(n.) A timekeeper; especially, a watch by which small intervals of time can be measured; a kind of stop watch. It is used for timing the speed of horses, machinery, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) After a fairly competitive first set, it turned into a rout almost on the scale of the triple-bagle thrashing the Scot gave the Luxembourg part-timer Laurent Bram when he returned to Davis Cup action in Glasgow four years ago.
(2) However, an increasing body of experts argues something must be done to arrest disengagement by winning over this so-called Generation Y, born after 1982, who are predicted to be poorer than their parents, and according to Ipsos Mori research, have a record low level of trust in their fellow man.Guy Lodge, of the IPPR thinktank, makes the case for an even more radical solution – compulsory voting for first-timers.
(3) The regulation of these two enzymes was found to be dissociable in the developmental timer mutant, FM-1, which aggregates 4.5 h earlier than wild-type cells due to the absence of the first rate-limiting component of the preaggregative period.
(4) It was wired with a mobile phone, most likely to act as a timer to detonate the device.
(5) We go on holiday ... We all worked together at Conservative Central Office ... all this 'bright young thing' stuff obscures the fact that we are actually old-timers."
(6) Since hydrolytic demidation has been suggested as an important timer of biological events, the effects on hydrolytic deamidation of substances that are normally present in living organisms and are subject to nutritional control are of special relevance.
(7) The data indicate that both first timers and repeaters overwhelmingly reject the premise that abortion is a primary or even a back-up birth control method.
(8) A built-in timer-reset mechanism prevents failure of the system in the absence of a His potential (i.e., 2:1 AV block).
(9) But many first-timers will be spurred into buying by the looming end of the stamp duty holiday .
(10) The number of reserves is due to double over this period, but Hammond and the head of the army, General Sir Peter Wall, acknowledged laws protecting part-timers, and the companies they work for, will have to be revisited.
(11) While the 10 councils have been working together since the mid-1980s the authority has only legally existed for three years – although by the standards of CCGs that makes it an old-timer.
(12) Zeitlin, the only American to win a major prize, explained that nearly all his cast and crew were first-timers too: "We were a lot of inexperienced people running fast into the unknown."
(13) Significance of this mechanism is emphasized not only for the GIT activity but as a "timer" for ultraradian rhythms as well.
(14) It is concluded that the best type of mechanical plethysmography is plethysmography with the use of a mercuric timer; in addition, mechanical plethysmography compares very favourably with impedance one.
(15) Two of my cellmates are first-timers, ordinary young men without an atom of violence in them.
(16) A digital timer is described which generates a number of pulses whose delays with respect to a periodic reference pulse can be independently preset by means of thumbwheel switches.
(17) This method has been used to check and evaluate timers on 10 X-ray examination units of various models.
(18) A fully automated system is described in which a gas chromatograph equipped with a backflush valve is automatically operated under the control of a specially designed timer unit.
(19) Many universities have barely noticed the fall in part-timers because of increased revenue from their mainly full-time student intakes.
(20) Five variables were independently associated with greater than 80% compliance as determined by stepwise multiple logistic regression: patient belief that zidovudine prolongs life (odds ratio [OR] 9.3, [95% confidence interval (CI) 2.4, 36.7]), a diagnosis of AIDS or ARC (OR 5.5, [CI 1.5, 20.4]), use of a medication timer (OR 4.4, [CI 1.0, 19.1]), no history of intravenous drug use (OR 3.7, [CI 1.0, 14.2]), and taking one to three other medications with zidovudine.
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Definition:
(n.) A kind of ocher which is used in some parts of England in marking sheep.