(n.) One who, or that which, stirs something; also, one who moves about, especially after sleep; as, an early stirrer.
Example Sentences:
(1) Long-lasting steady states were observed with method C, where the sample was contained in a cage acting as a stirrer.
(2) The apparatus consists of a cylindrical glass tube of a few centimeters in diameter, an electric motor slowly rotating the cylinder, a fan, a magnetic stirrer, and an ice-water bath.
(3) The procedure is a fluorometric rate method measuring the formation of NADPH catalyzed by immobilized glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase and hexokinase held within a tiny stirrer.
(4) The mixing chamber houses a disposable plastic cuvette stirred with a magnetic stirrer.
(5) Inoculation density and stirrer speed were evaluated in batch cultures, whereas dilution rate and pH were optimized in chemostat cultures with respect to high specific antibody production rate and high antibody yield per time and reactor volume.
(6) Yet the calculations of permeability constants of the cell membrane were made with the tacit assumption, that once the labeled materials pass through the cell membrane, they were instantly mixed with the entire cell contents as if a stirrer operating at infinite speed had been present inside the cells.
(7) For the automation of triglyceride extraction, we have modified the sampler, by incorporating a magnetic stirrer under the sample table.
(8) The kinetics of absorbance change were monitored continuously over time in yeast cell cultures that were mixed and aerated in cuvettes fitted with top-loading propeller stirrers.
(9) The immobilized enzymes are stable, and the same immobilized-enzyme stirrer can be used for at least 200 accurate, reproducible assays.
(10) In the succeeding fed-batch phase, the specific growth rate was reduced to muPr by increasing the stirrer speed according to an empirically developed time scale.
(11) By the simple means of constant stirring of the fixative using a magnetic stirrer, we accomplished rapid fixation and achieved results in which positive cells attained 100%.
(12) The influence of stirrer speed in the third preculture on the performance of penicillin V production by Penicillium chrysogenum in complex medium in a 100-l air-lift tower loop reactor was investigated.
(13) In separate experiments the effect of 10(-5) M bumetanide on the O2 consumption was measured in a stirrer bath assembly.
(14) Use of the high-speed blender resulted in faster extractions, but in our laboratory more samples could be more conveniently extracted simultaneously with the wrist-action shaker or mechanical stirrer.
(15) Dissolution profiles in 0.1N hydrochloric acid using both the paddle stirrer apparatus and the spin filter apparatus were obtained for prednisone tablets made by seven different manufacturers and prednisolone tablets made by eight different manufacturers.
(16) Microbial cells were disintegrated in a new type of rotary disintegrator with a disc stirrer by a combination of shear force layers, collisions, and rolling of glass beads which were brought into motion by the stirrer.
(17) Ground substrates and a buffer solution were continuously supplied into 500 ml culture vessels in which the contents were mixed slowly by a stirrer (6 rpm) and the excess medium removed via a small outlet chamber (overflow) by a turning wing (30 rpm).
(18) The sedimentation of red blood cells within a membrane feeding device, and the consequent hazard to arthropod feeding, is prevented by the use of the redesigned feeding unit and electrical blood stirrer.
(19) Finally, the plate is placed on a magnetic stirrer.
(20) The temperature control system was incorporated in the metal sleeve surrounding the glass reaction vessel to shorten the distance between the magnetic stirrer and stirring bar, enabling smooth stirring with a short magnetic bar.
Troublemaker
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) In his V-neck sweater, dad jeans and white New Balance sneakers, Michael Lewis doesn’t look like a troublemaker.
(2) Moreover, the state-controlled Chinese media have in a series of broadcasts denounced a number of detained “suspects” as members of a crime syndicate engaging in “rights-defence-style troublemaking”, and paraded some of those detained “confessing” to wrongdoing before they have even been publicly indicted.
(3) Some kids we thought were complete troublemakers were just angry and upset because they’d had no food since the day before.
(4) But, while I can't stress enough that I don't wish to be a troublemaker, there is a slight problem with the maths.
(5) He has earned a reputation as something of a troublemaker in government, often having to be hauled back into line by the president or party officials after speaking out on controversial issues.
(6) I have seen the organisational response to the full spectrum of sexual harassment and violence, including rape … and I would say now that if I was raped during a country visit I would not report it to my organisation.” Speaking out meant being labelled a feminist troublemaker, the source said.
(7) Crow's public image as a troublemaker and bully boy was misplaced.
(8) One demonstrator trapped behind police lines told Guardian Unlimited: "It's ridiculous, there are no obvious troublemakers here, it's just a mix of ordinary people and tourists, and we want to go home."
(9) Political activists are now often cast as troublemakers or foreign agents and hundreds of the young activists who sparked the revolt four years ago are either in prison on charges of breaking a new protest law or have left the country.
(10) When Blair Peach was struck on the head during the demonstration against the National Front, he was a victim not only of the police but of a barely suppressed public attitude – encouraged by a large portion of the media – that people who went on such protests were troublemakers who deserved all that they got – and if police officers cracked a few heads, then they had probably been grievously provoked by the troublemakers.
(11) With an iron will, she kept him away from troublemakers and kept him busy.
(12) They should not mix with the radicals and troublemakers and be incited or used by others to commit any illegal acts.” Several reporters at the scene described being shoved and manhandled by hostile police.
(13) One elderly neighbour described him as a troublemaker since his teens but said he became more prominent after 2011 through his links with Islamist militia commanders in the city.
(14) Has it become an unwitting accomplice in silencing and removing "troublemakers"?
(15) If you get in trouble, that doesn't mean you're a troublemaker, it means you need to try harder to behave.
(16) Photograph: Helen Maybanks However, had Homegrown been pulled as a result of threats from some fringe Islamist organisation, we’d now be celebrated as this generation’s Salman Rushdies – courageous defenders of free speech fighting off conservative forces from within our imagined communities, rather than as troublemakers.
(17) She said that when she complained to her first sergeant, she was told she was a troublemaker.
(18) As one panellist marvelled: "She's a real troublemaker.
(19) Nimeiri started transferring the troublemakers to small towns,” said El Sheikh, who worked as the railway’s accountant for 30 years.
(20) The surge in support for Corbyn has prompted warnings that “troublemakers” on the left and the right are abusing Labour’s new leadership rules by signing up as supporters so they can vote for Corbyn.