(n.) Any one of numerous species of small freshwater American cyprinoid fishes, belonging to Notropis, or Minnilus, and allied genera; as the redfin (Notropis megalops), and the golden shiner (Notemigonus chrysoleucus) of the Eastern United States; also loosely applied to various other silvery fishes, as the dollar fish, or horsefish, menhaden, moonfish, sailor's choice, and the sparada.
(n.) The common Lepisma, or furniture bug.
Example Sentences:
(1) Shiner and Bowling said the use of the stop-and-search power would increase tension and damage confidence in the police.
(2) Garnham repeatedly described evidence from Iraqi witnesses as lies and strongly attacked the conduct of and claims made by Phil Shiner of the firm representing the Iraqis, Public Interest Lawyers.
(3) Phil Shiner, solicitor at Public Interest Lawyers , said: "[This] has confirmed that the government's plan to deny legal aid to claimants other than those who are classed as 'lawfully resident' in the UK for 12 months was unjust and indefensible.
(4) Shiner also accused the government of pursuing a personal vendetta against him in revenge for his work gathering hundreds of cases against British forces in Iraq.
(5) When Shiner first publicised claims that the Danny Boy incident involved innocent Iraqi civilians, he compared the alleged atrocity to the massacre carried out by US troops at My Lai during the Vietnam war.
(6) At the time, Shiner said: “It is apparent that some people object to and disapprove of the work carried out by PIL, but the directing of abuse at PIL for the legitimate work we do to uphold the rule of law in a democratic country cannot continue unchallenged.” Before this week’s trial, Shiner acknowledged that he was likely to be disqualified for misconduct.
(7) Twice married, Shiner has five children, some of whom worked at his law firm.
(8) Shiner's firm has launched a legal challenge to the police tactic of kettling during recent student demonstrations, claiming a breach of human rights.
(9) "There is a case called Ali Zaki Mousa," Shiner said, "currently before the court of appeal that will determine whether the UK should fulfil its legal obligations by holding an extended inquiry into 150 additional complaints by Iraqi civilians."
(10) Phil Shiner, who ran the firm, was charged by the SRA, which referred him to the solicitors disciplinary tribunal.
(11) ), are analyzed on the basis of a model used previously for qualitative theoretical studies of the Ca2+ activation of muscle contraction (Shiner and Solaro, 1982).
(12) The solicitor Phil Shiner, of Public Interest Lawyers, renewed his call for a wider inquiry into allegations about how British troops treated detainees in southern Iraq between 2003 and 2009.
(13) Changes in Keq upon deuterium substitution, which are predicted by the calculations of Hartshorn and Shiner (1972), should be observed for many other reactions as well.
(14) The tribunal was told on Thursday that Shiner had sent a letter admitting eight allegations of acting without integrity, including one charge that he acted improperly at a press conference in 2008 where he claimed the British army had unlawfully killed, tortured and mistreated Iraqi civilians at the battle of Danny Boy, near Amara in southern Iraq on 14 May 2004.
(15) So much so that venerable professions like law have morphed into modern shoe shiners for multinationals.
(16) Phil Shiner of Public Interest Lawyers, which has represented Iraqis allegedly mistreated by British forces, said: "There is the clearest evidence from the court martial into the death of Baha Mousa, and other emerging evidence, that systematic abuse by UK soldiers in Iraq was rife.
(17) Squawfish were fed fry of experimentally infected redside shiner and squawfish and partially developed specimens of N. lewisi recovered 8 weeks later.
(18) Phil Shiner, a lawyer for the Iraqis, insisted today that any new inquiry must include other claims of ill-treatment by British troops.
(19) Shiner is seeking a judicial review of what he says is the failure of the MoD to conduct a proper inquiry into the allegations.
(20) Dr Michael Shiner, of the Mannheim Centre for Criminology at LSE, said additional safeguards are necessary and the government should provide explicit guidance so that everyone is clear where action is needed.
Shiver
Definition:
(n.) One of the small pieces, or splinters, into which a brittle thing is broken by sudden violence; -- generally used in the plural.
