(n.) One who saps; specifically (Mil.), one who is employed in working at saps, building and repairing fortifications, and the like.
Example Sentences:
(1) The police sapper was not injured but was taken to a hospital to be evaluated.
(2) After five years as a laboratory assistant and a spell of national service in the engineer corps (following Soviet practice, sons of the politically unreliable classes were often trained as sappers, readily expendable in mine-sweeping), he nevertheless made his way into the theatre and the world of literary politics, and wrote clever, politically risky plays in the absurdist manner that won him an international reputation.
(3) Instead he became an improbable sapper in 560 Field Company, which he later described as "a very working-class unit trying to build some patently inadequate defences against invasion on the coasts of East Anglia".
(4) Army sappers Mark Quinsey and Patrick Azimkar were shot dead as they waited to collect pizzas at the gates of the base.
(5) Osborne, having been cheerleader for his party's view that the minimum wage is a destroyer of jobs and sapper of enterprise, now says he wants the low pay commission to raise the hourly rate from its current level of £6.31 to £7 an hour by next year.
(6) Interior ministry troops, backed by army trucks, arrest vans and bomb sappers, flooded central Moscow.
(7) It was the poorest possible way for Hull to concede a first home goal in 652 minutes, and for the captain to be the culprit was a further morale sapper.
Sipper
Definition:
(n.) One whi sips.
Example Sentences:
(1) Six types of stoppers, each having different compositions, were cleaned with stainless-steel sipper tubes inserted into them and attached to polypropylene bottles filled with either deionized water (pH 4.5) or acidified-deionized water (pH 2.5).
(2) Eighteen enteral-fed male Sprague-Dawley rats had access to a standard hyperalimentation solution via a sipper tube ad libitum.
(3) Pine voles (Microtus pinetorum) were given sipper tubes containing saccharin solution, and after drinking, were injected with 0.15 M LiCl.
(4) We have worked tirelessly to share our gin of the highest quality with discerning sippers,” said Galsworthy.
(5) CFA was expressed in two-sipper tests, and during allogrooming of material from a cagemate's fur, but not during autogrooming.
(6) Also, in the absence of unique flavor cues, the rats learned to prefer, apparently based on somatosensory cues, the sipper tube that was paired with IG Polycose infusions.
(7) Subsequently, two-sipper tests were given to assure the presence of conditioned flavor avoidance (CFA), and then animals were presented with saccharin in carboxymethyl-cellulose on their own fur (autogrooming), or on the fur of cagemates (allogrooming).
(8) In contrast, only 1-3 days later when these animals are weaned, they strongly reject NaCl solutions from sipper tubes in favor of water.
(9) Group II received standard TPN solution orally from a bottle sipper and drank the solution ad libitum.