(n.) One who, or a vessel that, cruises; -- usually an armed vessel.
Example Sentences:
(1) Considerate touches includes the free use of cruiser bicycles (the best method of tackling the Palm Springs main drag), home-baked cookies … and if you'd like to get married, ask the manager: he's a minister.
(2) The broadcast featured panoramic shots of the hundreds of boats, tugs, cruisers and canoes sailing past the Houses of Parliament during the pageant staged as part of the national celebrations in June.
(3) BMWs, Porsches and Land Cruisers meander through Luanda past beggars missing limbs due to the civil war or polio.
(4) But he flailed in vain as the police officers grabbed him, one forcing his T-shirt roughly up over his head as three or four others laid in with their wooden batons, dragging and pushing him to a line of waiting Land Cruisers and more helmeted cops.
(5) It is clear Sayeed appears to operate with a measure of patronage from the Pakistani establishment and the Zardari government recently cleared the purchase of a bulletproof Land Cruiser for him.
(6) Tamir Rice, a 12-year-old boy carrying a toy pellet gun, was shot and killed by a Cleveland police officer in November last year, a mere two seconds after the police pulled up to him in their cruiser in a park.
(7) Vice-admiral Sir Tim McClement, who was responsible for co-ordinating a turning point in the war – the torpedo attack which sank Argentinian cruiser General Belgrano, with the loss of 323 lives – said he had no regrets.
(8) At 7am, the president was awoken and told that two units of the navy had rebelled at Valparaiso, controlling two of the country's three cruisers.
(9) Photograph: David Levene for the Guardian Permanent moorings can be difficult to find in London "because those who have them keep them" and so instead Haydock has a continuous cruiser licence, which means she has to move every two weeks.
(10) In March 1941 Freud signed on as an ordinary seaman on the armed merchant cruiser SS Baltrover, bound for Nova Scotia.
(11) Squad members continue to drive up and down the Lorengau road in their Land Cruisers several times a day.
(12) On Boston Common, state police cruisers were parked a row on the grass, while troops wearing camouflage and SWAT police officers carrying assault rifles and wearing helmets stood nearby.
(13) On Monday the state-run English-language channel, Russia Today, reported that Moscow would be sending the aircraft-carrying missile cruiser, Admiral Kuznetsov, and two escort ships on a two-month tour of the Mediterranean and would be dropping in on the Syrian port of Tartus.
(14) The missile cruiser Moskva, the flagship of Russia's Black Sea fleet, is also on its way to the Syrian coast to lead the Russian force there.
(15) He never got on with his overbearing mother, Rosalind, but idealised his father Edward, who, as captain of the former passenger steamer Rawalpindi, had gone down with his ship and 263 men after the attack by the German battle cruiser Scharnhorst in November 1939.
(16) The US Pacific Fleet has said the cruiser USS Cowpens manoeuvred to avoid a collision while operating in international waters.
(17) During the EU referendum, Geldof commandeered a river boat cruiser to rival a Brexit flotilla headed by Ukip’s Nigel Farage, in one of the most surreal moments of the campaign nicknamed the “Battle of the Thames”.
(18) Other assets included a fleet of vehicles and a £345,000 Sunseeker Portofino cruiser he named Aesthete.
(19) In the Atlantic city of Mar del Plata, lyric tenor Darío Volonté, a survivor of the Belgrano, the cruiser on which 323 Argentinian sailors died after it was torpedoed by a British submarine, led a large crowd in the national anthem.
(20) In July Cleveland settled a federal lawsuit with the families of Timothy Russell and Malissa Williams after they were killed in 2012 following a 20-mile car chase involving 62 police cruisers.
Miniature
Definition:
(v.) Originally, a painting in colors such as those in mediaeval manuscripts; in modern times, any very small painting, especially a portrait.
(v.) Greatly diminished size or form; reduced scale.
(v.) Lettering in red; rubric distinction.
(v.) A particular feature or trait.
(a.) Being on a small; much reduced from the reality; as, a miniature copy.
(v. t.) To represent or depict in a small compass, or on a small scale.
Example Sentences:
(1) ACh released from the vesicular fraction was about 100-fold more than could be accounted for by miniature end-plate potentials; possible causes of this overestimate are discussed.
(2) Media made hyperosmotic with sucrose increase the frequency of spontaneously released quanta of transmitter, or miniature excitatory postsynaptic potentials (MEPSPs).
(3) Unaltered surface enamel of extracted human teeth was subjected to tests of resistance to dissolution in 10 mM acetic acid at pH 4.0 and 10 mM EDTA at pH 7.4 in a miniature continuous flow system.
(4) The EMD was miniaturized by using rare earth magnets in the construction of both external transmitter and internal receiver.
(5) A method is described for the accurate, rapid measurement of the unbound fractions of estradiol and of progesterone in small volumes of plasma or serum at 37 degrees C by a miniature method of steady-state gel filtration.
(6) In the first of two studies, we randomized 2-d-old miniature piglets to receive bottle-feedings of a swine weaning milk formula with (group F + I) or without (group F) the addition of insulin.
(7) In addition, some have become extremely miniaturized.
(8) Extracellular recordings of miniature end-plate potentials in frog muscle showed that stimulation in the presence of MECh caused the time constant of the exponential decay of the m.e.p.p.s.
(9) The male adult Shiba goat, a miniature Japanese native goat, was used.
(10) And Doordash, which uses Starship Technologies miniature self-driving vehicles, is replacing restaurant delivery people.
(11) Two field experiments are reported in which highly skilled miniature golf players varying in age were examined during training and competition (Swedish championships).
(12) An increase in the activity of ornithine decarboxylase was observed in mixed lymphocyte cultures from genetically defined, major histocompatibility complex (MHC)-nonidentical miniature swine as early as 18 hr after plating.
(13) The odds that uroliths submitted for analysis were composed of calcium oxalate was 2 times greater for Miniature Schnauzers than for dogs of other breeds (95% confidence interval = 1.6 to 2.4).
(14) Undistorted ventricular pressure wave form was obtained from a miniature transducer implanted in the left ventricular cavity.
(15) An ex vivo gastric chamber model based on miniature swine was used.
(16) Although some of the features of the TTE-RAS data base were not satisfactory, we consider this new miniaturized system to be a very valuable tool for the rapid identification of the most frequently isolated opportunistic bacteria.
(17) The retina was maintained in a nearly physiological state in a miniature "heart-lung" apparatus.
(18) A prototype system, termed an acoustic plethysmograph, was built and used to measure the volume of newborn miniature pigs.
(19) The intrinsic retinal vasculature of the miniature pig also has numerous characteristics in common with the human retina with regard to the extent of the vascular bed, the size of the blood vessels and the presence of radial peridiscal capillaries.
(20) The authors compared a group of 10 children operated by using this miniature apparatus with a control group of 20 children where the standard set up was used.