(n.) One who cuts; as, a stone cutter; a die cutter; esp., one who cuts out garments.
(n.) That which cuts; a machine or part of a machine, or a tool or instrument used for cutting, as that part of a mower which severs the stalk, or as a paper cutter.
(n.) A fore tooth; an incisor.
(n.) A boat used by ships of war.
(n.) A fast sailing vessel with one mast, rigged in most essentials like a sloop. A cutter is narrower end deeper than a sloop of the same length, and depends for stability on a deep keel, often heavily weighted with lead.
(n.) A small armed vessel, usually a steamer, in the revenue marine service; -- also called revenue cutter.
(n.) A small, light one-horse sleigh.
(n.) An officer in the exchequer who notes by cutting on the tallies the sums paid.
(n.) A ruffian; a bravo; a destroyer.
(n.) A kind of soft yellow brick, used for facework; -- so called from the facility with which it can be cut.
Example Sentences:
(1) Problems associated with cloth wear and the unexpectedly slow rate, in man, of tissue ingrowth into the fabric of the Braunwald-Cutter aortic valve prosthesis have been discouraging, although this prosthesis has been associated with a very low thromboembolic rate in patients receiving anticoagulant therapy.
(2) Mitral valve replacement with the Smeloff-Cutter (S-C) prothesis was performed in 154 patients between September, 1965, and January, 1970.
(3) UK Border Force officers have warned of an emerging trend of "cutters" flying into Britain to practise female genital mutilation (FGM).
(4) The regional distribution of cutter fibers correlates with previous physiological studies on the distribution of the fast and slow motor axons to these muscle fibers.
(5) In a group of 429 glass cutters complaints in the region of the ulnar nerve were reported in 44.7%, the local findings in 36.8%.
(6) The bonus earnings of cane cutters who were found to be infected with S. mansoni were compared, retrospectively, with earnings of uninfected cane cutters during the years 1968-69.
(7) The alfalfa leaf-cutter bee, Megachile rotundata, stops abdominal contractions briefly during oviposition of female eggs but not during oviposition of male eggs.
(8) A 37-year-old woman had undergone aortic valve replacement with Smeloff-Cutter prosthetic valve in 1967.
(9) "As a little girl I would go looking for the cutters and ask them when it was my turn," Faduma Ali says.
(10) For osteotomy conic cutters were used (diameter of base 2.1 mm and 5 mm) and a drill (3000 rotations per minute) from the small instrumentarium of SYNTHES Co.
(11) The proximal end of the TEC system consists of a mechanical housing which controls the vacuum, the rotating cutter (750 RPM) and the cutter excursion (4 cm).
(12) Finer maps for identification of CpG islands and associated genes should involve several rare cutters including Eag I, Sac II and Bss HII.
(13) Despite her famous “let’s make ’em squeal” ad, the pork-cutter is not quite the Palinesque radical Democrats depict.
(14) Using the transverse-alternating field electrophoresis system, we describe a method to accurately evaluate the sizes of fragments generated by rare-cutter digestions within the 30-4700-kb range.
(15) In order to position Secretary Rubin – rather than any of the regulators – as the Administration’s chief spokesman on this issue, the Secretary intends to discuss the Administration’s position at a speech which will be covered by the press in New York on 27 February,” wrote Cutter on 21 February.
(16) A vitreous cutter was used simultaneously to remove liberated necrotic debris.
(17) A study was made of the exposure of welders and cutters in Dutch industries to air pollution consisting of total particulate, chromium, nickel, copper, nitrogen oxides, ozone, carbon monoxide and other pollutants.
(18) In the early hours of Wednesday, hundreds of people took bolt cutters to the fence.
(19) For a while, the “Washington consensus” imposed cookie-cutter market-based prescriptions on countries that needed to borrow money.
(20) The prevalence of Raynaud's phenomenon in chain saw users is twice as great as that in bush cutter users.
Pitch
Definition:
(n.) That point of the ground on which the ball pitches or lights when bowled.
(n.) A thick, black, lustrous, and sticky substance obtained by boiling down tar. It is used in calking the seams of ships; also in coating rope, canvas, wood, ironwork, etc., to preserve them.
(n.) See Pitchstone.
(n.) To cover over or smear with pitch.
(n.) Fig.: To darken; to blacken; to obscure.
(v. t.) To throw, generally with a definite aim or purpose; to cast; to hurl; to toss; as, to pitch quoits; to pitch hay; to pitch a ball.
(v. t.) To thrust or plant in the ground, as stakes or poles; hence, to fix firmly, as by means of poles; to establish; to arrange; as, to pitch a tent; to pitch a camp.
(v. t.) To set, face, or pave with rubble or undressed stones, as an embankment or a roadway.
