(n.) A device for producing a current of air; as: (a) A metal plate temporarily placed before the upper part of a grate or open fire. (b) A machine for producing an artificial blast or current of air by pressure, as for increasing the draft of a furnace, ventilating a building or shaft, cleansing gram, etc.
(n.) A blowing out or excessive discharge of gas from a hole or fissure in a mine.
(n.) The whale; -- so called by seamen, from the circumstance of its spouting up a column of water.
(n.) A small fish of the Atlantic coast (Tetrodon turgidus); the puffer.
(n.) A braggart, or loud talker.
Example Sentences:
(1) There are currently five separate criminal prosecutions relating to official leaks under way, a surge in activity that national security experts say is a worrying attack on the rights of whistle blowers.
(2) It was possible to ventilate this isolator by either free-flow or blower operation.
(3) What have they cut in children’s education to do this?” Christine Blower, general secretary of the National Union of Teachers, called for greater oversight of academies.
(4) The prevalence of chronic and acute respiratory symptoms and diseases and changes in lung function in a group of 80 glass blowers have been investigated.
(5) The talks are only allowed to discuss how Mr Gove's policies are implemented," Blowers said.
(6) Christine Blower, general secretary of the National Union of Teachers, was "delighted" a clause that would have forced teachers to hold a licence that needed renewing every five years had been dropped.
(7) Blower said the report cards would have "reduced schools to a single letter or number, which was not the right way to do it".
(8) After the motion endorsing strikes was passed, the NUT's general secretary, Christine Blower, said: "The union will demand that Michael Gove attends talks with the unions to discuss his education policies, on workload and accountability, teacher pay – including performance-related pay– and his unfair pension changes.
(9) Speaking before the conference, Blower said: "There is a big concern in the profession about performance management, about Ofsted, about the pressure on teachers and about the unreasonableness of it."
(10) Christine Blower, general secretary of the National Union of Teachers, said: "These job losses are a mark of things to come.
(11) It will force journalists to reveal their sources and will send whistle-blowers to jail.
(12) We conclude that the blower is expected to be a useful accessory to respiratory protective devices for patients with pulmonary disease.
(13) "There are things the secretary of state [Michael Gove] could have done to avoid our national action in March and there are certainly things he could do to demonstrate good faith in discussions," Blower said.
(14) Flanked by lawns and monuments, this is the site of Delhi’s passeggiata , and at sunset, candy floss and ice-cream sellers, bubble blowers and henna artists set up stall.
(15) Blower said the attacks on pay and conditions alongside an overhaul of the Ofsted inspection regime and new guidelines on the performance management of individual teachers were placing an unbearable toll on the profession.
(16) NUT leader Christine Blower said delegates would decide the "shape of the ongoing campaign".
(17) But Christine Blower, general secretary of the National Union of Teachers, said she had serious reservations.
(18) From Christine Blower, general secretary of the National Union of Teachers The snapshot provided by the PISA results clearly shows that countries which are performing well, pay teachers well, respect the profession and encourage collaboration between teachers and schools.
(19) Photograph: Sam Frost Christine Blower , general secretary of the National Union of Teachers, said: “Voices of parents, governors and the local community are being silenced by a government that does not believe in proper democratic accountability in our schools.” Governors also condemned the move.
(20) Christine Blower, general secretary of the National Union of Teachers (NUT), said: "The education secretary should have taken the lead from Wales and re-graded this year's English GCSEs .
Puffer
Definition:
(n.) One who puffs; one who praises with noisy or extravagant commendation.
(n.) One who is employed by the owner or seller of goods sold at suction to bid up the price; a by-bidder.
(n.) Any plectognath fish which inflates its body, as the species of Tetrodon and Diodon; -- called also blower, puff-fish, swellfish, and globefish.
(n.) The common, or harbor, porpoise.
(n.) A kier.
