(n.) One who, or that which, closes; specifically, a boot closer. See under Boot.
(n.) A finisher; that which finishes or terminates.
(n.) The last stone in a horizontal course, if of a less size than the others, or a piece of brick finishing a course.
Example Sentences:
(1) Brown's model, which goes far further than those from any other senior Labour figure, and the modest new income tax powers for Holyrood devised when he was prime minister, edge the party much closer to the quasi-federal plans championed by the Liberal Democrats.
(2) Interaction of viable macrophages with cationic particles at 37 degrees C resulted in their "internalization" within vesicles and coated pits and a closer apposition between many segments of plasmalemma than with neutral or anionic substances.
(3) Greater knowledge about these disorders and closer working relationships with mental health specialists should lead to decreased morbidity and mortality.
(4) Stool weights, defecation frequencies, and transit times in this group are much closer to those of westernized whites than to rural blacks.
(5) We found that the closer location of Mg2+ to the beta-phosphoryl group than to the alpha- or gamma-phosphoryl group was effective in weakening the P-O bond at which the cleavage of ATP catalyzed by most enzymes takes place.
(6) The thickness of the media in the groups behaves like the number of nuclei: in hypertension with the highest values, there is no significant decrease as far as the 8th cross-section, while in the coronary sclerosis and third decade groups the values come closer together after the 6th cross-section.
(7) Since 1987 consultation-liaison (C-L) psychiatrists in Europe have decided to develop a closer collaboration to stimulate the development of the C-L field.
(8) Clare Gills, an American journalist and friend of Foley, wrote in 2013: “He is always striving to get to the next place, to get closer to what is really happening, and to understand what moves the people he’s speaking with.
(9) Our results indicate that in recipients of bioprosthetic valves, careful follow-up with closer surveillance of valve and cardiac function and earlier prosthetic replacement might contribute to reducing the risk of reoperation.
(10) The expansion comes hot on the heels of another year of stellar growth in which Primark edged closer to overtaking high street stalwart M&S in sales and profits.
(11) Institutional legitimacy arises from closer links between citizens.
(12) The numbers in the holey tube regenerate are statistically different from normal but they are closer to normal than after similar regeneration in a regular silicone tube.
(13) "We try to get closer to the people, we try to get lower down the command structures and we try to be more embedded than sometimes the Americans appear to do," the defence secretary said.
(14) Recommendations are made suggesting closer scrutiny of this region of the spine.
(15) For those biochemical experiments in which a closer link to 'physiological relevance' was desired, it was necessary to develop the technology to isolate large numbers of a single identifiable kidney cell type.
(16) He was telling me: ‘Keep doing what you’re doing, you’re winning this clearly.’ But the rounds were much closer than he was seeing them.
(17) They also made it clear that they would seek to use the award to bring their two countries closer together and said they would invite their prime ministers, Nawaz Sharif of Pakistan and Narendra Modi of India, to the award ceremony in Oslo in December.
(18) After being opposed for so many years, the two most dominant institutions on the island are now on trajectories that draw them closer.
(19) And if the fathers of Europe, Jean Monnet and Robert Schuman , were alive today, they would see that their aim, to get Europe to move to a proper union through a series of crises, has moved a step closer.
(20) One speaker at an international conference in Bodrum this week asked what would have happened if Turkey had been held closer by the EU?
Slider
Definition:
(a.) See Slidder.
(n.) One who, or that which, slides; especially, a sliding part of an instrument or machine.
(n.) The red-bellied terrapin (Pseudemys rugosa).
Example Sentences:
(1) To address whether temperature and estrogen are biologically equivalent, two experiments were conducted with the red-eared slider turtle, Trachemys scripta.
(2) Will Middlebrooks walks the plank, waving at a slider inside to become K-X.
(3) The righty deals to Descalso and strikes him out on six pitches - a slider.
(4) Pagan can't check his swing on a slider out of the zone, 0-1.
(5) 5.53pm GMT Just seven more sliders to slide in the men’s singles luge.
(6) Cell Slider Photograph: CRUK Every two minutes someone in the UK is diagnosed with cancer.
(7) Then Martinez is hit by a slider that barely grazes V-Mart putting him at first with two outs.
(8) Three patients (14%) showed evidence of fixator binding, and another four (18%) had less than predicted slider excursions.
(9) The guests order from the bar menu – beef sliders for £21, £770 for a 50g portion of beluga caviar.
(10) Martinez throws a backdoor slider that goes to the very very back of Victorino!
(11) Jackson throws a nastier slider right in the dirt that makes Freese looks foolish.
(12) 1.56am BST Dodgers 0 - Cardinals 0, bottom of 1st Carlos Beltran is next, and he looks at strike three for the second out - a slider away.
(13) These are respectively a four jack system, a serrated wedge system, a spherical alignment system and a serrated slider.
(14) Jackson fouls off a slider that he probably would want back.
(15) But a large chunk of the £3.4m poured into the sport over four years goes on transporting the team around the world and technology to video the various tracks, which is then analysed and learned off by heart by the sliders.
(16) He's one of those CEOs who believes in rewarding his staff, who get £6.90 an hour (which buys you 30 Chicken Zingy Sliders and a tub of Reduced Fat Coleslaw), and seem to stay with the firm for years, which must mean something.
(17) The Rockies were completely stymied by the reigning National League Cy Young Award winner, who had all of his pitches working on Wednesday – fastball, curveball, change up and a slider, one that finished the Rockies for the night and set off a celebration.
(18) The femoral eyelet was screwed into bone and the tibial eyelet was attached to a force-transducer, which was positioned and locked on a tibial slider track to record forces in the ligament as the tibia was externally loaded.
(19) He finished off the big swinging team from Colorado with ease, Corey Dickerson no match for his final pitch, a slider he swung through for strike three.
(20) Coke throws a slider, but it's out of the zone and Belt didn't offer.