(n.) One who, or that which, bites; that which bites often, or is inclined to bite, as a dog or fish.
(n.) One who cheats; a sharper.
Example Sentences:
(1) Although the mark-recapture and blood meal data indicated behavioral heterogeneity between buffalo and human biters, restriction endonuclease fragment length polymorphism analysis revealed no differences in repeat sequence profiles.
(2) He notes an improvement of the situation with a significant decrease in the rate of positivity among the biter animals.
(3) The contact of A. minimus with man was much higher outdoors than indoors, and studies showed the species to be an early biter, especially in the dry season, thus increasing the chance of man-vector contact.
(4) No heterogeneity was found between indoor and outdoor biters of An.
(5) For @BeppeBergonzi, tweeting in English, “The ‘Biter’ team won”.
(6) Jimmy Kimmel reveals the heartlessness of healthcare in America | Arwa Mahdawi Read more Despite the majority leader’s confidence, Thursday’s vote is expected to be a nail-biter.
(7) On subsequent pairing, the major biters of each pair (neck + body bites) were predicted by their higher concentrations of the 5-HT precursor tryptophan but not by 5-HT turnover.
(8) It is a case of the biter bit as the banks that whipped up the speculative frenzy a year or two ago are themselves being targeted by speculators as they try to raise capital in an environment of asset-price deflation.
(9) Indiana, utilizing David West as something of a secret weapon , managed to claw back into the game, which morphed from a laugher to a nail-biter, a see-saw affair as both teams traded runs.
(10) You can call me “big-mouth”, “biter”, “diver”.
(11) It would be interesting to explore the rich variety of pathology produced in us by moray eels, lionfish, sea urchins, jellyfish, sting rays, fire ants, kissing bugs, flies, lice, mosquitoes, ticks, mites, fleas, puss caterpillars, centipedes, snakes, dogs and cats, camels, and myriad other creatures including homo sapiens (not a trivial biter)--but for this grand rounds, the topic will simply be spiders (Part 1), bees and vespid (Part 2).
(12) Suárez's notoriety has caught the attention of former world heavyweight boxing champion, and confirmed biter, Mike Tyson.
(13) Detailed analysis of 772 bite reports was made to determine the characteristics of biters and their victims.
(14) There were more nail-biters in the 90s: Andy Cole v Ludo Miklosko in 1995, Andy Cole's redemption at Middlesbrough in 1996 and Andy Cole's cute lob against Tottenham to secure the first part of United's treble in 1999.
(15) He suggests the continuation of the efforts undertaken to control biter animals and eventually the extension of the campaign to the regional level.
(16) Greece were supposed to be the tournament's specialists when it comes to set pieces, but the biter got bit – Ki Sung-yong floating a free-kick into the penalty area, the ball getting flicked on and Lee arriving at the far post to side-foot in the classic set-piece goal.
(17) This game has 1-0 nail-biter written all over it, but given how wacky this World Series has been , maybe the absolute last thing we should expect is the first thing we expect.
(18) trapidoi is primarily an early biter at dusk, with the first peak at 20.00-21.00 hours and the second at 03.00-04.00 hours; and that Lu.
(19) Read more Biter or not, Hiddink agrees his striker has anger management issues.
(20) Earlier this week the NT News reported that Tollner called Joshua Higgins a “pillow biter” and “shirt lifter” in a row over a draft speech that was shown to cabinet.
Obiter
Definition:
(adv.) In passing; incidentally; by the way.
Example Sentences:
(1) In legal terms, her entire judgment was obiter , meaning that it was not part of the court's ruling and not binding on anyone else.
(2) When Robert Harris read this as part of his research for The Ghost , he sought permission to quote some of Crofts's obiter dicta ("Of all the advantages that ghosting offers, one of the greatest must be the opportunity to meet people of interest") as chapter-heads.
(3) Another email to Entwistle when he was running BBC Vision from Jan Younghusband, the commissioning editor for BBC music and events, sent on the day after Savile's death in October 2011, said: "I gather we didn't prepare the obit because of the darker side of the story ...
(4) When interviewed by Pollard last month Vaughan-Barratt explained that by "dark side" he meant: "We haven't got an obit for him.
(5) Those emails prompted Younghusband to reply to the two executives: "'I gather we didn't prepare the obit because of the darker side of the story.
(6) This work was carried out in 50 hearts of human adult cadavers of both sexes, whose obit causes were not related to diseases which could have been directly involved with the heart.
(7) Vaughan-Barratt told Entwistle in the email in May 2010: "We have no obit and I am not sure we would want one ... My first job in TV was on a JS show, I saw the complex and sometimes conflicting nature of the man at first hand ...
(8) We have a crisis in Yemen that is intractable and a burgeoning crisis on Egypt, and those are to my mind far more important than any obiter dicta you may have disinterred from 30 years of journalism.” The event was probably Johnson’s bumpiest ride since his appointment as foreign secretary less than a week ago, although he was booed by a section of the audience after speaking at the French ambassador’s party on Bastille Day.
(9) ('I'm sorry I'm going to be a bit technical - the ruling was obiter dictum rather than the ratio meaning that it was a passing remark ...').