(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.
Size
Definition:
(n.) Six.
(v. i.) A thin, weak glue used in various trades, as in painting, bookbinding, paper making, etc.
(v. i.) Any viscous substance, as gilder's varnish.
(v. t.) To cover with size; to prepare with size.
(n.) A settled quantity or allowance. See Assize.
(n.) An allowance of food and drink from the buttery, aside from the regular dinner at commons; -- corresponding to battel at Oxford.
(n.) Extent of superficies or volume; bulk; bigness; magnitude; as, the size of a tree or of a mast; the size of a ship or of a rock.
(n.) Figurative bulk; condition as to rank, ability, character, etc.; as, the office demands a man of larger size.
(n.) A conventional relative measure of dimension, as for shoes, gloves, and other articles made up for sale.
(n.) An instrument consisting of a number of perforated gauges fastened together at one end by a rivet, -- used for ascertaining the size of pearls.
(v. t.) To fix the standard of.
(v. t.) To adjust or arrange according to size or bulk.
(v. t.) To take the height of men, in order to place them in the ranks according to their stature.
(v. t.) To sift, as pieces of ore or metal, in order to separate the finer from the coarser parts.
(v. t.) To swell; to increase the bulk of.
(v. t.) To bring or adjust anything exactly to a required dimension, as by cutting.
(v. i.) To take greater size; to increase in size.
(v. i.) To order food or drink from the buttery; hence, to enter a score, as upon the buttery book.
Example Sentences:
(1) A series of human cDNA clones of various sizes and relative localizations to the mRNA molecule were isolated by using the human p53-H14 (2.35-kilobase) cDNA probe which we previously cloned.
(2) The optimal size for stimulation was between 5 degrees and 12 degrees (visual angle).
(3) To quantify the size of the lesion in mice, the area of the infarct on the brain surface was assessed planimetrically 48 h after MCA occlusion by transcardial perfusion of carbon black.
(4) Moreover in MIT-1, the size of the novel polypeptide was not that predicted of the precursor (44.9 kDa) but was about 39 kDa, the same size as the authentic GS gamma polypeptide in CYT-4.
(5) The statistical T value calculated for the LP-TAE group showed that the administration of LP, the tumor size, intrahepatic metastasis, portal vein infiltration, and serum total bilirubin and alpha-fetoprotein levels significantly (P < 0.01) affected the patients' survival.
(6) Size analysis of the solubilized IgA IP employing sucrose density gradient ultracentrifugation, indicated that these were heterogeneous, with a size generally larger than 19 S.
(7) Using the oocyte system to express size-fractionated mRNA, we have also determined that the mRNA coding for this protein is between 1.9-2.4 kilobases in length.
(8) In all groups, there was a fall in labeling index with time reflecting increasing tumor size.
(9) However, both were identical in size when synthesized in COS-1 cells in the presence of tunicamycin or when deglycosylated after their synthesis in Xenopus oocytes.
(10) To estimate the age of onset of these differences, and to assess their relationship to abdominal and gluteal adipocyte size, we measured adiposity, adipocyte size, and glucose and insulin concentrations during a glucose tolerance test in lean (less than 20% body fat), prepubertal children from each race.
(11) In 2012, 20% of small and medium-sized businesses were either run solely or mostly by women.
(12) All patients with localized subaortic hypertrophy had left ventricular hypertrophy (left ventricular mass or posterior wall thickness greater than 2 SD from normal) with a normal size cavity due to aortic valve disease (2 patients were also hypertensive).
(13) We studied the effects of the localisation and size of ischemic brain infarcts and the influence of potential covariates (gender, age, time since infarction, physical handicap, cognitive impairment, aphasia, cortical atrophy and ventricular size) on 'post-stroke depression'.
(14) The results were compared with those obtained by Hess and Goldblatt, and were further analyzed for possible differences by age, sex, ethnicity, and family size.
(15) The combined results suggest that any possible heterogeneity in the L-CAM genes is not reflected in the size of either the mRNA or protein.
(16) After immunoadsorbent purification, the final step in a purification procedure similar to that adopted for colon cancer CEA, two main molecular species were identified: 1) Material identical with colon cancer CEA with respect to molecular size, PCA solubility, ability to bind to Con A, and most important the ability to bind to specific monkey anti-CEA serum.
(17) In spite of important differences in size, chemical composition, polymer density, and configuration, biological macromolecules indeed manifest some of the essential physical-chemical properties of gels.
(18) The minimal change in gel fiber size caused by slow A release implies that fibrin fiber size is primarily a function of ionic environment and not of the sequence of peptide release.
(19) The total content of both thyroid hormones in the oocytes increased throughout most of the ovarian cycle as the oocytes increased in size from less than 2 mg to approximately 6.5 mg by ovulation.
(20) Tactile stimulation of a coin-sized area in a T-2 dermatome consistently triggered a lancinating pain in the ipsilateral C-8 dermatome in a 38-year-old woman.