(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.
Shaper
Definition:
(n.) One who shapes; as, the shaper of one's fortunes.
(n.) That which shapes; a machine for giving a particular form or outline to an object.
(n.) A kind of planer in which the tool, instead of the work, receives a reciprocating motion, usually from a crank.
(n.) A machine with a vertically revolving cutter projecting above a flat table top, for cutting irregular outlines, moldings, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) Whatever your view of her she was a shaper of history.” Mantel said her story was an examination of why Thatcher “aroused such visceral passion in so many people”.
(2) So to what extent are we prepared to give up being a rule shaper in a space that we’ve dominated historically as a country?...
(3) However, she is the most astute image-shaper in sport bar none, seducing swathes of tame tennis writers to plug her sweets, charming hosts with just a hint of a smile, disarming critics with a pursed-lip frostiness of which Madonna would be proud.
(4) These are just two of the hugely important future issues which these seven intelligent men and women might have discussed – if the shapers of the programme were not so banal in their thought and execution.
(5) Overall, canal shaping with the Rispisonic and Shaper files was rapid and efficient whilst that with the Heliosonic files was slower and ineffective.
(6) Either the molecular weight of galactosyltransferase, has been overestimated, or a discrepancy exists between the actual molecular weight of galactosyltransferase and that predicted by the bovine cDNA clone isolated by Shaper et al.
(7) Gamete recognition in the mouse is mediated by galactosyltransferase (GalTase) on the sperm surface, which binds to its appropriate glycoside substrate in the egg zona pellucida (Lopez, L. C., E. M. Bayna, D. Litoff, N. L. Shaper, J. H. Shaper, and B. D. Shur, 1985, J.
(8) Studies of these peptides in conjunction with the data on the eight cyanogen bromide peptides described earlier (Chang, J. Y., DeLange, R. J., Shaper, J. H., and Glazer, A. N. (1976) J. Biol.
(9) Among many other specifications, the police's preferred surveillance system would harbour the capacity to view allegedly problematic messages within 30 seconds of their publication; to recognise influential opinion-shapers within a certain geographic area; and to track how an individual's opinions changed over time.
(10) David Cameron’s referendum furnished him with a platform for spending £7.5m promoting Farage’s anti-immigrant leave campaign, and elevated him to a shaper of national consciousness.
(11) Concerning the files used in ultrasonics, the Shaper seems to be more efficient than the K file.
(12) Under the conditions of this study the use of Rispisonic and Shaper files activated by a sonic handpiece proved a satisfactory method of shaping simulated root canals in resin blocks.
(13) The strikingly higher frequency of rheumatic heart disease discussed in this review is at variance with the findings of SHAPER et al.
(14) Three microkeratome systems (Automatic Corneal Shaper (Steinway Instrument Company, Inc, San Diego, Calif), Draeger Lamellar Keratome (Storz Instrument GmbH, Heidelberg, Germany), and Microprecision test model (Microprecision Instrument Company, Inc, Phoenix, Ariz) were subjected to a concurrent and independent evaluation.
(15) The selector is fitted out with a band-pass filter, automatic gain control, and a shaper for standard impulse formation.
(16) For 2 min of instrumentation, the original adaptation of the Shaper on the Cavi-Med gave the highest activity.
(17) The tape-recorded stimuli were filtered through a calibrated audiometer and spectrum shaper to simulate two high-frequency losses.
(18) A total of 180 simulated root canals in clear resin blocks with various lengths and degree of curvature were prepared by either Heliosonic, Rispisonic or Shaper files activated by a sonic handpiece.
(19) Previously we have shown that the gene for bovine and murine beta 1,4-GT is unusual in that it specifies a short (SGT) and long (LGT) form of the enzyme (Russo, R. N., Shaper, N. L., and Shaper, J. H. (1990) J. Biol.
(20) We have reported the isolation and characterization of a bovine cDNA clone containing the complete coding sequence for UDP-Gal:Gal beta 1----4GlcNAc alpha 1----3-galactosyltransferase [Joziasse, D. H., Shaper, J. H., Van den Eijnden, D. H., Van Tunen, A. J.