(n.) A piece of wood or metal, commonly wedge-shaped, used for fastening together parts of a machine or structure. It is driven into an opening through one or all of the parts. [See Illust.] In the United States a cotter is commonly called a key.
(n.) A toggle.
(v. t.) To fasten with a cotter.
Example Sentences:
(1) Paul O’Connell’s cool head leads Ireland through Six Nations furnace | Andy Bull Read more “We were exposed to a very good team,” said Cotter.
(2) In contrast, the reductive reaction of sperm whale myoglobin with CBrCl3 results in addition of the CCl3.radical to the 2-vinyl moiety of the heme group (Osawa, Y., Highet, R. J., Murphy, C. M., Cotter.
(3) We talked about Brown v Board , the same-sex marriage and Affordable Care Act cases, what happens when you have a vacancy in the supreme court that results in a four-four split ,” said Cotter.
(4) I wish [the Scotland coach] Vern Cotter could come out and say I’m angry.
(5) Police said the bodies had been released to their grieving families by Birmingham and Solihull coroner Aidan Cotter.
(6) The residue is then hydrolyzed with 0.2 M HCl to liberate the "monophosphoryl" lipid A degradation products (Qureshi, N., Cotter, R. J. and Takayama, K. (1986) J. Microbiol.
(7) Luckily for Vern Cotter’s team it was ruled out for a knock-on at the final ruck but a subsequent Foley penalty gave Australia a six-point cushion entering the final quarter.
(8) The base sequence of DNA has been shown to influence the kinds and amounts of alkylation of purine bases by N-methyl-N-nitrosourea [W. T. Briscoe and L-E. Cotter, Chem.
(9) Cork: Cafe Paradiso Rooms Facebook Twitter Pinterest Strictly speaking, you can only book into these two smart rooms above Denis Cotter’s famed Cafe Paradiso restaurant in Cork city as part of a dinner, B&B package for two.
(10) An attempt was made to expand the paradigm published by Spradlin, Cotter, and Baxley (1973).
(11) "We don't have a big enough workforce to get things done," said Tim Cotter, an executive at Falklands Islands Development Corp. "In the short term, we could employ seasonal workers from St Helena and South America, and those who like it, and fit in, will stay.
(12) As Jim Cotter wrote 20 years ago: "There are four stages in the church's response to any challenge to its tradition.
(13) Executive headteacher, Paul Cotter, said: “It simply cannot be the right decision to block more schools from benefiting from solar power.
(14) As part of an ACS project to educate people, Love our Constitution, Dan Cotter, an attorney in Chicago, gave a talk to a troop of Boy Scouts there last Monday night.
(15) Cotter said he intended to review the decision but his Australian counterpart, Michael Cheika, reckoned it was simply another example of rugby’s slim margins.
(16) If Maitland had caught the ball – and he clearly tried to – he would, as his coach, Vern Cotter, pointed out, have been away and may well have scored.
(17) Dennis Cotter's braised turnip galette Denis Cotter's braised turnip galette of portobello mushrooms and chestnuts with a red wine sauce And finally, this lovely Irish recipe from Dennis Cotter, who runs the renowned vegetarian restaurant Cafe Paradiso in Cork.
(18) Just as a fan remonstrated in front of the Scottish coaching box, shouting: “You should be ashamed,” at Vern Cotter, the full-back burst over the Irish line and for all the world appeared to get the ball down.
Jotter
Definition:
(n.) One who jots down memoranda.
(n.) A memorandum book.
Example Sentences:
(1) Jorge Rodriguez clambers on to a stool in a grittyMexico City neighbourhood, logs on to a computer, checks his email, googles awhile, then with a pencil and jotter starts transcribing parts of a New York Times article translated into Spanish.
(2) The length coincides approximately with the length of the 'writing tablet' (jotter) mentioned in 'Epidemics' VI 8.7 and with the ancient Greek standard unit of measure applied for the payment of scribes, namely 100 epic verses.
(3) Let's be frank, we could give the small child out of dance troupe Diversity – the one whom they keep dropping on his head – a magnifying glass and jotter and get him to crack this one by nightfall.
(4) Schoolbooks, jotters, sheets of music and road safety leaflets litter the hall floor while a single doll – its face blackened and cracked – lies on a cot inside one classroom.
(5) Meeting Gomez alongside her three co-stars (I see my jotter contains the unfortunate notation: "Jailbait Apocalypse!
(6) It’s a durable blue jotter filled with 20 years of Out of Joint records, all copied out by hand: writers’ royalties, touring schedules, weekly audience numbers.