(n.) A fir pole of from four to seven inches diameter, and twenty to forty feet long, sometimes roughly hewn, used for scaffoldings, and sometimes for slight and common roofs, for which use it is split.
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Usher
Definition:
(n.) An officer or servant who has the care of the door of a court, hall, chamber, or the like; hence, an officer whose business it is to introduce strangers, or to walk before a person of rank. Also, one who escorts persons to seats in a church, theater, etc.
(n.) An under teacher, or assistant master, in a school.
(v. t.) To introduce or escort, as an usher, forerunner, or harbinger; to forerun; -- sometimes followed by in or forth; as, to usher in a stranger; to usher forth the guests; to usher a visitor into the room.
Example Sentences:
(1) "Before the last election the government promised to usher in a 'golden age' for the arts.
(2) Wearing a brown leather fedora and dark sunglasses, the 69-year-old was ushered into a waiting van shortly after dawn and taken to the western port city of Kobe, the headquarters of the Yamaguchi-gumi.
(3) She ushers us into the kitchen, where a large metal pot simmering on the hotplate emits a spicy aroma.
(4) Moments later Gary is being ushered out in a blur of drivers and batmen and image-straighteners.
(5) The kind of president, like Ronald Reagan, Lyndon Johnson or Franklin Roosevelt, who ushers in a paradigmatic shift in American politics or society, or both.
(6) Usher's syndrome is an autosomal recessive disease characterized by congenital sensorineural hearing loss and retinitis pigmentosa (RP).
(7) In a keynote speech at the Lyndon B Johnson presidential library in Austin, Texas, America's first black president said he and others of his generation had greatly benefited from the era of civil rights ushered in by the legislation that was passed by Johnson in 1964.
(8) Cases of hereditary syndromes were found: Usher syndrome, 2 cases; Goldenhar syndromes, 2 cases (brother and sister); Waardenburg syndrome, 1 case; von Recklinghausen's syndrome, 1 case.
(9) Usher disease was diagnosed in 12%, Bardet-Biedl syndrome constituted 5%, and the frequency of Spielmeyer-Vogt disease was 1% of all prevalent RP-cases.
(10) We examined retinas from five patients with RP and four controls and found morphologic defects in the connecting cilia of one RP patient with type 2 Usher syndrome (86% abnormal, P less than .0001) but not in our sample of patients with X-linked (n = 2), simplex (n = 1), or autosomal dominant (n = 1) RP.
(11) Marginalised and wronged groups have been able to use online campaigns to usher us all forward into a more enlightened era in which we are more open-minded about the LGBQT community, disability, race, religion and so forth.
(12) They see the changes that STPs will usher in as the best way to achieve three key aims: to improve people’s health; to tackle the fact that there is still far too much variation in the quality of care many patients receive; and to address the £30bn gap in NHS funding which is projected to have emerged by 2020-21.
(13) Describing the moment McKellen knocked on his dressing room door he said: “I ushered him in nervously, expecting notes for my poor performance or indiscipline – I was a foolish, naughty young actor.
(14) Furtado's decision has intensified the spotlight on other pop stars, including Mariah Carey, Beyoncé and Usher, who performed at parties for the sons of Muammar Gaddafi .
(15) As examples, ultrastructural findings in neural presbycusis, Meniere's disease and Usher's syndrome are presented.
(16) Pundits say the technology ushers in a manufacturing revolution.
(17) After a stirring speech urging the ushering in of a new era of politics delivered to a packed convention hall in the Ghanaian capital Accra, Obama and his family toured the white-walled slave fortress to the sound of beating drums and chanting from a huge crowd outside.
(18) The modern tools of molecular biology and improved understanding of scientific and social issues are expected to usher in an exciting new era in research on diarrheal diseases.
(19) After a two-hour show featuring performances from artists including Taylor Swift, Usher and Nicky Minaj, Beyoncé was joined onstage by her beaming husband Jay Z and daughter Blue Ivy.
(20) He was flanked by a triumvirate of aides, the excitable and matronly chief usher, a man at a computer screen who looked like a bedraggled version of Prince William, and a shaven-headed man who did absolutely nothing all day except fall asleep midway through the morning session.