(n.) One who tries on, and adjusts, articles of dress.
(n.) One who fits or adjusts the different parts of machinery to each other.
(n.) A coal broker who conducts the sales between the owner of a coal pit and the shipper.
(n.) A little piece; a flitter; a flinder.
Example Sentences:
(1) The results indicate, that the transgenic yeast strain behaves like wild-type strains and the plasmid-free laboratory strain and has no properties which would make it fitter under environmental conditions, which are inappropriate for baker yeast.
(2) The proportion of patients was high among the adjusting fitters aged 30-39 years (40.4%) and founders (36.3%).
(3) Hall, the son of a fitter in an engineering plant, left school at 14 and ambitiously tried his hand at journalism.
(4) Jonas Bröcke, a 20-year-old heating fitter, thinks Germany can afford the bailouts but has a problem with countries that have not dealt properly with their economies.
(5) We need to get the new signings fitter and get others back, so this is an opportunity to get organised.
(6) Though 56, her work in the fields means she is fitter than most women half her age.
(7) The ease of insertion without a plunger and gloves (inserter tube diameter 3 mm) and the ease of removal (force of traction approximately 1 N) mean safety also for the medical and paramedical fitter of the CU SAFE 300 IUD.
(8) Younger, fitter people can help our hardworking NHS doctors and nurses by only attending if it’s absolutely necessary.” The number of attendances of children at A&E with psychiatric conditions is up 8% to 18,673 in 2014-15, compared with 17,278 last year.
(9) I feel lighter, fitter, more open, less chained to my phone.
(10) Pierre Fitter in Delhi When the news broke that Yvo de Boer was standing down from his post at the head of the UN's Framework Convention on Climate Change, India was the first country to offer up a candidate for the role.
(11) From early on, it is obvious that Sedbergh has the edge – they are bigger, fitter and more skilled to a boy – but sensible refereeing makes it a more even contest.
(12) These baselines were found to be poorly replicated the fitters.
(13) Hence, males aged 20-29 years working at the foundry and automatic-assembly plants and adjusting fitters and founders aged 30-39 years can be considered as a peculiar risk group of tuberculosis.
(14) "I will never be able to be back to being the sprinter that I used to be," says the former schoolboy athlete ruefully, "but I want to be fitter.
(15) Fitters' negative attitudes toward reconstruction mammaplasty are also presented.
(16) I think they’ve lost touch,” said Michael, 47, a window fitter from Kirkburton.
(17) Inevitably, companies will seek to make themselves leaner and fitter in the coming years.
(18) We will be better for it and more prepared for this final.” Lallana has looked sharper and fitter in Klopp’s team than during his difficult debut season under Brendan Rodgers but says that is merely a reflection of the manager’s gameplan: “I have been as fit as this before.
(19) On the other hand, the fitter subjects related their subjective health to the more conventional activity indicators; frequency of working, sexual activity and exercise.
(20) It is important, he said, that the patient should make the decision that is right for him or her, weighing up the benefits of the drugs against the side-effects and also considering the other option – to get fitter and healthier.
Litter
Definition:
(n.) A bed or stretcher so arranged that a person, esp. a sick or wounded person, may be easily carried in or upon it.
(n.) Straw, hay, etc., scattered on a floor, as bedding for animals to rest on; also, a covering of straw for plants.
(n.) Things lying scattered about in a manner indicating slovenliness; scattered rubbish.
(n.) Disorder or untidiness resulting from scattered rubbish, or from thongs lying about uncared for; as, a room in a state of litter.
(n.) The young brought forth at one time, by a sow or other multiparous animal, taken collectively. Also Fig.
(v. t.) To supply with litter, as cattle; to cover with litter, as the floor of a stall.
(v. t.) To put into a confused or disordered condition; to strew with scattered articles; as, to litter a room.
(v. t.) To give birth to; to bear; -- said of brutes, esp. those which produce more than one at a birth, and also of human beings, in abhorrence or contempt.
(v. i.) To be supplied with litter as bedding; to sleep or make one's bed in litter.
(v. i.) To produce a litter.
Example Sentences:
(1) In X-irradiated litters, almost invariably, the incidence of anophthalmia was higher in exencephalic than in nonexencephalic embryos and the ratio of these incidences (relative risk) decreased toward 1 with increasing dose.
(2) Milk yield and litter weights were similar but backfat thickness (BF) was greater in 22 C sows (P less than .05) compared to 30 C sows.
(3) A considerably greater increase in the peak plasma OT concentration resulted when hungry foster litters of 6 pups were suckled after the mothers' own 6 pups had been suckled.
(4) The litter size of vaccinated gilts was larger than that of the control gilts.
(5) Gilts that had already reached sexual maturity at the time of insemination showed a higher rate of oestrus and better litter size than immature animals.
(6) A reduction in tibial breaking strength was also found in caged hens, when compared to deep-litter hens.
(7) Piglets from litters with post-weaning diarrhoea had reduced weight gains after weaning and were 2.3 days older at 25 kg bodyweight than piglets from non-diarrhoeic litters.
(8) Serum somatomedin A was significantly reduced in the growth-retarded rats as compared to those whose growth was enhanced by rearing in small litters.
(9) Shell casings littered the main road, tear gas hung in the air and security forces beat local residents.
(10) The number of embryos within the range of each SD unit was expressed as a percentage of each litter.
(11) Progressive paraparesis developed in four male English Springer Spaniel pups from a litter of five during the first 10 weeks of life.
(12) In comparison with untreated controls from the same litters, there was a 4-7-fold enhancement of lung-thorax compliance in all groups of surfactant-treated animals during a 3-h period of artificial ventilation.
(13) Chlamydia psittaci was believed responsible for an episode of high perinatal death loss in a swine herd in which 8.5 pigs per litter normally were weaned.
(14) The streets of Jiegu are now littered with concrete remnants of modern structures and the flattened mud and painted wood of traditional Tibetan buildings.
(15) Hens of the same breed and age reared together on deep litter showed no differences in nest site selection and nesting behaviour regardless of whether they had previously been housed in a deep litter house or in cages.
(16) Landrace sows lost less weight during lactation (P less than .05) when fed diet F than when fed diet N. The total number of pigs born, born alive, and alive at 21 d and at weaning were higher (P less than .01) for S-line Duroc sows, and litter size at 21 d and at weaning was higher (P less than .01) for S-line Landrace sows than for C-line litters within each breed.
(17) A severe state of protein-energy malnutrition was induced by litter expansion which caused the mean total body weight of experimentally malnourished rats to diminish significantly as compared to control animals.
(18) Rat pups from 12 litters were handled daily, once every three days, or never touched between postnatal Days 5 and 20.
(19) History is littered with examples of byelection sensations that soon turned to dust.
(20) An experiment was conducted to test effects of prenatal and postnatal fraternity size (size of litter in which an individual develops prenatally or is reared postnatally) on ovarian development in mice.