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Setter


Definition:

  • (n.) One who, or that which, sets; -- used mostly in composition with a noun, as typesetter; or in combination with an adverb, as a setter on (or inciter), a setter up, a setter forth.
  • (n.) A hunting dog of a special breed originally derived from a cross between the spaniel and the pointer. Modern setters are usually trained to indicate the position of game birds by standing in a fixed position, but originally they indicated it by sitting or crouching.
  • (n.) One who hunts victims for sharpers.
  • (n.) One who adapts words to music in composition.
  • (n.) An adornment; a decoration; -- with off.
  • (n.) A shallow seggar for porcelain.
  • (v. t.) To cut the dewlap (of a cow or an ox), and to insert a seton, so as to cause an issue.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Coactivation of the serotonin-containing cells and command fibers, or inhibition of the serotonin-containing cells while activating command fibers, however, shows that the cells act as "gain-setters," modulating the interaction between command inputs and motoneuron outputs.
  • (2) In the Red setter an ovarian cortex had developed in mosaic gonads with 8 and 10% of Y-bearing cells.
  • (3) Mark Carney is a jet-setter who worked for the global Goldman Sachs.
  • (4) Using brains of English setter dogs afflicted with a form of this disorder, the autofluorescent storage granules have been isolated and subjected to extraction with chloroform-methanol.
  • (5) We had studied cerebrospinal fluid monoamine metabolite concentrations and glucose metabolism in 58 violent offenders and impulsive fire setters in the early 1980s.
  • (6) These included an investigation of egg handling techniques from nest box to hatcher; the adoption by the hatchery of plastic setter trays; an improvement to incubator environment; an improvement in the overall hatchery hygiene programme and the introduction of a regular monitoring programme based on the examination of hatchery fluff.
  • (7) The purpose of this special communication is to emphasize the importance of balancing the physical therapy director's dual roles as fiscal manager and professional value setter.
  • (8) Ozone and formaldehyde were evaluated as disinfectants in a prototype laboratory setter against microorganisms that are naturally present on fertile, freshly laid, broiler hatching eggs.
  • (9) Two male English Setters were noticed to be breathing rapidly, hyperexcitable, and atactic after roaming a rural area for 2 hours.
  • (10) a) synovial bursa ( schleimbeutel ) b) sneeze guard ( Spukschutz ) c) snotty-nosed brat – literally snot spoon ( rotzloeffel ) d) grumpy bastard – literally lump of vomit ( kotzbrocken ) 4,000 Jet-setters complain of a) Jetleg b) Jetleck c) Jetlag d) Jetlack 8,000 Who, if a contestant on Who Wants To Be A Millionaire, would definitely not call the Joker?
  • (11) Using light microscopic immunocytochemistry, the localization of S-antigen was studied in the retinas of normal dogs and Irish setters affected with rod-cone dysplasia, a hereditary retinal degeneration characterized by abnormal cGMP metabolism and arrested outer segment differentiation.
  • (12) Test setters retain influence over what counts, and there is no adjusting for test-takers' inclination to apply themselves – or not.
  • (13) A 5-month-old female Gordon Setter was examined because of a soft, fluctuant, subcutaneous swelling in the right submandibular region.
  • (14) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Andrew Sentance ANDREW SENTANCE Former Bank of England interest-rate setter Is Brexit now more likely?
  • (15) The etiology, pathogenesis and clinical manifestations of the Irish setter leucocyte adhesion deficiency were similar to that of the leucocyte adhesion deficiency in humans.
  • (16) The FTSE fell after the Bank decision was announced and it closed down 55 points, or 0.7%, at 7419.36. Business Today: sign up for a morning shot of financial news Read more Since the Brexit vote the Bank’s committee of rate-setters has been forced into a balancing act between keeping import-fuelled inflation in check and providing support to the economy as uncertainty and a squeeze on incomes bites.
  • (17) Seemingly, the seborrheic skin observed in these Cocker Spaniels and Irish Setters was associated with an altered rate of epidermal keratinization.
  • (18) Today's budget is being seen as a scene-setter for the election, with the electorate being presented with a choice between the Labour party and Liberal Democrats making massive cuts to public sector spending in a year, or the Conservative party making even bigger cuts to the public sector, but starting with a special George Osborne budget 50 days after they are elected to government.
  • (19) These findings document a wheat-sensitive enteropathy in Irish setter dogs and suggest that brush-border alkaline phosphatase is specifically susceptible to damage by wheat.
  • (20) Irish setters affected with rod-cone dysplasia type 1 (rcd1) were bred to Norwegian elkhounds affected with early retinal degeneration (erd).

Sighthound


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