(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.
Rutter
Definition:
(n.) A horseman or trooper.
(n.) That which ruts.
Example Sentences:
(1) A 4 base pair mutation in the enhancer sequence shown previously to abolish activity in vivo [Boulet, A. M., Erwin, C. R., & Rutter, W. J.
(2) When the children were at the age of 10-11 years the parents were sent a questionnaire designed by Rutter to find those children who had at that time mental problems.
(3) As reported earlier (Roeder, R. G., and W. J. Rutter, Nature, 224, 234 (1969)), two major chromatographically distinct enzymatic species (I and II) are present in whole nuclei.
(4) Both teacher's and parent's questionnaires by Rutter were utilized.
(5) The sequence of the hCI-MPR was virtually identical to that of the human insulin-like growth factor II receptor cDNA (Morgan, D. O., Edman, J. C., Standring, D. N., Fried, V. A., Smith, M. C., Roth, R. A., and Rutter, W. J.
(6) Chris Rutter, stipendiary steward We see very little of him on the racecourse.
(7) A population was examined on two occasions, 18 months apart, using Rutter's parent and teacher questionnaires.
(8) Aggressive and overactive behaviors at age 5 years were measured by subscales of the Rutter Child Behavior Questionnaire completed by the parents.
(9) The playlist is intended to give the listener a disposition of wonder, of contemplation, of prayer to the God who first loved us.” So, starting with some Palestrina and taking in some Holst, Vaughan Williams and John Rutter, here is the official Songs for the Conclave playlist .
(10) Photograph: Tamsin Rutter for the Guardian Ian Fall (far left), branch secretary for Lambeth GMB and a local government manager, said Lambeth council workers were striking for a pay rise and in support of the London living wage.
(11) Photograph: Tamsin Rutter for the Guardian Police staff were out on strike against low wages and privatisation of police service jobs.
(12) The Rutter Children's Behaviour Questionnaire was completed by the teachers of 108 Aboriginal pupils at two rural schools in the far west of New South Wales.
(13) Jill Rutter, a former Whitehall high-flyer now at the Institute of Government, says there was a moment in early 2011 when that claim was true and women took on some of the big spending beasts such as defence and health.
(14) To investigate the integrity of the brain-stem in 20 mentally handicapped children who met the Rutter criteria for autism, brain-stem auditory evoked potentials were obtained for a range of stimulus intensities.
(15) Measurement characteristics of screening measures (Rutter's teachers' and parents' questionnaires) were explored with some Japanese secondary school children.
(16) The instruments used were "I think I am" a childrens' self-estimation questionnaire of self-concept (by P. Ouvinen-Birgerstam) and Parent's Questionnaire A2 and Teacher's Questionnaire B2 (both by M. Rutter).
(17) in urban areas of Beijing, were evaluated with the Children's Behaviour Questionnaire developed by Rutter.
(18) Rutter says that with Sir Suma Chakrabarti's move from the MoJ to the European Bank of Reconstruction and Development, Whitehall risks being left "paler and maler" than it has for some time.
(19) Results show that this was achieved at the Rutter Score of 10 (k = 0.66).
(20) Therefore, Arg-127 stabilizes the enzyme-transition state complex but not the ground state enzyme-substrate complex (Phillips, M.A., Fletterick, R., & Rutter, W.J., 1990, J. Biol.