(n.) A thin slice; a shive.
(n.) A variety of blue slate.
(n.) A sheave or small wheel in a pulley.
(n.) A small wedge, as for fastening the bolt of a window shutter.
(n.) A spindle.
(v. t.) To break into many small pieces, or splinters; to shatter; to dash to pieces by a blow; as, to shiver a glass goblet.
(v. i.) To separate suddenly into many small pieces or parts; to be shattered.
(v. i.) To tremble; to vibrate; to quiver; to shake, as from cold or fear.
(v. t.) To cause to shake or tremble, as a sail, by steering close to the wind.
(n.) The act of shivering or trembling.
Example Sentences:
(1) Patients in group A had smoother increases in oxygen uptake and core temperatures, greater cardiovascular stability as reflected by the rate-pressure product, and no visible shivering.
(2) Patients who had sustained shivering associated with lidocaine epidural anesthesia were given normal saline or butorphanol 1 mg.
(3) If a sparse crowd, shivering in suddenly chill conditions out of step with the warmth Edmonton had enjoyed in previous days, did not exactly help the atmosphere, the action remained intense.
(4) In conclusion, these results further differentiate mld from its allele shiverer, which shares with mld a dramatic reduction of MBP and absence of major dense line but, in contrast, presents other important biochemical differences in CNS myelin.
(5) The beach curved around us and the sun shone while the rest of the UK shivered under grey skies and sleet.
(6) Other onlookers shivered, recalling Iglesias’s praise for Venezuela’s late president Hugo Chávez and fearing an eruption of Latin American-style populism in a country gripped by debt, austerity and unemployment.
(7) It has been concluded that there is no non-shivering thermogenesis in the young calf.
(8) In addition, there is immunocytochemical evidence for abnormal accumulation of MAG in perikarya of oligodendroglial-like cells, suggesting the possibility of a transport block for myelin proteins in the shiverer mutant.
(9) Shivering may be a warning sign of brain stem anaesthesia and demands special care to anticipate life-threatening complications.
(10) The higher hypothalamic and spinal cord clamp temperatures were, the lower residual internal temperature fell before shivering occurred and heat production rose.
(11) The peroxidase-antiperoxidase technique was used for immunocytochemical localization of carbonic anhydrase in the mouse spinal cord to detect whether this antigen was normally present in myelinated fibers, in oligodendrocytes in both white and gray matter, and in astrocytes, and to determine where the carbonic anhydrase might be localized in the spinal cords of dysmyelinating mutant (shiverer) mice.
(12) Both drugs reduce metabolic heat production (about 35% at 9 and 20 degrees C, and about 15% at 35 degrees C) by inhibiting shivering or by reducing activity or both.
(13) Eight male subjects were cooled on three occasions in 22 degrees C water and rewarmed once by each of three procedures: spontaneous shivering, inhalation of heated (45 degrees C) and humidified air, and immersion up to the neck in 40 degrees C water.
(14) Pharmacological changes in chemoreceptor activity induced transient and opposite changes in ventilation and shivering intensity, confirming their role in the control of thermogenesis.
(15) The shiverer mouse mutation has been used as a model in this series of experiments.
(16) Muscular shivering activity (integrated EMG) of both species increased below thermoneutrality parallel with increasing oxygen uptake and heart rate.
(17) Pulmonary artery and urinary temperature were measured every 15 minutes, and shivering was evaluated electromyographically.
(18) These results obtained in wakefulness suggest that the absence of shivering previously shown in cats during PS without atonia cannot simply be the result of an overall increased threshold for heat-gain responses but, rather, are in keeping with the observation that thermoregulation is suppressed in PS.
(19) The effectiveness of intravenous meperidine and warm local anesthetic for prevention of postanesthetic shivering was evaluated in urology patients undergoing epidural blockade for extracorporeal shockwave lithotripsy.
(20) Three days after NRM lesion the fall in core temperature evoked by an exposure to 14-15 degrees C was smaller than before lesion, furthermore the body temperature threshold for shivering increased.