(n.) One who plays at bowls, or who rolls the ball in cricket or any other game.
Example Sentences:
(1) The TV ad campaign features the Sapeurs – men who make the transformation from farmers, taxi drivers and labourers to cigar-wielding gentlemen dressed to the nines in bowler hats and tailored suits – of the Republic of the Congo capital Brazzaville coming together after a day's work.
(2) All the bowlers had a relative tachycardia 15 min before the competition which was abolished by oxprenolol.
(3) I'd suggest: A formal warning, then if repeated the player is: (i) barred from bowling again in the session, if a bowler; (ii) barred from fielding close to (i.e.
(4) It's short and pitched well outside off stump; Tuffey attempts to drive it through the covers but his stroke is far too weak and the ball loops into the bowler's hands.
(5) When the famous Rivels clowns recently came to a leading Berlin music-hall with their act, which used to include a parody of Charlie Chaplin, the clown who played the mock Charlie abandoned his little moustache and bowler and appeared in another disguise.
(6) Hereditary factors, poor technique, overuse, and poor preparation for fast bowling may combine to produce the 'at risk' bowler.
(7) The bowlers whose bowling performance was improved by oxprenolol exhibited significantly higher heart rates before, during and after the competition as compared with the subgroups not responding beneficially to the active drug.
(8) A ferocious interior lineman who has drawn comparison with Houston's JJ Watt, Floyd will help compensate for the departure of seven-time Pro Bowler Richard Seymour.
(9) But most of the 57 rooms in this renovated 19th-century chapel have their quota of Belgian weirdness, from the bowler hat lampshades in the Magritte room to the giant Smurf mural in the Comics Room.
(10) Berry Theatre , Southampton, Thu; Bowler Hat , EC4, Fri Monty Python Live (Mostly): One Down, Five To Go, London Despite being one of the most eagerly awaited dates in 2014's comedy calendar, one big mystery still surrounds this live reunion of the surviving Pythons: will it be any good?
(11) Some slow bowlers can induce the batsman to misjudge where the ball will hit the ground.
(12) 7.31pm GMT Here's a by-no-means-comprehensive summary of the big transfer news today so far: Manchester City haven't bought anyone, have shut the office, and gone home Manchester United haven't bought anyone, have shut the office, and gone home, via the offy for a four-pack and 20 tabs Liverpool haven't bought anyone, but are in a flat spin, attempting to persuade Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk winger Yevhen Konoplyanka to join the club Arsenal have signed Kim Källström on loan, but have given up on Julian Draxler Fulham have landed Greek striker Konstantinos Mitroglou, while Dimitar Berbatov is off to Monaco Cardiff City have signed Wilfried Zaha on loan and Fabio for good Lee Cattermole and Tom Ince could go to Stoke Ince might go to Crystal Palace, though and best of all Southampton's Dani Osvaldo has joined Juventus, turning up in Turin wearing a bowler hat.
(13) I also think it's harsh on the bowlers, but agree that the fields, lines and lengths could be more attacking.
(14) Sachitra Senanayake, the off-spinner who has been Sri Lanka’s most successful and economical bowler in the one-day series against England, has been reported for bowling with a suspect action during Saturday’s victory at Lord’s .
(15) But it is another thing to convince the base," said Professor Shaun Bowler, a political scientist at the University of California at Riverside.
(16) "The bowlers did very well and bowled in the right areas on the first day, but the conditions were helpful to them," said Smith.
(17) Instagram photos showed them tramping around New York, bowler hatted and hand in hand.
(18) In our series, no polyp was found to exhibit the bowler hat sign, while 12 cases of diverticular disease displayed 1 or more "bowler hats."
(19) The Essex bowler Mervyn Westfield is due in court in January, charged with the same offences as the Pakistan players, but the police seem minded – in the main – to leave it to sport.
(20) There's a vague commitment to keeping London competitive as a financial centre, because that's in everyone's interest, but that's as close to esprit de corps as you get.” Hard Times interactive Interactive graphic : the divisive toll of the economic slump The esprit de corps of the old bowler-hatted public-school City of the 1960s and 70s has gone.
