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Skinner


Definition:

  • (n.) One who skins.
  • (n.) One who deals in skins, pelts, or hides.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Absolute has raised its profile with big-name signings such as Frank Skinner and bought live Premier League football rights for the first time for this season .
  • (2) Roll-up man 3.50pm GMT Thank you to Tom Skinner for this educational and informative video .
  • (3) The main Absolute Radio station, which features presenters including breakfast DJ Christian O'Connell, Frank Skinner and Dave Gorman, had an average weekly reach of 1.375 million listeners in the final quarter of last year, down 16.9% on the previous quarter and 7.9% year on year.
  • (4) Expecting defeat, but somehow clutching on to hope … Well, Frank [Skinner] and David [Baddiel] wrote that part of the lyrics, but the reason I got them in after the FA asked me to write a song was that I thought it was only worth making if it reflected how it feels to be a football fan.
  • (5) During performance of a learned task either in the Skinner box or in a conditioned sound-bar pressing task, SWD were suppressed in epileptic rats as long as they were working for reinforcement.
  • (6) "Mrs Skinner desperately wants this matter resolved as quickly as possible."
  • (7) Avoidance learning in a shuttle box or food reinforced learning in a Skinner test were unimpaired or even improved in epileptic rats.
  • (8) She says the case that the MP Dennis Skinner raised in PMQs last week is typical of many she sees: a constituent, dying of cancer, lost his benefits in an Atos case and died before it was reviewed.
  • (9) His once-visionary keywords have grotesque afterlives: Big Brother is a TV franchise to make celebrities of nobodies and Room 101 a light-entertainment show on BBC2 currently hosted by Frank Skinner for celebrities to witter about stuff that gets their goat.
  • (10) Skinner says it "really got quite nasty" and he did not speak to his manager, Avalon joint managing director Jon Thoday, for three days.
  • (11) B. F. Skinner's legacy to human behavioral research for the study of environment-infant interactions, and indeed for the conception of development itself, is described and exemplified.
  • (12) 9.10am: This from our sports news correspondent Owen Gibson, via Twitter: "A nervous looking David Baddiel and Frank Skinner on our flight to Port Elizabeth.
  • (13) The other MPs are Natascha Engel (North East Derbyshire), Michael Meacher (Oldham West and Royton), Meg Hillier (Hackney South and Shoreditch), Austin Mitchell (Grimsby), Dennis Skinner (Bolsover), John McDonnell (Hayes and Harlington) and Grahame Morris (Easington).
  • (14) Antibody reactivity against herpes simplex virus (HSV) was investigated in 15 subjects who received three subcutaneous immunisations with Skinner HSV vaccine.
  • (15) Jeff Skinner and Jay Harrison scored for the Hurricanes.
  • (16) A series of genetic deletions based partly on two RNA secondary structure models (M. A. Skinner, V. R. Racaniello, G. Dunn, J. Cooper, P. D. Minor, and J. W. Almond, J. Mol.
  • (17) They were initially deprived of food and then trained to work for food reward in a Skinner box to a fixed ratio of ten presses for each pellet received.
  • (18) Asked whether, in retirement, she would still oppose a European central bank, Mr Skinner fed her a line, shouting: 'No, she's goin' to be the guv'nor.'
  • (19) It was made by the London jeweller Bentley & Skinner, and a proud photograph of it can be seen on the wall in the firm's Piccadilly window.
  • (20) Rachel Louise wrote: “How can BGT allow a stunt double for the dog and try to hide it, shouldn’t be allowed to be the winner!” Niamh Skinner said: “I’ve just been informed that Matisse had a stunt double doing the tightrope walk.

Spinner


Definition:

  • (n.) One who, or that which, spins one skilled in spinning; a spinning machine.
  • (n.) A spider.
  • (n.) A goatsucker; -- so called from the peculiar noise it makes when darting through the air.
  • (n.) A spinneret.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Countings were made of the number of glassfibers present at the skin of the spinners after the end of the work.
  • (2) Oxygen diffusion distance was measured in solid tumor "cubes" prepared by excising the tumor from the mouse and incubating 1-2 mm sided tumor cubes in spinner culture flasks with fluorescent drugs (AF-2 or DM113) which bind to hypoxic cells.
  • (3) We have recently shown that the semi-continuous cultivation of a mouse hybridoma line in spinner flasks, with a basal defined medium (BDM) devoid of serum and protein, increases the secretion of the immunoreactive monoclonal antibody (MAb) by a factor of ca.
  • (4) Cells were cultured in spinner flasks of 500 ml liquid volume for adaptation to stirred culture conditions.
  • (5) Blood smears were prepared with the use of a spinner, which rotated with a fixed velocity for a fixed time.
  • (6) Six water-jacketed 500-ml Bellco spinner flasks were equipped to monitor and control environmental variables to study their effects on the growth and metabolism of mammalian cells.
  • (7) Two hybridoma cell lines were cultivated in an indirectly aerated 10-1 reactor in batch, fed-batch and continuous (perfusion) operations and in spinner flasks.
  • (8) To examine the growth of these transfected cells in vivo, cells were grown in spinner culture flasks to form spheroids 250-300 microns in diameter.
  • (9) In contrast to these results, all the phospholipid to protein and the cholesterol to protein ratios of the internalized plasma membranes were higher in monolayer than in spinner cells, and the proportions of all phospholipids, except phosphatidylethanolamine, were similar in both cell types.
  • (10) The potential toxicity of these agents was examined in the absence of sparging (i.e., in spinner flasks) by using the attachment-independent Sf9 insect cell line as a model system.
  • (11) Tourism is an increasing money-spinner, with trips to see the Mountains of the Moon and the rare mountain gorillas in western Uganda especially popular.
  • (12) Aggregation of NR cells was inhibited by macrophages from mice and rats, and to a greater extent by cancer cell suspensions of mouse Ehrlich and rat Walker 256 lines from spinner culture or in the ascites form.
  • (13) Isis has been a real beneficiary.” For years, other, often anonymous critics, briefers, spinners and leakers have kept up a running commentary on Chilcot in the newspapers.
  • (14) Although continuous culturing was not achieved in spinner flasks, the production of litre quantities of heavily parasitised erythrocytes was achieved more simply than by using MASP cultures.
  • (15) A significant reduction in forced expiratory volumes (FEV1 after a shift) was observed in spinners of both factories.
  • (16) While influential, it has never been a massive money-spinner, and one estimate suggests it has seen a 57% drop in advertising on a circulation of around 500,000 copies.
  • (17) A reversion to Type I collagen synthesis occurred when the spinner-cultured cells were returned to monolayer flasks.
  • (18) Alpha fetoprotein (AFP) synthesis by adult rats during gestation and hepatoma growth was determined in vitro with specific precipitations of radiolabeled AFP antisera after incubation of Spinner cultures of various rat tissues in arginine-free culture medium containing radiolabeled arginine.
  • (19) IDS's spinners are continuing an increasingly popular political tactic in both the US and UK of using telly references to connect with the electorate.
  • (20) Spheroids were initiated in bacteriological grade petri dishes seeded with 10(6) 9L rat glioma cells, cultured for four days and thereafter transferred and further developed in a spinner flask.

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