(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.
Ripper
Definition:
(n.) One who brings fish from the seacoast to markets in inland towns.
(n.) One who, or that which, rips; a ripping tool.
(n.) A tool for trimming the edges of roofing slates.
(n.) Anything huge, extreme, startling, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) They include the moors murderer Ian Brady; the Yorkshire Ripper, Peter Sutcliffe; Rosemary West; and Levi Bellfield, who was convicted of murdering Milly Dowler.
(2) Like Jack the Ripper, the killer who is his closest comparison, it was as if he was invisible.
(3) The Guardian has previously identified other suspected targets of Rees, including Eric Clapton , Mick Jagger, George Michael, Linford Christie, Gary Lineker, Richard Madeley and Judy Finnigan, and the family of the Yorkshire Ripper, Peter Sutcliffe.
(4) O’Driscoll was cleared of knowing about Quinn, but faced two other charges – that he was part of the Chelsea policeman conspiracy and the alleged conspiracy to pay Neave for information on high profiles prisoners such as the Yorkshire Ripper, Peter Sutcliffe.
(5) Lukas Podolski was the fringe player who grasped the opportunity most clearly and the opening goal was one of his trademarks – a left-footer ripper into the near, top corner of Sinan Bolat’s net, following Ramsey’s burst and pass.
(6) West Australian Labor shadow cabinet calls for Stephen Smith's withdrawal Read more The 48-year-old was elected to the leadership following the resignation of Eric Ripper in January 2012 and led the party to the 2013 election, scoring points with policies like Metronet , a $3.8b plan to expand the suburban rail network, before ultimately losing to Colin Barnett.
(7) They mix fact and fiction, delving into child murders and police corruption against the backdrop of the Yorkshire Ripper enquiry, the Silver Jubilee and the political tensions of the early Thatcher years.
(8) And it is not the first time that Amazon has looked to the BBC – the internet firm resurrected BBC1’s period crime drama, Ripper Street, after it was axed.
(9) It also revealed that the TV star had offered his services as an "intermediary" in the hunt for the Yorkshire Ripper in the late 1970s.
(10) Ripper Street was axed by BBC1 after last year's second series, but won a reprieve after Amazon stepped in to fund a third run, which will premiere on its Prime Instant video-on-demand service before a BBC1 repeat.
(11) Sonia Sutcliffe v News of the World, 1990 The wife of the Yorkshire Ripper lost her libel claim over News of the World allegations that she had an affair with a Greek holiday company chief who resembled her husband During the hearing, Carman claimed she had courted the press for financial gain before listing the £334,000 damages she had obtained in actions against newspapers.
(12) A trawl of police records also found that Savile had offered his services as an "intermediary" to detectives in the hunt for the Yorkshire Ripper in the late 1970s.
(13) A BBC spokeswoman said: "The BBC is looking at partnerships that could enable Ripper Street to return but at better value to licence fee payers."
(14) His graduate collection – which featured strands of human hair in the linings of frock-coat jackets – was called Jack The Ripper Stalks His Victims.
(15) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Fisher ladies in Okinawa, Japan You can almost see such calculations running through the Big Ripper as she pores over her MRI results, designed to find out whether her organs are ageing at the same rate as the rest of her.
(16) I don’t think anybody in the area is against enterprise and somebody doing something new and exciting, but Jack the Ripper has nothing to do with Cable Street.
(17) I salute them for that.” Class War, originally an eponymous newspaper as well as a movement, somewhat fizzled out during the 1990s but has been recently revived, standing six candidates in this year’s general election under the slogan: “Because all the other candidates are scum.” Class War is organising a protest this Sunday at a museum originally billed as celebrating the role of women in London but which ended up focusing on the crimes of Jack the Ripper .
(18) I don’t want to have to explain to my teenage daughter that this man butchered women and ripped out their wombs.” Palmer-Edgecumbe told the Evening Standard that he planned to open a museum about the social history of women, but that as the project developed he decided a more interesting angle was from the perspective of the victims of Jack the Ripper.
(19) Before long, Jean Paul Goude will have dismembered more women than Jack the Ripper.
(20) In 1992 his 10-piece graduate collection – bought in its entirety by Vogue stylist Isabella Blow, his first patron – was entitled Jack the Ripper Stalks His Victims, inspired by Victorian London and with a strong emphasis on tailoring.