(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(8) What infuriates him most is the luddite smear, when in fact Aslef is protesting against outdated technology.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.
Worker
Definition:
(n.) One who, or that which, works; a laborer; a performer; as, a worker in brass.
(n.) One of the neuter, or sterile, individuals of the social ants, bees, and white ants. The workers are generally females having the sexual organs imperfectly developed. See Ant, and White ant, under White.
Example Sentences:
(1) The predicted non-Lorentzian line shapes and widths were found to be in good agreement with experimental results, indicating that the local orientational order (called "packing" by many workers) in the bilayers of small vesicles and in multilamellar membranes is substantially the same.
(2) HSV I infection of the hand classically occurs in children with herpetic stomatitis and in health care workers infected during patient care delivery.
(3) But Lee is mostly just extremely fed up at the exclusion of sex workers’ voices from much of the conversation.
(4) Parents of subjects at the experimental school were visited at home by a community health worker who provided individualized information on dental services and preventive strategies.
(5) Not only do they give employers no reason to turn them into proper jobs, but mini-jobs offer workers little incentive to work more because then they would have to pay tax.
(6) The results of the evaluation confirm that most problems seen by first level medical personnel in developing countries are simple, repetitive, and treatable at home or by a paramedical worker with a few safe, essential drugs, thus avoiding unnecessary visits to a doctor.
(7) But soon after aid workers departed, barrel bombs dropped by Syrian helicopters caused renewed destruction.
(8) The effects of phenoxyacetic acid herbicides were investigated on the induction of chromosome aberrations in human peripheral lymphocyte cultures in vitro and in lymphocytes of exposed workers in vivo.
(9) To this figure an additional 250,000 older workers must be added, who are no longer registered as unemployed but nevertheless would be interested in finding another job.
(10) When reformist industrialist Robert Owen set about creating a new community among the workers in his New Lanark cotton-spinning mills at the turn of the nineteenth century, it was called socialism, not corporate social responsibility.
(11) And, as elsewhere in this epidemic, those on the frontline paid the highest price: four of the seven fatalities were health workers, including Adadevoh.
(12) I have heard from other workers that the list has also been provided to the law enforcement authorities,” Gain says.
(13) The characteristics and responsibilities of community health workers in Saradidi were similar to those elsewhere.
(14) Work conditions and the health status in workers of Bashkirian oil enterprises are characterized.
(15) Unions have complained about the process for Chinese-backed companies to bring overseas workers to Australia for projects worth at least $150m, because the memorandum of understanding says “there will be no requirement for labour market testing” to enter into an investment facilitation arrangements (IFA).
(16) Only workers more than 34 years of age and in work at the time of the study were selected.
(17) Cooper, who was briefly a social worker in Los Angeles, also suggests working hard to build a rapport with colleagues in hotdesking situations.
(18) Dynamics in the changes was established among the workers from the production of "Synthetic rubber and latex", associated with the duration of occupational exposure to styrene and divinyl.
(19) Differences between mean durations of dust exposure of workers with radiographic signs of lung fibrosis and those without such signs were statistically insignificant.
(20) Frequency of symptoms like dizziness, headache, lachrymation, burning sensation in eyes, nausea and anorexia, etc, were much more in the exposed workers.