(n.) That which affords convenience, advantage, or profit, especially in commerce, including everything movable that is bought and sold (except animals), -- goods, wares, merchandise, produce of land and manufactures, etc.
(n.) A parcel or quantity of goods.
Example Sentences:
(1) 1: Good news It's been a scarce commodity throughout the Osborne chancellorship, but he will have a decent amount of it to dish round the chamber – notably lower inflation and higher growth than was being forecast a short while ago.
(2) Andreas Missbach, managing director of Berne Declaration, an NGO in Switzerland where the commodities giant is based, said Glencore stood out against others in the sector.
(3) The oil price tumbled by as much as $3.25 a barrel on Tuesday after the world's biggest commodity trader called the top of the market for crude and a range of other commodities – at least for the time being.
(4) They dealt in dozens of different commodities – from major grains such as wheat and sorghum to specialised food aid products such as corn-soy blend.
(5) The financial crash caused by treating housing as a speculative commodity made things worse, but the truth is that the seeds of the crisis have been sown over many years.
(6) The current floods in Australia have the potential to affect prices for commodities such as sugar and cane growers are warning of production problems for up to three years.
(7) Others are new: changing family compositions because of HIV, increasing frequency of droughts and rapid fluctuations in international commodity prices.
(8) These organisms, typically bacteria or algae, are used to produce valuable commodities such as flavorings and oils.
(9) Part of the new wealth has been driven by the rise in commodity prices.
(10) This technique was used to bring misdirected urinations in a severely retarded male under rapid stimulus control of a floating target in the commode.
(11) We should stop the importation of these birds which are sold as commodities and endure lives of boredom in cages.
(12) The irony of her image being exchanged in return for commodities in the future,” she said, “seems to recall the way that actual slaves’ bodies were serving as currencies of exchange.” Larson arrived at a different conclusion about the honor.
(13) Right now, policymakers will probably be more concerned by stalling eurozone growth than a headline inflation figure dragged down by commodity prices.
(14) Often a number of aids such as standing table, adapted chairs, commode etc., is required to meet basic needs.
(15) Tate & Lyle, which no longer produces the sugar that made it a household name, is the latest company to be affected by falling commodity prices.
(16) "When you transform a food into a commodity, there's inevitable breakdown in social relations and high environmental cost," as Tanya Kerssen, an analyst for Oakland-based Food First told Time last year.
(17) The Financial Services Authority fined the bank £59.9m, while in the US the department of justice and the Commodities Futures Trading Commission also imposed fines, some £230m combined.
(18) Solitude becomes a way of life and social interaction a scarce commodity for many chronic schizophrenics who are in institutional settings.
(19) And if you want to talk about messages, what kind of message does it send to stockpile ivory like any other valuable commodity?
(20) The commodities supercycle is dead in the water … It’s already sent some big African sub-Saharan economies into a tailspin,” said Aly Khan Satchu, an independent trader in Nairobi.
Stopper
Definition:
(n.) One who stops, closes, shuts, or hinders; that which stops or obstructs; that which closes or fills a vent or hole in a vessel.
(n.) A short piece of rope having a knot at one or both ends, with a lanyard under the knot, -- used to secure something.
(n.) A name to several trees of the genus Eugenia, found in Florida and the West Indies; as, the red stopper. See Eugenia.
(v. t.) To close or secure with a stopper.
Example Sentences:
(1) On the basis of genetic, phenotypic and physiological criteria, these mutants are divided into four groups: 1) the cytochrome aa3 and b deficient "poky" variants that are defective in mitochondrial ribosomes assembly, 2) the cytochrome aa3 deficient mutants, [mi-3] and [exn-5], that appear to have genetic lesions affecting a component of a regulatory system controlling cytochrome aa3 synthesis, 3) the cytochrome aa3 and b deficient "stopper" mutants with physiological lesions that probably affect mitochondrial protein synthesis, and 4) cni-3, a mutant that is constitutive for an inducible mitochondrial cyanide-insensitive oxidase in spite of having a normal cytochrome mediated electron-transport system.
(2) The cannulation system consists of an injection port 'In Stoppers' as a flow swivel, connected to an injection needle, which is inserted into a polyethylene tube protected by a steel spiral.
(3) The system prevents stoppers from being dislodged by gas-producing anaerobes and keeps the stoppers sterile so that the closed system of transfer can be conveniently utilized.
(4) "I am not sure there was any single policy show-stopper, but they just wanted to go in with the Conservatives in the end.
(5) I’ve always thought, if you like eating it, you should learn to make it, so that you can eat it more often.” The season closes on Wednesday, with a final show-stopper challenge, and the return of all the candidates who have died trying.
(6) Mixed cultures of epithelial cells and fibroblasts, derived from primary cultures of the skin of embryo rats, grown always in rubber-stoppered T-60 flasks, first yielded a transplantable tumor from the 52nd passage, at the end of 13 months of frequently repeated subculture.
(7) Rubber stoppers adsorb (or dissolve) HCN when in contact with this gas.
(8) Rather, the product moisture content increases with time and reaches an apparent equilibrium value characteristic of the product, amount of product, and stopper treatment method ("SV1" much greater than "U" greater than "SV1").
(9) At 72 hr, stoppered Erlenmeyer flasks, which originally contained 1% ethanol, still had a concentration of 0.85%.
(10) The drinking tube is fitted to a rubber stopper at the top of a 250 ml soft polyethylene bottle.
(11) The capacity of stoppers to bind Chinosol physically is expressed quantitatively by a partition coefficient.
(12) The number of particles released from a stopper during sterilization varies considerably between different stoppers and even between different batches of the same stopper.
(13) A comparison of the two groups suggests that the average "spacer" among new acceptors is 24 years old and has 2.6 living children, of whom the youngest is 12.0 months, while the average "stopper" is 34 years old and has 6.2 living children, of whom the youngest is 25.9 months.
(14) The cause of there abnormal values was investigated, and significant interference was observed when blood samples were drawn using evacuated glass tubes sealed with butyl rubber stoppers.
(15) The toxic material originated from zinc compounds that were present in the rubber stopper and plunger of the container and that subsequently leached into the formulation.
(16) Not even when I put a stopper in it and that bottle lasts well over a month.
(17) An extensive bacteriological screening of the staff was negative, but in the ward environment, F. meningosepticum was found around sinks, on rubber stoppers for milk bottles and on "cleaned" teats.
(18) Bill Hamid, Nick Rimando, Adam Kwarasey, Sean Johnson, David Ousted among others are all exceptional shot-stoppers and could certainly command a place at a top European team if they so desired.
(19) Deschamps’ problems lie elsewhere, namely in a back four which – with Kurt Zouma, Raphaël Varane and Jérémy Mathieu injured and Mamadou Sakho not picked because of his initial doping suspension – will miss the presence of a true stopper to play alongside Laurent Koscielny in central defence.
(20) In Expt I, Co2+ concentration increased after drinking, and remained elevated until the stopper was removed.