What's the difference between beater and pulsator?
Beater
Definition:
(n.) One who, or that which, beats.
(n.) A person who beats up game for the hunters.
Example Sentences:
(1) The tie-breaker isn't quite the buzzer-beater that Jeff Carter converted with tenths of a second left in the first period of Game 3, but it comes with under 30 ticks left in the second period here and has a similar effect.
(2) Van Gaal has yet to win away from home – for the first time in 18 years United have gone six Premier League games without a victory on their travels – and with all due respect to their opponents on the road so far, MK Dons, Burnley, Sunderland, Leicester and West Bromwich Albion , they are not exactly world-beaters.
(3) While everyone waits for Salazar to hit back at the Panorama claims – a fierce and comprehensive response is expected in the next couple of days – there is at least one thing that all sides can agree on: what Black calls “genius” of the coach has turned Farah into a world beater.
(4) The unspun version Asked by Harper's Bazaar magazine to pick her 21st-century heroine, she chose serial servant-beater Naomi Campbell.
(5) Peter Crouch, who has been signed three times and sold twice by Redknapp, said: "He builds up players' confidence, telling you every day you can be a world-beater.
(6) And Leroy, a former panel beater, whose concern for 14-year-old Nadia's mental and physical decline is touching, yet who appears powerless to prevent her deterioration in front of our eyes.
(7) If driven grouse shooting, in which beaters are used to send more birds towards the guns, was banned, Mawle argued, the cost of keeping the moorlands in their attractive, wildlife-friendly state would have to be met by taxpayer.
(8) Instead we had the first buzzer beater of this year's tournament as Texas’s Cameron Ridley made an improbable game-winning layup with time expiring.
(9) Facebook Twitter Pinterest With 2.3 seconds left, Russell Westbrook made a three-pointer to give the Thunder a one point lead that looked like it was going to seal the game, but before anyone could put his clutch three into any perspective, offseason acquisition Andre Iguodala coldly hit a buzzer-beater to shock a Thunder team that shocked the Warriors mere moments before.
(10) To check that the mixture is at the right stage, lift the beaters from the bowl – the mixture that falls off should leave a distinct ribbon-like trail on the surface.
(11) It was those investors who brought in a savvy team of directors, engineers, business managers and PR professionals who have been working to turn Summly into a potential world-beater, including older staff such as the chief technology officer, Eugene Ciurana, who boasts 20 years' experience in the technology business, and the head of R&D, Inderjeet Mani.
(12) Osborne says: We are seeing some sectors that are going to be world-beaters.
(13) After all, the first day of the Round of 64 featured four overtime games, three upsets and one dramatic buzzer beater .
(14) Most mornings, 15-year-old Iqbal arrives for his job at a Dhaka panel beaters at about 10am, working on cars for up to 13 hours before he can go home.
(15) The 23-year-old unemployed panel-beater from Toulouse had been holed up in his flat, surrounded by police, since 3:30am on Wednesday.
(16) Loyal gamekeepers and hired-in beaters were packed off ahead of the shooting party in open-top tractors with a cauldron of vegetable soup and cracked mugs.
(17) Tissue was extracted in 80% methanol, 20 mM 2-amino-2-methyl-1-propanol, pH 9.5 at 25 degrees C and homogenized in a 1.5-ml Sardstat screw-top test tube containing 0.5-mm glass beads and a minibead beater.
(18) For four months after the “glorious twelfth” of August each year, wealthy sportsmen pay up to £3,000 a day to stand with a gun on private moorland while beaters – usually farm workers or local lads – flap and shoo grouse towards the shooters’ sights.
(19) Whatever the weather, the beaters would drive the bred pheasants from their woodland home to a prepared unharvested patch of kale, just short of a high wooded copse.
(20) 2.08am BST Aside from Jeff Carter's buzzer-beater, the teams are more or less level statistically - shots, hits, giveaways, takeaways are all pretty close to even steven.
Pulsator
Definition:
(n.) A beater; a striker.
(n.) That which beats or throbs in working.
Example Sentences:
(1) Microotoscopy showed a blue pulsating mass behind the tympanic membrane.
(2) The surface activity of two surfactant preparations, Lipid Extract Surfactant (LES) and Survanta, was examined during adsorption and dynamic compression using a pulsating bubble surfactometer.
(3) The absence or reduction of CSF pulsation may prove to be a valuable indicator of the success of a shunting procedure.
(4) The use of in-phase TEs was preferable to maintain tissue contrast, and presaturation pulses were employed to eliminate vascular pulsation artifacts.
(5) During the gradual change in cuff pressure, the amplitude of consecutive arterial volume pulsations associated with pulse pressure shows change characteristically due to the nonlinearity of arterial pressure-volume(P-V) relation.
(6) Free serotonin may become adsorbed to the arterial wall, thus increasing sensitivity to pain, augmenting afferent input and adding a pulsating quality to migrainous pain.
(7) These changes are detected by variations in the rate of decay of the excited singlet state of pyrene after pulsation with a 10-nsec ruby laser flash.
(8) Prominent carotid arterial pulsations were detected which distinguished the condition clinically from aortic atresia.
(9) CO diminished in fast expiration, and a phase shift between the heart pulsation and the CO was seen; both agree with experimental findings.
(10) Toward these ends, various devices and techniques have been developed, including several different types of vascular shunts in combination with or without extracorporeal oxygenation of blood, implantable auxiliary ventricle and augmentation of diastolic pressure by direct counter pulsation of blood through femoral cannulae or intra-aortic balloon.The sequenced counter pulsator is an external cardiac assist device being developed for the therapy of low output syndromes.
(11) At each time of harvesting, the implants were patent and showed arterial pulsations.
(12) The venous part regulates the venous inflow volume by the feedback type mechanism; the arterial part ensures complete EC in the pulsating mode during cardiosurgical intervention and auxiliary EC in the course of heart activity recovery after cardioplegia, promoting an increase of the coronary blood flow and synchronized blood supply.
(13) In a series of patients with chronic corneal diseases treated with soft contact lenses, good pressure and intraocular pulsations were recorded both with and without the soft lenses.
(14) If the anemia is severe, palpitations, otic pulsations, and cardiac decompensation are common.
(15) Most are used in the asynchronous full-to-empty mode, but they also may be used in a synchronous counter-pulsation mode.
(16) Using the pulsating bubble surfactometer, it could be demonstrated that surfactant mixed with this antibody had a significant higher minimum surface tension when compared with surfactant alone, or surfactant mixed with an unrelated mouse immunoglobulin G (IgG).
(17) In normal subjects stimulation of the vesicourethral junction was described as a stimulus-synchronous pulsation combined with a continuous burning feeling and sometimes with a desire to void.
(18) The ability of antisera and monoclonal antibodies to inhibit the functional activity of surfactant was assayed using a pulsating bubble surfactometer.
(19) A mathematical model was derived expressing the amplitude of container pulsation (delta Po) as a function of mean intraluminal pressure (MPi), mean container pressure (MPo) and arterial pulse amplitude (delta Pi): delta Po = (-2(MPi - MPo) + b) (MPo + 1) delta Pi.
(20) Since it was easier to build equipment that recorded pulsations in amplitude, most work was confined to the recording of amplitude pulsations.