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Tamer


Definition:

  • (n.) One who tames or subdues.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) That makes you a "fairy", to use the tamer word Rice used.
  • (2) Besides, city birds are generally far tamer and easier to see than those in wilder places; a distinct advantage given my current jetlagged state.
  • (3) "I want the people to know there are army officers who are with them," Major Tamer Samir Badr told the Guardian.
  • (4) The case's chief prosecutor, Tamer el-Firgani, said Morsi, his aides and senior Brotherhood members had "handed over secrets to foreign countries, among them national defense secrets, and handed over a number of security reports to the Iranian Revolutionary Guard in order to destabilize the country's security and stability."
  • (5) The new work I am watching her laboriously install in Leeds Art Gallery also, on first glance, seems much tamer than her subversive collages.
  • (6) He was conceived after Tamer's sperm was smuggled out of an Israeli prison, across a stringent military checkpoint into Gaza, and impregnated into an egg harvested from Hana at a fertility clinic in Gaza City.
  • (7) He is thought to have sold at least one picture – a painting called Lion Tamer by Beckmann – since his flat was first raided by the police.
  • (8) One gouache, Lion Tamer by Max Beckmann, which had been sold by Gurlitt to a Cologne auction house in 2011, had originally belonged to the Jewish art dealer and collector Alfred Flechtheim.
  • (9) Tamer Abd el-Raouf, a journalist for the state newspaper, al-Ahram, in Beheira, has been shot and killed at an army checkpoint.
  • (10) Hana al-Za'anin and her husband, Tamer, have not set eyes on each other, let alone had physical contact, for almost seven years.
  • (11) Tamer of the Tigers Widely seen as the architect of Sri Lanka's military success against the Tamil Tigers , General Sarath Fonseka is credited with eliminating the separatist group's leadership and ending a war that began in 1983 and killed more than 70,000 people.
  • (12) "I called Tamer to say I was pregnant, and I could hear cheering.
  • (13) Caldeira Velha (signposted from Lagao do Fogo, entry €6) offers a tamer dip, but in green jungly beauty so lush as to remind me of Hawaii.
  • (14) France recently adopted a 75% tax on millionaires ; the Australian Greens are much tamer with their meagre 50% tax.
  • (15) The passengers listed Princess Beatrice Howard Donald Sam Mendes Jason Orange Charlize Theron Coleen Rooney Matt Lucas Paul Merton Russell Brand Richard E Grant James May and Jeremy Clarkson Debbie Harry Jeremy Kyle Kate Winslet Denise van Outen Michael McIntyre Matt Le Tissier Yasmin Le Bon Lennox Lewis Julia Ormond Lily Cole Rihanna Colin Farrell Richard Madeley and Judy Finnigan Rupert Grint Anna Friel Daniel Radcliffe Glenn Hoddle Amanda Holden Belinda Carlisle 'Madonna's kids' Madonna Alan Carr Michael Madsen Eva Longoria Len Goodman Nigel Havers Isla Fisher and Sacha Baron Cohen Joan Collins Fergie (Black Eyed Peas singer) Taio Cruz Hugh Dancy Jared Leto Mel B Graham Norton Rob Brydon Ross Kemp Trevor and Sharon Eve Jonathan Ross Tamer Hassan Kelly Osbourne Dom Joly Amanda Redman Norman Cook (Fatboy Slim) Serena Williams Jack Osbourne Katherine Jackson Neve Campbell Ralph Fiennes
  • (16) • The article was amended on 15 October 2013 to include details of Tamer's criminal record.
  • (17) He hoped I could persuade Mechtild Nawiasky, the fiery picture editor who had once been a lion-tamer, to use news photographs as well as the moody, soft-focus pictures she favoured on the front page.
  • (18) "It is sad that Turkey is still number one in Europe when it comes to work accidents," said Tamer Kücükgencay, the chairman of the regional miners' union.
  • (19) Michael Oates Palmer, staff writer on The West Wing, applied less reverence when he said: "They're the ringmaster, the elephant tamer and the people who clean the cages."
  • (20) The PAC is a much tamer affair now that Margaret Hodge has stood down as its chair, but it does still have its own pet rotty in the bullet-headed Stephen Phillips who manages to fit in his work as MP with a £750,000 day job as a QC.

