(n.) One who, or that which, searhes or examines; a seeker; an inquirer; an examiner; a trier.
(n.) Formerly, an officer in London appointed to examine the bodies of the dead, and report the cause of death.
(n.) An officer of the customs whose business it is to search ships, merchandise, luggage, etc.
(n.) An inspector of leather.
(n.) An instrument for examining the bore of a cannon, to detect cavities.
(n.) An implement for sampling butter; a butter trier.
(n.) An instrument for feeling after calculi in the bladder, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) While in general agreement with previous searchers, the authors direct their attention at peculiar or unknown structures such as: a huge phagosome sometimes loaded with a paracristalline rod; an occasional set of parallel microtubules along the reservoir; eventual duplication of the blepharoplast and even of the flagellum.
(2) Searchers believe more will be found in the plane’s fuselage.
(3) For searchers without access to a medical library or for more experienced searchers, an information vendor such as BRS, MEDIS, or DIALOG may be more appropriate.
(4) Searcher requirements and capabilities in moving from a batch-mode linear operation to the iterative searching and retrieval provided by the random access mode of MEDLARS II are discussed.
(5) Research on other self-directed searchers, delineation of the hospital's needs, and development of criteria for the CEO led to the screening of candidates.
(6) Searchers are less than 10,000 sq km (3,860 sq miles) short of completing a 120,000 sq km (46,330 sq miles) arc of the southern Indian ocean west of Australia where the debris could still be floating.
(7) The respondents were divided into four subgroups: end-user searchers, users of intermediaries, end users who used intermediaries, and those who did not use computerized literature search systems.
(8) Searchers believe more bodies will be found in the plane’s fuselage.
(9) The searchers made an average of 5.7 search statement modifications of their original searc statements and it was concluded that they did indeed use the interactive capabilities of MEDLINE.
(10) They represented scholarship, complicated lyricism, musical eclecticism and internationalism (as in Phife’s Caribbean twang) rather than street-corner parochialism; what hip-hop scholar and professor of global studies at New York University Jason King calls “the rise of a European, classically influenced concept of the artist in hip-hop; the rapper as more than a showman but a philosopher, individualist, soul-searcher”.
(11) The technique requires asking questions (tactics) to obtain the information needed to reach a diagnosis so that the subject becomes an active searcher of information and the final answer is not the only element used to evaluate tactics.
(12) The Lone Ranger's own raid is heavily indebted to Leone's version (the same birds clattering from a bush, same arid landscape, with Ennio Morricone's music directly quoted), but it also uses Ford's long-distance look at the burning settlement and, out of nowhere, the exact same shot of the exact same dog they used in The Searchers ("Go back, Chris!").
(13) The bounded distances can then be used to set screens additional to those that are set to describe the distances that have been specified by the searcher.
(14) Searchers seeking information about tanks in Tiananmen Square or the Dalai Lama could not find them.
(15) Interviews were conducted after a random sample of searches, and search questions were given to more expert searchers to run for comparison with the original.
(16) A farmhouse family is besieged, a famous sequence from John Ford's The Searchers that was the basis for a conscious homage sequence in Sergio Leone's Once Upon A Time In The West.
(17) Evidence derived from several simple searchers of the literature suggests that one interested in identifying papers which discuss the methodologies of clinical trials will have reasonable success.
(18) A "reactive team" of searchers are on standby in case they receive any fresh information.
(19) Analysis of the precision and recall ratios of searches conducted by five end users at HYH-CUMC indicated that the best results were obtained by end users who had been taught to search by experienced librarian-searchers.
(20) In order to identify in a pair of proteins sequences of HC we have developed the program PUTATIVE SITES SEARCHER (PSS-1) (2), a name that alludes to the possibility that such a segment of HC could represent a putative contact "site".
Seeker
Definition:
(n.) One who seeks; that which is used in seeking or searching.
(n.) One of a small heterogeneous sect of the 17th century, in Great Britain, who professed to be seeking the true church, ministry, and sacraments.
Example Sentences:
(1) A number of asylum seekers detained in the family camp on Nauru have begun peaceful protests over conditions at the centre.
(2) Shorten said any arrangement needed to be consistent with international obligations, with asylum seekers afforded due process and their claims properly assessed.
(3) In response, detainees – the vast majority of them failed asylum seekers who have committed no crime – waved and shared messages of solidarity.
(4) Poor workplace health and safety, inadequate toilet facilities and dangerous fumes from mosquito fogging that led to one asylum seeker with asthma collapsing were all raised as concerns by Kilburn, although he stressed that he believed G4S management and expatriate G4S staff acted appropriately.
(5) Morrison and Operation Sovereign Borders commander Lieutenant General Angus Campbell continued to insist that their refusal to answer questions about “on water matters” was essential to meet the overriding goal of stopping asylum seeker boats, and said from now on such briefings on the policy would be held when needed, rather than every week because the “establishment phase” had finished.
(6) Labor’s left faction is yet to settle its position on the politically controversial issue of turning back asylum-seeker boats , ahead of the party’s national conference at the end of the month.
(7) The UNHCR said in a statement: “International law prescribes that no individual can be returned involuntarily to a country in which he or she has a well-founded fear of persecution.” The Tamil Refugee Council said it had spoken with a relative of one of the asylum seekers on board the vessel from India.
(8) I think there have been concerns expressed going back to our time in government about ensuring safety at sea in all of these operations, including the possibility of turnbacks, safety at sea not only for asylum seekers but also importantly for Australian personnel.
(9) But a former Manus immigration caseworker, Liz Thompson, told Guardian Australia on Tuesday she was aware of at least three cases where asylum seekers on Manus had presented their sexuality as a reason for their persecution during protection interviews since September last year, indicating the department would be well aware there were gay asylum seekers on Manus.
(10) Also, we’ve had a number of people want to donate directly to the asylum seekers we’re following for this series - Said and Wali Khan Norzai .
(11) Quite a few have been referred over their reporting on the government’s asylum seeker policies.
(12) The review, conducted by Keith Hamburger, a former director general of the Queensland Corrective Services Commission, found that asylum seekers had been told in March 2013 that their claims would be completed within four to six months.
(13) In an extensive interview with Guardian Australia, Coleman spoke out for the first time about the state of Australia’s asylum-seeker policies.
(14) The prime minister, Tony Abbott , said on Thursday he was comfortable with being accused of secrecy on asylum seeker policy so long as the policies succeeded in stopping the boats.
(15) This is how powerful a hold it has over them.” Mossino, who works with refugees and asylum seekers as well as victims of trafficking, says that in the past decade the trade in Nigerian women has become a hugely profitable and ruthless criminal industry, controlled largely by Nigerian gangs that took root in Italy in the 1980s.
(16) A Tamil asylum seeker, speaking on condition on anonymity, fears being re-detained or deported: We are scared to go and meet the government.
(17) There is strong support across parties for Britain to act.” The children’s commissioner for England, Anne Longfield, giving evidence to the Lords’ committee on unaccompanied minors in the EU, said too many unaccompanied asylum seekers went missing from local authority care after they had been allocated a home.
(18) Tensions on the island escalated in February leading to widespread unrest, dozens of serious injuries and the death of an Iranian asylum seeker, Reza Barati.
(19) No asylum seeker on Manus has had a refugee claim processed.
(20) The summit is likely to agree new hotspots in Greece and Italy where asylum seekers can have their claims processed.