(n.) One who grades, or that by means of which grading is done or facilitated.
Example Sentences:
(1) She said that even as she approached the gates, she was debating with the boy’s father whether to let the first-grader enter.
(2) The present study investigated the effects of family economic stress on parental support and adolescent maladjustment in 622 9th through 12th graders in a Midwestern farm community.
(3) Smokeless tobacco use and personality factors associated with smokeless tobacco use were examined in a broad, representative sample of 8th and 10th graders from central and south-central Florida (n = 1413).
(4) The Piers Harris Self-Concept Scale was administered to 174 fourth and sixth graders, half of whom attended SDP schools and half control schools.
(5) Caries prevalence among seventh and eighth graders after seven years of rinsing was not significantly different from caries prevalence among seventh and eighth grade lifetime residents of a nearby fluoridated community.
(6) This evaluation conducted in a sample of 5th graders compares the efficacy of two motivation methods.
(7) First and fifth graders sorted cards into 2 piles based on the orientation of a T figure.
(8) In roughly five minutes, officials said, he had fired 154 times, killing 20 first-graders and six staff members.
(9) Relationships were determined between 59 fifth graders' depression scores (on the Children's Depression Inventory and a teacher's rating of depression) and their performance on measures of automatic aspects of reading (word recognition and word attack skills) and effortful aspects of reading (comprehension).
(10) This descriptive study focused on fifth and sixth graders' questions about AIDS and provides some directions for theory-based nursing interventions related to AIDS and children.
(11) The participants consisted of sixth graders from urban and rural areas, and black and white populations of low socioeconomic status.
(12) In 1987 mean values for FEV1 and FEF25-75 were lower by 4.5% pred and 13.6% pred respectively (P < 0.001), while vital capacities were not different in 213 children tested as fifth graders in 1984 and 251 fifth grade children in 1987.
(13) Forty-six fourth through sixth graders expressed their attitudes toward an unknown mentally retarded student presented in a videotape.
(14) The relation of Type A behavior to IQ, academic achievement, and several clinically relevant dimensions of behavior in children was assessed in 873 fourth, fifth, and sixth graders by means of the Matthews Youth Test for Health (MYTH), the Cognitive Abilities Test (CAT), the Iowa Tests of Basic Skills (ITED), and the teachers' form of the Missouri Children's Behavior Checklist (MCBC-T).
(15) A survey of 1,180 sixth, ninth, and eleventh graders in three school districts in the State of Washington found that 34 per cent of male Native Americans, 24 per cent of female Native Americans, 20 per cent of male non-natives and 4 per cent of female non-natives are current users of smokeless tobacco products.
(16) Carver-Taylor worked steadily, through the fourth graders, then the fifth graders, talking and joking with them.
(17) The battery of tests was administered to about 100 first, 84 second, and 110 third graders.
(18) The model resulted from a sex education programme for fifth and sixth graders in an international school setting in Japan.
(19) In three experiments with second and fourth graders it was shown that (1) fourth graders' recall exceeded that of second graders only in the free, but not in the serial (or cued), recall condition, (2) higher levels of clustering were observed for fourth graders in the free recall condition, and (3) the grade effect on free recall data was eliminated when the influence of metamemory and categorical clustering statistically was partialled out (Experiments 1 and 3).
(20) This paper describes a 9-month intergenerational program designed to establish a more intimate involvement between a group of 4th graders and elderly volunteers from Senior Neighbors.
Grazer
Definition:
(n.) One that grazes; a creature which feeds on growing grass or herbage.
Example Sentences:
(1) The ciliates were found in the colon of three of these free-living hindgut-fermenting grazers that were shot in widely spaced districts in southern Africa.
(2) Grazer's first task will now be to secure the services of a new host, though there is no huge rush – Oscars MCs have, in the past, been announced as late as January for a ceremony that usually takes place in late February or early March.
(3) I do love reading books, watching films, listening to music, but it tends to all come back to what I do.” (A big movie fan, he counts Alex Garland, who directed the recent AI film Ex Machina , as a friend; and mentions that he’s just had a meeting with the US film producer Brian Grazer, a “really cool guy”, in which they talked about, you guessed it, AI.)
(4) In the same 12-year period, we also performed abdominoplasty in 108 patients, using the Pitanguy and the Grazer procedures.
(5) Ironically, the man who stepped into Ratner's shoes was one of his Tower Heist producers, Brian Grazer; as yet, there's no word on Murphy's replacement, but traction is gaining for the Muppets , who have a new movie in production.
(6) In summer, they decline after exhausting nutrients or being eaten by ocean grazers.
(7) These ‘grazers’ are leading a major shift in shopping habits, which marks a return to the way people used to shop before the advent of larger supermarkets.” Murrells is fighting to turn around the fortunes of the Co-op’s grocery stores – a key plank in the reinvention of the troubled Co-operative Group , which includes food, insurance and funeral care businesses.
(8) "It's very gratifying to be part of a show that honours excellence in the medium to which I have devoted so much of my career," said Grazer, who will work with Oscars veteran Don Mischer.
(9) "Brian Grazer is a renowned film-maker who over the past 25 years has produced a diverse and extraordinary body of work," Academy president Tom Sherak said.
(10) A further distinction has been made between grazing animals, e.g., cattle, sheep, horses, and non-grazers such as swine and poultry.
(11) Grazer, who won a best film statue in 2002 as a producer of A Beautiful Mind, worked with both Ratner and Murphy on the film Tower Heist, and appears to have been recruited by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences because of his working relationship with the latter.
(12) The Oscar-winning producer Brian Grazer has stepped in to host the 2012 Academy Awards following the departure of Brett Ratner and host Eddie Murphy in a damaging 24-hour period for the world's most famous film ceremony.
(13) Portland's food carts have fed millions, launched careers and contributed to urban regeneration: a no-go square once known as "crack park" is now full of happy lunchtime grazers.
(14) The anatomy of the lechwe stomach is similar to the stomachs of other water dependent grazers such as Bohor Reedbuck, Waterbuck, Uganda Kob and Puku.