Example Sentences:
(1) For real.” A resident in a green puffer jacket emerged from the shelter with her 10-year-old son.
(2) Puffers were collected one week after the occurrence of the food poisoning and their content of toxin was determined.
(3) Also featured are the puffer fish, dung beetle, veiled chameleon and moon jellyfish.
(4) The potent neurotoxin tetrodotoxin, which has previously been found in puffer fish of the order Tetraordontiformes, a goby (Gobius criniger), and the California newt (Taricha torosa), has now been identified in the skins of frogs of the genus Atelopus from Costa Rica.
(5) Liver protein synthesis, assayed by a rapid pulse injection technique, showed a moderate temperature dependency (Q10 = 2-3) in the 15-30 degree C range for all species except puffers (Q10 = 10-20).
(6) "Whole-cell" patch recordings using nystatin permeabilization were made from single human platelets during application of agonists from a "puffer" pipette.
(7) The temperature dependency of protein synthesis was studied in vivo in five species of Pacific fish collected in the Galapagos and Perlas Islands: batfish (Ogcocephalus darwini), groupers (Epinephelus labriformis), catfish (Netuma platypogan), puffers (Arothron hispidus) and triggerfish (Sufflamen verres).
(8) "Pink puffers" with breathlessness, hyperinflation, mild hypoxemia, and a low PCO2 are contrasted with "blue bloaters" with hypoxemia, secondary polycythemia, CO2 retention, and pulmonary hypertension and cor pulmonale.
(9) Suppression of Iout was also observed during puffer applications of either of two protein kinase C activators, phorbol 12-myristate 13-acetate (10 nM-1 microM) and 1-oleoyl-2-acetylglycerol (60 microM).
(10) Responsiveness of 143 preoptic neurons to changes in hypothalamic temperature and to non-thermal emotional stimuli were investigated while rewarding (foods) and aversive objects (hypertonic saline, a toy snake, an air puffer) were given.
(11) Three conditions that may occur after consumption of seafood--puffer fish poisoning, ciguatera, and paralytic shellfish poisoning--are caused by a group of poisons that block voltage-gated sodium channels in myelinated and non-myelinated nerves.
(12) The Na and K concentration in single supramedullary neurons of the puffer fish (Spheroides maculatus) was measured using a dual channel integrating ultramicroflame photometer.
(13) If salbutamol was one breakthrough, the later introduction of steroid inhalers (which are brown, as opposed to the blue reliever puffers), which prevent symptoms rather than relieve them, was even more significant.
(14) He arrived without entourage or announcement, unzipped his puffer jacket, shook Skip’s hand, and – after greeting everyone in the room – took a seat on the side of the room and asked to get to work.
(15) Unique exocrine glands or gland-like structures were found in the skin of several species of puffer fishes of the genus Takifugu.
(16) Bicuculline methiodide reversibly blocked THIP- and muscimol-induced suppressions of tactile- (air puffer)-induced S1 responses but spared those produced by (-)-baclofen.
(17) The aim of this study was to assess the effects of diamorphine on breathlessness and exercise tolerance in patients with severe chronic airflow obstruction and normal arterial carbon dioxide tension (PCO2) levels ("pink puffer" syndrome).
(18) Chubby Puffer syndrome produces symptoms such as sleep apnea, cor pulmonale and upper airway obstruction due to adenotonsillar enlargement.
(19) As the classic "blue bloater" with attenuated respiratory drive is described as being less dyspneic than his "pink puffer" counterpart, we wondered whether the variability in dyspnea and exercise tolerance in a group of patients with COPD with relatively similar degrees of air-flow obstruction might be partly explained by the variability in resting respiratory drives (unstimulated P0.1 and hypoxic and hypercapnic P0.1 responses).
(20) Tetrodotoxin (puffer fish toxin) or saxitoxin (paralytic shellfish poison), both of which block the sodium channel of excitable membranes, antagonize this effect, enabling cell growth to continue.