What's the difference between boarder and roomer?

Boarder


Definition:

  • (n.) One who has food statedly at another's table, or meals and lodgings in his house, for pay, or compensation of any kind.
  • (n.) One who boards a ship; one selected to board an enemy's ship.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) All the same, it's hard to approach the school, which charges nearly £28,000 for boarders and nearly £19,000 for day girls and is sometimes called "the girls' Eton", without a few prejudices.
  • (2) A boarder line of 12 mm inhibition zone on the slide could be used to select strains resistant to sulphisadimidine, ampicillin, nitrofurantoin or nalidixic acid.
  • (3) The findings show that the mothers whose newborns remained in the hospital as boarders were usually drug users, had other children in out-of-home placement, and over half are periodically homeless.
  • (4) The primary predictors of length of stay were maternal intravenous drug use and boarder baby status, regardless of medical need.
  • (5) For about an hour, the boarder Jamie Nicholls stood on the verge of winning Britain's first medal on snow at a Winter Olympics.
  • (6) Quite how a man who was educated at Dulwich College (current fees: £5,801 per term for day students, £12,108 per term for boarders) and then worked in the City can claim to be the voice of the disaffected working class in this country is just one of those little ironies that the modern world of politics occasionally throws our way.
  • (7) This paper presents the Rugby football injuries sustained by the boarders of Rugby School in the four seasons 1980-1983.
  • (8) Until people start empathising rather than pitying people across country and continental boarders, these intractable problems will remain.
  • (9) Ex-boarder leaders cannot conceive of communal solutions, because they haven't had enough belonging at home to understand what it means.
  • (10) Abbott said the priority was for an independent investigation into the crash and for experts to gain access to the site where MH17 came down in a rebel-held area near the Russian boarder in eastern Ukraine.
  • (11) At eight his "aspirational" parents took the curious decision to send him to prep school as a boarder.
  • (12) Taking pictures of boarders on their way to and from school was, she says now, "a hardy annual.
  • (13) So they dissociate from all these qualities, project them out on to others, and develop duplicitous personalities that are on the run, which is why ex-boarders make the best spies.
  • (14) Ex-boarders' partners often report that it ends up ruining home life, many years later.
  • (15) Price based on five sharing a two-bedroom, self-catering apartment, including Eurotunnel with FlexiPlus upgrades, peakretreats.co.uk Advanced skiers and boarders Saalbach, Austria, 1,003-2,100m, 70 lifts, 270km of piste Facebook Twitter Pinterest Lift from Leogang to Saalbach.
  • (16) In order to find methods for the prevention and control of streptococcal infections of 711 day schoolchildren and boarders, aged 7 to 14 years, were followed up during the 1969-1973 period.
  • (17) The early plan was for 600 weekly boarders, including a sixth form.
  • (18) A double-blind trial in two randomly structured groups of boarders (44 girls and 66 boys) aged 7 to 13 years was undertaken in two Bristrol schools.
  • (19) However, boarders smoked a lot more than the other pupils.
  • (20) In specialized institutions, they are day-pupils or boarders depending on family possibilities.

Roomer


Definition:

  • (n.) A lodger.
  • (a.) At a greater distance; farther off.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) During the same period, in South Korea, Shin Sang-ok's studio, Shin Films, had produced a number of box-office hits, including My Mother and the Roomer.

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