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Nugget


Definition:

  • (n.) A lump; a mass, esp. a native lump of a precious metal; as, a nugget of gold.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Gallinari will miss the entire 2013-14 Nuggets season, unlike most Nuggets fans who, at its end, probably won't miss it all.
  • (2) Playing with what one imagines to be a huge chip on his shoulder, Aldridge put up a career-high 44 points, and the Trail Blazers beat the Nuggets 110-105 .
  • (3) 'Park' and 'Nugget' Kentucky bluegrass turfs were grown in controlled environment chambers and inoculated with Klebsiella pneumoniae (W-2, W-6, and W-14), Erwinia herbicola (W-8), and Enterobacter cloacae (W-11).
  • (4) Andersen, who has a 'mohawk' hairstyle and a past which includes a drugs ban, joined the Miami Heat after leaving the Nuggets.
  • (5) Last year, when Andersen was playing for the Denver Nuggets , the Colorado Sheriff's Office Internet Crimes Against Children team seized property from Andersen's home, leading to widespread speculation.
  • (6) We'll be here until then and beyond, sharing every rumour nugget, insightful news line and weighty analysis we can muster.
  • (7) You may lose a life in a game when you make a mistake, but good games brilliantly balance the inconvenience of this with the provision of power-ups and health packs – little nuggets of grace in the learning system.
  • (8) Among those might be the Denver Nuggets, who had to play the Trail Blazers a few hours after the NBA All-Star announcements.
  • (9) This was no abstract essay, but a speech written in concrete, packed with what the wonks call "crunchy" nuggets of policy.
  • (10) There is one family group sharing a tray of chicken nuggets - a Thai mother and father with a fat little boy bursting from a designer leather jacket, but the other patrons are all alone, disconnected, eating their fast food with silent efficiency.
  • (11) Why doesn't it just flood out when it is turned into a takeaway or a ready meal or a chicken nugget?
  • (12) The story was swiftly denied, but many observers felt there might be a nugget of truth in it, underlining how febrile the mood had become.
  • (13) Grampian, supplier of fresh chicken and nuggets to all the main British supermarkets, has just closed down a factory in Scotland and ended its contract with some of its British farmers, while buying two huge factories outside Bangkok.
  • (14) The survey is good fun, discarding old chestnuts such as washing-up and dusting in favour of fresher nuggets such as: who organises playdates?
  • (15) Pools of ticks, Ixodes (Ceratixodes) uriae collected between 1975 and 1979 at Macquarie Island, yielded 33 strains of at least 4 different viruses: Nugget virus (Kemerovo group), 1 strain; Taggert virus (Sakhalin group) 9 strains; a previously undescribed flavivirus, related to Central European Tickborne encephalitis virus, for which the name "Gadgets Gully" is proposed, 9 strains; a virus serologically related to the Uukuniemi serogroup, family Bunyaviridae, for which the name "Precarious Point" is proposed, 10 strains.
  • (16) And as long as that audience is there to be fought for, then, yes, Jonathan Ross will be paid gold nuggets per second.
  • (17) McDonald’s posted relatively healthy returns in the third quarter, egged on by the continued popularity of its all-day breakfast and new chicken nuggets without added preservatives.
  • (18) The Miami Heat didn't see their streak end in a blowout loss, which is more than the Denver Nuggets can say after their comparably modest 15-game win streak ended in a blowout loss to New Orleans.
  • (19) Denver's Wilson Chandler scored 17 points, Nate Robinson added 16, and Kenneth Faried had a key block and transition dunk with 33 seconds left to lift the Nuggets past the Washington Wizards 75-74.
  • (20) Served in school dining halls, fast-food outlets, at hospital bedsides, and on the tables of harassed parents, nuggets have become ubiquitous.

Picker


Definition:

  • (n.) One who, or that which, picks, in any sense, -- as, one who uses a pick; one who gathers; a thief; a pick; a pickax; as, a cotton picker.
  • (n.) A machine for picking fibrous materials to pieces so as to loosen and separate the fiber.
  • (n.) The piece in a loom which strikes the end of the shuttle, and impels it through the warp.
  • (n.) A priming wire for cleaning the vent.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The curators Pickering and Kaus have painstakingly trawled through the records that may accompany bones for clues.
  • (2) Her unclothed remains were found six months later by mushroom pickers at Yateley Heath Woods, near Fleet, Hampshire, 25 miles away.
  • (3) He got in a cherry picker for Space Oddity, and managed to sing and dance.
  • (4) Years ahead of its time, it saw each song presented theatrically, the musicians concealed in the wings (although Bowie said that they kept creeping on to the stage, literally unable to resist the spotlight) and with Bowie performing on a cherry-picker and on a giant hand, both of which kept breaking down.
  • (5) Swach believes there is opportunity for its model to work elsewhere, but attributes its success to a strong pre-existing waste pickers union and sees a need for more unionisation in other cities.
  • (6) Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) was used in 45 renal transplant investigations (38 patients) using a Picker 0.15 T resistive system and a localized surface coil.
  • (7) Over on Sky News the editor of Majesty magazine felt forced to opine that he was “ not a good picker of people ”.
  • (8) Altogether 110 patients with different pancreatic diseases were examined on the Picker magna-scanner 500 I (USA) with 75Se-methionine (9.2 MBq).
  • (9) Scintiscanning of skeleton was performed on a gamma-graph Picker 500 i, 99mTc pyrophosphate was used and scintiscanning was performed in the usual examination regimen.
  • (10) A rigid, easily demountable, and versatile device combines the function of three separate accessories for the Picker Series 8 cobalt-60 teletherapy machine.
  • (11) I am a great believer of moving with the times.” Moving times also means almost all the pickers are foreign – there are 18 different nationalities on Broadwater farm.
  • (12) At the height of the harvesting season, between October and July, an estimated 6,000 migrants are employed as strawberry pickers for wages that no Greek, despite record levels of unemployment, would ever accept.
  • (13) In Mumbai, Vinod Shetty, a lawyer and head of Acorn Foundation , which advocates for waste pickers, says that Pune has set an example for the country of a workers' rights-oriented model, but there are many barriers to replication.
  • (14) Back out on the shop floor, Davis edges past the 40-strong team of "pickers", who are all intently scanning the recycling as it flashes past them on the conveyor for any contamination missed by the machines.
  • (15) I will get the overall standings worked out today, and post them below the line as soon as I can; all six-pickers will be duly acknowledged at the top of next week’s blog.
  • (16) The boys, aged around 10, were found by an elderly rag picker on Friday morning, Beijing News reported.
  • (17) Their labour fills a valuable role in municipal responsibility but city officials across the country have nearly unanimously overlooked the waste pickers' contributions .
  • (18) "He is very much a stock picker looking for exceptional businesses around the world that will be around in 20 years' time, and are able to offer consistent growth," says Adrian Lowcock from Hargreaves Lansdown.
  • (19) or the perennial "greetings, pop pickers", was scarcely to all tastes, but once heard it was rarely forgotten.
  • (20) Based on a collaboration between a group of local designers, environmental charity WWF and the non-profit Plastic Soup Foundation , the project revolves around a low-cost plastic shredder and moulding machine that waste pickers can use to make recyclable products like plastic statues.

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