(n.) An instrument with which anything is scraped.
(n.) An instrument by which the soles of shoes are cleaned from mud and the like, by drawing them across it.
(n.) An instrument drawn by oxen or horses, used for scraping up earth in making or repairing roads, digging cellars, canals etc.
(n.) An instrument having two or three sharp sides or edges, for cleaning the planks, masts, or decks of a ship.
(n.) In the printing press, a board, or blade, the edge of which is made to rub over the tympan sheet and thus produce the impression.
(n.) One who scrapes.
(n.) One who plays awkwardly on a violin.
(n.) One who acquires avariciously and saves penuriously.
Example Sentences:
(1) Throughout the centuries, tongue scrapers have been constructed of thin, flexible strips of wood, various meals, ivory, mother-of-pearl, whalebone, celluloid, tortoiseshell, and plastic.
(2) The transmission of Johne's disease was possibly promoted by furnishing the shelters with a scraper system to remove the dung, which system also reached the compartment housing young cattle.
(3) An endocervical swab, cytologic scraper, and endocervical cytobrush were used to prepare simultaneous full-slide smears for immunofluorescence for the diagnosis of cervical chlamydial infection.
(4) Sky-scrapers are the Bentleys and Range Rovers of the building world.
(5) Among them were stone axes, stone hand axes, fish spears and hooks made of bone or horn, stone blades, stone scrapers and stone drills believed to have been used in daily life, and charcoal and sites of furnaces used for cooking.
(6) A plastic re-imagined version of a Roman horsehair body scraper, it means you don't have to use a towel, which therefore saves 237‑310 kWh per year in electricity by minimising washing.
(7) Most of the false negative results were obtained with the cytologic scraper.
(8) A simple scraper for rapid and quantitative transfer of zones on thin-layer chromatograms to liquid scintillation counting vials is described.
(9) The data, which was compiled from an official register using a web scraper built for ScraperWiki , showed that contributions for which a cash value was given were up more than £200,000 on the previous year, which was the first time the Guardian analysed this data , and 60 more groups received some form of sponsorship or donations.
(10) Asked by Newsweek Europe to state which individuals he would allow, if empowered, to migrate into the country, Farage headed straight to the bottom of the barrel with his scraper: “People who do not have HIV, to be frank.
(11) However, new evidence provided by the deciduous dentition of Avahi suggests that the traditional interpretations are correct, specifically: (1) the lateral teeth in the dental scraper of Indriidae are homologous with the incisors of Lemuriadae and Lorisidae, not the canines; (2) the dental formula for the lower deciduous teeth of indriids is 2.1.3; (3) the dental formula for the lower permanent teeth of indriids is 2.0.2.3; and (4) decrease in number of incisors during primate evolution was usually in the sequence I3, then I2, then I1.
(12) Because they are mostly endocervical in origin, they may not be detected cytologically if scrapers or cotton swabs are used to sample the endocervical canal.
(13) A bottom-scraper and flushing system permitted periodic removal of solid wastes.
(14) Tenants are demanding "austere and efficient" buildings that were more likely to be "ground-scrapers" than high-rises, he said.
(15) A callous scraper devised by us was found effective.
(16) "Check the weather and traffic reports before heading out and pack plenty of warm clothing, food, water, de-icer, ice scraper and a fully-charged mobile.
(17) An improved explanation method was developed which takes advantage of the tenuous attachment of OSE to underlying tissues: the surface epithelium was scraped off the ovarian surface with a rubber scraper, generating epithelial fragments which produced monolayers in culture, with little contamination by other cell types.
(18) The most satisfactory results were obtained when these surfaces were treated by method 3.Pig carcasses were shown to be contaminated by an improperly cleaned black scraper.
(19) It said: "Drivers should do the basic checks on your car and pack the essential winter kit including, warm clothing, food, water, de-icer, ice scraper and a fully-charged mobile in case you run into difficulty."
(20) Likewise the remaining sites (dehairing machine, black scraper and table) were least efficiently cleaned by method 1.
Widget
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) In fact, you can't draw any conclusions at all about how many people in country Z use Widget A from that "market share" figure.
(2) moDays=5;moColourScheme="default";moFSSI=352793;moDomain="www.metoffice.gov.uk";moMapDisplay="side";moMapsRequired="Precip Rate LR";moTemperatureUnits="C";moSpeedUnits="M";moShowWind="true";moShowUV="true";moShowFeelsLike="true";moAllowUserLocation="true";moStartupLanguage="en";moSpecificHeight="0";moSpecificWidth="0"; This Weather Widget is provided by the Met Office The Met Office forecasts continuing rain for the rest of the day over much of the north, persisting overnight and only easing at dawn when the front will move off, leaving a trail of scattered showers.
(3) If the market is expanding, then some are going to new users who didn't previously have Widgets.
(4) It will be more like developers updating their Android smartphone apps to add Wear widgets.
(5) What they look at is unit labour costs – how much you need to pay staff to make one unit of output: a widget, say, or a bit of software.
(6) In reality, you'll see something in between: some Widgets go to new users, and some go to existing users.
(7) If a factory manufacturing widgets has a Quality Assurance Programme, is it not reasonable to believe that a hospital whose product is patient care should also have such a programme?
(8) That version of politics is less and less complicated, for all the worms and widgets and totemic American spin doctors imported at vast expense .
(9) You can find your nearest event here: March finder widget Find your nearest climate march The events are designed to put pressure on the leaders from almost 200 countries who will meet in Paris to thrash out a new deal on limiting greenhouse gas emissions post-2020.
(10) They are interactive and updated and you can interact with them directly - Federighi demonstrates an eBay widget that he can use to bid directly from the Notification Centre.
(11) This clever little widget is effectively our digital circulation map today.
(12) During a presentation at the Manchester Media Festival today, Davie displayed images of what the service might look like, with embeddable widgets for websites and a localised search facility to seek out content by postcode.
(13) Android is open for anyone to use, which the search engine giant hopes will lead to the creation of hundreds of applications - or widgets - which G1 owners will be able to download from a dedicated online marketplace.
(14) EvolveSMS takes a different tack: replacing the default messaging app with an impressively-usable multimedia tool – complete with useful widgets and lockscreen feature.
(15) Initially centred around an existing project in Newcastle working with young runaways, the solution will use mobile, web, app and widget technology to give supporters a real-time thank you's and updates from a local project worker.
(16) Only in the specific case where the market is saturated - that is, everyone who wants a Widget has one, so that now the market is essentially just replacements - does market share probably tally with "installed base".
(17) - There was the widget we built to allow 23,000 Guardian readers to help us sort through hundreds of thousands of documents relating to MPs expenses.
(18) Consider all the variables, even if we only look at country Z - where, you'll recall, 20m use Widget A, 50m have B, and 30m have C. Let's also suppose that the market share numbers for the latest quarter - 80% A, 15% B, 5% C - was spread among 10m units.
(19) It doesn't need to be the whole device, so if there is a patent on one small widget in a washing machine, the whole thing attracts only 10% tax.
(20) On 10 September , tech firms including Etsy, FourSquare, KickStarter, Mozilla, Reddit and Vimeo will install a widget on their sites to show how they believe the internet would look if the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) overturns “net neutrality” rules.