(n.) A person employed to ascertain the bulk or size of goods, in order to fix the amount of freight or dues payable on them.
Example Sentences:
(1) The response of these three groups of animals to a diet diluted with 20% alpha cell, a nonnutritive bulker, showed an initial failure to meter calories by both VMN and DMN rats which, however, was compensated for during the remainder of the 24-hr test period.
(2) Levander said the technology would be used on cargo cable ferries (which are guided across rivers on cables) within the next couple of years, "but the real benefit will be in ocean going tankers and bulkers", where remote control would cut operating costs by up to 30%.
(3) However, it is still an effective stool bulker and acts mainly by increasing faecal water by some unknown mechanism.
Tanker
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Unite, which will have to give seven days' notice before calling a strike after winning approval for industrial action in a ballot of the tanker drivers, is expected to finalise a framework that should allow discussions to begin on Monday.
(2) The territories are drying up; there are many communities that have no water, and that are getting water from tanker trucks."
(3) A rocket also caused the first serious Israeli casualty – one of eight people hurt when a fuel tanker was hit at a service station in Ashdod, 20 miles north of Gaza.
(4) The Unite union, which represents petrol tanker drivers, said there was no threat of a strike over the Easter period and it was focused on talks through the conciliation service Acas.
(5) The exposure of drivers of gasoline delivery tankers ranged from 0.08 to 2.37 ppm for personal TWA exposure over the whole workshift.
(6) On July 14, 1991, a train tanker car derailed in northern California, spilling 19,000 gallons of the soil fumigant metam sodium (sodium methyldithiocarbamate) into the Sacramento River north of Redding (Figure 1).
(7) Tankers are a common sight, carrying Libya's oil exports around the world.
(8) About 30 buildings were destroyed after tanker cars laden with oil caught fire in the picturesque lakeside town.
(9) But Maude will claim that his strategy of intensifying pressure on the Unite union, which is threatening to hold a fuel tanker strike by 23 April, will have paid off if industrial action is averted.
(10) In Iraq and Syria, air strikes are taking out ISIL leaders, heavy weapons, oil tankers, infrastructure.
(11) Could the typical journey of the modern pint – a week-long trek from cow to fridge via tankers, processing plants, distribution hubs and supermarkets – be replaced by a bucolic idyll of farmers milking and bottling before delivering, all within 12 hours, as Our Cow Molly does?
(12) The Iraqi who drove past the refinery on Thursday said the militants also manned checkpoints around the Beiji facility some 155 miles north of Baghdad, and that a huge fire in one of its tankers was raging.
(13) A strong relationship between disability pension due to neuropsychiatric diagnoses and work on tankers was found, especially when restricted to work as a mate on the tankers.
(14) Some variation will be caused by the time the garage last bought a tanker of petrol and set its prices: the longer ago it made the purchase, the cheaper the fuel is likely to be.
(15) Traffic congestion, dust kicked up by oil tankers and road fatalities are constant features of life here.
(16) The bomb this Wednesday morning, hidden inside a sewage tanker, hit at all of these aspects.
(17) Whoever used run-of-the-mill bulk carriers or tankers drifted to the lowest-cost country.
(18) The government is buying 16 large hard-hulled lifeboats, similar to those found on oil tankers and cruise ships, to be used to send asylum seekers back towards Indonesia if their own vessel is unseaworthy, according to Fairfax Media reports published on Wednesday .
(19) A spokesman for Pritchard-Gordon Tankers said two men had been hit by the wave while working on deck and a third was injured trying to help them.
(20) Speculators, including banks and oil companies, fill these tankers with oil and let them drift around the oceans until the price rises.