What's the difference between aficionado and cupper?
Aficionado
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Alice Wade, a 27-year-old self-professed whiskey aficionado, says she started drinking whiskey in college.
(2) In 1972 the BBC produced his tale The Stone Tape, a technological ghost story still renowned among aficionados for the twist in its tail.
(3) ... George Clooney in a still from Alfonso Cuarón's Gravity Sci-fi aficionados will know there are two possible ways to "do" sound in space on the big screen.
(4) The quality was poor, yet it was close and compelling to aficionados.
(5) Hamilton can be enjoyed by both the musical theater geek and the rap aficionado, but it ultimately has more to offer the former.
(6) Phyllis Dorothy James was born in Oxford in 1920 – a year that's doubly celebrated by crime aficionados, since it also heralded the dawning of the Golden Age of detective fiction , that interwar flowering of intricately plotted mysteries, in which the preternaturally shrewd detective is invited to pick his way through a liberal scattering of clues and red herrings, before confronting reader and murderer with his irrefutable conclusions in the final pages.
(7) Male sketchwriters and assorted Westminster aficionados either affected bemused indulgence on behalf of their slighted sisters or scented the whiff of political-correctness-gone-mad.
(8) Things can sometimes go wrong – a 1961 Marcels record that appears in episode two sent US vinyl aficionados into a flurry when they spotted that it was on modern reissue label Eric.
(9) Jones is an aficionado of musicals, and he recently helped bring The Play What I Wrote, a successful British production about Morecambe and Wise, from London to New York.
(10) If you're a scouse coffee aficionado, let us know which one he means.
(11) In my new school, a top school, full of maths and science aficionados, the girl with well-developed boobs was queen.
(12) The club would evolve over the next decade into incarnations as Brookhattan-Galicia, Galicia FC and Galicia-Honduras, but their brush with Gaetjens gives them cult status amongst US soccer history aficionados.
(13) This new Batman was considered by fans and comic-book aficionados to be the real deal and a long overdue riposte to the infamously camp 1960s Batman TV series, starring a paunchy Adam West as the caped crusader.
(14) One can wear a dozen powerful sensors, own a smart mattress and even do a close daily reading of one's poop – as some self-tracking aficionados are wont to do – but those injustices would still be nowhere to be seen, for they are not the kind of stuff that can be measured with a sensor.
(15) Ever since he bought out his contract from Bob Arum for the princely sum of $750,000 in 2007, he’s made all the right moves to become the highest earning athlete on the planet, no less than a miracle given his risk-averse, defensive style that appeals to a subset of aficionados but not a broader public that’s always preferred slugging to boxing.
(16) The first Jesuit pope turns out to be a voracious cultural aficionado – "a Jesuit must be creative," Francis says at one point – but do his literary and artistic inclinations reveal anything about his religious orientation?
(17) Not so long ago, I believed that anything that helped broaden interest in current art was to be welcomed; that only an elitist snob would want art to be confined to a worthy group of aficionados.
(18) Clinton joined Twitter last week – her biography reads : "Wife, mom, lawyer, women & kids advocate, FLOAR, FLOTUS, US senator, SecState, author, dog owner, hair icon, pantsuit aficionado, glass ceiling cracker, TBD …"
(19) As Bond aficionados will be well aware, White’s job is to turn up every now and then to offer up cackling portents of impending doom regarding terrifying nefarious organisations that 007 and his pals appear to know nothing about.
(20) I've got a recorder, and I talk to myself" – he puts on a voice like a wine aficionado – "'Hmm, very rubbery.
Cupper
Definition:
(n.) One who performs the operation of cupping.
Example Sentences:
(1) Cuppers and Thomas, in 1975, imagined that in the presence of unilateral ptosis with paresis of the rectus superior muscle only, on this side, it was advisible to place a thread on the rectus superior adelphi muscle, in order to expect an improvement, even a recovery from ptosis, by provoking an elevation impulse of the levator muscle and of the rectus superior muscle on the eye with ptosis.
(2) In-vitro exposure of dental amalgams to a magnetic field (1.15 mT; 50 Hz) increased the mobility of cupper and especially mercurity in the superficial layers of the amalgam after 24 h exposure, and gave rise to slight morphological changes within the amalgam.
(3) To avoid some complications of Cupper's original technic, they use a personal procedure: the muscle slapping, which seems to give good results.
(4) From that group we’ve got grand slam winners [Jamie Murray also won the mixed doubles at Wimbledon], Olympic gold, Commonwealth gold with Colin, four Davis Cuppers and one Fed Cup player.” Baltacha’s death last month, from cancer , still hurts Murray.