(n.) One who tells, relates, or communicates; an informer, narrator, or describer.
(n.) One of four officers of the English Exchequer, formerly appointed to receive moneys due to the king and to pay moneys payable by the king.
(n.) An officer of a bank who receives and counts over money paid in, and pays money out on checks.
(n.) One who is appointed to count the votes given in a legislative body, public meeting, assembly, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) The bank tellers who saw their positions filled by male superiors took special pleasure in going to the bank and keeping them busy.
(2) Solzhenitsyn was acknowledged as a "truth-teller" and a witness to the cruelties of Stalinism of unusual power and eloquence.
(3) Pointing out that “the army has its own fortune teller”, he sounds less than happy at the state of affairs: “The country is run by superstition.” Weerasethakul is in a relatively fortunate position, in that his arcane films are not exactly populist and don’t depend on the mainstream Thai film industry for funding, but he has become cast as a significant voice of dissent in a difficult time .
(4) The development of visual acuity was studied longitudinally in young kittens, using a modification of the forced-choice preferential looking method (FPL) devised by Teller et al.
(5) The Teller Acuity Card test was used to examine 49 normal children, 77 with strabismus, 9 with anisometropia and 19 with various organic ocular diseases.
(6) The lunchtime rush at a huge TSB on Colmore Circus consists of a solitary customer talking to a solitary teller; three separate seating areas, two reception desks and four semi-private meeting rooms are deserted.
(7) And yet none of these other truth tellers have received the kind of public and media support that this set of editorials represents, perhaps because there is a fundamental difference between Manning's disclosures and Assange's publication of Wikileaks, when compared to Snowden's revelations on NSA intelligence gathering.
(8) Assessment of visual resolution with Teller Acuity Cards is now routine procedure in infant visual check-up.
(9) In order to test the reliability of this method, using Teller acuity cards as the standard, we compared estimates of objective and subjective vision in 25 consecutive patients with congenital esotropia and cross-fixation.
(10) He said I was the best polling teller he’d ever had.” By 1992, when Neil Kinnock had raised his party’s expectations to the point that victory seemed to be within its grasp , she was at sixth-form college, where she stood in the obligatory mock election.
(11) It is concluded that, in children and infants, visual function over the entire spectrum of low vision can be characterized by using a combination of the Teller acuity cards and the visual function battery.
(12) remarkable.." Teller (is he related to the atomic physicist or the magician?
(13) Fan ire over casting – the movie features Miles Teller as Mr Fantastic, Kate Mara as Invisible Woman, Michael B Jordan as The Human Torch and Jamie Bell as The Thing – would appear to be a storm in a superhero tea cup.
(14) However, the focus on Snowden's singular case seriously deflects from the fact that the Obama administration has been a nightmare for whistleblowers and truth tellers, and that several others currently in prison or in exile deserve the same clemency or clear assurances they will not be prosecuted.
(15) In the post-modern sensibility, the story is set free to perform as simply a story that allows for re-invention as the story-teller finds a voice rooted in the person's own experience and in the connection of her story to those of others, and to larger stories of culture and humanity.
(16) The gangs even designed cash boxes to fit the dimensions of the tellers’ windows.
(17) Downing Street moved to reach out to the rebels by dispatching William Hague to declare that the government would "take note" after 51 rebel Tories – plus two tellers – joined forces with Labour to defeat the government by 307 votes to 294, a majority of 13.
(18) You can tell the bank is owned by Putin because both the pens and the tellers are chained to the desks,” he said.
(19) There aren't too many 26-year-olds out there who can talk about the complexities of supply distribution networks, who have been shot by both Juergen Teller and Playboy and who believe they change the face of global capitalism by creating a platform to encourage small acts of kindness.
(20) The anniversary yesterday of the Newcastle-based lender's demise prompted union officials to calculate that 100,000 jobs have since been lost in the financial services sector – and warn that little has changed in the City, where investment bankers are secure while tellers lose their jobs.
Wicket
Definition:
(n.) A small gate or door, especially one forming part of, or placed near, a larger door or gate; a narrow opening or entrance cut in or beside a door or gate, or the door which is used to close such entrance or aperture. Piers Plowman.
