(n.) One of a number of riotous persons in England, who for six years (1811-17) tried to prevent the use of labor-saving machinery by breaking it, burning factories, etc.; -- so called from Ned Lud, a half-witted man who some years previously had broken stocking frames.
Example Sentences:
(1) Sorkin described himself as "this side of being a Luddite", and said he had been on Facebook while he making the film, but had since given up his account.
(2) Where do you stand on the DAB sceptics – are they Luddites or realists?
(3) 7.51am BST "Get a grip" One imagines that using the term "get a grip" in a GCSE essay about pioneering industrialists cracking down on Luddites would be unlikely to win the writer bonus marks.
(4) When I meet people who have a mobile phone as basic as mine, they'll indulge in a bit of mock-Luddite banter ("Got this in a pound shop … No extra features but the date and time, and they don't work").
(5) No flexibility … We were the same as the Luddites."
(6) But technology is changing, and even this Luddite bench has noticed.
(7) She binned her Blackberry, gave away her laptop and closed down her Twitter account with the words "I am now a neo-luddite.
(8) What infuriates him most is the luddite smear, when in fact Aslef is protesting against outdated technology.
(9) In the studio, it soon became apparent that his newfound feel for slick pop and rhythm machines was greatly at odds with the Luddite Peppers’ spontaneous attitude (he dismayed them, too, with the comment that the Gang’s seminal first two albums were “bought by a few lunatics”).
(10) These are not Luddites or fogeys, they are not enemies of business or of the new, but they share simple shock at the thoughtlessness with which change on this scale is happening.
(11) Catherine Deneuve and 30 young actors and directors signed a petition against what they called the government's Luddite approach and "missed opportunity".
(12) There’s some wilfully Luddite posturing happening here – it’s digital detox as status symbol, like vinyl records or vintage bikes – but there’s truth too.
(13) She was anxious not to appear either a luddite or an over-anxious parent.
(14) "iPads are here, apps are here: there's no way of being a Luddite any more!
(15) At one point more British soldiers were being deployed to deal with the Luddites who smashed the new machinery than to fight Napoleon.
(16) Most of the families at the co-op, on the other hand, were Mennonites, Luddites or allergic to peanuts.
(17) Now I'm starting to sound like a real Luddite, but taking a minute to think about the consequences before diving in seems like a pretty good idea in general.
(18) Shout too much from the sidelines, or even take direct industrial action, and you can be quickly sidelined and branded as militant luddites, stuck in the past and lacking the slick reforming zeal in which all governments like to clothe themselves.
(19) People thought I was a bit of a luddite, but people buy the magazine because they can't get it for free."
(20) I'll leave the final word to Phillip Stott, who not unreasonably wonders "how the neophyte neo-luddite (91 min) will watch the tape with no telly…" Please join my colleague Scott Murray for the Spain v Germany final on Sunday.
Machinery
Definition:
(n.) Machines, in general, or collectively.
(n.) The working parts of a machine, engine, or instrument; as, the machinery of a watch.
(n.) The supernatural means by which the action of a poetic or fictitious work is carried on and brought to a catastrophe; in an extended sense, the contrivances by which the crises and conclusion of a fictitious narrative, in prose or verse, are effected.
(n.) The means and appliances by which anything is kept in action or a desired result is obtained; a complex system of parts adapted to a purpose.
Example Sentences:
(1) It is argued that this process drove the evolution of present 5' and 3' splice sites from a subset of proto-splice sites and also drove the evolution of a more efficient splicing machinery.
(2) The data suggest that proinsulin, normally processed in secretory granules and released via the regulated pathway, may also be processed, albeit less efficiently, by the constitutive pathway conversion machinery.
(3) These observations suggest that pertubation of surface immunoglobulin molecules on CH31 immature B cells causes down-regulation of their antigen-processing machinery.
(4) We provide direct experimental evidence supporting the facts that these additional mechanistic components do exist and that the liver glutamate dehydrogenase reaction is indeed driven by just such machinery.
(5) These surplus chromophores become esterified and are temporarily taken up by the pigment epithelium to be re-entered into the visual cycle as fast as they can be processed by the regenerative machinery of the rod outer segments.
(6) Its diplomatic machinery is a little bit rusty," said Zhu Feng, of Peking University's centre for international and strategic studies.
(7) But, as extended survival at 43 degrees Celsius depends absolutely on the ability of cells to continually synthesize HSPs, it appears that a prior heat shock as well as the recovery from protein synthesis inhibition elicits a change in the protein synthetic machinery which allows the translation of HSP mRNAs at what would otherwise be a nonpermissive temperature for protein synthesis.
(8) Furthermore, the evidence that anti-CD3 antibodies increase the efficacy of the cytotoxic machinery might support the use of these molecules in designing new immunotherapeutic approaches against tumor targets.
(9) The mnn9 mutation also increases the transit time for invertase secretion, meaning that this mutation could affect the processing machinery in the Golgi apparatus.
(10) This technology allows the use of RNA virus replication machinery to express heterologous sequences.
(11) Geometrical comparison of this model with an experimentally determined structure for chicken DHFR suggests that chromosomal and type II R-plasmid specified enzymes may have independently evolved similar catalytic machinery for substrate reduction.
(12) To investigate whether TGF-beta also influences the glycosaminoglycan (GAG) chain-synthesizing machinery, we also characterized GAGs derived from proteoglycans synthesized by TGF-beta-treated cells.
(13) The effects of dantrolene on the sarcoplasmic reticulum and contractile machinery were examined in skinned skeletal muscles of guinea pigs.
(14) Secretion, however, depends on neither an N-terminal signal sequence nor on SecA, which is part of the normal cellular export machinery for periplasmic and outer membrane proteins.
(15) The localization of these key components of the pre-mRNA splicing machinery to speckled nuclear regions suggests that these regions may be involved in pre-mRNA splicing.
(16) In circumstances in which energy conversion rate and supplies of reducing power exceed the capacity of the biosynthetic machinery, energy-dependent H2 production presumably represents a regulatory device that facilitates "energy-idling."
(17) Overexpression of these genes, which probably encode lipoproteins, could have deleterious effects on E. coli hosts, possibly as a result of impairing the protein export machinery.
(18) Major intra-abdominal arteriovenous fistulas usually present with a machinery bruit over a pulsatile mass, but may present more subtly with pain and otherwise unexplained hematuria.
(19) Sales of tractors and other farm machinery are down by 70%, said Dave Dorsett of Reynolds farm equipment in Martinville.
(20) By using a temperature-sensitive allele, we have found that that norpA mutation has little or no effect on either the rhodopsin-metarhodopsin transition or the machinery of quantum bump production.