(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.
Sicker
Definition:
(v. i.) To percolate, trickle, or ooze, as water through a crack.
(a.) Alt. of Siker
(adv.) Alt. of Siker
Example Sentences:
(1) But she noticed Mohamed getting smaller and sicker, until she eventually brought him to the centre, where the nuns give him F-75 – an enriched formula adapted for malnourished children, fortified porridge, plumpy nut, and soup with meat and fish.
(2) As a generalization, younger, more rehabilitatable diabetics have been offered a kidney transplant, while older, often sicker diabetics have been relegated to CAPD, leaving most diabetics in the subset managed by maintenance hemodialysis.
(3) Second, there was a 27% increase in the mortality rate of residents living in the nursing home for 1 to 5 years suggesting that the population had become sicker between 1982 and 1985.
(4) This can lead to what some refer to as a “death spiral” – or a collapse of a local exchange in a place where the insurance pool keeps getting smaller, sicker and more expensive.
(5) It is clear from analyzing the patient profile of this subset of patients from large clinical reviews that in general they are older and sicker and have a higher incidence of cardiovascular risk factors representing more extensive atherosclerosis.
(6) Those payments were established by Obamacare to cover patients that turned out to be sicker than predicted.
(7) He is critically ill, a good deal sicker than our previous patients, and perhaps sicker than any patient that has been transported from west Africa ,” Wilson said earlier.
(8) Regression and correlation analysis of psychopathological and EP measurements in hyperkinetic children revealed the following findings: the shorter the latencies and the higher the amplitudes, the sicker was the child.
(9) Mothers of sicker infants, those who had claimed difficulties with NICU staff, and those who felt less attached to their infant more often described painful reminders of this crisis.
(10) Cost containment efforts which have shifted significant portions of the inpatient population to ambulatory areas have resulted in an inpatient population which is sicker and more procedure-intensive.
(11) In short, they say, "The poor and unemployed get sicker quicker."
(12) Such findings can lead to the conclusion that women are the "sicker sex" in terms of objective health status.
(13) In addition, these patients were sicker on initial unit discharge as manifested by higher heart and respiratory rates and lower hematocrit values.
(14) Just after the turn of the 20th century, a few internships were begun by hospitals in Seattle and Spokane to help with the care of their sicker patients in the tradition of Eastern teaching hospitals.
(15) Thus, the difference between the original treatment groups remained, despite that treatment with enalapril was made available to all surviving patients and that those in the group with enalapril were sicker at baseline than those in the group with placebo.
(16) If you make it harder to go to the doctor, they just get sicker and it costs more.” Both Turnbull and Shorten committed not to privatise Australia Post.
(17) I just kept getting sicker and sicker and I really wasn’t able to see a doctor until I got the insurance.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Susan Martin: ‘I just kept getting sicker and sicker and I wasn’t able to see a doctor until I got the insurance.’ Photograph: Courtesy of Susan Martin Once she was able to see a doctor, Martin was diagnosed with Lyme disease and two other tick-borne diseases.
(18) Compared to normative data published on the first four devices, the combined patients were far 'sicker' in nearly all comparisons (P less than or equal to 0.01).
(19) The results are consistent with previous research on differences between disciplines and with the flight of psychiatrists from CMHCs but cast doubt on the hypothesis that psychiatrists see sicker patients than psychologists see because of differences in reimbursement between the two disciplines.
(20) Patients with MCS show numerous physiological and biochemical abnormalities and are generally sicker than a control group of allergic patients.