What's the difference between aver and paver?

Aver


Definition:

  • (n.) A work horse, or working ox.
  • (v. t.) To assert, or prove, the truth of.
  • (v. t.) To avouch or verify; to offer to verify; to prove or justify. See Averment.
  • (v. t.) To affirm with confidence; to declare in a positive manner, as in confidence of asserting the truth.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The maximum percentage difference between observations was 46% (AVER).
  • (2) Thereafter, ministers alone should make such warnings public, and then only when there is a real prospect that they might aver a tragedy.
  • (3) Correlation coefficients for measurements obtained by two independent observers in 44 studies ranged from r = 0.87 (AVER) to r = 0.96 (TPFR) but spontaneous changes of up to 52% occurred (AVFR).
  • (4) The German and the European common interests coincide, Merkel avers, echoing Helmut Kohl's mantra in the era of Maastricht and German reunification 20 years ago.
  • (5) The protest camp in Ramadi was, Maliki averred, an al-Qaida headquarters.
  • (6) There are others who might aver that the bathroom bashfulness would be unusual during a live burglary, never mind one taking place under the obvious time pressures that would be dictated by it happening in one of the most heavily protected gated communities in one of the most security-obsessed countries on Earth.
  • (7) Gated blood pool studies were performed one week apart in 42 patients and between study correlation coefficients for these measurements ranged from r = 0.58 (TPER) to r = 0.99 (PFR) but there were spontaneous changes in measurements of up to 82% (AVER).
  • (8) The averaged acoustic evoked responses (AAER) exhibit more sensitivity to halothane than the averaged visual evoked responses (AVER).
  • (9) Like vacuoles, "peroxisomal" fractions isolated from yeast spheroplasts as described by Avers[1] contain only one catalase protein, catalase A.
  • (10) Residents aver that women's "naturally" weaker constitutions and a moral imperative to worry places them at greater risk for nerves.
  • (11) Prince declares war on touts as his ticket sales are postponed Read more Paisley Park, the lyrics aver, is filled with laughing children on see-saws and “colourful people” with expressions that “speak of profound inner peace”, whatever they look like.
  • (12) Authors of most textbooks of dermatology and dermatopathology consider guttate parapsoriasis and digitate dermatosis to be variants of small plaque parapsoriasis which, they aver, is not related to mycosis fungoides.
  • (13) Acute toxicity, androgenic, gonadotropic, estrogenic and aphrodisiac effect of the whole medical plant Lithospermum aver arvense and its seeds was investigated on white rats and white mice.
  • (14) An assessment was made of the reproducibility (between study differences) interobserver variability and intraobserver variability of 7 radionuclide measurements describing both resting left ventricular ejection (ejection fraction--EF, average ejection rate--AVER, peak ejection rate--PER, time to peak ejection rate--TPER) and filling (average filling rate--AVFR, peak filling rate--PFR, time to peak filling rate--TPFR).
  • (15) A Corbyn-led Labour can never win the 2020 UK general election, they aver.
  • (16) After operation, despite the clinical improvement, the alterations of AVERs or DPs were very marked and in some cases became even more important than before.
  • (17) Important changes in AVER (in amplitude and latency) were found in the patients with tumours on the midline or in one of the frontal lobes.
  • (18) But the Catholic church, avers Francis, is not an exclusive community of the just, but a big tent of sinners.
  • (19) He averred that the whippings had made him "one of the best artists in the world".
  • (20) Should the CIA or JSOC wish to convince the president to do so, they must aver that they have “near certainty that the target is present”, civilians won’t be harmed, “capture is not feasible” and “no other reasonable alternatives exist”.

Paver


Definition:

  • (n.) One who paves; one who lays a pavement.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Rubio also addressed this charge in his 2012 book, without disclosing the exact amount, by noting he “pulled out the wrong card … to pay for pavers”.
  • (2) The latter, which has 100 shops and about 800 employees, is also at risk of administration but is talking to potential buyers thought to include private equity firm Endless and footwear groups Kurt Geiger and Pavers.
  • (3) There is still technically a pavement, but it is only distinguished by a row of ribbed "corduroy" pavers, aimed in particular at helping the blind.
  • (4) Dr Keith Paver Manchester • The Guardian has followed in the footsteps of the Financial Times which a few weeks ago stated that the government would be funding the NHS to the tune of £8bn per year during this parliament.