(n.) A boy servant, or page, -- in allusion to the buttons on his livery.
Example Sentences:
(1) Following each stimulus, the subject had to press a button for RT and then report the digit perceived.
(2) Three areas of abnormality were seen in schizophrenics: first, the interval preceding the motor response was characterized by reduced motor steadiness prior to the button-press response; second, the motor response was made with excessive force (hyperdynamia); and third, the agonist-antagonist synchrony (motor reversal) was impaired.
(3) On presidential election day 2010 it offered one group in the US a graphic with a link to find nearby polling stations, along with a button that would let you announce that you'd voted, and the profile photos of six other of your "friends" who had already done so.
(4) Every time we have a negotiation, the bidding process (for the project) slows and postpones things.” Water quality has become a hot-button issue as the Olympics draw closer with little sign of progress in cleaning up the fetid bay, as well as the lagoon system in western Rio that hugs the sites of the Olympic park, the very heart of the games.
(5) These regenerating nerve fibres together with growth cones make terminals in the form of buttons, rings and loops.
(6) No IgM was detected in the central buttons of four of the five sets where IgM occurred in the corneal periphery.
(7) Button osteomas affect two animals and are the only neoplastic conditions observed.
(8) 54 min: Has Joey Barton pressed the self-destruct button?
(9) She walked around her Bethnal Green and Bow constituency in a crop top that showed her belly button ring; she also established herself as a hard- working MP for that area.
(10) Six human donor corneas were studied with the scanning electron microscope to quantify the hazards to the endothelium during the excision of corneoscleral buttons.
(11) The disintegration of charged alkaline mercury button cells in simulated gastric fluid over a 24 h period has been studied.
(12) He seemed to have his finger on an invisible button, hardwired into the brains of the Fleet Street editors, driving them into an apoplectic frenzy of rage each time he chose to push it.
(13) Simple suturing techniques are also described, including the practicability of using padded buttons plus lead fishing sinkers to adjust the tension and secure these sutures on the surface of the neck.
(14) Protein concentration in the tissue buttons was significantly less than that of peritoneal fluid.
(15) McLaren’s Jenson Button completed the top 10, two seconds down as he and the team continue to show signs of improvement, with his team-mate Fernando Alonso 12th and a further half a second off the pace.
(16) We analysed the histological and ultrastructural aspects of corneal buttons obtained by keratoplasty in two patients presenting breaks in Descemet's membrane.
(17) Some fixation problems may have been related to technical errors and use of the earlier one-button technique.
(18) Light microscopic, histochemical, and electron microscopic study of the excised button disclosed characteristic features of macular corneal dystrophy in the donor cornea.
(19) Foreign aid, NHS queues, he pressed hot button prejudices, interrupted other speakers, his quick wit won both laughter and applause.
(20) Few figures exist but anecdotally, online fundraising is being embraced by the majority for whom at least a "donate" button exists, says Cath Lee, chief executive of the Small Charities Coalition .
Servant
Definition:
(n.) One who serves, or does services, voluntarily or on compulsion; a person who is employed by another for menial offices, or for other labor, and is subject to his command; a person who labors or exerts himself for the benefit of another, his master or employer; a subordinate helper.
(n.) One in a state of subjection or bondage.
(n.) A professed lover or suitor; a gallant.
(v. t.) To subject.
Example Sentences:
(1) There was also acknowledgement for two long-term servants to the men’s game who will both leave the Premier League for Major League Soccer this summer.
(2) The Dacre review panel, which included Sir Joseph Pilling, a retired senior civil servant, and the historian Prof Sir David Cannadine, said Britain now had one of the "less liberal" regimes in Europe for access to confidential government papers and that reform was needed to restore some trust between politicians and people.
(3) I am one of those retired civil servants who has not received my pension.
(4) Senior civil servant Simon Case joined the UK’s EU embassy in March to lead work on the new partnership with the bloc, but EU diplomats are unsure how he fits into the picture.
(5) The report was addressed personally to Farr and says it is not to be seen by civil servants, only by him, ministers and their special advisers.
(6) "Public servants did nothing to cause the slump but are being asked to bear an unfair share of the burden.
(7) So sensitive is the case that Hunt, his civil servants and advisers are expected to rebuff any external lobbying – so they can base their judgement only on a analysis of the public interest issues raised by the proposed deal that was completed by media regulator Ofcom today.
(8) A series of reports, written by civil servants and approved by ministers, will be published from the spring of next year until 2014 to examine the impact of everything from directives to the European Court of Justice.
(9) Here, the balance of power is clear: the master is dominating the servant – and not the other way around, as is the case with Google Now and the poor.
(10) Unions warned it could lead to a system where civil servants were loyal to their political masters rather than the taxpayer.
(11) Similar measurements were made in subjects with essential hypertension (77 white and 23 black), and 48 healthy normotensive white civil servants.
(12) You've just joined Twitter – why would you recommend it to other civil servants?
(13) Public servants who loved their useful work find only a few hours waiting on tables.
(14) The package included pay rises for civil servants and security personnel.
(15) "There are idle MPs with no outside interests and there are fantastic public servants that do have them."
(16) Helena writes: Ilias Iliopoulos, a leading figure at ADEDY, Greece's union of civil servants, has just told me: “This is a warning to the government not to pass the measures.Today was a huge success as witnessed by all those in the armed forces and police who also participated because they, too, will be affected by these cuts.
(17) Because for more than a year, he had bent the rules, constantly and persistently, in the face of warnings from his most senior civil servants?
(18) The public servants’ ethos, their attachment to the civic realm, has been systematically trashed as mere unionised self-interest.
(19) It blamed "confrontation maniacs" for "[making their] servants of conservative media let loose a whole string of sophism intended to hatch all sorts of dastardly wicked plots and float misinformation".
(20) The current authors explored this issue in a cohort of 18,274 male civil servants, among whom there were 1,282 cancer deaths over 18-20 years of follow-up.