(n.) One who gilds; one whose occupation is to overlay with gold.
(n.) A Dutch coin. See Guilder.
Example Sentences:
(1) Janet Gilder, registered manager at care home Mary Feilding Guild, started as a nurse before working her way up the ranks in older people’s care.
(2) Gilder recommends starting in frontline work before becoming a manager: “If you’re progressing somebody through the ranks then they remain familiar to the resident.” By retaining staff and helping them move up in the organisation, the consistency of care is upheld.
(3) The impact this will have on homelessness is truly worrying.” Ian Gilders, director of business intelligence at Sovereign, said the cap meant social landlords would no longer be able to accept all nominations made from council waiting lists: “Housing associations will say to councils, ‘We would like to help, but with this family, under this benefit system, we can’t help.’” The leaked DWP memo warns that it is vital ministers increase the amount of temporary cash help to capped tenants to prevent immediate eviction.
Glider
Definition:
(n.) One who, or that which, glides.
Example Sentences:
(1) A marked overlap of input from the two eyes is an unusual feature for a diprotodont marsupial and has previously been seen only in the feathertail glider.
(2) I don’t do the social media myself, so who knows.” The Pentagon said the drone, also described as a “glider” or unmanned underwater vehicle, was deployed by civilian contractors aboard the USNS Bowditch, a scientific research ship.
(3) This branch was comprised of moderate-sized, phytophagous gliders, of which the other living descendants are the dermopterans.
(4) n. 106 of 25th March 1985 had defined the specifications of the particular aircraft designed for hobby or sport flying as is the hang-glider.
(5) He flew at weekends, in gliders and tandem-seat Chipmunks, with instructors who would occasionally let their students take control to try their hands at take-offs and landings.
(6) One of the beast's close relatives was the four-winged glider, the microraptor , which some scientists believe may also have been poisonous.
(7) Proliferative lesions were present in 14 macropods, 26 koalas, two wombats and 22 possums and gliders.
(8) On approaching landing, the wings would straighten again, allowing the ship to land like a glider, without the help of an engine.
(9) Six new species of Klossiella are described in the kidneys of Australian marsupials: Klossiella rufogrisei in Bennett's Wallaby, Macropus rufogriseus; Klossiella rufi in the Red Kangaroo, Macropus rufus; Klossiella thylogale in the Red-Bellied or Tasmanian Pademelon, Thylogale billardierii; Klossiella beveridgei in the Spectacled Hare-Wallaby, Lagorchestes conspicillatus; Klossiella bettongiae in the Tasmanian Bettong, Bettongia gaimardi; and Klossiella schoinobatis in the petaurid Greater Glider, Petauroides volans.
(10) But he was seen limping after flying a motorised hang glider with Siberian cranes in 2012, raising concerns about his health.
(11) 22 August 2010 A Swift S-1 aerobatic glider slams on to the runway at Shoreham airshow, breaking up the cockpit on impact.
(12) The lungs of five charadriiform species of bird, two of which are good divers and three predominantly flyers (soarers and gliders) have been analysed by morphometric techniques.
(13) 3 patients had survived a helicopter crash, 2 were injured while ejecting from combat aircraft, 3 were injured in crashes of light aircraft, 1 fell from a hand glider and 6 were injured in parachute drops.
(14) This report catalogues all spontaneous proliferations in macropods, koalas, wombats, and possums and gliders held by the Comparative Pathology Registry at Taronga Zoo.
(15) It is a complex system that brings together all manner of aircraft including passenger aeroplanes, military jets, helicopters, gliders and light aircraft.
(16) The greater glider, currently but incorrectly known as Schoinobates volans, is widely distributed in forested regions in eastern Australia.
(17) I thought of this while watching a Brazilian film about a hang-gliding champion sentenced to death and executed in Indonesia for smuggling 13kg of cocaine in a spar of his glider.
(18) First there was that leaked poster, which appeared to show the impish, emerald-skinned bomb chucker flying through the skies of Manhattan on his trademark glider.
(19) The effects of cortisol, ACTH, adrenalin and insulin on indices of carbohydrate, fat and protein metabolism were investigated in the conscious marsupial sugar glider Petaurus breviceps.
(20) We were at a mental health fundraiser, saw these hang gliders and decided to walk out there and cruise them.