(n.) One whose occupation is to construct articles by joining pieces of wood; a mechanic who does the woodwork (as doors, stairs, etc.) necessary for the finishing of buildings.
(n.) A wood-working machine, for sawing, plaining, mortising, tenoning, grooving, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) Odds-ratios associated with cabinetmakers (OR = 11.2, 95% CI = 2.7-45.9)) and carpenters and joiners (OR = 5.8, 95% CI = 1.8-18.6) were also significantly elevated for the other-histologic-types category.
(2) You need spaces where people don’t have to worry about who they kiss or how they look.” The Joiners Lives On swiftly secured asset of community value status for the pub – a local council designation that makes it harder to change a venue’s use and means it can’t be sold without giving the group the chance to bid for it themselves.
(3) This may reflect self-selection by well-to-do older people who are "joiners" or a lack of truly involving group roles.
(4) They included 326 joiner families (1,101 persons) and 145 nonjoiner families (483 persons).
(5) The model fits well down to X-ray doses per fraction of approximately 1 Gy, but lower X-ray doses were more effective per gray than predicted by LQ, as seen previously in skin [M. C. Joiner et al., Int.
(6) Nonjoiners and, to a lesser extent, joiners viewed those attending groups as less self-sufficient (e.g., need help, lonely), suggesting a mildly stigmatizing image of BSGs.
(7) Awareness of the plans is relatively high among joiners and nonjoiners, as is awareness of the relative price and benefits of these competing options.
(8) Owing to a car accident, the clothes of a injured joiner were permeated with a timber impregnating product containing 51.8% of mineral spirit (a mixture of naphthenes, aromatic and aliphatic hydrocarbons).
(9) This paper deals with a case of occupational asthma due to palisander wood dust (Dalbergia nigra) in a joiner who sanded and polished parts of musical instruments.
(10) By the early 70s he was making his first "joiners" – large assemblages of photographs that produced an almost cubist effect – in response to his dissatisfaction with the distortion of wide-angle lenses and was quickly aware of the possibilities of office-quality photocopiers and the fax machine.
(11) The idea was not only to save the Joiners but to create an inclusive community centre,” says Clendon.
(12) The latent period of several decades for the development of silicosis is such that it may well be feared that the cases now reported are only the beginning of increased occurrence of the disease in coming years among particularly exposed concrete workers, bricklayers, unskilled workers, electricians, joiners and carpenters.
(13) Non-joiners reported higher preprogram smoking levels and more friends and children who smoked.
(14) The injury was caused by the sharp end of joiner file.
(15) You could go on your own and talk to people you wouldn’t meet otherwise.” The Joiners became an east London landmark, known for wild nights and good turns, such as helping fund treatment for asylum seekers with HIV.
(16) Univariate analyses showed that a history of chronic sinusitis (relative risk, RR = 3.2), nasal polyps (RR = 5.0), an occupational history of being a carpenter, joiner, furniture worker, or other woodworker (RR = 2.9), and current or past smoking habits (RR = 3.0) were statistically significant risk factors for men.
(17) They might be LGBTQ pubs such as the Black Cap in Camden or the Joiners Arms in Shoreditch, both also closed, though a version of the latter has now reopened in Sitges, Spain.
(18) However, the joiners were younger, had lived in Rochester for a shorter period, and had made less use of physicians in private practice.
(19) The non-joiners have argued that the focus should shift from the 1997 Kyoto protocol to forging a new global agreement covering developed and developing countries, that would be drafted by 2015 and come into force in 2020.
(20) You can be a cook, a cleaner, a friend, a playmate, you can be an ear, you can be a bloody joiner, a decorator.” A couple of months back, a dyslexic boy read in class the words “I, Me, Mine”.
Plough
Definition:
(n. & v.) See Plow.
(n.) A well-known implement, drawn by horses, mules, oxen, or other power, for turning up the soil to prepare it for bearing crops; also used to furrow or break up the soil for other purposes; as, the subsoil plow; the draining plow.
(n.) Fig.: Agriculture; husbandry.
