(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.
Tapper
Definition:
(n.) The lesser spotted woodpecker (Dendrocopus minor); -- called also tapperer, tabberer, little wood pie, barred woodpecker, wood tapper, hickwall, and pump borer.
Example Sentences:
(1) In response to a question from the host, Jake Tapper, about allegations that the Russian ambassador “is a spy”, Rubio said: “It is not a mystery to anyone that virtually every embassy in Washington DC has some intelligence component associated with it.” Fact check: what did Trump's tweets about Obama's 'wiretaps' mean?
(2) Maria Osmarina da Silva was born in 1958 in a community of rubber tappers called Seringal Bagaço, deep in the western state of Acre, not far from the border with Bolivia.
(3) This article provides results of a comparison between the Halstead-Reitan tapper and a 1988 computerized tapping program by Loong.
(4) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Donald Trump comments on death of Dwyane Wade’s cousin – video Welcome to Iowa, where Trump's purple patch could turn a blue state red Read more Pence rejected a suggestion by CNN host Jake Tapper that lax gun safety laws in his own state, Indiana, may be stoking violence in Chicago.
(5) By comparing the effects of moderate-intensity stimuli in experiments with and without a response criterion in isolated mantle preparations, we found that when a minimal response-amplitude criterion is imposed the CNS mediates 90--95% of the gill-withdrawal reflex, whether it is elicited by the "tapper" stimulus used by Peretz et al.
(6) Nominees: Zoe Tapper - Twenty Thousand Streets Under the Sky, BBC Drama Serials for BBC4 Bruce Parry - Tribe, BBC Wales for BBC2 Arts Holocaust, a Music Memorial Film From Auschwitz, BBC co-production with CBC, ZDF, TVP & in association with Czech TV for BBC2 "This simple yet clever programme achieved its aims through a quiet appropriateness which made for an incredibly uplifting viewing experience."
(7) And, you know, there’s no basis to it.” The same day, CNN State of the Union host Jake Tapper puts the Clinton campaign’s allegations to Donald Trump Jr .
(8) 10EdAM was superior to MTX against 4 of 6 murine ascites tumors (L1210, S180, Ehrlich and Tapper) and far superior against 4 of 6 solid murine tumors (S180, Tapper, E0771 mammary AC, T241 fibrosarcoma).
(9) We present a case of polycystic hydatid disease produced by Echinococcus vogeli in a tapper of rubber trees from the State of Acre, Brazil.
(10) Jay grounds out, a harmless tapper to Adrian Gonzalez as the Cards go 1-2-3 in their half of the second inning.
(11) In an interview with Jake Tapper on ABC News, he said he believed all states should have the right to ban birth control.
(12) That man’s conduct was deplorable,” Trump’s campaign manager, Kellyanne Conway, told CNN after Tapper suggested the adjective.
(13) Hillary Clinton is projected to pass the delegate threshold she needs to capture the Democratic nomination and therefore, Tapper noted, declare victory.
(14) One task involved complex motor activity (the Bead and Tapper test) and the other simple motor activity with a verbal component (the Letter Cancellation test).
(15) Only patients with parkinsonism showed a significant increase in dual task interference on a bimanual bead and tapper task, compared with controls.
(16) Six out of 21 episodes with inactive disease after tappering off corticoid therapy had sIL-2R levels above the upper limit of the normal range.
(17) In an exchange that would have been all but unthinkable even four years ago, moderator Jake Tapper posed a question to Florida senator Marco Rubio and New Jersey Governor Chris Christie that quoted Reagan secretary of state George Schultz: “Why not take out our insurance policy and approach climate change the Reagan way?” But despite the token question well into the third hour of CNN’s GOP debate , no candidate was willing to endorse any possible solution.
(18) Stephen Drew hits a tapper to end the inning, but the Rays have three outs to score 10 runs here.
(19) Asked by CNN’s Tapper if Page is in contact with Russian government officials, Conway says: “If he’s doing that, he’s certainly not doing it with the permission or knowledge of the campaign, the activities that you described.” She adds: “He is certainly not authorized to do that.” 24 October At a campaign rally in Florida , Trump said: “I have nothing to do with Russia, folks, I’ll give you a written statement.” 11 November Trump spokesperson Hope Hicks denies claims from the Kremlin that Trump officials met with its staff.
(20) He bristled at the press conference when a reporter, Jake Tapper of ABC News, asked him why as president he had not tackled gun reform until now.