(n.) One who, or that which, imparts motion; a source of mechanical power.
(n.) A prime mover; a machine by means of which a source of power, as steam, moving water, electricity, etc., is made available for doing mechanical work.
(n.) Alt. of Motorial
Example Sentences:
(1) In dorsoventral (DV) reversed wings at both shoulder or flank level, the motor axons do not alter their course as they enter the graft.
(2) The presence of CR-related activity suggests that SpoV may participate in the CR motor output pathway, and may also provide CR-related information to cerebellum.
(3) The automatic half of both the motor which advances the trepan as well as the second motor which rotates the trepan is triggered by the sudden change in electrical resistance between the trepan and the patient's internal body fluid, at the final stage of penetration.
(4) The earliest degenerative changes were seen in sensory and motor terminals at 20-24 h after the lesion.
(5) There was no correlation between disturbed gastric clearance, impaired gall bladder contraction, and prolonged colonic transit time in the patients with cardiovascular autonomic neuropathy nor was there a correlation between any disturbed motor function and age or duration of diabetes.
(6) These later results suggest that dopamine agonists increase sensorimotor reactivity measured with acoustic startle by acting on sensory rather than motor parts of the reflex arc.
(7) The Test of Motor Impairment (TOMI) was used to select 12 children with a Developmental Coordination Disorder (DCD) and 12 age-matched controls.
(8) A recent report suggested that neurons in the prefrontal, anterior cingulate, and primary motor cortex of the brains of schizophrenic subjects may be less dense than those in the brains of nonschizophrenic subjects.
(9) We suggest that neuronal PACAP may serve to modulate motor activity and secretion in the lower esophageal sphincter region.
(10) From these results, it can be suspected that the motor fibres are more vulnerable during aging.
(11) By 3 d in the chick embryo, the first neurons detected by antibodies to Ng-CAM are located in the ventral neural tube; these precursors of motor neurons emit well-stained fibers to the periphery.
(12) The corticotectal cells in the motor cortex differed from those in the premotor cortex in their size distribution; the former being small, the latter both small and large.
(13) Since the gastric motor pattern consisted of two major subpatterns, digestive and interdigestive motor activity, motilin was tested for its motor stimulating activity in both states.
(14) Sensory loss, motor weakness, paraesthesia and a new pain were found as complications in 12, 7, 4 and 6 patients, respectively.
(15) Measurements of acetylcholine-induced single-channel conductance and null potentials at the amphibian motor end-plate in solutions containing Na, K, Li and Cs ions (Gage & Van Helden, 1979; J. Physiol.
(16) Total abolition of the CR ensued when the wave of CSD reached the motor (frontal) cortex and again was independent of the CS modality.
(17) The effects of intra-arterial administration of substance P upon intestinal blood flow, oxygen consumption, intestinal motor activity, and distribution of blood flow to the compartments of the gut wall were measured in anesthetized dogs.
(18) Surrounding intact ipsilateral structures are more important for the recovery of some of the language functions, such as motor output and phonemic assembly, than homologous contralateral structures.
(19) Increased velocity of motor conduction in at least one nerve related directly proportionally to the Cs concentration of the serum was demonstrated in 56-70% of the patients after one dialysis.
(20) 18 patients with typical sporadic Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) were investigated by the Motor Accuracy and Speed Test (MAST) and 18 healthy age- and-sex-matched volunteers, acted as controls.
Motorman
Definition:
(n.) A man who controls a motor.
Example Sentences:
(1) 4 Alan Rusbridger Guardian editor • Suggested the PCC ask for Information Commission's material on Operation Motorman.
(2) His office in Hampshire was raided by the Office of the Information Commissioner two years earlier as part of Operation Motorman, an investigation designed to crack down on the growing trade in information obtained illegally.
(3) "We look forward to questioning the information commissioner about Operation Motorman, his position on regulation, and the way in which his office detects, handles, and penalises those who break the law," Vaz said.
(4) In early 2004 suspicions were raised because of the information commissioner's Operation Motorman investigation and a resulting police inquiry.
(5) Coulson agreed that the paper employed about 40 news reporters but suggested that it was unfair to say that more than half of them had used Whittamore, since the evidence collected by Operation Motorman covered a period of some years and that some of the 21 reporters could have been freelancers.
(6) March 2003 Operation Motorman investigation raids office of Whittamore in New Milton, Hampshire.
(7) It was agreed that individual newspapers could see the evidence that the data privacy watchdog had retained from the Motorman Investigation.
(8) Wright said he was unaware of the paper's use of Whittamore, whose invoices were categorised alongside regular journalistic expenses such as taxis and accommodation, until Operation Motorman was brought to his attention.
(9) 11.37am: Hogan-Howe is asked about leaks from the Police National Computer and Operation Motorman, which exposed the trade of private confidential data including criminal records.
(10) However, Wright told the inquiry he did not know until August 2011, when the paper was given access to the information commissioner's Operation Motorman files, that Whittamore had been obtaining information he was supplying to the Mail on Sunday illegally and that "nobody had suggested" that he was doing anything other than legitimate research for the paper.
(11) We have been campaigning for the opening up of the [information commissioner's] Operation Motorman files and one of the reasons against that has been that it is all historic.
(12) The information commissioner, Christopher Graham, will be questioned on the Operation Motorman inquiry in 2003 that uncovered widespread use of private investigators and search agents across the newspaper industry.
(13) Sheridan asked Coulson if he was aware that the information commissioner's office had run an inquiry known as Operation Motorman which found that, during his time at the News of the World, 21 of his reporters had used a private investigator named Steve Whittamore to gain illegal access to confidential data.
(14) Steve Whittamore was arrested in August 2003 in relation to trading illegally obtained information with the press including mobile phone numbers, car registration plates and criminal records, following the information commissioner's Operation Motorman investigation.
(15) In his witness statement, he says it is a regret that in opposition the Tories did not devote enough attention to the information commissioner's Operation Motorman reports in 2006.
(16) 2 The Information Commissioner's Office • Could not release further details on Operation Motorman, because it was "personal information".
(17) The report sprang out of Operation Motorman, an investigation launched by the Information Commissioner's Office in 2003, in which the records of a number of investigators were seized, including those of JJ Services, run by Steve Whittamore.
(18) The transfer of the files, from Operation Motorman , a 2006 inquiry into the use of private investigators by newspapers, which documented the practices of Stephen Whittamore and associates, marks the widening of the phone hacking inquiry to the broader issue of paying for confidential information.