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Fifer


Definition:

  • (n.) One who plays on a fife.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In part one, "Risk Management and Medical Malpractice: An Overview of the Issues," published in the April 1979 QRB, Dr. Fifer reviewed the problem of medical malpractice--the primary motivation for the present interest in risk management--and discussed the characteristics of current efforts in risk management, particularly their limitations in light of the facts about malpractice.
  • (2) In part two, Dr. Fifer first reviews the major quality assurance functions of the medical staff.
  • (3) Another prominent local figure was John Park, the MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, is a Fifer who first entered Holyrood last year and is touted as a possible party leader in Scotland.

Filer


Definition:

  • (n.) One who works with a file.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Investors can help them by voting for these shareholder resolutions.” The co-filers of the resolution include local authority pensions funds in the EU and US as well as UK ones, such as Greater Manchester, Merseyside and Lambeth, the Environment Agency, the Church of England and the Methodist Church.
  • (2) The pathologic changes in the retina are similar to those seen in the brain which shows diffuse neuronal degeneration lose of nerve filers and optic atrophy.
  • (3) The blue states have the lowest percentages of filers with no liability.
  • (4) In the past 10 years, Jack Filer has served as executive editor for a series of five separate national education programs on infant nutrition.
  • (5) The red states below have the highest percentages of filers with no liability.
  • (6) Wildsmith said: “[Statoil] called us up and said: ‘We’d find it really useful to have a shareholder resolution like this [the BP resolution], can some of your co-filers quickly get themselves together and file something for us?’.” In a statement, Statoil described the conversation differently.
  • (7) The first novel award will be contested by Sam Byers for Idiopathy, Kate Clanchy for Meeting the English, The Shock of the Fall by Nathan Filer, a registered mental health nurse, and Sathnam Sanghera for Marriage Material.
  • (8) Illumination is obtained with a halogen lamp of a standard slide projector that is fitted with a blue excitation filer.
  • (9) This year’s Venice work draws from his exhibition called All That Is Solid Melts Into Air (the title derives from a passage in the Communist Manifesto) that toured the north of England in 2013-14, and featured family trees of musicians that found the ancestors of Bryan Ferry, Noddy Holder and Shaun Ryder included a blacksmith, a button filer and a clogger’s apprentice.
  • (10) Research performed by LJ Filer, Jr, MD, PhD, and his colleagues has resulted in an extensive number of publications elucidating the pharmacologic effects and biochemical fate of numerous food components and additives.
  • (11) In the 1940s Filer and others demonstrated that vitamin E protects tissue unsaturated fatty acids against oxidation.
  • (12) Pinholes in thin silicone rubber membrane have previously been traced to undispersed silica filer aggregates within the silicone rubber.
  • (13) The shortlists Novel award Kate Atkinson , Life After Life Bernardine Bishop, Unexpected Lessons in Love Maggie O'Farrell, Instructions for a Heatwave Evie Wyld , All the Birds, Singing First novel award Sam Byers, Idiopathy Kate Clanchy, Meeting the English Nathan Filer, The Shock of the Fall Sathnam Sanghera, Marriage Material Biography award Gavin Francis, Empire Antarctica: Ice, Silence & Emperor Penguins Thomas Harding, Hanns and Rudolf: The German Jew and the Hunt for the Kommandant of Auschwitz Lucy Hughes-Hallett , The Pike: Gabriele D'Annunzio, Poet, Seducer and Preacher of War Olivia Laing, The Trip to Echo Spring: Why Writers Drink Poetry award Clive James, Dante, The Divine Comedy Helen Mort, Division Street Robin Robertson, Hill of Doors Michael Symmons Roberts, Drysalter Children's book award Ross Montgomery, Alex, the Dog and the Unopenable Door Sarah Naughton, The Hanged Man Rises Chris Riddell, Goth Girl and the Ghost of a Mouse Elizabeth Wein, Rose Under Fire
  • (14) VAUGHAN and FILER have proved that all carbohydrates are equally active under particular conditions: the difference of their action on calcium absorption is related to their absorption speed rate.

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