(n.) A person or thing that moves, stirs, or changes place.
(n.) A person or thing that imparts motion, or causes change of place; a motor.
(n.) One who, or that which, excites, instigates, or causes movement, change, etc.; as, movers of sedition.
(n.) A proposer; one who offers a proposition, or recommends anything for consideration or adoption; as, the mover of a resolution in a legislative body.
Example Sentences:
(1) The local MP, Rory Stewart, a mover and shaker on the broadband project, told me that he was desperate to get telehealth into Cumbria, but regretfully felt that it was not immediately doable, because the local council and healthcare community did not yet have the necessary expertise.
(2) Torque pulses (of 10 or 100 msec) injected randomly to load or unload the movements stretched or slackened the appropiate prime movers: biceps or triceps.
(3) In addition, prime mover muscle response onset latencies of the upper arm showed a large, significant increase in older adults beyond that due to the slowing of the postural response.
(4) Among males, however, both consistent right- and left-movers performed significantly better than inconsistent movers.
(5) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Joint chief of staff Nick Timothy, the primer mover in bringing back the 11-plus.
(6) The electromyograms produced by the prime mover muscles (sternal portion of pectoralis major, anterior deltoid, long head of triceps brachii) achieved maximal activation at the commencement of the ascent phase of the lift and maintained this level essentially unchanged throughout the upward movement of the bar.
(7) Home movers with little equity in their property are being offered a new range of 95% mortgages, provided they commit to making regular savings for at least six months.
(8) By contrast, with backward movements, the prime mover (Er.S.)
(9) The gourmet Monsieur Bleu only opened last year and is already a favourite power-lunch venue for art world movers and shakers, but the prices are not cheap (à la carte from €30pp).
(10) To examine whether the activity patterns of the upper arm muscles were related to the prime mover or the direction of the movement in space, the forearm was in two postures, supinate and pronate.
(11) For only the second time this year the monthly growth of movers exceeded the growth in first-time buyers.
(12) Administration of MPTP significantly prolonged EMG reaction time in prime mover muscles and arm movement reaction time by 47-225% and 18-129%, respectively, on the six sides of the three animals, compared with control measurements before the lesion.
(13) The state government has thrown its support behind Adani as a “first mover” in an attempt to open up coalmining in the Galilee basin, which it says will deliver 28,000 jobs and $28bn of investment.
(14) These findings highlight migration streams of elderly movers who likely have experienced changed in their life styles or personal resources.
(15) Phil Cliff, director of mortgages at Santander, said the scheme "will play an important role in helping both first-time buyers and home movers looking to buy new-build properties".
(16) And as far as Tate Modern, prime mover in the original bid to build the bridge, is concerned, director Nicholas Serota says: 'It doesn't appear to have deterred visitors from coming, but we were disapppointed that it had to close.
(17) First-time buyers were particularly active, taking out 27,500 loans, 16% higher than in May 2015; for the second month running, new entrants to the market borrowed more than home movers.
(18) Movers with high support at work and high total social support were more likely to report increased physician utilization.
(19) Right-movers (n = 33) were more responsive to verbal cues; left-movers (n = 45) were more responsive to facial cues (p less than .05).
(20) Later, he was a prime mover in halting the US government's Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) , which could well have led to widespread censorship of the internet.
Mower
Definition:
(n.) One who, or that which, mows; a mowing machine; as, a lawn mower.
Example Sentences:
(1) Photograph: Mike Williams When the mower went quiet, my neighbor Woods, still sitting in his truck, called me over.
(2) Outside, through the window, the sun is shining and a lawn mower slowly traces lines on the training pitch named after Tito Vilanova.
(3) We have shown a basic biophysical difference between clinically similar hand injuries and suggest that some rotary lawn mower injuries more closely resemble high-velocity missile injuries.
(4) Recent studies (Cynader and Mitchell, '80; Mower et al., '81) have shown that total dark rearing prolongs susceptibility to the physiological effects of monocular deprivation (MD) in visual cortex beyond the normal age limits.
(5) Lawn-mower injuries, a previously unreported mode of injury for this fracture, caused five of the eight Type-IV fractures and were associated with the worst prognosis by far.
(6) Serious injuries from riding power mowers were sustained by 18 children.
(7) Most of these injuries, especially those which occur to children who are passengers on self-propelled mowers, are preventable by observance of simple precautions.
(8) These accidents can be avoided if young children are prevented from playing near or using power lawn mowers.
(9) It's on the Duke of Gloucester's land, so he'll do all right which is why a lot of people are objecting," he explains cheerfully as he gets off his motor mower before it rains.
(10) 'One of the reasons is that there's been an industrial revolution inside and outside: mowers, Hoovers, heating are cheaper and better now.
(11) The first successful surgically treated case of penetrating heart injury, specifically the right ventricle, caused by a fragment of coat hanger wire thrown by a lawn mower, is reported.
(12) Lawn mowers cause severe injuries, particularly to the lower limbs in children.
(13) Kelkoo , which is excellent for flights and lawn mowers, includes the best offers it can find on eBay, too.
(14) A typical 26-inch rotary mower blade rotating at 3,000 revolutions per minute develops a kinetic energy of 2,100 ft lb.
(15) During the course of the coupled oxidation of tetrahydrobiopterin, a pterin 4a-carbinolamine intermediate can be detected by ultraviolet spectroscopy (Kaufman, S. (1976) in Iron and Copper Proteins (Yasunobu, K. T., Mower, H. F., and Hayaishi, O., eds) pp.
(16) This mechanism of injury is possible on account of the relatively large dimensions of the riding-on rotory motor mower.
(17) The study of 52 inpatient cases treated over 12 years shows that ride-on lawn mowers cause the most severe trauma, resulting in longer hospitalization.
(18) The authors suggest that a "dead man's grib" which acts via weight bearing on the driver's seat of the machine should be made legally compulsory in Denmark when the new safety measures for rotory motor mowers are drawn up.
(19) Better education of the dangers of the misuse of these mowers may reduce the incidence of significant forefoot injuries.
(20) "As soon as this drought hit, it has taken a drastic fall from lawn mowers all the way through the ag equipment," he said.