What's the difference between brusher and crusher?
Brusher
Definition:
(n.) One who, or that which, brushes.
Example Sentences:
(1) Overall, from 1973 to 1982 the proportion of "daily" and "frequent" brushers had increased from 56% to 75% (P less than 0.001).
(2) Twice-a-day brushers had a consistently lower caries increment than less frequent brushers.
(3) The children were grouped into "infrequent", "daily", or "frequent" brushers.
(4) triseriatus larvae were not exclusively brushers nor bottom feeders as has been assumed for many Aedes larvae but showed great flexibility in feeding, where nearly the entire habitat was the "feeding zone."
Crusher
Definition:
(n.) One who, or that which, crushes.
Example Sentences:
(1) There were 119 quarry drilling and crusher workers (outdoor, physically active), 77 quarry truck and loader drivers (outdoor, physically inactive), 92 postal deliverymen (outdoor, physically active), 75 postal clerks (indoor, physically inactive), and 43 hospital maintenance workers (indoor, physically active).
(2) Hager draws on thousands of hacked emails and Facebook private messages, which reveal Slater’s links to Jason Ede, then a senior press adviser and so-called “black ops” co-ordinator in the prime minister’s office, as well as to senior cabinet minister Judith “Crusher” Collins and others.
(3) Restraint trainers called themselves Mauler, Breaker and Crusher.
(4) Tuning of nuclear magnetic resonance pulse sequences with pulsed "crusher" gradients or phase cycling serves to remove unwanted spin populations from the data acquisition window.
(5) Cytogenetic investigations were carried out on 50 workers exposed to stone dust in a stone crusher industry and on 25 control subjects never exposed to such dust.
(6) The side experiencing the greater activity becomes the crusher side while the contralateral side becomes the cutter and is also inhibited from ever becoming a crusher.
(7) This is not, however, the case, for when both claws were reflexly exercised neither formed a crusher, signifying rather that bilateral differences in predominantly mechanoreceptive input to the paired claws somehow lateralized the claw ganglion [central nervous system (CNS)] into a crusher and cutter side.
(8) Our initial hypothesis was that the more active claw became the crusher and its less active counterpart the cutter.
(9) Homarus americanus, was examined during their differentiation from a bilaterally symmetric state to an asymmetric state of a slender cutter and a stout crusher claw.
(10) To supply the rocks for the barrage, Brazil’s largest pebble crusher has been built nearby.
(11) Crusher A slightly more recent development in which the head of the tackled player is forced forward onto the chest.
(12) If that doesn’t work I’ve got other things up my sleeves such as the grapple tackle, the chicken wing and even the crusher tackle.
(13) It is only in adults that asymmetry in sensory innervation is seen with more axons in the crusher root than in its cutter counterpart.
(14) They have been succeeded by a generation of car-crushers and cable-burners.
(15) A balanced pair of flow-compensated dephasing (crusher) gradients further ensures that the stimulated echo is due only to the effect of all three rf pulses while minimizing flow dephasing.
(16) Crusher claws were composed of a uniform population of long sarcomere (6-13 mum) slow and intermediate (4-6 mum) fibers.
(17) The intraburst impulse frequency was greater for the cutter FCE and its neuromuscular synapses showed greater facilitation at these high impulse frequencies compared to that of the crusher claw.
(18) In early juvenile (4th and 5th) stages when claw type is determined, as well as in subsequent (6th, 7th, 8th, 16th) juvenile stages when the claws gradually differentiate into cutter and crusher types, the paired homologous roots are also similar.
(19) Thus, while the critical period for crusher determination is genetically determined the actual trigger is influenced by experience.
(20) On Monday, the Sri Lankan government destroyed 359 elephant tusks in a huge stone crusher.