What's the difference between angel and backer?

Angel


Definition:

  • (n.) A messenger.
  • (n.) A spiritual, celestial being, superior to man in power and intelligence. In the Scriptures the angels appear as God's messengers.
  • (n.) One of a class of "fallen angels;" an evil spirit; as, the devil and his angels.
  • (n.) A minister or pastor of a church, as in the Seven Asiatic churches.
  • (n.) Attendant spirit; genius; demon.
  • (n.) An appellation given to a person supposed to be of angelic goodness or loveliness; a darling.
  • (n.) An ancient gold coin of England, bearing the figure of the archangel Michael. It varied in value from 6s. 8d. to 10s.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) We report a retrospective study of 107 cases of carcinoma of the sigmoid colon and upper rectum treated for primary cure at the University of California at Los Angeles Hospital between 1955 and 1970.
  • (2) He missed the start of the season while rehabbing from last season's ankle injury, played exactly six games with the Los Angeles Lakers before getting hurt again and even if he's healthy he may still sit the game out .
  • (3) Cooper, who was briefly a social worker in Los Angeles, also suggests working hard to build a rapport with colleagues in hotdesking situations.
  • (4) 75 min: Real Madrid substitution: Angel Di Maria off, Ricky Kaka on.
  • (5) McQueen later worked for Gieves & Hawkes and the theatre costumiers Angels , before being employed, aged 20, by Koji Tatsuno , a Japanese designer with links to London.
  • (6) In a statement the Los Angeles County department of public health said: "Though legionella bacteria was identified in a water sample taken from the Playboy Mansion, this bacteria has not been determined as the source of the respiratory outbreak.
  • (7) This relative safety is largely unaffected by the interval since migration, even after decades of residence in Los Angeles.
  • (8) Brodetsky, Anna M. (University of California, Los Angeles), and W. R. Romig.
  • (9) The results of these studies were compared with those obtained in a sample of nonfiremen residing in the Los Angeles area who were matched by computer with the firemen for anthropomorphic characteristics and smoking status.
  • (10) Los Angeles were relentless in their vicious pursuit of a game-tying goal on Wednesday, bidding to send Game 4 into overtime.
  • (11) Ten of the 45 reviewed were court cases, and 32 workers acutely exposed at University of California-Los Angeles (UCLA) were studied with routine four views of the chest.
  • (12) Prosecutors in San Francisco and Los Angeles alleged that it was false for Uber to say it was the leader in screening drivers when its background checks were inferior to the process taxi drivers undergo, since Uber does not include fingerprint checks.
  • (13) Endocervical cultures for Neisseria gonorrhoeae were taken from 4,285 new patients attending the emergency room and outpatient clinics at Women's Hospital, Los Angeles County-University of Southern California Medical Center.
  • (14) To test these competing hypotheses, a series of health, income, life satisfaction, and social participation variables (interaction with family, kin, neighbors, and friends) was examined with data from a large (N = 1269) sample of middle-aged and older blacks, Mexican Americans and whites in Los Angeles County.
  • (15) The marquee event on Thursday, considering recent off the court events, was the sixth game between the Los Angeles Clippers.
  • (16) A new portable model of the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) instrumented clinical knee testing apparatus and the KT-1000 knee arthrometer were used to measure anterior laxity in normal and anterior cruciate absent knees.
  • (17) London might have Nelson’s column, the north its angel, Manchester its Alan Turing .
  • (18) Uribe strikes out to end the inning, an eventful one in Los Angels.
  • (19) He had huge eyes, a wide, deep brow, an angel's mouth, with the upper lip crested.
  • (20) The raids came after three separate federal indictments in the biggest investigation to date into trade-based drug money laundering, said Thom Mrozek, a spokesman for the US attorney’s office in Los Angeles.

Backer


Definition:

  • (n.) One who, or that which, backs; especially one who backs a person or thing in a contest.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The breakdown of answers to both questions revealed a significant partisan divide depending on people’s voting intention, with Labor supporters much more likely than Coalition backers to see the commission as a political attack and Heydon as conflicted.
  • (2) Gavin Andresen, formerly the chief scientist at the currency’s guiding body, the Bitcoin Foundation, had been the most important backer of the man who would be Satoshi.
  • (3) Casino Royale, whose rights had been individually sold off by Fleming in 1955, eventually passed to Eon in 1999 as a result of an agreement between Eon’s backers MGM and rival Hollywood studio Sony – thereby clearing the way for the 2006 version.
  • (4) Economy Clegg, Alexander and Laws have been determined backers of Osborne's austerity plan and have not been derailed from that view by claims that deep public sector cuts have damaged growth.
  • (5) Backer's cyst, branchial cyst, lymphangioma, and abscess.
  • (6) We had no financial backer and were not part of an education chain or religious group.
  • (7) Even if Morgan is caught, people fear that his powerful backers in the army will find another militia to continue poaching and stealing gold.
  • (8) Human Rights Watch called on the Afghan government and its international backers to do more to hold the security forces to account.
  • (9) The business has also attracted reputable financial backers, including three of the core supporters of Facebook — Greylock, Accel and Meritech.
  • (10) However, Eagle’s backers have insisted she has more signatures than the 20% of the parliamentary party needed to launch a challenge, and is in a “holding pattern”.
  • (11) Whether Creepy Uncle Sam and his creepier backers will succeed in bringing down the Affordable Care Act (ACA) remains to be seen, but the prognosis is not good.
  • (12) The official said the Intergovernmental Authority on Development, a bloc of African countries which has been leading peace efforts between backers of the nation’s president, Salva Kiir, and rebel leader Riek Machar, had set a 17 August deadline for both sides to accept a final offer.
  • (13) Cimarosa's break with the rules of omertà appears to vindicate the policy of asset seizures, which have cut Messina Denaro's cash flow and forced him to squeeze his backers harder for funds.
  • (14) But in a veiled reference to those in the Conservative party and their backers in the rightwing press pushing for a hard Brexit, he implied that there were people in the UK who still had to catch up.
  • (15) EU referendum: 250 business leaders sign up as backers of Vote Leave Read more ”Remain” campaigners accused Vote Leave of changing its position on the NHS, arguing that the group’s chief executive, Matthew Elliott, had supported spending cuts, opposed ringfencing of the NHS and proposed more privatisation in the past.
  • (16) Attempts by backers of the rebels and the government to orchestrate a population swap have yet to succeed, but an evacuation of the wounded was agreed in late December.
  • (17) Warner Bros has moved to reimburse backers whose money helped get the high-profile crowdfunded movie Veronica Mars into cinemas after some were unable to satisfactorily download their promised copy of the finished feature .
  • (18) The revelation of the unusual last-minute attempted appointment comes as tensions between the Turnbull government and the former prime minister and his backers reach boiling point.
  • (19) Robert Davies, another original investor, also a financial backer of Swansea’s Ospreys rugby union region which shares the Liberty Stadium, also has a 10.5% stake.
  • (20) Turkey , a key backer of the opposition, called for an end to Russian airstrikes in the aftermath of the agreement in Munich.