What's the difference between anker and far?

Anker


Definition:

  • (n.) A liquid measure in various countries of Europe. The Dutch anker, formerly also used in England, contained about 10 of the old wine gallons, or 8/ imperial gallons.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) We’re going to have to work harder to diversify our income stream Ian Ankers, ​Bolton at Home When Jones’s first deposit arrived in August, he paid back friends who had supported him, but his debt to Bolton at Home continued to rise.
  • (2) Employing the technique described by Van Kampen and Anker, modified by Macarulla et al., 180 pregnant women have been studied (66 normals and 114 with different pathology: infertility, toxemia, diabetes, Rh isoinmunization, gemelar pregnancy and abortions), taking 319 determinations of pregnanediol in 24 hours urine samples.
  • (3) We see this as the calm before the storm,” says Ankers.
  • (4) Of the threaded posts, Flexi-post and Radix Anker produced the least stress; Kurer Crown Anchor produced the most.
  • (5) Guy Anker, managing editor at MoneySavingExpert.com, points out that the Financial Ombudsman is upholding 70% of complaints rejected by banks.
  • (6) At there lower end there is a 20 mm long elastic curve which is ment to anker the pin in the entry hole to the intramedullary cavity, preventing sliding out of the implant.
  • (7) Anker said customers who had previous claims rejected should contact the Ombudsman if they have not already done so.
  • (8) Michael Ankers, chief executive of the Construction Products Association said the ONS figures "flatter to deceive" and that the industry was still in a "very precarious position".
  • (9) With wholesale costs rising, putting further pressure on bills, we have already seen the cheapest deal rise by £126 in the past two months, and the danger is now that the other big six suppliers will follow suit with their own price hikes in the spring.” However Guy Anker, managing editor of Moneysavingexpert, said the price rise was lower than expected given what is happening to wholesale prices.
  • (10) Director Jason Anker Live Ltd. For services to Health and Safety in the Construction Industry.
  • (11) Guy Anker, managing editor at MoneySavingExpert.com, said: “The urgent clarion-call to consumers is if you’ve had a loan, credit card or mortgage in the last 10 years you should be checking now whether you had PPI on it and if so, was it mis-sold?
  • (12) To go to the ombudsman you have to first complain to the bank, so it’s likely banks are still wrongly rejecting claims from over half of those who have been mis-sold,” said Anker.
  • (13) His weather-bleached remains were discovered by the American mountaineer Conrad Anker in 1999 .
  • (14) We’re going to have to work harder to diversify our income stream,” says Ian Ankers, director of partnerships and strategy at Bolton at Home.
  • (15) Michael Ankers, chairman of the association, said: “Brick manufacturers are doing all they can to respond to the sharp increase in the demand for bricks over the last 12 months.
  • (16) When American climber Conrad Anker rediscovered Mallory in 1999 , photographs of his remains appeared on newspaper front pages around the world.

Far


Definition:

  • (n.) A young pig, or a litter of pigs.
  • (a.) Distant in any direction; not near; remote; mutually separated by a wide space or extent.
  • (a.) Remote from purpose; contrary to design or wishes; as, far be it from me to justify cruelty.
  • (a.) Remote in affection or obedience; at a distance, morally or spiritually; t enmity with; alienated.
  • (a.) Widely different in nature or quality; opposite in character.
  • (a.) The more distant of two; as, the far side (called also off side) of a horse, that is, the right side, or the one opposite to the rider when he mounts.
  • (adv.) To a great extent or distance of space; widely; as, we are separated far from each other.
  • (adv.) To a great distance in time from any point; remotely; as, he pushed his researches far into antiquity.
  • (adv.) In great part; as, the day is far spent.
  • (adv.) In a great proportion; by many degrees; very much; deeply; greatly.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) These results indicated that the PG determination was the most accurate predictor of fetal lung well-being prior to birth among the clinical tests so far reported.
  • (2) As far as acrophase table is concerned for all enzymes and fractions the acrophase occurred during the night.
  • (3) A commensurate rise in both smoking and adenocarcinoma has occurred in the Far East where the incidence rate (40%) is twice that of North America or Europe.
  • (4) Brown's model, which goes far further than those from any other senior Labour figure, and the modest new income tax powers for Holyrood devised when he was prime minister, edge the party much closer to the quasi-federal plans championed by the Liberal Democrats.
  • (5) It contains 10,000 apartments so far, in blocks that might appear Soviet but for shades of blue, green and yellow.
  • (6) But not only did it post a larger loss than expected, Amazon also projected 7% to 18% revenue growth over the busiest shopping period of the year, a far cry from the 20%-plus pace that had convinced investors to overlook its persistent lack of profit in the past.
  • (7) Mary's grief, which lasts for about the first half of the two-hour premiere special, is the finest work of the series so far by Michelle Dockery.
  • (8) I hope I can play a major part in really highlighting the need for far more extensive family violence training within all organisations that deal with women and children, including the police and the department of human services,” Batty said.
  • (9) Reasons for non-acceptance do not indicate any major difficulties in the employment of such staff in general practice, at least as far as the patients are concerned.
  • (10) Little is so far known of the origin of this syndrome.
  • (11) Although there was already satisfaction in the development of dementia-friendly pharmacies and Pride in Practice, a new standard of excellence in healthcare for gay, lesbian and bisexual patients, the biggest achievement so far was the bringing together of a strategic partnership of 37 NHS, local government and social organisations.
  • (12) Unlikely, he laughs: "We were founded on the idea of distributing information as far as possible."
  • (13) US presidential election 2016: the state of the Republican race as the year begins Read more So far, the former secretary of state seems to be recovering well from self-inflicted wounds that dogged the start of her second, and most concerted, attempt for the White House.
  • (14) The aim of this paper is to demonstrate that the problems which arise from simultaneously developing regulatory and competitive approaches to health care cost containment can be solved, if recognized, and that those problems deserve more systematic investigation than they have so far received.
  • (15) In general, air from the mediastinum far more often enters the left pleural cavity than the right one.
  • (16) In the far east is the arid, depressed country leading down Hell’s Canyon, which bottoms out at the Snake River, which the wolves crossed when they moved from Idaho, and which they now treat more as a crosswalk than a barrier.
  • (17) We demonstrated that while the protein was incorporated into the cell layer at 6, 24, 48, and 72 hr, a far greater amount was secreted into the media.
  • (18) Still, even as unknowable as this decision may be for him, as any decision is, really, he is far more qualified to understand his desires and goals that would inform that decision than anyone else is.
  • (19) They include the Francoist slogan "Arriba España" and the yoke-and-arrows symbol of the far right Falange, whose members killed the women.
  • (20) For each of the goals, some were far from complying.

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