(n.) One who makes matches for burning or kinding.
(n.) One who tries to bring about marriages.
Example Sentences:
(1) Judicious matchmaking saw Patterson build up an impressive winning streak, in much the same way as some of the over-protected champions of today.
(2) It's fascinating what happens when you matchmake some of Britain's best fashion designers with artists.
(3) And since people who join the sharing economy aren't technically employees, it's not the matchmaker's fault if they don't follow every regulation to the letter.
(4) Matchmaking marathoners can also find their perfect running partner by browsing user profiles detailing people's interests, speed records and even favourite running surfaces.
(5) A BBC documentary in 2004, Mohammad and the Matchmaker , made by Maziar Bahari, features the work of the Alaeis who often became very close to their patients, to help them cope with their new lives.
(6) The researchers act as matchmakers, putting pairs of sea slugs into 1.25 ml wells “for one hour or until ongoing copulations had finished”.
(7) Looking for Groups, meanwhile, is more like a matchmaking app, which lets you quickly discover like-minded players to compete beside or against.
(8) In the firm's eyes, it's the paragon of the "sharing economy": a world where people with spare rooms, cars, or even power tools share them with others in a way impossible before tech firms arrived to act as matchmakers.
(9) The time for computerised matchmaking hadn't yet reached a critical mass.
(10) In the end they went to a matchmaker and found a girl," Tamira says.
(11) The Matchmaker is a whimsical but miraculous piece – a staged version of the John B Keane epistolary novella that charts the efforts of a decent man to marry off achingly lonely country folk in the teeth of priestly disapproval.
(12) I feel like he is gilding the lily somewhat with his “fourth-generation matchmaker” schtick, but that everyone is having too much fun getting off with each other to care.
(13) Between March 2013 and the same month this year it found that a bottle of Persil Small & Mighty Biological Colour Liquid had shrunk by 17%, for example, while a box of Nestlé Matchmakers and Birds Eye Takeaway Feasts Original Chicken Popstars had become 14% and 12% smaller, respectively.
(14) • Tent for two from €150, +353 64 664 2888, dromquinnamanor.com Clare: Wild Honey Inn Facebook Twitter Pinterest On the edge of the small town of Lisdoonvarna, home of the famous annual matchmaking festival , and close to the Cliffs of Moher , the Burren , and Doolin , for trips to the Aran Islands , this superb gastropub with rooms is owned and run by chef Aidan McGrath and his wife Kate Sweeney.
(15) Rolling out city by city makes matchmaking easier, but it means that only a tiny portion of the UK and US can use the site so far; and along similar lines, it has only become large enough to support same-sex Groupers in a few American cities.
(16) It was an echo of a sentiment expressed throughout the campaign by celebrities such as Girls’ Lena Dunham and comedian Keegan-Michael Key – and embraced by an enterprising Texan who launched a matchmaking service linking Americans looking to flee a Trump presidency with Canadians.
(17) This is The Outing, an LGBT spin-off of the famous Lisdoonvarna matchmaking festival, in the tiny town (population 822) in County Clare, west Ireland.
(18) At the end of 2015, it had 573 fighters under contract and it’s the UFC’s matchmakers who decide who fights who, where and when.
(19) Protesters filled "matchmaking" forms to on arrival, listing their preferences and skills in activities such as climbing, standing their ground, getting through or over fences, looking after people, providing entertainment or documenting the action.
(20) The more choices available (ie the more popular a matchmaking website), we are told, the better for those making the choice.
Watchmaker
Definition:
(n.) One whose occupation is to make and repair watches.
Example Sentences:
(1) But it is the presence of Webb on the list that is potentially most troubling for Blatter, who has been at Fifa for 40 years since moving from watchmaker Longines to become the protege of his now disgraced predecessor João Havelange.
(2) Swatch A third of the Swiss watchmaker’s sales are in mainland China.
(3) The first 10 occupants will be from Pakistan, Iran, Afghanistan and Burma, among them an accountant, an engineer, a watchmaker.
(4) Intact hair follicles were then removed from the fat using watchmakers' forceps.
(5) The daughter of a Jewish watchmaker from Latvia and middle-class woman from Britain, Gordimer started writing in earnest at the age of nine and produced 15 novels as well as several volumes of short stories, non-fiction and other works.
(6) These initial 10 refugees have come from Pakistan, Iran, Afghanistan and Myanmar … however, they can now call Papua New Guinea their home.” He described the refugees who were granted the visas as a “special class of people”, who included an accountant, an engineer, a jeweller and a watchmaker.
(7) Degeneration after crushing with fine watchmakers forceps always began in the most distal part of the nerve and proceeded in a distoproximal direction, from the nerve entry point into a muscle back to the crush site.
(8) When grafts were rubbed with a glass rod or pinched with watchmaker forceps, impulses were evoked in nerves innervating both implant and cultured regions.
(9) We will continue to monitor the situation.” Tag Heuer, the Swiss luxury watchmaker which has had a relationship with Sharapova since 2004, said it had stopped negotiations with the player, whose previous contract ended on 31 December.
(10) At watchmaker Longines he became director of sports timing and PR, before joining Fifa as technical director in 1975.
(11) Blatter has been at Fifa for 40 years, since his now disgraced predecessor João Havelange personally plucked him from watchmaker Longines to lead the commercialisation of the World Cup that has seen revenues rise in direct correlation with endless claims of bribery and kickbacks.
(12) Plotted with watchmaker-precision by Bob Gale and Robert Zemeckis, and directed by the latter, this 1985 release charts the escapades of time-travelling teenager Marty McFly (Michael J Fox).
(13) Hume was here anticipating the argument of William Paley, who argued that it is as rational to infer the existence of a divine creator from the existence of the marvellous, complex universe as it is infer the existence of watchmaker from the discovery of a watch.
(14) Her mother, Hannah ("Nan") Myers, came from London; her father, Isidore, left Latvia as a teenager to "escape pogroms and poverty" and join his watchmaker brother, later becoming a flourishing jeweller.
(15) The sciatic nerve or lumbar spinal nerves (that is the extraspinal nerves before their fusion in the sciatic plexus) were crushed with fine watchmakers' forceps in neonatal and adult rats.
(16) Apart from Swiss watchmakers and other industries, whose products will now look seriously overpriced on world markets, one of the more unexpected casualties will be homebuyers in Hungary and Poland.
(17) Havelange, who plucked Blatter from the Swiss watchmaker Longines in 1975, tasked him with remodelling Fifa into the money-making behemoth it is today.
(18) Curriculum vitae Name: Richard Dawkins Age: 64 Job: Charles Simonyi Chair in the Public Understanding of Science at Oxford Likes: walking the dog Dislikes: back-to-front baseball caps, gratuitous noise Books: The Selfish Gene, The Extended Phenotype, The Blind Watchmaker, Climbing Mount Improbable, The Ancestor's Tale Married: to Lalla Ward (of Dr Who fame), one daughter from previous marriage
(19) The Scot, needless to say, recently signed a sponsorship deal with the upmarket Swiss watchmaker Rado.
(20) Intact mouse follicles were isolated with watchmaker forceps (stages 4-6) or by enzymatic digestion (stages 1-4) at 0900 h and 1500 h on each day of the 5-day estrous cycle.