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Hatcher


Definition:

  • (n.) One who hatches, or that which hatches; a hatching apparatus; an incubator.
  • (n.) One who contrives or originates; a plotter.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) These included an investigation of egg handling techniques from nest box to hatcher; the adoption by the hatchery of plastic setter trays; an improvement to incubator environment; an improvement in the overall hatchery hygiene programme and the introduction of a regular monitoring programme based on the examination of hatchery fluff.
  • (2) Chicks were weighed before and after removal of the residual yolk sac immediately upon removal from the hatcher.
  • (3) Chicks held for 48 hours in hatcher machines lost 12.5% to 21.7% of their hatching weight and 79.4% of the hatching weight of the yolk sac.
  • (4) Congo red E. coli-associated airsacculitis risk was based on CREC exposure of the chicks in the hatchers.
  • (5) Inotropic or toxic cardiac activities of the conjugates are examined on isolated guinea pig papillary muscles and by the Hatcher method on cats.
  • (6) The attributable risk percent of CREC airsacculitis from hatcher exposure of CREC was 89.4%, pointing to the hatcher as the source of CREC infection.
  • (7) In the VIP area waiting for Akon, Pacifique Boraumzima Buluhukiro, the North Kivu coordinator for Interpeace , said: “It’s a very important day, to attract people’s attention to the meaning and significance of peace – but the biggest job is yet to be done.” • The International Women’s Media Foundation supported Jessica Hatcher’s reporting from the Democratic Republic of the Congo
  • (8) You also have to be prepared to take certain risks.” • The International Women’s Media Foundation supported Jessica Hatcher’s reporting from the Democratic Republic of the Congo
  • (9) After 18 days of incubation, incubated trays were transferred to hatching compartments either distributed randomly in the same hatcher (Experiment 1) or positioned as they were in the incubator (Experiment 2).
  • (10) Variety reports that the film is being scripted by Jeffrey Hatcher, the writer of The Duchess, and is billed as a co-production between AI Film, an offshoot of Icon, and BBC Films.
  • (11) Decontamination of setters and hatchers resulted in abrupt cessation of mortality in subsequent placements, implicating incubators as the source of infection.
  • (12) Use of the classical glycoside bioassay (Hatcher's digitalis titration) during and after washout, provided a semiquantitative estimation of ouabain remaining in the trabeculae; after a 4 h washout of the drug, the trabeculae were challenged by the addition of one-half of the initial concentration of ouabain (0.25 microM).
  • (13) However, Hatcher made a deal with the FSA to avoid criminal charges by helping to prosecute Calvert.
  • (14) The Cowboys force the Eagles into a three and out of their own - Dallas' pass rush puts pressure on Foles, who dances around the pocket for a bit before succumbing to Jason Hatcher.
  • (15) Two experimental chick hatchers in which ventilation air within the hatcher was partially recirculated in a positive pressure system, one with an air filter in the system and the other without a filter, were simultaneously tested to determine effect of the filter on quantitative reduction of viable airborne microorganisms.
  • (16) This great American picaresque isn’t especially heavy on narrative force so it remains to be seen how playwright Jeffrey Hatcher and director David Esbjornson will propel the Big Easy action along.
  • (17) In each experiment, half of the chicks were removed shortly after hatching and half of the chicks were allowed to remain in the hatcher for an additional 30 hr.
  • (18) Photograph: Bill Hatcher The submission adds: “Modifying properties on the basis of domestic political whim is a bad precedent to set and something the Australian government should not encourage.
  • (19) The FSA said it had fined Hatcher £59,098 – the exact amount Hatcher had made in profit on the deals.
  • (20) Still, as a parent, Hatcher admits Huhne's actions are difficult to explain to her children – all of whom are of primary school age.

Hatchet


Definition:

  • (n.) A small ax with a short handle, to be used with one hand.
  • (n.) Specifically, a tomahawk.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Experimental blows with a saw like the used on the leg of a corpse showed an unexpected result: it was possible to produce wounds of the soft-tissues and the bone similar to those by hatchets.
  • (2) Hague declined to say whether the newspaper had carried out a hatchet job as he said: "These things do happen."
  • (3) However, as his release became imminent, the feminist blogger Jean Hatchet started a petition asserting that Evans should not be re-signed by United as this would only trivialise and normalise rape in the eyes of a large number of football supporters.
  • (4) Heseltine also said the Mail had published "hatchet jobs" on Ed Miliband and Nick Clegg.
  • (5) Nine years after Jonathan Franzen derided Oprah Winfrey's choice of "schmaltzy, one-dimensional" novels for her book club, becoming the first author to be formally disinvited to appear on her show, these two giants of American cultural life appear to have buried the hatchet.
  • (6) Abramson, though apparently non-violent, is judged "impossible", according to the unsourced Politico hatchet job.
  • (7) A hatchet has been thrown through the window of a Nigerian family's home in central Belfast in a suspected racist attack.
  • (8) The cover art for the Cranberries' Bury the Hatchet (1999) was an evocation of paranoia – a giant eye bearing down on a crouching figure – that did neither band nor artist many favours; his image for Muse's Black Holes and Revelations (2006) amounted to a thin revival of his work for the Floyd that, if you were being generous, suggested a wry comment on that band's unconvincing attempts to revive the excesses of 1970s progressive rock.
  • (9) Another Twitter user, going by the handle @CoreyOC21, sent a message to Ennis-Hill which read: “Hope Ched Evans gets you you little slut.” A spokesman for South Yorkshire police said: “Officers are looking into the tweets.” The feminist campaigner Jean Hatchet, who started a campaign signed by more than 160,000 people on change.org calling on the club to break all ties with the player , told the Guardian she has been receiving up 500 abusive tweets a minute from supporters of the disgraced footballer.
  • (10) Stephen Fry responds at length to a Daily Mail hatchet job.
  • (11) "Barristers have to ask themselves the question: are they merely the conduit, are they merely a paid cipher whose job is to do whatever hatchet job they can?"
  • (12) Yesterday, his voice was among those that cropped up in a hatchet-job run by the Times – titled "the fall of new Labour", and focused on the supposed illegitimacy of the younger Miliband's leadership win.
  • (13) A man carrying a hatchet charged the officers, hitting one officer in the right arm and then striking a second officer in the head, the spokesman said.
  • (14) BT has struck an £200m-plus deal to offer its sports channels to Virgin Media's 4 million TV customers, as the pay-TV rivals bury the hatchet to increase the pressure on BSkyB.
  • (15) Clooney is using his own power and clout to redefine the damaged dynamic that has existed since the days of gossip-columnist hatchet-jobs in old Hollywood.
  • (16) He told the room it was not just a band getting back together, but best friends burying the hatchet.
  • (17) My teenage years were spent getting to know our champion; I am now learning more and more about the man with the hatchet.
  • (18) "This sentence takes a hatchet to press freedom, and comes at a time when no-one can deny that leak-based nationals security reporting is critical."
  • (19) Hatchet was subjected to virulent internet abuse, some fans at United games sang songs naming and abusing his victim and declaring that Evans would “shag who he wants”.
  • (20) One executive who has worked closely with ailing businesses said: "People think Hilco does a hatchet job, but they have traded HMV Canada and traded it well.

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