What's the difference between baker and waker?

Baker


Definition:

  • (v. i.) One whose business it is to bake bread, biscuit, etc.
  • (v. i.) A portable oven in which baking is done.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) 16 tube (usually a Baker tube) was inserted by gastrostomy and advanced distally into the colon.
  • (2) The behaviour of the enzyme from Candida utilis and from Baker's yeast on columns of these and of Blue Sepharose CL-6B was examined, together with the behaviour of the contaminating enzyme, ribulose 5-phosphate 3-epimerase (EC 5.1.3.1).
  • (3) Both bryostatin 1 and 4 beta-phorbol 12,13-dibutyrate (PBt2) activate Ca2+- and phospholipid-dependent protein kinase (protein kinase C) at the plasma membrane in HL-60 cells (Kraft, A. S., Baker, V. V., and May, W. S. (1987) Oncogene 1, 91-100).
  • (4) Genes of the baker's yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae are densely clustered on 16 linear chromosomes.
  • (5) 7 male and 39 female undergraduates were alternately assigned to rooms painted red or Baker-Miller Pink.
  • (6) Unlike Baker, a courtly Texan, Lew is a low-key figure, an observant Orthodox Jew and native New Yorker, of whom the New York Times once revealed: "He brings his own lunch (a cheese sandwich and an apple) and eats at his desk."
  • (7) Baker was proud of having fired her dramatic coach from the set and needing a maximum of only five takes for the difficult actress.
  • (8) The protein is highly homologous to E1o of Azotobacter vinelandii and Escherichia coli and of bakers' yeast cells.
  • (9) On BBC4, Danny Baker's Rockin' Decades launched with 258,000 viewers and a 1.1% share from 9pm.
  • (10) The principle’s not so different now.” Fifteen years ago, when he was 27, Baker found himself with an ailing father and 250 cows, farmed traditionally – grass in summer, silage and concentrates in winter – around the village.
  • (11) This kind of audience investment is one of the reasons why James Baker's 30 Days to Space , at the Edinburgh 2010 forest fringe, proved so fascinating.
  • (12) Glutamate uptake was greatly reduced by removal of extracellular Na in confirmation of work by Baker & Potashner (1973).
  • (13) Unless the latest guidance was translated into action, Baker said there would have to be a rethink in practice “because we have spent 60 years assuming that most infections will be cured by antibiotic drugs”.
  • (14) The Glaxo Australia-Baker Medical Research Institute Agreement is for curiosity driven research in specified areas of vascular pharmacology of interest to Glaxo Group Research.
  • (15) The BBC said it had no further comment to make about Clarkson's suicide remarks, on Wednesday's edition of BBC1 show hosted by Matt Baker and Alex Jones.
  • (16) The results indicate, that the transgenic yeast strain behaves like wild-type strains and the plasmid-free laboratory strain and has no properties which would make it fitter under environmental conditions, which are inappropriate for baker yeast.
  • (17) Bakers will have far more opportunity to play around with their prices.
  • (18) The retailer has put in thousands more staff to improve service and has been testing new ideas in existing stores, such as artisan bakeries run by Euphorium, a specialist baker based in Islington in London; and upmarket Harris + Hoole coffee shops and Giraffe restaurants – all businesses that Tesco has invested in over the past two years.
  • (19) Baker said: “I spoke to the woman looking after us and she said, we’ll survive this easily.
  • (20) Nor were Fowler and Baker alone in receiving such criticism.

Waker


Definition:

  • (n.) One who wakes.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The new core ability here – equivalent to Ocarina of Time 's temporal shifting or Wind Waker 's control of gales – is turning 2D, walking against walls or through cracks.
  • (2) "Bananafish" was the first of the stories to feature the Glass family, two retired vaudeville performers and their seven precocious children: Seymour, Buddy, Boo Boo, Walt, Waker, Zooey and Franny.
  • (3) Parents of wakers were positive about both the support they had received and the booklet.
  • (4) The beautiful, stylistic fighter Bayonetta 2 , a console exclusive, was particularly eye-catching, as was Zelda: The Wind Waker but perhaps most intriguing was The Wonderful 101 , a lovely kid-friendly title in which a troupe of miniature superheroes fight evil by combining to form themselves into tools and weapons.
  • (5) Mothers of night wakers showed higher levels of distress than those in the sleeping group.

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