What's the difference between brickmaker and maker?
Brickmaker
Definition:
(n.) One whose occupation is to make bricks.
Example Sentences:
(1) As the industry’s lifeblood, suppliers are still recovering from the recession, and until they get back to full capacity, the continued lengthening of delivery times may become a restraining force on the sector in the coming months.” Our economics reporter, Katie Allen, wrote last month that British brickmakers are working flat-out to meet orders as the construction recovery picks up.
(2) It's a great read: UK brickmakers straining to meet rising demand Martin Warner is standing on a pile of nearly one and a half million bricks, stacked several metres high in a vast open shed.
(3) Brickmakers say they have been investing to raise capacity but that it takes time to get a mothballed plant up and running.
(4) The Brick Development Association, the trade group for brickmakers, said capacity was rising all the time and it expected UK output this year to top 2bn bricks for the first time since 2007.
Maker
Definition:
(n.) One who makes, forms, or molds; a manufacturer; specifically, the Creator.
(n.) The person who makes a promissory note.
(n.) One who writes verses; a poet.
Example Sentences:
(1) Will African film-makers tell those kind of films differently?
(2) By paying attention to the variables that compose the best-interests approach, decision makers can arrive at decisions not to sustain life that are more easily justifiable than with any other approach.
(3) It is claimed that Mitt Romney, the Republican presidential candidate, was "starstruck" by his association with Eastwood and that the film-maker's speech was not vetted beforehand.
(4) The film-maker had been due to present his new film Venus in Fur , which stars his wife, Emmanuelle Seigner, at an outdoor screening in Locarno’s Piazza Grande on Thursday.
(5) He admitted the increased profile afforded him by appearances in movies such as Captain America , its forthcoming sequel The Winter Soldier and 2012's $1.5bn superhero ensemble piece The Avengers had helped him get a foot on the ladder as a film-maker.
(6) Amid such confused thinking, it is hardly surprising that the Home Office was indicating yesterday that there would be no dramatic shift in government policy in the light of today's meeting between Theresa May, the home secretary, and representatives from Twitter, Facebook and Research in Motion, the BlackBerry maker.
(7) In a Facebook post , the songwriter and activist claims that Swift has merely chosen sides in the battle between Google and Spotify, saying that the singer was trying to “sell this corporate power play to us as some sort of altruistic gesture in solidarity with struggling music makers”.
(8) The team "is designed... to get all the options on the table for the decision-makers."
(9) Those with no idea of what he looks like might struggle to identify this modest figure as one of the world's most exalted film-makers, or the red devil loathed by rightwing pundits from Michael Gove down.
(10) That dramatically shifts the focus back to us, the programme makers, to come up with more, new, startling ideas, absolutely unmissable storylines and settings, the sharpest writing.
(11) BlackBerry will burn through most of its cash in the next 18 months, a senior independent analyst has warned, leaving the smartphone maker with "material liquidity problems".
(12) Having lost its position as the world's biggest phone maker to Samsung earlier this year, Nokia is burning through cash.
(13) A limitation of the method is that utility values and probabilities are often estimated on the basis of the decision makers' biases.
(14) Cadbury became the world's largest confectionery company in 2003 after buying up a number of gum brands, including Trident and Stride, but ceded the number one spot to Mars when it took over gum maker Wrigley last year.
(15) In the UK, the manufacturing PMI also slipped to 49, its lowest level in more than two years, pointing to a second successive month of contraction in the sector the area that Osborne hoped could lead the UK economy back to sustainable growth with a "march of the makers".
(16) It explicitly guides the decision maker in determining the crucial variables in a clinical decision, and permits both objective data and personal preferences to play a part in decision making.
(17) Fred Goodwin was the dominant decision maker at RBS at the time.
(18) His rise in the 1990s coincided with the emergence of a new wave of American film-makers, and his versatile, volatile talent became integral to some of the most original US cinema of the past 20 years.
(19) Years later, when Atkins' "Countrypolitan" touch was no longer fashionable, he was often asked by journalists and documentary-makers whether he and his fellow Svengalis had gone too far.
(20) "I was into jazz in the 80s," says Akomfrah, "and there was a sense in my mind that the artists and film-makers I was working with kind of discovered that tradition, and here was Stuart, you know 20 or 30 years earlier, already making those connections."