Taper


Definition:

  • (n.) A small wax candle; a small lighted wax candle; hence, a small light.
  • (n.) A tapering form; gradual diminution of thickness in an elongated object; as, the taper of a spire.
  • (a.) Regularly narrowed toward the point; becoming small toward one end; conical; pyramidical; as, taper fingers.
  • (v. i.) To become gradually smaller toward one end; as, a sugar loaf tapers toward one end.
  • (v. t.) To make or cause to taper.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Axons emerge from proximal dendrites within 50 microns of the soma, and more rarely from the soma, in a tapering initial segment, commonly interrupted by one or two large swellings.
  • (2) The cases of S-type were changed to those of ST-type, which emphasized the Tapering type factors.
  • (3) The former possess a variety of spines, axonlike processes and sometimes an unmyelinated axon, and are presumably interneurons, while type IIB cells show a thick tapering axon that is probably myelinated.
  • (4) He presents measures for the management of withdrawal symptoms and relapse, focusing on the use of a slow taper over 3 to 6 months.
  • (5) In the experiments which covered exposure time from 4.5 to 17.0 s, we found that it started slowly, the reflectance increased rapidly once the surface temperature of the lesion reached approximately 90 degrees C. After this rapid rise, the reflectance began to taper off until no change in reflectance was recorded.
  • (6) During the 3-month tapering-off period eight initially improved patients (36%) in the cyclosporin group worsened, as did six (55%) in the placebo group.
  • (7) Special complications included postoperative renal deterioration, especially after tapering of megaureters.
  • (8) Yes, at the 2010 Conservative conference the party announced a similar cliff-edge at the higher rate tax threshold as a way of effectively means-testing child benefit payments, but that was eventually removed and replaced with a less egregious taper at the 2012 budget.
  • (9) Myocardial fibers were elongated and thinner (tapered) in the tips of papillary muscles.
  • (10) Urinary leakage in 3 patients with a right colonic reservoir (2 with an intussuscepted ileal nipple valve and 1 with a plicated ileal segment as a continence mechanism) was managed with tapered narrowing of the nipple valve and the ileocecal valve, respectively, using stapling techniques.
  • (11) Bad pun aside, investors are concerned that the company's high growth-rates are tapering.
  • (12) In addition, after incubation in ATP, they are intermingled with, and converge onto the surfaces of, thick, tapered filaments, which we have tentatively identified as of myosin-like nature.
  • (13) The spheroids grew exponentially with a volume-doubling time of approximately 24 h up to a diameter of approximately 580 microns and then the growth rate tapered off, more for spheroids grown at the low than at the high oxygen tension.
  • (14) The tapered tubes and constricted tubes are of special importance.
  • (15) It involves the deep white matter symmetrically, tapering off toward the cortex.
  • (16) Those on antihypertensive medication prior to enrollment without documented diastolic hypertension had their medication tapered and discontinued, and then met BP criteria (33% of cohort).
  • (17) It has not yet been possible to enumerate these tapered rods by culture methods, but as judged by visual appearances in the histological sections, they seemed to outnumber all other bacteria in the cecum and the colon by a factor of as much as 1000.
  • (18) Child benefit is to be withdrawn from families as soon as one parent hits earnings of £44,000, but any tapering would be costly and require ploughing money back via child tax credits.
  • (19) The imaging system consists of a ZnS(Ag) screen, two tapered fibers, an image intensifier, and a Polaroid film.
  • (20) The micropyle canal measures 8 microns at the opening and tapers to 3.6 microns as it penetrates the membrane.

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