(n.) One who, or that which, finds; specifically (Astron.), a small telescope of low power and large field of view, attached to a larger telescope, for the purpose of finding an object more readily.
Example Sentences:
(1) A Spinal Pedicle Finder (S.P.F) has been designed for transpedicular screws and a prototype has been completed.
(2) The Cytoscan 110 metaphase finder has been tested with cultures of human peripheral blood lymphocytes prior to its introduction into routine use for the analysis of radiation-induced chromosomal damage.
(3) The technique uses a finder needle and a saline-filled syringe to locate the small and poorly defined trachea.
(4) Now some agents are taking the process a step further with "sale by informal tender" contracts for buyers who make sealed bids – the contracts commit the successful buyer to paying an introductory or finder's fee to the agent, usually around 2-2.5% of the cost of the property.
(5) Their antennae, which purported to detect explosives, and in other cases narcotics, were not connected to anything, they had no power source and one of the devices was simply the golf ball finder with a different sticker on it.
(6) • S Finder is the phone's search engine, to find chat messages, documents or other content on the phone.
(7) Subjectivity in selecting random grid squares for routine quantitative analysis can be circumvented through a combination of finder grids and a computer program.
(8) However, it is also possible that flock formation is neutral or even beneficial to the individual members, including the bird that found the fish (the 'first finder').
(9) Jonathan Hopper, the managing director of buying agents Garrington Property Finders, said the brisk pace in June was likely to be the high water mark for the property market for some time.
(10) This has information on different sources of funding and a "Finance Finder" tool to see which schemes you might qualify for.
(11) Two cones could only be bypassed by the Canal-Finder-System but were not removed with any of the techniques investigated in this study.
(12) Ralph: Well, I've been working on my profile on Adult Friend Finder.
(13) The need for radiologic control during surgery is emphasized although, as demonstrated in the present review, the technique of localization by a cath-finder (external detector) permits greater speed with the same security.
(14) The magazine's editorial director, Henry Finder, says drily that Remnick 'has something very scarce in this city: an aura of sanity.
(15) "This decision makes it clear that the rule of finders keepers is not the law in New York."
(16) Faulks, who is married to former Conservative justice minister Edward Faulks, claimed the protesters were not people affected by the disaster, adding: “The people that stormed the council weren’t the local community, they’re people who like doing that sort of thing and I think they did a disservice to the local community.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Grenfell Tower protesters storm Kensington town hall – video report Faulks also works as a “property finder” for Vivien Thompson Property Search, which looks for properties to buy for customers who do not have time to search.
(17) Daily Mail & General Trust has acquired a 50% stake in Globrix , the property finder search engine, months after News International sold its half share in the operation back to the founders .
(18) Future space telescopes, such as Nasa's proposed Terrestrial Planet Finder , have been designed to confirm whether alien worlds are suitable for life.
(19) The 60-year-old married father of two from Langport, Somerset, is serving 10 years in jail following a scam that included the sale of £55m-worth of devices based on a novelty golf ball finder to Iraq, Niger, Syria, Mexico and other countries including Lebanon where a United Nations agency was a client.
(20) Of the remaining 39 cones, 19 were removed after using the Canal-Finder-System.
Spotter
Definition:
(n.) One who spots.
Example Sentences:
(1) It consists of a clinical assessment made by a surgical tutor over a period of six weeks throughout a student's surgical term, a visual, clinically orientated written examination a "spotter-type" practical examination and a viva-voce examination.
(2) A plane-spotter, Anthony Castorani, told CNN he heard a "pop" as the jet landed, followed by a brief fireball at which point the aircraft began to break up and spin.
(3) These were (i) the introduction of "spotters" with experience in sports medicine to identify and advise exhausted runners before they collapse; (ii) staffing the run's medical centre with medical and nursing specialists in intensive care; (iii) improved management of heat exhaustion; and (iv) conducting education seminars after the run to make recommendations for improving subsequent events.
(4) It seems highly probable that both Costellos are agents of the RIS, Costello’s role may well be that of a talent spotter,” notes the MI5 file.
(5) Until now, we have been limited to lists of suspicious aircraft and networks of flight routes pieced together painstakingly using information from everyone from plane spotters to the European parliament.
(6) Hare accused the trend spotters of the early 21st century of lining up eagerly to pretend the controversy which raged around Look Back In Anger was "some kind of ghastly mistake".
(7) "We have been impressed by the efforts made to prevent football hooliganism in foreign countries by sending 'spotters' to help pick out those at risk of committing criminal acts and believe similar practical help would be beneficial in the fight against terrorism," the MPs say.
(8) They have been acting as spotters to identify military targets for air strikes and cruise missiles.
(9) Straw has been Blackburn's MP for 33 years; he replaced Barbara Castle, for whom he had worked as a special adviser (something of a talent-spotter, Castle once said that she had employed Straw for his "guile and low cunning").
(10) She was a great spotter of talent, and contributors would often come into the office for a chat; Mario Testino shot early fashion for the fashion editor Liz Connell, Craig Brown became music critic and Deborah Moggach was a regular contributor.
(11) Follow the children's quiz trail around the house and garden, using tracker packs with secret messages and spotter sheets.
(12) Chloe Dewe Mathews: ‘Day-trippers from east London perform Maghrib, the Islamic evening prayer on the promenade at Southend.’ The title of the series, Thames Log , came from the ship spotters at Tilbury, who “sit all day logging the continual stream of vessels passing through”.
(13) Others are pros on the lower levels hoping to be picked up by the UFC’s talent spotters.
(14) The best known is the military pilot Nadezhda Savchenko, who is accused of being an artillery spotter for the Ukrainian forces and involved in the deaths of two Russian journalists .
(15) The spotter was a man called Peter Beard , a well-connected photographer and Africophile.
(16) Spotter's ratings: ★★★★★ I don't believe it!
(17) The town of Ottery St Mary enjoyed something of a tourist boom as beaver spotters headed to Devon to try to spot the creatures and many naturalists argued that the beavers were good news for biodiversity and could ease flooding problems because their dams slow the rate water moves down rivers, such as the Otter.
(18) 4 Dec, Helmand W Company, 45 Commando Royal Marines, shoot and wound man as possible "spotter" .
(19) ZSL’s spotters take advantage of the seals’ moulting season in August, when they shuffle up sandbanks to shed their coat and grow a new one, making double-counting less likely.
(20) • The routine use of forward intellience teams (FITs) who film, photograph and follow protesters, and use "spotter cards" to identify activists and store their information on databases raises fundamental privacy issues and should be reviewed.