(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.
Vent
Definition:
(n.) Sale; opportunity to sell; market.
(v. t.) To sell; to vend.
(n.) A baiting place; an inn.
(v. i.) To snuff; to breathe or puff out; to snort.
(n.) A small aperture; a hole or passage for air or any fluid to escape; as, the vent of a cask; the vent of a mold; a volcanic vent.
(n.) The anal opening of certain invertebrates and fishes; also, the external cloacal opening of reptiles, birds, amphibians, and many fishes.
(n.) The opening at the breech of a firearm, through which fire is communicated to the powder of the charge; touchhole.
(n.) Sectional area of the passage for gases divided by the length of the same passage in feet.
(n.) Fig.: Opportunity of escape or passage from confinement or privacy; outlet.
(n.) Emission; escape; passage to notice or expression; publication; utterance.
(v. t.) To let out at a vent, or small aperture; to give passage or outlet to.
(v. t.) To suffer to escape from confinement; to let out; to utter; to pour forth; as, to vent passion or complaint.
(v. t.) To utter; to report; to publish.
(v. t.) To scent, as a hound.
(v. t.) To furnish with a vent; to make a vent in; as, to vent. a mold.
Example Sentences:
(1) The goal of the expedition, led by Prof Ken Takai of the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, was to study the limits of life at deep-sea vents in the Cayman Trough as part of a round-the-world voyage of discovery by the research ship RV Yokosuka .
(2) Though the exercises have given the US a chance to vent its frustration at what appears to be state-sponsored espionage and theft on an industrial scale, China has been belligerent.
(3) Despite a 30% rate of luminal blockage in stents retrieved after indwelling times up to 3 months, the incidence of clinical obstruction in stented tracts up to 3 months was 4%, confirming other reports that significant urine flow occurs around rather than through hollow, vented stents.
(4) Methods compared were: (1) aspiration of stomach contents through a large, vented, multi-orificed gastric tube, and (2) indirect determination by a dye dilution method using polyethylene glycol (PEG) as the marker.
(5) For Vent 1, serum hemoglobin levels increased from 40 to 249 mg. per 100 ml.
(6) We found that venting improves the speech intelligibility, especially in background noise simulating modulated speech.
(7) There was a 4-10% increase in His-Purkinje (HP) and ventricular (VENT) conduction time with each anesthetic.
(8) Thus, the clinically feasible intervention of left ventricular venting during reperfusion was not cardioprotective.
(9) 6.39pm BST AstraZeneca shares tumble as investors vent their disappointment over Pfizer bid - closing summary AstraZeneca's site in Macclesfield, Cheshire, today.
(10) The biochemical changes that occurred in the vented culture bottles stabilized more rapidly than those of the unvented bottles.
(11) Whether you're a microbe at a hydrothermal vent, or a computer programmer at a software company, we all function on that same biochemistry."
(12) First, in order to remove that part of the systolic force which is related to intracavitary pressure, left ventricular bypass was created and the left ventricle vented.
(13) In Experiment 1, carbon monoxide (CO) exposure from eight 60 ml puffs increased in an orderly fashion as a function of filter vent blocking.
(14) boluses at a cardiac output of 2 L. At a cardiac output of 4 L., Vent 2 removed 42, 76, and 49 per cent, respectively.
(15) Pringle found these conferences “brilliant and often informative”, but “they used to drive me nearly frantic because of the difficulty of getting a decision.’ Katharine Whitehorn , the women’s page editor, famously declared that “the editor’s indecision is final”, but although Astor would sometimes allow his journalists to vent opposing views in print as well in person – Nora Beloff and Robert Stephens on Israel and Palestine, for example – he always had the final say.
(16) It was shown that parallel and side branch vents produce similar low frequency filtering effects and vent-associated reactance resonances.
(17) "If the fans want to vent their anger at me I can take it.
(18) The measurement has been carried out with and without venting.
(19) Trade union organisers said that the turnout had exceeded their expectations, and thousands had travelled by coach and by train from as far as Edinburgh to vent their anger at the government's cuts by marching through London to a rally in Hyde Park.
(20) She was outraged and turned to Twitter to vent her fury.