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Rearer


Definition:

  • (n.) One who, or that which, rears.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Fowl was found to be infected in 12 poultry-farms; occupational ornithosis was present among the bird-rearers.
  • (2) The number of bullfights across the country has fallen 46% in five years, and many bull rearers are cutting their losses and sending their herds to the abattoir.
  • (3) Child rearers are more likely to become pregnant again sooner and to resolve subsequent pregnancies by abortion.
  • (4) Further, relinquishers are more likely to delay marriage, to be employed six and 12 months after the birth and to live in higher income households than are child rearers.
  • (5) Overall, both groups indicated very high levels of satisfaction with their decision to relinquish or to rear, although relinquishers were slightly less satisfied with their decision than were child rearers.
  • (6) Rats that were dark-reared from birth and then exposed to a lighted environment for 24 hr during a certain critical period that extends from eye-opening (13 days) until approximately 35 days, displayed a significant increase in visual cortex tubulin rats that were brought into the light later than 35 days showed no significant increase in tubulin synthesis when compared with their continuously dark-rearer controls.
  • (7) Photograph: BBC John, cherished elder son and rearer of Gloucester Old Spots, began to unravel in 1998.
  • (8) These findings on partner responsibility for contraception may reflect the cultural definition of women as rearers of children.
  • (9) The study sample consisted of 123 child rearers and 146 relinquishers who had attended a pregnancy-counseling program affiliated with a large adoption agency that practices open adoption.
  • (10) The hand-rearing techniques described here encouraged the formation of an infant-human rearer bond that permitted us to control the level of expressed aggressive behavior as the infant matured.
  • (11) Inclusion of iron-treated CSM in the rearer diet to supply approximately 70% of the dietary protein had no adverse effects on growth or age at first egg.
  • (12) Abdominal typhus is all the rearer disease among acute infectious diseases in Vojvodina.

Tearer


Definition:

  • (n.) One who tears or rends anything; also, one who rages or raves with violence.

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