(n.) Any long-legged bird that wades in the water in search of food, especially any species of limicoline or grallatorial birds; -- called also wading bird. See Illust. g, under Aves.
Example Sentences:
(1) Wild parrots, waterfowl and migratory waders appear to present a minimal threat.
(2) The Ukip leader, Nigel Farage, made a more successful visit during the floods, donning waders to reach stranded residents, and his party is beginning to get a foothold in Somerset.
(3) Photograph: David Levene for the Guardian Standing in green rubber waders in a hastily emptied living room, thigh-deep in foul-smelling water, Steve, 56, had explained how he, his wife Kay, their daughter, her husband Ross, and their daughters now four and two, had moved in just weeks before, on 20 December.
(4) Another resident of the converted 18th century mill, John Bonham, arrived back from the shops in waders.
(5) "He's very helpful, is Jack," says Cummerford, pulling on his waders for a trip out.
(6) Men and women in hi-vis jackets and blue chest-high waders fill wheelbarrows with woodchips and spread them on the sodden riverbank.
(7) Eating dead birds is preferable to dumping them , as some shoots do, but this beautiful, elusive wader is rapidly declining .
(8) Stone-curlews (also known as ‘thick-knees’) are members of the wader tribe (though I have never seen a stone-curlew actually wade); and are mainly nocturnal – hence the large eyes.
(9) The speed of needle-fish, together with their tendency to leap out of the water when bright lights are used for fishing and at other times, occasionally result in deep, penetrating injuries to swimmers, waders, and, in particular, to fishermen who are working at night from small canoes.
(10) The effect of chronic endurance exercise on the emotionality of male albino rats was studied in five experimental groups: Controls, Runners, Walkers, Swimmers and Waders.
(11) On Tuesday, he was having to don waders and pick his way through waist-deep water to get to and from his front door.
(12) Clouds of waders have risen up from the rapidly disappearing mud: a tight flock of several thousand dunlins , together with a few hundred of the larger knots, which spend the winter here on the estuary.
(13) Migrant waders accumulate pollutants from their marine moulting and wintering grounds in Western Europe.
(14) On waders this genus is abundant and generally takes the dominant position in frequency, while members of the superfamily Amblycera remain scarce components in the simple communities constituted by the parasites (fig.
(15) This nomadic wader has been in the area for several weeks and seemed very much at home in this temporary wetland.
(16) The sun compass could be used for great circle orientation, but observed spring flight trajectories of high-arctic waders and geese seem to conform with rhumbline routes.
(17) I feel faint and wish I was wearing fewer clothes under my protective white suit and weighted plastic thigh-high waders.
(18) You park in the school car park, pull on your waders, and cross the bridge over the River Parrett by the King Alfred pub, its backroom piled high with boxes of biscuits, Pot Noodles, jars of instant coffee and tins of soup and beans, marked Somerset Levels Relief Donations .
(19) Either way, it's a jarring moment of decency in a carnival of exhibitionism; a disconcerting burst of modesty at a brazen flesh disco, like Liberace turning up at Studio 54 in duffle coat and waders.
(20) Walkers and Waders received comparable handling and exposure to the psychological aspects of the treadmill running and swimming routines but were not physically trained.
Wander
Definition:
(v. i.) To ramble here and there without any certain course or with no definite object in view; to range about; to stroll; to rove; as, to wander over the fields.
(v. i.) To go away; to depart; to stray off; to deviate; to go astray; as, a writer wanders from his subject.
(v. i.) To be delirious; not to be under the guidance of reason; to rave; as, the mind wanders.
(v. t.) To travel over without a certain course; to traverse; to stroll through.
Example Sentences:
(1) 3-hydroxy-3-methyl-glutaryl-CoA (HMG-CoA) lyase activity was determined by the recently described spectrophotometric method of Wanders et al.
(2) Ready to be fleeced and swamped, I wandered cautiously along Laugavegur past the lovely independent shops, the clean, friendly streets and ended up in a fun hipsterish bar called the Lebowski, where they serve Tuborg and the craft burgers are named things like The Walter (I ordered The Nihilist).
(3) Residents had called police after spotting a man wandering around the park and yelling incoherently.
(4) Wandering is movement changing over time and, thus, is a nonlinear ultradian rhythm, with locomoting and nonlocomoting phases.
(5) Fox will be accompanied by the sporting director, Hendrik Almstadt, on the back of the 1-1 draw against Wycombe Wanderers in the FA Cup on Saturday, when their failure to beat a League Two side culminated in angry scenes involving the away supporters.
(6) I would like to place on record our sincere thanks to Owen, Sandy Stewart [Coyle's assistant] and Steve Davis [coach] for all their hard work during their time at Bolton Wanderers."
(7) On a dreich November evening in Gourock, a red-coated mongrel is wandering between the seats in a room above a pub, pausing to sniff handbags for hidden treats.
(9) Boy, a new play by Leo Butler , follows Liam, a 17-year-old Neet (not in education, employment or training) for 24 hours as he wanders the capital, trying to find friends, connect with a family who have given up on him and with community services that communicate so differently from the way Liam does, it seems like they are speaking another language.
(10) An electronic security system can improve the quality of life for alert, oriented patients (and their families) who share a unit with confused, wandering patients.
(11) Hagere Selam remains a modest place of mudwalled shops with corrugated roofs, cows, donkeys and sheep wandering unpaved streets and children idling away an afternoon at table football – a generation with no memory of the famine that killed hundreds of thousands and woke up the world.
(12) He's fouled out on the right, and takes the free kick very quickly, taking advantage of a wandering Krol, but the referee deems the kick was not take from the right place, and was probably moving as well.
(13) For the time is coming when people will not put up with sound doctrine, but having itching ears, they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own desires, and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander away to myths."
(14) Larry Page, Google's chief executive, believes self-driving cars have enormous economic and health implications: they should cut the number of road deaths, either through drivers' attention wandering, or through driving too close to other cars and being unable to react.
(15) After scarfing platefuls of seafood on the terrace, we wandered down to the harbour where two fishermen, kitted out in wetsuits, were setting out by boat across the clear turquoise water to collect goose barnacles.
(16) Distribution of the recurrence was different: some previous sites had apparently become refractory and remained clear, some involvement had recurred in the same site, and new areas of involvement had appeared, causing the eruption to "wander," as is often seen in acute fixed drug eruption due to acetaminophen.
(17) She manifested not only episodic bulimia, impulsive self-injury, suicidal attempt, and obvious depressive emotion; but also self-provoked-vomiting, wandering, stealing and lying.
(18) Baseline wander and muscle artifact are particularly troublesome sources of interference.
(19) O’Malley, the only candidate to wander into the spin room, was asked if he thought he had broken through.
(20) Individuals have shown transient AV block, irregular sinus rhythm, wandering pacemaker, and inverted T waves.