(n.) Specifically: A machine for breaking rocks, or for breaking coal at the mines; also, the building in which such a machine is placed.
(n.) A small water cask.
(n.) A wave breaking into foam against the shore, or against a sand bank, or a rock or reef near the surface.
Example Sentences:
(1) The compound is a weak chromosome breaker in onion root tips and in Chinese hamster cells.
(2) Like, I am well, well equipped for this thing.” For their one survival item each, Rogen brought a role of toilet paper, while Franco brought sunglasses and mugs continually for the camera, giving his best Spring Breakers faces while in the buff.
(3) This is just one of the many blameworthy behaviors that young spring breakers have shown recently in Cancún and that are described as acts of xenophobia and discrimination against Mexicans within their own country, which is (or should be) totally unacceptable.” The story took off.
(4) About 35 million were egg-laying hens that provided 80% of the eggs for the breaker market – eggs broken then liquefied, dried or frozen to be used in processed foods like mayonnaise and pancake mixes, or sold to bakeries to make cakes, cookies and other products.
(5) The clinical results shown that, after twelve years of experience, the stress breaker framework allows the preservation of the abutments as well as the conservation of osseo-mucous tissues (no need of rebase).
(6) The tie-breaker isn't quite the buzzer-beater that Jeff Carter converted with tenths of a second left in the first period of Game 3, but it comes with under 30 ticks left in the second period here and has a similar effect.
(7) Spring Breakers is a good few steps removed from reality.
(8) While those figures may be skewed by one film alone (Harmony Korine's hit teenage skin celebration Spring Breakers ) the overall pattern of sex bias is unmistakable.
(9) Preliminary ultrasonic studies have indicated that these biomolecules behave as structure breakers, hence weak ligands in aqueous medium, while strengthening water structure in semi-nonaqueous medium.
(10) Agüero's deadlock-breaker was undercut by trademark explosiveness.
(11) beta-Breakers can be located automatically using a consensus approach based on algorithmic secondary structure assignment, solvent accessibility and backbone dihedral angles.
(12) Richard Dunwoody briefly set a new high of 1,699 but McCoy passed that 11 years ago and every winner he has ridden since then has been a record-breaker.
(13) Mr Gott argues that 80% of all Rollers ever produced are still being driven, whereas most other cars hit the breaker's yard after a relatively short period.
(14) In reality, says the book that I co-wrote with Nick Timmins, Glaziers & window breakers , the words were quite possibly born of despair – Bevan was the first health secretary to find that there is an impossible tension to navigate a service that is politically accountable to parliament and run day-to-day by its staff.
(15) Indeed, not only are new institutional circuit breakers, such as the European Financial Stability Facility, in place; existing bodies have also been made more flexible and thus more effective.
(16) Clodia Metelli The epitome of the chic, sexy, scandalous aristocrat of 1st century BC Rome, Metelli was supposedly the "Lesbia" to whom the love-lorn poems of Catullus are addressed (and if so, a total ball-breaker).
(17) The UK, French and German governments all had the power to veto the deal but Berlin's concern over the potential size of the French shareholding in the combined company, as well as disagreements over the location of the group's headquarters, proved to be the deal breaker that could not be resolved by the last-ditch round of phone diplomacy.
(18) Administration of the hapten 2,4,6-trinitrobenzenesulfonic acid (5-30 mg) in 0.25 ml of 50% ethanol as the "barrier breaker" produced dose-dependent colonic ulceration and inflammation.
(19) There has to be a circuit breaker and I think it’s a further leap down in the Aussie dollar and to get that we’ll likely require more rate cuts.” Goldman Sachs and RBC Capital Markets also changed their forecasts following the soft GDP figures.
(20) Restraint trainers called themselves Mauler, Breaker and Crusher.
Surf
Definition:
(n.) The swell of the sea which breaks upon the shore, esp. upon a sloping beach.
(n.) The bottom of a drain.
Example Sentences:
(1) Many speak about how yoga and surfing complement each other, both involving deep concentration, flexibility and balance.
(2) Others, such as Guardian TV critic Charlie Brooker's recent show, even attracted a large teenage audience - who, if industry orthodoxy is to be believed, are more likely to be surfing the internet than watching TV these days.
(3) The iPad is a 9.7in tablet computer with a virtual keyboard which can surf the web, do email, display ebooks and play video.
(4) Climbing Table Mountain and hitting the nightlife are on the agenda too, as well as surfing Cape Town’s more challenging spots, from Long Beach to Kommetjie.
(5) José Mourinho ended this breathless contest on his knees with a sliding, turf-surfing celebration that was fuelled by relief as much as joy.
(6) Lord Freud revealed his futuristic vision of how people could soon claim benefits, suggesting ultimately claimants might take advantage of the development of internet eye-glasses by Google – which allows users to surf the internet on the lens of a pair of glasses, using eye movement to navigate the web and make benefits claims.
(7) The eggs of the surf clam Spisula solidissima have a built-in mechanism that prevents polyspermy: the eggs show a 70 percent decrease in sperm receptivity 5 seconds after fertilization, and become completely resistant to sperm by 15 seconds.
(8) The Surf's Up Surf School has been operating from the beach for 15 years and has an experienced team of instructors (including a former New Zealand national-level coach, Kelly O'Toole) who are prepared to work with everyone from complete beginners to elite riders.
(9) The Northern Region Surf Lifesaving Association Helicopter Rescue Service is one of the few aeromedical services in Australia mainly funded and staffed through the voluntary efforts of a local community.
(10) Download downturn That in turn carries serious risks for the music industry, which for some time has surfed along on the iPod sales boom, warns Mark Mulligan, vice-president of the global media practice at the analysis company Forrester Research .
(11) The Surf-3 gene (which could code for a basic polypeptide of 266 amino acids) is a highly expressed member of a pseudogene-containing multigene family.
(12) Yet it seems to be that aspect of the invisibility of the URLs that's really troubling the people who are lobbying Mandelson (because this is obviously not something he's discovered from surfing the net; I do, a lot, and I've not seen anyone complaining about the Evil of Cyberlocker Copyright Infringement).
(13) While university students at Kim Chaek University of Science and Technology and the Pyongyang University of Science and Technology also have carefully monitored internet access – and are under strict instructions to access only educational materials – most North Koreans have never surfed the web.
(14) Since these characteristics of the starfish egg poly(A)+ RNA are similar to those of cyclin mRNAs from sea urchin and surf clam eggs, we synthesized a 50-mer antisense-cyclin oligonucleotide probe coding for a part of the sea urchin cyclin cDNA and used this to screen starfish RNA.
(15) Surfing the Heaviest Wave in the World - Teahupoo Pipe dreams 4.
(16) Father, rather creepily, joined him on his gap year and the two went surfing and enjoyed the wacky backy.
(17) We’re mostly Brits, with a sprinkling of Canadians, Dutch women and a guy from Dubai, and of mixed abilities; some have been surfing for years while others, like me, have barely stood up on a board before.
(18) RNase alters the in vitro assembly of spindle asters in homogenates of meiotically dividing surf clam (Spisula solidissima) oocytes.
(19) But that is not borne out if 97% of users will see no change – because their surfing habits will persist as before.
(20) While web surfing for possible names, Dalton says he realised that Mayo was born in Eccles, part of Salford.