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Roofer


Definition:

  • (n.) One who puts on roofs.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Almost all of Moscow’s roofers speak of having a unique relationship with the traffic-clogged, cacophonous city of 12 million inhabitants.
  • (2) The gang convicted today were: Lea Rusha, 35, a former roofer of Lambersart Close, Southborough, Tunbridge Wells, Kent; car salesman Stuart Royle, 49, of Allen Street, Maidstone, Kent; unemployed Jetmir Bucpapa, 26, of Hadlow Road, Tonbridge; garage owner Roger Coutts, 30, of The Green, Welling, south-east London; and Emir Hysenaj, 28, a Post Office worker, of New Road, Crowborough, East Sussex.
  • (3) The problem of early degenerative lesions of knee joints in occupational groups of floorers and roofers has been presented.
  • (4) Roofers and iron foundry workers with high exposure to polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH) were monitored for levels of covalent PAH serum albumin adducts, quantitated in enzymatically digested samples by a sensitive competitive enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay.
  • (5) We’re going home early,” said Shaun Carter, an industrial roofer from Suffolk who was on a break with Claire Clarke.
  • (6) It’s just churning out energy, year after year.” Last year, I moved to a south-facing house and this summer found a good deal for solar PV: my standard 16 panels cost £4,630 to supply and install, which was done in a day in August by an electrician and two roofers who were recent converts to solar employment.
  • (7) Writing in Explore Everything: Place-Hacking the City, academic Bradley Garrett uses edgework to explain why roofers climb cranes, teeter on the edges of towering structures or hang from insanely high buildings.
  • (8) This adduct has been found in the DNA of peripheral leukocytes of workers in foundries, aluminum manufacturing plants, roofers, and coke oven plants, and also in cigarette smokers.
  • (9) With each climb, roofers exploit a city’s architectural flaws to provide an alternative narrative to the one of security and round-the-clock surveillance promoted by the state.
  • (10) Suzanne Kervin, a bricklayer and roofer, told the TUC women’s conference in March about her experiences as the only woman working “on the tools” in her housing association.
  • (11) In the biomarker studies 10 of 12 roofers, but only 2 of 12 comparison subjects, had detectable levels of aromatic DNA adducts by 32P-postlabelling assay (p less than 0.01).
  • (12) It’s a way of finding some space in a 24-hour megapolis.” Trophy shots Prekrasnyy and Zolotov are “roofers”, a group of urban climbers who scale buildings, cranes, bridges and landmarks for breathtaking views of the city, which they capture on camera.
  • (13) But the 48-year-old former roofer, who turned up at Bolton Citizens Advice Bureau's drop-in advice clinic last month, is anxious.
  • (14) This article examines the severe eye and skin irritations prevalent among roofers and also explores other issues, such as the potential carcinogenicity of roofing material.
  • (15) The two non-roofers with detectable adducts had levels at or near the detection limit of 2 adducts per 10(9) nucleotides.
  • (16) Occupations with a high risk situation for the diabetic himself (like roofer, diver etc.)
  • (17) The new age Unlike the “old” roofers who came before them — the intrepid climbers whose vertigo-inducing ascents included the Shanghai Tower — the “new age” one are more interested in racking up climbs than adding buildings of towering significance to their list of conquests.
  • (18) To assess the utility of skin wipes as an index of exposure to polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), simultaneous skin wipe and breathing zone air samples were obtained for 10 roofers.
  • (19) "The construction and solar industry work in close partnership, with roofers up and down the country now being trained to install solar electric roof tiles.
  • (20) A much bigger and faster London-wide programme to upgrade the energy performance of all homes could create up to 15,000 new jobs for builders, joiners, plumbers, electricians, roofers, heating and structural engineers and builders supply merchants.

Rooter


Definition:

  • (n.) One who, or that which, roots; one that tears up by the roots.

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