(n.) One who makes barrels, hogsheads, casks, etc.
(v. t.) To do the work of a cooper upon; as, to cooper a cask or barrel.
(n.) Work done by a cooper in making or repairing barrels, casks, etc.; the business of a cooper.
Example Sentences:
(1) Results indicated a .85 probability that Directive Guidance would be followed by Cooperation; a .67 probability that Permissiveness would lead to Noncooperation; and a .97 likelihood that Coerciveness would lead to either Noncooperation or Resistance.
(2) Jonker kept sticking his nose in the corner and not really cooperating, but then came a moment of stillness.
(3) Binding data for both ligands to the enzyme yielded nonlinear Scatchard plots that analyze in terms of four negatively cooperative binding sites per enzyme tetramer.
(4) Unusually high cooperativity, specificity, and multiplicity in the protein kinase C-phospholipid interaction are demonstrated by examining the lipid dependence of enzymatic activity.
(5) Cooper, who was briefly a social worker in Los Angeles, also suggests working hard to build a rapport with colleagues in hotdesking situations.
(6) In cooperation with scientists in India and Nigeria, the potential yield of protein-deficient foods.
(7) It is understood that Cooper rejected pressure from senior Labour figures last week for both her and Liz Kendall to drop out and leave the way clear for Burnham to contest Corbyn alone.
(8) Starting from the hypothesis that a new type of cooperativity, dynamic cooperativity, is present in the elementary cycles of the chemo-mechanical conversion, quantitative and consistent agreement was obtained between the theoretical and experimental data on the temperature dependences of the streaming velocity and the ATPase activity, including the presence of the phase transition.
(9) "It is really a time for cooperation and unity," he said, adding that recent events had shown the need for Iraqis – Sunni, Shia and Kurds – to work together.
(10) p50B is able to form heteromeric kappa B-binding complexes with RelB, as well as with p65 and p50, the two subunits of NF-kappa B. Transient-transfection experiments in embryonal carcinoma cells demonstrate a functional cooperation between p50B and RelB or p65 in transactivation of a reporter plasmid dependent on a kappa B site.
(11) The New York Times also alleged that the Met had not passed full details about how many people were victims of the illegal practice to the CPS because it has a history of cooperation with News International titles.
(12) Methods used in tracing and improving cooperation of subjects are described.
(13) Moreover, it seems that multiple subdomains of the TR beta interact cooperatively to achieve optimal T3 activity.
(14) The observed predominance of trimeric over dimeric oligomers even at short times suggests that the thrombin-catalyzed release of the two A fibrinopeptides from a single molecule of fibrinogen is highly cooperative.
(15) After treatment of the old rats blood serum with activated charcoal the steroid-binding transcortin capacity and its affinity to hormone was increased and the negative cooperativity was not observed.
(16) In this article we analyze the nature of the correspondence computation and derive a cooperative algorithm that implements it.
(17) The sigmoidal shape of the curve of rate constant vs mole percent anionic lipid is consistent with a positively cooperative effect of the negative surface charge.
(18) Both a voter and Cooper repeatedly asked him if he stood by his comments in the last Republican presidential debate when he insisted that was the case.
(19) Early postoperative mobilisation without risks is possible in cooperative patients.
(20) The cooperativity constant was shown to decrease with the increase of incubation temperature and the decrease of Mg2+ concentration.
Hooper
Definition:
(n.) One who hoops casks or tubs; a cooper.
(n.) The European whistling, or wild, swan (Olor cygnus); -- called also hooper swan, whooping swan, and elk.
Example Sentences:
(1) What did surprise pundits was Hollywood's recognition of this unflinching Austrian film about ageing as a candidate for best picture, among such expected contenders as Steven Spielberg's Lincoln , Ben Affleck's Argo and Tom Hooper's Les Misérables .
(2) "Also, Although not noticeable in the league so far, in Europe you can really see they miss the steel and composure of Wanyama in the centre of the park and the opportunist nature of Gary Hooper up front."
(3) The problem is that rugby is a winter sport, played in stodgy conditions up north that don’t really allow for the development of faster, lighter genuine open-side flankers who can match the likes of Richie McCaw, David Pocock, Francois Louw and Michael Hooper.
(4) It was written by Sarah Hooper, who worked on Channel 4's Shameless, and is scheduled to launch in autumn next year.
(5) While big businesses have enjoyed access to new couriers, Royal Mail itself eventually reached such a dire state that the Hooper report urged the government to rewrite the law to clarify that competition was a mixed blessing.
(6) (S. P. Cohen, D. C. Hooper, J. S. Wolfson, K. S. Souza, L. M. McMurry, and S. B.
(7) When the Weigl was used as a moderator variable with the Hooper and also with the Benton, the p values for each test were somewhat reduced (p = .005 and .01), an indication of improvement in predictive power.
(8) Meanwhile, Norwich have confirmed that they will not be making any further bids for Gary Hooper.
(9) TV producer turned Arts Council chairman Peter Bazalgette is another possible candidate, as is Richard Hooper, former deputy chairman of Ofcom, and Lord Myners, the former City minister who recently quit the board of the Co-operative Group.
(10) More predictable were the three awards that went to Tom Hooper's Les Misérables – two technical, and a best supporting actress gong for Anne Hathaway's showstopping role as warbling prostitute Fantine.
(11) Proctolin strongly excites the lateral pyloric and the inferior cardiac neurons of the stomatogastric ganglion (STG), causing them to fire extended high-frequency bursts of action potentials (Hooper and Marder, 1987; Nusbaum and Marder, 1989a,b).
(12) Gary Hooper strikes twice as Leeds are thwarted at Sheffield Wednesday Read more That said, this was a perfect away performance from a Birmingham side at the other end of the spending scale, tight at the back, and clinical in attack.
(13) Despite Hooper's triumph at the Directors Guild of America awards a month ago , which are generally considered an accurate barometer of the Academy's intentions (only six times in their 63-year history have they not correlated), momentum had seemed to be falling back into the hands of David Fincher, who took both the Golden Globe and the Bafta two weeks ago.
(14) This work and the related experiments of DiSpirito and Hooper (DiSpirito, A.A., and Hooper, A.B.
(15) We had left her for just about an hour when they called us to tell us she had passed away.” When she celebrated her last birthday, the great-grandmother said: “I don’t feel very different to when I was 75.” Hooper broke a Guinness World Record last year when she became the oldest person to undergo a hip replacement operation, which was carried out by consultant orthopaedic surgeon Jason Millington at St Mary’s hospital in Newport.
(16) The solutions are obvious from this string, it is a question of doing something about them sustainably.” Reader comments Deona Hooper : “With recent news, I know many may feel the UK system is imperfect.
(17) The remaining five – Ben Affleck's Argo , Steven Spielberg's Lincoln , Quentin Tarantino's Django Unchained , Kathryn Bigelow's Zero Dark Thirty and Tom Hooper's Les Misérables – seem to address and express this particular year.
(18) "Let me be clear about what we are looking for," said Hooper.
(19) But it’s been treated as less.” Gillard tells Hooper there is no control group to tell her reliably whether a male leader in the same circumstances would have had an easier run.
(20) While Nancy, Diana , Unity and Decca pursued literature, fascism, Hitler and socialism, Debo's best friend in childhood was the family's old groom, Hooper, "the human end of the horses; the stables were my heaven".