(n.) A person who retires from society and lives in solitude; a recluse; an anchoret; especially, one who so lives from religious motives.
(n.) A beadsman; one bound to pray for another.
Example Sentences:
(1) Larvae of the hermit crab Clibanarius vittatus were reared on a diet of Artemia nauplii.
(2) Visual pigment absorption spectra were measured in single photoreceptors of a stomatopod, a crayfish, a hermit crab, and five species of brachyuran crab.
(3) It has charted the world's highest peaks, the ocean floor, the Amazon rainforest and even provided a glimpse into the hermit state of North Korea.
(4) The use of Hermite integration to replace the integration in the combined model likelihood provided the parameter estimates closest to those stimulated.
(5) Established by St Kevin in the 6th century, the site has an arched gateway, a 30m-high round tower, a roofless cathedral, and St Kevin's Cell, the ruins of a beehive-shaped stone hut, thought to have been the hermit's home.
(6) It was also suggested that a three-dimensional Hermite transform can be used to code spatiotemporal events.
(7) It would also force the United Nations to rethink its approach to the hermit state.
(8) I disagree with the ban as it has turned me into a hermit.
(9) Shell-living Pagurus longicarpus hermit crabs were grown in one species of shell.
(10) Number of deaths for each year of age were calculated by application of "two dimensional semi-Hermite method" after estimation of number of deaths for age 80, 81,......84, using Sprague interpolation factors.
(11) The present paper reports on a case of mycobacteriosis in a colony of Hermit-Ibises, in which a so far unknown serovar of Mycobacterium avium-intracellulare has been isolated.
(12) It is possible that North Korea's hardline sabre-rattling shines a spotlight onto internal power struggles inside the hermit kingdom.
(13) The orientation of fibers within coordinate planes bounded by epicardial and endocardial surfaces is interpolated linearly, with transmural variation given by cubic Hermite basis functions.
(14) We dispute the claim that Hermite functions (similar to derivatives of Gaussians) minimize a joint uncertainty relation in space and spatial frequency.
(15) Instead, the Hermite functions arise as the eigenfunctions of a space-variant differential operator used to model the contrast sensitivity of human observers.
(16) The active stiffness of ventral superficial abdominal muscle (VSM) of the hermit crab, Pagurus pollicarus, was measured with ramp stretches of different amplitudes and velocities.
(17) The effects of penicillin and picrotoxin on the increase in membrane conductance produced by gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) at the hermit crab neuromuscular junction were investigated.
(18) He is, they say, a virtual hermit in his seven-bedroom north London home, a fearful wreck persecuted by his own perfectionism.
(19) With reference to the experimental investigations of Lloyd (1975) and following the suggestions of L'Hermite (1977) and Vaidya (1977) this tumour regression is interpreted as being due to the antimitotic effect of Bromocriptin via inhibition of c-AMP and DNA.
(20) It also heaps additional financial pressure on the already sanctioned hermit regime of leader Kim Jong-un by aiming at cutting down on money laundering and narcotics trafficking, two major illicit activities believed to be funneling millions of dollars into Kim’s inner circle.
Loner
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) George, a loner who was said to have stalked and photographed hundreds of women, always maintained his innocence.
(2) There they are, drinking again.’” Harper is a loner – a suburban boy who went trainspotting with his dad; whose asthma stopped him playing ice hockey That scorn appears to have interrupted the clever student’s journey to the top of the class.
(3) Cho Seung-hui was revealed to be a troubled loner of South Korean descent who left behind a disturbing note of grievances against his university saying: "You caused me to do this."
(4) This study focuses on drug use, delinquency and lifestyle correlates of LONERS and SOCIALS.
(5) "If the great male detectives are archetypically loners, female detectives are doubly so.
(6) "One of the big problems with being a loner is that one does not get helpful reality checks from people who can challenge disordered thinking," Mr Depue wrote.
(7) He has a reputation for being something of a loner – often choosing to eat lunch alone in the canteen – and one former colleague described him as "a space cadet, he finds it difficult to emphathise with people not as bright or focused as him".
(8) He says that he's a loner, but constantly tells affectionate anecdotes about his mates.
(9) As the former Tory leader and arch-Eurosceptic Iain Duncan Smith described Douglas Carswell as a backbench loner, Redwood said the "so-called eight" had been plucked from the dining list of the Ukip donor Stuart Wheeler who used to support the Tories.
(10) Colin Stagg , a classic "loner", was wrongly accused of the murder of Rachel Nickell on Wimbledon Common in 1992, not least because he seemed like such a likely customer.
(11) The portrait of addiction is often one of tragedy – young lives cut short, or loners cut off from family and friends.
(12) But detectives admit they still do not know how “true loner” Mair, who had no social network, got hold of it.
(13) Police described the shooter as a “loner” and, bizarrely, pointed out out that he had shown an appreciation of the rapper Professor Griff, a founding member of the hip hop group Public Enemy, and an outspoken proponent of Afrocentrism, on Facebook.
(14) The police can't protect us, the government can't protect us, there are no more charismatic loners to protect us and the euro is defunct.
(15) As a child she was a shy, melancholic loner riddled with very early-onset teenage angst.
(16) He is a loner – a suburban boy who went trainspotting with his dad; whose asthma stopped him playing ice hockey but who knew more hockey stats than anyone else; who became an economist while his two brothers became accountants because, as he said, he did not have the personality to be an accountant.
(17) Tim Cushing made one of my favorite points of [last] week in his Tuesday post " Former NSA boss calls Snowden's supporters internet shut-ins; equates transparency activists with al-Qaida ", when he explained that "some of the most ardent defenders of our nation's surveillance programs" – much like proponents of overreaching cyber-legislation, like Sopa – have a habit of "belittling" their opponents as a loose confederation of basement-dwelling loners.
(18) In the classic Hollywood movie, whether the hero is cop, cowboy, private eye, rebel or drifter, there comes a moment when this solitary, self-sufficient loner faces the bad guys all by himself.
(19) Loners with pistols, strange men creeping into the royal bedroom at two in the morning: such events can be put down to obsessive and deranged personalities.
(20) 's sample of drug abusers, were more likely to be categorized as "loners," "rebels," and "pessimists" than was the general population sample.