(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.
Reaper
Definition:
(n.) One who reaps.
(n.) A reaping machine.
Example Sentences:
(1) There are, however, plenty of arguments to be made about the Slim Reaper's supporting cast.
(2) • How the coalition is increasingly using deadly Reaper drones to hunt and kill Taliban targets by remote control from a base in Nevada.
(3) The RAF has not disclosed the number of US-made Reapers deployed in Afghanistan, but say they will double the total over the next two years.
(4) A "light installation" is projecting a shadowy grim reaper.
(5) However, the whispering Grim Reapers are, I think and hope, unduly pessimistic.
(6) The reaper has come for America’s strongest bank.
(7) The government disclosed as part of last year’s defence review that it would double its drone fleet from 10 to 20 and the existing Reapers will give way to an updated version, the Protector, capable of remaining airborne for 40 hours and due to come into service in around 2020.
(8) There may be pictures coming in from another Reaper in the area."
(9) And the Reaper surely attracts the image of the Grim Reaper, harvesting the souls of those damned with its Hellfire missiles .
(10) Reaper drones, which are armed with Hellfire missiles, are controlled remotely from RAF Waddington in Lincolnshire and a USAF base in Creech, Nevada.
(11) The RAF is also flying small manned twin turboprop Beechcraft King Air planes to complement surveillance missions undertaken by the unmanned Reapers.
(12) Bowie broke the silence in 2013 with The Next Day , a gnarly rock album spitting anger at warmongers, zombie celebrities and The Reaper with equal venom, as he prepares to “stumble to the graveyard and lay down by my parents”, adding archly, “just remember duckies, everybody gets got”.
(13) A small number of UK personnel are currently embedded within the US RPAS (Remotely Piloted Aircraft System) programme, supporting Reaper aircraft in roles which are either engaged only in the launch and recovery phase or in non-operational environments.
(14) The cost of British weapons used against Isis targets by Tornados and Reapers amounts so far to over £13m, and probably significantly more.
(15) In the end, the result was a little memoir, My Year Off, an account of rediscovering life after a serious brush with the grim reaper.
(16) Government sources said that ministers then “agreed an approach” – a strike by an unmanned RAF Reaper drone – and authorised intelligence agents and the RAF to identify the right moment to strike.
(17) The RAF has about 10 armed Reaper reconnaissance drones in Afghanistan, and these could be deployed in Iraq or Jordan if the war against Isis looks as if it may be prolonged.
(18) Reaper “remotely piloted aircraft systems” as the MoD calls them, were first used by British forces in Afghanistan and are controlled via satellite many thousands of miles away in RAF Waddington in Lincolnshire.
(19) The events which have no name scythe through the valley like invisible reapers.
(20) The rules governing the firing of the Reapers' missiles "are no different to those used for manned combat aircraft, the weapons are all precision guided and every effort is made to ensure the risk of collateral damage and civilian casualties is minimised", a defence official said.