What's the difference between barker and pistol?

Barker


Definition:

  • (n.) An animal that barks; hence, any one who clamors unreasonably.
  • (n.) One who stands at the doors of shops to urg/ passers by to make purchases.
  • (n.) A pistol.
  • (n.) The spotted redshank.
  • (n.) One who strips trees of their bark.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) "While I wouldn't necessarily concur with all the specific recommendations of the report," Barker said, "there is one clear message that I do agree with: that solar has far more potential than has previously been thought."
  • (2) Most significantly, it has delegated too much to the Bank of England, which next year will for the first time have a governor appointed for an eight-year term, into a very powerful unelected role," Barker said.
  • (3) The new companies to be given ministerial buddies – but not yet publicly disclosed – include the property firms Atkins and Balfour Beatty, which have been paired with climate change minister Greg Barker, who is overseeing work on the government's green deal and zero-carbon homes programmes.
  • (4) It was on the set of The Frost Report that production staff began to refer to Barker and Corbett as "the two Ronnies", while the writing team included Michael Palin, Terry Jones, Graham Chapman, and Eric Idle – every Monty Python member bar Terry Gilliam – as well as Marty Feldman and lead writer Antony Jay, who went on to create Yes, Minister.
  • (5) Microgeneration like home wind and solar panels will not be covered by the project, but could be marketed by selling companies alongside the core efficiency measures, said Barker.
  • (6) The rates "will come down", Barker confirmed when we spoke last week.
  • (7) Each week, Frost's script, the sketches and topical songs would riff on a single theme - for example class, when John Cleese, Corbett and Barker appeared in one of the most famous sketches in the annals of British comedy.
  • (8) Barker also announced a new comedy, Nurse, based on the eponymous BBC Radio 4 series.
  • (9) At the moment the club needs a long term strategy but has an owner with a short term view - Al Reading It’s been one huge wet lettuce of a season Ben Barker, Reading fan It’s been one huge wet lettuce of a season.
  • (10) Speaking about Bacon, Barker said: “[He] speaks to the soul.
  • (11) The Shonan Maru No 2 tailed the Bob Barker, a Sea Shepherd vessel, for two days earlier this week, according to the group.
  • (12) As Greg Barker told me last week , "the focus of the current scheme needs to be on the small scale, to get the maximum number of installations".
  • (13) It is a far cry from Barker's promise of: "A radical new approach to home energy improvement, moving away from pepper potting individual measures to whole house or property solutions."
  • (14) He beat his fellow MSP, Richard Barker, and Glasgow city council leader, Gordon Matheson.
  • (15) Mike Reiss (@MikeReiss) Patriots inactives: DL Sopoaga, CB Green, G Barker, TE Williams, DE Bequette, WR Thompkins, LB Beauharnais.
  • (16) Energy and climate change minister Greg Barker welcomed an increase in the number of people having their homes assessed for the green deal .
  • (17) The interim report from the five-strong Commission on the Future of Health and Social Care in England , chaired by Kate Barker, a former Bank of England economist, has been published as all three main parties decide how to approach the issue of social care in their election manifestos.
  • (18) Read the biographies - Winifred Gérin, Juliet Barker and, in particular, Lucasta Miller - and you can begin to discern a more formidable woman who could cope with the world rather better than the image of the doomed Emily might suggest.
  • (19) (1966), worked with Simpson, Arnold Wesker and John Arden , and, having staged Howard Barker ’s Cheek in 1970, collaborated with him in 1986 on the audacious Women Beware Women, adapting Middleton’s Jacobean original with poisonous puritanism.
  • (20) Following the physiological investigation, the muscle was fixed and stained according to the method of Barker and Ip (J.

Pistol


Definition:

  • (n.) The smallest firearm used, intended to be fired from one hand, -- now of many patterns, and bearing a great variety of names. See Illust. of Revolver.
  • (v. t.) To shoot with a pistol.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In a wardrobe of the back bedroom they discovered a 9mm Glock pistol and in a plastic container under the bed there were more than 300 rounds of ammunition.
  • (2) It is alleged that after the helicopter has gone, Marine A murdered the man by shooting him in the chest with a 9mm pistol.
  • (3) He rides horses, launches pipelines, hugs tigers and fires pistols.
  • (4) Page, an army veteran whose record was marred by drunkenness and a failure to report for duty, walked into the temple just before 10.30am and opened fire with a 9mm pistol.
  • (5) Johnny Depp's dogs on death row after being 'snuck' into Australia Read more But it seems Pistol and Boo may not have had the proper paperwork when they were departing their home state of California, which could pose difficulties when they try to go back.
  • (6) A pistol and ammunition were also found in N's room.
  • (7) Fleischhauer has been selling other models, similar to the Guardian Angel II, to police and security customers as alternatives to Tasers – police in Germany, Japan and Switzerland have all bought Piexon pepper pistols.
  • (8) One’s got a shotgun; the other one’s got a pistol.
  • (9) Among the group are a 40-year-old who Bouhlel had known for a long time and a 38-year-old Albanian man detained along with his girlfriend and suspected of providing the Tunisian attacker with an automatic pistol.
  • (10) Nightingale initially claimed the pistol was a war trophy given to him by Iraqis he had helped during a posting there, and he had accumulated the ammunition because he worked as a range instructor and had failed to book it back through poor administration.
  • (11) No mechanical problems were encountered with the Samuel's or the (modified) Weck pistol-grip applicator.
  • (12) William Kostnic was waiting near the town hall at Portsmouth, New Hampshire, where the president was due to address a meeting on his bitterly contentious plans for healthcare reform - but the 9mm pistol in the leg holster strapped outside his jeans was perfectly legal.
  • (13) The second alleged untruth surrounds the police claim that they properly investigated the use of the gun Duggan had in a pistol whipping attack weeks before he collected it.
  • (14) Other brands in the group include Remington Arms, the country's largest and oldest maker of rifles; Marlin Firearms, a manufacturer of lever-action rifles; and Advanced Armament, a maker of pistol silencers.
  • (15) Sterling seemed in a good mood, she said – neither knew that an anonymous caller had just told police Sterling had threatened him with a pistol, and officers were on their way.
  • (16) It had interviews with the Sex Pistols and Ian Dury and the Clash.
  • (17) The plan also notes the staff's arsenal, which includes 9mm pistols, LM5 assault rifles and shotguns.
  • (18) The accused armed himself with his 9mm pistol and through the locked door, fired four shots at the deceased.
  • (19) Besides the terrorism charges, the director stands accused of obtaining explosives and transporting weapons and ammunition, since he allegedly ordered subordinates to create a timebomb and showed them a Makarov pistol.
  • (20) I'd taken my album along but I was so excited talking to the Pistols, I forgot to get it signed.