(n.) One who plates or coats articles with gold or silver; as, a silver plater.
(n.) A machine for calendering paper.
Example Sentences:
(1) Personnel records of over 1000 welders and electricians but only 235 caulkers and 557 platers employed at a shipyard in NE England between 1940 and 1968 were obtained and the mortality followed up to December 1982.
(2) 14 (38%) of 37 chrome platers in 17 chrome electroplating factories surveyed had occupational contact dermatitis, chrome ulcers, or both.
(3) For the SGE method, a spiral plater was used to set up a concentration gradient of an antimicrobial agent within an agar plate across which bacterial strains were inoculated as radial streaks.
(4) Car painters and car platers were compared to car mechanics on Monday before work.
(5) Among specific causes of death, only lung cancer was found to be significantly higher than expected for all platers (16 observed, 8.9 expected; SMR 179; 95% CI 102-290).
(6) This study investigated the effect of HDI and HDI-BT on lung function and included two control groups: (1) car platers, exposed to the same solvents and grinding dust as car painters, but not to isocyanates, and (2) car mechanics (controls), not exposed to the mentioned agents.
(7) The study was limited by the lack of accurate job exposure details, and there was no record of smoking habits, but welders and caulkers showed a higher standardised mortality ratio for all causes, lung cancer, ischaemic heart disease, pneumonia, and accidents than platers and electricians.
(8) Plater and two pals then marched on to the stage in string vests, baggy shorts and false moustaches.
(9) The jazz-loving, heroically cigarette-smoking, Hull City-supporting Plater was a populist all-rounder with more than 300 assorted credits in radio, television, theatre and films (his screenplay for DH Lawrence's The Virgin and the Gypsy, directed by Christopher Miles in 1970, is probably his best) as well as journalism, six novels, broadcasting and teaching.
(10) Platers reported the highest fatigue rates in the shoulder regions during the test.
(11) When asked to define his nationality, Plater's stock response was: "Geordie by birth, Yorkshire by upbringing and now a metropolitan sophisticate."
(12) The SMR for lung cancer of the chromium plater subgroup was highest among those exposed for the shortest period and among those exposed in the most remote calendar years.
(13) Irritant factors are therefore important in the aetiology of contact dermatitis in these chrome platers.
(14) The project was then quickly taken up by the BBC, attracting quality scriptwriters such as Alan Plater and Malcolm Bradbury and the actors Warren Clarke and Colin Buchanan in the lead roles.
(15) plumbers, fitters and platers, 'a' was 0.4, 0.6 and 0.2 respectively.
(16) Plater's agent for many years was the terrifying Peggy Ramsay, whom he memorialised in his Hampstead theatre play, Peggy for You (1999), with Maureen Lipman giving one of her greatest performances, ruling the roost in her St Martin's Lane eyrie with the eccentric hauteur of a mad Russian empress.
(17) The MN frequency in nasal mucosa was not altered in chromium platers, whereas a significant increase (p less than 0.01) in MN was found in 2 out of 3 subjects involved in the accidental EtO leakage and a non-significant increase in MN was found in the group chronically exposed to EtO.
(18) Excessive urinary excretion of beta 2-microglobulin, a specific proximal tubule brush border protein, and retinol-binding protein has been reported among chrome platers and welders.
(19) "This place lives and breathes stories," says Plater.
(20) The point prevalence of white fingers was 42% for the plater category currently exposed with an odds ratio of 85.
Prater
Definition:
(n.) One who prates.
Example Sentences:
(1) Mostafa, a taxi driver who arrived from Egypt 16 years ago, and who was dropping guests off at an FPÖ party at the Prater on Sunday evening, said every leap the FPÖ made in the polls made life increasingly difficult for many of Austria’s foreigners, particularly those from Arab countries like himself.
(2) The gene was contained in a 2.8-kilobase DNA fragment which was obtained from a lambda transducing bacteriophage, lambda dglpK100 (Conrad, C.A., Stearns, G.W., III, Prater, W.E., Rheiner, J.A., and Johnson, J.R. (1984) Mol.
(3) The second option, to move to one of the many surrounding whiter, much wealthier suburbs where public schools are better in an American system that largely links public education funding to property value, presented Prater with the fear his children would be treated as intruders and unwelcome – a situation he feels has the potential to be deadly.
(4) 8.41pm GMT Patriots 0-3 Broncos, end of the 1st quarter Shane O'Mahony (@ShaneOMahony2) Brady vs Manning, first blood- Matt Prater @HunterFelt January 19, 2014 Watch this end up being like a 13-10 game at the end of four quarters after all of the hype about the offense.
(5) But all they did was reify racial problems.” Prater, the business owner, father and husband, says he is taken aback when he sees police officers in his majority white suburb of Grosse Pointe Park smiling with residents and throwing a football with them in their local park.
(6) The Broncos went ahead early with a 27-yard field goal by Matt Prater and never relinquished the lead.
(7) Be seen and not heard, and come home safely.” Prater, a 39-year-old business owner who, together with his wife, decided to move his family back to the Detroit area three years ago after living in Atlanta, Georgia, for 13 years – in part to participate in the city’s economic redevelopment – is black, as are his wife and their three children.
(8) Prater said Scott was "no threat at all" at the time.
(9) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Kicker Matt Prater is unable to tackle Seattle wide receiver Percy Harvin on his way to a touchdown.
(10) So Prater tells his children to never open a can of soda before they have paid for it when they are at CVS, even if they are in line, even if their white friends are doing it.
(11) And while Tucker made his over 40 yard kick in the playoff last year, Prater missed his.
(12) Christopher Prater was in his dining room in Grosse Pointe Park, Michigan , on Sunday morning sipping coffee with his wife when he came across a video on Facebook of black teenagers in bathing suits in McKinney being chased down by police, thrown to the ground and threatened with a gun after they attended a pool party in the predominantly white suburb.
(13) Updated at 9.45pm GMT 9.43pm GMT Kickoff Matt Prater kicks it out of the endzone and here come the Chargers - we're off!
(14) The Broncos bring the field goal unit in and Prater's 54-yard attempt is good and, perhaps most importantly, the Pats have just seven minutes to get two touchdowns with two two-point conversions.
(15) Broncos kicker Matt Prater is on the opposite end of the spectrum.
(16) Prater's 35 yard field goal is good, which might be the best case scenario for New England after that frightening drive.
(17) Chargers 0-17 Broncos, 1:07, 3rd quarter The wind claims a Prater field goal attempt from 47 yards out - it's wide left, and that counts as a break for the Chargers, who manage to stall the Broncos drive.
(18) These are not conversations I want to have with my children, but they are conversations I have to have, again and again and again,” Prater says.
(19) Oklahoma County district attorney David Prater told jurors during closing arguments Monday that Harrison put other people in danger when he fired four shots at Scott, placing bystanders and a fellow officer in harm's way before hitting the teenager in the back with the fourth shot.
(20) Patriots 0-3 Broncos, 3:48, 1st quarter But the Broncos can only pick up a yard on three downs, Prater makes a field goal to put them on the board first but the Patriots defense has to be happy to keep Denver out of the endzone.