(n.) One who thinks; especially and chiefly, one who thinks in a particular manner; as, a close thinker; a deep thinker; a coherent thinker.
Example Sentences:
(1) He was a lateral and fearless thinker for whom the presentation of ideas was like a game of intellectual charades, with a few clues as to the meaning of the work thrown in every now and again.
(2) I would like to see the return to a free university system for Australian students so everybody can have the same dreams and aspirations about bettering themselves and this nation, regardless of their circumstances.” Palmer said Australia’s best thinkers were being “stifled” and the country was “burying them in debt”.
(3) As Nick Bostrom, the head of the Future of Humanity Institute at the University of Oxford and a leading transhumanist thinker puts it, transhumanism "challenges the premise that the human condition is and will remain essentially unalterable".
(4) Bin Laden, who was 54 when he died, also had a copy of The America I Have Seen, a vitriolic memoir of a short trip to the US by the Egyptian thinker and activist Syed Qutb , considered the godfather of modern jihadi thinking and hanged in 1966.
(5) Anyone who attended one of the many conferences dedicated to his work observed how conscientiously he listened to every paper (whether by a famous thinker or a graduate student), took careful notes, and asked polite but searching questions.
(6) Results indicated abstract thinkers had a better decision-making process than concrete thinkers and made more health promoting decisions.
(7) Having an independent thinker at Westminster is what the people of Brighton Pavilion would want.
(8) Ed Miliband's vision of bringing down the cost of living is insufficiently bold for the country, according to one organiser of a letter from thinkers on the left warning Labour against playing it safe in the party's election manifesto.
(9) The source and nature of the ethnography of the important eighteenth century thinker Johann Gottfried Herder can in large part be understood through his relationship to his own society and especially through his part in the German cultural nationalist movement of the day.
(10) In June a network of young economics students, thinkers and writers set up Rethinking Economics , a campaign group to challenge what they say is the predominant narrative in the subject.
(11) Theilhaber was an original thinker and a prolific writer.
(12) Morsi refused to give the power of attorney to the lawyer secured for him by colleagues outside prison – Selim al-Awa, a prominent Islamist thinker who also ran for president last year.
(13) The Doctors Mayo were strategic thinkers when it came to National Defense, and it is with a feeling of almost haunting prophetic significance to consider their timeless wisdom on preparedness as a means to ensure peace.
(14) He inhabits a variety of modes: the lecturer, the thinker, the math geek in a hoodie in front of a chalkboard of formulas, the leader with a lightly clenched fist to show decisiveness and determination.
(15) We have to pass and in my view we have to pass it at a higher level of standard than any university in the land, otherwise there is no point in having us.” In many ways, the Crick is the natural home for big thinkers.
(16) As Seldon put it in his 2007 book Blair Unbound: “Balls had no respect for Blair as an economist or a thinker, and assumed that he merely took his script from Heywood.” A politician who has worked closely with Heywood says: “To be very good at being a private secretary or cabinet secretary, you have to be very close to the boundary between civil service work and politics, but not step over it.
(17) The Labour-aligned historian and thinker RH Tawney wrote those words, in 1932.
(18) Thus you can witness unironical celebrations of Rand Paul as an original thinker, despite the fact that his every core policy proposal reads like a distorted Xerox of an older Xerox of his father’s decades of rant-pamphleteering.
(19) By now it should be clear that Nichols is a strategic thinker as much as an aspiring auteur; a necessary personality trait, perhaps, for someone coming into film-making from outside the NY-LA hothouse.
(20) Harriet Lamb, executive director of the Fairtrade Foundation, describes Stitzer as "a very deep thinker about values, and about doing the right thing, both as an individual in his personal life and in the business he leads.
Thinner
Definition:
(n.) One who thins, or makes thinner.
Example Sentences:
(1) The dimensions of the acetabular wall were thinner in the hips that had the thirty-two-millimeter component than in those that had the twenty-two-millimeter component (p less than 0.05).
(2) Both before and after application of the stimulus, the walls of the superficial dermal vessels of the patients with dermographism were thinner and contained less extracellular matrix material than vessel walls of the patients with cold-induced urticaria.
(3) The increased packing density of axons in the nerve was not only due to thinner axons.
(4) It is how I feel when I speak to those who are thinner than me.
(5) Pour into a pan and reheat, diluting slightly if you prefer a thinner soup.
(6) Ervin Santana is in Atlanta, meaning the rotation is thinner and with reliever Luke Hochevar is out with Tommy John surgery , that’s not a great start.
(7) It is not proved; nonetheless, the view expressed here is that the radial fibers are thinner in the medial segment of the globus pallidus because they may be the same fibers that gave off collaterals in the lateral segment of the globus pallidus.
(8) He was big, maybe 18st [114kg] when I last saw him but he looks thinner in the face in the video.” Muthana added: “What they [Isis] are doing is inhuman, this is not the son I brought up.
(9) At all ages the smokers were thinner than the non-smokers.
(10) The increased functional activity of the endothelium, thinner walls of capillaries and the appearnace of a greater amount of fenestrations against the background of the thyroid stimulation are likely to be factors contributing to penetration of non-hormonal iodine products (iodine tyrosines and products of incomplete hydrolysis of thyroglobulins) into the circulation, which can be observed under certain pathological conditions accompanied by increased thyrotropic stimulation--such as diffused toxic goiter and diffuse non-toxic goiter.
(11) Electron-microscopic examinations revealed that amyloid fibrils in the somatostatinoma were thinner and more randomly distributed than were those in islets from patients with Type II diabetes mellitus.
(12) In both the experiments there were detected cells in their majority with thinner walls, L-form-like structures, protoplasts and single conglomerates of the cells with thicker walls and anomalous division and the cells at the moment of lysis.
(13) The cold was badly affecting smaller, thinner prisoners with little body fat, especially those weakened by their fast, she said.
(14) Myocardial fibers were elongated and thinner (tapered) in the tips of papillary muscles.
(15) It stores up a problem: you can spread staff thinner for a short period of time but unless there is a managed staff restructuring a department could struggle to ask colleagues to fill in indefinitely.
(16) The dermis and subcutaneous tissue, on the other hand, were significantly thinner after expansion.
(17) This prosthesis was designed so that the stem became thinner as it approached the bearing surfaces.
(18) On electron microscopy the normal lamellar pattern made up of orientated collagen fibrils all about 80 nm diameter is replaced by a random tangled pattern of much thinner irregularly curved fibrils, some as thin as 5nm.
(19) The superior fascicle is whitish, dimmed and frequently thinner than the others and was classified under 4 patterns, according to its insertion.
(20) Treatment with cytochalasin B caused microridges to disappear or to become thinner and lower or to change short or microvillus-like microridges.