(n.) One who gets, gains, obtains, acquires, begets, or procreates.
Example Sentences:
(1) Spain is another go-getters’ paradise, it seems: with half an entire generation out of work, self-employment among the young has surged.
(2) Western Conference Front court Kevin Durant (Oklahoma City Thunder) Blake Griffin (Los Angeles Clippers) Kevin Love (Minnesota Timberwolves) Back court Stephen Curry (Golden State Warriors) Kobe Bryant (Los Angeles Lakers) As with LeBron James, there's no serious argument that Kevin Durant shouldn't be the top vote getter in his conference, especially now that he actually might have a half-decent nickname .
(3) All categories of utterance types were used by the subjects; a predominance was found among attention-getters and indirect directives.
(4) By the go-getters oozing talent and entrepreneurialism that are helping to advance the whole world.
(5) All-time greatest World Cup goal‑getter is a title for billboard idols, not penalty‑area bureaucrats.
(6) They are used to being lauded as streetwise tournament result-getters but it has been different over recent days, when they have heard a lot of praise from around the world for the attractiveness of their game.
(7) Check out a dance party in Antwerp this summer and you will probably hear the rush-released oeuvre of the local DJ, Ronny Mosuse, a hypnotic techno tribute to the country’s favourite new goal-getter in which the only lyric consists of endless repetition of “Origigigi, Origogogo”.
(8) I grew up in Essex with a single mum and a go-getter Dagenham dad.
(9) "Worryingly, average pay rises have been getter weaker in every decade since the 1980s, despite increases in productivity, growth and profits.
(10) Tactically they feel this is a vote-getter.” As the M5S’s rhetoric has become pro-Russian, it is simultaneously becoming more critical of the EU, including a vow to hold a referendum on the euro.
(11) In a city of hustlers, tricksters, and go-getters, where the right dose of swag and gumption gets you farther than a college degree can, Furo is a bumbling non-entity.
(12) And, yes, your partner is bound to love you much more than they currently do, because you've become the dynamic go-getter they've always wanted.
(13) Kane filled in as the leader but no one took on his usual mantle as the goal-getter.
(14) No transfer deadline day worth its salt would pass without Atlético Madrid goal-getter Sergio "Kun" Agüero being linked with an English club and this one is no exception.
(15) To save humanity, one must rely on a bootstrap operation headed by a dedicated go-getter and self-starter.
(16) They heap praise on the go-getters who are often getting little.
(17) New York’s top point-getters are Martin St Louis, Ryan McDonagh and Derek Stepan, each with 13 points in the postseason.
(18) Julie had worked all her life and considered herself "highly employable" and a "go-getter" before she got ill. "I have come to terms with my illness, not being the person I used to be.
(19) Still in her mid-20s, she had already reached the giddy heights of a Washington career, mingling with the rich and powerful and earning a reputation as a go-getter who always kept an eye out for those below her.
(20) Now the stigma of unemployment is so fierce and the hoops so difficult to jump through, people like me prefer to register as self-employed.” The Tories would say he’s a go-getter.
Vacuum
Definition:
(n.) A space entirely devoid of matter (called also, by way of distinction, absolute vacuum); hence, in a more general sense, a space, as the interior of a closed vessel, which has been exhausted to a high or the highest degree by an air pump or other artificial means; as, water boils at a reduced temperature in a vacuum.
(n.) The condition of rarefaction, or reduction of pressure below that of the atmosphere, in a vessel, as the condenser of a steam engine, which is nearly exhausted of air or steam, etc.; as, a vacuum of 26 inches of mercury, or 13 pounds per square inch.
Example Sentences:
(1) During a single reversal trial of two 2-wk experimental periods, teats of all glands of 12 Holstein cows were subjected to a milking routine conducive to large vacuum fluctuations and flooded teat cups.
(2) The construction and use of a simple and inexpensive vacuum cassette for this purpose is described.
(3) But no one was sure, and in this information vacuum the virus reached nearby towns and crossed borders.
(4) Once frozen the specimen must be handled in such a way that it becomes vacuum compatible for subsequent analysis.
(5) Increased wear-resistance of microsurgical instruments by facing, electric spark alloying and vacuum surfacing increases the working life of the instruments by 1.5-3 times.
(6) It is concluded that most annulus vacuums are a degenerative phenomenon at the attachment of the annulus to bone.
(7) Measurements were made of their absolute sensitivity and linearity, and their response to various UVR sources was compared to that of Hilger Schwarz FT17 and FT32 vacuum compensated thermopiles.
(8) Monodispersed N- and C-protected linear homo-oligomethionines (n = 2- -7) are studied by measurements of circular dichroism in the vacuum ultraviolet region.
(9) Thirty-nine women were divided into four groups: 7 women were given 400mug 15-me-PGF2alpha extra-amniotically one hour prior to vacuum aspiration; 14 were pretreated with oral indomethacin (50 mg X4) over 24 hours; 7 were given indomethacin (50mg X 6) over 36 hours and 11 served as controls.
(10) The vacuum flask method of using boiling water to decontaminate soft contact lenses is better and less expensive than other ways of using moist heat and can be safely and effectively applied under most domestic circumstances.
(11) The media are more pervasive, seeping everywhere into the vacuum left by the shrinking of the old powers.
(12) It was established that the vacuum treatment of purulent wounds was effective but after surgical treatment.
(13) In following these procedures we opted for a somewhat different approach to applying hypochlorite, water, alcohol, and alkane; namely, eggs were placed between two Nucleopore filters, and the fluids drawn sequentially through the filters by vacuum.
(14) It involved preservation of unstained chromosome slides in a vacuum desiccator up to 18 months, Q-staining, destaining, and treatment in Hanks' solution, pH 5.1, at 85 degrees C for 13 min, and acridine orange staining.
(15) Hens from both strains performed vacuum nest-building behaviour before laying.
(16) • Led to the loss of talented senior NHS leaders by creating an array of new organisations, each responsible for areas such as hospitals or public health, meaning that no one is in overall charge and the NHS now suffers from a leadership vacuum.
(17) Use of a vacuum device on the mixed acrylic resin works as well as pressure polymerizing.
(18) A difference density map obtained from data on purple membrane films at 15% relative humidity in 2H2O, and the same sample after complete drying in vacuum, revealed that about eight of these protons belong to four water molecules.
(19) Vacuuming of carpets showed only a slight reduction in the number of recoverable microorganisms.
(20) Merkel herself has been accused of creating a vacuum on the right due to her consensus style of politics, which the AfD, and now Pegida – to whom the AfD has openly given its backing – have willingly managed to fill.