What's the difference between better and punter?

Better


Definition:

  • (a.) Having good qualities in a greater degree than another; as, a better man; a better physician; a better house; a better air.
  • (a.) Preferable in regard to rank, value, use, fitness, acceptableness, safety, or in any other respect.
  • (a.) Greater in amount; larger; more.
  • (a.) Improved in health; less affected with disease; as, the patient is better.
  • (a.) More advanced; more perfect; as, upon better acquaintance; a better knowledge of the subject.
  • (n.) Advantage, superiority, or victory; -- usually with of; as, to get the better of an enemy.
  • (n.) One who has a claim to precedence; a superior, as in merit, social standing, etc.; -- usually in the plural.
  • (compar.) In a superior or more excellent manner; with more skill and wisdom, courage, virtue, advantage, or success; as, Henry writes better than John; veterans fight better than recruits.
  • (compar.) More correctly or thoroughly.
  • (compar.) In a higher or greater degree; more; as, to love one better than another.
  • (compar.) More, in reference to value, distance, time, etc.; as, ten miles and better.
  • (a.) To improve or ameliorate; to increase the good qualities of.
  • (a.) To improve the condition of, morally, physically, financially, socially, or otherwise.
  • (a.) To surpass in excellence; to exceed; to excel.
  • (a.) To give advantage to; to support; to advance the interest of.
  • (v. i.) To become better; to improve.
  • (n.) One who bets or lays a wager.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The purpose of these studies was to better understand the molecular basis of chromosome aberration formation after mitomycin C treatment.
  • (2) Mike Ashley told Lee Charnley that maybe he could talk with me last week but I said: ‘Listen, we cannot say too much so I think it’s better if we wait.’ The message Mike Ashley is sending is quite positive, but it was better to talk after we play Tottenham.” Benítez will ask Ashley for written assurances over his transfer budget, control of transfers and other spheres of club autonomy, but can also reassure the owner that the prospect of managing in the second tier holds few fears for him.
  • (3) Plasma NPY correlated better with plasma norepinephrine than with epinephrine, indicating its origin from sympathetic nerve terminals.
  • (4) McDonald said cutting better deals with suppliers and improving efficiency as well as raising some prices had only partly offset the impact of sterling’s fall against the dollar.
  • (5) Enhanced sensitivity to ITDs should translate to better-defined azimuthal receptive fields, and therefore may be a step toward achieving an optimal representation of azimuth within the auditory pathway.
  • (6) It is my desperate hope that we close out of town.” In the book, God publishes his own 'It Getteth Better' video and clarifies his original writings on homosexuality: I remember dictating these lines to Moses; and afterward looking up to find him staring at me in wide-eyed astonishment, and saying, "Thou do knowest that when the Israelites read this, they're going to lose their fucking shit, right?"
  • (7) Even former Florida governor Jeb Bush, one of Trump’s chief critics, said ultimately, “anybody is better than Hillary Clinton”.
  • (8) Blood pressure control was marginally improved during the study and it is thought possible that better patient compliance might explain this.
  • (9) Patients in these groups had better postoperative analgesia.
  • (10) When the Tunnel closed, Hardee decamped in 1991 to Up The Creek - a slightly better behaved venue in nearby Greenwich, which Hardee described as "the Tunnel with A-levels".
  • (11) Compared with conservative management, better long-term success (determined by return of athletic soundness and less evidence of degenerative joint disease) was achieved with surgical curettage of elbow subchondral cystic lesions.
  • (12) Breast conserving surgery in patients with small tumors combined with radiation therapy has gained wide popularity due to better cosmetic results without significant changes in survival.
  • (13) The combination of methotrexate and cyclosporin is significantly better than either alone in controlling GVHD.
  • (14) In both instances the permeation rates of proteins can be better correlated to hydrodynamic radii than to molecular weights.
  • (15) This is basically a large tank (the bigger the better) that collects rain from the house guttering and pumps it into the home, to be used for flushing the loo.
  • (16) The cell fermentation culture with a stabilized pH value was better than the culture with the pH value changing spontaneously on saponin content, growth rate and biomass.
  • (17) With better understanding of metabolic and compositional requirements, great advances have been made in the area of total parenteral nutrition.
  • (18) A retrospective study was done in 86 patients on dialysis in order to evaluate the doses of aluminum hydroxide (OH3 Al) received to achieve a better serum phosphate control.
  • (19) From us you learn the state of your nation, and especially its management by the people you elected to give your children a better future.
  • (20) To get a better understanding of the different cell interactions during the immune response to a hapten-carrier complex, the effects of immunogenic or tolerogenic injections of various hapten-containing compounds on the responses induced by immunization with the same hapten coupled to protein carriers were studied.

