(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.
Slater
Definition:
(n.) One who lays slates, or whose occupation is to slate buildings.
(n.) Any terrestrial isopod crustacean of the genus Porcellio and allied genera; a sow bug.
Example Sentences:
(1) Photograph: Jonathan Lovekin for the Observer Nigel Slater's cold noodle and tomato salad makes a nice grownup supper with leftovers for the packed lunch.
(2) When Matt Slater went swimming with his dog Mango in a Cornish estuary this month, he bumped into a barrel jellyfish.
(3) The data of Slater (1938) on the parents and children of manic-depressives are reanalysed.
(4) Christian Slater, who plays Joe's father said: "As an actor I felt safe.
(5) But his boss, education secretary Nicky Morgan, is adamant that forcing all schools to become academies will cut central interference – which ought to mean Slater will need even fewer civil servants.
(6) Sent via Guardian Witness By Andy Slater 25 May 2013, 18:29 Either this photo was taken earlier or this fan is so disgusted by Bayern's sluggishness so far that he has left the stadium.
(7) Key has characterised both Nicky Hager, author of the book Dirty Politics, which draws on emails hacked from the venomous rightwing blogger Cameron Slater, and Greenwald, who arrived in New Zealand last week to expose contradictions in official positions on surveillance, as "conspiracy theorists".
(8) Slater’s Official Information Act request, which Hager says was encouraged by one of the PM’s staff, had been almost immediately fulfilled, while similar requests from other media were denied.
(9) Proposed changes to death certification in England and Wales in 2014 will make matters worse by levying an additional fee on all burials, Slater said.
(10) Photograph: PR When he started, Wright, whose previous work had been split between young people and professionals, asked producer David Slater what he should expect.
(11) Barbara Slater, director of BBC Sport, said: "We are absolutely delighted that [Formula One] will remain on the BBC.
(12) All nominees have achieved exceptional success in their respective fields in the past year,” Slater said, “and we wish each of them the best of luck, while also looking forward to a great night in Belfast.
(13) Hager draws on thousands of hacked emails and Facebook private messages, which reveal Slater’s links to Jason Ede, then a senior press adviser and so-called “black ops” co-ordinator in the prime minister’s office, as well as to senior cabinet minister Judith “Crusher” Collins and others.
(14) But instead of leaks from NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, Hager had something which, in domestic political terms at least, would prove even more explosive: a cache of correspondence from the computer of Cameron Slater, a vigorous, venomous rightwing blogger better known by his site’s title, Whale Oil.
(15) After the jet-black high school satire Heathers pulled the rug out from under John Hughes and his oversharing Brat Pack, in 1989, American adolescents were left with few offerings, most of them wistful odes to another age – either stylistically, as with the overblown, pirate-radio-themed Christian Slater vehicle Pump Up the Volume; or quite literally, in the case of Richard Linklater’s nostalgia-fuelled 70s pastiche, Dazed and Confused.
(16) A monkey only pressed a button of a camera set up on a tripod – a tripod I positioned and held throughout the shoot.” Last year, as the dispute simmered, Slater offered copies of a “monkey selfie” photo to purchasers willing to pay only for shipping and handling, and said he would donate $1.70 from each order to a conservation project dedicated to protecting Sulawesi’s macaques.
(17) Only the giant Antarctic slater Glyptonotus antarcticus survived the exposure to the contaminated water unharmed.
(18) In 2011, Indonesian macaques snatched David J Slater’s camera and started taking pictures of themselves.
(19) With a DNA probe derived from the cloned CHS1 gene that codes for chitin synthase I [Bulawa, C. E., Slater, M., Cabib, E., Au-Young, J., Sburlati, A., Adair, W. L. and Robbins, P. (1986) Cell 46, 213-225] a Northern analysis was conducted of CHS1-specific transcripts.
(20) The documents show a deep and intimate connection between Slater and Jason Ede, former senior advisor to Key.