(n.) One who seeks what another seeks, or claims what another claims; one who competes; a rival.
(n.) An associate; a confederate.
Example Sentences:
(1) Mieko Nagaoka took just under an hour and 16 minutes to finish the race as the sole competitor in the 100 to 104-year-old category at a short course pool in Ehime, western Japan , on Saturday.
(2) That the BBC has probably not been as vulnerable since the 1980s is also true – not least because the enemies of impartiality are more powerful, and the BBC's competitors (maimed after a year's exposure of their own behaviour in the Leveson inquiry ) are keen to wreck it.
(3) It’s likely Xi’s brand of smart authoritarianism will keep not just his party in power but the whole show on the road If all this were to succeed as intended, western liberal democratic capitalism would have a formidable ideological competitor with worldwide appeal, especially in the developing world.
(4) CyIIIa.CAT) expression simultaneously in embryos bearing excess competitor regulatory DNA, we developed, and here describe, a new procedure for generating transgenic sea urchin embryos in which all of the cells in many embryos, and most in others, bear the exogenous DNA.
(5) Analysis of these human competitor proteins with homologous assay systems of viral core proteins and corresponding antisera showed that all, including the normal tissue extracts, appear similar to core proteins of known viruses, especially the RD 114 and woolly monkey species.
(6) The company lagged "far behind its major competitors, with zero reporting of its energy or environmental footprint to any source or stakeholder", the report said.
(7) These differences in hormonal responses to the fight are attributed to the more aggressive behavior displayed by the victorious opponents (winners) over their defeated competitors (losers).
(8) While it has not dominated the enormous mobile phone market in terms of sales – Apple has sold 41m handsets in three years, the same number Nokia sells in a month – it has won much of the more lucrative smartphone market, and drove its competitors to develop their own touchscreen handsets.
(9) Presenting his last set of results after 40 years with Britain 's largest mutual, Marks described 2012 as a "challenging year" but insisted that progress was being made on the Lloyds deal, which would triple the Co-op's branch network and transform the group into a major competitor to the big four banks.
(10) It also investigated the film market, looking at whether BSkyB's closer relationship with News Corp – which also owns the Hollywood studio 20th Century Fox – might enable it to buy up movies from the major US producers in order to prevent them being acquired by Sky's competitors.
(11) If backloading is not approved, this "floor price" could mean that UK businesses pay more for their emissions than continental European competitors.
(12) These results indicate that the use of serially diluted BPDE-DNA of high modification as standard competitor in the ELISA will lead to erroneous results in the measurement of adducts in DNAs modified to a low extent (biological samples).
(13) The region doesn't need more airport capacity; London already has more flights to the world's top business centres than any of its European competitors."
(14) It was clear, too, that they would need the kind of government support available to their competitors in countries such as Germany.
(15) Kinetics, and the effect of competitors as well as of specific inhibitors show this enzyme to be identical to the well-known kidney gamma-glutamyltranspeptidase ((gamma-glutamyl)-peptide:amino-acid gamma-glutamyltransferase, EC 2.3.2.2).
(16) In order to investigate the relationship between the origin-binding domain and the second region, we performed origin-specific DNA binding assays with increasing amounts of calf thymus DNA as competitor.
(17) Roberts said: "We are recognised as a stand out competitor within the IPO queue.
(18) If we can get the Bank of England to fund the banking system, why don’t we get them to build us a proper broadband system as modern and efficient as you’ve got in many of our competitors,” Livingstone said.
(19) In September it set up it's own union – the Social Workers Union – but denied it was a competitor to other trade unions.
(20) Studies in several types of animal models, especially cholesterol-fed rabbits, have shown that calcium competitors, calcium chelators, anticalcifying agents, and calcium channel blockers can reduce the accumulation of atherogenic lesion components and thus apparently decrease the progression of lesions.
Entrant
Definition:
(n.) One who enters; a beginner.
(n.) An applicant for admission.
Example Sentences:
(1) prevented the reinduction of re-entrant ventricular tachyarrhythmias using programmed pacing techniques.
(2) This re-entrant circuit was identical to that induced in the model created by the incision method.
(3) The animals were fitted with ileo-caecal re-entrant cannulas.
(4) Interestingly, a number of biochemical components of fluids which are not usually assayed by conventional biochemical methods are readily detected by NMR spectroscopy which is clearly a new competitive entrant among the techniques used in clinical biology.
(5) While they have been the majority of entrants to medical school for over two decades, they make up only 38% of GP partners, 31% of hospital consultants, and 11% of consultant surgeons.
(6) A spokeswoman for Marks & Spencer said that while the firm had not seen a significant increase in applications this year for its management trainee scheme, which is open to entrants with two A-levels, competition remained intense; there are up to 3,000 applicants for just 30 places.
(7) The educational background of mature-age entrants prior to admission includes 44.6% with degrees in health-science areas and 31.4% with degrees in non-health areas.
(8) Re-entrant beats with regular extrasystolic grouping were seen in 44- of dogs 3--7 days following ligation of the anterior descending coronary artery.
(9) To further test the hypothesis that these curves in fact reflect dual A-V nodal pathways, a ventricular extrastimulus (VS) was coupled either to A2 at a fixed A1-A2 interval which reliably produced an A-V nodal re-entrant atrial echo (E) with a constant A2-E interval in two patients, or to QRS complex (V) during sustained PSVT with a constant E-E interval in one patient.
(10) There was a decision to preference a new entrant into the WA political field, an Australian Aboriginal, who happens to be a member of the National Party, and to symbolically, I suppose, display him in the preference list … Where possible, where we see shining stars in individual parties, like Scott, or this guy from the Nats, we should individually preference them higher.
(11) Two experiments of Latin square design were made, each with four Friesian bull calves fitted with re-entrant duodenal and ileal cannulas at 4-10 d of age.
(12) The examples are given to help elucidate the understanding of mechanisms involved in re-entrant tachycardias and to localize the site of the re-entry circuit.
(13) Between 1988 and 1989, 25% of 870 community-recruited IDU were seropositive, compared with 13% of 671 entrants to drug-treatment programs.
(14) The National Institute of Mental Health, Public Health Service (PHS), was responsible for mental health screening, evaluation, and treatment of the Cuban Entrants.
(15) Most difficulty in the maintenance of the cannulae in the calves was encountered when the calves were weaned from milk, due to repeated blockages of digesta in the elbows connecting the re-entrant system.
(16) "Continual pressure on labour markets from a steady stream of new entrants due to population growth has meant that even solid GDP growth rates have not been sufficient to make measurable impacts."
(17) We conclude that a sizeable pool of new school entrants (mean age 5 years) without antibody to pertussis is accumulating at a time when pertussis still persists.
(18) event at the House of Commons was designed to attract new entrants).
(19) These differences are explicable in terms of the relative effects of the drugs on refractoriness and conduction times in the re-entrant circuit.
(20) Entrants have to upload six photos or a 90-second video and answer the question: "How would £10,000 help you enhance your potential?"