What's the difference between aviator and flier?

Aviator


Definition:

  • (n.) An experimenter in aviation.
  • (n.) A flying machine.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Only two aviators were permanently removed from flying duties due to glaucoma.
  • (2) Grant and to engineer his eventual acceptance to the School of Aviation Medicine.
  • (3) The satellite was jointly built by the Khrunichev centre in Moscow – named after a Soviet-era aviation minister, Mikhail Khrunichev – and Astrium, a Paris-based aerospace company.
  • (4) This device is suitable for direct monitoring of blood pressure and pulse frequency during operation, in the postoperative period as during inner clinical transport or aviation transport.
  • (5) The case records of 76 student aviators referred to the Neuropsychiatry Branch of the USAF School of Aerospace Medicine during the period 1968-78 are reviewed.
  • (6) The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) may choose to provide exemptions for studios hoping to use the technology for artistic purposes.
  • (7) Although we’ve seen improvements ... in some areas we have years to go, in particular the aviation area,” Nicholson said.
  • (8) Flirtey is yet to receive regulatory approval from the Civil Aviation Safety Authority (Casa) – it first contacted the regulatory body on Thursday – and the drones can fly only 3km before needing to recharge, but the company is confident improvements in the technology will increase its reach.
  • (9) However, Friends of the Earth's Jane Thomas said: "We mustn't be taken in by aviation industry spin – building more airports or runways will have a major impact on local communities and our environment."
  • (10) Greece aviation sources told Agence France-Presse it was believed the plane had crashed into the sea 150 miles (240km) off the southern Greek island of Karpathos while in Egyptian airspace.
  • (11) Because of the physical and technological constraints, the only way in which we can realistically reduce aviation’s greenhouse gases is to fly less.
  • (12) If you were to say within the aviation industry we can reduce our carbon footprint by 25%, people would be saying well that’s fantastic, that is big news.
  • (13) Modern high-speed aviation and space flight are fraught with many problems and require a high standard of health and fitness.
  • (14) The disruption at the airport in West Sussex is already being looked into by the Civil Aviation Authority.
  • (15) In the early days of aviation there were incidents and then aviation became very safe.
  • (16) "The Chinese see aviation as a building block of growth.
  • (17) It explains the failure to unearth evidence of assassination: because state-appointed aviation experts conducted the investigation, their conclusion that it had been an accident proves that the state remains in the hands of the perpetrators (Law and Justice defence minister Antoni Macierewicz described their investigation as the greatest cover-up “in the history of the world”).
  • (18) Qatar has also appealed to international aviation authorities to rule as illegal the overflight ban imposed on Qatar Airways by its neighbours, and has briefed lawyers to challenge the flight and other restrictions in the courts.
  • (19) Malaysia Airlines and Malaysia's department of civil aviation are also working on removing all evidence from the crash site for further investigation – a complicated endeavour given that the site is on the frontline of a war zone.
  • (20) Bullish as ever, a press release reveals that the service should be available by 2015 – once the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)'s rules on the safety of unmanned aerial vehicles are finalised.

Flier


Definition:

  • (v.) One who flies or flees; a runaway; a fugitive.
  • (v.) A fly. See Fly, n., 9, and 13 (b).
  • (n.) See Flyer, n., 5.
  • (n.) See Flyer, n., 4.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) As night fell, one teenager, Alex, who had slipped out of an independent school (she refused to say which one) was heading home, pausing only grab a flier advertising a "Snow Rave" for 16-18-year-olds.
  • (2) In 27% of the households, someone recalled receiving the flier.
  • (3) "I'm making that recommendation because I think those career average schemes are fairer to the broad majority of people who work in public services whose careers are not marked by sudden salary spikes like the high fliers.
  • (4) Work experience has changed from something that was seen as nice to have on a CV to something that’s become a necessity,” said Martin Birchall, managing director of High Fliers Research , which undertook the survey.
  • (5) I was an only child and I grew up among adults who were all quite high-fliers - famous actors and poets and playwrights - and so I never really felt I knew how to fit in.
  • (6) Yet the Tory attack dogs behind the election flier believe things are changing here, and elsewhere, and they are not waiting for Ukip to prove them right.
  • (7) Operation KKK (@Operation_KKK) All will be revealed next month around the one year anniversary of #OpKKK October 22, 2015 In November 2014, a local Missouri chapter of the KKK distributed fliers threatening violence against activists.
  • (8) There is a subset of fliers with "office hypertension" who may be on medication needlessly.
  • (9) A significant number of fliers are in a high or extremely high risk category for the development of CAD based on NIH criteria.
  • (10) And it’s not just people the cable car carries: sheep and cattle are frequent fliers, too.
  • (11) With this method 2 young fliers were freed of calculi and allowed to resume their chosen career.
  • (12) Hester admitted RBS was having to offer guaranteed bonuses to retain staff – and also to attract new high-fliers.
  • (13) by D. D. Bond, and "Notes on Men and Groups Under Stress of Combat," by D. G. Wright (a single volume, 1945); "Personality Disturbances in Combat Fliers," by N. A.
  • (14) The fliers showed higher superoxide dismutase and catalase activities and glutathione concentration than crawlers, whereas, the amount of inorganic peroxides (H2O2) and TBA-reactants was higher in the crawlers than in fliers.
  • (15) "They [final salary schemes] are fundamentally unfair – fundamentally unfair to the vast majority who work in the public sector, and can lead to high-fliers getting almost twice as much back in pensions than those on more modest earnings for the same amount of pension contributions.
  • (16) Females receiving their food by flight only ("forced fliers") show a shorter mean life span (which is more pronounced in virgin flies).
  • (17) We studied the evolving characteristics, as well as the qualification criteria, applied to 261 fliers with incomplete right bundle branch block (IRBBB), detected in a presumable healthy population of 7,685 males engaged in civilian flying activities (prevalence 3.4%).
  • (18) Jiban Ghimire, owner of Shangri-La Nepal, lost four of his team with one still missing, some of them working for an NBC crew filming the attempt by wing-suit flier Joby Ogwyn to base jump from the top of the mountain.
  • (19) The flier group reflected lower scores than the non-fliers.
  • (20) On this measure, Michael O'Leary is the green flier and Branson is the polluter.