(n.) A bard, or learned man, among the ancient Goths.
Example Sentences:
(1) Athletics 4 - Tigers 4, bottom of the 7th No arguing on this one, Peralta hits a clean double and gets replaced by pinch-runer Andy Dirks.
Tuner
Definition:
(n.) One who tunes; especially, one whose occupation is to tune musical instruments.
Example Sentences:
(1) Kinetic analysis shows that this scheme reduces errors at 'hungry' codons considerably more effectively than J. Ninio's accuracy tuner model; for example, a 10-fold decrease in cognate aminoacyl-tRNA elicits only a 10% increase in the error frequency.
(2) Spearman's Rho correlations indicated that measures taken with the autochromatic tuner significantly correlated with measures taken with the other instruments.
(3) One transmits at 100 MHz and its signal can be received on a standard FM tuner.
(4) Hence, the pineal gland may function as a "fine tuner" of calcium homeostasis.
(5) Each receiver consists of a demodulator, a channel selectable tuner, and a video monitor.
(6) On the basis of the results, a role is attributed to the decreased growth hormone reserve in the low growth of Tuner's syndrome patients.
(7) Thus the modulator may function as a biologic "fine tuner" providing on additional mechanism by which the signals imparted to cells by physiologic stimuli can be correctly expressed.
(8) It is no longer enough simply to play music (or, as non-iPod devices often can, have an FM tuner and voice recorder).
(9) The author coined the term 'tuning' for the reflex hypertonia of tensor palati which is directly proportional to the degree of the slackness of its 'tuner', the muscle-tensor tympani.
(10) "First, the government must ensure that advice goes to retailers and the public that when purchasing radios, consumers should purchase sets that include a digital tuner.
(11) Hence, adaptive controllers in the form of linear and nonlinear generalised minimum variance self-tuners, generalised predictive control and nonlinear k-step ahead predictive controllers are also considered.
(12) No one from SST's glory days seems to have a good word to say about founder Greg Ginn , who expanded his radio parts operation Solid State Tuners in 1978 so he could put out a record, Nervous Breakdown, by his band Black Flag.
(13) The purpose of these measures was to determine whether an autochromatic tuner, a relatively inexpensive device designed to assist musicians in fast-tuning their instruments, would provide a valid and reliable measure of vocal fundamental frequency.
(14) Results indicate that the use of an autochromatic tuner to measure vocal fundamental frequency is an effective and inexpensive alternative to other methods for clinical purposes.
(15) The system used a Konigsberg P7 transducer, a temperature-compensated voltage-controlled oscillator, an FM transmitter, and an FM tuner to convert the signal received into a voltage proportional to aortic blood pressure.