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Heer


Definition:

  • (n.) A yarn measure of six hundred yards or / of a spindle. See Spindle.
  • (n.) Hair.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Sturm, Stahl, and Heer sit a few chairs down from Zschäpe in what appears a state of permanent listlessness.
  • (2) In this paper, some developments in understanding the dynamical theory of HEER, particularly in recent years, are reviewed: 1.
  • (3) Kurt Gutzeit, the "Beratende Internist beim Heeres-Sanitäts-Inspekteur" was in charge of the hepatitis research in the army.
  • (4) India’s intelligence agency has warned of potential violence around the release of Kaum De Heere, a Punjabi film which portrays the assassination of India’s former prime minister Indira Gandhi .
  • (5) With the development of reflection high energy electron diffraction (RHEED), high energy electron microscopy (REM), and high energy electron energy loss spectroscopy (EEL) in surface science, the usefulness of HEER has been widely recognized and demonstrated.
  • (6) Zschäpe originally seems to have chosen her defence lawyers on the basis of their martial-sounding surnames: Sturm (“Storm”), Stahl (“Steel”), and Heer (“Army”), but she soon turned against them.
  • (7) High energy electron reflection (HEER) is an important technique in surface science and uses the information carried by high energy electrons reflected from surfaces to study surface structures and surface electronic states.
  • (8) Megan Heeres, art curator and community art and garden programme manager at Lafayette Greens, one of Detroit's city gardens, said she was worried about what the new mayor will and won't be able to do.
  • (9) However, a stationary dynamical solution for an arbitrary surface for HEER has not been obtained yet.
  • (10) As a consequence, every detail of the trial is being raked over, not least the surnames of Zschäpe's defence lawyers, Wolfgang Heer, Wolfgang Stahl and Anja Sturm, (army, steel and storm), words which are very evocative of Nazi language and history.

Hewer


Definition:

  • (n.) One who hews.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The ladies are pursued past boarded-up branches of JJB Sports by a yawning Nick Hewer, whose parallel career as the host of Countdown has left him openly uninterested in the antics of a group of middle-management parakeets.
  • (2) Back in 2007, when Hopkins was the breakout contestant on series three of The Apprentice , co-presenter Nick Hewer told her, “Here’s what I think is going on.
  • (3) We still have an assumption that children from poorer backgrounds are destined to be hewers of wood and drawers of water.

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