(n.) One who, or that which, starts; as, a starter on a journey; the starter of a race.
(n.) A dog that rouses game.
Example Sentences:
(1) Very little inhibition occurred if the inhibitory strain was added together with the starter culture.
(2) It’s not an entirely controversy-free choice, considering that Harden hasn’t been a starter for more than two seasons, doesn’t have the best track record as far as being a team player goes and at times has been bad enough on defense that you could make an entire YouTube playlist devoted entirely to clips of him failing to make any defensive effort whatsoever.
(3) Day-old broiler type chicks were fed a practical starter ration for three weeks, sacrificed and the D-3-phosphoglycerate dehydrogenase (E.C.1.1.1.s), phosphoserine phosphatase (E.C.3.1.3.3.
(4) Press treatment of the McCann family following the tragic disappearance of their daughter Madeleine, for starters.
(5) They not only started the season with journeyman windmill dunk specialist Gerald Green on their roster – he was one of Phoenix's starters.
(6) But tangled up in its visions of thousands of new “starter homes” – 5,000 more of which were promised on Monday, when the government said it was going to directly commission housebuilding on five sites in the south of England – are an array of drastic measures aimed at what remains of England’s council homes.
(7) Streptococci were isolated from Italian dry sausage manufactured commercially with and without added starter cultures.
(8) Under these conditions, 7 pediococci, 16 lactobacilli, and 18 commercial meat starter cultures were successfully analyzed by plate count to yield a differential assessment of the lactobacilli and pediococci present without interference from the 9 other genera tested.
(9) They say it is easier than knitting a scarf, the typical starter project for novices.
(10) It is suggested that this carbohydrate facilitates the adhesion of starter bacteria to the cheese-curd matrix and that during the initial stages of syneresis this serves to prevent their expulsion from the curd with the whey.
(11) These data clearly show that after fresh yogurt ingestion, viable starter culture reaches the duodenum and contains beta-galactosidase activity.
(12) A Home Office source said: “This is a complete non-starter.
(13) The starter homes should cost no more than £450,000 in London and no more than £250,000 outside the capital.
(14) Gellatly believes that anyone can make their own bread at home and, for a sourdough loaf, the process begins with a tangy starter (sometimes also known as a mother or leaven).
(15) The non-proteinogenic amino acid may serve as precursor of cyclopentenyl fatty acids via aleprolic acid, the starter molecule for these long-chain compounds.
(16) Fielder has accounted for more outs in this series than some of the Sox starters.
(17) We will make these starter homes 20 per cent cheaper by exempting them from a raft of taxes and by using brownfield land.
(18) When you take out a share of those 31 homes for shared ownership, 80% market rent homes, and starter homes, each of which developers will prioritise as they are more lucrative, the number left for genuinely affordable social rent is minuscule, if it exists at all.
(19) The future is defined by the same old atavistic carnage as ever – which is, as Rosenbaum says, “an ingenious form of doublethink echoed in the very premise of a fantasy of the future beginning with “A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away ...” Star Wars cast feel the Force after watching new trailer Read more I don’t hate Star Wars – I love the puppetry, just for starters, and all those beautifully dirty, scum-caked robots.
(20) Bill-O said that there were roughly 200 more white police shooting victims in 2013 than black police shooting victims, but that argument’s a non-starter when you consider there are about 185 million more white people in the United States , even if you call the problem “minuscule” .
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").