(n.) A carucate of land; a plowland.
(n.) A joiner's plane for making grooves; a grooving plane.
(n.) An implement for trimming or shaving off the edges of books.
(n.) Same as Charles's Wain.
(v. t.) To turn up, break up, or trench, with a plow; to till with, or as with, a plow; as, to plow the ground; to plow a field.
(v. t.) To furrow; to make furrows, grooves, or ridges in; to run through, as in sailing.
(v. t.) To trim, or shave off the edges of, as a book or paper, with a plow. See Plow, n., 5.
(n.) To cut a groove in, as in a plank, or the edge of a board; especially, a rectangular groove to receive the end of a shelf or tread, the edge of a panel, a tongue, etc.
(v. i.) To labor with, or as with, a plow; to till or turn up the soil with a plow; to prepare the soil or bed for anything.
Example Sentences:
(1) Committing to ploughing a lone furrow without international agreement will damage our economy for little or no environmental benefit.
(2) Yet out-of-touch ministers have ploughed on regardless and claimed this is a 'triumph'.
(3) He would much rather money be ploughed into renewable energy sources.
(4) Child benefit is to be withdrawn from families as soon as one parent hits earnings of £44,000, but any tapering would be costly and require ploughing money back via child tax credits.
(5) The year before that, a video of a huge truck bomb ploughing into Salerno base in Khost province upended Nato reports of a relatively minor attack in which no one was killed.
(6) Facebook Twitter Pinterest A farm worker ploughing a field in Blackwater.
(7) He said the government would also plough money into the expansion of solar heating systems.
(8) The retailer said annual profits were likely to be poorer than expected as it had ploughed millions of pounds into a multimedia advertising campaign and taken on hundreds more vans to back a new delivery service before Black Friday, which falls on 27 November this year, but could not be sure how shoppers would respond.
(9) PMQs ploughs on regardless, in part because both sides know the weekly exchanges shape backbench morale, in part because one side will always think it gains an advantage over the other at such sessions, and in part because too many MPs are afraid of radical parliamentary change.
(10) Molemo "Jub Jub" Maarohanye, pictured right, and his friend, Themba Tshabalala, are accused of killing four schoolboys after racing two Mini Coopers in the streets of Soweto only to lose control and plough into a group of children.
(11) This month the concessions are being worked at a breakneck pace, with giant tractors and heavy machinery clearing trees, draining swamps and ploughing the land in time to catch the next growing season.
(12) The housing crisis tells you a lot about British society: springing from a pathological middle class obsession with home ownership, the spike in houses prices is seen as earned, not incidental: most people now expect to make a profit on housing, and the fact people like the Blairs plough cash in as an investment should be a warning sign.
(13) Some £60m was ploughed into refurbishments in 2013 with plans to invest the same amount in the new financial year.
(14) The article also reported that "since leaving No 10, Brown has received more than £2m in fees and expenses — although this has all been ploughed back into his public and charitable activities".
(15) The latter are grown in fields on which oil-based fertilisers have been sprayed and which are ploughed by tractors that burn diesel.
(16) The committee is planning to plough the money saved into CCTV cameras for the park and will try again next year to raise the money for a display.
(17) After Unprofor approval,” says Van der Wind, “the fuel was delivered in Bratunac [the Bosnian Serb HQ outside Srebrenica] after the arrival of a logistical convoy.” The UN petrol was used, he says, to fuel transport of men and boys to the killing fields, and bulldozers to plough the 8,000 corpses into mass graves.
(18) Half will be ploughed back into frontline public services, leaving £6bn to fund a smaller tax-take from NI than under a fourth-term Labour government.
(19) Kevyn Orr will be gone in five and a half months, and so I’m able to, I think, deliver results on the lights, deliver results on EMS response times, deliver results on the blight, getting a little bit better at the snow-ploughing, and we’re just going to keep building on that.” Other notable moments: Detroit was slammed by heavy winter storms, making it the snowiest winter on record since 1880.
(20) All the profits from sales are ploughed back into providing skills training and setting up new retail outlets.