(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".
Planer
Definition:
(n.) One who, or that which, planes; a planing machine; esp., a machine for planing wood or metals.
(n.) A wooden block used for forcing down the type in a form, and making the surface even.
Example Sentences:
(1) Based on the play of the same name by Maurine Dallas Watkins, it drew instant acclaim when it opened in November 1997 with Ruthie Henshall, Ute Lemper, Henry Goodman and Nigel Planer in the main roles.
(2) We found a statistically significant increased risk for working in orchards (OR = 3.69, p = 0.012, 95% CI = 1.34, 10.27) and a marginally significant increased risk associated with working in planer mills (OR = 4.11, p = 0.065, 95% CI = 0.91, 18.50).
(3) Stephen Mangan, the Green Wing actor, plays Blair, and old Comic Strip hands such as Robbie Coltrane, Rik Mayall, Nigel Planer and Jennifer Saunders (as Margaret Thatcher) return.
(4) In this study, 39 embryos from 17 patients were cryopreserved in a Planer R204 cell freezer using the protocol of Mohr et al.
(5) Roy Pavihi, 26, is part of a youth group that is learning to make canoes, using traditional tools such as chisels and modern ones such as electric planers.
(6) Cardiac function is visualized by a so-called representative cardiac cycle consisting of 16 to 32 planer images.
(7) Maximum oxygen consumption was determined by the indirect method (with submaximal effort) in 155 forestry workers, 120 miners, 240 tool manufacturers (turners, planers etc.
(8) Permeability of ferrocene derivatives through a planer bilayer lipid membrane (BLM) was examined by an electrochemical method using microelectrodes.
(9) • Nigel Planer stars in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory at Theatre Royal, Drury Lane.
(10) More rapid and more sensitive approaches using steady state free precision and echo-planer imaging are being investigated.
(11) At -30 degrees C in a deep freezer; on a Planer at the rate of 1 degree C per minute and by immersion into liquid nitrogen to -196 degrees C, stored in cryo-containers in liquid nitrogen.
(12) Two commercial, controlled-rate freezing machines were examined, employing either nitrogen gas (Planer) or thermoelectric (Glacier) cooling.
(13) If the protein was reconstituted into a planer lipid bilayer, a Cl- -channel of 12 pS and a K+-channel of about 130 pS was observed.