(n.) One whose occupation is to make earthen vessels.
(n.) One who hawks crockery or earthenware.
(n.) One who pots meats or other eatables.
(n.) The red-bellied terrapin. See Terrapin.
(v. i.) To busy one's self with trifles; to labor with little purpose, energy, of effect; to trifle; to pother.
(v. i.) To walk lazily or idly; to saunter.
(v. t.) To poke; to push; also, to disturb; to confuse; to bother.
Example Sentences:
(1) Tim Potter, managing director of support charity the Fragile X Society , adds that the challenges Tom faces in the film will give "hope and encouragement to many other families".
(2) Fantastic Beasts, which is set 70 years prior to the arrival of Potter and his pals at the magical Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, will feature the swashbuckling adventurer Newt Scamander.
(3) I can't pull an invisibility cloak over my house – nor would I wish to," she said, a little wistfully, as if she really wished she had Harry Potter's magic powers.
(4) The original Wednesday Play, succeeded by the long-running Play for Today, is fondly remembered by many of today's best-known writers and directors as the experimental breeding ground for the likes of Dennis Potter, Ken Loach, Tony Garnett, Mike Leigh and Alan Bleasdale.
(5) The youngsters who identified with her when they saw her in Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone in 2001 can feel that she has yet to let them down, nearly 16 years later.
(6) The main differential diagnostic problems occurred in two fields: in differentiating (1) functional hydronephrosis from obstructive uropathy, and (2) multicystic renal dysplasia of Potter's type IV from severe hydronephrosis.
(7) Josiah Wedgwood, known as "the father of English potters", founded the company in 1759 .
(8) These days large theatres such as the Met in New York still use the recitative, but most productions tend to opt for the original dialogue, while a few, including Sally Potter's production for ENO in 2007, attempt to make do without either.
(9) He didn't go to university, but says he discovered the joy of learning for learning's sake when he was tutored on the Harry Potter sets.
(10) Renal dysplasia according to Potter classification was difficult to be assessed being a borderline case between grade II and IV.
(11) In the 6 cases in which fetal breathing movements were detected the babies were liveborn and there was no evidence of pulmonary hypoplasia or the other non-renal features of Potter's syndrome.
(12) Appearing in her capacity as a goodwill ambassador for UN Women, the Harry Potter star outlined her new year-long “ IMPACT 10X10X10 ” plan to address deficiencies in women’s empowerment and gender equality .
(13) In a community of potters in Barbados where lead glazes traditionally have been used, a survey of 12 potters, 19 of their family members, and 24 controls revealed elevated blood lead levels in the potters, their family members, and the neighbours who used pottery for culinary purposes.
(14) Even if the people aren't remotely interested in you, it's in your head, and if you start dancing, you think everyone's going to say, look at Harry Potter, dancing like a twat."
(15) They are making a big play for more content and Time Warner has some of the best global franchises you could hope to have – look at Harry Potter, Batman and HBO.” Time Warner’s lucrative cable channel business includes TNT, TBS and HBO, home to shows including Game of Thrones.
(16) With ultrasound, Potter's sequence can be demonstrated about the 16th week of pregnancy so that termination of pregnancy may be considered.
(17) If jet lag has you awake before the market is open for breakfast, you can potter up Fairfax to Canter's, a 24-hour deli that's been a Los Angeles Landmark since 1931.
(18) Twelve Years a Slave's Lupita Nyong'o and Game of Thrones' Gwendoline Christie officially joined the cast earlier this week, and the film will also feature Attack the Block's John Boyega, Ingmar Bergman-regular Max von Sydow and Harry Potter's Domhnall Gleeson.
(19) I'm sure a lot of people will be really excited," said Radcliffe, who starred in eight Harry Potter films between 2001 and 2011.
(20) The effectiveness of the nonmetabolizable second messenger analogue DL-myo-inositol 1,4,5-trisphosphorothioate (IPS3) described by Cooke, A. M., R. Gigg, and B. V. L. Potter, (1987b.
Putter
Definition:
(n.) One who puts or plates.
(n.) Specifically, one who pushes the small wagons in a coal mine, and the like.
(v. i.) To act inefficiently or idly; to trifle; to potter.
Example Sentences:
(1) Echocardiographic studies and radiological measurements of heart volume were performed in 30 female track athletes, 17 female shot-putters or javelin throwers, 12 nonathletic women and 8 female patients with arterial hypertension.
(2) Thomas Putter, director of Allianz Infrastructure, said this afternoon: "We believe that our offers fully reflect the value inherent in the business and we cannot justify an increase in our offers to our investors."
(3) On the poop deck of a party boat puttering slowly out into the Adriatic stands a gently balding and teetotal Canadian in studious specs and sandals.
(4) An economy that continues to putter along with high unemployment and mediocre growth will keep his approval ratings in negative territory.
(5) The Dow has puttered along at about a half-percentage-point down from Friday.
(6) Outside, the crowd puttered towards the exit, a recognisable song playing them out.
(7) smiles Jude Sayer, our guide to Norwich, as we stand by the river Wensum watching the motor boats puttering towards Wroxham.
(8) But before we do that, there's time to hand out a couple of minor gongs: The Award For The Team Top at Christmas Blowing It In The Most Spectacular Fashion: A few candidates for this, though no one has been top at the end of Christmas Day and finished outside the top four since 1972, with the exception of John Gregory's Aston Villa in 1998-99, who won just five of their 20 post Crimbo fixtures to putter sadly into sixth come May.
(9) He also found the sand on the 461-yard 10th, and again saved with the putter, by now his only friend.
(10) Under the guidance of PUTTER and REINEBOTH a first dispensary for tuberculous patients was established and became the prototype of similar institutions in Germany and other countries.
(11) In this paper the long term effect of conservative non-surgical treatment in two body-builders and one shot-putter is discussed, who reported the partial rupture while performing bench lifts with barbells.
(12) But, then I think about some of his expressed views about philosophers, especially in Small Gods and wonder what he really makes of us,” said South, citing Pratchett’s dictum that “whenever you see a bunch of buggers puttering around talking about truth and beauty and the best way of attacking Ethics, you can bet your sandals it’s all because dozens of other poor buggers are doing all the real work around the place.” “Of course, some of these observations hit close to home,” South added.
(13) The Australian also offered as good an argument as any for hideous, long-handled putters not really proving the answer to bother on the greens despite suggestions to the contrary.
(14) In almost every case, the regression functions for the shot-putters show an approximately linear relationship between the morphological variables and the result of the shot-putt.
(15) "At 18 you should putt well and he's a good putter.
(16) In the way that a scent lingers, I can still feel my Honda 125 puttering away while waves of heat from the endless sunshine and exhausts bounced to and fro between those venerable curving walls.
(17) In January, the website Grantland (which is owned by ESPN Internet Ventures , a subsidiary of the Walt Disney Company ) published an article – ostensibly about the inventor of a golf putter – that resulted in a prurient quest to uncover the subject's trans status, and which may have contributed to the article's subject's suicide.
(18) A minute later Enriqué tries a curler but the execeution isn't as good as his imagination and it putters two yards wide.
(19) The New Zealand shot putter Valerie Adams is also competing as she seeks to recover her best form after surgery.
(20) It is not a collective panic in the chancelleries of the west that Johnson might make some inappropriate joke about Putin’s chest muscles or Soviet-era female shot-putters at a time of heightened political tension.