(a.) A die; a half-round set hammer, used for forming grooves and spreading iron; -- called also a creaser.
(v. t.) To form a groove or channel in, by a fuller or set hammer; as, to fuller a bayonet.
Example Sentences:
(1) The results indicated that neuropsychological measures may serve to broaden the concept of intelligence and that a brain-related criterion may contribute to a fuller understanding of its nature.
(2) Matthew Fuller, 25, Rueben Barnes, 16, and Mitchell Sweeney, 22, died from electrocution and Marcus Wilson, 19, died after installing insulation batts in extreme heat.
(3) First in line was Conservative Richard Fuller, who he believed was looking at him in a funny way.
(4) The initiative, co-ordinated by the chairman of sportswear brand Skins, Jaimie Fuller, was also backed by Tory MP Damian Collins.
(5) The combination of T7 RNA polymerase, T7 DNA polymerase, and T7 gene 4 protein initiates DNA synthesis in vitro within the cloned origin sequence (Fuller, C. W., and Richardson, C. C. (1985) J. Biol.
(6) In an open letter to the college Fran Fuller, chair of BASW, says that the plans were a surprise, as the organisations have a memorandum of understanding in place and have spent "many weeks" positively discussing the college's development.
(7) "Sir Jeremy could and should have advised the prime minister to refer the allegations of ministerial misconduct to the prime minister's adviser for a fuller investigation.
(8) In addition, because a firm understanding of basic laser-tissue interactions is key to knowledgeably and sensibly using lasers, regardless of the delivery mode, we present an overview of some basic principles; readers interested in a greater level of detail should consult other sources for a fuller understanding of the issues.
(9) If the CMA goes ahead with a preliminary investigation it will have 40 working days to clear the deal, seek remedies or move to a fuller inquiry that could take six months.
(10) Fuller's XIX Entertainment, pointedly thanked by the player on Thursday, was responsible for creating "Brand Beckham" and a string of global marketing deals.
(11) NSW police announce first bomb amnesty – but just don't bring them in Read more Fuller said there was a “new phenomenon” of people who may be at risk of committing violent acts that did not fit into the traditional profile police had established of potential terrorism suspects.
(12) As a charity that campaigns on issues of women’s economic equality, we take these allegations extremely seriously and will do our utmost to investigate them … we remain confident that we took every practicable and reasonable step to ensure that the range would be ethically produced and await a fuller understanding of the circumstances under which the garments were produced.” When the Fawcett Society sought reassurance about standards at the factory, Whistles emailed back to say CMT is “a fully audited, socially and ethical compliant factory” and cited accreditations relating to the provenance and content of materials.
(13) A separate proposal suggested that companies provide "fuller information on the relationship between pay and company performance".
(14) An important key to the resolution of these debates lies in attaining a fuller understanding of the morphological differences in skull form between the African and Asian great apes.
(15) Four men died while installing home insulation – Matthew Fuller, Reuben Barnes, Mitchell Sweeney and Marcus Wilson.
(16) Fuller claimed that The X Factor has stolen parts of the Pop Idol format and took legal action.
(17) Trustees are appealing for more information, pictures and stories from veterans or their relatives to paint a fuller picture of life at Bletchley Park, where 20 years of campaigning for recognition of its importance, plus restoration and developments have turned it into a tourist attraction.
(18) The result suggest that higher response rates may be achieved in studies of cancer if fuller disclosure of the study purposes is made.
(19) It was entirely characteristic of Ross that 15 years later, when he had virtually given up book-publishing, he should have revived the LME imprint to produce two hardbacks by his old and abruptly publisherless friend Roy Fuller, and made a great success of them.
(20) 1977a: Fink, 1986: Fishb ein & Griffin, 1976: Fujikawa, 1981: Fuller & De Loecker, 1985: Lazarus et al.
(a.) Confident; full of assurance; in a bad sense, morally hardened; shameless.
(a.) Strong; firm; compact.
(a.) Inured to fatigue or hardships; strong; capable of endurance; as, a hardy veteran; a hardy mariner.
(a.) Able to withstand the cold of winter.
(n.) A blacksmith's fuller or chisel, having a square shank for insertion into a square hole in an anvil, called the hardy hole.
Example Sentences:
(1) Twenty drug-free patients (12 women and 8 men) meeting DSM-III criteria for major depressive disorder were given the Kobasa Hardiness Questionnaire, which contains subscales measuring feelings of powerlessness, security, and alientation.
(2) Hardy has a 10in tattoo of Lee along his left shin.
(3) It is suggested that this early immune maturity may play a role in the hardiness of WAD goats and in their relative resistance to helminth and protozoan infection as compared with local sheep.
(4) A heat source contained in a modified Hardy-Wolff-Goodell dolorimeter was used as a stimulus to produce pain on the posterolateral aspects of the left forearms of volunteer subjects.
(5) Hardy headlines as an ex-con named Bob Saginowski who is trying to live out a quiet life away from crime as a bartender.
(6) There weren't many people out on their bikes in Harrogate over the weekend: the weather was too poor even for hardy Yorkshire folk.
(7) Most critical are (a) how hardiness is to be measured; (b) whether hardiness should be treated as a unitary phenomenon or as three separate phenomena associated with commitment, control, and challenge; and (c) whether hardiness has direct effects on health or indirect effects by virtue of buffering the impact of stressful life events.
(8) Gene frequencies were compared with previous data and all European populations studied so fare agreed with the Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium.
(9) The number of people in the group corresponded to the theoretical number of heterozygotes in accordance with the Hardy-Weinberg equation, suggesting that sucrase deficiency is recessively inherited in a simple Mendelian fashion.
(10) The study findings did not support the buffering effects of hardiness in the presence of greater amounts of stress.
(11) Vegetation is low, widely spaced and hardy, most of it armed with spines.
(12) The favorable morphology and hardiness in organ culture of this preparation have permitted a wide range of electrophysiological, cellular, and molecular studies.
(13) Departures from the Hardy-Weinberg expectations, indicating an excess of heterokaryotypes, were noted and critically analysed by comparing samples obtained simultaneously in the same locality from different cow sheds, from different sections of the same cow shed and from night and day catches in the same cow shed.
(14) The distribution of the Blast-1 genotypes in the present study was concordant with Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium (p greater than 0.7), which indicates that the frequency of the Blast-1 gene in the population is derived from random mating in preceding generations.
(15) The observed frequency distribution of individuals with homozygous NOR-positive, heterozygous, and homozygous negative acrocentric chromosomes was in accordance with the Hardy-Weinberg law in all five pairs of the acrocentric chromosomes as well as in total.
(16) Over 42% of the variance in family functioning was accounted for by family hardiness, functional support, family stressors, and parental age.
(17) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Tom Hardy and George Miller at the press conference.
(18) Theoretical estimates were made of the chronological decrease in the incidence using a formula for Hardy-Weinberg expectation in a partially inbred population and applying appropriate consanguinity rates, taken from the literature, during the period from 1942 to 1983.
(19) An experiment is reported which tests Fazey & Hardy's (1988) catastrophe model of anxiety and performance.
(20) Another thing is that scientists like Sarah Hardy have been able to demonstrate a far greater richness of female flexibility in reproductive strategies.