What's the difference between abler and ambler?

Abler


Definition:

  • (a.) comp. of Able.
  • (a.) superl. of Able.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) U.S.A. 83, 5793-5797) and Mato's (Mato, J.M., Kelly, K.L., Abler, A., and Jarett, L. (1987) J. Biol.
  • (2) If the prospects of entry without A level biology were better publicized medical schools would have a wider field of possibly abler entrants, and pupils entering sixth forms could defer for a year a choice between a medical (or dental) career and one involving physical science, engineering, or other mathematics-based university education.
  • (3) "Not a younger man," said the ordinarily taciturn PM, "an abler one."
  • (4) Contrary to expectations the mean facility index of published questions increased, after publication, to a greater extent (P less than 0.01) for abler candidates than for weaker candidates.
  • (5) Although the presence of chiroinositol in modulator from H35 hepatoma cells has been recently reported (Mato, J.M., Kelly, K.L., Abler, A., Jarett, L., Corkey, B.E., Cashel, J.A., and Zopf, D. (1987) Bioch.
  • (6) The specific outcomes studied were those on facility index, r biserial discriminating index and differences in performance between abler (upper 25%) and weaker (lower 25%) candidates.

Ambler


Definition:

  • (n.) A horse or a person that ambles.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Ambler's last novel, The Care of Time (1981), is about a career criminal who's decided to retire; the parallels with Ambler's own career as a writer hardly need spelling out.
  • (2) Ambler started working for congresswoman Giffords five days before she was shot in the head in a surprise attack at a political event, but it was the mass shooting in Newtown, Connecticut in 2012 that spurred the creation of Americans for Responsible Solutions (ARS).
  • (3) Stupid, sadistic, public-school educated, a former Black and Tan and one-time professional strikebreaker in the United States, "wanted in New Orleans for the murder of a coloured woman", it's tempting to see him as a satirical portrait of the archetypal hero of the moribund thrillers that Ambler was so determined to supersede, unmasked and revealed for the cryptofascist brute he really is.
  • (4) However, Ambler never intended to be a thriller writer.
  • (5) Basing the film on Walter Lord's meticulously researched book (adapted by Ambler), Baker opted for a documentary approach that focused on the human interest without recourse to melodrama, making it both moving and exciting.
  • (6) Graham wasn't the first of Ambler's protagonists to be trained, as Ambler was, as an engineer.
  • (7) Ambler was by then an ex-Marxist, but when presented with such a rich encapsulation of the pre-1914 Anglo-American class system, he couldn't help himself.
  • (8) We had no idea how integral the digital space was going to be to our efforts.” Ambler said ARS is using digital technology in four ways to disrupt the NRA and other elements of the gun lobby.
  • (9) A modification of the spectrofluorometric propranolol procedure of Shand and associates and Ambler and colleagues is presented.
  • (10) Looking back on his youthful radicalism in Here Lies, Ambler wrote: "If the term fellow-travellers had been used in its present pejorative sense at the time I think that many of us could well have been described in that way."
  • (11) With the six novels he wrote in the years leading up to the second world war - five of which have just been reissued by Penguin Modern Classics - Eric Ambler revitalised the British thriller, rescuing the genre from the jingoistic clutches of third-rate imitators of John Buchan, and recasting it in a more realist, nuanced and leftishly intelligent - not to mention exciting - mould.
  • (12) The tautly directed suspense drama, written by Ambler, starred John Mills as an amnesiac who believes himself responsible for an accident in which a child is killed.
  • (13) It is suggested that this enzyme belongs to class A, according to Ambler (1980).
  • (14) Most of the heroes of Ambler's subsequent novels are in the same mould: a journalist, a teacher or an engineer rather than a professional spy, short of money, not straightforwardly a member of any one nation-state (Kenton's father was from Belfast, his mother French), and slightly disreputable.
  • (15) By the time reviews of The Dark Frontier were coming out, Ambler was already deep into his next book, a straight - or at least non-parodic - thriller with the working title Background to Danger.
  • (16) From behind the keys of his supercharged typewriter, Ambler produced an astonishing four more novels in the next three years: Epitaph for a Spy, Cause for Alarm, The Mask of Dimitrios and Journey into Fear.
  • (17) From these results, the Ambler and Scott sequence can be attributed to TEM-2 and the Sutcliffe sequence to TEM-1.
  • (18) - but hardly surprising in a memoir written both at and in a more conservative age (Ambler was by then living in tax exile in Switzerland).
  • (19) He then transferred to Army Kinematograph, where he was able to make a number of military documentaries under the supervision of the novelist Eric Ambler.
  • (20) The four enzymes were chromosomally encoded and related to the Ambler's class A plasmid-mediated SHV-type enzymes.

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