What's the difference between capper and sapper?

Capper


Definition:

  • (n.) One whose business is to make or sell caps.
  • (n.) A by-bidder; a decoy for gamblers [Slang, U. S.].
  • (n.) An instrument for applying a percussion cap to a gun or cartridge.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The symptoms in a group of 80 patients with a pure sliding hiatus hernia were investigated using the pyloric regulation test (Capper, Airth, and Kilby, 1966).
  • (2) Using a radiological test for pyloric regurgitation described by Capper, Airth, and Kilby (1966), it was confirmed that the pylorus is normally competent but incompetent in gastric ulcer and chronic alcoholic gastritis and often incompetent in chronic duodenal ulcer.
  • (3) The capper was Jack And Jill, for which Sandler, playing a twin brother and sister, won both Worst Actor and Actress at the Razzies.
  • (4) Ali Capper, NFU horticulture and potatoes board chair, said: “We are delighted that Lidl has publicly committed to our pledge, highlighting its commitment to long-term supply relationships, equitable distribution of reward along the supply chain, and fair and respectful trading relationships.

Sapper


Definition:

  • (n.) One who saps; specifically (Mil.), one who is employed in working at saps, building and repairing fortifications, and the like.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The police sapper was not injured but was taken to a hospital to be evaluated.
  • (2) After five years as a laboratory assistant and a spell of national service in the engineer corps (following Soviet practice, sons of the politically unreliable classes were often trained as sappers, readily expendable in mine-sweeping), he nevertheless made his way into the theatre and the world of literary politics, and wrote clever, politically risky plays in the absurdist manner that won him an international reputation.
  • (3) Instead he became an improbable sapper in 560 Field Company, which he later described as "a very working-class unit trying to build some patently inadequate defences against invasion on the coasts of East Anglia".
  • (4) Army sappers Mark Quinsey and Patrick Azimkar were shot dead as they waited to collect pizzas at the gates of the base.
  • (5) Osborne, having been cheerleader for his party's view that the minimum wage is a destroyer of jobs and sapper of enterprise, now says he wants the low pay commission to raise the hourly rate from its current level of £6.31 to £7 an hour by next year.
  • (6) Interior ministry troops, backed by army trucks, arrest vans and bomb sappers, flooded central Moscow.
  • (7) It was the poorest possible way for Hull to concede a first home goal in 652 minutes, and for the captain to be the culprit was a further morale sapper.

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