(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.
Sputter
Definition:
(v. i.) To spit, or to emit saliva from the mouth in small, scattered portions, as in rapid speaking.
(v. i.) To utter words hastily and indistinctly; to speak so rapidly as to emit saliva.
(v. i.) To throw out anything, as little jets of steam, with a noise like that made by one sputtering.
(v. t.) To spit out hastily by quick, successive efforts, with a spluttering sound; to utter hastily and confusedly, without control over the organs of speech.
(n.) Moist matter thrown out in small detached particles; also, confused and hasty speech.
Example Sentences:
(1) All tooth specimens were sputter-coated with gold for 4 min and examined using a scanning electron microscope.
(2) And the Sunni-Shia conflict driving so much of this is not unlike the Wars of the Reformation– those took a century to conclude ... and still sputter along in Northern Island three centuries later.
(3) Auger spectroscopy and ion sputtering technique have shown that in surface of new archs oxygen and carbon are present up to about 300 A depth.
(4) The teeth were air dried, mounted on stubs, sputter-coated with gold-palladium and examined under SEM.
(5) Electronegative elements will be detected with similar sensitivities in the spectrum of negative sputtered ions, but inert gases, which are ionized with difficulty and have small electron affinities, will be detected with considerably poorer sensitivities.
(6) It is based on the selective evanescent field excitation of ligands adsorbed to supported planar bilayers on argon-sputtered glass plates.
(7) of implantation the surface of the as-cast polyurethane was covered with a monolayer of platelets and leukocytes, whereas thrombus development progressed more rapidly on the sputtered polyurethane surface and at 1 hr.
(8) Looking for a solution for Britain's sputtering maternity services?
(9) The catheter segments were sputter-coated with approx.
(10) While TEM provides the highest resolution images of sputter-coated cytoskeletons, it also damages the specimens owing to heating in the beam.
(11) He yanks a few times on the starting cord of the outboard engine, and we sputter off into the bay towards our target – our progress in these sensitive waters observed by a police motorboat.
(12) Images of DNA and ribosomal subunits contrasted by sputter shadowing with tungsten are shown.
(13) Several substrates--aluminum mnium foil, silver mirror deposit and sputtered gold-provided good conductive backgrounds for chromosomal spreads.
(14) Using sputter coating to form oxide films allows control of its thickness.
(15) Sputtered coats of 1-2 nm of platinum or tungsten provide both an adequate secondary electron signal for SEM and good contrast for STEM and TEM.
(16) Forty-five sputter-coated implants and an equal number of noncoated titanium implants were placed into 15 partially edentulated dog mandibles.
(17) The forward planning in such cities runs counter to the steadily accumulating evidence in Washington that Barack Obama's efforts to green America's economy is sputtering to a halt.
(18) Here we show that construction and use of a tungsten target greatly improves the quality of the sputter shadowed deposit.
(19) The thickness of the oxide layer can also be controlled by sputter coating.
(20) This study investigated and compared the healing rates of bone around commercially pure titanium implants and titanium implants sputter-coated from a hydroxyapatite target.