(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.
Shaver
Definition:
(n.) One who shaves; one whose occupation is to shave.
(n.) One who is close in bargains; a sharper.
(n.) One who fleeces; a pillager; a plunderer.
(n.) A boy; a lad; a little fellow.
(n.) A tool or machine for shaving.
Example Sentences:
(1) We have developed a subcutaneous tissue shaver for the radical treatment of hircismus and hyperhidrosis.
(2) The egg-producing strain, shaver, showed a greater iron status with a stable body iron content from 13 weeks on (53-55 ppm), permitting a constant laying frequency (90%) during an 18-month period, with only a small reduction of egg iron content from 33.8 to 31 ppm.
(3) Using online handles such as "Pirate" and "pirateat40", Shavers sold "investments" to people around the US.
(4) We all want to have a safe and fair economy and the Bitcoin community has made great strides towards this goal since Mr Shavers's operation went out of business last year."
(5) Arthroscopy is an interesting and enlarging technique that visualise the temporomandibular joint and allows surgical technics such as lysis and lavage, prediscal section, retrodiscal cauterisation, oblic protuberance cauterisation, disc suturing or shavering of the articular surfaces.
(6) A judge in the US recently ruled that Bitcoin does amount to "a currency or form of money" in a preliminary hearing over a man in Texas, Trendon Shavers, who is accused by the US financial watchdog, the Securities and Exchange Commission, of running a pyramid scheme masquerading as a Bitcoin investment company .
(7) A tendency of the iron content in the carcass to decrease with age has been observed for both breeds; values were higher for laying shaver hens.
(8) Haematological values and iron content in liver, spleen, kidneys and intestine were determined in Shaver chickens of both sexes at 4, 8, 13 and 18 weeks and in females at 24 weeks (the beginning of the laying period).
(9) Iron data obtained in the present paper reflect the specific genetic adaptation to egg production of the shaver strain.
(10) "In reality BTCST was a sham and a Ponzi [pyramid] scheme in which Shavers used Bitcoin from new investors to make purported interest payments and cover investor withdrawals on existing BTCST investments," the SEC said on Tuesday.
(11) A simple vibratome was fabricated using double-function electric shaver and microscopic platform.
(12) A subcutaneous tissue "shaver" was used in the treatment of axillary bromhidrosis.
(13) Patrick Murck of the Bitcoin Foundation said in a comment: "Compliant with SEC rules or not, Mr Shavers's offering, as alleged, was wrong and harmful to the Bitcoin community.
(14) The SEC alleges that Shavers transferred at least 150,649 Bitcoins into his personal account – which he used to pay for rent, food, utility bills, shopping and gambling.
(15) Operative treatment is facilitated by small joint shavers, burrs, knives, and baskets.
(16) The iron content in internal organs in shaver was higher than in New Hampshire.
(17) Chicks of a conventional poultry flock, Shaver Starcross 288 hybrid, were vaccinated with infectious bronchitis (IB) virus H 120 at the age of 21 days.
(18) Then down on South Congress – a 15-minute stroll across the Colorado River – a more laid-back, country-digging crowd gathered to watch Dawes , Billy Joe Shaver and Night Beds at the free event at the Hotel San José.
(19) Trendon T Shavers, from KcKinney in Texas, was the founder and operator of "Bitcoin Savings and Trust" (BTCST), allegedly raised a total of 700,000 Bitcoins in 2011 and 2012 – then worth about $4.5m – for his scheme, claiming that he made his profits on market arbitrage.
(20) With this shaver the sweat glands can be removed from the undersurface of the axillary skin through a small incision.