(n.) One who, or that which, dips; especially, a vessel used to dip water or other liquid; a ladle.
(n.) A small grebe; the dabchick.
(n.) The buffel duck.
(n.) The water ouzel (Cinolus aquaticus) of Europe.
(n.) The American dipper or ouzel (Cinclus Mexicanus).
Example Sentences:
(1) To determine the visual threshold, the intensity of light was reduced, from 100 Lx (starting point) by 10 Lx steps in each trial, until the subject made 10 non-response trials (i.e., no dipper approach within 1.0 sec after the light onset) among 10 trials.
(2) An equation, X = Y divided by 0.0016, allows estimation of absolute density (X) from a relative density index (Y, dipper count).
(3) Rats were trained to make various head movements to get water at a 3 x 3 array of holes, each with a recessed water-baited dipper.
(4) However, the formation of N-nitrosoproline in cigarette smokers and snuff dippers proves that smoke and snuff have a measurable potential for the endogenous formation of carcinogenic nitrosamines.
(5) Several clinical studies carried out in independent laboratories show that the target organ damage induced by hypertension (left ventricular hypertrophy, cerebrovascular lesions) is more severe in hypertensive "non dippers" than in "dippers", possibly because of the different duration of exposure to high BP levels over the 24 hours.
(6) There were differences between the different brands of snuff as regards the severity of the snuff dipper's lesion produced.
(7) The amounts of NNK and NNN in tobacco and tobacco smoke are high enough that their total estimated doses to long-term snuff-dippers or smokers are similar in magnitude to the total doses required to produce cancer in laboratory animals.
(8) Age, awake blood pressure, predicted whole blood viscosity, lipid profiles or quantity of sleep did not differ between the hypertensive dippers or non-dippers.
(9) A difference between the European robin and the dipper suggests that habitat may also influence background abundance.
(10) Water-deprived rats to respond for access to a water-filled dipper under a 20 response fixed-ratio schedule.
(11) With uncrossed conditions (Lum tests on Lum pedestals or Chr tests on Chr pedestals), we obtained the conventional dipper function, that is, the function of threshold test intensity was highly asymmetric about zero pedestal intensity, and strong pedestals induced strong masking.
(12) Keep your eyes peeled for Spawning salmon or sea trout, kingfishers or dippers, or even an otter or a seal in the river.
(13) The conceptual use of "snuff dippers' lesions" is recommended instead of e.g.
(14) The relation of the clinical picture of snuff dipper's lesions to the histopathological appearance was studied in 114 male dippers aged 20-88 years.
(15) In these patients, left ventricular mass seems to be greater in non-dippers than in dippers among women, but not in men.
(16) However, a second pattern of a dipper-type swallow occurred, in which part of the bolus initially is positioned beneath the anterior part of the tongue.
(17) Strong evidence suggests that the NNN and NNK in snuff are at least partially responsible for the excess of oral cancer among snuff dippers.
(18) "Reverse"-cigar smokers (who hold the burning end of cigars within the mouth), dippers (who place a mixture of Khaini-tobacco and slaked lime into the lower gingival groove) and users of tobacco-containing toothpaste (gudakhu) in Orissa, India, were examined for precancerous oral lesions, the frequency of micronucleated cells at 3 different intra-oral sites, and levels of tobacco-specific nitrosamines (TSNA) in the saliva.
(19) The apparatus consisted of an enclosure with two levers, two loudspeakers (in different locations), and a dipper feeder.
(20) Rats were trained on a multioperant baseline to respond on three different levers that resulted in either a food pellet, the presentation of a water dipper or an infusion of morphine.
Mansion
Definition:
(n.) A dwelling place, -- whether a part or whole of a house or other shelter.
(n.) The house of the lord of a manor; a manor house; hence: Any house of considerable size or pretension.
(n.) A twelfth part of the heavens; a house. See 1st House, 8.
(n.) The place in the heavens occupied each day by the moon in its monthly revolution.
(v. i.) To dwell; to reside.
Example Sentences:
(1) Anti-corruption campaigners have already trooped past the €18.9m mansion on Rue de La Baume, bought in 2007 in the name of two Bongo children, then 13 and 16, and other relatives, in what some call Paris's "ill-gotten gains" walking tour.
(2) Rather than an off-plan Oxshott monster-mansion, he moved his family to an elegant Eaton Terrace townhouse in south-west London.
(3) Real Labour would not just meddle with a cosmetic charge on rich London mansions .
(4) In a statement the Los Angeles County department of public health said: "Though legionella bacteria was identified in a water sample taken from the Playboy Mansion, this bacteria has not been determined as the source of the respiratory outbreak.
(5) Never had I heard anything about what I saw documented so unsparingly in Evan’s photographs: families sleeping in the streets, their clothes in shreds, straw hats torn and unprotecting of the sun, guajiros looking for work on the doorsteps of Havana’s indifferent mansions.
(6) The Lib Dems have campaigned for a "mansion tax" on properties worth more than £2m, to pay for the poorest workers to be lifted out of the tax system.
(7) Here I am sitting in Hampstead, looking at a mansion tax coming towards me and I might not like it, but that’s the deal,” he said.
(8) The party has set out plans to make work pay by introducing a new 10p tax rate to be funded by a mansion tax on properties worth more than £2m.
(9) His home, an hour from Athens, is a mansion replete with large statues, candelabras, paintings on every wall in every room and many images of Jesus.
(10) He hailed the party's commitment to lift low and average earners out of tax, and rounded on those who criticised the Lib Dems' proposed "mansion tax" – a tax on properties worth over £2m – as an attack on "ordinary middle-class owners", saying: "You wonder what part of the solar system they live in."
(11) As the Lib Dems came under their most sustained scrutiny in years, their proposal for a 1% a year "mansion tax" on properties worth more than £2m was questioned by the Institute for Fiscal Studies, which warned that the policy might backfire and raise £330m less than the £1.7bn annually that the party claims it will raise.
(12) But in the Round Room of the Mansion House there must have been at least two thousand others in an improvised Strangers' Gallery.
(13) How Balls achieves his £1.2bn from a mansion tax is a mystery.
(14) Banda's predecessor Bingu wa Mutharika made himself the country's biggest landowner, built a vast mansion with suitcases of cash stashed under the bed, went on two-week-long holidays to Macau and appointed his brother as foreign minister.
(15) A bomb scare on Wednesday prompted a large security operation to be launched on Thursday to protect the former president as he travelled from his mansion on the outskirts of Islamabad.
(16) In his last speech as governor of the Bank of England, King told the Mansion House audience: "I welcome your announcement that Lloyds Banking Group will be returned to private hands soon.
(17) The mansion tax uses Balls’s £3,000 limit up to £3m and charges 0.25% of value thereafter.
(18) A wealthy Russian recently summoned the capital's best commercial lawyers to a Mayfair mansion to bid "for what could potentially be the biggest case of their careers".
(19) They would rather talk about a clodhopping, low-revenue mansion tax that is unlikely to happen than a fair, easy and lucrative extension of council tax, over which they would have less control.
(20) He only had eyes for the Post mansion and Palm Beach.