(n.) The mechanical appliance by means of which a vessel is guided or steered when in motion. It is a broad and flat blade made of wood or iron, with a long shank, and is fastened in an upright position, usually by one edge, to the sternpost of the vessel in such a way that it can be turned from side to side in the water by means of a tiller, wheel, or other attachment.
(n.) Fig.: That which resembles a rudder as a guide or governor; that which guides or governs the course.
Example Sentences:
(1) But that is informed consent – which users can’t see, but I’m putting in quotes.” Asked by the host, Alex Goldman, if OKCupid had ever considered bringing in an ethicist to vet the experiments, Rudder said: “To wring his hands all day for a $100,000 a year?”.
(2) Christian Rudder accepted blame for stoking the fires around the topic, admitting that his initial blogpost was “sensationally written”, but stood by the argument that experimenting on users was “just part of the scientific method”.
(3) Lee was nervous about attempting to land using "stick and rudder" flying skills.
(4) Speaking to On The Media’s TLDR podcast , Rudder said that there was no consideration given to letting users opt-in to experimentation, because “once people know that they’re being studied along a particular axis, inevitably they’re gonna act differently.
(5) OkCupid doesn’t really know what it’s doing,” writes Rudder in the most recent blogpost .
(6) The final experiment Rudder describes has proved more controversial, however.
(7) "If they had wanted to stop us they could have attacked our rudder and propeller, instead they preferred to send masked commando soldiers to attack us.
(8) It uses pallets dropped by parachute and guided by GPS navigation and a rudder.
(9) Perlmutter thanks Bernanke for his steady hand on the economic rudder.
(10) Experiments are how you sort all this out.” Rudder refers specifically to Facebook’s troubles over its experimentation, when the firm tweaked the content of users’ news feeds in an effort to discover what their reaction was to a higher proportion of positive or negative posts.
(11) That’s how websites work.” The first experiment Rudder describes occurred in January 2013.
(12) "Maybe this time they'll attack the rudder and the propeller, we'll see."
(13) However, abdominal ruddering did not contribute to yaw turns.
(14) And we all know what Silicon Valley feels about ethicists : they know what’s ethical and what’s not already, so why hire one “to wring his hands for $100,000 a year”, as OKCupid’s Christian Rudder put it.
(15) With failing engines, ruptured fuel tanks and a damaged rudder, Air Force One finally lunges into the Caspian Sea and breaks apart; just in time, Ford is safely yanked on to a hovering Hercules turboprop, which, as its pilot beamingly announces while the theme appropriated by Trump blares out one last time, at once becomes Air Force One.
(16) 21st CENTURY AIRSHIPS The Zeppelin flies again How it works: Rigid or semi-rigid compartment lifted and held aloft by lighter-than-air gas (hydrogen, helium, hot air), driven usually by gas-burning engine, steered by rudder State of play: Technology with a (mixed) history, once considered defunct, now enjoying major R&D revival, various prototypes in development, first actual passenger-carrying flights underway Latest action: Modern small airships developed by a German company (Zeppelin NT, no less) and others offer sightseeing tours for small groups in London, San Francisco, Switzerland and Tokyo – weather permitting Downsides: Image overshadowed by the Hindenburg fire and other 1930s disasters; relatively slow speed, especially into headwind; stability issues, unusable in bad weather; still burns fuel Likeliest prospects: Advertising and tourism (already demonstrated), observation, heavy lifting, eg for military equipment, short-haul travel competing with ferries Long-term vision?
(17) The rating typically proves accurate, but, Rudder writes, “in the back of our minds, there’s always been the possibility: maybe it works just because we tell people it does.
(18) And that’s the kind of, again the kind of conversation that I think Facebook on accident, and OkCupid on purpose, is trying to kickstart.” Rudder had weighed into the conversation with a blogpost in late July detailing the ways in which OKCupid performed experiments to assess the value of its service.
(19) For now though, policy makers are holding the rudder steady, hoping for the storm to blow over.
(20) The crews of Sea Shepherd ships also drag metal-reinforced ropes in the water to damage propellers and rudders, launch flares with hooks, and point high-powered lasers at the whalers to annoy crew members.
Udder
Definition:
(n.) The glandular organ in which milk is secreted and stored; -- popularly called the bag in cows and other quadrupeds. See Mamma.
(n.) One of the breasts of a woman.
Example Sentences:
(1) Skin diseases of the udder include viral infections, mange, sunburn, wounds, and staphylococcal dermatitis.
(2) A limit value of 4.6 per cent has been commonly assumed in literature and proved to be a sound basis for udder health assessment, provided that the given phase of lactation is taken into due consideration (exclusion of cows in the first month post partum as well as of aged milking cows from the seventh month of lactation).
(3) Tests for the purchase of milk on quality must include tests for udder health by regular electronic cell counting of raw milk sources.
(4) The inhibitory activity of the secretions on Streptococcus uberis was determined and the susceptibility of the udder to infection by this organism was tested by intramammary infusion of 250 colony forming units at the above stages.
(5) The transfer of spores via the udder or via the maternal feces led to very similar levels of implantation of spores in the digestive tract of neonates.
(6) Dairy form, rear udder height, and rear udder width had strong to moderate positive genetic correlations with the three production traits.
(7) Although infected cell excretion was restricted to one half of the udder, virus-specific lesions were found in both udder halves.
(8) From the results it is apparent that, on subclinical levels, udder health of dairy cows depends in principle on a variety of conditions, variability in dynamic fluctuations and the balance between persistent, deteriorating and improving health states.
(9) When the metal grid was in poor condition, the incidence of teat injuries as well as udder diseases of heifers increased.
(10) In an 11-mo trial, backflushing was applied to teatcups that milked the right half of the udder; the left half served as control.
(11) Subclinical mastitis is a major problem in udder health control.
(12) After the hour 0 sampling (summer only), one side of the udder of each of 12 ewes (group 1) was milked hourly for 4 h, and the opposite side was milked only at 0 and 4 h. Group 2 ewes were milked only at 0 and 4 h and blood was collected from both groups at 0 h and 4 h. Concentrations of prolactin were correlated in pairs of milk or blood samples from the same ewe and in plasma and milk of ewes in group 2 but not in group 1.
(13) Simultaneous isolation of anaerobic bacteria from udder quarter abscesses and mastitic milk from the same quarter occur in some lactating dairy cows.
(14) Analysis of 448 milk samples (11 herds) from caprine udder halves showed that microorganisms were isolated from 21.8% of the samples.
(15) 1 showed that lamb 30-d weights, ewe weights at breeding time, and udder width at peak lactation were highly correlated with suckled milk yield (r = .81, .75 and .66, respectively).
(16) The level of total lactate dehydrogenase activity in dairy cow milk serum was studied in sets of quarter-udder milks showing different degrees of a positive response to Mastitis test-NK.
(17) The secretory capacity of the udder is thus normally established well before parturition in the mare.
(18) In similar experiments the skim milk derived from whole accumulating in the udder overnight was lower in adenosine triphosphate (14.2 muM) than skim milk from freshly secreted milk (26.0 muM).
(19) No germ growth was established from 9.5 per cent of all samples taken from udder quarters with increased cell counts and conductivities and from 4.1 per cent of those samples taken from intact udder quarters.
(20) Effects of oral administration of 0, 5, 10, or 20 mug of 6 alpha, 9 alpha-difluoro-16alpha-methyl-prednisolone (Flumethasone) daily on milk and milk component yields, udder health reproductive performance, and body weight change were measured.