What's the difference between backpack and knapsack?

Backpack


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Knapsack


Definition:

  • (v. t.) A case of canvas or leather, for carrying on the back a soldier's necessaries, or the clothing, etc., of a traveler.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Potential dermal exposure from tractor-powered sprayers fitted with conventional hydraulic nozzles was lower than from knapsack sprayers, with exposure from a tractor-powered sprayer fitted with controlled-droplet application equipment intermediate in this regard.
  • (2) You can date the phrase back further, to 1998, when Peggy McIntosh used the word "privilege" in her essay White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack .
  • (3) Experiments on the frequency and duration of molluscicide treatments were carried out, and from these it was concluded that 5-day applications of N-tritylmorpholine at 0.025 ppm every 7 weeks might lead to a break in transmission by control of the snails.In another set of trials, drainage ditches were treated alternately with N-tritylmorpholine and niclosamide ethanolamine salt, and although the chemicals differed only slightly in their effect, the latter-being ovicidal-was chosen to be applied at approximately 4 ppm by knapsack sprayer every 8 weeks.
  • (4) He was weighed down with baggage: a white plastic bag, a raffia shopping basket and a knapsack, all of which appeared to be full.
  • (5) Trenches are recreated, and knapsacks available so you can feel how heavy they weigh.
  • (6) And do those abandoned knapsacks belong to corpses hauled out of sight of the camera?
  • (7) The lower legs of the workers were exposed principally when knapsack sprayers were used.
  • (8) To support the continued use and the registration of monocrotophos, a field study was conducted at Calauan, Laguna, The Philippines, to assess exposure and the resulting health risk to 21 spraymen applying monocrotophos to rice crop by knapsack spraying during 3 consecutive days.
  • (9) Then, his knapsack stocked with an apple, a toothbrush, a book on government – all you need for a night behind bars – John Lewis led them out of the church on a mission to change America.
  • (10) Non-toxic model pesticides and tracer dyes were applied to rice, vegetable, mango, cotton and coffee crops in the Philippines, Thailand, Tanzania and Malawi, using knapsack and ULV spinning disc sprayers.
  • (11) Two patients with signs and symptoms of paralysis of the brachial plexus, caused by compression during surgery in one (case 1) and by a knapsack in the other (case 2), were examined.
  • (12) Items assessed included protective garments worn by workers mixing and loading the organophosphorus insecticide formulation Tamaron and by spraymen applying the diluted formulation for several hours per day to a cotton crop with knapsack sprayers.
  • (13) The OED dates the first reference to "knapsacks" to 1603, when the English poet Michael Drayton imagined soldiers filling them with things found in the field.
  • (14) "I am leafing through a CDF drawing book and there are knapsacks on some people.
  • (15) Like the children in Calais, he had very little with him, a few clothes and a knapsack of food, (which he forgot to open on the journey – a sign, he thinks, of how traumatised he was).
  • (16) As a former foreign secretary and as a backbencher with a field marshal's baton in his knapsack, the past two and a half years have been hard.
  • (17) Emulsifiable concentrates of DursbanR (chlorpyrifos) and Dowco 214 (chlorpyrifos-methyl) were tested as mosquito larvicides using Hudson knapsack sprayers on small plots of rice-fields on Penang Island.
  • (18) Patten begins gently by telling me that his grandparents were both headteachers in Manchester; he had Didsbury aunties and, as a boy, used to follow Brian Statham, the Lancashire fast bowler, from ground to ground, a bottle of Tizer and Sandwich Spread sarnies in his knapsack.
  • (19) All I took with me was a small shoulder knapsack that contained a six-pack of beer, cigarettes, matches, a bag of crisps and a toilet roll.

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