(a.) One who, or that which, grates; especially, an instrument or utensil with a rough, indented surface, for rubbing off small particles of any substance; as a grater for nutmegs.
Example Sentences:
(1) He locked horns with the architect again in 2008, using Rogers' 44-storey "cheese grater" tower in the City of London to warn that historic cities were being wrecked.
(2) I use the wide side of the grater or the mandolin for this, although those with better knife skills than me should be able to do a good job of it that way.
(3) Today, London's skyline is dominated by such sights as the Cheese-grater in Leadenhall, the Walkie-talkie in Fenchurch Street, the Gherkin in Aldgate and the Razor at Elephant and Castle.
(4) DL-methinionine in the diet of cows for the first months of lactation leads to grater amounts of milk of higher quality as well as to improving the health of the animals.
(5) The majority of the compounds showed clear antagonist activity towards BaCl2, histamine and acetylcholine contracting responses, generally grater than that of papaverine; on the contrary, their antagonist activity towards 5-HT responses was slightly lower.
(6) On the other hand, the patients who had undergone muscle release had, to grater or lesser extent, disturbances of the range of movement.
(7) Try Auctionstealer , an online tool which bids for you at the last nanosecond, meaning you can watch The Cube while simultaneously winning a grater.
(8) "Russia is already paying a serious price for its actions," William Hague assured the house, the extra helium in his cheese-grater voice an indication of his own gravity.
(9) Although the two-year-olds' extent of exploration and amount of time spent in a playroom were significantly grater when their mother was present than when an unfamiliar person was present, the grandmother's functional characteristics were on an intermediate level between those of the mother and those of the unfamiliar person.
(10) • Prominent in this list are kitchen implements like cheese graters and bottle openers; if you want to make it a bit more fun then you can get various novelty themed equipment .
(11) This paper describes a simple method of obtaining cancellous graft from femoral heads, either allograft or autograft, with "cheese grater" type acetabular reamers.
(12) Roughly grate the eggs on the large holes of the grater, then grate the garlic on the fine side.
(13) The effect of the dnaA mutation was grater on plasmid DNA synthesis than on host chromosomal DNA synthesis.
(14) Out of 49 cases, histologic diagnosis of chronic diffuse lymphocytic thyroiditis was established in nine patients (18%) but the frequency of the appearance of this autoimmune disease may well be grater because a relatively small number of patients underwent the operation.
(15) Epinephrine and insulin increased glucose uptake in Planaria, but epinephrine did so to a much grater extent.
(16) They were quickly alerted to the fact that the Japanese generally do not eat cheese or mashed potatoes during a presentation, leaving the potato masher and grater largely redundant - although the brand has proved particularly successful there and in the US out of the 105 countries they now sell in, mostly through third-party distributors.
(17) Just as the distinctively named Shard of Glass, the Helter Skelter, the Cheese- grater and the Walkie Talkie are being erected across the City, the architect who created the eye-catching Gherkin has declared the London skyscraper building boom is nearing its end.
Rater
Definition:
(n.) One who rates or estimates.
(n.) One who rates or scolds.
Example Sentences:
(1) Accuracy of discrimination of letters at various preselected distances was determined each session while Ortho-rater examinations were given periodically throughout training.
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(3) Study 1 assessed the effects of roentgenogram quality, raters, and seven measurement methods on the consistency and accuracy of evaluating translations in the sagittal plane.
(4) Videotaped interviews were used for assessing the level of inter-rater reliability and the communicability of the CPRS to unexperienced raters.
(5) In order to evaluate how many patients presenting at accident and emergency (A&E) departments show signs of psychiatric disturbance, 140 consecutive medical presentations to an A&E department were evaluated using a range of simple self-report and rater measures, then followed up a month later.
(6) This increase was greater with the inexperienced raters than with the experienced group.
(7) Interrater reliabilities, ranging from .62 to .83 across rater pairs, were superior to reliabilities reported in medical education studies.
(8) The DRS and LCFS were compared in terms of how consistently ratings could be made by different raters, how stable those ratings were from day to day, their relative correlation with Stover Zeiger (S-Z) ratings collected concurrently at admission, and with S-Z, Glasgow Outcome Scale (GOS), and Expanded GOS (EGOS) ratings collected concurrently at discharge, and finally in the ability of admission DRS and LCFS scores to predict discharge ratings on the S-Z, GOS, and EGOS.
(9) Scale items that differed from the raters' intuition tended to be omitted more than others.
(10) Two raters examined 45 children (90 hips), including patients with spastic diplegia and with meningomyelocele, who are prone to developing hip flexion contractures, and healthy subjects.
(11) Additional evaluations included interrater reliability and an evaluation that included longitudinal measurement, in which one subject was imaged sequentially 24 times, with reliability computed from data collected by three raters over 1 year.
(12) Furthermore, raters watched the synchronously recorded video versions of the subject's face and rated them as to expressivity.
(13) Each rater evaluated the transcript of 15 prenatal interviews.
(14) These differences diminish when more highly educated raters are used.
(15) Prealcohol and postalcohol responses were assessed by self-rating scales of affect and mood, independent rater observation, perceptual-motor, and cognitive performance tasks.
(16) Intrarater reliability for each of the four nurse-raters on a random sample was at a significant level.
(17) Several investigators have used the Brier index to measure the predictive accuracy of a set of medical judgments; the Brier scores of different raters who have evaluated the same patients provides a measure of relative accuracy.
(18) Comparison of reliability scores across rating conditions indicated that the videotape medium had little effect on the ability of raters to rate affective flattening similarly.
(19) Calibrated raters were unaware of group affiliation of products.
(20) The Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale (BPRS) and the Clinical Global Impressions (CGI) scale were administered at study entry and once a week by a blind rater.