , they are not exactly world-beaters.
  • (3) While everyone waits for Salazar to hit back at the Panorama claims – a fierce and comprehensive response is expected in the next couple of days – there is at least one thing that all sides can agree on: what Black calls “genius” of the coach has turned Farah into a world beater.
  • (4) The unspun version Asked by Harper's Bazaar magazine to pick her 21st-century heroine, she chose serial servant-beater Naomi Campbell.
  • (5) Peter Crouch, who has been signed three times and sold twice by Redknapp, said: "He builds up players' confidence, telling you every day you can be a world-beater.
  • (6) And Leroy, a former panel beater, whose concern for 14-year-old Nadia's mental and physical decline is touching, yet who appears powerless to prevent her deterioration in front of our eyes.
  • (7) If driven grouse shooting, in which beaters are used to send more birds towards the guns, was banned, Mawle argued, the cost of keeping the moorlands in their attractive, wildlife-friendly state would have to be met by taxpayer.
  • (8) Instead we had the first buzzer beater of this year's tournament as Texas’s Cameron Ridley made an improbable game-winning layup with time expiring.
  • (9) Facebook Twitter Pinterest With 2.3 seconds left, Russell Westbrook made a three-pointer to give the Thunder a one point lead that looked like it was going to seal the game, but before anyone could put his clutch three into any perspective, offseason acquisition Andre Iguodala coldly hit a buzzer-beater to shock a Thunder team that shocked the Warriors mere moments before.
  • (10) To check that the mixture is at the right stage, lift the beaters from the bowl – the mixture that falls off should leave a distinct ribbon-like trail on the surface.
  • (11) It was those investors who brought in a savvy team of directors, engineers, business managers and PR professionals who have been working to turn Summly into a potential world-beater, including older staff such as the chief technology officer, Eugene Ciurana, who boasts 20 years' experience in the technology business, and the head of R&D, Inderjeet Mani.
  • (12) Osborne says: We are seeing some sectors that are going to be world-beaters.
  • (13) After all, the first day of the Round of 64 featured four overtime games, three upsets and one dramatic buzzer beater .
  • (14) Most mornings, 15-year-old Iqbal arrives for his job at a Dhaka panel beaters at about 10am, working on cars for up to 13 hours before he can go home.
  • (15) The 23-year-old unemployed panel-beater from Toulouse had been holed up in his flat, surrounded by police, since 3:30am on Wednesday.
  • (16) Loyal gamekeepers and hired-in beaters were packed off ahead of the shooting party in open-top tractors with a cauldron of vegetable soup and cracked mugs.
  • (17) Tissue was extracted in 80% methanol, 20 mM 2-amino-2-methyl-1-propanol, pH 9.5 at 25 degrees C and homogenized in a 1.5-ml Sardstat screw-top test tube containing 0.5-mm glass beads and a minibead beater.
  • (18) For four months after the “glorious twelfth” of August each year, wealthy sportsmen pay up to £3,000 a day to stand with a gun on private moorland while beaters – usually farm workers or local lads – flap and shoo grouse towards the shooters’ sights.
  • (19) Whatever the weather, the beaters would drive the bred pheasants from their woodland home to a prepared unharvested patch of kale, just short of a high wooded copse.
  • (20) 2.08am BST Aside from Jeff Carter's buzzer-beater, the teams are more or less level statistically - shots, hits, giveaways, takeaways are all pretty close to even steven.

Boater


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) They came in all different price points and in all different styles: round elephants reminiscent of French cartoons from the 1960s, and strange pseudo-sexual shimmies, and with 1920s straw boater hats leading parades.
  • (2) As a result, none of the venues are fit for swimmers or boaters, she said.
  • (3) City authorities encased the river bed in concrete in the 1930s, turning it into a flood-control channel that was a byword for contamination and forbidden to boaters.
  • (4) It is more serious in patients type blue boaters and less frequent among patients type pink puffers.
  • (5) Boaters and swimmers have largely ignored the dropping water levels in a place where splashing in cold fresh water on 100-plus-degree summer days is a treat.
  • (6) You don’t have to be a boater to appreciate London’s navigable waterways but living like this has encouraged me to explore places along less well-trodden towpaths.
  • (7) The vision is for an "aquatic National Trust" galvanising the estimated 11 million Britons who regularly benefit from them – boaters, anglers, cyclists, runners, Sunday strollers and waterside property dwellers – to invest time and money to protecting them for generations to come.
  • (8) As they walked into the ballroom where Warren spoke on Friday, hundreds of supporters snatched plastic boater-style hats declaring that the wearer backed “Elizabeth Warren for President,” a campaign that does not yet exist.
  • (9) He brought along a pack of non-filter cigarettes, a wide-brimmed boater hat and a bomber jacket.
  • (10) At the beginning the suitors in their straw-boater finery dithered, ecstatic when Sharapova, dragging them into her vortex of suffering, would win a point, or save one, through the sheer force of her will, and then cooed with equal ardour for Bouchard, rising from their seats when she unleashed a terrifying forehand to scorch the lines.
  • (11) The author examined a group of 20 patients with the predominance of chronic bronchitis--blue boaters (average VC was 1.95 l, FEV1--0.81 l, PaO2 while breathing atmospheric air 52 mm Hg and 68 mm Hg after giving oxygen, PaCO2 47 and 51 mm Hg respectively) and 20 patients with the predominance of emphysema--pink puffers (average VC--2.30 l, FEV1--0.86 l, PaO2 while breathing atmospheric air 60 mm Hg and 70 mm Hg after giving oxygen, PaCO2 39 and 40 mm respectively).
  • (12) Swimmers, boaters, and motor vehicle occupants were most frequently represented.
  • (13) Organisations representing Britain's 33,000 boaters and three million anglers agree something has to be done.
  • (14) David Suchet, the actor and boater, sent a message of support, saying: "I am fortunate in my life to have travelled extensively and enjoyed many other rivers worldwide.
  • (15) Delegates (1,650 of them by midday) are mostly lower-to-middle class, middle-to-old-aged white people, hordes of elderly bald men with red faces and moustaches (a terrifying sight); kilts, straw boaters and striped blazers, women dressed elaborately in Ukip gold or purple, a few tattoos and eyebrow rings too, a smattering of posh and Paul Sykes, ex-Tory zillionaire developer and Nigel-backer.
  • (16) Most boaters canoe or kayak the route, though motorboats and sailboats can be used in some sections.