(n.) One who has long acted on the stage of life; a practitioner; a person of experience, or of skill derived from long experience.
(n.) A horse used in drawing a stage.
Example Sentences:
(1) Despite the pro-AV leader, Ed Miliband, having stuck his neck out a few times for the yeses, belligerent turns by grumpy old stagers such as John Reid and David Blunkett have created the impression that the people's party has no interest in giving the people more of a say.
(2) It is not just old stagers such as John Prescott and David Blunkett who worry.
(3) Older stagers, like the white-bearded John Tinmouth, who arrives clutching Frances Stonor Saunders's book about the CIA funding of the arts, are invigorated by the presence of the younger arrivals.
(4) Compared with the results of the visual analysis reached as a consensus by both raters--the so-called optimized visual analysis--the stager showed a 26.9% difference.
(5) The reliability of sleep stager percentages obtained in this way is examined in this article.
(6) The analog EMG signals and the sleep data from the Oxford ss90III sleep stager were fed into an IBM compatible personal computer for automatic detection and analysis using specific criteria to define the leg events, the interevent interval, the number of epochs (greater than 30 jerks), and the number of bursts (4 to 29 jerks).
(7) A paragon of common sense to supporters and a xenophobic sophist to critics, Peters, who is part Maori, is a "preternaturally charming old-stager", according to Jane Clifton, a political columnist for the weekly NZ Listener magazine.
(8) This has already produced the engaging spectacle of old-stager radical Germaine Greer falling foul of this new radical chic.
(9) Cannae wait!” some old-stager pitches in from the crowd.
(10) The Sleep Stager follows the recommendations of Rechtschaffen and Kales: its purpose is to review a period of recorded sleep, allocate a stage to each epoch and print out the results in the form of a hypnogram and various sleep statistics.
(11) The sleep stager's frequent difficulty in identifying stage wake correctly as well as its incorrect allocation to other stages--mainly stage REM--could lead to misinterpretations of sleep recordings, whereas the increase in stages 1, 3, and 4, as compared with visual scoring, was negligible.
(12) The results were analyzed automatically by the Oxford Medilog 9000 Sleep Stager and by visual scoring from the Medilog Display Unit.
(13) Sleep recordings can now be carried out in the home using the Oxford Medilog recording system, and analysed automatically by the Oxford Medilog Sleep Stager.
(14) The onset, duration, and extent of cyclin destruction and the appropriately stagered disappearance of cyclin A and cyclin B are correctly regulated during the first cycle in the cell-free system.
(15) All of the records underwent automatic evaluation by the Oxford Sleep Stager.
(16) Miguel Layún was making only his 15th Watford start but, considering the context, qualifies as one of the old-stagers.
(17) Records were scored both visually and by an automated sleep stager.
(18) Of the men, 28 had an abnormal ultrasound and underwent a directed prostate needle biopsy to assess the ability to detect clinical Stager A cancer.
(19) Each sleep recording was scored twice automatically by the stager, twice visually by the first rater, and once by the second rater.
(20) The Oxford Medilog 9000 System with Sleep Stager, a device for the mobile recording of sleep EEGs and automatic analyses of sleep, was tested with regard to its functional capacity, possible applications and reliability.