(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.
Filler
Definition:
(n.) One who, or that which, fills; something used for filling.
(n.) A thill horse.
Example Sentences:
(1) The filler did not absorb water, so the effect of the filler content on the diffusion coefficients of the water sorption was to be associated with of the law of mixture.
(2) The clindamycin capsules used in this preparation contained insoluble fillers that may be removed by filtration without loss of in vitro antibacterial activity.
(3) The fracture behavior was dependent on the filler concentration and the presence of absorbed water.
(4) Lung diseases in farmers attributable to their occupation include (a) farmer's lung, caused by exposure to mouldy hay, (b) the asthma caused by exposure to grain dust and (c) silo-filler's disease.
(5) A liquid chromatographic method for the quantitative determination of propyl paraben in cigarette tobacco filler has been developed.
(6) Calcium-phosphate ceramic particulates are often used as filler material for enhanced repair of dental bone defects.
(7) As the war on sugar debate rages in the UK, Hotel Chocolat has more to offer customers whose tastes are changing, he says, with its “less sugar, more cocoa” approach setting it apart from the cheaper alternatives which tend to use sugar, and not the more costly cocoa, as the filler ingredient.
(8) pipette fillers and latex gloves, were found to be the source of these and other compounds in the reagent blank profile.
(9) Measurements were made on both the unpolished matrix-rich surface and the polished filler-rich surface.
(10) Taber said: "Unless we get this sorted out, dermal fillers will be the next disaster."
(11) Microscopic protection against resin matrix wear is provided by filler particles that are close together.
(12) Valeant raised $1.4bn by selling the North American rights to a range of cosmetic and medical skin fillers to Nestlé, the Swiss firm famous for Nescafé and KitKats, and immediately put the money into its offer for Allergan, raising its bid to $49.4bn.
(13) Both series were prepared by incorporating a silanated barium borosilicate filler into a visible-light-activated polyphenylene polymethacrylate resin matrix.
(14) The combination of various possibilities for sample preparation and investigation--the tinting penetration method, the ion beam slope cutting, the light and scanning electron microscopy--allow statements at the grind after different drying of the preparation mainly to the bond but also surface and filler shape of glass-ionomer cements.
(15) It is the England that then prime minister John Major vowed would never vanish in a famous 1993 speech: “Long shadows on county grounds, warm beer, invincible green suburbs, dog lovers and pools fillers and – as George Orwell said – ‘old maids bicycling to holy communion through the morning mist’.” Major was mining Orwell’s wartime essay The Lion and the Unicorn, whose tone was one of reassurance – the national culture will survive, despite everything: “The gentleness, the hypocrisy, the thoughtlessness, the reverence for law and the hatred of uniforms will remain, along with the suet puddings and the misty skies.” Orwell and Major were both asserting the strength of a national culture at times when Britishness – for both men basically Englishness – was felt to be under threat from outside dangers (war, integration into Europe).
(16) Two series of dental composites, along with the unfilled resin matrix, were examined to determine the effects of filler level and size on selected properties.
(17) Because of its low filler particle percentage, microfilled composite resins--traditionally recommended for anterior restorations--are extremely translucent.
(18) Two layers of Dacron fabric were laid together, stitched to the rib with nylon thread, and the resulting tubular cavity packed with HAP filler to create an artificial rib.
(19) According to the classification proposed by Hosoda, six core resins could be divided into two categories on the basis of the elemental composition and size distribution of filler particles by SEM observation and EDX analysis.
(20) The tendency of composites to leach filler elements almost linearly with time, could be used to generate a constant release rate of such therapeutic elements over time.