What's the difference between asker and esker?

Asker


Definition:

  • (n.) One who asks; a petitioner; an inquirer.
  • (n.) An ask; a water newt.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) This investigation reports only 16% smokers among pregnant women registered at 18th week of pregnancy in the two municipalities of Asker and Baerum.
  • (2) It’s why I love the Let Me Google That For You website – in which askers of easily answerable questions are sent an automatic link that enters the question into Google, to shame their indolence.
  • (3) At 16:09 the chief of operations in Asker and Bærum, the district through which Breivik was now driving, finally got through to Oslo police district to offer assistance.
  • (4) "Don't ever vote for anyone else," I watched him tell an elderly woman, as askers of genuine questions were physically barred from his presence.
  • (5) We have previously mapped the c-myc to rat chromosome 7 (J. Sümegi, J. Spira, H. Bazin, J. Szpirer, G. Levan, and G. Klein, Nature [London] 306:497-498, 1983) and N-myc and L-myc to rat chromosomes 6 and 5, respectively (S. Ingvarsson, C. Asker, Z. Wirschubsky, J. Szpirer, G. Levan, G. Klein, and J. Sümegi, Somat.
  • (6) Asker and Bærum’s second patrol had been busy with a psychiatric assignment and had been given orders to leave it.
  • (7) At that point in time, the station at Asker and Bærum had three patrol cars at its disposal; the chief of operations rang the closest one and gave the description.

Esker


Definition:

  • (n.) See Eschar.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The temperature in the esker is assumed to be at a constant level equivalent to groundwater temperature.
  • (2) Concentrations of radon indoors and temperatures indoors and outdoors have been recorded every hour with some interruptions for one 12-week period in a dwelling situated on top of an esker outside Stockholm.
  • (3) The concentration of radon in the house shows variations, which can be explained as a combined stack effect in the esker and in the building.
  • (4) Dickens's genius for human observation at its quickest reaches a kind of pinnacle with the young man who tries to exercise his French and says "Esker" at a Veneering dinner, says nothing more and never reappears.

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