(n.) One of the leather screens on a bridle, to hinder a horse from seeing objects at the side; a blinker.
Example Sentences:
(1) We found recently that the mutation Arg189----His decreases the affinity of HCII for dermatan sulfate but not for heparin (Blinder, M. A., Andersson, T. R., Abildgaard, U., and Tollefsen, D. M. (1989) J. Biol.
(2) Despite the promise of a layered saga involving communism, the IRA and betting syndicates, not a great deal happens in Peaky Blinders .
(3) It's true that Putin – or rather his foreign minister Sergei Lavrov – played a blinder in September by seizing the initiative on Syria and turning the threat of a US attack on Damascus into a UN agreement on chemical weapons.
(4) Yeah, ha ha, the cheeky peaky blinders are leeching an extra grand and a half out of buyers just for accepting their offer on a property.
(5) Still and all – the Visit Scotland archive played a blinder this week.
(6) The Institute for Fiscal Studies played a blinder, as usual, pointing out the Treasury's sleights of hand and misrepresentations.
(7) Historical gangster epic Peaky Blinders was a double winner at the Bafta TV Craft Awards ceremony on Sunday night, where the BBC also took home awards for its Doctor Who specials commemorating the show's 50th anniversary and the special award for Strictly Come Dancing.
(8) With Fitch due to rule on Britain's AAA after the budget, Osborne needs to play a blinder.
(9) The rules of engagement, of course, specified an embargo on political questions, but co-host Adrian Chiles played an absolute blinder, never missing a chance to draw Tony (if Phil from Ipswich can call him Tony, I don't see why I shouldn't) into a discussion on a subject about which he actually knows something.
(10) In addition to Peaky Blinders' 1920s gangland epic, the BBC also has Quirke, an Andrew Davies adaptation of the John Banville novels.
(11) I learned early on not to listen to either critique – the people who love you or the people who don't like you … The best thing to do is just put on the blinders, write the book that you would want to read and hope that other people share your taste.
(12) The BBC pulled off a bit of a blinder with the iPlayer this year .
(13) The players were more interested in keeping up to date with Peaky Blinders, Keane reckoned, but with reports of Hull City being interested in O’Neill, they really should be.
(14) "Hi Lawrence, if you thought La Liga's fixture generator played a blinder with this final match of the season, how would you describe the conjuring up of the last round of matches in Argentina's top division last year?
(15) The casting here is absolutely key, and Disney needs to pull off a blinder akin to Chris Pine’s Captain Kirk , or Chris Pratt in Guardians of the Galaxy .
(16) Using the latest available figures – for the year to the end of June 2013 – Dr Scott Blinder, a specialist at Oxford University's Migration Observatory , calculates the difference between the number who arrived here to study and those departing who say that they originally came here to study at some 99,000.
(17) Peaky Blinders Sam Neil either shoots Grace or himself.
(18) Peaky Blinders Its producers will be wary of any "British Boardwalk Empire" comparisons, since calling The Hour the "British Mad Men" weighted expectations unflatteringly.
(19) Peaky Blinders Steven Knight is a writer with an unusual knack for coming up with quirky ideas that go improbably big: he created Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?
(20) Tesco played a blinder and reached an accommodation with Unilever over the dispute, which was depressingly but predictably called Marmitegate.
Performance
Definition:
(n.) The act of performing; the carrying into execution or action; execution; achievement; accomplishment; representation by action; as, the performance of an undertaking of a duty.
(n.) That which is performed or accomplished; a thing done or carried through; an achievement; a deed; an act; a feat; esp., an action of an elaborate or public character.
Example Sentences:
(1) From 1982 to 1989, bronchoplasty or segmental bronchoplasty and pulmonary arterioplasty in combination with lobectomy and segmentectomy were performed for 9 patients with central type lung carcinoma.
(2) All transplants were performed using standard techniques, the operation for the two groups differing only as described above.
(3) These data indicate a steady improvement in laboratory performance over the last 10 years.
(4) In conclusion, the efficacy of free tissue transfer in the treatment of osteomyelitis is geared mainly at enabling the surgeon to perform a wide radical debridement of infected and nonviable soft tissue and bone.
(5) This paper discusses the typical echocardiographic patterns of a variety of important conditions concerning the mitral valve, the left ventricle, the interatrial and interventricular septum as well as the influence of respiration on the performance of echocardiograms.
(6) After two weeks all animals were killed and autopsies of the animals were performed.
(7) The 1989 results were compared with those of a similar survey performed in 1986.
(8) During the performance of propulsive waves of the oesophagus the implanted vagus nerve caused clonic to tetanic contractions of the sternohyoid muscle, thus proving the oesophagomotor genesis of the reinnervating nerve fibres.
(9) Theoretical computations are performed of the intercalative binding of the neocarzinostatin chromophore (NCS) with the double-stranded oligonucleotides d(CGCG)2, d(GCGC)2, d(TATA)2 and d(ATAT)2.
(10) In addition autoradiography was performed to localize labelled cells in the inner ear.
(11) Surgical repair of the rheumatologic should however, is performed rarely, and should be reserved for the infrequent cases that do not respond to medical therapy.
(12) Six hours later, bronchoalveolar lavage was performed.
(13) Basing the prediction of student performance in medical school on intellective-cognitive abilities alone has proved to be more pertinent to academic achievement than to clinical practice.
(14) It has also been used to measure the amount of excision repair performed by non-replicating cells damaged by carcinogens.
(15) The performance characteristics of the CCD are well documented and understood, having been quantified by many experimenters, especially in the physical sciences.
(16) 2.35pm: West Ham co-owner David Sullivan has admitted that a deal to land Miroslav Klose is unlikely to go through following the striker's star performances in South Africa.
(17) Just after blood sampling, FEV1 measurements were performed.
(18) Effects of habitual variations in napping on psychomotor performance, short-term memory and subjective states were investigated.
(19) The study examined the sustained effects of methylphenidate on reading performance in a sample of 42 boys, aged 8 to 11, with attention deficit-hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).
(20) In addition, control experiments with naloxone, ethanol, or cigarette smoking alone were performed.