(n.) One who machinates, or forms a scheme with evil designs; a plotter or artful schemer.
Example Sentences:
(1) Some commentators have described his ship, now facing more delays after a decade in development, as little more than a Heath Robinson machine.
(2) In order to control noise- and vibration-caused diseases it was necessary not only to improve machines' quality and service conditions but also to pay special attention to the choice of operators and to the quality of monitoring their adaptation process.
(3) This survey reviews three-dimensional (3D) medical imaging machines and 3D medical imaging operations.
(4) These views are very practical for inferior synovial cavity arthrograms performed in the dental operatory since panoramic radiographic machines have become common in modern dental practices.
(5) Careless Herbicidal aerial spray of a field for weed control and defoliation of cotton before machine picking, resulted in the contamination of an adjoining reservoir, killing large volume of fish.
(6) Various forms of inactive data storage and archiving in machine-readable form are available to address this dilemma, yet these solutions can create even more difficult problems.
(7) Among the dead were two young young officers, Major Mujahid Ali and Captain Usman, whose life stories the media seized upon, helped by the military's public relations machine.
(8) said Wanis Kilani, a uniformed rebel driving a pickup truck with a machine-gun mounted on the back.
(9) "I wanted it to have a romantic feel," says Wilson, "recalling Donald Campbell and his Bluebird machines and that spirit of awe-inspiring adventure."
(10) Placing the collection bag at the base of the machine provided excellent plasma removal rates with only minimal blood flows.
(11) Best Buy – it says the machine "churns excellent ice cream quickly and without too much noise".
(12) In this vision, people will go to polling stations on 18 September with a mindset somewhere between that of a lobby correspondent and a desiccated calculating machine.
(13) This algorithm is not only efficient for the recognition of order and disorder in "machine vision", but also plausible in biological visual perception.
(14) Flat surfaces could be machined on the originally cylindrical surface to reduce the severity of these aberrations.
(15) Photograph: Polish Government Despite his clear-eyed approach to the looted artworks, Wächter maintains that his father was an unwilling cog in the Nazi killing machine, a position that has won him many critics.
(16) We compared the time taken to obtain clear airway, when patients were receiving 4.5 or 6 l.min-1 fresh flow by anesthetic machines.
(17) Results of the determinations indicated that protective leather gloves contained considerable content of chromium, and chromium-free machine oils and lubricants were polluted with chromium's minute quantities as the oils and lubrications were being used.
(18) Bleeps, pagers and fax machines are still used for communicating vital information.
(19) A new technique is described, in which a copy machine (Rank-Xerox) is used for instantaneous reproduction of biological assays.
(20) Can consoles still survive in a rapidly changing business where smartphones, tablets and smart TVs, and now Steam Machines, are threatening?
Schemer
Definition:
(n.) One who forms schemes; a projector; esp., a plotter; an intriguer.
Example Sentences:
(1) Davis gained a reputation as a schemer and emerged as shadow home secretary.
(2) He eventually gets off a low rasper but Mokin gets down to make the save, 9.17pm BST 72 min: Canas, a lovely schemer in the heart of Karagandy's midfield, is gaining in prominence, as the visitors continue to search for the killer goal.
(3) West Germany bring in two impish schemers, Thomas Hässler and Olaf Thon, for Pierre Littbarski and Uwe Bein.
(4) There are cats and dogs called Tyrion, after the schemer played by Peter Dinklage, and a growing generation of girls named Arya and Sansa in honour of the long-suffering Stark sisters.
(5) The former Luxembourg prime minister landed the job by an overwhelming majority because national leaders sleepwalked into a trap laid by federalist schemers in the European parliament and could not summon the will to do anything about it, just as they appear to have overlooked reading the fine print of the legal text that governs Europe.
(6) This, as in Robert Graves's original novel, draws on the works of the ancient biographer Suetonius, to depict the wife of the emperor Augustus as a monstrous schemer, poisoning every unfortunate who got in the way of her plan to have her own son Tiberius (from her first marriage) installed as Augustus's successor as emperor.
(7) Zimbabwe's Robert Mugabe, Belarus's Alexander Lukashenko, North Korea's Kim Jong-il, and Venezuela's Hugo Chávez have all claimed at various times to be victims of foreign, usually American, schemers.
(8) The iconic Uruguayan schemer Enzo Francescoli thinks the difference is the dual experience South American players have of top-level football on their own continent during a gruelling qualification campaign allied to regular club football in Europe.
(9) On screen, he plays dreamers and schemers: men with prodigious appetites and a wonky moral compass.
(10) So the campaign has to use two CEOs from a decade-old accounting scandal, and a garden-variety Ponzi schemer."
(11) He is a well-known Mugabe confidant and schemer, nicknamed the crocodile , who has been suspected of plotting behind the scenes and using the first lady as a front to clear his way to the top by discrediting his rival, Mujuru, and purging her allies.
(12) On the flank you have less of that responsibility.” Welbeck also helped Wenger justify his faith in retaining Mesut Özil by playing the pass from which the German schemer scampered through to open the scoring after 32 minutes.
(13) Anyone who thinks she was a schemer who wanted to be queen, or Princess of Wales, or anything, absolutely has her completely wrong.