(n.) One who, or that which, inks; especially, in printing, the pad or roller which inks the type.
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Sinker
Definition:
(n.) One who, or that which, sinks.
(n.) A weight on something, as on a fish line, to sink it.
(n.) In knitting machines, one of the thin plates, blades, or other devices, that depress the loops upon or between the needles.
Example Sentences:
(1) Simple suturing techniques are also described, including the practicability of using padded buttons plus lead fishing sinkers to adjust the tension and secure these sutures on the surface of the neck.
(2) The investigation consisted of four studies: (1) visual observation of the dissolution performance using 12 different sinkers; (2) the effect on drug release from nine classified sinkers on two different capsule formulations; (3) side-by-side comparison between the selected optimal longitudinal U clip and the wire helix lateral type sinkers; and (4) hydrodynamic effects caused by the use of the longitudinal U clip and the wire helix lateral type sinkers in the absence of capsule shells.
(3) The mean morbidity level of professional diseases in sinkers was 12.0 per 1000 (vibration disease--4.9, hypoacusis--6.4).
(4) Longitudinal sinkers contact the dosage forms on the long axis.
(5) An 11-year-old girl developed a corneal ulcer five days after sustaining a corneal abrasion from a fishline sinker.
(6) And if it’s a choice then it’s a lot easier to demonize it.” Recalling how believing that he was a sinner made him depressed, Nesbitt said he “was buying all that hook, line and sinker and of course it makes you feel like you’re a failure.
(7) Updated at 10.27pm BST 10.12pm BST First pitch Adam Wainwright faces Starling Marte, starts him off with a sinker, finishes him with a curveball - strike three.
(8) During 1963-1990 professional disease were registered in 336 sinkers (vibration disease--42.6%; hypoacusis--35.1%; silicosis and dust-induced bronchitis--11.3 and 7.4% respectively).
(9) Stone net sinkers, which is the evidence of the use of fish nets, were also found.
(10) He said the government’s threat to drop its own legislation was a negotiating tactic which the Greens “fell for hook, line and sinker”.
(11) His article is so far off the mark, and bears so little relation to the facts, that he appears to have swallowed Labour spin hook, line and sinker.
(12) Various new sinker designs were fabricated, tested, and classified.
(13) 4.09am BST Tigers 5 - Red Sox 1, bottom of 8th Middlebrooks pulls a sinker ball into the corner in left field and has himself a one-out double.
(14) In the swimming test (5 gr sinkers, 36 degrees C water) the median swimming time was reduced from greater 120 minutes in the controls to 16 minutes in the bilaterally depressed rats.
(15) Lateral sinkers either wrap around or contact capsule dosage forms in the middle, such as the line where the top and bottom halves of a capsule shell come together.
(16) Data are presented on the formation of neuropsychic disorders in mine shaft sinkers and drill operators at different stages of vibration disease.
(17) The objective of this investigation was to determine if other sinker shapes will influence the rate, extent, or variability of dissolution.
(18) Cardinals 3 - Dodgers 2, bottom of 4th Ellis lines a sinker for a single, right up the middle and Ethier scores to cut the Dodgers deficit to a single run!
(19) Four classes of sinker shapes were defined: longitudinal, lateral, screen enclosures, and internal weights.
(20) We concluded that capsules sunk with either of the two longitudinal sinkers, the U clip or the paper clip, have faster, more complete dissolution and less variable results than did lateral type sinkers.