(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.
Sitter
Definition:
(n.) One who sits; esp., one who sits for a portrait or a bust.
(n.) A bird that sits or incubates.
Example Sentences:
(1) Finally, the Janssen portrait had, it was shown during conservation work in 1988, been painted over to make the sitter look balder, and more "Shakespearean".
(2) The authors report on a 2-year-old girl with congenital hydrocephaly who was found unresponsive by the baby-sitter and died shortly thereafter.
(3) This variation on the chat-show format sees Perry discuss the history of the captured face – from framed portrait to selfie – while making his own image of sitters, including former minister Chris Huhne, who is said to have gone to the artist’s studio almost directly from prison.
(4) Not only did he miss a sitter in a defeat that meant an early exit for Spain, he was also booed throughout by Brazilian fans who cannot forgive his “treachery”.
(5) Once, when Spurs' big, but elegant, centre-forward Martin Chivers had scored goals in an important game, Nicholson said: "I told him afterwards that was a sitter that you missed.
(6) Freud is notable not only for his prodigious output - at any one time he will be at work on five or six paintings and, perhaps, an etching - but for the intense way in which he scrutinises his subjects (he is adamant that they 'affect the air around them', so his sitters must be present even when only the background is being painted).
(7) United were so relaxed they brought on Paul Pogba for the last 15 minutes and the substitute came as close as anyone else to scoring from open play – at least until Berbatov missed a stoppage-time sitter – only to see his shot blocked by Walters.
(8) Families reported a variety of uses, including the purchase of clothing, toys, sitters, diapers, special foods, adaptive equipment, and professional services.
(9) Number of patients and sitter incidents were too small for analysis.
(10) A group of 6 'sitters' and 'hardly walking' patients had poor to moderate results, a group of 13 'walkers' had moderate, good and excellent results.
(11) Activists said contractors for the TransCanada pipeline company had sent in a professional line-sitter who promptly claimed his spot in line – and then telephoned for reinforcements.
(12) Sculptor Fabian Bransing aimed to satirise this aspect of modern urban life, creating the " pay bench " which retracts its metal spikes when the prospective sitter feeds it a coin – but only for a limited time.
(13) Analysis of spelling errors for reliance on phonological processing in a subsample (N = 28) revealed that right sitters made more phonetically inaccurate misspellings, whereas, on the left, females, but not males, committed more phonetically accurate misspellings.
(14) Changes in Mb and LDH in the Pigeon Guillemot correlate with the animal's maturation from a sedentary nest sitter to an active diver and flyer.
(15) One hundred seven patients in an acute care setting who had lay sitters to provide the constant observation judged necessary to meet their safety needs were studied to determine the effect of psychiatric liaison nurse specialist (PLNS) consultation on nursing care and the use of sitters.
(16) In addition, health professionals can help siblings by insuring that an adequate explanation is given to siblings and by encouraging parents to maintain siblings at home, either with a sitter or family members.
(17) There was evidence of some disturbance in parent-child relationships in the preterm group, consisting of delays in maternal attachment to the child, negative maternal perception of the child compared with expectation of an 'average' baby, and persistent parental anxiety about leaving the child with a baby-sitter.
(18) But there was an early set-back for preseason favourite and pole sitter Lewis Hamilton who left the race after completing just two laps after a loss of power.
(19) The results show that sitter and lethal sitter alleles of for do not affect larval behavior through a mutation which affects larval muscle usage.
(20) To the extent that the diffusion of medical systems depends on a mass market, these fence-sitters must receive help and guidance.