What's the difference between repair and watchmaker?

Repair


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To return.
  • (v. i.) To go; to betake one's self; to resort; ass, to repair to sanctuary for safety.
  • (n.) The act of repairing or resorting to a place.
  • (n.) Place to which one repairs; a haunt; a resort.
  • (v. t.) To restore to a sound or good state after decay, injury, dilapidation, or partial destruction; to renew; to restore; to mend; as, to repair a house, a road, a shoe, or a ship; to repair a shattered fortune.
  • (v. t.) To make amends for, as for an injury, by an equivalent; to indemnify for; as, to repair a loss or damage.
  • (n.) Restoration to a sound or good state after decay, waste, injury, or partial restruction; supply of loss; reparation; as, materials are collected for the repair of a church or of a city.
  • (n.) Condition with respect to soundness, perfectness, etc.; as, a house in good, or bad, repair; the book is out of repair.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Both apertures were repaired with great caution using individual sutures without resection of the hernial sac.
  • (2) Surgical repair of the rheumatologic should however, is performed rarely, and should be reserved for the infrequent cases that do not respond to medical therapy.
  • (3) It has also been used to measure the amount of excision repair performed by non-replicating cells damaged by carcinogens.
  • (4) Post-irradiation hypertonic treatment inhibited both DNA repair and PLD recovery, while post-irradiation isotonic treatment inhibited neither phenomenon.
  • (5) Substances with a leaving group at the C-3 position form unsaturated conjugated cyclic adducts and are mutagenic only in the His D3052 frameshift strains with an intact excision repair system (no urvA mutation).
  • (6) We conclude that removal of dimers and repair of gaps were similar in all cases.
  • (7) After early repair of congenital cardiovascular defects, such as coarctation of the aorta, late stenosis may become a problem.
  • (8) Carotid artery injury seems to have a good prognosis if repaired promptly within 3 h.
  • (9) This study demonstrated that significant global and regional ventricular dysfunction develops immediately after removal of the papillary muscles, whereas myocardial contractility is preserved in patients undergoing mitral valve repair.
  • (10) In situ repair was performed in 30 patients (arterial bypass: 17 patients; splenorenal bypass: 13 patients).
  • (11) Repair may be accomplished by open or closed techniques.
  • (12) The authors propose three regular procedures with which they are experienced: repair with a large retromuscular nonabsorbable synthetic tulle prosthesis for extensive epigastric eventrations, fillup aponeuroplasty using the sheath of the rectus abdominis associated with a premuscular patch in case of diastasis or of multiple superimposed orifices and suture associated with a small retromuscular auxiliary patch to treat small incisional hernias.
  • (13) Just don’t be surprised if they ask you to repair their phones, too.
  • (14) Defects in the posterior one-half of the trachea, up to 5 rings long, were repaired, with minimal stenosis.
  • (15) In adults it reappears in malignant tumors and during inflammation and tissue repair.
  • (16) We attribute the greater strength of the step-cut repair to the additional number of epitendinous loops, which lie perpendicular to the long axis of the tendon.
  • (17) irradiation by a mechanism that is independent of excision repair.
  • (18) Thus, there is still a need for improvement, particularly future research devoted to better understanding of the electrophysiological mechanisms responsible for arrhythmias, electrosurgical and medical arrhythmia therapy, and right and left ventricular mechanics after repair of tetralogy of Fallot.
  • (19) Such lesions should be chemically stable and should not be recognized by DNA-repair enzymes.
  • (20) Polypropylene mesh was used to repair the abdominal wall.

Watchmaker


Definition:

  • (n.) One whose occupation is to make and repair watches.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) But it is the presence of Webb on the list that is potentially most troubling for Blatter, who has been at Fifa for 40 years since moving from watchmaker Longines to become the protege of his now disgraced predecessor João Havelange.
  • (2) Swatch A third of the Swiss watchmaker’s sales are in mainland China.
  • (3) The first 10 occupants will be from Pakistan, Iran, Afghanistan and Burma, among them an accountant, an engineer, a watchmaker.
  • (4) Intact hair follicles were then removed from the fat using watchmakers' forceps.
  • (5) The daughter of a Jewish watchmaker from Latvia and middle-class woman from Britain, Gordimer started writing in earnest at the age of nine and produced 15 novels as well as several volumes of short stories, non-fiction and other works.
  • (6) These initial 10 refugees have come from Pakistan, Iran, Afghanistan and Myanmar … however, they can now call Papua New Guinea their home.” He described the refugees who were granted the visas as a “special class of people”, who included an accountant, an engineer, a jeweller and a watchmaker.
  • (7) Degeneration after crushing with fine watchmakers forceps always began in the most distal part of the nerve and proceeded in a distoproximal direction, from the nerve entry point into a muscle back to the crush site.
  • (8) When grafts were rubbed with a glass rod or pinched with watchmaker forceps, impulses were evoked in nerves innervating both implant and cultured regions.
  • (9) We will continue to monitor the situation.” Tag Heuer, the Swiss luxury watchmaker which has had a relationship with Sharapova since 2004, said it had stopped negotiations with the player, whose previous contract ended on 31 December.
  • (10) At watchmaker Longines he became director of sports timing and PR, before joining Fifa as technical director in 1975.
  • (11) Blatter has been at Fifa for 40 years, since his now disgraced predecessor João Havelange personally plucked him from watchmaker Longines to lead the commercialisation of the World Cup that has seen revenues rise in direct correlation with endless claims of bribery and kickbacks.
  • (12) Plotted with watchmaker-precision by Bob Gale and Robert Zemeckis, and directed by the latter, this 1985 release charts the escapades of time-travelling teenager Marty McFly (Michael J Fox).
  • (13) Hume was here anticipating the argument of William Paley, who argued that it is as rational to infer the existence of a divine creator from the existence of the marvellous, complex universe as it is infer the existence of watchmaker from the discovery of a watch.
  • (14) Her mother, Hannah ("Nan") Myers, came from London; her father, Isidore, left Latvia as a teenager to "escape pogroms and poverty" and join his watchmaker brother, later becoming a flourishing jeweller.
  • (15) The sciatic nerve or lumbar spinal nerves (that is the extraspinal nerves before their fusion in the sciatic plexus) were crushed with fine watchmakers' forceps in neonatal and adult rats.
  • (16) Apart from Swiss watchmakers and other industries, whose products will now look seriously overpriced on world markets, one of the more unexpected casualties will be homebuyers in Hungary and Poland.
  • (17) Havelange, who plucked Blatter from the Swiss watchmaker Longines in 1975, tasked him with remodelling Fifa into the money-making behemoth it is today.
  • (18) Curriculum vitae Name: Richard Dawkins Age: 64 Job: Charles Simonyi Chair in the Public Understanding of Science at Oxford Likes: walking the dog Dislikes: back-to-front baseball caps, gratuitous noise Books: The Selfish Gene, The Extended Phenotype, The Blind Watchmaker, Climbing Mount Improbable, The Ancestor's Tale Married: to Lalla Ward (of Dr Who fame), one daughter from previous marriage
  • (19) The Scot, needless to say, recently signed a sponsorship deal with the upmarket Swiss watchmaker Rado.
  • (20) Intact mouse follicles were isolated with watchmaker forceps (stages 4-6) or by enzymatic digestion (stages 1-4) at 0900 h and 1500 h on each day of the 5-day estrous cycle.

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