What's the difference between bearer and rearer?

Bearer


Definition:

  • (n.) One who, or that which, bears, sustains, or carries.
  • (n.) Specifically: One who assists in carrying a body to the grave; a pallbearer.
  • (n.) A palanquin carrier; also, a house servant.
  • (n.) A tree or plant yielding fruit; as, a good bearer.
  • (n.) One who holds a check, note, draft, or other order for the payment of money; as, pay to bearer.
  • (n.) A strip of reglet or other furniture to bear off the impression from a blank page; also, a type or type-high piece of metal interspersed in blank parts to support the plate when it is shaved.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) However, MPA did not enhance survival when given concurrently with radiotherapy; indeed, at the higher of these two doses, median survival of tumor-bearers was slightly less than with radiotherapy alone.
  • (2) The next implanted device will have: a. constant current; b. programming of a particular current value for each electrode; and c. stimulation of the cochlear nerve through an extra cochlear electrode bearer, allowing deep implantation without deafness.
  • (3) The company was “owned” by four bearer shareholders, which gave it an extra degree of secrecy.
  • (4) The mitogenic response of some but not all hyporesponsive spleens from autochthonous tumor bearers was restored after removal of phagocytic macrophages.
  • (5) The PHA response remained greatly depressed in CY-treated MOPC-315 tumor bearers, even 14 days after the chemotherapy.
  • (6) The Lyt-2+ T-cells, and not the L3T4+ T-cells, were also found to be important for the ability of the intact L-PAM-cured MOPC-315 tumor bearers to reject a challenge with MOPC-315 tumor cells.
  • (7) Conor, an academic at La Trobe University in Melbourne , later told Guardian Australia that the language from Leyonhjelm was “not what you would expect from the bearer of public office”, but noted that the Liberal Democrat has a history of colourful language.
  • (8) Tumor bearers were depleted in vivo of selective T-cell subsets by the systemic administration of specific monoclonal antibodies before rHTNF therapy.
  • (9) The same treatment only marginally affected cytotoxic levels of nylon adherent cells from tumor bearers, indicating that these effectors are primarily of non-NK lineage.
  • (10) The organs of the reticuloendothelial system of normal mice accumulated more labeled antibody than did those of tumor bearers, and conversely, tumor bearers had higher levels of circulating labeled antibody in the blood than normals.
  • (11) Regional lymph node cells were significantly cytolytic for the immunizing tumors, specifically so for three of the four tumors, and tumor-bearer sera could significantly block cytolysis.
  • (12) Or as a “senior source close to Abbott’ told the Daily Telegraph , “his intention is to be a standard-bearer for the conservatives” with “the problem for the Liberal party” being “if it is seen as a centre-left party rather than a centre-right party”.
  • (13) So will our only flag-bearer for high-speed rail cope?
  • (14) Eleven or more days after tumour inoculation the proportions of tumour-bearer splenic leucocytes expressing Ly 1.2 (CD5), Ly 2.2 (CD8a) or L3T4 (CD4) surface antigens were significantly less than similar preparations from normal animals.
  • (15) In addition, immunization cultures containing normal spleen cells and thymocytes from L-PAM-treated MOPC-315 tumor bearers exhibit enhanced antitumor cytotoxicity by Day 4 after culture initiation that persists for at least 3 additional days.
  • (16) Adenosine deaminase activity was within the control limits in tumor-bearing Swiss mice and significantly increased for the tumor-bearers of the NMRI strain.
  • (17) injection of 10 micrograms of rMuTNF in non-tumor bearers was lethal in 3 to 5 hr, whereas 2 micrograms was not.
  • (18) Heat-stressed twin-bearers were 0.15 degrees hotter than single-bearers and bore lighter kids (1.70 kg), than unstressed does (2.24 kg) while singles were less affected (2.22 kg versus 2.28 kg).
  • (19) Using the T cell fractions, only those derived from tumor bearer spleens were active.
  • (20) When compared with pair-fed nontumor bearers, the differences in rates of total hepatocyte protein synthesis reached statistical significance only when the tumor burden exceeded 5% of total body weight.

Rearer


Definition:

  • (n.) One who, or that which, rears.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Fowl was found to be infected in 12 poultry-farms; occupational ornithosis was present among the bird-rearers.
  • (2) The number of bullfights across the country has fallen 46% in five years, and many bull rearers are cutting their losses and sending their herds to the abattoir.
  • (3) Child rearers are more likely to become pregnant again sooner and to resolve subsequent pregnancies by abortion.
  • (4) Further, relinquishers are more likely to delay marriage, to be employed six and 12 months after the birth and to live in higher income households than are child rearers.
  • (5) Overall, both groups indicated very high levels of satisfaction with their decision to relinquish or to rear, although relinquishers were slightly less satisfied with their decision than were child rearers.
  • (6) Rats that were dark-reared from birth and then exposed to a lighted environment for 24 hr during a certain critical period that extends from eye-opening (13 days) until approximately 35 days, displayed a significant increase in visual cortex tubulin rats that were brought into the light later than 35 days showed no significant increase in tubulin synthesis when compared with their continuously dark-rearer controls.
  • (7) Photograph: BBC John, cherished elder son and rearer of Gloucester Old Spots, began to unravel in 1998.
  • (8) These findings on partner responsibility for contraception may reflect the cultural definition of women as rearers of children.
  • (9) The study sample consisted of 123 child rearers and 146 relinquishers who had attended a pregnancy-counseling program affiliated with a large adoption agency that practices open adoption.
  • (10) The hand-rearing techniques described here encouraged the formation of an infant-human rearer bond that permitted us to control the level of expressed aggressive behavior as the infant matured.
  • (11) Inclusion of iron-treated CSM in the rearer diet to supply approximately 70% of the dietary protein had no adverse effects on growth or age at first egg.
  • (12) Abdominal typhus is all the rearer disease among acute infectious diseases in Vojvodina.

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