(n.) A ring of metal, leather, or other material, or a perforated plate, used for various purposes, as around a bolt or screw to form a seat for the head or nut, or around a wagon axle to prevent endwise motion of the hub of the wheel and relieve friction, or in a joint to form a packing, etc.
(n.) A fitting, usually having a plug, applied to a cistern, tub, sink, or the like, and forming the outlet opening.
(n.) The common raccoon.
Example Sentences:
(1) The major advantage of this technic in comparison with the Gravlee Jet Washer is its low cost.
(2) During the first 19 months of use of the washer, nosocomial post-UGI endoscopy colonization or infections with P. aeruginosa increased 36%.
(3) Tests of effectiveness of disinfection of metal and polypropylene bedpans were made in a washer fitted with a steam generator.
(4) We must pay attention to contamination of endoscopes and endoscope washer at least once a month.
(5) Most train yards have a washer system, which we call the "buff", that takes about 10 minutes to clean the whole train, and that's it – it goes back into service.
(6) The current study aimed to examine sociodemographic and clinical variables between washer and checker subgroups of obsessive compulsive disorder.
(7) The point of contact was changed by the addition of a Belleville washer between the interface of the wing-nut clamp and the cheek.
(8) It has two Teflon-washered glass valves for filling, and two thermistors are supported at the center by glass capillary tubes.
(9) Physical cleaning and chemical sterilization of taps, and replacement of washers with 'approved' brands did not eradicate the organisms.
(10) Similar z values were obtained for the plastic and steel strip systems (z(D) = 21 C), but an unusually low z for spores on paper (z(D) = 12.9 C) and an unusually high z for spores on steel washers mated at 150 inch-lb of torque (z(D) = 32 C) were observed.
(11) When [1-(14)C]arachidonic acid (AA) was incubated with washer thrombocyte suspension, AA was mainly converted to PGF(2alpha), PGE2, and PGD2 in all species.
(12) Of these, two cell separators and the IBM cell washer are shown to be capable of producing YRBC suitable for clinical use.
(13) There was visible moisture remaining in the suction channel despite the use of the complete recommended automatic washer cycle.
(14) YRBC prepared from the IBM 2991 cell washer are recommended for clinical trials because of lower cost, greater convenience and lower white cell contamination compared to cell separator-derived YRBC.
(15) The findings are the following: (1) The 4.0-mm bolt with the 12-mm washer had greater pull-out resistance from thin (12-mm thick) cancellous bone than did the 6.5-mm cancellous screw.
(16) Patch tests with the GEIDC standard series of allergens, and with 8 washers made of copper, nickel, nickel-palladium, palladium, brass, bronze, gold and iron, were carried out in 964 consecutive patients who complained of intolerance to metals and in 200 controls who did not.
(17) The authors present a new technique utilizing a cancellous screw and polyacetal resin washer to attach the tendon to the navicular.
(18) Of 412 subjects seen during 1975-1984, there were 123 washers, 70 checkers and 89 washers and checkers (mixed group).
(19) The purpose of the present study was to determine the levels of solvent exposure of car washers and to evaluate the effectiveness of ventilation systems in car washing facilities.
(20) Since it requires no special equipment other than a microplate reader and washer it is particularly suitable for laboratories lacking the electrophoretic expertise or equipment required for EIA.
Wisher
Definition:
(n.) One who wishes or desires; one who expresses a wish.
Example Sentences:
(1) A Facebook page created for friends, family and well-wishers to write messages of sympathy was filling with tributes.
(2) In the days that followed, thousands of flowers carpeted Martin Place, left by mourners and well-wishers.
(3) She insisted she was not depressed or mentally ill and thanked her friends, family and colleagues for their support, as well as messages she had received from well-wishers around the world.
(4) Peter McGraith and David Cabreza will be married after 17 years together, on the stroke of midnight on Friday at Islington town hall, north London, in the presence of friends, campaigners, well-wishers and Peter Tatchell (they're not necessarily mutually exclusive, these categories).
(5) The funeral was not open to the public, but several dozen well-wishers left flowers at the entrance to the library’s private drive.
(6) It is shown that the procedure described by Wisher & Evans [(1975) Biochem.
(7) David Cameron and his wife, Samantha, thanked well-wishers today for their messages of support following the death of their son, Ivan.
(8) A large media presence is expected at Sandringham on Christmas Day when the Queen and her family are to walk to and from church, greeting well-wishers along the way.
(9) As we talk at the Posk centre, which has been cleaned of the graffiti daubed on it last week, journalists from around the world inspect the vases of flowers from local well-wishers and the memorials in the lobby to fallen Polish heroes from the second world war, during which 2,408 Polish airmen alone were killed.
(10) Misguided attempts by well-wishers to literally or metaphorically pat her on the back and praise her "pluckiness" are given short shrift.
(11) Dubs told the Guardian he had received many messages of support from well-wishers concerned about the plight of up to 95,000 children who are thought to have reached Europe without their families after fleeing Syria and other war zones in the Middle East.
(12) As news of his death filtered out of the maximum security prison, his family was still huddled in an area of the prison grounds, surrounded by well-wishers.
(13) Hundreds of well-wishers gathered on a crisp Christmas morning to watch the Queen and other members of the royal family attend the traditional church service at Sandringham, Norfolk.
(14) Hillary Clinton concedes presidential election to Donald Trump: 'We must accept this result' Read more About four hours later, at least 100 well-wishers assembled at the Douglas G Griffin elementary school in Clinton’s adopted hometown of Chappaqua to watch her cast her vote.
(15) The family continue to be grateful for all well-wishers, though they do seek privacy during this difficult period of rehabilitation.
(16) On Wednesday, she flew to Tahoua, eastern Niger, where she received a rapturous welcome complete with a rock band and dancers brandishing swords and spears, with hundreds of well-wishers lined up at the edge of the runway.
(17) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Ronald Reagan waving to well-wishers on the White House Lawn in 1986.
(18) Facebook Twitter Pinterest James Joyce’s letter to a well-wisher.
(19) On the site of the original compound stands a large white wooden church, built this year by various well-wishers, including Goins.
(20) Thousands of well-wishers sent him cash to pay it– money, he says, he accepted as loans, despite his concern about repercussions and despite having other ways to find the money, because he felt it was important to recognise the stirrings of civic instinct.