(v. i.) To make involuntary stops in uttering syllables or words; to hesitate or falter in speaking; to speak with stops and diffivulty; to stutter.
(v. t.) To utter or pronounce with hesitation or imperfectly; -- sometimes with out.
(n.) Defective utterance, or involuntary interruption of utterance; a stutter.
Example Sentences:
(1) Two middle-aged subjects, a male and female, with spastic dysphonia (hoarseness, stammering) were treated with both frontalis and throat muscle electromyographic (EMG) biofeedback.
(2) Analysis of these data and comparison with structural results from the preceding paper (Matthews, D.A., Bolin, J.T., Burridge, J.M., Filman, D.J., Volz, K.W., Kaufman, B. T., Beddell, C.R., Champness, J.N., Stammers, D.K., and Kraut, J.
(3) One can consider the relation to the mother, the accession to the spoken word, the voice's wealth and possibilities, the necessity of the listening and of silence, with in all its aspects the emergence of the differences in stammerer subject or not.
(4) The relative roles of heredity an environment in the expression of stammering were evaluated.
(5) [Pre-programmed only to ask questions, Small Talk begins to overheat and stammer] Erm, erm, no idea.
(6) He was also a man who overcame great hardship to become an MP and make it to the cabinet - born in Tredegar, forced to leave school at 13, self-taught and having struggled to overcome a debilitating stammer in his childhood.
(7) The children were examined for headaches, memory deterioration, difficulties in the learning, some types of tics, stammering, and psychomotor disinhibition.
(8) These observations are expected since the crystals were grown in the absence of divalent cations (Stuart, D. I., Levine, M., Muirhead, H., and Stammers, D. K. (1979) J. Mol.
(9) And just as our great moments in cinema concern stammering monarchs, so the likes of Garrone choose to examine criminality, and now the fetid scourge of reality TV.
(10) This delay enabled the badger cullers to drive away into the darkness and continue their work without having to suffer the terror of a journalist politely stammering, "Excuse me sir, how is the badger cull going?"
(11) A lot of people with speech impediments [French has a lifelong stammer] find themselves making puns, because if you get words and letters mixed up in your head you can make a joke of it.
(12) He was witty, sympathetic and generous, with an engaging stammer that tended to come and go.
(13) Yet Gentleman's article is moving in its description of all those taking part: struggling single mums; a teenager with acne, a stammer and life-long unemployed parents; drink and drug addicts; and a recovering cancer patient.
(14) I stammered out a few one-liners I’d written, and a couple of bits about being short largely filched from Ronnie Corbett.
(15) I'm Hadley from the Guardian and – " I stammered pathetically.
(16) As Blair stammered, huffed and shifted in his seat, Stewart concluded that: “19 people flew into the towers.
(17) A testing method is presented in which paired pictures are used which differ by the phonologic opposition of some stammered sounds.
(18) Did you know that King George VI had a very serious stammer?
(19) Asked by Mrs Tolstoy whether he has read War and Peace, Bulgakov stammeringly replies: "Many times."
(20) This could be a major factor disordering the interhemispheric relations in the stammering etiopathogenesis.
Stamper
Definition:
(n.) One who stamps.
(n.) An instrument for pounding or stamping.
Example Sentences:
(1) And that was a good decision, I think.” Runge made regular trips to the plant at Orsman Road, N1, where he inspected what was on offer – not just presses, but an archive of the metallic master copies of stampers used to make thousands of different records, by artists including Simon & Garfunkel and the Manic Street Preachers, all of which could conceivably be put back into production.
(2) In a recent murine study of 13 lymphoma lines, we found that lymphomas that bind well to high endothelial venules, in the Stamper-Woodruff in vitro assay (an assay of lymphocyte binding to venules in frozen sections of peripheral lymph nodes or Peyer's patches), spread hematogenously to all high endothelial venule bearing lymphoid organs, whereas non-binding lymphomas did not.
(3) The investigation of sanitary working conditions of stampers and blacksmiths revealed that intense impulse noise of complex time and stochatic structure was a major health adverse factor.
(4) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Deputy Sheriff David Stamper on patrol in Beattyville.
(5) Mononuclear cells isolated from paired blood and synovial fluid of seven patients with rheumatoid arthritis showed cytoadherence to porcine Peyer's patch high endothelial venules using the Stamper-Woodruff method.
(6) The most outlandish idea discussed by Stamper was to hire mercenaries to rescue Abacha's son Mohammed from a prison cell in Nigeria.The operation never got past the planning stage.
(7) Applications of these new microscopes to technology are demonstrated with images of an optical disk stamper, a diffraction grating, a thin-film magnetic recording head, and a diamond cutting tool.
(8) Metal stampers pressed against either side, and it was quickly cooled to 40C.
(9) The private eye A former member of the Territorial Army SAS, Jonathan Stamper was instructed by lawyers for the Abachas to "dig the dirt" on the legitimate Nigerian government's national security adviser and attorney general, and a Swiss-based financier working with them, who were seeking to have some of the looted funds from the frozen bank accounts returned in a London civil case.
(10) Quantitative neutrophil to lung adhesive interactions were examined using an adaptation of the Woodruff-Stamper frozen section binding assay.
(11) A modification of the in vitro "homing assay" described by Stamper and Woodruff (J Exp Med 144: 823) was used.
(12) Employing the Stamper-Woodruff in vitro adhesion assay, which measures lymphocyte attachment to HEV in cryostat-cut sections of lymphoid organs, we have previously shown that treatment of PN sections with two different sialidases inactivates HEV-adhesive ligands, whereas treatment of PP tissue sections has no effect on HEV-adhesive function.
(13) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Deputy Sherrif David Stamper stops off at the Saturday local college basketball game.
(14) Norm Stamper, a former Seattle police chief and member of the group Law Enforcement Against Prohibition , said he was very happy.
(15) Stamper and his partner William Biedleman decided to sub-contract much of the work to another private eye, telling him on the phone that the strategy was "to apply pressure to this subject ... to get him to back down in being so supportive in litigation against the client ... and that really comes down to anything we can find out about it so whether he has personal assets hidden away that he has squandered or fraudulently got from previous dealings in Nigeria ... whether he had any vices at all."
(16) The mother is then used to create several mirror-image “sons”, or “stampers”, which are taken to the presses to imprint the grooves on heated vinyl.
(17) It turned out that Stamper's phone calls were being taped by the other side, and his deeds eventually came out in court.
(18) In every way examined, lymphocyte attachment to PPME beads (measured by flow cytofluorometry) mimics the interaction of lymphocytes with PN HEV (measured in the Stamper-Woodruff in vitro assay): both interactions are selectively inhibited by the same panel of structurally related carbohydrates, are calcium-dependent, and are sensitive to mild treatment of the lymphocytes with trypsin.
(19) In a judgment in February, Lord Justice Rix described the use of Stamper's firm Alpha Bravo as "unscrupulous and perhaps illegal".