(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.
Tiller
Definition:
(v. t.) One who tills; a husbandman; a cultivator; a plowman.
(n.) A shoot of a plant, springing from the root or bottom of the original stalk; a sucker.
(n.) A sprout or young tree that springs from a root or stump.
(n.) A young timber tree.
(v. i.) To put forth new shoots from the root, or round the bottom of the original stalk; as, wheat or rye tillers; some spread plants by tillering.
(n.) A lever of wood or metal fitted to the rudder head and used for turning side to side in steering. In small boats hand power is used; in large vessels, the tiller is moved by means of mechanical appliances. See Illust. of Rudder. Cf. 2d Helm, 1.
(n.) The stalk, or handle, of a crossbow; also, sometimes, the bow itself.
(n.) The handle of anything.
(n.) A small drawer; a till.
Example Sentences:
(1) This is what we imagined: the becalmed beauty of the Whitsunday Passage, that spectacular collection of islands protectively nestled inside the Great Barrier Reef, safe from prevailing winds; bright blue languid days gliding over turquoise waters, taking turns at the tiller in our togs; finding our own private cove as the sun goes down; diving into warm pristine waters; the tinkling of intimate laughter; the fizz of champagne and the sizzle of prawns on the barbie.
(2) But he will not be attending conference every day, and will have his hands firmly off the tiller as far as editorial matters are concerned.
(3) The effects of fescue endophyte content (low, 16 or high, 44% of tillers examined) and of N fertilization rate (low, 134 kg N.ha-1.yr-1 or high, 336 kg N.ha-1.yr-1) upon serum prolactin (PRL) in Angus steers were examined.
(4) In the dental hospital Münster 25 adhesive bridges have been incorporated for the last two years by the Silicoater method, which has been developed by Kulzer with the assistance of Musil and Tiller.
(5) This allows a very Blakean moment: he discovered a photograph of the Tiller Girls doing a horse routine with hooves on their hands.
(6) Those concerns were heightened last year when the deputy mayor, Kit Malthouse, said he and Johnson "have our hands on the tiller" of the Met and had taken control of the force away from the home office.
(7) The cohort of viscose rayon workers previously described by Tiller et al has been reconstructed and followed up to the end of 1982.
(8) To correct his trajectory now, in the year before a general election, he will need to grab hold of that tiller and yank it so hard to the right he will send flying the sunbathers on the deck of his dangerously left-leaning ship.
(9) Dipper samples were taken from rice fields at six phases of maturity (fallow, ploughed, nursery, newly transplanted, after tillering, mature).
(10) That, I believe, is a far more positive and practical Scottish contribution to progressive policy than sending a tribute of Labour MPs to Westminster to have the occasional turn at the Westminster tiller – particularly in the circumstances ofas the opposition's policy increasingly converging with that of the coalition on the key issues of the economy and public spending.
(11) Talking about the first attempt on Tiller’s life, before Roeder, he laughingly refers to perpetrator Shelley Shannon as a terrible shot, because she shot him in both arms, when presumably aiming for his chest.
(12) Usually thanks to my wife: her role is often to lash me to the tiller and keep me there long enough to get through the bad patches.
(13) The squad of players available to Hughton clearly had the talent to make an immediate return but the Championship needs a steady hand at the tiller.
(14) And maybe we should borrow a tiller at this point or buy one?
(15) Sandrine Tiller, programmes adviser on humanitarian issues, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), London, UK, @MSF_UK @sandrinetiller Identify our own weak spots: While it is true that many external factors have made delivering humanitarian aid more difficult, we also have a responsibility to look more closely at ourselves.
(16) Tillers of C. dactylon and E. indica from the three sites were subjected to a series concentrations of Pb(NO3)2.
(17) They tried everything they could to put George Tiller out of business,” Curtis says.
(18) Panel Sandrine Tiller, programmes adviser on humanitarian issues, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) London, UK, @MSF_UK @sandrinetiller Sandrine’s expertise is in the politicisation of aid and the current state of the aid system.
(19) Here’s a press baron who doesn’t interfere; who maintains a careful distance; who doesn’t want tea in Downing Street; who goes outside the UK and outside the media when he has to make crucial appointments: a steadying hand on a tiller far away.
(20) Tiller’s Wichita clinic, one of the few in the country to perform late-term abortions, was for years one of the most prominent battlegrounds over abortion.