(v. t.) To fix or set the tone of; as, to pitch a tune.
(v. t.) To set or fix, as a price or value.
(v. i.) To fix or place a tent or temporary habitation; to encamp.
(v. i.) To light; to settle; to come to rest from flight.
(v. i.) To fix one's choise; -- with on or upon.
(v. i.) To plunge or fall; esp., to fall forward; to decline or slope; as, to pitch from a precipice; the vessel pitches in a heavy sea; the field pitches toward the east.
(n.) A throw; a toss; a cast, as of something from the hand; as, a good pitch in quoits.
(n.) A point or peak; the extreme point or degree of elevation or depression; hence, a limit or bound.
(n.) Height; stature.
(n.) A descent; a fall; a thrusting down.
(n.) The point where a declivity begins; hence, the declivity itself; a descending slope; the degree or rate of descent or slope; slant; as, a steep pitch in the road; the pitch of a roof.
(n.) The relative acuteness or gravity of a tone, determined by the number of vibrations which produce it; the place of any tone upon a scale of high and low.
(n.) The limit of ground set to a miner who receives a share of the ore taken out.
(n.) The distance from center to center of any two adjacent teeth of gearing, measured on the pitch line; -- called also circular pitch.
(n.) The length, measured along the axis, of a complete turn of the thread of a screw, or of the helical lines of the blades of a screw propeller.
(n.) The distance between the centers of holes, as of rivet holes in boiler plates.
Example Sentences:
(1) The pattern of the stressor that causes a change in the pitch can be often identified only tentatively, if there is no additional information.
(2) Tottenham Hotspur’s £400m redevelopment of White Hart Lane could include a retractable grass pitch as the club explores the possibility of hosting a new NFL franchise.
(3) For each theory, a constraint on preformance is proposed based on interference between the "analytic" and "synthetic" pitch perception modes.
(4) Pitch forward head movements exerted the strongest effect.
(5) A grassed roof, solar panels to provide hot water, a small lake to catch rainwater which is then recycled, timber cladding for insulation ... even the pitch and floodlights are "deliberately positioned below the level of the surrounding terrain in order to reduce noise and light pollution for the neighbouring population".
(6) Frankly, the pair had been at each other ever since the Frenchman had come on to the pitch.
(7) For a while North Korea refused to play, but after delicate negotiations the players were persuaded back on to the pitch and the correct flag was displayed alongside the team photos.
(8) Some artists get thousands of songs pitched and they never know, so Beyoncé herself probably never heard it.
(9) Sometimes in the other team’s half, sometimes in front of his own box, sometimes as the last man.” Die Zeit singles out Bayern’s veteran midfielder Schweinsteiger for praise: “In this historic, dramatic and fascinating victory over Argentina , Schweinsteiger was the boss on the pitch.
(10) Recent STM studies of calf thymus DNA and poly(rA).poly(rU) have shown that the helical pitch and periodic alternation of major and minor grooves can be visualized and reliably measured.
(11) 11.10pm BST Apart from the stumbles in the sales pitch, it's still not clear how the Abbott government will secure most of its budget.
(12) The living wage needs to be pitched at a higher level than Osborne has suggested and paid for by increased productivity.
(13) Patrick Vieira, captain and on-pitch embodiment of Wenger’s reign, won the trophy with the last kick of his career at the club in the season when the Arsenal-United axis was finally broken by Chelsea at the top of the Premier League.
(14) No changes for either side, but Zinedine Zidane has been whispering into Cristiano Ronaldo's ear as he retakes the pitch.
(15) While numerous studies on infant perception have demonstrated the infant's ability to discriminate sounds having different frequencies, little research has evaluated more sophisticated pitch perception abilities such as perceptual constancy and perception of the missing fundamental.
(16) The club train on a council-owned facility and so, when the pitches are not playable or there are other things on, they sometimes have to look elsewhere to stage their sessions.
(17) Their lineup proved to be stacked, with breakouts from AL home run leader Chris Davis and doubles machine Manny Machado, who powered the O's through starting-pitching issues to hang in a tight division.
(18) The cavernous studio will play host to a half-sized football pitch, where pundits will demonstrate what players did or didn't do correctly and there are other technological innovations planned that marry broadband interactivity with live coverage.
(19) But 30 minutes before takeoff on our private jet – like a top-end Lexus limo with wings – actress Rosamund Pike has heroically stepped in for the year's hot meal ticket: an El Bulli supper, pitch perfect for a selection of rare champagne, devised by Adrià with Richard Geoffroy, Dom Pérignon's effervescent chef de cave.
(20) He is helped by constituency boundaries that skew the pitch in Labour’s favour, but even then the leap required looks improbable.