(n.) Any one of numerous species of hemipterous insects belonging to Gerris, Pyrrhocoris, Prostemma, and allied genera. They have long legs, and run rapidly over the surface of the water, as if skating.
Example Sentences:
(1) The morphometrical data of the skaters muscle fiber are compared with the muscle parameters (according to the literature data) of the m. vastus lateralis in high qualification sportsmen of other specialization and in nontrained persons.
(2) Others may argue, as former US Olympic skater Johnny Weir has, that what they define as “politics” shouldn’t enter into the equation of whether a country is fit to host the Games.
(3) In skater-statyers sarcoplasm of muscle fibers sharply increases in volume.
(4) For those analytics lovers, there’s the evidence via Extra Skater that the Kings Fenwick score (shot attempts) was better throughout the entirety of the game, perhaps suggesting that the true abnormality of Saturday night’s game was that the Rangers led for so much of it.
(5) Using aerobic and anaerobic power production as measured during supra maximal bicycle tests of international-level speed skaters, a model of the kinetics of power production is obtained.
(6) Sometimes, loading for endurance in skater-stayers produces rather essential disturbances in structure of muscle fibers up to their necrosis.
(7) A Russian speed skater revealed he had failed a drugs test for meldonium on the day the country’s sports officials warned more athletes could test positive for the drug responsible for Maria Sharapova failing a test at the Australian Open .
(8) Female senior pair skaters reported an average of 1.4 serious injuries, and other groups averaged greater than 0.5 serious injury per skater.
(9) The 23-year-old from Livingston was one of a five-strong squad of short-track skaters confirmed for the Games , along with Charlotte Gilmartin, Jon Eley, Richard Shoebridge and Jack Whelbourne.
(10) This power is necessary to overcome the air and ice friction and to increase the kinetic energy of the skater.
(11) Of the nine injured skaters, eight were treated conservatively and one skater with Jones' fracture was treated surgically.
(12) An analysis of the start of the 500 m speed skating races during the 1988 Olympic Winter Games showed a remarkably high correlation between the acceleration of the skater in the first second of the sprint and the final time (r = -0.75).
(13) This information may be useful for designing strength training programs for figure skaters.
(14) It is a more thoughtful book, but it also prefigures Clark's seeming obsession with the wayward lives of teenagers, which has since become the central theme of his films, most controversially Kids, and later books like 2008's Los Angeles Vol 1 , in which he trails a bunch of skater kids from Compton, east Los Angeles.
(15) Compared with previous published data, skaters in this study were younger and smaller with a higher percent body fat.
(16) Muscle fibers composition was investigated in vastus lateralis muscles of 103 skaters.
(17) This initial effort to evaluate the efficacy of this type of a training program for competitive figure skating seems to have proven to be beneficial to the skaters.
(18) Over the course of the 3-month period, the skaters in the program showed an average increase in oxygen consumption of 9% from 44.73 cc per kg per min to 55.51 cc per kg per min.
(19) In previous outings, conversation prints and skater skirt shapes could have been seen as cutesy, but this season's dresses had no-brainier ease that also came with a Beckham-branded complexity and sophistication.
(20) On alternate days, the skaters used the same amount of time in a strength training program.
Wallet
Definition:
(n.) A bag or sack for carrying about the person, as a bag for carrying the necessaries for a journey; a knapsack; a beggar's receptacle for charity; a peddler's pack.
(n.) A pocketbook for keeping money about the person.
(n.) Anything protuberant and swagging.
Example Sentences:
(1) "For a few it will feel like having your wallet nicked with the mugger then handing you a few bob back to buy a pint.
(2) Eventually I was given a bag with my name on it, containing my jacket, wallet, and camera equipment.
(3) The #putyourwalletsout phrase was coined by Sydney-based Twitter user Steve Lopez, who accompanied it with a photo of his wallet.
(4) Each note is like a little illuminated manuscript in your wallet.
(5) Karpeles says that the money, discovered on 7 March, was moved first to online wallets, and then back to an offline wallet between 14-15 March.
(6) No relation to Ann Widdecombe 1 Advent calendar Receiving it on Christmas Day makes me 100% confident I won't be facing the disappointment of finishing it too early 2 Nog I don't like eggs but I love a bit of eggnog, think how good nog would be without the eggs holding it back 3 WH Smith's voucher Keep in my wallet for guilt free hours of magazine browsing all year round 4 Quality Street Always have a present you can instantly re-wrap and give to someone else 5 Bath bomb Take cover!
(7) What they do have is “bounce-backability” when you take them out of a wallet.
(8) These are then stored in a "wallet", which functions as a sort of online bank account.
(9) Maybe if they knew that paying higher prices meant wages would rise and employment contracts would be more secure, they would open their wallets.
(10) Neither Google Wallet nor Softcard has achieved significant uptake among users or retailers – and all eyes will be on Apple to see whether its initiative stalls, or takes off.
(11) The annual battle to win the hearts and wallets of Christmas shoppers will see UK companies spend more than £1.5bn on advertising campaigns.
(12) The statement said a search of one gang member’s house unearthed a red duffel bag with an Italian flag that contained Regeni’s student cards, credit cards, mobile phones and a brown wallet with his passport in, as well as a second wallet emblazoned with the word “love” and other personal effects such as sunglasses.
(13) It's not a rowdy place – think the cocktail cognoscenti trading tales over Rolling Stones classics – so come to expand your palate (but squeeze your wallet!).
(14) In Moscow, Bank Rossiya is known as “Putin’s wallet” .
(15) Cook told fans afterwards: “We are not kidding, that just happened.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest iPhone 6 to feature mobile wallet
(16) He is attempting to pay back customers who had stored more than 1 BTC (currently worth around $330) from his own personal account, as well as from the coins Inputs.io had in "cold storage" – a wallet not connected to the internet.
(17) Released in the US in 2011, the Google Wallet limps on but a planned expansion to the UK was cancelled.
(18) The Bitcoin Foundation, the non-profit devoted to development and promotion of the currency, says that “any company dealing with Bitcoin transactions [which has] coded their own wallet software should responsibly prepare for this possibility”.
(19) The high street has suffered a painful contraction as the prolonged recession ate into consumers' wallets.
(20) Australia’s three million smokers are speaking with their wallets and literally walking into their local retailers and asking for the cheapest pack on the shelves.” Overnight, the British House of Commons voted to adopt similar legislation by 367 votes to 113.