(n.) One who, or that which, erases; esp., a sharp instrument or a piece of rubber used to erase writings, drawings, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) 5) and erased from the original Kauffmann-White-Schema and the Arizona Antigenic Schema to avoid a wrong diagnosis.
(2) Paterson added in the letter, published on the PoliticsHome website : "However, the government is rightly committed to advancing equality for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people and has already taken action to do so by allowing those religious premises that wish to carry out civil partnerships to do so, erasing historic convictions for consensual gay sex and putting pressure on other countries that violate the human rights of LGBT people.
(3) In her study, Mandel explains how the media’s “narrative of polarisation” erases multiple and complex interactions, reducing everything to a hostility that is framed by the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
(4) Eating at the meal site erased significant differences in dietary intake of nutrients consumed at home related to sex, education, and occupation.
(5) I sometimes think about erasing them, but that would be like pretending it didn't happen.
(6) Conservatives were unhappy the measure doesn’t erase enough of Obama’s law while at the other end of the party’s spectrum, moderates were upset the bill would strip millions of health coverage.
(7) Although the conservative-dominated coalition has made headway in purging the state sector since it assumed power in June 2012, sceptical attitudes have been hard to erase.
(8) "It's not like [2006 solo album] The Eraser at all," he said.
(9) The government is now considering whether to ask the employees, most of whom work in waste disposal and public transport, to have their tattoos erased, or even to find another job.
(10) That it may conceal, or even completely erase, major abnormalities of ventricular repolarization induced by certain drugs is not so well known.
(11) Feinstein’s speech this morning seems unlikely to erase that perception.
(12) The UN report, based on interviews with dozens of survivors, said on Thursday that the Islamist militants, who include foreign fighters, had been systematically capturing Yazidis in Iraq and Syria since August 2014 , seeking to “erase their identity”.
(13) Nonetheless, the project may have helped to erase the stereotype that all teenage fathers neglect their parental responsibilities.
(14) The second echo type consisted of one of the animal's echolocation clicks, previously measured, digitized and stored in an erasable programmable read-only memory (EPROM).
(15) Any idea that filming may be glamorous has been erased from my daughter's head.
(16) Child survival gains in the last three decades in the developed world could be quickly erased at low levels of maternal HIV infection, but gains would not be completely offset in the developing world until more than 40% of mothers became infected with HIV.
(17) The police are reluctant to pursue the case and, according to the Express Tribune, phone records for the last 18 days of Shahzad's life have been mysteriously erased.
(18) For her, the few memories of that night but the many of its extended aftermath cannot be erased.
(19) The demonstrations' bloody ending has largely erased memories of the carnival of protest that preceded it: an astonishing uprising which lasted six weeks and drew in millions of people from around the country, threatening an end to communist rule.
(20) Erase even more, you cowardly regime,” Abo Bakr wrote on a wall in a message to the whitewashers.
Pencil
Definition:
(n.) A small, fine brush of hair or bristles used by painters for laying on colors.
(n.) A slender cylinder or strip of black lead, colored chalk, slate etc., or such a cylinder or strip inserted in a small wooden rod intended to be pointed, or in a case, which forms a handle, -- used for drawing or writing. See Graphite.
(n.) Hence, figuratively, an artist's ability or peculiar manner; also, in general, the act or occupation of the artist, descriptive writer, etc.
(n.) An aggregate or collection of rays of light, especially when diverging from, or converging to, a point.
(n.) A number of lines that intersect in one point, the point of intersection being called the pencil point.
(n.) A small medicated bougie.
(v. t.) To write or mark with a pencil; to paint or to draw.
Example Sentences:
(1) Analysts have trimmed their profit forecasts for this year with trading profits of £3.3bn pencilled in compared with £3.5bn in 2012-13.
(2) There is a developmental sequence of pencil grasp, and useful development scales in copying cube models, drawing geometric shapes, and the draw-a-man test.
(3) Comparing results of different stereotests, e.g., random-dot stereograms and the two-pencil test, provides some insight into different levels of cortical binocular interaction.
(4) We took all the feedback from users and put pencil to paper to create our consumer 3D printer built for speed and ease of use,” said Pettis.
(5) The influence of the parameters' inclination and curving of condylar guidance, intercondylar distance, Bennett angle, distance of the plate, and position of the recording pencil are studied.
(6) A numerical example reveals some lesser known properties of the circle of least confusion of astigmatic pencils.
(7) A 5-year-old boy had an excisional biopsy of a pigmented scleral lesion thought clinically to be a foreign body, probably graphite from a pencil.
(8) said: “The Bank of England seems all but certain to ease policy, with only the scale and form of easing in question.” Monks is predicting a bigger cut than many of his peers in the City, pencilling in a drop in official interest rates to zero.
(9) An illusion is something done one way that looks the other, like if you put a mirror in front of a pencil so the pencil looks like it's somewhere else.
(10) Twenty-nine women were obtained from two community-based facilities and administered the 10-item Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale (EDPS) in a computerised and 'pencil and paper' form.
(11) Differential pencil beam (DPB) is defined as the dose distribution relative to the position of the first collision, per unit collision density, for a monoenergetic pencil beam of photons in an infinite homogeneous medium of unit density.
(12) While that is higher than the 1.6% decline that statisticians had previously pencilled in, it will have no impact on an initial estimate for first quarter GDP growth of 0.3% – half the pace in the previous three months .
(13) Some can't afford their own uniforms or pencil tins and we have to teach them the most basic things, like how to queue up for dinner,” said Cater-Whitham.
(14) The drugmaker has also pencilled in mid- to high-single digit growth from emerging markets, building on growth in China, where it saw revenues leap by 22% in the first quarter of this year.
(15) In recent years there has been growing conceptual interest in narcissism, coupled with the rapid development of several paper and pencil measures.
(16) A case of mediastinitis occurred following perforation of the pharynx by a pencil.
(17) His pencil or pastel notes, readjusts, notes again with more emphasis the advancing or receding edge of a continually moving body.
(18) The first scratch of an HB pencil across the fresh page of a new notebook.
(19) Sources say the Sun has pencilled in September for the erection of its paywall.
(20) Psychological instruments are usually developed to subjectively measure specific variables; however, there may not be a fit if the researcher used a paper-and-pencil instrument developed to measure anxiety in psychiatric patients to measure anxiety in the sedated, postanesthesia patient.