(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.
Separate
Definition:
(v. t.) To disunite; to divide; to disconnect; to sever; to part in any manner.
(v. t.) To come between; to keep apart by occupying the space between; to lie between; as, the Mediterranean Sea separates Europe and Africa.
(v. t.) To set apart; to select from among others, as for a special use or service.
(v. i.) To part; to become disunited; to be disconnected; to withdraw from one another; as, the family separated.
(p. a.) Divided from another or others; disjoined; disconnected; separated; -- said of things once connected.
(p. a.) Unconnected; not united or associated; distinct; -- said of things that have not been connected.
(p. a.) Disunited from the body; disembodied; as, a separate spirit; the separate state of souls.
Example Sentences:
(1) It was tested for recovery and separation from other selenium moieties present in urine using both in vivo-labeled rat urine and human urine spiked with unlabeled TMSe.
(2) Chapter one Announcement of the Islamic Caliphate The announcement of the renewal of the caliphate in Iraq in the year 1427AH [2006] was the arbiter between division and separation as well as the glory of the Muslims.
(3) The adjacent gauge was separated from the ischemic segment by one large nonoccluded diagonal branch of the left anterior descending artery.
(4) The previous year, he claimed £1,415 for two new sofas, made two separate claims of £230 and £108 for new bed linen, charged £86 for a new kettle and kitchen utensils and made two separate claims, of £65 and £186, for replacement glasses and crockery.
(5) And this is the supply of 30% of the state’s fresh water.” To conduct the survey, the state’s water agency dispatches researchers to measure the level of snow manually at 250 separate sites in the Sierra Nevada, Rizzardo said.
(6) Completeness of isolation of the coronary and systemic circulations was shown by the marked difference in appearance times between the reflex hypotensive responses from catecholamine injections into the isolated coronary circulation and the direct hypertensive response from a similar injection when the circulations were connected as well as by the marked difference between the pressure pulses recorded simultaneously on both sides of the aortic balloon separating the two circulations.4.
(7) In the present study, respirometric quotients, the ratio of oral air volume expended to total volume expended, were obtained using separate but simultaneous productions of oral and nasal airflow.
(8) The sensitivity of an indirect fluorescent antibody (IFA) test (screening test) for the detection of antibodies to cytomegalovirus (CMV) was examined by using 128 serum specimens and quaternary aminoethyl (QAE)-Sephadex A50 column chromatography to separate IgM from IgG class antibodies.
(9) This experimental system allows separation of three B lymphocyte developmental stages: early differentiation in vitro, progression to IgM secretion in vivo, and late differentiation dependent upon mature T lymphocytes in vivo.
(10) The individual classes of drugs are first treated separately to highlight specific aspects of their quantification, and this is followed by an overview of those methods permitting the concomitant analysis of two or more antiepileptic compounds.
(11) The ADAM derivative of carnitine was separated from decomposition products of the reagent and related compounds such as amino acid derivatives on a silica gel column eluted with methanol-5% aqueous SDS-phosphoric acid (990:10:1).
(12) Each patient contributed only once to each phase (105 in phase 1, 107 in phase 2), but some entered both phases on separate occasions.
(13) Twenty volunteers were used for the measurement of pedal pressures for 15 trials during three separate sessions.
(14) The relative strength of the progressions varies with excitation wavelength and this, together with the absence of a common origin, indicates the existence of two independent emitting states with 0-0' levels separated by either 300 or 1000 cm-1.
(15) Densitometric analysis of myofibrillar proteins separated with sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis indicated that troponin I and troponin T were degraded during 60 minutes of CGI.
(16) In a separate exclusive interview , Alexis Tsipras, the increasingly powerful 37-year-old Greek politician now regarded by many as holding the future of the euro in his hands, told the Guardian that he was determined "to stop the experiment" with austerity policies imposed by Germany.
(17) Sephadex LH-20 column chromatography was used for the separation of the steroid prior to assay.
(18) The deletions and substitutions appear to occur in separate molecules.
(19) The canine system allows quantitative separation of native heme containing alpha and beta chains which recombine to for tetrameric hemoglobin with normal functional properties (n = 2.17).
(20) Prothrombin isolation on DEAE Sephadex failed to separate the abnormal population (prothrombin Clamart) from the normal one.