lurker


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lurker

A person who regularly visits a chat room, forum, or blog but never contributes comments.
Dictionary of Unfamiliar Words by Diagram Group Copyright © 2008 by Diagram Visual Information Limited
ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Noun1.lurker - someone waiting in concealment
waiter - a person who waits or awaits
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It troubled me that there should have been a lurker on the stairs, on that night of all nights in the year, and I asked the watchman, on the chance of eliciting some hopeful explanation as I handed him a dram at the door, whether he had admitted at his gate any gentleman who had perceptibly been dining out?
At the earliest streak of day one of the leaders would mount his horse, and gallop off full speed for about half a mile; then look round for Indian trails, to ascertain whether there had been any lurkers round the camp; returning slowly, he would reconnoitre every ravine and thicket where there might be an ambush.
In this way a small gang of lurkers will hurry off the cavalry of a large war party, for when once a drove of horses are seized with panic, they become frantic, and nothing short of broken necks can stop them.
As the wood-rats had taught him discretion, so did these two-legged lurkers in the jungle twilight.
But there is a possible lurker open to improvement in Luck Of The Legion.
'The physician feedback to date from our two commercial product launches, YUTIQ and DEXYCU, has been very positive, and we have seen a solid uptake in treatment volume along with tremendous progress in market access,' said Nancy Lurker, President and Chief Executive Officer of EyePoint Pharmaceuticals.
"The supportive, 36-month follow-up data of YUTIQ continues to reinforce our confidence in its long-lasting potential for this difficult to treat ocular disease, as well as its favorable safety and tolerability profile," said EyePoint CEO Nancy Lurker. "Uveitis specialists have shared our enthusiasm regarding YUTIQ's commercial launch, which is supported by these positive data, with several of these physicians specifically highlighting the consistent dosing and one-time administration of YUTIQ compared to local corticosteroids.
The 16-runner COFCO International Supporting Prostate Cancer UK Handicap is not an obviously successful getting-out stakes - but Tabou Beach Boy may just be a handy lurker.
I was mostly a lurker. After a few years, I became an active user and had my first encounter with cyberbullying.
Does the display of effective posts for various learners (lurker and poster) have an effect in increasing the reposting behavior and consequently participation of learners?
Taking the figure of the lurker as a conceptual persona, Goriunova argues that global digital culture is not abstract or transcendental, but rather real and ideal.
featuring the Lurker, an animated fireball character promoting Prevacid24, which is licensed by GlaxoSmithKline PLC (GSK) fromTakeda Pharmaceuticals.