What's the difference between anker and wanker?

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.

Wanker


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Five minutes from time a fat red shirt stalked past making the tosser sign and, for emphasis, yelling: "Fucking wankers!"
  • (2) Disclosure of the arrest, which came after Hilton shouted "wanker" at train staff when he failed to produce his ticket on time, comes days after the leaking of emails he sent to Tory MPs.
  • (3) I am satisfied he helped to prevent Mr Sylla entering the carriage,” said Branston, adding that he also made “a wanker sign” toward the Frenchman.
  • (4) Thinking it was quite a lark we joined in and the ensuing 10-minute interval on the hallowed turf was a carnival atmosphere with much fun had by all, the highlight being the conga lines dancing to the chant of 'Bulstrode is a wanker'.
  • (5) The federal agriculture minister, Barnaby Joyce, has asked the broadcast watchdog to investigate outspoken radio host Kyle Sandilands for calling him a “wanker” and other insults on air.
  • (6) In EastEnders up to 10 years ago, when he was running it, "language was much more brutal, characters used words such as 'git', 'bloody', 'wanker', which are now no longer acceptable".
  • (7) It's a wanker, basically, but an advanced one; one you "feed" using a smartphone app that lets you design custom-built sandwiches according to its whims.
  • (8) The favourite phrase I used to get whenever I went to Liverpool – as soon as I got off a train or out of my car – was: ‘Hey, Bob, tell that Tony Wilson he’s a wanker.’ I must have had that delivered to me thousands of times.
  • (9) Then his daughter kept things ticking over by retweeting a comment on his critics: "Hello to the bunch of wankers that come from the proletariat and only criticize those they envy".
  • (10) I'd say: 'Why are you acting like a complete wanker?'
  • (11) Wankers," I said, fingering my cup, wondering if that was what the clay wrangler wanted me to say.
  • (12) He's already telling me what a wanker I am, and he's clearly not going to leave.
  • (13) Ian Hislop , a team captain on Have I Got News For You, declined to join a host of high-profile figures in signing a public letter warning against cuts to the BBC to avoid appearing to be an “overpaid wanker”, he has revealed.
  • (14) He then reportedly started shouting "wanker" and was arrested and taken to the New Street's rail police station.
  • (15) He has never taken drugs, because back in the 80s, "one or two of my colleagues started acting like complete wankers.
  • (16) ‘Terrific wankerer’, ‘sadistic nurse’: Boris strikes again (and again) All of this means that our foreign secretary, Boris Johnson, cannot even hope to win awards for undiplomatic language, however often he mentions the US president’s part-Kenyan ancestry, calls the Turkish president a “terrific wankerer”, quips that the only reason he “wouldn’t visit some parts of New York is the real risk of meeting Donald Trump” or that Hillary Clinton looks like “a sadistic nurse in a mental hospital”.
  • (17) Johnny Borrell is a wanker because he's a wanker, not because Razorlight got massive."
  • (18) And sometimes, at least in public, they do really act like wankers.
  • (19) It happened today when dutifully reporting that Steve Hilton, one of the three or four most important people in David Cameron's working life, called a stroppy ticket collector at Birmingham New St station a "wanker."
  • (20) "Because we've spent so many evenings and weekends writing together, the fact that we can now do that during the day feels very precious," says Gonzalez, who then catches himself and says: "I sound like a complete wanker."