(n.) One who, or that which, sucks; esp., one of the organs by which certain animals, as the octopus and remora, adhere to other bodies.
(n.) A suckling; a sucking animal.
(n.) The embolus, or bucket, of a pump; also, the valve of a pump basket.
(n.) A pipe through which anything is drawn.
(n.) A small piece of leather, usually round, having a string attached to the center, which, when saturated with water and pressed upon a stone or other body having a smooth surface, adheres, by reason of the atmospheric pressure, with such force as to enable a considerable weight to be thus lifted by the string; -- used by children as a plaything.
(n.) A shoot from the roots or lower part of the stem of a plant; -- so called, perhaps, from diverting nourishment from the body of the plant.
(n.) Any one of numerous species of North American fresh-water cyprinoid fishes of the family Catostomidae; so called because the lips are protrusile. The flesh is coarse, and they are of little value as food. The most common species of the Eastern United States are the northern sucker (Catostomus Commersoni), the white sucker (C. teres), the hog sucker (C. nigricans), and the chub, or sweet sucker (Erimyzon sucetta). Some of the large Western species are called buffalo fish, red horse, black horse, and suckerel.
(n.) The remora.
(n.) The lumpfish.
(n.) The hagfish, or myxine.
(n.) A California food fish (Menticirrus undulatus) closely allied to the kingfish (a); -- called also bagre.
(n.) A parasite; a sponger. See def. 6, above.
(n.) A hard drinker; a soaker.
(n.) A greenhorn; one easily gulled.
(n.) A nickname applied to a native of Illinois.
(v. t.) To strip off the suckers or shoots from; to deprive of suckers; as, to sucker maize.
(v. i.) To form suckers; as, corn suckers abundantly.
Example Sentences:
(1) The papillae on the oral sucker were more abundant than those elsewhere.
(2) The sucker, covered with basal lamina, has a constant volume; its layer of muscles resists deformation and supports the stability of the arch.
(3) Lesions associated with Philometroides huronensis in the white sucker (Catostomus commersoni) of southern Ontario occurred during the spring (April-June) and were related to the development and release of first-stage larvae from the gravid nematode.
(4) Except for the suckers and excretory pores, the whole body surface of the metacercariae and the juveniles are covered with posteriorly pointing tegumental spines which are relatively denser in the forebody than in the hindbody.
(5) The event proper starts at 20.00, I'm still in the office and so, bearing in mind the traffic, expect this sucker to start moving at 19.30.
(6) For recording ECG in precardial leads sucker electrodes which have a limited application and short service life are employed most often.
(7) Anatomical components of afferent innervation in the rim of the octopus sucker are described.
(8) The new species differs from E. knoepffleri Combes, 1965 by greater sizes of the disc, median and marginal hooks and anterior suckers.
(9) As differentiation continued, rostellar hooks were formed by enlargement of single large (T1) microtriches, and normal spined microtriches were produced on the sucker region.
(10) Therefore, the Mesometridae which always have just a single sucker (monostomatous) have selected a new kind of compensatory adhesive structure.
(11) The number of the small dome-shaped papillae with a pit was about 30 around the oral sucker and that of the small ones with a smooth surface varied from 9 to 13 around the ventral sucker.
(12) To illustrate particular patterns of apical root resorption in primary maxillary central incisors of digital suckers, the radiographs of patients in a private pedodontic practice were evaluated.
(13) Six stages in development are distinguished: the 'lung form' (stage 1), attaining maximum numbers on day 5 post-infection; the 'closed-gut form' (stage 2) on day 14, characterized by the union of the gut caeca behind the ventral sucker; 'organogeny' (stage 3) on day 17, the male possessing one testis and a gynaecophoric canal and the female a narrow uterus; 'gametogeny' (stage 4) on day 26, with pairing, the male having four fully developed testes and the female an ovary; 'egg-shell formation' (stage 5) on day 35; 'oviposition' (stage 6) on day 37, with the female showing uterine eggs.
(14) White suckers, collected from lakes containing elevated levels of copper (12 micrograms liter-1) and zinc (250 micrograms liter-1), were evaluated for reproductive performance, growth and survival of the larvae, and tolerance of the larvae to waterborne copper.
(15) Critics who saw Budapest at the Berlin film festival, where it premiered this month, have called it "vibrant and imaginative" , "nimblefooted, witty" , and as a sucker for Anderson's stuff since his early days, I'd agree.
(16) ‘Nothin’ you can do about it, sucker.’ He didn’t like gettin’ hit with those punches.
