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Scribbler


Definition:

  • (n.) One who scribbles; a petty author; a writer of no reputation; a literary hack.
  • (n.) A scribbling machine.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Ideas matter – cue the cliche from JM Keynes about business people responding to the notions of some long-dead scribbler.
  • (2) For six decades, he had been what he called "a scribbler".
  • (3) At Girls Inc we focus on fueling girls’ self-worth through helping them overcome obstacles and set and achieve goals.” Read more Oddly Sustainable : Surprising solutions to environmental dilemmas Rhino-saving drones, smashable coffee cups and more Getting a charge in Vegas that’s good for your wallet Powering your computer with cigarette butts Russ Blinch is chief scribbler at CopyCarbon.com and a blogger for the Huffington Post.
  • (4) The only comparable performance of the era is Burt Lancaster ’s as JJ Hunsecker in Sweet Smell of Success (1957), another satanic scribbler with poison in his veins and his pen.
  • (5) Autodesk SketchBook was one of the best yet, with plenty of depth yet an accessible interface for the scribblers among us.
  • (6) SketchBook Pro SKETCHBOOK PRO £2.99 Published by computer graphics veteran Autodesk, SketchBook has quickly found a wide audience of casual scribblers and professional artists alike.
  • (7) More Oddly Sustainable posts: Surprising solutions to environmental dilemmas Getting a charge in Vegas that’s good for your wallet Powering your computer with cigarette butts A gold-rush retailer’s thoroughly modern social impact move Russ Blinch is chief scribbler at CopyCarbon.com and a blogger for the Huffington Post.
  • (8) But, as it happens, I am pretty sure it is one that my darling and brilliant late wife would advance, partly because as a historian she had a deep understanding of the role of scribblers in the creation and advance of our democracy, and partly because – despite everything – she never dumped the bleedin' Daily Mail.
  • (9) For what it’s worth, this scribbler would merely have loved to see him test his skills against Joe Louis.
  • (10) She exposed just how lamentably ill-equipped our society is when dealing with scientific advances, a field of endeavour that attracts our best brains but remains closed to most individuals, no matter how hard we science scribblers try to interest them.
  • (11) Read more Oddly Sustainable posts: Surprising solutions to environmental dilemmas Rhino-saving drones, smashable coffee cups and more A gold-rush retailer’s thoroughly modern social impact move Powering your computer with cigarette butts Russ Blinch is chief scribbler at CopyCarbon.com and a blogger for the Huffington Post.
  • (12) And that’s something that all of us, at every level and every function, can use more of.” Russ Blinch is chief scribbler at CopyCarbon.com and a blogger for the Huffington Post.
  • (13) As Keynes observed of “madmen in authority”, the present government is “distilling its frenzy from some academic scribbler of a few years back” – in this case the ideology of the so-called Washington Consensus, with its cult of competition and markets and its absurd belief in rational choice.
  • (14) Read more Oddly Sustainable posts: Surprising solutions to environmental dilemmas Rhino-saving drones, smashable coffee cups and more Getting a charge in Vegas that’s good for your wallet A gold-rush retailer’s thoroughly modern social impact move Powering your computer with cigarette butts Russ Blinch is chief scribbler at CopyCarbon.com and a blogger for the Huffington Post.
  • (15) Read more from Oddly Sustainable : Surprising solutions to environmental dilemmas Rhino-saving drones, smashable coffee cups and more Getting a charge in Vegas that’s good for your wallet A gold-rush retailer’s thoroughly modern social impact move Russ Blinch is chief scribbler at CopyCarbon.com and a blogger for the Huffington Post.
  • (16) Another scribbler compared the challenge facing Greece to the 12 labours of Hercules.

Wool


Definition:

  • (n.) The soft and curled, or crisped, species of hair which grows on sheep and some other animals, and which in fineness sometimes approaches to fur; -- chiefly applied to the fleecy coat of the sheep, which constitutes a most essential material of clothing in all cold and temperate climates.
  • (n.) Short, thick hair, especially when crisped or curled.
  • (n.) A sort of pubescence, or a clothing of dense, curling hairs on the surface of certain plants.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Release of 51Cr was apparently a function of immune thymus-derived lymphocytes (T cells) because it was abrogated by prior incubation of spleen cells with anti-thymus antiserum and complement but was undiminished by passage of spleen cells through nylon-wool columns.
  • (2) Populations of lymphocytes were separated using glass and nylon wool.
  • (3) Removal of accessory cells adherent to nylon wool column abolished MAS reactivity, whereas it has little effect on lymphoproliferation induced by phytohaemagglutinin (PHA).
  • (4) Somatic changes included reduced wool growth, delayed osseous development in the limbs (X-ray assessment) a reduced heart weight (39.1%) and an increased pituitary weight (48.1%).
  • (5) [35S]Cyst(e)ine activity was detected in the faeces, but not in plasma or wool.
  • (6) Immunoreactivity was restricted to the periderm and intermediate layers of fetal epidermis at 55 d of gestation, when the first wave of wool follicles are initiated.
  • (7) Data obtained with cells separated by adherence, nylon wool columns, and positive and negative sorting with monoclonal antibodies that define B, monocyte, T helper and T cytotoxic cells show that several different cell types have the ability to produce GH mRNA.
  • (8) A case is presented of a patient who was arrested along several developmental lines and had suffered from a wool fetish.
  • (9) Removal of nylon wool adherent cells or cells with histamine receptors by column chromatography similarly caused reduced production of type II interferon.
  • (10) The activity of uremic spleen cells can be enhanced (restored) by removal of the sub-population of cells adherent to glass wool.
  • (11) All skirted lots of wool evaluated in this study had improved processing characteristics for all processing traits evaluated.
  • (12) The in vitro generation of allospecific CTL by human PBMC was enhanced 4- to 16-fold by sequential plastic and nylon wool adherence, which depleted the PBMC of macrophages and B cells.
  • (13) In parallel experiments, macrophages infected with the mycobacteria were co-cultured with syngeneic in vivo M. kansasii sensitized non-adherent, nylon-wool purified lymph node cells, and lymphoproliferation was measured by [3H]thymidine incorporation.
  • (14) "The Lib Dems are either cosmically ill-informed or seeking to pull the wool over the eyes of many thousands whose jobs depend on a thriving shipyard," he said.
  • (15) In general, IEL of satisfactory yield and of good viability were obtained with EDTA treatment of the gut tissues, followed by rapid passages of the resultant cells through nylon-wool columns and centrifugation on two-step Percoll density gradients (45% and 80%).
  • (16) There was a definite glove and stocking type of hypesthesia to pinprick and cotton wool.
  • (17) Since young nude mice could be rendered as unpermissive as older nude mice by pretreatment with either PNA-agglutinable thymus cells or nylon-wool passed spleen cells, it is suggested that an increased number of precursor T cells in older nude mice might induce this effect.
  • (18) Differences in wool production between ewes weaning one or two lambs were small.
  • (19) The effects of flumethasone on some aspects of wool growth revealed interactions between the routes of administration, the period of dosage and the rate of wool growth in the recipients.
  • (20) Streptococcus pyogenes survives poorly on plain cotton-wool swabs, whereas serum-dipped swabs permit its survival but also allow overgrouth by other bacteria and are likely to contain virus inhibitors.

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