What's the difference between boulder and boulter?
Boulder
Definition:
(n.) Same as Bowlder.
(n.) A large stone, worn smooth or rounded by the action of water; a large pebble.
(n.) A mass of any rock, whether rounded or not, that has been transported by natural agencies from its native bed. See Drift.
Example Sentences:
(1) Given how Bank forecasts have been all over the shop, it is possible that the Old Lady's spreadsheet wizards could scupper Mr Carney's plans by spying a speck of price pressure and panicking about it turning into a giant inflationary boulder.
(2) Avery has built its reputation on several well-liked bottled beers and a whole lot more taproom-only brews, usually among Boulder's most adventurous and varied.
(3) In a letter signed by both Donald Trump and Ben Carson, the candidates threaten not to participate in the next GOP debate scheduled to be held on 28 October in Boulder, Colorado, if certain conditions are not met.
(4) A recent study at the University of Colorado–Boulder asked managers to mark their employees on a range of factors, including performance, competence and “diversity-valuing behaviour”.
(5) Katharina Booth, chief of the sexual assault unit in the Boulder County district attorney’s office, which prosecuted the Wilkerson case, said she’s concerned about the “chilling effect” of the light sentences.
(6) "This study provides a clear example of how increased greenhouse gases are now changing our climate, ending at least 2,000 years of Arctic cooling," said Caspar Ammann , a climate scientist and co-author of the report at the National Centre for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado.
(7) The next Republican debate will be held on 28 October in Boulder, Colorado.
(8) The Kalgoorlie-Boulder-Kambalda area in arid inland Western Australia receives its water supply from distant Perth, through a pipeline constructed in the fabulous goldrush period at the turn of the century.
(9) Survival of Boulder and La Foret flies, and their interpopulation hybrid, was determined after exposure to -2 degrees at two humidities.
(10) In response to the request, Dr Caspar Ammann, a scientist at the National Centre for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado, wrote back to three scientists, including the CRU's director, Dr Phil Jones: "Oh MAN!
(11) The water of Boulder Spring contains about 3 mug of sulfide per ml.
(12) Most designations of bike-friendliness have gone not to proper cities but college towns: Davis, Boulder, Long Beach, Iowa City – places that, while pleasant enough, command little national, let alone international import.
(13) He is currently involved in a new project in Boulder to install batteries in homes, in order to ease the strain on power plants and avoid costly rewiring as the sizes of neighborhoods change.
(14) Group E was excised with a Surgistat electrocautery (Valley Labs, Boulder, CO).
(15) Others have said formal ties would make it appear that Boulder was taking sides in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
(16) Meanwhile, two people closer to Mann — Caspar Ammann of the National Centre for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado and Eugene Wahl of Alfred University, New York — claimed that most of the difference between the findings of Mann and M&M had nothing to do with statistical methods.
(17) A common analogy to aging is that of a boulder being worn down to rubble by the unremitting onslaught of time.
(18) However, based on the latest data about the much greater area of thin first-year ice and losses of multi-year ice, especially that of five years or more, they believe that in volume terms last summer was the lowest since records began in the 1930s – and probably for at least 700 years and possibly up to 8,000 years, said Walt Meier, a research scientist at the Boulder-based centre.
(19) Dotted around are piles of red and orange rocks of various sizes, from boulders to pebbles.
(20) After remembering to fill in the visitors’ book – and taking out any excess rubbish you can carry – carefully retrace your steps back down to the big boulder you left yesterday.
Boulter
Definition:
(n.) A long, stout fishing line to which many hooks are attached.
Example Sentences:
(1) The MoD replied on 24 June: "Dr Fox met with Mr Boulter to discuss an entirely different matter.
(2) Boulter said he was "frustrated and upset that Fox issued a statement that said we didn't discuss Acolyte because it made me look like a liar to the world".
(3) Both have an N-acetylated ;tail' of eight amino acids and two in-N-trimethyl-lysine residues, as also reported for wheat germ (Delange, Glazer & Smith, 1969) and mung-bean cytochrome c (Thompson, Laycock, Ramshaw & Boulter, 1970).
(4) Boulter's email said: "David Cameron's cabinet might very shortly be discussing the rather embarrassing situation of George's [George Buckley, 3M's chief executive] knighthood".
(5) Werritty seemed to be acting like a full-blown ministerial adviser and Boulter confided in him as if he were, on the assumption that he must have robust security clearance.
(6) Speaking about the scandal more generally, Boulter saves his toughest criticism for Fox's best man rather than the minister.
(7) The Guardian has revealed Werritty: • Involved Fox in discussions with Boulter that have left Fox facing the prospect of being called to give evidence in a "blackmail" trial in the US.
(8) Fox admits he was made aware of 3M's legal dispute with Boulter.
(9) 19.8.11 Neate reveals Fox's friend Adam Werritty advised him on a meeting with Boulter in Dubai , and that Werritty carries a card describing himself as an "adviser to Rt Hon Liam Fox MP".
(10) After the meeting, Boulter emailed a lawyer from 3M, a firm with which he had been involved in a business dispute, to warn of a "rather embarrassing situation" over the recent knighthood for the 3M head, George Buckley.
(11) Boulter says that the call encryption technology he discussed with Fox in Dubai was sensitive and that he would not have done so if he had known Werritty did not have security clearance.
(12) While Fox and Werritty went out partying that night to celebrate the forthcoming marriage of Fox's official adviser Luke Coffey, Boulter jumped on a plane to Milan.
(13) Defence businesses that claim they were misled by Werritty, including Dubai-based private equity boss Harvey Boulter, are understood to be pressing the police to launch a full-scale investigation.
(14) Boulter had expected the email to remain confidential as part of the settlement negotiations with 3M.
(15) Waiting for them was Boulter, 41, chief executive of Porton Capital, and two executives from Cellcrypt, a Porton company that creates state-of-the-art encryption software.
(16) Sipping jasmine tea in the spectacular atrium of Dubai's five-star Shangri-La hotel, British businessman Harvey Boulter reflected on just how convincing Adam Werritty was in the role of Liam Fox's gatekeeper.
(17) But the first he heard of the lawsuit was when the Guardian called on the afternoon of the following Monday to seek comment after 3M dropped the legal papers with this paper before telling Boulter.
(18) Fox admitted that it was wrong of him to have attended the meeting with Boulter without an official present.
(19) • ibis.com Liz Boulter Z hotel at Gloucester Place, Marylebone Facebook Twitter Pinterest Location, location ... plus minimalist design What’s it like?
(20) Bicom's former communications director, Lee Petar, who runs a lobbying firm, Tetra Strategy, put Werritty in touch with the Dubai businessman, Harvey Boulter, whose meeting with Fox triggered the initial furore that led to his his demise.