What's the difference between bender and sixpence?

Bender


Definition:

  • (n.) One who, or that which, bends.
  • (n.) An instrument used for bending.
  • (n.) A drunken spree.
  • (n.) A sixpence.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The objective of this study was to explore the commonly used method of Miller and Bender for determination of the net protein utilization (NPU).
  • (2) Subjects were examined with Wechsler tests (WPPSI, WISC-R or WAIS, according to their capabilities), Progressive Matrices, Bender or Santucci and memory tests.
  • (3) Practice effects within a multiple-phase administration of the Bender Visual-motor Gestalt Test were investigated.
  • (4) A NSW man who died in custody after being Tasered was reportedly battling an addiction to ice and had been on a bender.
  • (5) The Bender Visual-motor Gestalt Test and Beery's Developmental Test of Visual-motor Integration were administered to 51 educable mentally retarded boys ranging in age from 72 to 161 mo.
  • (6) These children on Bender Gestalt test made more errors particularly distortions (distortion of parts, incorrect number of dots, shape of design lost etc).
  • (7) It is suggested that the group Bender test might be used as a screening device without significant loss of information on a later administration of the individual Bender test.
  • (8) The latter result, in conjunction with those results on the Bender visual-motor gestalt test and on some WAIS subtests, suggests a frequent deficit in spatial capabilities in such subjects.
  • (9) From the resultant corner Bender is beaten again, this time Martinez sending a header fractionally over the bar.
  • (10) Normative data on the Koppitz developmental scoring system for the Bender-Gestalt test were derived from a sample which included 510 protocols of adult resident retardates.
  • (11) The Bender-Gestalt and WISC or WISC-R performances of two groups of 19 emotionally disturbed children matched in age age (9-1 to 16-7) and Full Scale IQ were compared.
  • (12) The absence of a significant correlation between the Bender and the WISC Verbal IQ in these children was attributed to the relative superiority of their Verbal scores.
  • (13) The strongest and most consistent effects occurred for the Bender Gestalt test (GFT version) and for serial choice reaction performance (Vienna Device).
  • (14) The Trail Making Test and Bender Background Interference Procedure were evaluated with 598 Ss against both external neurologic criteria and against psychological opinion derived from a more complete evaluation.
  • (15) We describe a device for quantifying neglect based upon the principle of the Bender test which uses double or simultaneous bilateral stimulation to determine neglect.
  • (16) Bender scores also appeared to have more utility for predicting reading and mathematics achievement for children of low birthweight than for those of normal birthweight.
  • (17) Those normals whose free-play ankle activity was above the mean, also had significantly more errors and performed at a significantly lower level on the Bender Visual Motor Gestalt Test than children whose activity was below the mean.
  • (18) 8.48pm BST 50 mins Other German subs were Aogo for Jansen and Kruse for Sven Bender.
  • (19) We evaluated the concurrent validity of the revised Bender-Gestalt emotional indicators (Koppitz, 1975) among three groups of children in the 7- to 10-year age range: adjustment disorder, behavior disorder, and normal control.
  • (20) On the fifteenth day of hospitalization, after five days without any psychopharmacological therapy, the patients underwent psychological testing: the Wechsler-Bellevue test, separately for the complete, verbal, and nonverbal scales and the Bender-Gestalt test.

Sixpence


Definition:

  • (n.) An English silver coin of the value of six pennies; half a shilling, or about twelve cents.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) But if books are sixpence each you are not going to buy 10 of them, because you don’t want as many as 10.” Natalie Haynes is author of The Amber Fury
  • (2) Current trails include Birmingham’s anti-slavery landmarks, a tour of city life living on sixpence a day during the 18th and 19th centuries, and a more contemporary side of Birmingham following sculptures around the city.
  • (3) From 1901 the Antrobus family, who owned the site, charged sixpence admission.
  • (4) We crept out of a back door and went to a club where a girl was dancing in a bird cage, and sitting on a mezzanine above us we saw Lionel Jeffries and the producer Robert Lynn dropping sixpences on her head.
  • (5) "I believe that a good penny and sixpence store, run by a live Yankee, would be a sensation here," he wrote in his diary.
  • (6) You reel back at Cohn’s words, and wonder why anyone would even bother listening to Tex’s records, but then he turns on a sixpence and reels you in with a couple of lines: “He’s funny, he really is, and he obviously enjoys himself.
  • (7) Cisse turns on a sixpence on the edge of the area, working himself space for a shot.
  • (8) YES: Jay Rayner, Observer restaurant critic In the old days, the only way to make money out of a Christmas pudding was by getting lucky and almost choking on the foil-wrapped sixpence that your mother had secreted there.
  • (9) But the full quote from Orwell runs: "The Penguin books are splendid value for sixpence, so splendid that if other publishers had any sense they would combine against them and suppress them."
  • (10) Makeshift centre-forward Gerard Pique shows the Big Game Bottler Other Big Game Bottlers doff their hats to how it's done by picking up a defence-splitting through-ball from Xavi, drawing Julio Cesar towards him, turning on a sixpence and slotting the ball into an empty goal from 12 yards.
  • (11) Jack Straw , a former Labour foreign secretary, said: "When things are relatively calm, suspicions, fantasies and sometimes paranoia can take off about the so-called secret state but the moment there is a serious threat of an outrage the very same people and newspapers turn on a sixpence and they demand [to know why] there has been a failure by the intelligence agencies."
  • (12) What a brilliant finish from Cousin, who takes up the ball in the box with his back to goal, turns 180 degrees on a sixpence to confuse Anderson beyond all reason, and wheechs a thunderous shot past Vercoutre.
  • (13) Bearing that in mind, Heston has stuffed the tangerine (well, orange) inside your Christmas pud, inviting you to play hunt the orange, not the sixpence.
  • (14) Helpfully, Amazon explains: “Yes, George Orwell was suggesting collusion.” And that’s true – so long as you come in halfway through his sentence which reads, in its entirety: “The Penguin books are splendid value for sixpence, so splendid that if other publishers had any sense they would combine against them and suppress them.” It’s a compliment, not a manifesto.
  • (15) It was never in George Orwell’s interest to suppress paperback books — he was wrong about that.” Well, he would have been, if the full quote – about publisher Penguin’s introduction of paperback books – hadn’t been this: “The Penguin Books are splendid value for sixpence, so splendid that if other publishers had any sense they would combine against them and suppress them.” Several sites have already called Amazon out on its partial quote – notably TechCrunch , which described the decision as “horrible” while noting that “it’s clear that Orwell is praising the paperback, not arguing for its abolition”.
  • (16) Did my father give the local farmer sixpence to allow us entry?
  • (17) Bruce Ross-Smith Oxford • In Richard Hoggart's obituary, you recall that he wrote of seeing his widowed mother "standing frozen, while tears start slowly down her cheeks because a sixpence has been lost … you do not easily forget".
  • (18) In Micawber's example, the deficit is sixpence; in the case of the UK, it is £159.2bn – but the principle is the same.
  • (19) Even I don't sentimentalise them, and I sentimentalise everything , from crap 80s Chevy Chase comedies I saw as a kid to crap 1990s film soundtracks I liked as a teenager (Lisa Loeb, Sixpence None the Richer, the Cardigans – you are not forgotten ).
  • (20) Except that Gowing strongly recommended a new patent stylographic pen, which cost me nine and sixpence, and which was simply nine and sixpence thrown in the mud."

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