What's the difference between boxer and pugilist?

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.

Pugilist


Definition:

  • (n.) One who fights with his fists; esp., a professional prize fighter; a boxer.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Chris Matthews, the pugilistic MSNBC host, said: "Today, moderators are expected to be aggressive: they're going to ask a question, they throw it out there, they don't just say a topic.
  • (2) Nor did he think, probably, that he would then hear his fellow pugilist scream at him: "He glassed me!
  • (3) The former pugilist only won a technical knockout, but that's probably the way the Senate majority leader likes it.
  • (4) As pugilistic as Geithner could get with those who criticized his efforts at bailouts and financial reform, at least he was listening.
  • (5) There was definitely a pugilistic theme in the air yesterday, as Gordon Brown, accompanied by his wife Sarah got a healthy start to his day with a visit to the Innocent smoothie company headquarters near Shepherd's Bush in west London.
  • (6) The console pugilists are still on their feet in the ring, but one has its eye off the fight – guard down, unsteady.
  • (7) Appearing without a tie, and offering more pugilistic rhetoric than before, he said: "The Tory motto is not 'God helps people who help themselves', but 'God helps those whom he has already helped'."
  • (8) Ever since Lebedev – the billionaire owner of the Evening Standard and Independent – floored tycoon Sergei Polonsky, speculation has swirled: where did Lebedev learn his pugilistic skills?
  • (9) As the pugilists walked to their corners for the closing bell, Adam Booth, Haye's trainer, was surely informing him to move up a level.
  • (10) Therefore, elevations of NO and stimulation of the NO-MNP may occur due to sudden, local, alterations of blood pressure during pugilistic activities and play a role in the symptoms of pugilistic Alzheimer's disease.
  • (11) But it certainly feels in the past year to have taken on a more, shall we say, pugilistic tone.
  • (12) This proposal is based on the association between environmental factors and certain neurodegenerative diseases (eg, methylphenyltetra-hydropyridine and parkinsonism, poliovirus infection and post-poliomyelitis syndrome, chickling pea ingestion and lathyrism, an unidentified environmental factor and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis-PD complex of Guam, and trauma and pugilist's encephalopathy) and on the long latent period between exposure to environmental factor and the appearance of symptoms in some of these disorders.
  • (13) Parallels with pugilistic encephalopathy are discussed.
  • (14) Leicester may have taken on a less pugilistic outlook since Claudio Ranieri replaced Nigel Pearson but their new signing is a fan of the sport and tells of a friendship that developed between him and the 1980 Olympic light-welterweight gold medallist, Patrizio Oliva.
  • (15) However, in a defiant statement a few hours later the former paratrooper was back on characteristically provocative and pugilistic form.
  • (16) The early exchanges augured a long night as two pugilistic power-baseliners went blow for blow.
  • (17) In a prospective investigation of neurobehavioral functioning in young boxers, 13 pugilists and 13 matched control subjects underwent tests of attention, information-processing rate, memory, and visuomotor coordination and speed.
  • (18) Such behaviour would contrast sharply with yesterday's pugilistic media posturing (with more than a hint of racism) about that "woman from Brazil" and her "disgrace" of a statement.
  • (19) Abbott needs to break decisively out of the pugilistic mindset and develop some genuine collegiality.
  • (20) Tony Gallagher's pugilistic Daily Telegraph , which for all its Conservative leanings seems at its happiest taking on the Tories, opened up a fresh front, examining the expenses claims of Miller and then revealing that her special adviser – and then No 10's spin doctor in chief – had pressured Gallagher in person to drop the Miller story because the timing was unhelpful in the context of Leveson implementation.

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