(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.
Rover
Definition:
(v. i.) One who practices robbery on the seas; a pirate.
(v. i.) One who wanders about by sea or land; a wanderer; a rambler.
(v. i.) Hence, a fickle, inconstant person.
(v. i.) A ball which has passed through all the hoops and would go out if it hit the stake but is continued in play; also, the player of such a ball.
(v. i.) Casual marks at uncertain distances.
(v. i.) A sort of arrow.
Example Sentences:
(1) Many businessmen like it.” At the entrance to Jiang’s swish showroom, customers are welcomed by posters of a cigar-smoking Winston Churchill and the Queen Mother, standing beside Land Rovers.
(2) It is thought Tata, the Indian conglomerate that also owns Jaguar Land Rover and Tetley Tea, is also preparing to cut several hundred roles in operations that serve the Scunthorpe plant, mainly at its Rotherham site.
(3) The striker, who is Agnew’s nephew, joined Boro for £11m from Blackburn Rovers in January but Karanka has since struggled to find room for him in his preferred 4-2-3-1 formation and Rhodes has started only four of a possible eight games, scoring one goal.
(4) The business posted a 58% increase in Chinese sales in the second quarter, boosted by demand for the recently launched Range Rover Evoque model.
(5) It’s a seismic moment for the industry and particularly the big European manufacturers who have done a lot of work on diesel: technologically, they have they made the wrong bet.” Some analysts believe fears of brand damage in Europe are overstated but Bailey says: “In the US it’s very different: VW have killed their diesel market and it has left them in a very difficult position.” For British manufacturer Jaguar Land Rover, the timing of VW’s woes was ominous, as it unveiled two new diesels in America.
(6) Blackburn Rovers must be growing to detest the site of London.
(7) With Rovers 13th, Allardyce is sacked by new owners Venky’s , and replaced by Steve Kean.
(8) Also in the advanced planning stages is a rover to go to Mars.
(9) Had Nasa completely ruled out life on Mars it would pose problems for the European Space Agency, which plans to send its own alien-hunting rover to Mars in 2018.
(10) By about 7pm he was sitting in his car parked near the garages and at 7.20pm was heading out of town with April in the Land Rover.
(11) The five-year-old knew Bridger, Williams told him, and would have got into his Land Rover "smiling and happy".
(12) Politicians across all parties need to do more to engage the young voters of the future, because ensuring that their voices are heard and that their needs are central to manifestos is vital for a fair and progressive society.” Play Video 1:32 Jeremy Corbyn appears at music festival at Tranmere Rovers ground – video Numerous celebrities including Lily Allen, Stephen Hawking, Brian May, Steve Coogan, Danny DeVito, Liam Gallagher, Ricky Gervais, David Gilmour, Mark Ruffallo, and Rag’n’Bone Man endorsed Corbyn in the course of the election.
(13) Cellino raised eyebrows this summer when he appointed Hockaday, whose previous managerial experience was limited to an unimpressive stint at non-league Forest Green Rovers.
(14) "So we have all the trophies you describe (Freight Rover Trophy, the Sherpa Van Trophy, the Leyland DAF Cup, the Autoglass Trophy and the Auto Windscreens Shield) apart from the LDV Vans (but we do have the Simod Cup)."
(15) If we're allowed to cheat a little bit, Arthur and Fred Blackburn both played for Blackburn Rovers, with Arthur scoring on four occasions.
(16) The senior manager, Roy Hodgson, would be receptive to working with Southgate but also enjoys a close relationship with Appleton, whose fledgling managerial career has already taken in short spells with Portsmouth, Blackpool and Blackburn Rovers.
(17) The 58-year-old, who recently served a four-month ban by the Football League for failing to pay tax on a yacht, was acquitted of customs offences on the Range Rover, which had been imported from the United States.
(18) Six years after Rover's collapse, there is certainly plenty of open space at the centre of this formerly thriving town: hundreds of acres of flattened muddy fields where 6,000 skilled workers once toiled.
(19) Jaguar Land Rover, the Indian-owned but Midlands-based producer of the upmarket Defender and Range Rover models reported volumes rising by nearly 7.5% over the year while production at the Japanese-owned volume carmaker Honda fell by 12.3%.
(20) "My masters are staying up all night working for a solution," Xinhua posted to its microblog when the rover malfunctioned.