What's the difference between blusher and flusher?
Blusher
Definition:
(n.) One that blushes.
Example Sentences:
(1) Concealer, blusher, eyeliner, lipstick: the works.” Their hastily abandoned plan for the day was for their eldest daughter and two friends to go to Gove’s office at the Ministry of Justice, but on the school run she learned the prime minister had resigned.
(2) Concealer, blusher, eyeliner, lipstick: the works.” Their hastily abandoned plan for the day had been for their eldest daughter and two friends to go to Gove’s office at the Ministry of Justice, but on the school run she learned that the prime minister had resigned.
(3) These fragments are mica, the mineral that adds a shimmer to beauty products such as blusher, eye shadow, lipstick and foundation, as well as to the paints used by the car and construction industries.
(4) I’m not saying that if you hadn’t weighed in, [the London DJ and club icon] Princess Julia would have been less inventive with the pink blusher.
(5) In order to investigate factors associated with chronic blushing, 108 self-defined chronic blushers completed a series of self-report inventories.
(6) When enhanced with a little foundation and blusher, hair freshly washed and lightly lacquered, he reminded me of a prepubescent girl setting off to her first dance at a church hall disco.
(7) I never wore make-up and the teachers were always saying: ‘Come on, put some blusher on.’ And I’d be like: ‘Why?
(8) I have heard that when Zoella recommends, say, a Topshop blusher, there is a 40% click-through rate to the Topshop site.
(9) If anything, the blushers and bronzers serve as a gateway for teenagers to talk about the things that teenagers have always talked about.
Flusher
Definition:
(n.) A workman employed in cleaning sewers by flushing them with water.
(n.) The red-backed shrike. See Flasher.
Example Sentences:
(1) This study of male current drinkers showed that typical flushers drank less alcohol than did atypical and nonflushers, but there was no observed difference between the drinking patterns of atypical flushers and nonflushers.
(2) However, this study demonstrated that cultural factors such as embarrassment also contribute to lower alcohol consumption by flushers.
(3) The relative concentrations of ethanol and acetaldehyde in blood and that of acetate in alcohol metabolism could be summarized as follows: 7500 (15 mM): 1-3 (2-5 microM); 250-400 (0.5-0.8 mM) for non-flushers; and 7500 (15 mM): 5-10 (10-20 microM): 250-400 (0.5-0.8 mM) for a flusher.
(4) Ethanol concentrations of flushers and nonflushers were similar.
(5) Chlorpropamide alcohol flushers appeared to be more sensitive to ethanol.
(6) This study examined whether lower consumption of alcohol among flushers was correlated with cultural factors such as embarrassment over flushing as well as with biological factors among Japanese in Japan and Japanese-Americans using data from a joint Japan-U.S. collaborative survey.
(7) The mean alcohol intake differed significantly between groups: (1) habitat--Japanese versus Japanese-Americans, (2) flushing status--flushers versus nonflushers, and (3) embarrassment about flushing.
(8) Lower alcohol consumption by flushers than by nonflushers has been attributed to differences in physiological reactions to alcohol.
(9) The effects of ethanol and subsequent administration of intravenous naloxone were studied in double-blind, placebo-controlled fashion with a group of six male chlorpropamide alcohol flushers (CPAF) and a group of 13 nonflushing males.
(10) In the non-flushers, on the contrary, no significant increase was observed.
(11) My day as a 'flusher' in the London sewers Read more Back at the surface, Paris’s familiar hustle and bustle suddenly feels like an aggression.
(12) So if you see a flusher emerging from a sewer near you (with or without a python), do say thanks rather than moaning about your blocked toilet or the size of your water bill.
(13) In the flushers, significant increases in the blood acetaldehyde (AcH) level, skin temperature and pulse rate were found.
(14) The percentage of flushers was 68.6% of males and 41.9% of females, non-flushers 18.3%, 11.2%, and unknowns 13.1%, 46.9%, respectively.
(15) We found that "flushers" are found exclusively among subjects without ALDH I, and that their blood levels of acetaldehyde were significantly higher than those of "non-flushers" within 10 min after the block.
(16) There was no difference between the flushers and the non-flushers concerning the change in the blood ethanol (EtOH) level nor the change of P1 and P2 latencies in photopalpebral reflex (PPR).
(17) Flushers are genetically less able to tolerate alcohol than nonflushers and are less likely to become alcoholics.
(18) Since endogenous opiates and prostaglandins may be mediators of flushing syndromes, we attempted to block EIF in four Asian flushers with single doses of either the opiate antagonist nalmefene, or the prostaglandin synthesis inhibitor indomethacin.
(19) Lucky you didn’t faint,” says Vince Minney, who has been a flusher for 26 years.
(20) We determined by means of hybridization of genomic DNA samples with allele specific oligonucleotide probes, genotypes of the ADH2 and ALDH2 loci in Japanese alcohol flushers and nonflushers.