(n.) One who lays slates, or whose occupation is to slate buildings.
(n.) Any terrestrial isopod crustacean of the genus Porcellio and allied genera; a sow bug.
Example Sentences:
(1) Photograph: Jonathan Lovekin for the Observer Nigel Slater's cold noodle and tomato salad makes a nice grownup supper with leftovers for the packed lunch.
(2) When Matt Slater went swimming with his dog Mango in a Cornish estuary this month, he bumped into a barrel jellyfish.
(3) The data of Slater (1938) on the parents and children of manic-depressives are reanalysed.
(4) Christian Slater, who plays Joe's father said: "As an actor I felt safe.
(5) But his boss, education secretary Nicky Morgan, is adamant that forcing all schools to become academies will cut central interference – which ought to mean Slater will need even fewer civil servants.
(6) Sent via Guardian Witness By Andy Slater 25 May 2013, 18:29 Either this photo was taken earlier or this fan is so disgusted by Bayern's sluggishness so far that he has left the stadium.
(7) Key has characterised both Nicky Hager, author of the book Dirty Politics, which draws on emails hacked from the venomous rightwing blogger Cameron Slater, and Greenwald, who arrived in New Zealand last week to expose contradictions in official positions on surveillance, as "conspiracy theorists".
(8) Slater’s Official Information Act request, which Hager says was encouraged by one of the PM’s staff, had been almost immediately fulfilled, while similar requests from other media were denied.
(9) Proposed changes to death certification in England and Wales in 2014 will make matters worse by levying an additional fee on all burials, Slater said.
(10) Photograph: PR When he started, Wright, whose previous work had been split between young people and professionals, asked producer David Slater what he should expect.
(11) Barbara Slater, director of BBC Sport, said: "We are absolutely delighted that [Formula One] will remain on the BBC.
(12) All nominees have achieved exceptional success in their respective fields in the past year,” Slater said, “and we wish each of them the best of luck, while also looking forward to a great night in Belfast.
(13) Hager draws on thousands of hacked emails and Facebook private messages, which reveal Slater’s links to Jason Ede, then a senior press adviser and so-called “black ops” co-ordinator in the prime minister’s office, as well as to senior cabinet minister Judith “Crusher” Collins and others.
(14) But instead of leaks from NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, Hager had something which, in domestic political terms at least, would prove even more explosive: a cache of correspondence from the computer of Cameron Slater, a vigorous, venomous rightwing blogger better known by his site’s title, Whale Oil.
(15) After the jet-black high school satire Heathers pulled the rug out from under John Hughes and his oversharing Brat Pack, in 1989, American adolescents were left with few offerings, most of them wistful odes to another age – either stylistically, as with the overblown, pirate-radio-themed Christian Slater vehicle Pump Up the Volume; or quite literally, in the case of Richard Linklater’s nostalgia-fuelled 70s pastiche, Dazed and Confused.
(16) A monkey only pressed a button of a camera set up on a tripod – a tripod I positioned and held throughout the shoot.” Last year, as the dispute simmered, Slater offered copies of a “monkey selfie” photo to purchasers willing to pay only for shipping and handling, and said he would donate $1.70 from each order to a conservation project dedicated to protecting Sulawesi’s macaques.
(17) Only the giant Antarctic slater Glyptonotus antarcticus survived the exposure to the contaminated water unharmed.
(18) In 2011, Indonesian macaques snatched David J Slater’s camera and started taking pictures of themselves.
(19) With a DNA probe derived from the cloned CHS1 gene that codes for chitin synthase I [Bulawa, C. E., Slater, M., Cabib, E., Au-Young, J., Sburlati, A., Adair, W. L. and Robbins, P. (1986) Cell 46, 213-225] a Northern analysis was conducted of CHS1-specific transcripts.
(20) The documents show a deep and intimate connection between Slater and Jason Ede, former senior advisor to Key.
