(n.) One who, or that which, shifts; one who plays tricks or practices artifice; a cozener.
(n.) An assistant to the ship's cook in washing, steeping, and shifting the salt provisions.
(n.) An arrangement for shifting a belt sidewise from one pulley to another.
(n.) A wire for changing a loop from one needle to another, as in narrowing, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) iPhone Shifter: Interactive Graphic Novel (Free) What was that about interesting things in the world of digital comics?
(2) The DEAE-dextran-subtilisin displayed pH optima and Km values for ester hydrolysis similar to subtilisin, whereas the pH versus activity profiles obtained with DEAE-Sephadex-subtilisin were shifter towards the alkaline pH region and the Km values were increased.
(3) The Olympic Games are a great inspiration to get things done.” The mayor – a political shape-shifter who has been in five different parties including the Greens, Labour and, currently, the centre-right Brazilian Democratic Movement Party of the interim president Michel Temer – also refuted allegations that his focus for Olympic investment has been only on the wealthier parts of the city.
(4) In his mid-80s, in his conservatory at home in Essex, he summarised the order of his interests as "travelling, writing and growing lilies"; he travelled before he turned writer, beginning in the relatively incorruptible Spain of the early 1930s, and going on for more than 60 years to observe the ebb and flow of governments, the dissolution of indigenous tribal cultures and the activities of missionaries, bandits, profiteers and political scene-shifters.
(5) A pulsed Doppler cardiotocograph module was extended to obtain low frequency Doppler signals, by the addition of a 90 degree phase shifter, analog multipliers, quadrature detector, sample and hold circuits and low pass filters, to produce five simultaneous outputs representing movement at depths separated by 1.5cm intervals.
(6) The establishment is a shape-shifter, evolving and adapting as needs must.
(7) The Bragg peak modulation by axial beam stacking employing a variable range shifter is explained and the control system including beam monitoring and dosimetry is presented.
(8) The shifter hypothesis is consistent with available anatomical and physiological evidence on the organization of the primate visual pathway, and it offers a sensible explanation for a variety of otherwise puzzling facts, such as the plethora of cells in the geniculorecipient layers of V1.
(9) Individuals classified as successful shifters, whether in the right or left direction, displayed a more ambihanded behavioural pattern than either unsuccessful shifters or the no shift control group.
(10) A threefold increase caused by a chromosomal mutation, hsh1 (high shifter), had the same effect.
(11) Lawyers will become unit-shifters, with no more investment in justice than the server at Costa Coffee has in your flat white.
(12) This argues against a general deblurring mechanism, such as a neural network 'shifter circuit', and we point out that the high level of vernier acuity for moving stimuli is susceptible to an alternative explanation.
(13) This technique can get rid of the shortcoming of the method usually used, in which wavelength shifter is directly incorporated to Cherenkov medium.
(14) The proposed solution involves what we term "shifter circuits," which allow for dynamic shifts in the relative alignment of input and output arrays without loss of local spatial relationships.
(15) Propranolol shifted the dose-response curves downward and to the right for all agonists; phentolamine, shifter the curves upward and to the left.
(16) Lateral eye-shift in preschool children was related to the use of more nouns in description by 14 right-shifters, more adjectives by 19 left-shifters.
(17) The Farc need constant reassuring because they are very, very mistrustful,” Shifter says.
(18) By this point, as it turned out the Ventolin inhaler girl was also a shape-shifter, I was looking at Twitter for reassurance.
(19) Various liquids (water, glycerol, sodium iodide solution; and glycerol plus a wavelength shifter) were investigated as possible Cerenkov media.
(20) But Shifter said Iran's president should not hope for big advances during his tour.
Spanner
Definition:
(n.) One who, or that which, spans.
(n.) The lock of a fusee or carbine; also, the fusee or carbine itself.
(n.) An iron instrument having a jaw to fit a nut or the head of a bolt, and used as a lever to turn it with; a wrench; specifically, a wrench for unscrewing or tightening the couplings of hose.
(n.) A contrivance in some of the ealier steam engines for moving the valves for the alternate admission and shutting off of the steam.
Example Sentences:
(1) An open-ended torque release spanner was set for 0.9 Newton-metres for clinical use such that the compressive load is sufficient to prevent pull-out even in the unlikely event of 60 lb being applied for up to 21 days.
(2) Another spanner in the Brotherhood's works was the recent decision by the supreme constitutional court to dissolve parliament, in which it was the majority bloc through its political arm, the Freedom and Justice party.
(3) 9.07pm GMT Final score: Panthers 21-20 Falcons For a moment it appeared as though the Falcons were about to throw a spanner in the works, driving up to near midfield with 30 seconds left to play.
(4) And despite what he says, it would be very tough for him to beat her.” Clinton spent last summer fighting accusations of inappropriate use of a personal email server during her time as secretary of state, an issue that threw an unexpected spanner in what was initially seen as a clear path to the nomination.
(5) Fulham thought they'd secured the striker's scrawl, but it now seems that Big Sam might be on the verge of throwing a spanner in the works.
(6) He thinks the party’s current stance on solving 21st-century problems is as outdated as “trying to overhaul an Apple MacBook with a spanner” and says decisions should be made by members networked via the internet rather than in local party meetings in draughty church halls.
(7) Fittingly, most traces of this Michael Green’s HowToCorp company have since been erased from cyberspace, perhaps by his own software, jammed in reverse gear with an imaginary spanner.
(8) If this is the tone in which the UK proceeds, then throwing spanners in May’s works will be irresistible to many of them.
(9) "Kim Dotcom could throw a real spanner in the works of this year's general election," Bryce Edwards, a political commentator and lecturer at the University of Otago, wrote on his blog.
(10) Barclays' decision threatens to throw a spanner in the works as Somalia embarks on reconstruction.
(11) "Coalition government and Ukip have thrown spanners in the old assumptions," says Sanders.
(12) A Scandal in Bohemia opens with Conan Doyle sidelining feeling as "grit in a sensitive instrument", a spanner in the works of the world's "most perfect reasoning and observing machine".
(13) 7 Get a spanner Things are going to go wrong much more often, so expect mini-disasters.
(14) Two series of bivalent ligands (P-X-P) containing the (R,S)-3-[(4-aminoaryl)oxy]-1-(isopropylamino)propan-2-ol pharmacophore and a connecting alpha,omega-dicarbonylpoly(methylene) [X = -OC(CH2)nCO-] or alpha,omega-N,N'-bis(carbonylmethylene) polymethylenediamine [X = -OCCH2NH(CH2)nNHCH2CO-] spanner were synthesized and evaluated for beta-adrenoceptor antagonist activity in rat heart and lung membrane preparations.
(15) But there's another, easier way of establishing whether someone is two spanners short of a tool box.
(16) There’s a social stigma, too.” The design of the new devices, from masculine chrome pipes like luxury motorbike spanners to delicate diamanté bling-sticks, helps, too.
(17) In short, they are all much better riders than me and calmly slide out of their saddles at the end of the day while I limp off as if I have been sitting on a bag of spanners.
(18) More self-harm to report: a single decision with the potential to devastate the finances of millions, blight some of the poorest communities in the developing world and throw a spanner in the workings of our aid agencies.
(19) The data suggest that further increases in spanner length and lipophilicity and optical resolution may improve the potential of a labeled bivalent beta 1-adrenoceptor antagonist to function as a myocardial imaging agent.
(20) Jack Lang (@snap_kaka_pop) Potential spanner in the works for Everton?