(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.
Lumberjack
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) 12 Stephen F. Austin 77-60, ending the Lumberjacks' 29 game win streak.
(2) Polyneuropathy was found in 4% of the lumberjacks whereas neuropathy restricted to the arms was found in 7.5% of the lumberjacks.
(3) Among 17 cases of Raynaud's phenomenon in lumberjacks the condition was found to be related to use of the chain-saw in 14, 10 of whom had to give up their work in colder weather because the disease was so disabling.
(4) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Lumberjack Yoga Bag by Brogamats.
(5) Virbration was found to decrease the blood flow in the saw-bearing left hand compared with the right hand of the lumberjacks.
(6) Serum lipid concentrations of lumberjacks whose occupational physical activity is most vigorous were compared with those of electricians.
(7) In his time, McCann has also worked as a painter on the Forth road bridge and – just before booking his Game Of Thrones audition – he was lumberjacking, an axe-swinging furlough that seems pretty appropriate.
(8) During exposure to vibration the force reduced from the resting level among the subjectively most-affected lumberjacks, but not in less-affected groups or in the reference group.
(9) A wasp sting with lethal consequences in a 52 year old lumberjack was recognised as an occupational accident.
(10) Next morning, I had breakfast in the Woodrose Café and decided that all my towns would need somewhere just like this: a busy little diner serving kickstart-the-day food for lumberjacks.
(11) Forty lumberjacks who had used a chain saw for 0-20 years and who had no general disease affecting the bones were studied by measuring the thenar muscle blood flow of both hands by the 133-Xe local clearance method.
(12) Those lumberjacks affected by VWF used over 12% of their MVC at work.
(13) Dexter kills Saxon, then kills Debra, then grows an unconvincing beard and becomes a lumberjack for some reason.
(14) It’s the lumberjacks of South Dakota that I feel sorry for.
(15) April is in a parka, jeans and her beloved Birkenstock clogs, Scott is in his lumberjack gear, Ken is in sneakers as per usual.
(16) Technical progress by the use of chain saws has markedly reduced incidence of this occupational disease, but in France it would appear that only modifications in working conditions of lumberjacks could reduce the incidence of the disease.
(17) DDT, engine exhausts, fresh wood (lumberjacks, paper pulp workers, and sawmill workers, for example) and also in farming.
(18) Lumberjacks with no hand-arm symptoms had lost 5% of their muscle force in the same time period.
(19) The Lumberjacks were able to triumph in overtime, holding on to a 77-75 victory to eliminate VCU .
(20) The study group included 47 workers (lumberjacks and railroad workers) who were exposed to hand-arm vibration.