(n.) One who oversees; a superintendent; a supervisor; as, an overseer of a mill; specifically, one or certain public officers; as, an overseer of the poor; an overseer of highways.
Example Sentences:
(1) The damage threshold during aortic valvuloplasty was determined in 12 normal swine subjected to inflation of oversized dual balloons.
(2) Porous polyethylene was thus better incorporated into the soft tissues than silicone rubber as long as the overlying soft tissues were not stressed by an oversized implant or inadequate soft tissue coverage.
(3) The parietal, squamosal, and exoccipital bones, and the quadrate cartilage were displaced when otic capsule material was absent or oversized.
(4) A literature review aimed at completeness, a study of the hitherto largest case material (24 cases), and a comparative analysis of the bleeding and normal gastric arteries gave the following results: (1) the walls of the pathologic arteries are of normal structure; (2) as submucous arteries, they are of normal diameter; (3) they are attached to the mucosa by virtue of Wanke's musculoelastic mantle; (4) at the level of the muscularis mucosae, they are definitely oversized; (5) in the area of the linkage of the artery to the mucosa, a vulnerable mucosal spot is created; (6) the artery is accompanied by a vein of similar caliber; and (7) perforation of the vein takes place before that of the artery.
(5) Analysis of variance suggests that the use of a 0.5-mm oversized transplant, as opposed to a 0- to 0.3-mm oversized transplant, contributed to the production of high myopia when tissue from donors younger than 2 years was used (P = 0.009).
(6) Oversized grafts should be avoided because of resultant turbulent flow and the tendency of thrombosis.
(7) Two nurses ready a yellow and black machine that looks like a drill press with an oversized button where the chuck would be.
(8) In 38 per cent of cases the reason for surgery was an oversized calf and in 84 per cent the operation was performed on the farm of origin.
(9) Still: “We had an oversight model that could have worked” – meaning the Congressional and judicial oversight systems for the NSA – “But the overseers weren’t interested in oversight – the Senate and House intelligence committees championed surveillance.
(10) HTC's phablet - an oversized smartphone, or small tablet - resembles the slim profile and curved metal back design of the well-received 5in HTC One Android smartphone , but features a larger 5.9in full HD screen that makes watching movies and sharing content with friends easier.
(11) I meet Olsen in London, somewhere east of Dingwalls (a venue she's due to play later) and in the neighbourhood of the Observer 's offices.. She's wearing dark clothes and oversized shades, pale‑faced underneath.
(12) Yet the relationship between the overseers and the overseen is not adversarial.
(13) With a tone at points mournful and angry, Udall, who lost his re-election last month, said “the CIA has lied to its overseers and the public”, and blasted the White House for not holding anyone “to account”.
(14) The authors' results demonstrate that within an oversized IVC, the BNF creates less flow disturbance and is less occlusive with clot capture than biiliac filters.
(15) The easy, cynical view is that this is just people with too much money and oversized appetites buying into hype.
(16) Late on Monday the new finance minister, Yanis Varoufakis, sent a six-page list of proposed economic reforms to Brussels which held to some of Tsipras’s election campaign pledges, but largely diluted or abandoned them to win the support of the other 18 governments in the eurozone, and of the troika of bailout overseers from the European commission, the European Central Bank (ECB) and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) .
(17) Oversized balloons with a ratio greater than 1.3 (n = 35) caused a high (37%) incidence of dissection, with three severely compromised arterial lumens.
(18) These oversized disks had incorporated 3H-leucine and extended along the margin of the outer or inner segment.
(19) Kaepernick and Reid dropped to one knee while a naval officer sang The Star-Spangled Banner and dozens of military members unfurled an oversize flag at the Chargers’ Qualcomm stadium.
(20) Sixty-eight of the 88 lenses had PAS which were strongly correlated with the lens being oversized (P less than .001).
Supervisor
Definition:
(n.) One who supervises; an overseer; an inspector; a superintendent; as, a supervisor of schools.
(n.) A spectator; a looker-on.
Example Sentences:
(1) It appeared that ratings by supervisors were influenced primarily by the interpersonal skills of the residents and secondarily by ability.
(2) Herman Van Rompuy, the European Council president chairing the summit, hoped to finesse an overall agreement on the banking supervisor.
(3) Other findings showed highly satisfactory to above average performance of graduates whether based on residency supervisors' evaluations or self-evaluations and higher ratings for the graduates who selected surgery residency programs than for those pursuing other disciplines.
(4) We reviewed the routines for providing information on drugs, and for training in the use of drugs and aids to medication in hospital and nursing homes by interviewing 11 ward supervisors.
(5) The authors compared supervisors' global and specific item ratings of psychiatric residents' performance in each of three years of training with ratings of these applicants prior to their admission to the program.
(6) Mentoring relationships experienced by Army Nurse Corps officers in head nurse or nursing supervisor roles were examined via a survey questionnaire.
(7) Respondents' perceptions of their supervisors' style adaptability were positively and significantly correlated with their perceptions of work-unit effectiveness.
(8) 34% of the house officers had an appointed supervisor compared with 54% in primary care.
(9) Later they were also assigned to interdisciplinary inpatient teams led by community psychiatry supervisors.
(10) The nerd may have been more in evidence early on - not least when he was doing his doctorate and ignored the advice of his Nobel prize-winning supervisor, Nikolaas Tinbergen, and opted for a stats fest, "a classic piece of Popperian science", instead of a fluffier study of animal behaviour - but it's still around.
(11) The leader of such a supervisors' group can be more helpful if he will see himself as a facilitator of essentially peer group observations rather than a transference interpreter or group teacher.
(12) Data published by the Committee of European Banking Supervisors (CEBS) showed that the banks were only forced to simulate losses on sovereign debt that they held for trading purposes and not for bonds they might hold to maturity on their banking books.
(13) The most pronounced finding was the importance of supervisors being pharmacists: satisfaction on five of six satisfaction subscales was related to whether one's supervisor was a pharmacist.
(14) Shapla has found a job at another factory but, due to her back injuries, as a sewing-machine operator, not a supervisor.
(15) Administrators, supervisors, and staff must be involved in this important process to attract and retain new as well as experienced nurses.
(16) Mohamed Saleh, the security supervisor for the Al Masry club, claimed that he too noticed people in the crowd whom he described as "strangers".
(17) Variables within the referring analyst, patient, candidate, and supervisor are examined in their interaction with the circumstances of the assessment enterprise.
(18) A nursery supervisor with smear- and culture-positive pulmonary tuberculosis and a productive cough exposed 528 newborns over a three-month period before her disease was diagnosed.
(19) Combining the data from cutaneous malignant melanoma over both sexes and both registries the occupations with the highest incidence ratios (expressed as a percentage) were: airline pilots, incidence ratio (IR) = 273, (95% confidence limits 118-538); finance and insurance brokers IR = 245 (140-398); professional accountants IR = 208 (134-307); dentists IR = 207 (133-309); inspectors and supervisors in transport IR = 206 (133-304); pharmacists IR = 198 (115-318); professionals not elsewhere classified IR = 196 (155-243); judges IR = 196 (126-289); doctors IR = 188 (140-248); university teachers IR = 188 (110-302); and chemists IR = 188 (111-296).
(20) The radical, yet promising approach of eliminating evening and night shift nursing supervisors is discussed.