(n.) The solid piston of a force pump; the instrument by which water is forced in a pump.
(n.) A small hand pump for sinking pits, draining cellars, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) The development of acidosis and mechanical forcer may potentiate fibroblastic transformation into an osteoblast.
(2) Unlike CO2, which stays in the atmosphere for a century or more, black carbon and other so-called "short-lived climate forcers" act on timescales of weeks to a few years, meaning that reducing them would yield much faster benefits.
(3) The mechanical forcer may influence the shape of the bone in the lung.
(4) While they accept that ships would burn less fuel and emit less CO 2 , they fear oil spills and other maritime accidents, as well as "black carbon", the sooty residue of partly burned fuel which is deposited on ice and is a short-lived but powerful "forcer" of climate change.
(5) "The very good news is that, unlike carbon dioxide and other long-lived greenhouse gas emissions, where cuts will require many decades before temperature reductions can be measured, mitigation strategies for reducing short-lived climate forcers can be implemented quickly, and positive results can be expected over a much shorter time frame," says Ellen Baum, senior scientist at the Clean Air Task Force , a campaigning group in the US.
(6) Black carbon, methane and ozone are known as "short-lived climate forcers", because they have a strong warming effect but do not persist in the atmosphere as long as carbon dioxide, which has been the main focus of international emissions-cutting efforts until now.
Forger
Definition:
(n. & v. t.) One who forges, makes, of forms; a fabricator; a falsifier.
(n. & v. t.) Especially: One guilty of forgery; one who makes or issues a counterfeit document.
Example Sentences:
(1) To recap, the budget deficit is reducing at pre-cut projections, the national debt is increasing at an accelerated pace, we are printing money with the enthusiasm of crack-addicted forgers, we are selling anything that is not nailed down and still have a rising overall tax burden while spending less and less on public services.
(2) Forgers in the Middle East are offering fake Syrian passports for as little as $250, days after it emerged that one of the Paris bombers may have entered Europe using false Syrian paperwork.
(3) In its early days the Bank's biggest security challenge was forgers altering the value of a note, for instance from £10 to £20, rather than attempting to replicate the note itself.
(4) A second forger in Duhok says he can procure a passport, allegedly with the help of a Syrian embassy official, within four days – for a premium price of $2,500.
(5) Although the forgers' methods vary, there are a few common mistakes that should ring alarm bells.
(6) He's adept at assuming and shedding a succession of identities and even sexual preferences, expert in technological matters, au fait with the forgers and gunsmiths of the continental underworld, and yet quite uninvolved in the political and military ructions that have prompted his employers, a cadre of right-wing French military officers, to seek his skills.
(7) Wild patterns dance, perspective shifts, all to fool the forger.
(8) He was, though, a phrasemaker - as well as an idea-forger - of brilliance, and many of his terms, such as "the original position" and "veil of ignorance", have become part of the language.
(9) He has nearly 40 years experience as a security expert for US law enforcement agencies, having switched sides when he was eventually caught by the FBI after spending half his teenage years on the run as a confidence trickster, imposter, cheque forger and escape artist in the 1960s.
(10) It is very easy.” Concern over burgeoning trade in fake and stolen Syrian passports Read more The revelations came as Serbian officials claimed that as many as eight asylum seekers entered Europe this year with similar passport details as ”Ahmad Almohammad”, the suspected pseudonym of one of the Paris suspects, leading to suspicions that all of them might have bought passports from the same forger in the Middle East.