What's the difference between waterman and watermen?
Waterman
Definition:
(n.) A man who plies for hire on rivers, lakes, or canals, or in harbors, in distinction from a seaman who is engaged on the high seas; a man who manages fresh-water craft; a boatman; a ferryman.
(n.) An attendant on cab stands, etc., who supplies water to the horses.
(n.) A water demon.
Example Sentences:
(1) She bounced back into the charts in 1989 with Another Place and Time, overseen by the British producers Stock, Aitken and Waterman, and the single This Time I Know It's for Real was a major international success.
(2) Increasing the sensitivity by setting ktup = 1 allowed FASTA to perform as well as Smith-Waterman on an additional 7 superfamilies.
(3) However, the P-450(11)beta precursor is not processed by mitochondria from a nonsteroidogenic tissue (heart), a result observed previously for the P-450SCC precursor (M. F. Matocha and M. R. Waterman (1984) J. Biol.
(4) Held in jail for a week, Ishi was later introduced to two anthropologists, Thomas Waterman and Alfred Kroeber, and helped them to transcribe his dialect at the Anthropology Museum attached to the University of California in San Francisco.
(5) Using the eight characteristics identified by Peters and Waterman in their book In Search of Excellence, the study analyzes 16 magnet hospitals to ascertain to what extent they possess characteristics similar to the 'best run' companies in the corporate community.
(6) Extremal properties, such as longest helical region, can now be studied with a new family of probability distributions [Arratia, R., Gordon, L. & Waterman, M. S. (1986) Ann.
(7) The period between the rise of Adam and the Ants and the collapse of Stock, Aitken and Waterman’s “Hit Factory” empire may prove to be the last truly great pop era, in that it produced not just great pop music, but great pop stars.
(8) Among his early clients were the pop songwriting and production team Stock Aitken Waterman , who introduced him to Kylie Minogue and Jason Donovan.
(9) Their version of Band Aid , overseen by the Stock, Aitken and Waterman production team, featured a lineup who could baffle a crack pop investigations team 25 years on: D Mob!
(10) In these days of Stock, Aitken & Waterman, stale re-releases and crummy cover versions, an alternative rock scene can still feel proud and puffed up despite being tainted by its own decay.
(11) It was Minogue who, in the early 90s, decided to move away from her girl-next-door image and end her relationship with Stock, Aitken and Waterman in search of a more refined, adult direction.
(12) The annual ocular exposure was calculated from the age of 16 for each waterman by combining a detailed occupational history with laboratory and field measurements of sun exposure.
(13) The FASTA program using the ktup = 2 sensitivity setting performed as well as the Smith-Waterman algorithm for 19 of the 34 superfamilies.
(14) "The first time we recorded Kylie I remember Matt Aitken walking out of the studio and saying 'This girl has got a voice you will always, always remember'," says Waterman.
(15) Each set utilizes at least three of four separate poly(A)+ addition sites providing an explanation of the three sizes of adrenodoxin mRNA (1.75, 1.4, and 0.95 kilobases) previously observed in bovine adrenocortical RNA by this laboratory (Okamura, T., John, M.E., Zuber, M.X., Simpson, E.R., and Waterman, M.R.
(16) Using the eight characteristics identified by Peters and Waterman in their book In Search of Excellence (New York: Harper & Row, 1982), the study analyzes 16 magnet hospitals to ascertain to what extent they possessed characteristics similar to the best run companies in the corporate community.
(17) A first patent was registered in 1903, and Waldo Waterman’s “aerobile” went on its maiden flight in 1937.
(18) At recent protests in New York , Washington , London and Seattle , masked protesters held up boomboxes and chanted the Stock Aitken Waterman lyrics which Astley made famous.
(19) Using the Smith-Waterman algorithm, the same search takes 35 min.
(20) Pete Waterman, of the Stock, Aitken and Waterman songwriting team that signed Minogue on the back of The Loco-Motion's success, isn't surprised her Voice debut was a hit.
Watermen
Definition:
(pl. ) of Waterman
Example Sentences:
(1) Analysis using a serially additive expected-dose model showed that watermen with cortical lens opacities had a 21 percent higher average annual exposure to ultraviolet B (t-test, 2.23; P = 0.03).
(2) The population-based groups comprised subjects from the Framingham Eye Survey, the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, and the study of watermen in Maryland.
(3) Comparison among these groups revealed similar frequencies of lens opacities among age groups, with slightly higher rates for older individuals in the watermen study population.
(4) The relationship between exposure to sunlight and senile cataract, age-related macular degeneration, pterygium, and climatic droplet keratopathy was examined in 838 watermen who work on the Chesapeake Bay.
(5) To establish the relationship between ultraviolet-B radiation and squamous cell carcinoma (SCC), basal cell carcinoma (BCC), and actinic keratosis (AK), a cross-sectional prevalence survey was performed in a sample of 808 white, male watermen 30 years of age and older residing in the Eastern Shore of Maryland.
(6) Using this scheme, fundus photographs of 777 participants were graded in a population-based study of watermen from the eastern shore of Maryland.
(7) To examine this, we collected detailed histories of ocular sun exposure in 838 watermen who work on the Chesapeake Bay.
(8) We undertook an epidemiologic survey of cataract among 838 watermen who work on the Chesapeake Bay.
(9) Watermen with SCC or AK but not BCC had higher average annual ultraviolet-B doses than age-matched controls.
(10) We studied 838 watermen in Maryland by detailed ocular examination for the presence and severity of each cataract type.
(11) The model was used to compute cumulative and yearly exposures in a population of 838 watermen who work on the Chesapeake Bay and are highly exposed to sunlight.
(12) To address this question, a survey was conducted of 838 Maryland watermen who had well-characterized ocular UV-A and UV-B exposure.
(13) This was particularly marked in watermen younger than 60 years of age.
(14) Watermen in the upper quartile of cumulative ultraviolet-B exposure had a 2.5 times higher risk for the development of SCC when compared with the lower 3 quartiles.
(15) Some degree of cortical cataract was found in 111 of the watermen (13 percent), and some degree of nuclear cataract in 229 (27 percent).
(16) To investigate the relation of ultraviolet radiation and cataract formation, we undertook an epidemiologic survey of 838 watermen (mean age, 53 years) who worked on Chesapeake Bay.
(17) The association between exposure to UV radiation and corneal disease was investigated in 838 watermen who work on the Chesapeake Bay, Maryland.
(18) Comparison between the watermen and the surgical groups revealed that, of lenses with opacities, posterior subcapsular cataracts were present in a far greater percentage of surgery cases (60.6%) than in general population cases (5.3%).
(19) In a study of 808 Caucasian Maryland watermen, we examined the prevalence of nonmelanoma skin cancer in relation to age and exposure to solar ultraviolet B (UVB) radiation.