What's the difference between boulder and bounder?

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.

Bounder


Definition:

  • (n.) One who, or that which, limits; a boundary.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) How close Elizabeth had come to being seduced by the bounder, and even though he had acquitted himself well in the war against the Irish, he could not be allowed near Pemberley for fear of bringing shame on one one of the country's finest houses.
  • (2) A typical McShane bounder could be a savage or a sophisticate; he could just as easily be straight or gay.
  • (3) After a longer exposure (30-90 min) FSC labeled randomly the rest of plasma membrane except for coated pits, gap junction regions and area boundering tight junctional strands.