(n.) One who, or that which, decks or adorns; a coverer; as, a table decker.
(n.) A vessel which has a deck or decks; -- used esp. in composition; as, a single-decker; a three-decker.
Example Sentences:
(1) The letter to Florence Nightingale was written by Bernita Decker as part of a nursing course assignment for our Nurse Educator advisor, Betty Pugh.
(2) Quick outs • Random subplot of the week: Peyton Manning throwing Denver’s first touchdown to Jacob Tamme, a man who rarely gets much attention in that high-powered Broncos offense, but who has been riding to every home game with the quarterback, plus receiver Eric Decker, for the last two years .
(3) A white double-decker bus, also packed with foreigners, lurches in behind, then come vans and more coaches.
(4) This dissection is a manifestation of "nesting," which is a hierarchical framework for the description of the behavior of complex macromolecules [C. H. Robert, H. Decker, B. Richey, S. J. Gill, and J. Wyman (1987) Proc.
(5) The TNF-elicited PGE2 production together with the previously described [Karck, Peters & Decker (1988) J. Hepatol.
(6) The carrier said the double-decker Airbus A380 plane landed safely with no injuries to any passengers or crew.
(7) Complement C3d split product was estimated using double-decker rocket immunoelectrophoresis (DD-RIE) and measurements of C3d neodeterminants exposed after C3 activation was carried out with an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA).
(8) Last Wednesday a 21-year-old male cyclist, who is also yet to be named, died after a collision with a double-decker bus at the junction of Whitechapel Road and Commercial Road.
(9) Although the double-decker bus height sarsens are undoubtedly the most impressive, Darvill and Wainwright believe they were essentially an architectural framework for the bluestones, just as towering medieval cathedrals grew over the shrines of saints.
(10) The New York Jets’ newly acquired wide receiver Eric Decker paid half that to Jeff Cumberland to get No87.
(11) Uromodulin binds recombinant murine interleukin 1 alpha with high affinity, and this binding can be inhibited by addition of specific saccharides (Muchmore, A. V., and Decker, J. M. (1987) J. Immunol.
(12) And bus manufacturer Alexander Dennis agreed a £660m deal to build single-decker buses that China’s BYD will equip with batteries to run as electric vehicles.
(13) 9.45pm GMT Patriots 3-13 Broncos, 13:56, 3rd quarter Okay, so on 2nd and 9 for realsies, Manning and Decker connect for 18 yards to make it to their own 39, and then Moreno picks up six yards and this is just knife-through-butter now.
(14) At his trial, Loukaitis even said that he tried to model his life after Decker.
(15) The 160 kb plasmid pAO1 from Arthrobacter oxidans (Brandsch and Decker 1984) was subcloned in Escherichia coli with the aid of the plasmid vectors pUR222 and pBR322.
(16) The results were analyzed globally within the framework of a nested allosteric model [Robert, C.H., Decker, H., Richey, B., Gill, S.J., & Wyman, J.
(17) A study of well-being in middle-aged and elderly spinal cord injured persons (Decker & Schulz, 1985) found that long-term coping was facilitated by the presence of a primary support person or caregiver.
(18) Archaeologists have argued for centuries about what Stonehenge really meant to the people who gave hundreds of thousands of hours to constructing circles of bluestones shipped from Wales, and sarsens the size of double-decker buses dragged across Salisbury plain.
(19) All the same, it is the equivalent of driving an old double-decker bus into Bristol dock.
(20) The city lives on cement, as if it also flowed down the mountains to settle in petrified squares – poor houses, rich houses, triple-decker freeways, malls, sculptures – all cement, clean and jagged, painted, naked or white, in between parks and clumps of nature; but the valley's sheer scale, along with the size of the sky, rescues it all.
Pecker
Definition:
(n.) One who, or that which, pecks; specif., a bird that pecks holes in trees; a woodpecker.
(n.) An instrument for pecking; a pick.
Example Sentences:
(1) We have recently reported that glucagon activated the L-type Ca2+ channel current in frog ventricular myocytes and showed that this was linked to the inhibition of a membrane-bound low-Km cAMP phosphodiesterase (PDE) (Méry, P. F., Brechler, V., Pavoine, C., Pecker, F., and Fischmeister, R. (1990) Nature 345, 158-161).
(2) I’ve always called him Cold Pecker and I always will.” I mishear her.
(3) These properties of Ca2+ transport by vesicles reconstituted from liver plasma membranes suggest that this ATP-dependent Ca2+ transport component is different from the high affinity (Ca2+-Mg2+)-ATPase found in the same membrane preparation (Lotersztajn, S., Hanoune, J. and Pecker, F. (1981) J. Biol.
(4) A clinical classification of this traumatic pathology according to the epidural hematoma classification of Pecker et al is proposed.
(5) They mostly boil down to inter-male rivalries and hierarchies of masculinity – the pecker pecking order, if you will: the bigger the mister, the bigger the man.
(6) Friday on Morning Joe, Scarborough claimed several top White House staffers had warned him that an article in the National Enquirer, a tabloid controlled by Trump ally David Pecker, would unmask the couple’s relationship.
(7) 256, 11209-11215; Lotersztajn, S. and Pecker, F. (1982) J. Biol.
(8) magazine is a very important strategic acquisition for AMI, as it increases our market share in newsstand unit sales from 30% to 36%," said David Pecker, AMI chairman, president and chief executive.
(9) We have recently shown that nanomolar concentrations of glucagon-(19-29), which can derive from native glucagon by proteolytic cleavage of the dibasic doublet Arg17-Arg18, inhibit the Ca2+ pump in liver plasma membrane vesicles independently of adenylyl cyclase activation (Mallat, A., Pavoine, C., Dufour, M., Lotersztajn, S., Bataille, D., and Pecker, F. (1987) Nature 325, 620-622).
(10) The morphology of the follicular epithelium during the course of oogenesis in poultry (duck goose, hen, turkey) and at the first stages of oocyte growth in some wild birds (finch, totmit, wood-pecker, pigeon) was studied.
(11) The purified (Ca2+-Mg2+)-ATPase from rat liver plasma membranes (Lotersztajn, S., Hanoune, J., and Pecker, F. (1981) J. Biol.