(n.) One who stands before a shop door to invite people to buy.
(n.) One who as has charge of the work of a companionship.
Example Sentences:
(1) Half of the lesioned and half of the control animals were trained with a short trace interval between presentations of clicker and shock, and half with a long trace.
(2) For a third group (SB), the tone followed shock termination, whereas the clicker was randomly related to shocks.
(3) After recovery from surgery, lesioned rats and controls were exposed to pairings of an auditory (clicker) conditioned stimulus and (foot shock) unconditioned stimulus in a distinctive environment.
(4) Forecaster Carol Kirkwood accidentally "clicked her clicker" twice while on-screen about 7.30am, resulting in the temperature chart showing "99 degrees" for six cities identified just as "Town name".
(5) For another group of dogs (SF), a clicker signaled the shocks, whereas the tone was randomly related to shocks.
(6) They planted bait boxes filled with feed stations of ContraPest and then stood nearby, counting the rats that came in and out with clickers in order to track how many rats were taking the bait.
(7) For a fourth group (TRC), both the clicker and the tone were randomly related to shocks.
(8) In addition, embedded in the two intrusion periods of each session, there occurred 8 presentations of a 'punctate' conditioned stimulus (CS) (a 15-s clicker), and 8 presentations of a 0.5-s footshock.
(9) One group of dogs (CON) received concurrent conditioning with a clicker signaling shocks and with a tone following shocks.
(10) (((Harry Enten))) (@ForecasterEnten) Why this stuff is meaningless... Also, why does any supporter care if you win an unscientific clicker (aka poll)?
(11) Sham-operated and NA-depleted rats were exposed to pairings of an auditory (clicker) CS and (footshock) US in a distinctive environment.
Companionship
Definition:
(n.) Fellowship; association; the act or fact of keeping company with any one.
Example Sentences:
(1) Our studies investigated whether social companionship, as a potentially positive psychological intervention, would increase lymphocyte proliferation and natural killer cell activity in the aged nonhuman primate.
(2) Then you happen on a large notice board festooned with flyers and cards, many offering help, companionship and solidarity to those who have been deemed surplus to the requirements of consumerism.
(3) But fear not - if you'd like to find companionship or love, sign up here to view profiles of the kind of erudite, sociable and friendly folk who would never normally dream of going out with you.
(4) I’ve recently gained the companionship of a gorgeous Chihuahua and she’s a great source of fun and gives me an excuse to walk around the gorgeous countryside.
(5) My wife is not a lesbian, but we thought we could at least live a life of companionship and mutual support.
(6) Nothing happened sexually between us, but it was a way of having companionship, of being gay without having sex."
(7) Considered together, the results of these studies suggest that companionship plays a more important and more varied role in sustaining emotional well-being than previous studies have acknowledged.
(8) Spencer Ackerman: ‘Eating with animal friends is heavenly’ Spencer Ackerman After 12 years of stalwart companionship, my dog Kingsley died on 21 March.
(9) Men pass the time drinking and seeking female companionship and sex, either as long-term sexual partners, casual short-term partners, or cash clients.
(10) This was not the ideal time to be providing Doug with the intellectual companionship he seemed to crave."
(11) Stifled by the restrictions of her life in a small, provincial village, she longs for adventure and companionship.
(12) A quick graze of the internet will provide fan theories to feed any hunches you’ve long felt about the happy-go-lucky companionship of Timon and Pumbaa, and their effective adoption of baby Simba, in The Lion King – or indeed the foppish villainy of the same film’s Scar, an alpha lion who has never found a mate in the pride.
(13) Study 5 used an experimental design to test the hypothesis that a deficit of companionship elicits more negative reactions from others than does a deficit of social support.
(14) Just as important, they provided companionship for him.
(15) Stereomicroscopic observations determined that the three vessel types are so intricately intermingled that companionship in distribution does not exist.
(16) Luther was my most obvious expression of this.” Osborne quoted by WJ Weatherby “The nag of disquiet and all the inescapable forebodings with which I had been born were so rooted that they couldn’t be dismissed by the pleasure, the luxuries, the companionships and liberations that I felt I should have been enjoying at this point in my life.” Osborne on life in the early 1960s in Almost a Gentleman.
(17) Many have relied on their own social networks to find housing, work and companionship.
(18) There's an important distinction there; it was not that they found that users of Facebook were better supported emotionally, but that they reported that they felt they were, and in two key categories of emotional support and companionship.
(19) Another disused railway line near Kenilworth was now an urban “Greenway”: the companionship of cyclists and dog‑walkers was welcome after my discomfort on the deserted, brambled-choked footpaths of rural England.
(20) The organisation provides companionship, skills and constructive, meaningful activity for people with mental health problems.