(n.) A tool of which the hemp for lines and twines, used by sailmakers, is finished.
Example Sentences:
(1) A clearer understanding of these relationships and their application to clinical management await further study.
(2) As Russian companies Polymetal, Polyus Gold and Evraz race to join Eurasian Natural Resources as FTSE100 companies, despite their murky practices, because of London's incredibly lax listing requirements, one future scenario is becoming clearer.
(3) However, while the precise nature of the city’s dietary problems is hard to pin down, the picture regarding physical activity is much clearer.
(4) The rationale for the use of exercise as part of the treatment program in type II diabetes is much clearer and regular exercise may be prescribed as an adjunct to caloric restriction for weight reduction and as a means of improving insulin sensitivity in the obese, insulin-resistant individual.
(5) The distinction between this sarcoma and the Paget bone was clearer on CT than on MR.
(6) Out of the seabird whoops and thrashing drumming of the intro to Endangered Species come guitar-sax exchanges that sound like Prime Time’s seething fusion soundscapes made illuminatingly clearer.
(7) Parties seek a sharper definition and a clearer purpose: voters rightly demand a reason to rule beyond Cameron’s laconic “because I thought I’d be good at it”.
(8) The basic question about the future of media perhaps becomes clearer and can more succinctly be asked: will Facebook be earning more from its multitude of users in 10 years – when there are no more users to be had – or will Comcast?
(9) But the vulnerability of payday loan clients cries out for something swifter and clearer.
(10) In experimental comparisons using 4 MV, 6 MV, and 25 MV photon beams, the new Peter MacCallum Cancer Institute (PMCI) system produced clearer images, about X2 higher in contrast yet lower in relative noise levels, than did the conventional commercially-available systems which use x-ray film between heavy-metal screens.
(11) The author cautions against equating hypnotizability scores with dissociative capacity and advocates a clearer elaboration of the concept of dissociation.
(12) The combined analysis allows much clearer discrimination between alternative dose-time-response models.
(13) These findings have relevance in the clearer understanding of the killer cell potential of grafted human marrow, as well as the bone marrow sequestration of functionally capable lymphocyte subpopulations in disease states and during chemotherapy.
(14) In the UK, August retail sales figures should give a clearer picture of the impact the Olympics had on retail sales; while eurozone PMIs will give an indication of how the economy has fared in September.
(15) Risk indicators had to be made clearer to teachers, who should all be trained to look out for warning signs, she said.
(16) What the results do contain is further and clearer guidance and commentary.
(17) A lot more work needs to be done to bring employers into the classroom so there is a clearer understanding of the skills needed in the market.
(18) Xi's plans for the economy may become clearer at an important party plenary meeting in November.
(19) These findings were taken to indicate that a significant fraction of ethanol administered perorally was metabolized during absorption before reaching the systemic circulation and that this FPM of ethanol became clearer in smaller ethanol doses.
(20) But Hinkley would be a much clearer vote of confidence by France and its Chinese partners and it should encourage other foreign nuclear companies such as Toshiba of Japan to press ahead with their own reactor plans.
Sailmaker
Definition:
(n.) One whose occupation is to make or repair sails.