(n.) An instrument, as a bodkin, for forming a loop in yarn, a cord, etc.
(n.) The larva of any species of geometrid moths. See Geometrid.
Example Sentences:
(1) There was no difference in LC50 between the two strains to larvae of spruce budworm (Choristoneura fumiferana), gypsy moth (Lymantria dispar), eastern hemlock looper (Lambdina fiscellaria fiscellaria), and whitemarked tussock moth (Orgyia leucostigma), whether expressed as total alkaline soluble protein, activated toxin protein, or International Units as determined by bioassay against Trichoplusia ni.
(2) 3.52am BST Tigers 3 - A's 0, top of the 8th Infante hits a looper to the outfield that looks like it could drop, but Crisp gets to it in time for the out.
(3) A sex pheromone produced by male cabbage looper moths, Trichoplusia ni (Hübner), has been isolated from the genital scent brushes and identified as 2-phenylethanol.
(4) Photograph: Alan Markfield Johnson has crammed Looper with these subtle touches.
(5) Third instar larvae of the cabbage looper Trichopulsia ni were exposed to conidia of E. apiculata.
(6) Photograph: Alan Markfield If Bruce isn't really Looper's baddie, it's only because black-and-white morality doesn't have a place in Johnson's world.
(7) Rian Johnson, the director of Brick and Looper, is to write and direct the next two Star Wars films, taking the reins from JJ Abrams , according to reports on Friday.
(8) Chris Pratt’s next attempt to cement his action-hero status in Jurassic World sees him in the relatively untested hands of writer and director Colin Trevorrow, known for just one movie – the lo-fi time-travel indie Safety Not Guaranteed; Fox’s latest attempt to reboot The Fantastic Four sees Josh Trank, director of impressive found-footage thriller Chronicle, getting a chance to shine; and Looper’s Rian Johnson has been hired as the director of Star Wars Episode VIII.
(9) This cycle is broken when a Looper called Joe (played by Brick star Joseph Gordon-Levitt) comes face-to-face with a target who won't just kneel there, whimper and die – himself.
(10) Insect species examined were lepidopterous larvae of the cabbage looper (Trichoplusia ni), southern armyworm (Spodoptera eridania), and black swallowtail (Papilio polyxenes).
(11) In Looper, both Young and Old Joe look like heroes, but they're (literally) too self-involved to learn anything from life, until they're forced to.
(12) The medium was preconditioned with the cell line IPL-LdFB, derived from fat body of the gypsy moth, Lymantria dispar, cell line IAL-TND1, derived from imaginal discs of the cabbage looper, Trichoplusia ni, and whole fat body tissue from host Helicoverpa zea.
(13) Instead, Wacha gets ahead of him 0-2, takes a walk, and hits an easily caught looper to the outfield.
(14) Given that Willis's character is a stubborn, ruthless grouch, can we see Looper as a fear of ageing, too?
(15) In the mid-fifth instar larvae of the cabbage looper moth, Trichoplusia ni, the subcellular distribution of total superoxide dismutase was as follows: 3.05 units (70.0%), 0.97 units (22.3%), and 0.33 units (7.6%) mg-1 protein in the mitochondrial, cytosolic and nuclear fractions, respectively.
(16) China has already been courted by Hollywood through various films being at least partly set in the country, including Iron Man 3, The Karate Kid and Looper.
(17) "They think they're hot shit, but they're kind of fuck-ups," says Johnson, who points to the Loopers' choice of weapon – chunky buck-spitters known as Blunderbusses – as evidence of their true status.
(18) L-3-Cyanoalanine synthase activity is clearly linked to differential cyanide tolerance of two insect species, the southern armyworm (more tolerant) and cabbage looper (less tolerant).
(19) In last year's Looper , Bruce Willis tampered with the past in an effort to save his future wife.
(20) The baculovirus from the lepidopteran host Autographa californica (alfalfa looper) was shown to replicate in a dipteran cell line without the production of characteristic polyhedral inclusion bodies.
Looter
Definition:
(n.) A plunderer.
Example Sentences:
(1) 'I am all the African chiefs who have sold their continent to the white men' … Samuel Fosso's self-portrait as an African chief The life work of one of Africa's most important living photographers and contemporary artists, Samuel Fosso , has been rescued from destruction after his studio and home were attacked by looters in war-torn Central African Republic .
(2) Two years later, the offices of Mohamed Morsi's Muslim Brotherhood were trashed after an all-night siege , with looters seizing door-labels of prominent Brotherhood leaders as trophies.
(3) JD Sports Verdict LOSER Sales up 3.2% (UK & Ireland, 7 weeks to 5 January) London riots: police guard a JD Sports store targeted by looters in Hackney, east London.
(4) Clegg also defended the right of local authorities to consider evicting the families of vandals and looters but stressed that the issue had to be dealt with carefully and sensitively.
(5) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Sam’s Meat Market & More employee Steve Sumad surveys damage caused by looters.
(6) At the beginning he named us ‘terrorists’ and ‘looters’.
(7) But it was unclear if Arinç's conciliatory remarks had the blessing of Erdogan, who has previously dismissed the protesters as "looters" and fringe extremists.
(8) Dozens of police officers dressed in riot gear, some holding assault rifles, started filing in more than two hours before midnight, lining the street and guarding store fronts from potential looters.
(9) Occasionally, French and African peacekeepers entered the neighbourhood and fired in the air to disperse the looters, but they usually quickly returned as the peacekeepers were leaving."
(10) The prime minister's remarks were less abrasive than his comments earlier this week when he branded his critics as looters and fringe extremists.
(11) With Iraqi police still absent from their posts - those at the museum fled as the looters arrived - the US remains the only potential policing presence in the city.
(12) He was fed up with the rioters and the looters and he was determined that they would not destroy our community."
(13) • Forces across England did not know how to respond to social media networks, particularly encrypted BlackBerry messaging, which enabled rioters and looters to organise and at times outmanoeuvre police.
(14) Vigilantes armed with machetes and clubs blocked the road leading away from the compound, stopping cars to prevent looters from driving off with heavy weapons.
(15) Soldiers intervened to stop looters at a huge supermarket in Ariana, 20 miles north of the capital, as a helicopter hovered overhead.
(16) A female officer – part of a small team of mostly community support officers with no riot kit or training, who successfully defended local shop owners against looters – admitted to feeling fear before going on duty and said: "My dad had to talk me into it."
(17) ITN, which produces news programmes for ITV and Channel 4, said that despite the drive to swiftly identify looters the government cannot run roughshod over standard legal practice.
(18) The looters sabotaged not just property but the community’s peaceful protests, he said.
(19) With no intervention from police at all, and looters in control of the area for around three hours, it was left to residents to intervene.
(20) Fosso's housekeeper was still there trying to protect the house and studio from looters.