What's the difference between caller and faller?

Caller


Definition:

  • (n.) One who calls.
  • (a.) Cool; refreshing; fresh; as, a caller day; the caller air.
  • (a.) Fresh; in good condition; as, caller berrings.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The authors note that poison center callers seem to constitute a pool of significantly suicidal persons and reaffirm the premise that poison centers and suicide centers should coordinate their efforts.
  • (2) The aftereffects of home-induced emesis with ipecac syrup were determined by telephone interviews of callers to a poison center.
  • (3) The caller, who refused to give a name, also claimed to have carried out a similar attack on a far-right newspaper and said the action would continue until the election.
  • (4) The aim of this study was to determine who used the line, why they called, the conditions callers presented with, the action taken by the doctor and whether patients and doctors thought the service was a good idea.
  • (5) I live in rural Ireland and the travel alone is more than I can afford," says one caller.
  • (6) As Fox caller Joe Buck just said to new viewers "we know where you've been"."
  • (7) Use of visiting nurses to substitute for physician house calls was less often considered appropriate by frequent house callers (7% vs. 24%, p less than 0.01), and regular house callers were less likely to report being "too busy" to make house calls (71% vs. 29%, p less than 0.01).
  • (8) But within minutes of the five-year-old video of Obama being released by the Daily Caller website on Tuesday night , the "exclusive" began to unwind amid criticism that much of it had been reported at the time and the content was anything but explosive.
  • (9) Enhanced caller identification pages could also show details of the person on the other end of the line including their location, and prompts such as the names of their children, their last holiday or a recent cinema outing.
  • (10) Of a sample of 4626 callers to the service, 3887 (84%) responded.
  • (11) Since last March, a family planning hotline has been putting the caller in touch with the Family Planning Information Service.
  • (12) Sterling seemed in a good mood, she said – neither knew that an anonymous caller had just told police Sterling had threatened him with a pistol, and officers were on their way.
  • (13) The mean age of the callers was 9.7 years, with twice as many girls as boys calling.
  • (14) Crowley, the chief political correspondent at CNN, was variously accused of having "committed an act of journalistic terror" (Rush Limbaugh) to having committed an act similar to John Wilkes Booth assassinating Abraham Lincoln (the Daily Caller's Tucker Carlson) when she fact-checked Romney in Tuesday's debate.
  • (15) Another time I might challenge a rival cold caller, making them sweat for their charity with awkward questions that I know only too well.
  • (16) Disruption to the non-emergency helplines for the police and the NHS was resolved on Saturday after callers were unable to get through for several hours.
  • (17) Three problems were presented to each center by simulated callers.
  • (18) Of male callers, 67% reported that telephone counseling helped at least somewhat, while 80% of female callers reported favorable results of telephone counseling.
  • (19) He freely gives out his mobile phone number, and, again, when he has time, happily answers it to all callers.
  • (20) When you find the number you wish to block, tap the little “i” symbol next to it, then tap “Block this caller”, and then “Block contact”.

Faller


Definition:

  • (n.) One who, or that which, falls.
  • (n.) A part which acts by falling, as a stamp in a fulling mill, or the device in a spinning machine to arrest motion when a thread breaks.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The cities with the biggest increases were Cambridge, up by 6% at £336,667, and Coventry, up 3% at £165,100; the biggest fallers were Bradford and Manchester, both down by 9% to £145,478 and £171,830 respectively.
  • (2) Chipmaker ARM is the biggest faller in London, as analysts fret about a slowdown in royalty revenues.
  • (3) Financial stocks are among the fallers -- with RSA Insurance down 3.8%, Standard Chartered down 3.4% and Barclays losing 3.1%.
  • (4) Top city fallers Belfast – prices down 37% on Q1 of 2008 to £190,915 Norwich – down 23% to £154,557 St Albans – down 22% to £272,813 Newcastle – down 19% to £147,104 Leeds – down 18% to £156,897 Lowest city fallers Bath – prices down 7% on Q1 of 2008 to £221,695 Durham City – down 8% to £137,821 Glasgow – down 10% to £154,989 Edinburgh – down 10% to £228,528 Sunderland – down 12% to £130,164
  • (5) Six of the eight fallers reporting new symptoms were exposed only to antivibration saws, a finding suggesting that the type of saws used in the present investigation is not preventing the onset of new disease.
  • (6) Although POW in fallers was significantly lower at the higher velocity in both joints, the decrease was most prominent in the ankles.
  • (7) However, visual variables were more important in predicting faller status than physical characteristics.
  • (8) In London, Barclays shares fell by 6% to 206p and were the second-biggest faller in the FTSE100 amid fears about its troubled Spanish operation.
  • (9) On Tuesday, they were the biggest fallers in the FTSE 100, ending nearly 4% lower at 264p.
  • (10) The group of fallers had a significantly greater degree of white-matter hypodensity of the elderly (Student's t-test = 2.7, p less than 0.01).
  • (11) Shares in AB Foods, 55% owned by the Weston family, have jumped nearly 60% over the past year, mainly on the back of Primark's success, but the mixed picture made them the biggest faller in the FTSE 100, closing down more than 2% at £27.57.
  • (12) M&S shares dropped 3.5% to 435p and were the second-biggest fallers in the FTSE 100 index.
  • (13) The early optimism over China's 12% rise in exports has withered - here's the biggest fallers this lunchtime: Photograph: Thomson Reuters Toby Morris , senior sales trader at CMC Markets, says investors are now more worried that Chinese imports only grew by 5% in October.
  • (14) Chancellor to crack down on letting fees in autumn statement Read more Foxtons was the sector’s biggest faller, with shares down almost 14%.
  • (15) A multivariate regression procedure showed that dizziness, vertigo and unsteadiness, transient ischemic attacks, antidepressant drugs, and poor subjectively experienced health characterized the fallers.
  • (16) Insurance firm RSA is the biggest faller on the FTSE 100 after warning that weather-related claims will be bigger than expected.
  • (17) Dorsiflexion POW production in fallers was the most affected of all the motions (7.5 times less than the control value).
  • (18) This study examines some aspects of spatial orientation mechanisms in idiopathic elderly fallers.
  • (19) The pattern of enzyme changes in elderly fallers admitted to an acute geriatric unit was investigated.
  • (20) A year ago HSBC made $20.6bn profits and paid 204 of its staff more than £1m, although its shares were among the biggest fallers in the FTSE 100 index of blue chip shares on disappointment that the profit rise was not greater.