What's the difference between baiter and gaiter?

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.

Gaiter


Definition:

  • (n.) A covering of cloth or leather for the ankle and instep, or for the whole leg from the knee to the instep, fitting down upon the shoe.
  • (n.) A kind of shoe, consisting of cloth, and covering the ankle.
  • (v. t.) To dress with gaiters.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Measurements were made over the gaiter skin, the healed ulcer and the upper arm.
  • (2) Abnormalities in venous anatomy and function have been shown, in conjunction with evidence of reduced oxygen diffusion, through the gaiter skin before overt skin changes develop.
  • (3) Calf pump function was assessed by foot volumetry and the 'gaiter' skin nutritive circulation by measuring the transcutaneous oxygen tension (PtcO2).
  • (4) Transcutaneous oxygen measurements of the gaiter skin were performed continuously throughout the experiment.
  • (5) All three groups had an increase in visible capillary loops and a reduction in blood flux in the gaiter region when the leg was placed in the dependent position.
  • (6) These findings show that significant skin hypoxia occurs on the gaiter area of limbs with severe venous disease and support the concept of an oxygen diffusion block.
  • (7) Eleven patients with lipodermatosclerosis (LDS) and 14 patients without venous or arterial disease underwent measurement of xenon-133 (133Xe) half-clearance times from the gaiter region of the leg.
  • (8) Fifty subjects (14 normal controls, 21 with superficial venous insufficiency (SVI), and 15 with deep venous insufficiency (DVI] have been studied in the supine and dependent positions in a constant environment using video capillary microscopy, laser Doppler flowmetry and transcutaneous oxygen measurements to the gaiter skin.
  • (9) We examined the levels of oxygen on the skin of the gaiter areas of limbs with venous disease using a Roche Transcutaneous pO2 Monitor to determine whether hypoxia contributes to the skin changes and ulceration associated with severe venous disease.
  • (10) His credit appeared on episodes of the ecclesiastical sitcom All Gas and Gaiters, the legal satire Misleading Cases, Spike Milligan's The World of Beachcomber and As Good Cooks Go, an ill-fated vehicle for the comedian Tessie O'Shea.