(adv.) To this place; -- used with verbs signifying motion, and implying motion toward the speaker; correlate of hence and thither; as, to come or bring hither.
(adv.) To this point, source, conclusion, design, etc.; -- in a sense not physical.
(a.) Being on the side next or toward the person speaking; nearer; -- correlate of thither and farther; as, on the hither side of a hill.
(a.) Applied to time: On the hither side of, younger than; of fewer years than.
Example Sentences:
(1) A Panel Discussion at the "Hither neurology" Symposium included neurologists, a speech therapist, a geriatrician and a sociologist.
(2) "When little girls say they like it because it's more sparkly, that's all fine and good but, subconsciously, they are soaking in the sexy 'come-hither' look and the skinny aspect of the new version.
(3) 8.40pm BST 39 min: Scotland give the old tiki-taka a go, passing it hither and yon across the back like, and pinging a couple of little triangles down either flank.
(4) On Bedloe’s Island, the centre of attraction, a large platform decorated with bunting in which the tricolour was conspicuous, was erected, and hither after the parade was over President Cleveland and the most distinguished American and French representatives were conducted.
(5) Common indications for antibiotic prophylaxis are: operations involving a high chance of contamination and those that have hither to be clean but in which the implications of infections would be highly threatening.
(6) We conclude that tobacco 19S particles represent small cytoplasmic complexes, possessing biochemical and structural characteristics similar to the hither-to known prosomes of animal cells.
(7) With a second injection a much shorter but usually hither monophasic response was produced.
(8) Everyone knows the best players stand for the entire match in the centre circle dictating play, walking no more than five yards hither and yon, with a massive beer belly hanging over the belt of their shorts.
(9) This case report demonstrates the problems and shortcomings in the management of DV and documents a hither to unreported cause.
(10) Concentrations of Ca, P and activity of ALP hither on young animals are related to the needs of bone growth.
(11) Contrary to hitheric common "mapping" of electric activity of the brain, it is thus easier to detect pathological changes in the EEG frequency spectra.
(12) These determinants can be recognized by serology, and evidence is presented that some of them are coded for by a hither to unrecognized locus Ag, which is very closely linked to the MLC determinants of the D locus can be recognized with the help of the MLC test using unprimed cells, homozygous for the MLC determinants, so-called typing cells primed against one MLC determinant in the PLT test.
(13) ER content in myoma tended to be hither than that in myometrium, but the difference was not significant.
(14) From this study and data in the literature we conclude that hither-to a thymic precursor cell carrying the interleukin-2 receptor as is the case for the murine thymus has not been found in man.
(15) A long throw is hoiked in towards Huth, who flings himself through the air and barges into various defenders, sending them scattering hither and thither, before Shawcross prods the ball home from the resulting carnage.
(16) Step forward, then, Charlotte Lucas, you magnificently clear-eyed, steel‑spined, iron-willed creature who, while everyone else is mooning over dance partners, parsing glances and bobbing curls hither and thither, is taking a cold, hard, dispassionate look at her situation and making a reckoning of the fates to come.
(17) It was used for all patients discharged from the acute psychiatric ward in Hither Green Hospital over a 10 month period.
(18) The hither to wellknown movable fixateur such as that from Cleyburn have the disadvantage that the mounting of the apparatus can first be carried out after the reduction of the radius-fracture.
(19) For services to Young People through Guiding in Hither Green, Bexley and Sidcup, London.
(20) In the clinic for paediatrics of the Medical Academy of Dresden malformations of respiratory organs, situated below the larynx, were demonstrated in 18 per cent of patients who had been referred hither in the course of 20 years for bronchopulmonary diagnostics.
Hitter
Definition:
(n.) One who hits or strikes; as, a hard hitter.
Example Sentences:
(1) It’s not just about the many gems he pitched, including a no-hitter in 2008 .
(2) When it comes to Justin Verlander I sometimes put out a no-hitter alert before first pitch.
(3) Yadier Molina singled with one out in the bottom of the ninth, followed by pinch-hitter Craig who hit a double off Koji Uehara's first pitch down the left-field line that put runners on second and third.
(4) Dodgers manager Don Mattingly has gotten a lot of heat after that extra inning loss, both for not bringing his closer in earlier (not that it would have mattered considering how little the Dodgers did offensively in extra innings) and for pinch-running his clean-up hitter Adrian Gonzalez late in regulation and replacing his bat in the line-up with that of washed up veteran Michael Young.
(5) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Share Share this post Facebook Twitter Pinterest close 10.11pm BST Cardinals 2 - Pirates 0, top of the 8th Justin Wilson strikes out Matt Adams and now here's when things really starting to get interesting as Wacha is six outs away from a postseason no-hitter.
(6) 1.23am GMT Red Sox 0 - Cardinals 1, top of the 4th Dustin Pedroia, quiet most of this postseason, is up to salvage anything here, it seems improbable that these Sox hitters can be rendered mute by Lance freaking Lynn, but so it goes.
(7) Many who instinctively preferred King came to see him as the only heavy hitter capable of deposing Johnson (even King herself admits that, as time passed, Livingstone grew stronger).
(8) No reputable scientists have managed to establish the link Wakefield hypothesised existed, and heavy hitters like the Medical Research Council and Health Protection Agency have consistently stated that no supporting evidence exists.
(9) News Corp itself seems to be most anxious about the FCPA side of the federal investigations, judging from the legal team it has assembled – some of the heaviest hitters in American legal affairs.
(10) Games 1, 2 and (if necessary) 6 and 7 will be played here, which means American League rules will be in affect, which means that Designated Hitters will be allowed to bat in place of pitchers.
(11) David Ortiz would have to return from an injury-ended lost season to once again be one of the most feared hitters on the planet.
(12) Target Field, a $545m limestone-encased jewel that opened in 2010, produced an All-Star cycle just eight batters in, with hitters showing off flashy neon-bright spikes and fielders wearing All-Star caps with special designs for the first time.
(13) 3.39am GMT Giants 2 - Tigers 0, postgame Ryan Vogelsong, Tim Lincecum and Sergio Romo - Detroit hitters have no answer to the trio despite boasting two of the most prolific hitters in all of baseball, and a capable lineup that was shut out just twice all season long.
(14) We have an opportunity to identify the new big hitters for the 21st century, and local government.
(15) DH: Always seemed unfair when the NL teams seldom have a useful hitter compared to the AL teams often best hitter.
(16) No hitters are supposed to be hard to get, that's the reason they're impressive.
(17) Updated at 1.32am BST 1.31am BST Tigers 0 - Red Sox 0, bottom of the 1st Max Scherzer gets Jacoby Ellsbury looking to start of the first, ah so already the Sox hitters are picking up where they left off against Scherzer in game two.
(18) The next year, after reading The Techniques of Modern Hitting , by Wade Boggs, he became the best hitter on his team.
(19) Cardinals 2 - Pirates 0, bottom of the 6th Michael Wacha walks Russell Martin and there's the first Pirates baserunner, so there's no perfect game but there's still a no-hitter in process.
(20) Still very much in recovery, the programme does not attract the heavy hitters it once did, nor the million-plus audiences it had when Davis was its economics editor a decade and a half ago.