(17) It is characterised by possessing spines at the basal margin of oral sucker; testes, postequatorial, subsymmetrical; vitellaria lateral to ovary in middle of hindbody, confluent in postovarian region and reaching to level of testes; ovary flattened; genital pore antero-lateral to acetabulum; seminal vesicle large and ejaculatory duct long.
(18) We are just sort of like suckers.” She goes so far as to lump centrist environmental leaders together with groups such as the Heartland Institute , which denies the existence of climate change.
(19) But Brief Encounter has survived such threats, because it is so well made, because Laura's voiceover narration is truly anguished and dreamy, because the music suckers all of us, and because Celia Johnson and Trevor Howard are perfect.
(20) At the interval it remained 1-0 so United needed to convert their chances to kill Palace off or they would be vulnerable to a sucker punch that Pardew’s side had delivered at Arsenal on Sunday .
Tucker
Definition:
(n.) One who, or that which, tucks; specifically, an instrument with which tuck are made.
(n.) A narrow piece of linen or the like, folded across the breast, or attached to the gown at the neck, forming a part of a woman's dress in the 17th century and later.
(v. t.) A fuller.
(v. t.) To tire; to weary; -- usually with out.
Example Sentences:
(1) Tucker confirmed that the concerns had been raised with him by the then No 10 permanent secretary, Sir Jeremy Heywood, rather than ministers.
(2) Bob Diamond did not believe he received an instruction from Paul Tucker or that he gave an instruction to Jerry del Missier.
(3) If Italy becomes another domino after a Spanish bailout the anger could be uncontainable (to use a word adopted by Bank of England deputy Paul Tucker in relation to another banking crisis).
(4) Police launch hate-crime investigation over Tyson Fury comments Read more “It’s true he’s been stripped of his IBF belt,” the IBF’s championships chairman, Lindsey Tucker, told the BBC.
(5) The first edition of the novel to appear under Plath's name, published in 1967, featured a cover designed by Shirley Tucker, with a bold type face and urgent concentric circles.
(6) The predictive values of gain or output may be inferred from current research and the Powell & Tucker paper confirms the previous work rather than repudiates it.
(7) As mentioned, the Ravens were able to defeat the Broncos last year in overtime with a 47 yard field goal by Tucker.
(8) Tucker remains one of the lowest paid kickers in the league with a $480,000 salary, which is good for 27th among kickers.
(9) 24, 505-517 (1979)] and recently by Tucker, Barnes, and Chakraborty [Med.
(10) MAMAs were higher for a 3000-Hz tone than for tones of lower or higher frequencies, as has been previously reported [D. R. Perrott and J. Tucker, J. Acoust.
(11) Crowley, the chief political correspondent at CNN, was variously accused of having "committed an act of journalistic terror" (Rush Limbaugh) to having committed an act similar to John Wilkes Booth assassinating Abraham Lincoln (the Daily Caller's Tucker Carlson) when she fact-checked Romney in Tuesday's debate.
(12) The remarks by Tucker blew apart a campaign by Osborne to prove that Balls was one of a series of senior Labour figures who tried to "fiddle Libor".
(13) Most lost incomes, saw their retirement savings shrink, or tried to open new businesses or take out loans but were unable to find cash," said Nick Tucker, UK and Ireland market leader at Merrill Lynch Wealth Management, which has been compiling the report with Capgemini for more than 20 years.
(14) Indeed, we wonder if Mr Tucker would call an investigation to see if the GCA is investigating the supermarkets to the food industry’s benefit; it has the makings of a classic edition of the Thick of It!
(15) Tucker, 53, helped build Prudential's Asian franchise in the 1990s and was chief executive of the company from early 2005 until September 2009.
(16) Tucker told Radio 4's Today programme that while no managers had been dismissed, senior staff were having to undergo rigorous training and assessment.
(17) The BBC said its investigations added to evidence that the Bank of England had put pressure on commercial banks to push their Libor rates down and that the transcript of the phone conversation at Barclays called into question evidence to the Treasury select committee given in 2012 by the former Barclays boss Bob Diamond and Paul Tucker, former deputy governor of the Bank of England.
(18) We feast like kings on simple tucker cooked on a primitive fire.
(19) But Tucker said: "It is not a sufficient replacement at all.
(20) Diamond's appearance before MPs was followed by those of Agius and Jerry del Missier , the top Barclays banker who quit after issuing an instruction to cut the bank's Libor submissions in October 2008, as well as those of King and his deputy, Paul Tucker.