(n.) An artificer who works in timber; a framer and builder of houses, ships, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) At the time, with a regular supply of British immigrants arriving in large numbers in Australia, Biggs was able to blend in well as "Terry Cook", a carpenter, so well in fact that his wife, Charmian, was able to join him with his three sons.
(2) A comparison of different age groups of employees in two occupations reveals that carpenters in the age group 30-40 years have more than ten times as many musculoskeletal disorders in their arms and hands as office workers in the same age group.
(3) The growth factor produces an initial, rapid increase in the level of inositol 1,4,5-trisphosphate (Ins-1,4,5-P3) due to hydrolysis of phosphatidyl-inositol-4,5-bisphosphate (Wahl, M., Sweatt, J. D., and Carpenter, G. (1987) Biochem.
(4) Emphasis has been placed on (1) the time of appearance and disappearance of the synaptonemal complex (SC) and the changes in its dimensions that accompany a cell's progression through pachytene, and (2) the appearance, disappearance, number and chromosomal locations of recombination nodules (Carpenter 1975b).
(5) Updated at 3.53am GMT 3.50am GMT Red Sox 4 - Cardinals 2, bottom of the 9th Matt Carpenter takes a ball and a called strike.
(6) From electricians and carpenters, everyone should be able to take card and make money,” said de Geer.
(7) Elevated risks for stomach cancer among carpenters and machinists may reflect exposure to dusts, abrasives, and cutting oils.
(8) Odds-ratios associated with cabinetmakers (OR = 11.2, 95% CI = 2.7-45.9)) and carpenters and joiners (OR = 5.8, 95% CI = 1.8-18.6) were also significantly elevated for the other-histologic-types category.
(9) Imhotep’s abilities appear to have been extraordinary: other records show he was a doctor and high priest, as well as the king’s chief carpenter, head sculptor, and second-in-command.
(10) It was in 1963, when he was working as a carpenter in Redhill, Surrey, and short of money after the birth of his second son, that he decided to call Bruce Reynolds, whom he had first met in prison, to ask if he could borrow some money.
(11) The 23-acre Carpenters estate requires urgent redevelopment.
(12) Carpenters showed increased risks for lip cancer (odds ratio, 2.28; 95% confidence interval, 1.23 to 4.14) and lung cancer (odds ratio, 1.27; 95% confidence interval, 1.05 to 1.54).
(13) Although genetic factors underlie most types of human obesity, there are several dymorphic forms of obesity including the Prader-Willy syndrome, Cohen's syndrome, Carpenter's syndrome, Ahlstrom's syndrome and the Bardet-Biedel syndrome.
(14) In prognostic validity, the Strauss-Carpenter scale was superior to all of the other scales investigated.
(15) The Strauss-Carpenter Outcome Scale (frequency of social contacts, employment duration, symptomatology, and duration of rehospitalization) and the Clinical Global Impressions were used to assess outcome.
(16) Clippard gets ahead of him 0-2, throws a high fastball which Carpenter refuses to chase and then takes two more balls to the collective groan of Nationals Park.
(17) As well as sparking a novel, Merrill's caress further initiated Forster into the comradely haven of his and Carpenter's rural domesticity: a Derbyshire homestead, safe from public scrutiny.
(18) 4.10am BST Cardinals 4 - Dodgers 2, top of 9th Marmol is back in the top of the ninth, and he's quickly behind 3-0 to Matt Carpenter.
(19) He thought the blue on Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters was "particularly nice", but the green for Franny and Zooey was "too metallic".
(20) Utah governor Gary Herbert "has said throughout this process that his responsibility is to follow the law", spokesman Marty Carpenter said.
Chisel
Definition:
(n.) A tool with a cutting edge on one end of a metal blade, used in dressing, shaping, or working in timber, stone, metal, etc.; -- usually driven by a mallet or hammer.
(v. t.) To cut, pare, gouge, or engrave with a chisel; as, to chisel a block of marble into a statue.
(v. t.) To cut close, as in a bargain; to cheat.
Example Sentences:
(1) When the method proposed by Trela (1975) is applied, thin layers of the petrous crest are chiselled out until the common crus of the superior and posterior semi-circular becomes apparent.
(2) A new system, which includes cannulated chisels and a cannulated one-piece plate that can be inserted over a guide wire, is suggested.
(3) Our technique of using autogenous bone, cut with a thin chisel which curls to the shape of the ear canal, will be presented and illustrated.
(4) Nevertheless it is still far from clear, perhaps even to May herself, what will emerge once she has finished with her hammer and chisel.
(5) A chisel edged, stainless steel ring was cemented to the butt end of a dentin cylinder.
(6) Ultrasonic chisels are used clinically to remove composite-retained bridges from one or both abutment teeth.
(7) The super-sized Alabaman certainly looks the part: 228lbs of chiseled musculature and fast-twitch fibers that wouldn’t be out of place in an NFL team’s defensive backfield.
(8) We obtained good results in preventing these complications by a fixation at the hollow which is made by chiseling the frontal bone and by fibrous tissue which grows through the small holes of the implant tail.
(9) They scalped them to remove the hair, they removed the eyeballs and ears, they knocked off the faces, then removed the jaws and chiseled away the edges to make the rims nice and even.
(10) "The decision to return the marbles to the place where they were chiselled, next to those sculptures from which they were so illegally and violently ripped apart."
(11) The surgical blade, and especially the reciprocating motor-driven diamond tip eliminated overhangs better than the chisel.
(12) Back in the freezer, I put down the two-inch chisel and pick up a one-inch.
(13) He is a boat-rocking libertarian with a chisel-jawed faith in a small state and the power of the little man transmitted through the internet.
(14) Approximately half routinely use a chisel as opposed to a bur for bone removal.
(15) The first chink of light has been spotted between the top three and the chasing pack, a three-point gap chiselled out between Mourinho's team and fourth-placed Everton to suggest a massed scramble towards the summit is thinning out.
(16) Chisel in hand, he walked slowly around the base of his giant sculpture, carefully inspecting the detail on the eagle crest in front, and the name inscribed on the back – John Garang de Mabior.
(17) Vibration isolating gloves were tested and resulted in an additional reduction in vibration of up to 63% when used with the chisel sleeve.
(18) Displacement amplitude measurements at the tip of the two designs available showed that the curved chisel was twice as powerful as the straight chisel.
(19) Madrid kept their cool in the face of the storm and, gradually, they chiselled out a foothold.
(20) It showed that substantially higher vibration levels are produced at the chisel of a chipping hammer than at its handle.