(n.) Any species of Phalangium; -- also called harvestman
(n.) A British fish; the whiff.
Example Sentences:
(1) This is what President Carter did when he raised the spectre of terminating US military assistance if Israel did not immediately evacuate Lebanon in September 1977.
(2) In his interim Digital Britain report published last month, Carter called for the creation of a "second institution ... with public purpose at its heart" to rival the BBC and mooted the merger of Channel 4 into a wider entity, potentially involving parts of BBC Worldwide, the corporation's commercial arm.
(3) The only fact the Guardian can report is that the case involves the London solicitors Carter-Ruck, who specialise in suing the media for clients, who include individuals or global corporations.
(4) Around the same time Clinton also beefed up President Carter's 1977 Community Reinvestment Act – forcing lenders to take a more sympathetic approach to poor borrowers trying to get on the housing ladder.
(5) Myers, who wrote a review of local radio for Lord Carter's Digital Britain report published in April , said there had been a breakdown in the relationship between commercial stations and the regulator.
(6) Helena Bonham Carter said the protest was a “perfect” response to the film Suffragette .
(7) The tie-breaker isn't quite the buzzer-beater that Jeff Carter converted with tenths of a second left in the first period of Game 3, but it comes with under 30 ticks left in the second period here and has a similar effect.
(8) Dr Peter Carter, chief executive and general secretary of the RCN, said: "Nursing staff are seeing an increasing number of older people with HIV and too often they can see that the system is failing them.
(9) At the Forum Rodgers and Chic will be part of a lineup that includes DJs past and present, from Studio 54 legend Nicky Siano to Chicago house star Derrick Carter.
(10) Top Jamaican at Beijing Games tests positive for drugs in sample reanalysis Read more According to Reuters, traces of the drug are reported to have been found in Carter’s A sample when 454 frozen blood and urine samples from Beijing were retested by the International Olympic Committee last month.
(11) Carter is finishing off a capability review for the Department for International Development.
(12) Raegan Carter, with Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast, has described Jindal’s decision as political grandstanding and called Jindal’s action against clinics illegal.
(13) latex agglutination test (LAT), two indirect hemagglutination tests (IHAT) (Carter-Wallace, USA and Ismunit, Italy), enzyme immunoassay (EIA) and indirect fluorescent antibody test (IFAT).
(14) In discussing the role of the United States in world politics, President Jimmy Carter described the changes in Europe as it prepares for unification into one economic bloc; the deteriorating conditions in the third world; the impact of the recent changes in communist countries; and the persistence of regional wars and civil disputes.
(15) Lorien Carter said her nephew had been “a beautiful young man”.
(16) US President George Bush left open yesterday the possibility of closing the Guantánamo Bay prison, a day after his White House predecessor Jimmy Carter called for it to be shut.
(17) That is the view Professor Carter has been espousing for a long time.
(18) Troy Carter, the force behind Lady Gaga , isn't just a talent manager.
(19) Dr Peter Carter, chief executive and general secretary of the Royal College of Nursing, said: "Alcohol abuse costs the NHS £3bn every year and nursing staff witness first hand the social costs of binge drinking every day.
(20) If you get moments like this, why would you ever call it a day?” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Fly-half Dan Carter says he’s ‘very proud’ to have won back-to-back Rugby World Cups after kicking 19 points in New Zealand’s 34-17 victory over Australia The outside-half Dan Carter , whose 19 points stretched his record in international rugby to 1,598, will not play international rugby again, having signed a contract with Racing Métro.
Darter
Definition:
(n.) One who darts, or who throw darts; that which darts.
(n.) The snakebird, a water bird of the genus Plotus; -- so called because it darts out its long, snakelike neck at its prey. See Snakebird.
(n.) A small fresh-water etheostomoid fish. The group includes numerous genera and species, all of them American. See Etheostomoid.
Example Sentences:
(1) Histochemical and ultrastructural studies were conducted on the metacercarial cyst of the cryptogonimid trematode Bolbogonotylus corkumi from the muscle tissue of fantail darters Etheostoma flabellare.
(2) "It took a lot of bottle for me to keep my courage after I'd done that nine-darter.
(3) There are reports from South Yorkshire of common darter dragonflies on sunny days this month, toads and frogs that would usually be hibernating were seen last week, and there was a rare sighting for so far north of a Cetti's warbler ; and as well as the swallow at Saltholme, RSPB staff there spotted dragonflies in the wildlife garden and pondskaters, which should also be hidden away in sheds and tree cracks for the winter.
(4) The 25-year-old from Stoke, schooled in the game by the 15-time winner Phil Taylor, racked up the first nine-darter in a world final as he lifted his first PDC crown.
(5) Finally, the fallacy of the 'snail darter syndrome', where species may be viewed as too insignificant to worry about, is exposed by consideration of the pharmacological activities of a sea hare (a shell-less marine mollusc) and various leeches.