What's the difference between breaker and comber?

Breaker


Definition:

  • (n.) One who, or that which, breaks.
  • (n.) Specifically: A machine for breaking rocks, or for breaking coal at the mines; also, the building in which such a machine is placed.
  • (n.) A small water cask.
  • (n.) A wave breaking into foam against the shore, or against a sand bank, or a rock or reef near the surface.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The compound is a weak chromosome breaker in onion root tips and in Chinese hamster cells.
  • (2) Like, I am well, well equipped for this thing.” For their one survival item each, Rogen brought a role of toilet paper, while Franco brought sunglasses and mugs continually for the camera, giving his best Spring Breakers faces while in the buff.
  • (3) This is just one of the many blameworthy behaviors that young spring breakers have shown recently in Cancún and that are described as acts of xenophobia and discrimination against Mexicans within their own country, which is (or should be) totally unacceptable.” The story took off.
  • (4) About 35 million were egg-laying hens that provided 80% of the eggs for the breaker market – eggs broken then liquefied, dried or frozen to be used in processed foods like mayonnaise and pancake mixes, or sold to bakeries to make cakes, cookies and other products.
  • (5) The clinical results shown that, after twelve years of experience, the stress breaker framework allows the preservation of the abutments as well as the conservation of osseo-mucous tissues (no need of rebase).
  • (6) The tie-breaker isn't quite the buzzer-beater that Jeff Carter converted with tenths of a second left in the first period of Game 3, but it comes with under 30 ticks left in the second period here and has a similar effect.
  • (7) Spring Breakers is a good few steps removed from reality.
  • (8) While those figures may be skewed by one film alone (Harmony Korine's hit teenage skin celebration Spring Breakers ) the overall pattern of sex bias is unmistakable.
  • (9) Preliminary ultrasonic studies have indicated that these biomolecules behave as structure breakers, hence weak ligands in aqueous medium, while strengthening water structure in semi-nonaqueous medium.
  • (10) Agüero's deadlock-breaker was undercut by trademark explosiveness.
  • (11) beta-Breakers can be located automatically using a consensus approach based on algorithmic secondary structure assignment, solvent accessibility and backbone dihedral angles.
  • (12) Richard Dunwoody briefly set a new high of 1,699 but McCoy passed that 11 years ago and every winner he has ridden since then has been a record-breaker.
  • (13) Mr Gott argues that 80% of all Rollers ever produced are still being driven, whereas most other cars hit the breaker's yard after a relatively short period.
  • (14) In reality, says the book that I co-wrote with Nick Timmins, Glaziers & window breakers , the words were quite possibly born of despair – Bevan was the first health secretary to find that there is an impossible tension to navigate a service that is politically accountable to parliament and run day-to-day by its staff.
  • (15) Indeed, not only are new institutional circuit breakers, such as the European Financial Stability Facility, in place; existing bodies have also been made more flexible and thus more effective.
  • (16) Clodia Metelli The epitome of the chic, sexy, scandalous aristocrat of 1st century BC Rome, Metelli was supposedly the "Lesbia" to whom the love-lorn poems of Catullus are addressed (and if so, a total ball-breaker).
  • (17) The UK, French and German governments all had the power to veto the deal but Berlin's concern over the potential size of the French shareholding in the combined company, as well as disagreements over the location of the group's headquarters, proved to be the deal breaker that could not be resolved by the last-ditch round of phone diplomacy.
  • (18) Administration of the hapten 2,4,6-trinitrobenzenesulfonic acid (5-30 mg) in 0.25 ml of 50% ethanol as the "barrier breaker" produced dose-dependent colonic ulceration and inflammation.
  • (19) There has to be a circuit breaker and I think it’s a further leap down in the Aussie dollar and to get that we’ll likely require more rate cuts.” Goldman Sachs and RBC Capital Markets also changed their forecasts following the soft GDP figures.
  • (20) Restraint trainers called themselves Mauler, Breaker and Crusher.

Comber


Definition:

  • (n.) One who combs; one whose occupation it is to comb wool, flax, etc. Also, a machine for combing wool, flax, etc.
  • (n.) A long, curling wave.
  • (v. t.) To cumber.
  • (n.) Encumbrance.
  • (n.) The cabrilla. Also, a name applied to a species of wrasse.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) They were detained a short distance from where McGuigan was gunned down in front of his wife at their home in Comber Court.
  • (2) A female British soldier and a Royal Marine who died in an exchange of gunfire with a member of the Afghan police while on patrol in Helmand have been named as Channing Day, 25, from Comber, County Down, Northern Ireland, and Corporal David O'Connor.
  • (3) Around 9pm on 12 August, as McGuigan was pulling up in his car with his wife at their home in Comber Court, two men clad in dark clothing ambushed him.
  • (4) Nesbitt said: "It was with great regret and much sadness that I learned last night of the tragic death of a young woman from Comber who died in the service of her country alongside a colleague from the Royal Marines in the Nahr-e Saraj district of Helmand province, Afghanistan.
  • (5) MFO enzyme activities were measured in microsomes from whole mussels (Mytilus galloprovincialis) comber livers (Serranus cabrilla), or Posidonia oceanica etiolated tissues, and PAH contents were determined in sediments collected in coastal locations of the French Riviera and Corsica during 3 oceanographic cruises in 1987-1988.
  • (6) The Ulster Unionist party leader, Mike Nesbitt, paid tribute to the soldier from Comber and expressed sympathy for her family.
  • (7) The G8 menu As tweeted by David Cameron Kilkeel Crab, Prawn and Avocado Roast fillet and braised shin of Kettyle beef, violet artichokes, Comber new potatoes plus seasonal vegetables Apple crumble, with Bushmills whiskey custard and a selection of cheeses from the British Isles.

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