What's the difference between anker and hanker?

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.

Hanker


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To long (for) with a keen appetite and uneasiness; to have a vehement desire; -- usually with for or after; as, to hanker after fruit; to hanker after the diversions of the town.
  • (v. i.) To linger in expectation or with desire.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Mr Bae stars in a popular drama, Winter Sonata, a tale of rekindled puppy love that has left many Japanese women hankering for an age when their own men were as sensitive and attentive as the Korean actor.
  • (2) All lovely, logical reasons, none of which apply to me: I work from home, live in London and don't need to budget because I only hanker for tat.
  • (3) He hankered for a return to Spain but, despite collecting four winners’ medals in his first season and celebrating the first league title of his career the following year, things did not proceed entirely as he might have hoped at Camp Nou.
  • (4) He seems to hanker after footholds – a dabble with Scientology has come to an end, and it seems fair to say that the experience has contributed to what he calls his "wounded position".
  • (5) In our apolitical age, his ideological promiscuity looks more like posturing than what it really was, a desperate hankering after the truth.
  • (6) Phillips, a journalist for many years before he became a full-time politician (does he still hanker to be London mayor?)
  • (7) McBride’s book, published almost 10 years after Brown’s death, is that hankering for more.
  • (8) A muted reaction works better than the self-righteous explosion they are sometimes hankering after.
  • (9) But what they hanker for is a left that treats Israel the way it treats any other country with such a record – as a flawed society, but not one that is a byword for evil, that is deemed a “disease” (as it was by a caller to a 2010 show on Press TV , the Iranian state broadcaster, without objection from the host, Jeremy Corbyn), whose very right to exist is held to be conditional on good behaviour, a standard not applied to any other nation on Earth.
  • (10) If she’d turned over the records it would have put an end to it pretty early.” Clinton’s hankering for privacy should not be confused with reticence.
  • (11) Squint, and you might think the Lib Dems were maintaining the equal distance between the other parties they used to hanker after.
  • (12) Photograph: National Trust What do you do if you hanker after a dose of solitude somewhere scenic and remote, but can no longer heft a heavy rucksack because of a dodgy back?
  • (13) Some in our movement hanker for the days of protectionism, imagining that tariffs on imports support local jobs,” Wong says.
  • (14) Which would all be fine, I venture, except that few people hanker after a big tub of popcorn on a Saturday night to watch a socially engaged, left-slanting film.
  • (15) It had appeared that Scott was destined to resist, thereby disappointing those hankering to know more of Rick Deckard, played by Harrison Ford, and Roy Batty (Rutger Hauer).
  • (16) Following incubation the copper ferrocyanide reaction product was amplified with 3,3'-diamino-benzidine according to Hanker et al.
  • (17) The sites of the antigen-antibody reaction were demonstrated by the avidin-biotin-peroxidase complex method using the Hanker-Yates reagent as a peroxidase substrate.
  • (18) "Of course JCS subsequently became a legit theatre stalwart, but I, personally, have always hankered after seeing it again in the arenas where it started," said Andrew Lloyd Webber in a statement.
  • (19) He will tell the Tory right that it runs the risk of endangering the coalition's collective achievements in cutting the deficit by hankering after tax cuts for the rich, or renegotiating the European Union treaty in the wake of the Euro crisis.
  • (20) It was typical of Hughes to leave the Brazilian on the bench for his last game, and when he has played Robinho has only occasionally looked as impressive as his price tag, though it is hardly Hughes's fault if the Brazilian none too secretly hankers for a move back to Spain or needs a manager with a more stellar CV fully to motivate him.