(n.) One of the radiating sticks of a fan. The outermost are larger and longer, and are called panaches.
Example Sentences:
(1) The idea that 80% of an engineer's time is spent on the day job and 20% pursuing a personal project is a mathematician's solution to innovation, Brin says.
(2) Brin and Page remain joint presidents, Brin in charge of technology, Page responsible for product launches, but the rapid growth of recent years has been steered by chief executive Eric Schmidt, 53, who came on board in 2001 as the commercial 'brain', negotiating the founders' evangelism and the shareholders' thirst for profits.
(3) The 11-year-old company, founded by Brin and Page in a garage in California, is the global search engine of choice, filtering what we find when we go looking on the internet.
(4) Brin's contention that censorship and "walled gardens", such as Apple's operating systems and Facebook's world of applications, will throttle the world of free and linked information on which Google has built its fortune may be right.
(5) As models for modern business managers, Brin and Page made their own rules.
(6) The latest prize from Milner, the Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences , is a collaboration with his "old friends" Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook, and Sergey Brin of Google.
(7) Smartphones are "emasculating" – at least according to Sergey Brin , the co-founder of Google, who explained his view while addressing an audience wearing a computer headset that made him look slightly like a technological pirate.
(8) While Google did reach agreement with a variety of libraries, including those of Harvard and Oxford universities, like good Montessori students Page and Brin did not first ask the permission of publishers and authors before digitising their copyrighted books – backing off only after a lawsuit was filed.
(9) Ten years ago next month, in an innocuous suburban garage, Page and Brin, two geeky students at Stanford University, founded a company called Google.
(10) Brin comes from a family who fled antisemitism in the Soviet Union.
(11) Many consumers believe Google's search engine works on a formula that was created by founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page and that was that: they set it running and the rest is history.
(12) Brin and Page's mission is to 'organise the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful'.
(13) Google’s illustrious founders, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, sagely stated that “since it is very difficult even for experts to evaluate search engines, search engine bias is particularly insidious”.
(14) Brin, who is more sociable than Page, has his own quirks.
(15) The seeds for Google's success were planted by Page and Brin when they met as graduate students at Stanford in 1995.
(16) Brin said that he was moved to invest in the technology for animal welfare reasons.
(17) Co-founder Sergey Brin said that the company's social experiments had been more successful than it was given credit for – but that Buzz would be more than just talking with friends and playing games.
(18) The four traders – Daniel Brin, Scott Connelly, Karen Levine and Ryan Smith – also have 30 days to prove why they should not face civil penalties after the regulator said the actions had led to losses of around $140m for California and other US states.
(19) And appropriately for a company with such mighty ambitions, instead of one CEO decision-maker, Google has three: co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin plus their CEO, Eric Schmidt.
(20) Google is run by two youngish men, Larry Page and Sergey Brin , who are, in a literal sense, visionaries.
Brit
Definition:
(n.) Alt. of Britt
Example Sentences:
(1) I usually use them as a rag with which to clean the toilet but I didn’t have anything else to wear today because I’m so fat.” While this exchange will sound baffling to outsiders, to Brits it actually sounds like this: “You like my dress?
(2) The Fed is also painting itself as one of the Good Guys in the Libor scandal, pointing out that it spotted the problems in 2008, and promptly tipped off the Brits.
(3) But will Brits elect a man who says he will never use the weapons we have?
(4) But here they come now, the extraordinary defenders of allegedly ordinary Brits, the voice of a resurgent people.
(5) "Then the European commission and the council will start looking like an ogre here, and what the Daily Mail says – which is not true now – about hostility to the Brits inside the institutions will start being true."
(6) The former Take That star – who has won more Brit awards than any other artist – took home his 16th award after more than 20 years in the business, saying: "I feel like it's my birthday, I feel special, it's lovely, whether people think it or not in my head I'm going, 'brilliant!'"
(7) In any case, the Brits are a notoriously lily-livered shower when it comes to workplace politics, too craven to strike – [note to non-British readers: we're a sorry servile bunch, we don't like it up us] - and as a result, poor John's failed coup has led to him becoming the most reviled union leader in British history, ahead of the excellent Bob Crow, the much misunderstood Arthur Scargill, and Gary Neville.
(8) The purpose of this study was to test the adrenoceptor interconversion hypothesis of Kunos and Nickerson (Brit.
(9) Ulbricht has denied his involvement in Silk Road, or that he was ever its administrator, but the prospect of a dragnet operation to bring in other dealers following his arrest will still make any of the nearly 960,000 registered users with the site – 30% of whom were in the US and Brits being the second biggest contingent – very nervous.
(10) Facebook Twitter Pinterest EU referendum: Brexit for non-Brits Assuming that the UK votes to remain in the EU, the OECD expects growth to ease from 2.3% in 2015 to 1.7% this year, before recovering to 2% in 2017.
(11) 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.
(12) ian bremmer (@ianbremmer) Maybe the Brits are just having us on.
(13) For the uninitiated, Menelik Watson, is a Brit in the Draft tonight.
(14) The Welch warbler does it and I believe that's all the bases covered: Bitta street cred with Dizzee, NME fodder with Kasabian, bitta Brit pop with JLS and prizes for the new wave of British female performers (Lily, Florence).
(15) Like many Brits involved in the process, Stevens is also a member of Cryonics UK , an organisation which describes itself as "Britain's volunteer standby assistance team", with its own ambulance and specialist equipment.
(16) (But could a native Brit make as many jokes as I have done over the years about Karl Lagerfeld on this newspaper’s fashion pages?
(17) The survey found 70% of Brits believe our present world is in decline, while 55% of respondents thought the bloom had gone off their own lives, and were dubious about the future.
(18) Most Brits voted against Thatcherism, but the Scots – like the northern English – voted more passionately against, and yet suffered some of the worst consequences.
(19) Her staff – a mix of Mexicans, Canadians and Brits – seem like adopted family, all almost falling over one other to keep us guests happy.
(20) After decades dreaming of life among olive trees and vineyards, these days for some reason, we Brits are now projecting our need for the existence of an earthly paradise northwards.