What's the difference between bigger and digger?

Bigger


Definition:

  • (a.) compar. of Big.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) One thing seems to be noteworthy in their opinion: the bacterial resistance of the germs isolated from the urine is bigger than the one of the germs isolated from the respiratory apparatus.
  • (2) Today’s figures tell us little about the timing of the first increase in interest rates, which will depend on bigger picture news on domestic growth, pay trends and perceived downside risks in the global economy,” he said.
  • (3) 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.
  • (4) As calls grew to establish why nobody stepped in to save Daniel, it was also revealed that the boy's headteacher – who saw him scavenging for scraps – has not been disciplined and has been put in charge of a bigger school.
  • (5) "They couldn't understand until I said 'No, because I'm a big shot now, because I am in Wild Wild West and I have, like, 10 covers coming out, and I want a bigger part.'
  • (6) Koons provoked a bigger stir with the news that he would be showing with gallery owner David Zwirner next year in an apparent defection from Zwirner's arch-rival Larry Gagosian, the world's most powerful art dealer.
  • (7) Tony Abbott urges Europe to adopt Australian policies in refugee crisis Read more Given that Obama – whatever one’s views on his strategy – is not advocating a bigger military contribution, the only difference is that Abbott is “urging” the US and others to do more, which sounds resolute, and Turnbull says he would consider any request if it was made.
  • (8) Apple could quite possibly afford to promise to pay out 80% of its streaming iTunes income, especially if such a service helped it sell more iPhones and iPads, where the margins are bigger.
  • (9) It's also worth noting that if the Help to Buy scheme really does inflate house prices, by waiting five years before you buy you run the risk of not actually being able to save enough for a 10% deposit, because you'll need a bigger amount than you now need.
  • (10) "The influence of private companies is getting ever bigger, and the right-wing government has been in favour of more privatisation."
  • (11) The budget red book contained a chart which suggested that the rich were indeed facing a bigger hit than anyone else, and Liberal Democrats were today pointing to this to justify the austerity package.
  • (12) Buying a share could get you into an AGM where you can stand up and ask a question, but if you have a bigger holding you could stage a protest at any point – if you can get support.
  • (13) "Maybe that's why they can't afford anywhere bigger: because they're always late for work."
  • (14) In the Punjab, the eastern province, the movement has been able to forge ad hoc links with fragmented sectarian groups or freelance operators who have split away from bigger, more established organisations that are under close watch by intelligence agencies, the officials said.
  • (15) We feel that some recent rule changes – on both the sporting and technical side, and including some business decisions – are disruptive, do not address the bigger issues our sport is facing and in some cases could jeopardise its future success.
  • (16) The fact that the leave campaign are getting things as straightforward as this wrong should call into judgment the bigger argument about leaving the EU.” He said out campaigners were trying to persuade people to vote for Brexit solely on the back of an issue “that is not true”.
  • (17) The bigger question to pose is whether these reforms can possibly meet the challenge the NHS faces from an explosion in chronic diseases, such as diabetes .
  • (18) The chancellor deliberately made cautious assumptions for the deficit in the budget, but the 5.6% contraction in the economy has blown an even bigger hole in the public finances than feared in April.
  • (19) It was intended, however, as a response to more radical reforms proposed by congressman Justin Amash, a Republican from Michigan, and is likely to have relatively limited impact on the NSA's ability to collect data on US citizens through incidental means, the so-called backdoor provisions , which was seen as a bigger threat as Snowden's revelations continued.
  • (20) It's not exactly a giveaway, but it's a much bigger reduction that I expected, frankly.

Digger


Definition:

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

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Sasaki, like other machinery operators, spends his shift inside crane and digger cabins, the only way they can clear dangerously radioactive debris.
  • (2) The field was taped off while a mechanical digger clawed at the ground, making parallel trenches in the sandy earth.
  • (3) When builders moved in a few weeks ago, it was marked in flamboyant Polish style with a commissioned "dance" for the diggers by director Robert Florczak, whose audacious multimedia Macbeth debuted at last year's Shakespeare festival.
  • (4) The effect of electrophoretic ejection of philanthotoxin (the polyamine toxin, from the Egyptian digger wasp) was tested on responses of brainstem and spinal neurones in the pentobarbitone-anaesthetized rat to excitatory amino acids.
  • (5) None of which stopped the gold-digger stories, which went through a highly hostile chapter when she and Bridge had a court hearing about child maintenance.
  • (6) Diggers have also been working to widen the mouth of the river to ensure that the mud drifts out to sea as quickly as possible, in the hope that the salinity and the volume of water will aid its rapid dispersal.
  • (7) The mining company official was reported to have said that "well-connected elites are generating millions of dollars in personal income by hiring teams of diggers to hand-extract diamonds" from Chiadzwa, before reselling the stones to shady foreign buyers.
  • (8) After a morning of tearing at the same ground two decades on, the digger overheated and had to be rested.
  • (9) A few dozen workers from the Frontier Works Organisation (FWO), an arm of the Pakistani military, have been making slow progress picking at the massive dam with mechanical diggers and explosives.
  • (10) He knows where the Chernobyl bodies are buried, he says, because he was the grave digger.
  • (11) Digger will not argue with the analysis that people should not try to rehabilitate their own reputations at the expense of English international relations in football.
  • (12) Still, Dughan took them roundabout ways, through Blythborough, on the A145 towards Uggeshall, past still diggers where roads were being widened.
  • (13) But any digger hoping for the kind of gold bars you see in heist movies would have been disappointed.
  • (14) Semi-fossorial species among rodents and insectivores are scratch-diggers.
  • (15) Pigment granule migration in pigment cells and retinula cells of the digger wasp Sphex cognatus Smith was analysed morphologically after light adaptation to natural light, dark adaptation and after four selective chromatic adaptations in the range between 358 nm and 580 nm and used as the index of receptor cell sensitivity.
  • (16) Despite the daily pulling of toddlers through the roll call of highlights – Digger!
  • (17) A digger was then used to extract the car which had been flattened by the landslide and crushed by the root system of a large tree.
  • (18) Black diggers fought and died for a nation that denied them the right to vote.
  • (19) The pigs are prodigious diggers and tropical island's torrential rainstorms then wash the soil out to the waters that are home to renowned sharks and corals.
  • (20) Crisis PR is a booming business , helping to divert attention from the antics of offspring and gold-diggers.