(n.) One who designs, marks out, or plans; a contriver.
(n.) One who produces or creates original works of art or decoration.
(n.) A plotter; a schemer; -- used in a bad sense.
Example Sentences:
(1) Questionnaires were used and the respondent self-designation method measured leadership.
(2) The effects of sessions, individual characteristics, group behavior, sedative medications, and pharmacological anticipation, on simple visual and auditory reaction time were evaluated with a randomized block design.
(3) Until his return to Brazil in 1985, Niemeyer worked in Israel, France and north Africa, designing among other buildings the University of Haifa on Mount Carmel; the campus of Constantine University in Algeria (now known as Mentouri University); the offices of the French Communist party and their newspaper l'Humanité in Paris; and the ministry of external relations and the cathedral in Brasilia.
(4) Single-case experimental designs are presented and discussed from several points of view: Historical antecedents, assessment of the dependent variable, internal and external validity and pre-experimental vs experimental single-case designs.
(5) We report a series of experiments designed to determine if agents and conditions that have been reported to alter sodium reabsorption, Na-K-ATPase activity or cellular structure in the rat distal nephron might also regulate the density or affinity of binding of 3H-metolazone to the putative thiazide receptor in the distal nephron.
(6) This study was designed to investigate the localization and cyclic regulation of the mRNA for these two IGFBPs in the porcine ovary, RNA was extracted from whole ovaries morphologically classified as immature, preovulatory, and luteal.
(7) As important providers of health care education, nurses need to be fully informed of the research findings relevant to effective interventions designed to motivate health-related behavior change.
(8) The present study was designed to test the hypothesis that the decreased Epi response following ET was due to 1) depletion of adrenal Epi content such that adrenomedullary stimulation would not release Epi, 2) decreased Epi release with direct stimulation, i.e., desensitization of release, or 3) decreased afferent signals generated by ET itself.
(9) According to the finite element analysis, the design bases of fixed restorations applied in the teeth accompanied with the absorption of the alveolar bone were preferred.
(10) These clones, designated as TcHMC-2, showed strong cytotoxicity against both HMC-2 and K562 cells.
(11) By the 1860s, French designs were using larger front wheels and steel frames, which although lighter were more rigid, leading to its nickname of “boneshaker”.
(12) In a double-blind, crossover-designed study, 9 male subjects (age range: 18-25 years) received 25 mg orally, four times per day of either S or an identically-appearing placebo (P) 2 d prior to and during HA.
(13) "The proposed 'reform' is designed to legitimise this blatantly unfair, police state practice, while leaving the rest of the criminal procedure law as misleading decoration," said Professor Jerome Cohen, an expert on China at New York University's School of Law.
(14) Though the 54-year-old designer made brief returns to the limelight after his fall from grace, designing a one-off collection for Oscar de la Renta last year , his appointment at Margiela marks a more permanent comeback.
(15) What we’re doing is designed to improve people’s lives.” "I don't see race, colour or creed, and neither do my children," he added.
(16) This study was designed to examine the effect of the storage configuration of skin and the ratio of tissue-to-storage medium on the viability of skin stored under refrigeration.
(17) However, each of the studies had numerous methodological flaws which biased their results against finding a relationship: either their outcome measures had questionable validity, their research designs were inappropriate, or the statistical analyses were poorly conceived.
(18) Methods to minimize bias in the design and implementation of consultation-liaison research are suggested.
(19) To distinguish the various types, we designated the 90 kd types from CBA and AKR mice C6A1 and C6A2, respectively, and the corresponding 100 kd types C6B1 and C6B2, respectively.
(20) Knapman concluded that the 40-year-old designer, whose full name was Lee Alexander McQueen, "killed himself while the balance of his mind was disturbed".
Dressmaker
Definition:
(n.) A maker of gowns, or similar garments; a mantuamaker.
Example Sentences:
(1) Over the coming years, as many of its longstanding dressmakers and seamstresses retire, the family-run business will find it hard to replace them so that the brand can continue making clothes in the UK.
(2) The red carpets are being unrolled, the paparazzi are installing their stepladders, the dressmakers are rushing their schmutters to the airport – the Cannes film festival is finally upon us.
(3) The city’s vibrant indoor market sees spice sellers from Morocco flogging their wares next to dressmakers from India.
(4) On the basis of precise assessment of the noise level and occupational exposure to noise and local vibrations are formed 4 groups: exposed to independent noise effect with intensity 90 and 100 db (spinners and dressmakers); exposed to combined effect of noise (91 and 103 db) and local vibrations, surpassing the maximum admissible norms respectively 2.5 and 3.5 times (miners of coal- and ore production).
(5) Two women carry what appears to be a Panasonic rice cooker Photograph: Aram Pan The video reveals many of the companies that took part, including: Dandong Chengyuan Import and Export (China) Dandong Jinyuan Trading Co (China) Gumunsan Trading Co Ltd (DPRK) Hamhung Jinxiang Trading Co Ltd. (China) Jangsubong JV (DPRK) Korea Computer Center (DPRK) Liaoning Huanghai Automotive Import and Export (China) Liaoning Shangda Industrial Development Co. Parazelsus (DPRK) Pyongsu Pharma (DPRK) Pyongyang Gemsy Dressmaking Machine Co. Ltd. (DPRK) Taedonggang Technology Co (DPRK) Watch the video: North Korea open for business (Aram Pan)
(6) The Queen's dressmaker, Hardy Amies , teeters on the brink of collapse after its Icelandic backer stops funding it In a speech at the UN, Gordon Brown calls for an end to the "age of irresponsibility" .
(7) The case of a 37-year-old woman, dressmaker, with congenital lower limb amelia is presented.
(8) We note your celebration of the strength and resilience of disabled people: Jenny Wren, whose body is twisted and painful and who makes her career as a dolls' dressmaker; Phil Squod, who can't walk straight and is disfigured, and who is hard-working, loyal and kind; Miss Flite, whose madness sees the truth; crazy Barnaby; hairless Maggie; Sloppy, whose head is too small.
(9) The bulk of fashion manufacturing [PDF] has gone offshore in the past 25 years, causing the art of dressmaking to almost disappear in the UK.
(10) Kate Winslet returns to town following last year’s A Little Chaos and the previous year’s Labor Day with The Dressmaker, an Australian romance co-starring Liam Hemsworth.
(11) Sew Over It has its own range of dressmaking patterns and kits for sale in John Lewis.
(12) Normal appearing matured cultures were subjected to a brief episode of impact trauma by dropping the flat surface of 25 to 105 mg dressmaker's pins from a height of 10 cm directly onto the exposed surface of the culture.
(13) The family had been living in the West End in London, her mother an accomplished dressmaker, her father a carpet retailer.
(14) The 19 operatives from 2 dressmaking mills all complained of work-related dermatitis.
(15) Perhaps the key to the mystery – the odd juxtaposition of commonsense and creative catharsis – can be found in Scarborough, where she was born in 1942, to an RAF serviceman, and a self‑employed dressmaker.