Flipper
Definition:
(n.) A broad flat limb used for swimming, as those of seals, sea turtles, whales, etc.
(n.) The hand.
Example Sentences:
(1) The rostral brainstem of the harbor seal Phoca vitulina was cooled and heated 33-41 degrees C while oxygen consumption and rectal, hypothalamic, flipper and dorsal skin temperatures were measured.
(2) Her younger brother had died at the age of 3 months with severe thrombocytopenia and heavily malformed, flipper-like upper extremities.
(3) Variability in daily flipper rate increased as symptom level increased.
(4) Appendages, and to a lesser extent the skin on the torso, cooled appreciably at lower air temperatures, and the flippers were kept just above freezing in subzero air.
(5) Structural differences found in the manus of fur seals and sea lions include: (1) reduction in size of the ulnar side of the carpus and a radial shift in the length-order of the digits, (2) development of musculature in the antebrachial fascia which attaches to the caudal margin of the flipper, (3) orientation of the radial side of the manus dorsal and radial to the rest of the hand, (4) increased range of possible midcarpal movement and in deviational mobility at the first and fifth digits, (5) attachment of forearm musculature onto radial digits and (6) well-developed hypothenar muscles and absence of thenar muscles.
(6) The kinematics and morphology of this hind flipper motion indicated that phocid seals do not swim in the carangiform mode as categorized by Lighthill (1969), but in a distinct mode that mimics swimming by thunniform propulsors.
(7) Arteriovenous anastomoses are important in the regulation of body temperature in seals; when these animals are on land, AVAs function to dissipate body heat, and vascular thermoregulation occurs in the flippers but notover the general body surface.
(8) The subjects wore anaglyph glasses and viewed a nonvariable square-X-circle anaglyph target alternately through a 16 delta base-out and 4 delta base-in prism flipper.
(9) At thermoneutral (+8 to +16 degrees C) and cold (-18 to -22 degrees C) ambient conditions, the effects of hypothalamic heating and cooling on the surface temperature of one flipper (skin blood flow), oxygen consumption (metabolic heat production) and esophageal (core) temperature were observed in the conscious animals.- Heating the rostral brain stem induced heat defence responses: Heat production was reduced in the cold and skin vasodilatation was evoked at thermoneutral ambient conditions.
(10) In the northern fur seal most AVAs (76%) occurred in the superficial region of the dermis; the density of AVAs in flipper skin was significantly higher than in body skin, and the density in the hind flipper was significantly greater than in the foreflipper.
(11) I'm not convinced I'm much help, clumsily treading water in my flippers, but Moi takes charge and soon we have a few dozen fish, which he chops up for us to eat raw.
(12) One group of gene mutations (Ames dwarf, dwarf, flipper-arm, pygmy) specifically depress spermatogenesis and testicular steroidogenesis.
(13) This feature is of great importance for oxygen unloading in the flippers and the tail, where the temperature is lower than the trunk of the whale.
(14) On the surface, I was successful, but I also longed for the recognition of fellow black people, including my few black male peers for whom I was seemingly nonexistent: all of them, including my brothers, were busy chasing the hair-flippers.
(15) Missing teeth were commonplace; there were gaps, spaces and "flipper dentures."
(16) Black wetsuits and flippers have replaced their trademark white cotton robes, although they still protect their heads with a traditional scarf decorated with lucky symbols.
(17) But the two middle-aged women regularly swap their floral blouses for wetsuits, fill their lungs with air and spend long periods under water, aided by nothing more than a facemask and a pair of flippers.
(18) Three cases of congenital ectrodactyly of the flipper in the manatee are described, including one case of bilaterally-symmetrical cleft hand.
(19) The hind flippers acted as hydrofoils, and the efficiency, thrust power and coefficient of thrust were calculated from unsteady wing theory.
(20) This weight gives it a gravitas, and as it waddles and flaps its flippers as you stroke it, the whole thing vibrates.