What's the difference between brawler and crawler?

Brawler


Definition:

  • (n.) One that brawls; wrangler.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Tottenham’s Danny Rose apologises for setting bad example in Chelsea draw Read more The ill feeling spilled over into the tunnel at the end as Spurs and Chelsea players got involved in a rolling maul which led to the home manager Guus Hiddink being sent flying and his counterpart Mauricio Pochettino attemping to prise the multiple brawlers apart.
  • (2) So it's therefore doubly fascinating to see that the artist whom Francis holds in highest esteem is Caravaggio, the Baroque gay icon and street brawler who used prostitutes and rent boys as models for his work.
  • (3) A year ago I was crying out for Cook to step down for the benefit of his batting - albeit advocating Broad the Brawler to take over his position (I liked the way he got under the opposition's skin).
  • (4) He has to firmly rebut and dissect Romney's arguments, but without coming across as a brawler.
  • (5) However, Ram was a drinker and a brawler whom other men in the colony frequently had to keep in line.
  • (6) Justin Trudeau was a popular but untested politician when he stepped into the ring to meet a tough-looking brawler from the Conservative party of Canada .
  • (7) He had not been the best student – “a bit of a brawler, easily led, but popular”, according to his mother – but had decent basic qualifications and was a keen sportsman.
  • (8) At first, the skin's waxy softness, the three-days' growth, the brawler's nose, is all you notice.
  • (9) The over-aggressive brawler – recently appointed Conservative senator Patrick Brazeau – quickly wore himself out, allowing the slender Trudeau to move in and pick him apart with impressive finesse.
  • (10) With cauliflower ears and a scarred shaven head, Bisping certainly has the look of a brawler.
  • (11) While Algieri had won a world title at 140lbs with last year’s upset of crude brawler Ruslan Provodnikov, few expected the Long Island native to pose much of a threat against the faster, more polished Khan, a two-time champion at junior welterweight.
  • (12) At first, people think: ‘Gosh, these guys are just a bunch of bar room brawlers,’” Fertitta says.
  • (13) I guess this isn’t much of a secret, but I love roller derby – my local team are the Tiger Bay Brawlers, who are one of the best teams in the UK.
  • (14) Can Corbyn from opposition really turn Britain from Europe’s bellicose pub brawler, eager to join any fight, into an unarmed pacifist country, with no more than peacekeeping forces?

Crawler


Definition:

  • (n.) One who, or that which, crawls; a creeper; a reptile.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The landmark move, widely rumoured after Sony’s The Amazing Spider-Man 2 received only middling reviews and picked up a franchise-worst box-office haul last year, also looks likely to mean the instalment of a new actor as the masked wall crawler.
  • (2) "The old internet is shrinking and being replaced by walled gardens over which Google's crawlers can't climb," he noted earlier this year , as Facebook prepared its flotation.
  • (3) Relative to the performance of crawlers, noncrawlers showed lower average and subtest-specific performance on selected measures of the Miller Assessment for Preschoolers.
  • (4) Creepers with a dissociated pattern of learning to sit and crawlers with muscular hypotonia were found to have an increased risk for later handicap.
  • (5) But Western countries have been slow to adopt this trend , with television shows like “Fear Factor” reliably triggering disgust in viewers by feeding squirming creepy crawlers live to contestants.
  • (6) The fliers showed higher superoxide dismutase and catalase activities and glutathione concentration than crawlers, whereas, the amount of inorganic peroxides (H2O2) and TBA-reactants was higher in the crawlers than in fliers.
  • (7) All houseflies lose flying ability prior to death, whereby, in an aging population, shorter-lived flies can be identified as flightless 'crawlers' from their longer-lived cohorts, the 'fliers'; the average lifespan of crawlers is about one-third shorter than the fliers.
  • (8) Life expectancy of crawlers is about one-third shorter than that of the fliers.
  • (9) The children of each type were divided into two groups according to the ability of locomotion at the age of 4 years; S- I: 6 walkers, S- II: 9 crawler, A- I: 11 walkers and A- II: 10 crawler.
  • (10) Neither crawlers nor fliers exhibited any physical damage to their chemoreceptive tarsi, thereby ruling out starvation as a probable cause of death.
  • (11) I don’t want this, I have the abilities to work, why are they taking my job away?” Former detective superintendent Alan Caton, who led Ipswich’s response to the murders of five women who worked as prostitutes in 2006, emphasised a different approach, that police had successfully operated a “zero tolerance” approach to sex work after the murders – cracking down on kerb crawlers, while not prosecuting women.
  • (12) "For example, all the information in apps – that data is not crawlable by web crawlers.
  • (13) The department sent undercover officers, codenamed "rakers", into Muslim neighbourhoods, and ran a network of informants known as "mosque crawlers" to monitor sermons – even when there had been no evidence of criminality.
  • (14) A third study found that the quality of locomotion affected object permanence performance: Belly crawlers performed differently than infants with hands-and-knees or walker experience, insofar as they performed at prelocomotor levels regardless of weeks of locomotor experience.
  • (15) Webroot's Phileas web crawler has catalogued nearly 90,000 web pages that might be able to download malware on to PCs, often using exploits (security holes) to sneak their payloads into your web browser.
  • (16) A higher percentage in the index group were late crawlers (greater than 10 months), but similar proportions in both groups were bottom-shufflers or simply stood up and walked.
  • (17) Patterns of exploration varied with the information presented and differed for crawlers and walkers in the case of a deformable surface, as an affordance theory would predict.
  • (18) Compared with the standard, the deforming surface elicited longer latency, more exploratory behavior, and more displacement in walkers, but not in crawlers, suggesting that typical mode of locomotion influences perceived traversability.
  • (19) Actomyosin ATPase activity was higher in the fliers than in the crawlers of the same age.
  • (20) In an effort to uncover terrorist plots, so-called "rakers" or "mosque crawlers" – typically paid NYPD informants – were sent to Muslim student association meetings, businesses, universities, restaurants, whitewater rafting trips and more than 250 mosques in New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Pennsylvania and elsewhere.

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