Slayer
Definition:
(n.) One who slays; a killer; a murderer; a destrroyer of life.
Example Sentences:
(1) Throughout his career he has continued to champion Crane, seeing him as the direct heir to Walt Whitman – Whitman being "not just the most American of poets but American poetry proper, our apotropaic champion against European culture" – and slayer of neo-Christian adversaries such as "the clerical TS Eliot" and the old New Critics, who were and are anathema to Bloom, unresting defender of the Romantic tradition.
(2) The Buffy the Vampire Slayer creator's bosses at Marvel are also bringing sequels to Thor and Captain America to the big screen over the next year, a fact which would also appear to clash with Whedon's clarion call for originality.
(3) Pauline has seen an actual human eat two Slayer burgers in a row.
(4) Beyond the strangers in internet chatrooms, where I discussed the subtextual relationship between Buffy the Vampire Slayer and evil slayer Faith, no one said I was allowed to feel like this.
(5) But I’m no longer obsessed.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Instead, Hoult speaks knowledgeably about daytime TV – in particular Homes Under the Hammer , Wanted Down Under and Come Dine With Me – and with studenty enthusiasm about food: “When I fall asleep I’m thinking about breakfast and then after breakfast it’s lunch and then it’s dinnertime with snacks in between.” At 25, then, he remains appealingly suburban despite the glam location (beach cabana at the Hotel du Cap , Cannes’s most exclusive) and rising star status ( X-Men , Clash of the Titans , Jack the Giant Slayer , Jennifer Lawrence ’s ex).
(6) The King Slayer, having thrown a child, Bran, from a tower without the slightest show of emotion, amazingly managed to become the subject of our sympathy in the last season.
(7) Kerber arrived on No1 Court as the slayer of Maria Sharapova, but perhaps the exertion of that famous victory took its toll.
(8) Even the introduction of Shola Ameobi, dubbed the "Mackem Slayer" in these parts because of his potent scoring record against Sunderland, could not change the sway of this match.
(9) Willow (Alyson Hannigan), Buffy the Vampire Slayer (WB) 1997-2003 Buffy's helper who discovered her witch powers and Sapphic nature in the course of the series.
(10) Photograph: Rex Features In recent years McShane has been busy with a run of time-consuming, XL-sized special-effects blockbusters: Jack The Giant Slayer is only the latest after Pirates Of The Caribbean: On Stranger Tides , Snow White And The Huntsman and The Golden Compass .
(11) He's also running us though the menu, recommending the "Slayer" : 10oz of beef, chili, caremalized onions, andouille (what's that?!
(12) But this year they’re playing the Free Fringe and Bob Slayer’s Heroes venues, at ticket prices of zero pence and £6, respectively.
(13) UC Sunnydale (Buffy the Vampire Slayer, 1997 to 2003) Facebook Twitter Pinterest History revision was the least of Buffy’s worries.
(14) Lately, though, she's been joined by other chart femme fatales keen to address death with all the gusto of a Slayer album.
(15) Zlatan, the slayer of the English, zips clear of Vermaelen down the inside-right channel and into the area - and wastes no time in hammering the ball into the top-right corner.
(16) When the Duke and Duchess visited Australia and New Zealand two years ago, the toddler Prince George was dubbed “the Republican Slayer”, and credited with an upswing in support for the monarchy.
(17) Four bands might come to mind: Megadeth, Anthrax, Slayer and, of course, Metallica .
(18) Jack The Giant Slayer is an attempt by the director Bryan Singer to bring some Lord Of The Rings-style rustic grime to the world of fairytales.
(19) Slayer’s Angel of Death – a song about the Auschwitz torture-doctor Josef Mengele – is not a pro-Nazi song, but the dividing line between it and neo-Nazi rock is uncomfortably porous.
(20) Marcel is the oldest daughter of the film director Terry Marcel, best known for the 1981 fantasy romp Hawk the Slayer.