(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.
Stater
Definition:
(n.) One who states.
(n.) The principal gold coin of ancient Grece. It varied much in value, the stater best known at Athens being worth about £1 2s., or about $5.35. The Attic silver tetradrachm was in later times called stater.
Example Sentences:
(1) The important conjoint variables may well be the instruction giver (rule stater), any of their other systematic characteristics that have occasioned functional consequences for compliance in the past, and the topography of the response requested.
(2) There were, he said, "three competing tendencies within Israel's ruling coalition: annexationists (who want to formally take over the West Bank), status quo merchants (who wink at the notion of two states while expanding settlements), and Bantustan two-staters (who want the Palestinians to accept 50% of the West Bank as constituting a state)."
(3) Penn Staters for Responsible Stewardship, a group formed in the wake of the scandal to oust board members who voted to fire Paterno, released a statement calling for Penn State officials to produce all records related to the insurance case “so that they may be evaluated fairly and fully in an environment of complete transparency.” Paterno had an unparalleled coaching career at Penn State but was fired in the months between Sandusky’s November 2011 arrest and his own death of lung cancer in January 2012.
(4) Paterno’s “Grand Experiment”, which placed emphasis on academics and proved athletes could also be top students, is a source of pride for Penn Staters who credit Paterno for giving the university an identity to be proud of.
(5) Whether it was the 2012 omnibus bill , or the highway and student loan funding bill of 2012 , outsiders such as blue-staters Michele Bachmann and Marco Rubio voted alongside southerner Rand Paul and westerner Mike Lee.
(6) Generalization of compliance across people, settings, and topography can occur; this generalization can extend to self-instruction, and can fail to extend to certain topographies ("Thou shalt not kill"), certain rule staters (nonpeers who say "Don't use drugs" when peers say it is fun), and certain settings ("Don't play with John in class").