(n.) An investigator of electricity; one versed in the science of electricity.
Example Sentences:
(1) Personnel records of over 1000 welders and electricians but only 235 caulkers and 557 platers employed at a shipyard in NE England between 1940 and 1968 were obtained and the mortality followed up to December 1982.
(2) Occupational groups at excess risk include dentists who have an increased risk of all types of brain tumors and electricians whose excess risk is limited to gliomas.
(3) From electricians and carpenters, everyone should be able to take card and make money,” said de Geer.
(4) Seven of 14 electricians had symptoms of carpal tunnel syndrome.
(5) In three visits to the area over the last two weeks, almost all the voters I spoke to began each conversation by saying, unprompted, that they were concerned about immigration – the electrician complaining about wages being undercut by eastern European workers, the parents unable to get their offspring into local primary schools because immigrant children were taking up scarce places, the patients waiting for a GP appointment in a waiting room filled with foreign chatter.
(6) That made me laugh: in one scene in Mahler, I had been required to stand on a stepladder, with an electrician holding me up by keeping a large hand on my bottom.
(7) Vishnu Tatikonda, a 33-year-old electrician from Karimnagar district in the central Indian state of Andhra Pradesh, said he paid 65,000 INR (£645) to an agent in India for a visa, tickets and a placement with a subcontractor for a major construction firm in Qatar who would pay him a monthly salary of 1,200 QAR (£205).
(8) Only one occupation, electrician's mate, emerged with a borderline statistically significant excess risk of leukemia (standardized incidence ratio compared with the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results program population = 2.4, 95% confidence interval 1.0-5.0).
(9) But we'd moved by then, up a hill, and it was quite windblown and awkward and all the electricians had to carry him up in his wheelchair like something from a Herzog movie."
(10) The 53-year-old electrician, who has stage 4 skin cancer, as well as secondary lung cancer, finds the 45 minutes of reflexology he receives during his visits “very calming and very helpful with my energy levels, which have been spinning around all over the place”.
(11) Shorter, a retired electrician from Kent, began singing for the first time after joining the care home’s newly formed choir last year.
(12) Standardized incidence ratios (SIRs) for pleural mesotheliomas were found to increase among plumbers and pipefitters over this period, whereas those for mechanics, electricians, painters, and paperhangers remained relatively stable.
(13) He says his local Warracknabeal football league is finding it increasingly difficult to field teams, as skilled labourers – especially tradesman, such as electricians and carpenters – are lured to the cities and regional centres by the prospect of steady work and higher pay.
(14) Electricians were at slightly increased risk for adenocarcinoma (OR = 1.5; 95% CI = 0.7,2.8) and "other" or mixed cell types of lung cancer (OR = 1.5; 95% CI = 0.8,2.9) but at decreased risk for small cell (OR = 0.8; 95% CI = 0.3,2.0) and squamous cell (OR = 0.8; 95% CI = 0.4,1.6) tumors.
(15) Risk of lung cancer was increased significantly for electricians; sheetmetal workers and tinsmiths; bookbinders and related printing trade workers; cranemen, derrickmen, and hoistmen; moulders, heat treaters, annealers and other heated metal workers; and construction labourers.
(16) The study was limited by the lack of accurate job exposure details, and there was no record of smoking habits, but welders and caulkers showed a higher standardised mortality ratio for all causes, lung cancer, ischaemic heart disease, pneumonia, and accidents than platers and electricians.
(17) For much of Tuesday’s match, he seemed less like a national football coach, and more like a friendly electrician holding court at a weekend family barbecue, somewhere in Arncliffe or Northcote.
(18) Yohannes Asebe, a 33-year-old electrician from Addis Ababa, says: “We are not being ruled properly.
(19) The plumbers had significantly lower TLC, MEF25, MEF50, closing volume and closing capacity in comparison to 23 never smoking electricians without asbestos exposure.
(20) Serum lipid concentrations of lumberjacks whose occupational physical activity is most vigorous were compared with those of electricians.
Wiring
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Wire
Example Sentences:
(1) They could go out and trade for a pitcher such as the New York Mets’ Bartolo Colón , an obvious choice despite his 41 years, but he would come with an $11m price tag for next season and have to pass through the waiver wires process first – considering the wily mood Billy Beane is in this year, the A’s could be the team that blocks such a move.
(2) The solution to these problems would seem either to reduce the time spent in rectangular wires or to change to a bracket with reduced torque, together with appropriate second order compensations in the archwire or the bracket.
(3) The major difficulty encountered with the current technique is the danger of neurologic injury during the passage and handling of conventional wires, especially in extensive procedures.
(4) I have the BBC app on my phone and it updates me, and I saw the wire ‘Malaysian flight goes missing over Ukraine.’ I’m like, well it’s probably the Russians who shot it down.
(5) For the attachment of adherent cells, microcarriers or wire springs can be applied to increase the internal surface of the bioreactor.
(6) Extraction tools included flexible, telescoping sheaths advanced over the lead to dilate scar tissue and apply countertraction, deflection catheters, and wire basket snares.
(7) It is not same to the stainless steel wire of traditional removable appliances which must be activated every time to produce a little tooth movement.
(8) Whereas in flexion stress all methods showed a sufficient stability, the rotation tests proved, that in case of a dorsal instability of the lower cervical spine, posterior interlaminar wiring or anterior plate stabilization showed no reliable stabilization effect.
(9) Medial canthal tendon resection and tucks or transnasal wiring are then performed.
(10) Overhead wire problems were causing delays on the east coast mainline into London King's Cross.
(11) The steerable guide wire enabled the angioscopic catheter to be accurately and safely inserted into the target lesion in all cases.
(12) The use of wire stylets to facilitate passage of these tubes has increased the chances of unrecognized tracheal intubations, particularly in obtunded patients.
(13) Kirschner improved the wire traction procedure decisevely.
(14) Conservative treatment (immobilisation in a plaster alone) was compared to percutaneous K-wire fixation.
(15) The procedure consists of a Kirschner wire used as the means of traction on the remaining soft tissue of the lower lip, using the upper teeth or pyriform aperture bone as remote fixed points for tissue traction.
(16) Electroencephalographic activity and extracellular discharges from neurons in deep temporal lobe structures were recorded from fine wire microelectrodes chronically implanted in seven psychomotor epileptic patients for diagnostic localization of seizure foci.
(17) Masseter EMG was recorded by fine wire electrodes and amplified by a specially designed amplifier.
(18) Guide-wire fragments retained in the coronary artery system after PTCA are removed either immediately by means of catheter techniques or by urgent operation.
(19) It was smaller than that reported for patients who had received stabilization of the maxilla with intraosseous and maxillomandibular wiring.
(20) At Charity Hospital in New Orleans transverse Kirschner wires have been routinely used to stabilize the zygoma in these cases.