(n.) One who picks or chooses; esp., an inspector who selects wares suitable for market.
Example Sentences:
(1) This delay enabled the badger cullers to drive away into the darkness and continue their work without having to suffer the terror of a journalist politely stammering, "Excuse me sir, how is the badger cull going?"
(2) "He confirmed the final licence conditions had yet to be met by the cullers but could be fulfilled at any time, meaning badgers could begin to be killed immediately.As winter approaches, time is fast running out for the cull to begin because badgers lie low in their setts in the cold weather.
(3) In the early hours of Tuesday two saboteurs in Gloucestershire found a badger trapped in a cage with cullers nearby.
(4) The lead American inspector, Floyd Culler, an expert on plutonium extraction, noted in his reports that there were newly plastered and painted walls in one of the buildings.
(5) The main reason for it in this situation is simple: the cullers know only too well that no amount of reassuring information about the cull's efficiency, humaneness or safety can disguise the fact that badgers are being shot dead and most of the country finds this distressing and would like it to stop.
(6) It highlighted one incident in Gloucestershire in which two experienced saboteurs came across a badger trapped in a cage with cullers nearby.
(7) When the government announced the cull and argued that it was necessary to tackle bovine TB, there had already been a standoff between saboteurs and cullers.
(8) Those occupations with the highest estimated rates included helicopter and agricultural pilots, demolition labourers, deer cullers and commercial deer shooters.
(9) The concerns raised in the leaked note will be celebrated by the activists, who have added heat-detecting sensors to their armoury this year to help them pick out cullers in the pitch black.
(10) This time some activists will use thermal imaging devices they say will allow them to spot cullers from up to 1km (0.6 miles) away.
Puller
Definition:
(n.) One who, or that which, pulls.
Example Sentences:
(1) Sixty adult chronic hair pullers completed a semistructured interview that focused on their hair-pulling behavior and demographic characteristics and that incorporated screening questions for DSM-III-R axis I disorders.
(2) Sixty-four white-faced rams and wethers were dressed with the aid of a commercial pelt puller.
(3) A commercial belt-type pelt puller and a scale that recorded force required to remove the pelt from the thickest part of the legs was used as lambs hung suspended from their front legs.
(4) Subjects were drawn from an outpatient population of chronic hair pullers who had been referred to a trichotillomania clinic or had responded to a newspaper advertisement announcing a treatment study of adults who pull out their hair.
(5) LIVE ON BIG WEBSITE LATER Transfer-deadline-day-short-straw-puller Rob Bagchi is limbering up as we type, with – and we kid you not – a computer keyboard and computer mouse in front of him.
(6) The use of a response surface procedure which allows the experimenter to change more than one factor at a time and therefore determine the desired puller condition more efficiently is demonstrated.
(7) The modification is described specifically for an Industrial Science Associates, Inc. M-1 micropipette puller.
(8) Her husband's earnings as a rickshaw puller in their village in Kurigram in the distant north were insufficient to pay for schooling for their two boys so, following other relatives, they came to Savar.
(9) However, in principle it should be applicable to any horizontal two-stage puller using a solenoid to generate the pull force.
(10) It's true that Kapoor is a crowd-puller and his recent exhibition at the Royal Academy drew unprecedented numbers for a one-man show by a living artist.
(11) Channel 5's home improvement show, House Doctor, is one of its biggest ratings pullers.
(12) The instrument resembles a conventional horizontal two-stage, solenoid-powered electrode puller but the pull is now developed by a light moving-coil and a fixed permanent magnet, using the principle of the moving-coil loudspeaker.
(13) Spanning sport and politics, you’d think it would be a crowd-puller.
(14) Details are given of a graphite heating element that can be mounted on a standard microelectrode puller and used for making quartz micropipettes.
(15) Two muscle pullers were used to study the natural mechanical actions of autogenic reflexes, which arise from muscle receptors and feed back to the muscle of origin, and heterogenic reflexes, which feed back to muscles other than the muscle of origin.
(16) The length of a given segment could be controlled to within 0.2% of the segment's length by adjusting the over-all length of the fibre by means of an electromagnetic puller and servo system.
(17) This study was constructed to detail the demographic and phenomenological features of chronic hair pullers as well as to assess psychiatric comorbidity in a sizable study group.
(18) This article highlights the use of a post puller for safe and effective removal of an intraradicular post in conjunction with retreatment.
(19) The motor and the puller assembly are separate components so that the puller assembly can be autoclaved.
(20) This paper describes an improved electrode puller for the manufacture of glass microelectrodes or micropipettes.