(n.) A tool for lifting loose sand from the mold; also, a contrivance attached to a cope, to hold the sand together when the cope is lifted.
Example Sentences:
(1) Next it reviews major issues and controversies such as age restrictions for lifters, physiological effects, drug use, potential strength gains and hypertrophy.
(2) To assess physiological and psychological states accompanying anabolic-androgenic steroid use, male weight lifters 1) were interviewed regarding their physical training and the patterns and effects of any drug use; 2) completed a written physical and medical history questionnaire, a Profile of Mood States questionnaire, and the Buss-Durkee Hostility Inventory; and 3) were physically examined, including a blood sample and urinalysis.
(3) For one experiment, three groups of subjects (untrained, cyclists, and weight lifters) performed maximal one- or two-limb isometric tasks for which the two-limb combinations were either both legs or the left arm and the right leg.
(4) There was no significant difference between the weight lifters and control subjects in rapid filling index, early to late integral ratio or ejection fraction.
(5) Clinical implications include more effective strength training of lifting muscle groups other than spinal extensors and the teaching of lifting strategies employed by weight lifters in low-back rehabilitation and work-hardening programs.
(6) In weight-lifters, there was only a slight, compensated posttraining acidosis, which tended to decrease 10 min after the training.
(7) Because platelets play a pathogenic role in these disorders, the authors hypothesized that androgenic steroid abuse among weight lifters was associated with increased platelet aggregation as measured in vitro.
(8) The weight lifter's desire to achieve higher limits of performance coupled with the rotator cuff's unfavorable position during lifting often leads to shoulder injury.
(9) We report a preliminary study of the process of therapy in two out-patient psychotherapy groups for female 'non-sensical' shop-lifters.
(10) We’re a nation of lifters, not leaners or learners, after all.
(11) Athletes were equally classified into two groups: 11 swimmers who had a pattern of myocardial hypertrophy with normal wall thickness to dimension ratio and 11 power lifters whose wall thickness to dimension ratio was increased.
(12) It appears, though, that bodybuilders, relying on a high repetition training system, in contrast to Olympic weight- and power lifters, display a small increase in number of capillaries per fiber.
(13) A group of 103 female weight lifters (WL) and 92 control (C) women answered a survey concerning eating behavior and attitudes (including the Eating Disorder Inventory) and menstrual function.
(14) The incidence of spondylolysis is unusually high in ballet dancers and certain athletic groups, such as gymnasts, javelin throwers, and weight-lifters.
(15) The results from the three-months study, from the weight lifters taking ND for 3 years, as well as from 26 of the 57 athletes who had been taking ND showed no evidence of a deleterious effect of ND (based on 26 biochemical measurements).
(16) Six weight lifters in the experimental group who had been taking ND for at least 3 years were also studied to determine whether there were any deleterious effects on their health.
(17) The cause of the fracture and the underlying mechanism are discussed and it is concluded that it appears appropriate to warn body-builders and weight-lifters against arm wrestling.
(18) A case of bilateral pseudohydronephrosis and hydroureter produced by markedly hypertrophied psoas muscles in a weight lifter is presented.
(19) Most of the subjects (three lifters and two runners) carried on their normal exercise activities, while two lifters stopped training during the 2 weeks.
(20) There is evidence for a true relative hypertrophy in weight lifters as indicated by similar absolute cardiac dimensions and similar biometric variables.
Skimmer
Definition:
(n.) One who, or that which, skims; esp., a utensil with which liquids are skimmed.
(n.) Any species of longwinged marine birds of the genus Rhynchops, allied to the terns, but having the lower mandible compressed and much longer than the upper one. These birds fly rapidly along the surface of the water, with the lower mandible immersed, thus skimming out small fishes. The American species (R. nigra) is common on the southern coasts of the United States. Called also scissorbill, and shearbill.
(n.) Any one of several large bivalve shells, sometimes used for skimming milk, as the sea clams, and large scallops.
Example Sentences:
(1) 39 min Superb football from Spain: Fabregas drifts inside before floating a rescue-club chip towards Torres, who flicks it over his head before testing Afinkeev with a skimmer.
(2) The government sent skimmers and booms to help clear up the oil , while BP recruited an "armada" of fishermen , otherwise banned from fishing for shrimp off the waters off Louisiana, to help lay some of the 2.25 million feet of containment booms to contain the slick.
(3) The sections of boom he had seen out in the sea were laid piecemeal and at random, and there seemed to be far too few skimmers drawing up the oil.
(4) Collisional activation was carried out in the high-pressure region between the capillary exit and the skimmer entrance to the mass analyzer.
(5) There have been more than 6,390 vessels (including skimmers, tugs, barges and recovery ships) and over 11m feet of boom deployed offshore to reduce the amount of oil reaching the shoreline.
(6) Clutch size (3.1 to 3.4) of Lavaca Bay black skimmers (Rynchops niger) was no different than that (3.4) at a reference colony near Laguna Vista.
(7) Desolvation is effected by the use of controlled heat transfer through the long capillary tube and collisional activation in a region of reduced pressure between the capillary tube exit and the skimmer.
(8) Heavy metal and selenium concentrations were analyzed in breast feathers of adult black skimmers Rynchops niger, a species with marked sexual size dimorphism in which males average 35% heavier than females.
(9) Some 266,000 barrels of oil had been collected by skimmers out of a total of more than 6m barrels that had dispersed since the rig exploded on 20 April.
(10) His next save was genuinely required as he dived low to deny Necid’s low skimmer.
(11) The positive-ion spectrum was dominated by an ion corresponding to a sodiated molecule when a low potential difference between the capillary exit (nozzle) and the skimmer was employed, but when the capillary exit voltage was increased, fragmentation of PAF was observed.
(12) Eggshell thinning in Forster's terns (7%) and black skimmers (5%) was below that associated with lowered reproduction.
(13) The cost of dealing with the disaster includes the flotilla of 275 skimmers, tugs, barges and recovery vessels being used to collect and disperse the slick, as well as the efforts to stem the spill on the sea bed.
(14) "There were no visible research vessels, and the only visible relief effort in this area was about 30 shrimp boats off the shore of Little Gozier island pulling booms, with no skimmers taking the oil off the surface."