(v. t.) One who is employed to tend a furnace and supply it with fuel, especially the furnace of a locomotive or of a marine steam boiler; also, a machine for feeding fuel to a fire.
(v. t.) A fire poker.
Example Sentences:
(1) Irving decided they should all take a month’s holiday and then regroup; he suggested Stoker try Whitby on the north Yorkshire coast, where Irving had once run a circus.
(2) Just as Mary was partly motivated by Byron and her husband, the poet Shelley, so Bram Stoker, the business manager for the Lyceum theatre, was inspired by his devoted service to the great Shakespearean actor Henry Irving.
(3) At weekends throughout the school holidays the site will be bringing Bram Stoker's tale to life with a cast of actors and time-travel-themed events.
(4) That first week when he was alone in Whitby, he would go around, soaking up the ambience.” Talking to the old salts on the harbour and mooching around the churchyard up on the East Cliff, Stoker assembled a catalogue of local myths and stories that are recognisable to anyone familiar with the Dracula story.
(5) This is based on another legend Stoker would have heard about a dark hound – a story brought over by the vikings.
(6) Bram Stoker's masterpiece has become a mirror in which later generations of readers can explore any number of secret fantasies.
(7) Stoker would go to the reading room of the Royal Hotel and look out at the scene you can see now.
(8) Miller, who played incarcerated structural engineer Michael Scofield in Prison Break from 2005 to 2009, wrote the script for the film Stoker, starring Nicole Kidman and directed by Park Chan-wook.
(9) Other films expected to premiere are Park Chan-wook's thriller Stoker; Lovelace – an account of the life of porn star Linda "Deep Throat" Lovelace ; and Breathe in, a new drama from Like Crazy director Drake Doremus.
(10) But the mark Stoker left on the town is as indelible as a pair of pinprick bites on a snow-white neck.
(11) ... 1892!” He goes on: “Whitby was undoubtedly instrumental to Stoker when he wrote Dracula.
(12) In Bram Stoker's 1897 novel, Count Dracula lives in a crumbling Transylvanian castle.
(13) Among the contemporary anxieties reflected in Stoker's tale was a fear about the future.
(14) Samples of coal ash from a stoker-fired furnace were mechanically sized into four categories.
(15) Then came the 19th century's series of gloomy fables: Mary Shelley's Frankenstein , James Hogg 's Confessions of a Justified Sinner , Robert Louis Stevenson 's The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde , Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray , Bram Stoker's Dracula , and the marvellous ghost stories of Charles Dickens, Sheridan Le Fanu, Henry James and MR James .
(16) In fact, here’s one now ... Facebook Twitter Pinterest Whitby as Stoker saw it … the town pictured between 1890 and 1900.
(17) Kidman, responding at a special screening of her new film Stoker in London last week, said she was determined to present a carefully crafted take on Alfred Hitchcock 's best known muse.
(18) One of Stoker's many influences in setting the novel in Transylvania was local mass murderer Vlad III "the Impaler", the 15th-century Prince of Wallachia, whose family name was Dracula.
(19) Elsewhere, in the Daily Mail , Bram Stoker was rated above both Mary Shelley and Edgar Allan Poe ( No 10 in this series ).
(20) This study was set up to investigate whether work as a stoker is associated with an increased risk of specific malignant neoplasms.
Storer
Definition:
(n.) One who lays up or forms a store.
Example Sentences:
(1) The kinetic parameters of individual enzymes were determined and used in model calculations based on a published theory (Storer, A. C., and Cornish-Bowden, A.
(2) The results of these, together with those of kinetic studies of the uninhibited reaction described previously [Storer & Cornish-Bowden (1976) Biochem.
(3) Thus, the resonance Raman (RR) spectrum of, e.g., N-benzoylalanine dithioacyl papain and its response to isotopic labeling cannot be understood completely on the basis of the RR spectrum of N-benzoylalanine ethyl dithio ester in one of its known conformational states [detailed in Lee, H., Angus, R. H., Storer, A. C., Varughese, K. I., & Carey, P. R. (1988) Biochemistry (preceding paper in this issue)].
(4) Levels of DA in the brain of nectar and pollen forager bees, presumed to be among the oldest adults sampled, were found to be significantly higher than in nurses, undertakers or food storers.
(5) Using the Breslow and Storer family it was possible to rule out the additive model as an adequate one to describe the relative risk.
(6) Among the passerine birds, species that store food have an enlarged hippocampal region (dorso-medial cortex), relative to brain and body size, when compared with the non-storers.
(7) The analysis was carried out using the Breslow and Storer family of relative risk functions to assess which scale, between the subadditive and the supermultiplicative, could better explain the risk structure underlying the data.
(8) Kohler, G. Weil-Hillman, N. Rosenthal, K. H. Moore, B. Storer, D. Minkoff, J. Bradshaw, R. Bechhofer, and P. M. Sondel.
(9) This 39-kDa secreted propapain zymogen molecule is glycosylated and can be processed in vitro into an enzymatically active authentic papain molecule of 24.5 kDa (Vernet, T., Tessier, D.C., Richardson, C., Laliberté, F., Khouri, H. E., Bell, A. W., Storer, A. C., and Thomas, D. Y.
(10) It was here in 2001 that Tony Blair was confronted by Sharron Storer, who took him to task for the standard of cancer care her partner was receiving.
(11) During his tour of the seat, Cameron visited the Queen Elizabeth Hospital where,during the 2001 election, Tony Blair was harangued by Sharon Storer over the cancer treatment for her partner.
(12) "I have to object to you referring to Ibrahimovic as Galoot," blasts Ted Storer.
(13) From calculations of a model reaction scheme for base-catalyzed RNA hydrolysis, a pentacoodinate dianionic intermediate 2a (Storer, et al., J.
(14) Although the sensor doesn't have a battery or other energy storer, for example, a capacitor, the resonance frequency can be measured without contact.
(15) Simulation studies based on the "mnemonical" model of glucokinase action proposed earlier [A. C. Storer and A. Cornish-Bowden (1977) Biochem.
(16) The k3 values for the hydrolysis of a series of para-substituted N-benzoylglycine esters were found to correlate with the k3 values for the corresponding para-substituted thiono esters [Carey, P. R., Lee, H., Ozaki, Y., & Storer, A. C. (1984) J.
(17) (Methyloxycarbonyl)-L-phenylalanyl-L-alanine ethyl dithio ester crystallizes in an A-like conformational state wherein the alanine N atom is nearly cis to the thiono S atom (C=S) [Varughese, K.I., Angus, R.H., Carey, P.R., Lee, H., & Storer, A.C. (1986) Can.
(18) In contrast, the results calculated by use of the Storer and Cornish-Bowden equation for a system of unlinked enzymes predicted the overall reaction to exhibit a lag time of 30 s and to result in the accumulation of 2.1 microM 3-hydroxydecanoyl-CoA before reaching a velocity corresponding to 82.5% of that of the hydratase reaction.
(19) The purification is described of rat hepatic hexokinase type III and kidney hexokinase type I on a large scale by using a combination of conventional and affinity techniques similar to those previously used for the purification of rat hepatic glucokinase [Holroyde, Allen, Storer, Warsy, Chesher, Trayer, Cornish-Bowden & Walker (1976) Biochem.
(20) Thus the mnemonical mechanism proposed originally [Storer & Cornish-Bowden (1977) Biochem.