What's the difference between boxer and fighter?

Boxer


Definition:

  • (n.) One who packs boxes.
  • (n.) One who boxes; a pugilist.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The brains of 22 ex-boxers were examined histologically to determine the frequency of recent or old haemorrhage.
  • (2) I will destroy you.” Khan, a former WBA and IBF light world welterweight champion, also turned on Manny Pacquiao, accusing him and his team, led by Bob Arum, of providing conflicting reasons for choosing to fight Timothy Bradley in April, instead of the Bolton born boxer.
  • (3) Neurofibrillary tangles (NFT), one of the pathological hallmarks of Alzheimer's disease are observed in very high densities in the brains of former professional boxers suffering from dementia pugilistica.
  • (4) The British boxer Nick Blackwell is in an induced coma after suffering a bleed on the brain following a domestic title fight defeat on Saturday night.
  • (5) Our board of trustees already involves [the ice hockey player] Ilya Kovalchuk and his wife Nicole, and we are now negotiating with [the boxer] Roy Jones Jr, who recently received Russian citizenship.” It is clear that Shatov is an achiever more than than a dreamer – a down-to-earth character who will never forget where he came from.
  • (6) Chronic hypertrophic gastritis in a 7-year-old Boxer dog is described.
  • (7) Using two synchronized cameras, four experienced boxers were filmed while they threw a series of punches at a practice bag.
  • (8) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Maurice Core has been training boxers in the area for decades.
  • (9) · Floyd Patterson, boxer, born January 4 1935; died May 11 2006
  • (10) In his final fight, against the journeyman boxer Kevin McBride, he was a pitiful figure - slumped in a corner, legs splayed, unable or unwilling to stand himself up.
  • (11) Now it’s my era.” Alvarez (46-1-1, 32 KOs), whose lone career defeat was a majority-decision loss to Floyd Mayweather in 2013, was thought to be the faster and stronger fighter and he showed it on Saturday night, consistently landing the harder, more meaningful blows against one of this generation’s finest boxer-punchers, mostly getting off first.
  • (12) Danny Green plays punchy ex-boxer "One-Round", Peter Sellers's Harry is the archetypal cockney spiv, Cecil Parker's seedy ex-officer Major Courtney a recurrent postwar figure.
  • (13) Boxer, 68, is in her third term in the Senate and easily won re-election in 1998 and 2004.
  • (14) If there's one lesson I've learned through my experience as a boxer is that when someone throws a punch, curling up in the foetal position is not an option.
  • (15) The high-tech production sticks closely to the original story charting the rise and romance of amateur boxer Rocky Balboa, played by Drew Sarich.
  • (16) Three folate-sensitive autosomal fragile sites not observed in cells from the control dogs were identified in cells from boxers with mast cell tumors.
  • (17) It would appear from the video that Johnson, who was a semi-professional boxer until drugs got the better of him, is out of it – oblivious to his surroundings, oblivious to what is happening to him.
  • (18) Seven of these boxers had an abnormal clinical neurological examination, eight an abnormal EEG and nine of 15 examined had abnormal neuropsychometry.
  • (19) Three breeds (beagle, boxer, and golden retriever) had a significantly greater risk for thyroid carcinoma than did all dogs combined, whereas miniature and toy poodles had a low risk.
  • (20) Antiarrhythmic therapy for Boxer cardiomyopathy both enhances the quality of life and improves life expectancy.

Fighter


Definition:

  • (n.) One who fights; a combatant; a warrior.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) At the ceremony, the Taliban welcomed dialogue with Washington but said their fighters would not stop fighting.
  • (2) Britain had been negotiating with the Saudis over the purchase from British Aerospace of dozens of Hawk and Tornado fighter aircraft.
  • (3) Of those, 39 were civilians, 34 armed opposition fighters and 35 members of the state security forces, said the UK-based group.
  • (4) Security forces have also tried to wrest back the Sunni stronghold of Tikrit from a loose alliance of Isis fighters, other jihadist groups and former Saddam Hussein loyalists.
  • (5) "We believe BAE's earnings could stagnate until the middle of this decade," said Goldman, which was also worried that performance fees on a joint fighter programme in America had been withheld by the Pentagon, and the company still had a yawning pension deficit.
  • (6) In the clip – believed to be the first footage of a Briton fighting for the militants in Iraq rather than Syria – he urges others to take up arms and join the growing ranks of foreign fighters.
  • (7) Civil activities have a strong vision for and a commitment to Ukraine’s European future, but they lack the experience necessary to implement crucial reforms The presence of more than 30 civil society activists and dozens of fighters on various party lists ensures fresh blood in the Rada.
  • (8) Two fighters took me and held me prisoner in their house.
  • (9) By some estimates, Belgium has supplied the highest per capita number of fighters to Syria of any European nation – between 350 and 550 , out of a total population of 11 million that includes fewer than half a million Muslims.
  • (10) So who are these Syrian fighters that Cameron is relying on?
  • (11) However, I want to see how both fighters handle what will be an extraordinary fight week before I make my own.
  • (12) A Yazidi lawmaker, a Kurdish security official and an Iraqi official from the nearby city of Sinjar gave similar accounts, saying Isis fighters had massacred scores of Yazidi men on Friday afternoon after seizing Kocho.
  • (13) An estimated 1,000 people from Odessa have joined separatist fighters in eastern Ukraine.
  • (14) Prior to the "smoke-free" resolution, one fire department in Florida required that new fire fighters be non-smokers.
  • (15) He says that two dozen Delta Force commandos, Black Hawk helicopters, drones and fighter jets were involved in the rescue, adding “but we weren’t there”.
  • (16) Another 57 fighters with the al-Nusra Front, which has links to al-Qaida, were killed in air strikes on the northern Syrian province of Aleppo and Idlib, the Observatory said.
  • (17) A recent video featured Bosnian fighters urging their countrymen to join the group.
  • (18) The rebel army of about 9,000 fighters is half the size it once was, but far from being defeated militarily.
  • (19) As fighter jets screamed overhead and tanks churned up the sand, it looked and sounded like the violent protests sweeping the Middle East had spread to the wealthy emirate of Abu Dhabi.
  • (20) Without ball the first fighter and with it he seems clear.