(n.) A small gate by which the chamber of canal locks is emptied, or by which the amount of water passing to a water wheel is regulated.
(n.) A small framework at which the ball is bowled. It consists of three rods, or stumps, set vertically in the ground, with one or two short rods, called bails, lying horizontally across the top.
(n.) The ground on which the wickets are set.
(n.) A place of shelter made of the boughs of trees, -- used by lumbermen, etc.
(n.) The space between the pillars, in postand-stall working.
Example Sentences:
(1) Were it the latter, you'd think he'd change the angle, either by moving across the crease or going around the wicket, because it's clear his man won't be tempted.
(2) He was never an intellectual; at Oxford, he did no work, and was proudest of playing squash and cricket for the university, though against Cambridge at Lord's he failed to take a wicket and made a duck.
(3) 1.59pm BST 32nd over: Sri Lanka 89-2 (Jayawardene 11, Sangakkara 22) A jaffa from Plunkett from round the wicket beats Sangakkara all ends up – it was angled in on middle stump, then seamed away to beat the outside edge.
(4) He drove beautifully, picked off the short balls square of the wicket, clipped off his toes and scarcely put a foot wrong.
(5) The scoring, of singles at least, has quickened since Prior arrived at the wicket - I wonder whether, if, the rate is still roughly four, with 20 to go and with these two still in, they too might start to wonder.
(6) The 21-year-old England Lions seamer took 11 wickets in a match for the first time and also contributed 81 with the bat to give his side victory by 95 runs after less than two hours' play on the third morning.
(7) Patel decided this match with a fine spell of left-arm spin, which claimed three important wickets for 21 runs from seven overs.
(8) New Zealand 38-3 Styris c Dravid b Nehra 15 An important wicket this.
(9) Broad lbw b Herath 0 (England 228-9) Herath comes round the wicket to Broad in an attempt to stop him padding up.
(10) Neil Carter grabbed the last wicket of Coles to give the rejuvenated South African five for 60 in Kent's second innings, but Chris Woakes was the Bears' match-winner with match figures of 11 for 97 from 29 overs, in addition to two crucial contributions with the bat.
(11) He batted rather well, too, scoring only 19 but playing a sensible supporting role to allow Paul Franks, Andre Adams and Luke Fletcher to throw the bat as Notts added 84 for their last three wickets after Steven Mullaney had gone in the first over to Liam Plunkett.
(12) Start talking wickets to them and, well, you'll hear crickets.
(13) 4.07pm BST 56th over: Sri Lanka 187-5 (Sangakkara 71, Chandimal 11) Jordan in Chandimal, who gets very square in defence - perfect for a Headingley dismissal, caught behind the wicket.
(14) Warwickshire have beaten Kent, but only after a last-wicket stand of 67 between Martin van Jaarsveld and Matthew Coles that may have had a few Bears buttocks clenching.
(15) This pattern is most prominent in early drowsiness, and may change to rhythmical spiky discharges in light NREM sleep ("wicket spikes").
(16) Having bowled out England in their second innings for 123, West Indies were required to make 192 to win the match and square the series and the expectation was that it would be a tough call for them, given the capricious nature of the pitch on the first two days, not least a second day in which 18 wickets fell, which is unprecedented for a Test match in Barbados.
(17) From an analysis of the electroencephalograms of 4,458 patients who underwent recording during both wakefulness ans sleep, through the years 1969 to 1975, wicket spikes-- recorded in 39 patients-- may be described as follows: They were found during both wakefulness ans sleep, almost exclusively in adults.
(18) "I'm fed up with all this bad mouthing of Uxbridge," writes Adrian Martins, batting on a sticky wicket.
(19) England did take three wickets, beginning with Rogers, who having made 54, patted a Tim Bresnan loosener to point in a particularly English manner.
(20) Sidebottom has taken 47 wickets at an average of less than 20, Patterson 45 at 24, Plunkett 36 at 28 and Brooks 34 at less than 23.