What's the difference between baiter and fishhook?

Baiter


Definition:

  • (n.) One who baits; a tormentor.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Or is that slot already taken by the Bell-baiters for when he has taken over and failed?"
  • (2) But even if they struggle for cohesion, the incoming nationalists, neo-fascists, establishment baiters and hard leftists will make it trickier for the mainstream to push through its legislative agenda on everything from trade pacts with America to climate change to immigration policy to eurozone economic and fiscal integration.
  • (3) The far-right Islam-baiter Geert Wilders did worse than expected, albeit not so badly on 13% and one seat down.
  • (4) Ishihara, who has earned a reputation as a China-baiter, said the Senkakus' owners had told him no deal had been finalised, while Tokyo officials said the governor was expected to visit the islands in the coming weeks.
  • (5) A liberals-led coalition has just taken office in the Netherlands dependent on the parliamentary support of Geert Wilders, Europe's leading Islam-baiter.
  • (6) The baiters are always free to organise their own demonstration (I would be happy to join), and protest movements can only realistically aspire to put pressure on governments at home, whether it be on domestic policies or alliances with human rights abusers abroad (whether that be, say, the head-chopping Saudi exporters of extremism, or Israel’s occupation of Palestine).
  • (7) Plenty of the jokes in 80s sitcom The Young Ones, or even the 70s comedy Butterflies were at the expense of similarly youthful pretentions.Though these newer, online baiters pick similar targets, it isn't clear that the term hipster, in its modern usage, is sharply defined enough for truly cutting satire.
  • (8) Could Hackney's hipster-baiter ever concede that east London's trendies might, in the words of one n+1 contributor, remind us of "youth and daring and style, that we don't have any more or perhaps never did?"
  • (9) Pouring out your heart online will ensure a tidal wave of empathy, interspersed with comments from the deluded teacher-baiters waiting to make bizarrely inarticulate points about the private sector or long holidays.
  • (10) It is a duty, which if you shirk it, leaves the field clear for race baiters and dictatorial movements.
  • (11) Founder and frontman Matt Healy is a jittery, tireless chatterbox – an NME -baiter who might yet stoke up a major breakthrough for his band on quote-combustion alone.
  • (12) But they were always thorny, never safe, and they made enemies of liberals as well as conservatives: the black critic Stanley Crouch went as far as calling them “afro-fascist race-baiters”.
  • (13) It accused him of waging war on “Anglo-Saxon males, who work for a living, believe in God and the right to keep and bear arms” and called the president and his then attorney general, Eric Holder , “race baiters with blood on their hands”.
  • (14) The Netherlands' iconoclastic populist and Islam-baiter Geert Wilders is plotting a new campaign to rile the political establishment – a "resistance tour" of the country.
  • (15) A typical bit of Wilsonian intrigue in the 1960s made it seem cunning to bring in Charles Hill , then regarded as a reliable BBC-baiter, a disruptive move which David Attenborough likened to putting Rommel in charge of the Eighth Army.

Fishhook


Definition:

  • (n.) A hook for catching fish.
  • (n.) A hook with a pendant, to the end of which the fish-tackle is hooked.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Ninety-seven consecutive permanent epicardial pacemaker implantations were performed with either suture-type (group I, n = 52) or fishhook electrodes (group II, n = 45).
  • (2) Local anesthetics and simple removal techniques are adequate for nearly all fishhook injuries.
  • (3) Fishhook injuries are fairly common in some geographic areas.
  • (4) Results of this study suggest that most fishhook injuries involve the hands or head and that postremoval wound care including oral antibiotic therapy may not be critical.
  • (5) Preureteric vena cava is a rare congenital anomaly usually presenting clinically with hydronephrosis and an "S or fishhook" deformity of the ureter at the third or fourth lumbar vertebrae.
  • (6) Fishhook injuries rarely pose a true emergency, and only a few cases of posterior ocular injury from fishhooks have been described.
  • (7) A prospective study was conducted involving 100 nonrandomized, consecutive patients who suffered fishhook injury during the summer of 1990 in Alaska.
  • (8) The plug is 7-9 mm silicone or polyethylene fishhook, measuring 1 mm at the tip and 2 mm at the base which is surrounded by 4 elgiloy spines.
  • (9) Routine systemic antibiotic prophylaxis is not necessary for uncomplicated soft tissue injury due to fishhooks not involving cartilage or tendons.
  • (10) The two epimyocardial fishhook pacing electrodes were inserted through different incisions.
  • (11) Time of injury prior to admission to the emergency department, location of fishhook, method of removal, wound care, systemic antibiotic prophylaxis, anesthetic, tetanus immunization status, fishhook size, and complication rate were evaluated.
  • (12) Two simple techniques can be employed to remove a fishhook safely and easily.
  • (13) An intussusception resulting from an embedded fishhook and a mass of nylon cord, monofilament line, and wire was determined to be the cause of death in a Florida manatee (Trichechus manatus latirostris).
  • (14) The patient's roentgenograms showed the dystrophies of bones, lace-shaped ribs, boat-shaped cranium, fishhook-shaped forefront protrusion of silla trucica.
  • (15) We present a case of penetrating ocular, orbital, and cranial trauma produced by a broken fishhook.
  • (16) Diaphragmatic (Edi) and parasternal intercostal (Eic) electromyograms were recorded using fishhook electrodes.
  • (17) Following problems are shown using slides: --ingrown rings and their removal with follow-up treatment, --the removal of fishhooks, especially in swans, --the removal of projectiles from the bird's body, --the removal of lead slivers from the digestive tract of parrots as well as the follow-up treatment, --the removal of gold chains, plastic tubing and other "toys" from the intestine.
  • (18) A routine x-ray examination showed a fishhook lodged in the esophagus of an asymptomatic 68-year-old man.
  • (19) We have observed such atypical loops, under microcirculatory microscope and recording color TV, as: (1) big fishhook-like (2) dumb-bell like (3) glomerular (4) hemorrhagic (5) vascular (6) big tadpole-like (7) net-like (8) papillar edema.

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