(n.) One who, or that which, planes; a planing machine; esp., a machine for planing wood or metals.
(n.) A wooden block used for forcing down the type in a form, and making the surface even.
Example Sentences:
(1) Based on the play of the same name by Maurine Dallas Watkins, it drew instant acclaim when it opened in November 1997 with Ruthie Henshall, Ute Lemper, Henry Goodman and Nigel Planer in the main roles.
(2) We found a statistically significant increased risk for working in orchards (OR = 3.69, p = 0.012, 95% CI = 1.34, 10.27) and a marginally significant increased risk associated with working in planer mills (OR = 4.11, p = 0.065, 95% CI = 0.91, 18.50).
(3) Stephen Mangan, the Green Wing actor, plays Blair, and old Comic Strip hands such as Robbie Coltrane, Rik Mayall, Nigel Planer and Jennifer Saunders (as Margaret Thatcher) return.
(4) In this study, 39 embryos from 17 patients were cryopreserved in a Planer R204 cell freezer using the protocol of Mohr et al.
(5) Roy Pavihi, 26, is part of a youth group that is learning to make canoes, using traditional tools such as chisels and modern ones such as electric planers.
(6) Cardiac function is visualized by a so-called representative cardiac cycle consisting of 16 to 32 planer images.
(7) Maximum oxygen consumption was determined by the indirect method (with submaximal effort) in 155 forestry workers, 120 miners, 240 tool manufacturers (turners, planers etc.
(8) Permeability of ferrocene derivatives through a planer bilayer lipid membrane (BLM) was examined by an electrochemical method using microelectrodes.
(9) • Nigel Planer stars in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory at Theatre Royal, Drury Lane.
(10) More rapid and more sensitive approaches using steady state free precision and echo-planer imaging are being investigated.
(11) At -30 degrees C in a deep freezer; on a Planer at the rate of 1 degree C per minute and by immersion into liquid nitrogen to -196 degrees C, stored in cryo-containers in liquid nitrogen.
(12) Two commercial, controlled-rate freezing machines were examined, employing either nitrogen gas (Planer) or thermoelectric (Glacier) cooling.
(13) If the protein was reconstituted into a planer lipid bilayer, a Cl- -channel of 12 pS and a K+-channel of about 130 pS was observed.
Planner
Definition:
(n.) One who plans; a projector.
Example Sentences:
(1) The methodology, in algorithm form, should assist health planners in developing objectives and actions related to the occurrence of selected health status indicators and should be amenable to health care interventions.
(2) But Abaaoud, the man thought to be a key planner for the group behind the Paris attacks, boasted to a niece that he had brought around 90 militants back to Europe with him.
(3) Because what do you do: do you have an urban planner, or do you have a social worker?
(4) It is, in fact, quite astonishing to find British housebuilders and planners going along with the design and construction of such decent new homes.
(5) It will also oversee an in-house review by the bank into the advice its financial planners gave to customers during that period.
(6) These distinctive characteristics have often been overlooked by community planners who know little about elderly Chicanos and assume that all their needs can be met by their families.
(7) Physicians and planners of CME must be aware of what types of educational activities are best suited for their needs.
(8) They show that before democratically elected planners were due to decide on whether to grant planning permission, Charles briefed Sir Simon Milton, the official in charge of planning in the capital, about his concerns.
(9) They also say that the planners of the Diamond Jubilee are very interested in their ideas.
(10) As for Lord Rogers’s modernist estate at Chelsea Barracks , it was local opposition that caused Westminster planners to indicate rejection, leading the Qataris to withdraw their plan.
(11) In a statement to the Guardian this week, Exxon spokesman Richard Keil reiterated: “ExxonMobil does not fund climate denial.” Alec, an ultra-conservative lobby group, has hosted seminars promoting the long-discredited idea that rising carbon dioxide emissions are the “elixir of life”, and was behind legislation banning state planners in North Carolina from considering future sea-level rise.
(12) This pressure, by a letters campaign to the FCO, was initiated by Architects and Planners for Justice in Palestine with human rights organisation Adalah-New York , followed by the Palestine Solidarity Campaign, Noam Chomsky, Norman Finkelstein, former BBC correspondent Tim Llewellyn and hundreds of others.
(13) The implications of these findings are significant for future research in CME and for planners of present CME programs.
(14) They say that local authorities should be a voice for local communities and parents, a planner and commissioner of school places and provider of schools especially in the primary sector.
(15) That prospect, rather than new freedoms to beat up town planners, is likely to obsess boardroom directors in consumer industries.
(16) Developing skills in asking questions and securing information from the insurance company has become the responsibility of hospital discharge planners and home care nurses.
(17) Military personnel will deploy to Sierra Leone next week where they will join military engineers and planners who have been in the country for almost a month, overseeing the construction of the medical facilities.
(18) Programme planners must involve the consumers in diagnosing these community characteristics and in planning, supervising and maintaining the resulting projects.
(19) This publication consists of guidelines to assist health administrators and planners in planning, implementing, and evaluating malaria control programs that reflect the reorientation of the World Health Organization malaria control strategy endorsed by the World Health Assembly.
(20) But when I started turning up at strategy meetings at 6.45am each day in Millbank Tower, key planners such as Robin Cook and Patricia Hewitt took to going into corridors and lowering their voices, making it obvious that they disapproved of my presence, which they regarded as proof of Kinnock’s fatal susceptibility to flattery.