Punter


Definition:

  • (v. t.) One who punts; specifically, one who plays against the banker or dealer, as in baccara and faro.
  • (n.) One who punts a football; also, one who propels a punt.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) One of the punters came up to me after and said that I seemed confident, but he’d spent the whole time wondering when I was going to tell a joke.
  • (2) Hodgson left Ferdinand out of his Euro 2012 squad for "football reasons" and then appeared to confirm the end of his international career to a punter on the Tube, before recalling him in March.
  • (3) The eye-catching deal was that punters would have their stakes returned if the winning pope was black – or something like that.
  • (4) 1.56am GMT 49ers 17-13 Seahawks, 2:47, 3rd quarter Andy Lee is hit as he kicks and it's a five yard penalty rather than the personal foul you would get for crushing the punter.
  • (5) Teela Sanders , another academic who believes that regulation of prostitution is neither desirable nor possible, says of moves to criminalise punters: "Putting limits on private morality with regard to the legitimate purchase and provision of consensual commercial sex is evidence of a state seeking to control sexuality rather than to preserve diversity, difference and freedom."
  • (6) This is payback, without a doubt.” The workers recently won the support of Will Self, who supported a boycott of the venue, writing : “If the punters wake up and smell the crap coffee of corporate greed, perhaps we won’t be so keen on contributing to those revenues.
  • (7) It would mean that if the regulator found bookmakers' staff failing to intervene when punters lost too much money or not questioning why machines were played without a break, the shop could be closed down.
  • (8) There are some players still owed money by a team after they were released such as former Buffalo Bills punter Brian Moorman .
  • (9) At the Meadow Inn hotel, these statistics are embodied in a depressing tableau of punters slouched on stools, jabbing at flashing buttons.
  • (10) The code, introduced in February by the Association of British Bookmakers, was meant to tighten betting controls and defuse criticism of FOBTs, on which punters can bet up to £300 a minute.
  • (11) After the first-leg games, an unnamed punter wagered £5 on a four-fold bet, predicting the scores of four of the second legs .
  • (12) Tracksuit Dave, professional punter, owner and racecourse 'face' He's the greatest there's ever been.
  • (13) There is mention too of a punter's "right to have a bet", though strangely this basic freedom does not seem to appear in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
  • (14) The overall betting trend has shown one-way traffic for Obama and punters seem to have called it 100% correct.
  • (15) One NFL coach, speaking anonymously to Sports Illustrated after Sam came out, said: “I don’t think football is ready for [an openly gay player] just yet.” On Twitter, Chris Kluwe, a former Minnesota Vikings punter who has become an outspoken critic of attitudes to homosexuality within the NFL, said: “At least one team finally showed some balls.
  • (16) Some observers say the ban on smoking in clubs played its role: with a sly, discreet spliff no longer an option, punters switched to pills and energy levels accordingly rose.
  • (17) The Ukip leader, tongue firmly lodged in cheek, has recorded a “party political broadcast” on behalf of Paddy Power , exhorting punters to get behind Team Europe in this weekend’s Ryder Cup golf contest against the US.
  • (18) But is this "Bank of Joe Bloggs" a little bit too out there for mainstream punters?
  • (19) Indeed, while Jagger and co headlined to a packed Pyramid Stage, plenty of punters were elsewhere, watching a range of acts that included dance duo Chase & Status on the Other Stage and – cleverly – the Bootleg Beatles at the Acoustic Stage.
  • (20) Sav Rocca, punter Rocca played for North Melbourne and Collingwood during a 14-year AFL career, and is 13 th in the league’s all-time goalscoring list.