(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.
Bruin
Definition:
(a.) A bear; -- so called in popular tales and fables.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Bruins, on the other hand, limped into the playoffs, with everyone wondering where their firepower had gone.
(2) His goal came at a crucial moment , immediately after the Bruins had the Habs hemmed in their own end.
(3) But that is the thing that we have to do: We have to try and fight through that,” Team Canada assistant coach Claude Julien said before his Bruins played the Kings Monday night .
(4) Houston bring on Weaver for Bruin (who has cut a rather lonely figure up front, all alone) 3.38am GMT 72 mins SKC win anther corner and Zusi puts it into the right area but again it's met by a Houston head.
(5) In Game Six of the Stanley Cup Finals, the Boston Bruins held a 2-1 lead over the Chicago Blackhawks with 77 seconds remaining in regulation and looked poised to force a Game Seven in Chicago.
(6) Bruins, Cnossen and van Boheemen built their first rough prototype using the heater element from a hairdryer and some other stuff they picked up at the home improvement store, Home Depot for €40 (£33).
(7) Then Jonathan Toews stunned the Boston crowd by pushing the puck past Bruins goalie Tuukka Rask, tying the game up at 2-2 with little more than a minute left.
(8) The large effect of low PCO2 on both fetal and adult erythrocytes was related to the higher affinity for CO2 of deoxyhemoglobin compared to oxyhemoglobin and a model for CO2 binding analogous to that described by de Bruin et al.
(9) Chicago's Andrew Shaw finally ended t he fifth longest ever Stanley Cup final game 12:08 minutes into triple overtime (112:08 in total to save you the mathematics) and capped a 4-3 comeback victory for the Blackhawks over the Boston Bruins.
(10) And it paid off in a goal early on, care of Chris Kelly , a new standout in the Bruins lineup.
(11) Here's a look courtesy of our favourite wikipedia: 1942 Stanley Cup when the Toronto Maple Leafs came back and won four straight over the Detroit Red Wings 1975 Stanley Cup quarterfinals when the New York Islanders came back and won four straight over the Pittsburgh Penguins 2004 American League Championship Series when the Boston Red Sox came back and won four straight over the New York Yankees 2010 Stanley Cup conference semifinals when the Philadelphia Flyers came back and won four straight, winning the fourth game 4-3 after being down by a score of 0-3 to the Boston Bruins 2014 Stanley Cup conference quarterfinals when the Los Angeles Kings came back and won four straight over the San Jose Sharks.
(12) BRUINS 4, DEVILS 3, OT In Boston, David Krejci completed his second career hat trick in overtime to give the Boston victory and its first season sweep of New Jersey since 1985-86.
(13) Updated at 2.56am GMT 2.55am GMT 45 mins Bruin breaks past one and then two men and shoots hard and low from 22 yards out.
(14) With two fast goals in the dying moments of the third period Monday night in Boston, the Chicago Blackhawks came from behind to beat the Bruins 3-2 and win the 2013 Stanley Cup.
(15) Several studies have suggested that binding of the receptor antibody and TSH to the TSH receptor is mutually exclusive (Manley et al., 1977; Petersen et al., 1977; Rickards et al., 1981) but recently the formation of termolecular complexes consisting of detergent solubilized receptors, labelled TSH and Graves' IgG has been reported (Konishi et al., 1982; De Bruin et al., 1984).
(16) 7.56pm GMT 2 mins: A long ball for Will Bruin in the SKC box but he's judged to have fouled Collin.
(17) The Rangers will play the winner of Wednesday's Game 7 at Boston between the Bruins and Montreal, while Chicago will meet either Anaheim or Los Angeles, with the Ducks leading that series 3-2.