(n.) One who comes, or who has come; one who has arrived, and is present.
Example Sentences:
(1) This is the scrubber that Comer paid for, Lackner conceived and Wright built.
(2) His greatest passion on the trek up, apart from finding a 3G signal and playing rap music from a speaker on the back of his pack, was playing Tigers and Goats, a local version of chess, taking on all-comers – climbers, Sherpas, trekkers, random elderly porters passing through the lodges.
(3) Reservations are necessary during high season: they welcome everyone, but late comers can end up sleeping on the floor.
(4) Aortic intimal rhythmic structures were significantly more frequently detected in the aborigines than in those born in the North and new comers.
(5) Late comers were more likely to report a number of delaying factors or to have financial worries.
(6) When another corner, at the other end, was curled in by Mónica Ocampo it eluded all-comers before grazing the bar.
(7) Broecker then introduced the pair to his great friend, the late mail-order clothing tycoon Gary Comer.
(8) Thursday’s game between USA and Germany, for example, will be a clash of a legitimate soccer dynasty versus a legitimate up-and-comer.
(9) Even though it spent millions designing Android, Google made the software available to all comers at no charge.
(10) In the office, wedged between the two main studios, I sit down with three of Oguns' up and comers.
(11) In those untreated "new-comers" therapeutical effect comes earlier than in cases of premedication.
(12) So did Attlee.” Blunkett did the rounds: the combative former education and employment secretary, the take-on-all-comers home secretary, says he has done his time.
(13) We can talk about the fact that a ban in the US or UK wouldn’t stop the “bad guys” from getting perfect crypto from one of the nations that would be able to profit (while US and UK business suffered) by selling these useful tools to all comers.
(14) Retrospective and prospective studies of a total sample of 232 attenders at groups of Gamblers Anonymous suggest that total abstinence from gambling was maintained by 8% of all comers at one year from first attendance and by 7% at two years.
(15) The contest, which is open to all comers, takes place in one of the flooded quarries every September.
(16) Don’t take all the huff and puff of the new comer in the US seriously,” Khamenei said, according to the transcript of his speech on his official website.
(17) Leicester did save some face with their second-half performance, featuring a splendid goal from the substitute Demarai Gray, but they barely looked recognisable from the side that were taking on all-comers not so long ago and it was a jarring reflection of their deterioration that Jamie Vardy and Riyad Mahrez, the two players who shared last season’s individual awards, were substituted at half-time.
(18) As Amartya Sen points out in his book The Argumentative Indian, there is a long, deep tradition in the country's discourse, of encouraging argument from all comers.
(19) Among the gladiators is charismatic up'n'comer Grado, star of a recent Vice documentary about the UK wrestling scene.
(20) Oddly, the deputy prime minister, Nick Clegg , so effective every week in taking on all comers in his LBC phone-in programme Call Clegg, took two questions from supporters and only one from the irritated lobby correspondents .
Omer
Definition:
(n.) A Hebrew measure, the tenth of an ephah. See Ephah.
Example Sentences:
(1) It made perfect sense to use to spread those kinds of features and hardware around the wrist instead of throwing them all into one thick lump under the screen on top of your wrist,” said Omer El Fakir, industrial designer of Blocks.
(2) They chose only to lift the subsidies, leaving other major items untouched – for example, the majority of the budget is still directed to the war,” said Omer al-Digair, chairman of the Sudanese Congress Party.
(3) Groups of children from 5 different places of residency were tested: (1) urban children from the city of Beer-Sheva; (2) children from Omer, a suburb of the city; (3) children from rural communes ("kibbutz"); (4) children from small agricultural settlements ("moshav"); and (5) seminomadic bedouin children.
(4) Photograph: David Levene for the Guardian Leigh Daynes, executive director of Doctors of the World UK, said he had encountered 10-year-old Syrian boys living in a ditch at the edge of a farmer’s field outside Saint Omer.
(5) The uncle of the Deghayes boys, Omer, was also linked to LIFG, an outlawed group that the US state department says has links with al-Qaida.
(6) The Authors describe history, etiopatogenesis, clinic, therapy of omeral epicondilitis, very frequent affection.
(7) Omer el-Hamdoon, president of the Muslim Association of Britain, said: “My reaction to the cartoon is disgust, but tending more to annoyance as well because I feel that what’s happening here is not that different from what we witnessed back in 2005 with the Danish cartoons when media outlets went into a cycle of just publishing the cartoons just to show defiance.
(8) At about that time, Beattyville’s police chief, Omer Noe, and the Lee County sheriff, Johnny Mann, were jailed for taking bribes to protect drug smugglers.
(9) How Twitter reacted to Nadiya's Great British Bake Off victory Read more Her victory “demonstrated the inclusivity of British Muslims in society”, according to Dr Omer El-Hamdoon, president of the Muslim Association of Britain.
(10) The flames went all the way up to the sky,” said Omer Yilmaz, who works as a cleaner at the nearby Dolmabahce mosque, directly across the road from the stadium.
(11) Another 12 people were killed in an ambush involving a roadside bomb in Sangin district in Helmand province, also in the south, on Friday evening, said Omer Zwak, a spokesman for the provincial governor.
(12) Mehreen Omer (@mehreen_omer) @MohammadFarooq_ The current Education Spend to GDP ratio in #Pakistan is hardly 2%, which is one of the lowest in the world!
(13) "We do not have any formal information," spokesman Waheed Omer told the Guardian today.
(14) Zlatan Ibrahimovic says PSG owners will ‘hunt down Champions League’ Read more And in ‘throw enough of it at the wall’ news, United are also set to decimate Bayer Leverkusen by swooping for the defender Omer Toprak , the midfielder Hakan Calhanoglu and the striker Karim Bellarabi .
(15) Omer Simjee, Employment partner at Irwin Mitchell said: “This is a significant ruling and although being ‘fat’ is not enough in itself to be considered disabled, it could if it restricts an individual’s ability to actively and fully engage in their work.
(16) Doa’a Kutbi Omer, public health officer, International Medical Corps, Attouahi, Aden “Snipers had already taken up positions in the neighbourhood and the area was besieged.
(17) Three policemen were killed and four badly wounded in a 20 minute firefight, according to Omer Zwak, a spokesman for the provincial governor.
(18) We put all of the bodies in pickups and brought them to Omer Ben Al-Khattab mosque in Jdaidet Artouz.
(19) Omer would be detained at Guantánamo Bay from 2002-2007 and interrogated over “general-to-specific information on LIFG personalities and activities” within the UK.
(20) The Rockets had been planning to make a free-agency push, clearling up the cap space beforehand by sending Jeremy Lin to the Lakers and shipping off backup center Omer Asik to the New Orleans Pelicans.