(n.) A laborer who is employed to load or unload vessels when in harbor.
Example Sentences:
(1) Certificates showing the occupation on fisherman (or similar term) or lumper were extracted.
(2) The cysteine residues are distributed on six CNBr fragments of the catalytic domain [Vogel and Lumper (1984) Hoppe-Seyler's Z. Physiol.
(3) The structural data required to complete the sequences published previously [Vogel, Kaiser, Witt & Lumper (1985) Biol.
(4) 1) While it is possible only one type of second-degree AV block exists electrophysiologically, the available data do not justify such a conclusion and it would seem more appropriate to remain a "splitter," and advocate separation and definition of multiple mechanisms, than to be a "lumper," and embrace a unitary concept.
(5) There was no indication that the mortality pattern differed significantly between the two groups or from that of the community from which the lumpers and fishermen came.
(6) There are two main schools of thought: the "lumpers" do not recognize specific syndromes within the spectrum of mitochondrial "cytopathies", the "splitters" try to identify specific syndromes while recognizing the existence of borderline cases.
Plumper
Definition:
(n.) One who, or that which, plumps or swells out something else; hence, something carried in the mouth to distend the cheeks.
(n.) A vote given to one candidate only, when two or more are to be elected, thus giving him the advantage over the others. A person who gives his vote thus is said to plump, or to plump his vote.
(n.) A voter who plumps his vote.
(n.) A downright, unqualified lie.
Example Sentences:
(1) The morphological changes above the occlusion included shorter, plumper villi and shorter crypts, a reduction in histochemically stainable brush-border enzymes, but an increase in acid phosphatase.
(2) In happier, plumper bygone years, though, film-makers, especially Italian film-makers, had vaults full of money, and an insurmountable urge to expend it prodigiously.
(3) A lip plumper prosthesis was fabricated to approximate the partially incompetent lips and create an oral seal.
(4) Try the blanchbait, a plumper alternative to whitebait, deep fried and served with a chunk of bread and salad.
(5) BEST BUY: Trimbach Pinot Gris Réserve, Alsace, France (from £14.99, Tesco.com ; Great Western Wines ; winedirect.co.uk ) Though they are the same grape variety, Alsace makes its pinot gris in a plumper style than Italy makes its pinot grigio.
(6) Radio-resistant cells obtained by cyclic irradiation and subculture were larger (plumper) than the parent strain and showed a marked pleomorphism.