(n.) A commissioned officer in the navy who had charge of the provisions, clothing, and public moneys on shipboard; -- now called paymaster.
(n.) A clerk on steam passenger vessels whose duty it is to keep the accounts of the vessels, such as the receipt of freight, tickets, etc.
(n.) Colloquially, any paymaster or cashier.
Example Sentences:
(1) Philip Purser, the Sunday Telegraph's long-serving TV critic, wrote in his 1992 autobiography, Done Viewing, that "the gravest disservice that Dallas did television was to create an appetite for flavours so strong and artificial that the palate was ruined for more subtle and natural tastes".
(2) Philip Purser writes: In television, Ian Richardson excelled in bringing unsympathetic characters to life.
(3) (Borehamwood, Hertfordshire) Professor David Anthony Purser.
(4) His grandfather was a guard on the Flying Scotsman and his father started as a purser on the Clyde steamers, later rising to white-collar status in British Rail's property division.
(5) I am Egyptian,” said Islam, the flight’s purser.
(6) Our results show that the Sharp-Purser test is a useful clinical examination to diagnose atlantoaxial instability.
(7) He's really developed socially," said the deputy head, Ashley Purser.
(8) Champagne, sir?” one of the purser’s colleagues asked Greste shortly before leaving UAE, holding out a little plastic glass of bubbly.
(9) We assessed the validity of the Sharp-Purser test in 123 outpatients with rheumatoid arthritis.
(10) Sharp and Purser have described a test for the clinical assessment of this instability.
Pursuer
Definition:
(n.) One who pursues or chases; one who follows in haste, with a view to overtake.
(n.) A plaintiff; a prosecutor.
Example Sentences:
(1) The city is formed by a succession of those restless pursuers of greatness, sure of their own minds, who use its fluid historical momentum and the revolutionary intention lingering in the atmosphere to establish their own position and personality.
(2) And the abiding image of this game will be of Argentina's No10 scampering past opponents like the fastest kid at school evading his pursuers in a game of tag; somehow being faster with the ball than without it.
(3) In catathymic mania, hatred is projected on to the "pursuer".
(4) He then fled south before crashing into a semi as he tried to elude his pursuers.
(5) He was wounded and came close to being captured several times, but evaded his pursuers.
(6) His pursuer, George Zimmerman , immediately targeted him as a potential criminal, "reporting" to a police dispatcher: "This guy looks like he's up to no good, or he's on drugs or something … these assholes they always get away."
(7) Udall, a Colorado Democrat and one of the CIA’s leading pursuers on the committee, appeared to reference that surreptitious spying on Congress, which Udall said undermined democratic principles.
(8) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Share Share this post Facebook Twitter Pinterest close 8.18pm BST They begin the second last lap, with the three upstarts still in front, and all of the main sprinters starting to position themselves at the front of the pursuers.
(9) He would not give himself up to his pursuers like Iraq's Saddam Hussein, Gaddafi declared in radio addresses, nor would he flee, like Tunisia's ousted president, Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali, the first "victim" of the Arab spring.
(10) The endpoint is the fusion between them, which can occur in 2 modes: either by the leading cell of the pursuer catching up with the target (pursuer-mediated fusion, or PMF) or by the target running into the preformed side of the pursuer (target-mediated fusion, or TMF).
(11) The causal specifications are the step size, the speed of the pursuer, the speed of the target, the restoration constant, and the initial direction of the pursuer; the outcome variables are the number of steps to fusion and the mode of fusion.
(12) Only the most spectacular of collapses, parlayed with the most unlikely bursts of success for a gaggle of flawed pursuers, would prevent it.
(13) The more the pursuer pursues, the more the distancer distances (or masturbates), and vice versa.
(14) It is cast in terms of the geometry of the pursuit of a linearly moving target by the growth of a chain of cells in the same plane, the pursuer, which at each step adjusts its direction of growth towards the current position of the target.
(15) Deaf for most of his Westminster career, he was an inspiration to people with disabilities, a battler on their behalf and a relentless pursuer of justice for underdog causes.
(16) Its primordial construct is a chain of cells (termed a "pursuer") growing under the influence of a signal towards a fixed structure termed a "target."
(17) Pamela, scandalised, offered a mock punch and insisted that she was the pursued, not the pursuer.)
(18) If the speed of the pursuer is defined as unity, r is also the ratio of the speeds.
(19) The major interventions included coaching the co-alcoholic to differentiate a self in the family system, to modify the habitual overfunctioner and pursuer roles, to bridge cutoffs, and to de-triangle oneself as the anxiety and tension rise in the family system.
(20) A key quantity is r, the speed of the target expressed as a fraction of that of the pursuer.