(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.
Stayer
Definition:
(n.) One who upholds or supports that which props; one who, or that which, stays, stops, or restrains; also, colloquially, a horse, man, etc., that has endurance, an a race.
Example Sentences:
(1) These motives were satisfactorily realised, according to the 'stayers'; and 'leavers' scored less favourably, but still at a high level.
(2) Sometimes, loading for endurance in skater-stayers produces rather essential disturbances in structure of muscle fibers up to their necrosis.
(3) The distributions of haemoglobin, erythrocyte count and haematocrit were significantly higher in colt stayers compared to the other three groups.
(4) Eighty-two per cent of them declared that they were, in general, (very) satisfied with their work; these included 94 per cent of the 'stayers' and 63 per cent of the 'leavers'.
(5) Students who had abandoned their original preference for family medicine (defectors) were compared with students who had maintained an interest in family medicine (stayers).
(6) Few who use home- and community-based long-term care would otherwise have been long-stayers in nursing homes.
(7) In fillies these values were also significantly higher in stayers compared to sprinters.
(8) This study also identified a subgroup of "potential defector" students (within the stayer cohort) who maintained an interest in family practice but evidenced concerns similar to the defector students.
(9) At baseline drop-outs were more likely to have lower educational qualifications than those who participated in both the baseline and follow-up studies (stayers) and included significantly more smokers than non-smokers.
(10) The same picture was also seen in the other features studied; the 'stayers' were very satisfied with their working conditions and the future possibilities of the group practice, while the 'leavers' reacted less positively, but, on average, not negatively.
(11) Coronary risk factors of newcomers were not different from that of the stayers at follow-up except for slightly, but not significantly, higher smoking rates in newcomers.
(12) The relationship between employee turnover and performance was measured for 144 leavers and 144 stayers across 32 positions in a large institution for mentally retarded people.
(13) Racing Victoria later confirmed the English-trained stayer had undergone a successful operation to stabilise a fractured fetlock.
(14) Eosinophil counts were significantly higher in the stayer groups compared to the sprinters.
(15) The permanent stayers differed from the two other nursing home sub-groups, and from community residents, in that they tended to be older and more functionally and mentally impaired.
(16) Results of blood counts have been analysed in three-year-old racehorses in training comprising 77 colt stayers, 27 colt sprinters, 61 filly stayers and 35 filly sprinters.
(17) These tests assessed (1) differences between dropouts and stayers in terms of pretest indices of primary outcome variables (substance use), (2) differences in change scores for dropouts and stayers, (3) differences in rates of attrition among experimental conditions, and (4) differences in pretest indices for dropouts among conditions.
(18) The discrete-time mover-stayer model (Blumen, Kogan, and McCarthy, 1955, The Industrial Mobility of Labor as a Probability Process, Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press) is a useful model for studying changes over time in heterogeneous populations.
(19) Seven variables were found to be significantly overrepresented among the long stayers, including treatment with electroconvulsive therapy, medical consultations, underemployment, dementia, disposition to a place other than home, absence of alcohol or drug abuse, and presence of psychosis without affective symptoms.
(20) The short term stayers and those who died following admission to a nursing home differed from respondents who did not enter nursing homes--primarily in terms of prior living arrangements and levels of social support.