(n.) A part which acts by falling, as a stamp in a fulling mill, or the device in a spinning machine to arrest motion when a thread breaks.
Example Sentences:
(1) The cities with the biggest increases were Cambridge, up by 6% at £336,667, and Coventry, up 3% at £165,100; the biggest fallers were Bradford and Manchester, both down by 9% to £145,478 and £171,830 respectively.
(2) Chipmaker ARM is the biggest faller in London, as analysts fret about a slowdown in royalty revenues.
(3) Financial stocks are among the fallers -- with RSA Insurance down 3.8%, Standard Chartered down 3.4% and Barclays losing 3.1%.
(4) Top city fallers Belfast – prices down 37% on Q1 of 2008 to £190,915 Norwich – down 23% to £154,557 St Albans – down 22% to £272,813 Newcastle – down 19% to £147,104 Leeds – down 18% to £156,897 Lowest city fallers Bath – prices down 7% on Q1 of 2008 to £221,695 Durham City – down 8% to £137,821 Glasgow – down 10% to £154,989 Edinburgh – down 10% to £228,528 Sunderland – down 12% to £130,164
(5) Six of the eight fallers reporting new symptoms were exposed only to antivibration saws, a finding suggesting that the type of saws used in the present investigation is not preventing the onset of new disease.
(6) Although POW in fallers was significantly lower at the higher velocity in both joints, the decrease was most prominent in the ankles.
(7) However, visual variables were more important in predicting faller status than physical characteristics.
(8) In London, Barclays shares fell by 6% to 206p and were the second-biggest faller in the FTSE100 amid fears about its troubled Spanish operation.
(9) On Tuesday, they were the biggest fallers in the FTSE 100, ending nearly 4% lower at 264p.
(10) The group of fallers had a significantly greater degree of white-matter hypodensity of the elderly (Student's t-test = 2.7, p less than 0.01).
(11) Shares in AB Foods, 55% owned by the Weston family, have jumped nearly 60% over the past year, mainly on the back of Primark's success, but the mixed picture made them the biggest faller in the FTSE 100, closing down more than 2% at £27.57.
(12) M&S shares dropped 3.5% to 435p and were the second-biggest fallers in the FTSE 100 index.
(13) The early optimism over China's 12% rise in exports has withered - here's the biggest fallers this lunchtime: Photograph: Thomson Reuters Toby Morris , senior sales trader at CMC Markets, says investors are now more worried that Chinese imports only grew by 5% in October.
(14) Chancellor to crack down on letting fees in autumn statement Read more Foxtons was the sector’s biggest faller, with shares down almost 14%.
(15) A multivariate regression procedure showed that dizziness, vertigo and unsteadiness, transient ischemic attacks, antidepressant drugs, and poor subjectively experienced health characterized the fallers.
(16) Insurance firm RSA is the biggest faller on the FTSE 100 after warning that weather-related claims will be bigger than expected.
(17) Dorsiflexion POW production in fallers was the most affected of all the motions (7.5 times less than the control value).
(18) This study examines some aspects of spatial orientation mechanisms in idiopathic elderly fallers.
(19) The pattern of enzyme changes in elderly fallers admitted to an acute geriatric unit was investigated.
(20) A year ago HSBC made $20.6bn profits and paid 204 of its staff more than £1m, although its shares were among the biggest fallers in the FTSE 100 index of blue chip shares on disappointment that the profit rise was not greater.
Feller
Definition:
(n.) One who, or that which, fells, knocks or cuts down; a machine for felling trees.
(n.) An appliance to a sewing machine for felling a seam.
Example Sentences:
(1) An explanation of Feller's result enabling the contours of mean viability at a triallelic locus to be rendered circular is offered, and a proof given which does not involve the direct use of homogeneous coordinates.
(2) 'The Fairy Feller's Master-Stroke,' symbolically re-enacts the murder and makes talion restitution.
(3) We suggest that the long process of painting 'The Fairy Feller's Master-Stroke' recapitulated and made restitution for the murder, encapsulating it so that compulsive expression of violent ideation was largely reduced, allowing other memories and activities to be engaged and expressed.
(4) The word "feller" has a bland meaning of "good fellow" and a more dangerous one of "striker-down".
(5) A similar analysis of expression of the gene CPA1, for which a translational regulation by arginine has been clearly demonstrated (M. Werner, A. Feller, F. Messenguy, and A. Piérard, Cell 49:805-813, 1987), indicates that this gene is also partly regulated at the transcriptional level by the ARGR repressor system.
(6) 11.23am GMT "The gentleman in the car with 'Arry looks suspiciously like this feller ," says Matt Reed.
(7) Its title is "Elimination of a Picture and its subject – called The Feller's Master Stroke ."
(8) Risk was greatest for tree fellers and choker-setters.
(9) Then there is Contradiction: Oberon and Titania (1854-58), depicting the quarrel over the Indian Boy, which was painted for William Charles Hood at Bethlem; and The Fairy Feller , painted for George Henry Haydon, also at Bethlem.
(10) Indirect calorimetry and time studies showed the diurnal energy expenditure in wood fellers to be 5186.2, in their helpers--4476.9 and in branch choppers--5246.9 kcalories.
(11) In Bethlem he painted some amazing paintings, including The Fairy Feller , on which he worked from 1855 and which was left behind unfinished when he was moved to the new asylum of Broadmoor in 1863.
(12) Dadd left a 24-page description of The Fairy Feller's Master-Stroke .
(13) There are, as in The Fairy Feller , variegated grasses wreathing randomly over the surface of the work, and delicately depicted lilies of the valley, about as tall as the fairy queen herself.
(14) Our statistical data are similar to those reported by Feller et al.
(15) Richard Dadd' s great painting The Fairy Feller's Master- Stroke shows a leather-clad person, axe raised to cleave a hazelnut, perhaps to make a coach for Queen Mab, as Mercutio describes her in Romeo and Juliet .
(16) There are particularly energetic ones winding across The Fairy Feller , which Dadd describes in "Elimination": Turn to the Patriarch & behold Long pendents from his crown are rolled, In winding figures circling round.
(17) I wanted to be the best in the class but there was always some other feller who was better; so I thought, 'It can't be about being the best, it has to be about the drawing itself, what you do with it.'
(18) Last November Erika Feller, assistant commissioner for refugees at the UNHCR, told the Guardian that the UN accepted Turkey's insistence that its borders were open after travelling to Ankara to discuss the issue.
(19) The method for two-dimensional gel electrophoresis of J. Klose and M. Feller [(1981) Electrophoresis 2, 12-24] has been simplified by reducing the thickness of the gels from 3.5 to 1.1 mm for isoelectric focusing gels and from 3.5 to 0.84 mm for sodium dodecyl sulfate slab gels.