Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who shrinks; one who withdraws from danger.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who shrinks; one who withdraws from danger.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Something that makes something else
shrink . - noun slang A
psychiatrist ; ahead-shrinker . - noun medicine An sock-like article used to compress a
stump remaining after amputation. - noun Something that itself
shrinks .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Or as John and I have tried earlier using a compression through what we call a shrinker that wraps around the bottom of the residual limb.
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Shrunk by fellow coin shrinker in New Mexico, Peter Ledlie, here's a "before" and "after" shot of a square brass coal token.
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Recently Hackerbot Labs was invited by Intellectual Ventures to demonstrate their Maker Faire Editor's Choice Award-winning high voltage coin shrinker in front of a Vision Research Phantom 100k fps high-speed camera.
MAKE Magazine 2009
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Large diameter copper tubing can also be necked down by the same process, such as these examples from California coin shrinker Ross Overstreet.
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At 14,000 joules, Rob Stephens, a friend and fellow coin shrinker in Ontario, Canada was able to separate the coin into two independent pieces.
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'shrinker' to compress the amputation site so that I can wear a prosthetic in the near future.
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TinyURL is the original URL shrinker, creating small links from larger ones that never expire.
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For the amateur marathon-shrinker, the temptation would clearly be there; although with nothing more than kudos on offer, it is hard to think of a more apposite definition of only cheating yourself.
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Rachel Maddow has her way with the GOP's recent URL shrinker woes.
Clearing the cache: You talkin' to me? Oh, okay, great, Mr. President. 2009
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Rachel Maddow has her way with the GOP's recent URL shrinker woes.
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