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Duller


Definition:

  • (imp. & p. p.) of Dull
  • (n.) One who, or that which, dulls.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) One aspect of it was just a little bit duller than it’s ever been before and that’s part of the mix and the chemistry that they’re going to have to get right,” Westacott told Fairfax Radio on Monday.
  • (2) It didn’t help that even as the games between the two teams became longer, duller and less meaningful , the networks kept committing to air as many of them as possible to a national audience, hoping for another epic season like 2003 or 2004, a move which resulted in diminishing returns.
  • (3) After 300 strokes, Ti.180 did not grow duller than N.T.. As the scaling strokes increased, the edge deformation of N.T.
  • (4) Nevertheless, the battle won, it might prove a duller place.
  • (5) Cannes, and cinema, would be duller and dumber without him.
  • (6) The sharper needles had long, narrow cutting edge geometries compared with the short wide geometries of duller needles.
  • (7) There are also the duller, more workaday parts of Venice, in which one is introduced to the disquieting idea that the entire city is an occult conspiracy, leading inexorably to death.
  • (8) In 25 out of 27 (93%) specific fluorescence was still present in cells of the convalescent specimen but was much duller.
  • (9) New research not yet included in the IPCC also suggests there may be a link between the melting of the Arctic and duller, wetter summers in the UK, said Stott, but this is still in its early stages.
  • (10) Fluorescence-activated cell sorter analysis of lymph node cells showed a separation into duller and brightly positive cells whereas in the thymus the bright population is absent.
  • (11) Not only did Italy eventually score, getting a goal that only rarely felt imminent in a game that was mostly dull when it wasn’t duller, but also a last-minute appeal for a penalty when Andreas Granqvist tumbled was turned down by the referee, Viktor Kassai.
  • (12) The intensity of CD5 expression on B cells was at least 10 times 'duller' than on T cells, CD5 'dull' cells were CD3 negative, and T cells bearing the gamma delta antigen receptor did not express either CD4 or CD8 on their surface.
  • (13) Without his input, arguably, the world would be a far duller place.
  • (14) Like, it was ironic and also, totally funny at the same time.” Luke & Charlotte, however, are duller than Dido in a load of beige-grey ditchwater.
  • (15) The data show that the distal edge of maxillary canines of A. afarensis became far duller than would be predicted from changes in crown shape.
  • (16) The cutting quality of Ti.400 grew duller than that of N.T.
  • (17) Also, the duller the trephine was, the larger the diameter of the cut, due to difficulty in tissue penetration.
  • (18) Helen chooses to see her much duller father as utterly blameless - apart from the way he used to administer sun cream, leaving white question marks on her sunburnt back every summer.
  • (19) With Great Apes his obvious relish at creating a whole world from one idea sustained the promise of his shorter fictions to novel-length; How The Dead Live enlarges upon an early short story in which the dead simply move to duller parts of London.
  • (20) Without her, comedy would have been safer and duller.

Puller


Definition:

  • (n.) One who, or that which, pulls.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Sixty adult chronic hair pullers completed a semistructured interview that focused on their hair-pulling behavior and demographic characteristics and that incorporated screening questions for DSM-III-R axis I disorders.
  • (2) Sixty-four white-faced rams and wethers were dressed with the aid of a commercial pelt puller.
  • (3) A commercial belt-type pelt puller and a scale that recorded force required to remove the pelt from the thickest part of the legs was used as lambs hung suspended from their front legs.
  • (4) Subjects were drawn from an outpatient population of chronic hair pullers who had been referred to a trichotillomania clinic or had responded to a newspaper advertisement announcing a treatment study of adults who pull out their hair.
  • (5) LIVE ON BIG WEBSITE LATER Transfer-deadline-day-short-straw-puller Rob Bagchi is limbering up as we type, with – and we kid you not – a computer keyboard and computer mouse in front of him.
  • (6) The use of a response surface procedure which allows the experimenter to change more than one factor at a time and therefore determine the desired puller condition more efficiently is demonstrated.
  • (7) The modification is described specifically for an Industrial Science Associates, Inc. M-1 micropipette puller.
  • (8) Her husband's earnings as a rickshaw puller in their village in Kurigram in the distant north were insufficient to pay for schooling for their two boys so, following other relatives, they came to Savar.
  • (9) However, in principle it should be applicable to any horizontal two-stage puller using a solenoid to generate the pull force.
  • (10) It's true that Kapoor is a crowd-puller and his recent exhibition at the Royal Academy drew unprecedented numbers for a one-man show by a living artist.
  • (11) Channel 5's home improvement show, House Doctor, is one of its biggest ratings pullers.
  • (12) The instrument resembles a conventional horizontal two-stage, solenoid-powered electrode puller but the pull is now developed by a light moving-coil and a fixed permanent magnet, using the principle of the moving-coil loudspeaker.
  • (13) Spanning sport and politics, you’d think it would be a crowd-puller.
  • (14) Details are given of a graphite heating element that can be mounted on a standard microelectrode puller and used for making quartz micropipettes.
  • (15) Two muscle pullers were used to study the natural mechanical actions of autogenic reflexes, which arise from muscle receptors and feed back to the muscle of origin, and heterogenic reflexes, which feed back to muscles other than the muscle of origin.
  • (16) The length of a given segment could be controlled to within 0.2% of the segment's length by adjusting the over-all length of the fibre by means of an electromagnetic puller and servo system.
  • (17) This study was constructed to detail the demographic and phenomenological features of chronic hair pullers as well as to assess psychiatric comorbidity in a sizable study group.
  • (18) This article highlights the use of a post puller for safe and effective removal of an intraradicular post in conjunction with retreatment.
  • (19) The motor and the puller assembly are separate components so that the puller assembly can be autoclaved.
  • (20) This paper describes an improved electrode puller for the manufacture of glass microelectrodes or micropipettes.

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