(n.) A person or thing that shakes, or by means of which something is shaken.
(n.) One of a religious sect who do not marry, popularly so called from the movements of the members in dancing, which forms a part of their worship.
(n.) A variety of pigeon.
Example Sentences:
(1) The local MP, Rory Stewart, a mover and shaker on the broadband project, told me that he was desperate to get telehealth into Cumbria, but regretfully felt that it was not immediately doable, because the local council and healthcare community did not yet have the necessary expertise.
(2) Rearrangements in five Shaker mutants have been mapped to a 60-kilobase segment of the genome.
(3) Shaker Aamer , a Saudi who lived in London before travelling to Afghanistan, has given a statement to one of his lawyers in which he says British intelligence officers were present while Americans beat him and smashed his head against a wall.
(4) The properties of the induced currents were identical to those previously observed following injection of the Shaker H4 transcript into oocytes.
(5) An orbital shaker was used to create a water current in 250-ml Erlenmeyer flasks containing the test larvae.
(6) The amino- and carboxy-terminal regions of Shaker channels are specialized for, and appear to interact in, inactivation gating.
(7) Asked if Aamer would talk publicly about his experiences, Crider said: “I think he will make up his own mind about it, and really, woe betide the person who tries to silence Shaker Aamer.” She added that it would be up to him “how much of his story and the terrible things he witnessed that he wants to tell”.
(8) Hague has contacted Shaker Aamer to reassure him that attempts to reunite him with his family in London are continuing, a process made increasingly urgent by fresh evidence of the 44-year-old's ailing health.
(9) During 2 days of an offshore drilling operation in the North Sea, 16 airborne dust samples from the atmosphere of the Shale Shaker House were collected onto filters.
(10) A Drosophila Shaker B (ShB) potassium channel truncated polypeptide that contains only the hydrophilic amino-terminal domain can form a homomultimer; the minimal requirement for the homophilic interaction has been localized to a fragment of 114 amino acids.
(11) The second concerns Shaker Aamer , a Saudi national and UK resident who was detained and allegedly mistreated at Bagram, before being flown to Guantánamo.
(12) Shaker is a courageous, resilient, kind and thoughtful person who has faced the worst the world has to offer and survived,” Begg said.
(13) Clive Stafford-Smith , Shaker's lawyer and Reprieve's director, said: "Of course, the US has been a travel agent – the travel agent of shame, rendering Shaker and others all over the world against their will, to and from and via at least 54 countries that were complicit in torture and abuse.
(14) The gourmet Monsieur Bleu only opened last year and is already a favourite power-lunch venue for art world movers and shakers, but the prices are not cheap (à la carte from €30pp).
(15) The right not to be imprisoned without a fair trial has become the centrepiece of respect for the rule of law all around the world, and yet, when Ms Lynch stated at Runnymede that the fundamental principles of the Magna Carta have “given hopes to those who face oppression” and have “given a voice to those yearning for the redress of wrongs,” it was impossible not to think of Shaker Aamer, and others in Guantánamo, also “yearning for the redress of wrongs,” but finding that yearning repeatedly unfulfilled.
(16) A giant inflatable doll with the face of Shaker Aamer , the last British resident held at Guantánamo who returned to the UK last October after 14 years’ incarceration, was displayed not far from the White House fence and front lawn.
(17) This suggests the presence of a family of Shaker-like genes in Drosophila.
(18) Site-directed mutagenesis experiments have suggested a model for the inactivation mechanism of Shaker potassium channels from Drosophila melanogaster.
(19) Every time I meet with my US counterpart I always raise the case of Shaker Aamer and I will do so again when I meet him in Singapore [for the Shangri-La Dialogue security conference] and at the upcoming Nato meeting."
(20) Human platelet concentrates were stored in polyolefin bags at 22 to 24 degrees C on a horizontal shaker for up to 8 days.
Shamer
Definition:
(n.) One who, or that which, disgraces, or makes ashamed.
Example Sentences:
(1) Carrie Fisher blasts Star Wars body shamers Read more Her 1987 semi-autobiographical novel Postcards From the Edge showed that female protagonists can be confused and screwed up and recovering (and sometimes lapsed) addicts – and still be exquisitely funny and smart.
(2) He whips out his smartphone and records the scene, documenting the offence, and confronts the suspected reprobate with a voice which can boom across a street: “Hey!” California drought shaming takes on a class-conscious edge Read more Corcoran is a drought-shamer.
(3) On the hunt for 'moral breaches' with California's foremost drought-shamer Read more Drought-stricken California has ordered the largest cuts on record to farmers holding some of the state’s strongest water rights.
(4) Carrie Fisher blasts Star Wars body shamers Read more “Mr Smith doubts I’d have any success as a writer without Star Wars ,” she tweeted.
(5) On the hunt for 'moral breaches' with California's foremost drought-shamer Read more “This is important because most of the water resources in the state originate from the much wetter mountain areas in the central and northern part of California along with the upper Colorado river basin,” Werner said.
(6) Carrie Fisher blasts Star Wars body shamers Read more The Force Awakens also climbed into the North American top five , with a haul of $571m on 28 December, overtaking The Dark Knight, Star Wars: The Phantom Menace and the original 1977 Star Wars.