(n.) One who hands over or transmits; a conveyer in succession.
Example Sentences:
(1) Twenty-six dyslexic boys (13 left-handers and 13 right-handers) were tested for hemispheric asymmetry with dichotic listening (DL) and a visual half-field test (VHF).
(2) Forty-four normal adult males and females (22 right-handers, 22 left-handers) participated in the experiment.
(3) Left-handers exhibited lower NK cell activity compared to right-handed or ambidextrous animals.
(4) This occurs because the asymmetry for certain left-handers is either very weak or, in some cases, is the complete reverse of the asymmetry observed in right-handers.
(5) No significant link was found between maternal age and handedness of offspring for 154 left-handers and 560 right-handers.
(6) Nicknamed “Mr Padre”, the left-hander had a 20-year career in Major League Baseball , all of it with San Diego.
(7) The association was also significant for left-handers, chi 2 (1, n = 72) = 4.036, p less than .05.
(8) Severe hemi-spatial neglect, anosognosia, contralateral hypokinesia, aprosodia, and visual-spatial constructive difficulties--typically seen in right-handers with right hemisphere lesions--were observed in a left-handed patient with an acute left frontal cortical and subcortical infarct.
(9) In right-handers (total sample), body height was found to be significantly and negatively linearly correlated with the degree of right-hand preference.
(10) For 12 of 15 aspects of ability at 7.5 years left-handed children had slightly higher scores than right-handers.
(11) There's a lot of two-hander dialogue in True Detective , and I needed to place those guys in locations where there were other levels of visual storytelling.
(12) Non-right-handers performed significantly better than consistent right-handers on one motor and one tactile task.
(13) The H reflex from right leg was different between these right-handers.
(14) However, left-handers were more flexible than right-handers in signing with their non-preferred hand.
(15) Palm prints of 394 right-handers and 356 non-right-handers (left-handers and ambidextrous) were evaluated regarding intertriradial ridge counts.
(16) In both right and left handers, the central portion of the right hemisphere is frequently wider than the left; the pineal therefore often lies slightly to the left of the midline in normal brains.
(17) Earlier indications that bilateral asymmetry is reduced in left-handers could not be confirmed generally.
(18) The media guide proclaimed Lackey as part of Three Aces along with homegrown left-hander Jon Lester and 2007 ALCS MVP Josh Beckett.
(19) By choosing the comedian Reggie Watts as his band leader and sidekick, he’s got the comedic force of one of standup’s great surrealists to play off – he sometimes hands over entire sketches to Watts, whose prominent inclusion in the opening credits almost implies that the show is a two-hander.
(20) Consistent with past studies, torque was significantly related to handedness, with nonright-handers demonstrating a greater incidence of torque.
Hanker
Definition:
(v. i.) To long (for) with a keen appetite and uneasiness; to have a vehement desire; -- usually with for or after; as, to hanker after fruit; to hanker after the diversions of the town.
(v. i.) To linger in expectation or with desire.
Example Sentences:
(1) Mr Bae stars in a popular drama, Winter Sonata, a tale of rekindled puppy love that has left many Japanese women hankering for an age when their own men were as sensitive and attentive as the Korean actor.
(2) All lovely, logical reasons, none of which apply to me: I work from home, live in London and don't need to budget because I only hanker for tat.
(3) He hankered for a return to Spain but, despite collecting four winners’ medals in his first season and celebrating the first league title of his career the following year, things did not proceed entirely as he might have hoped at Camp Nou.
(4) He seems to hanker after footholds – a dabble with Scientology has come to an end, and it seems fair to say that the experience has contributed to what he calls his "wounded position".
(5) In our apolitical age, his ideological promiscuity looks more like posturing than what it really was, a desperate hankering after the truth.
(6) Phillips, a journalist for many years before he became a full-time politician (does he still hanker to be London mayor?)
(7) McBride’s book, published almost 10 years after Brown’s death, is that hankering for more.
(8) A muted reaction works better than the self-righteous explosion they are sometimes hankering after.
(9) But what they hanker for is a left that treats Israel the way it treats any other country with such a record – as a flawed society, but not one that is a byword for evil, that is deemed a “disease” (as it was by a caller to a 2010 show on Press TV , the Iranian state broadcaster, without objection from the host, Jeremy Corbyn), whose very right to exist is held to be conditional on good behaviour, a standard not applied to any other nation on Earth.
(10) If she’d turned over the records it would have put an end to it pretty early.” Clinton’s hankering for privacy should not be confused with reticence.
(11) Squint, and you might think the Lib Dems were maintaining the equal distance between the other parties they used to hanker after.
(12) Photograph: National Trust What do you do if you hanker after a dose of solitude somewhere scenic and remote, but can no longer heft a heavy rucksack because of a dodgy back?
(13) Some in our movement hanker for the days of protectionism, imagining that tariffs on imports support local jobs,” Wong says.
(14) Which would all be fine, I venture, except that few people hanker after a big tub of popcorn on a Saturday night to watch a socially engaged, left-slanting film.
(15) It had appeared that Scott was destined to resist, thereby disappointing those hankering to know more of Rick Deckard, played by Harrison Ford, and Roy Batty (Rutger Hauer).
(16) Following incubation the copper ferrocyanide reaction product was amplified with 3,3'-diamino-benzidine according to Hanker et al.
(17) The sites of the antigen-antibody reaction were demonstrated by the avidin-biotin-peroxidase complex method using the Hanker-Yates reagent as a peroxidase substrate.
(18) "Of course JCS subsequently became a legit theatre stalwart, but I, personally, have always hankered after seeing it again in the arenas where it started," said Andrew Lloyd Webber in a statement.
(19) He will tell the Tory right that it runs the risk of endangering the coalition's collective achievements in cutting the deficit by hankering after tax cuts for the rich, or renegotiating the European Union treaty in the wake of the Euro crisis.
(20) It was typical of Hughes to leave the Brazilian on the bench for his last game, and when he has played Robinho has only occasionally looked as impressive as his price tag, though it is hardly Hughes's fault if the Brazilian none too secretly hankers for a move back to Spain or needs a manager with a more stellar CV fully to motivate him.