What's the difference between carver and craver?

Carver


Definition:

  • (n.) One who carves; one who shapes or fashions by carving, or as by carving; esp. one who carves decorative forms, architectural adornments, etc.
  • (n.) One who carves or divides meat at table.
  • (n.) A large knife for carving.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) John Carver witnessed signs of much-needed improvement from the visitors in a purposeful spell either side of the interval but it was not enough to prevent a fifth successive Premier League defeat.
  • (2) If at times Van Gaal’s players let themselves down with careless concessions of possession, Carver knew his side had been reprieved when, back to goal, Wayne Rooney controlled the ball on his chest, swivelled and dinked a shot wide.
  • (3) John Carver accuses Newcastle’s Mike Williamson of getting sent off deliberately Read more
  • (4) Correlations were determined for male (n = 225) and female (n = 242) college students between sets of undesirable personality traits (anxiety, stress reactivity, anger, and alienation) and desirable personality traits (instrumentality, achievement strivings, and optimism measured by the Scheier-Carver [1987] Life Orientation Test), and a series of outcome variables related to health (self-reported health complaints and health maintenance behaviors and beliefs) and academic performance (academic expectations and actual grade point average).
  • (5) Significantly Moussa Sissoko, Carver’s key midfielder, failed to make much of an impact throughout, leaving Sunderland’s Lee Cattermole free to dominate central midfield.
  • (6) The sending-off could have been a straight red,” admitted Carver.
  • (7) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Liverpool 2-0 Newcastle United: John Carver bemoans penalty decision Carver, who continued his protest as the officials left the field at half-time, said: “The game hinged on a huge decision.
  • (8) Carver-Taylor worked steadily, through the fourth graders, then the fifth graders, talking and joking with them.
  • (9) Not long after the break, and shortly after watching Yannick Bolasie dodge Mapou Yanga-Mbiwa before brushing the crossbar with a shot, Carver introduced Ben Arfa at Luuk De Jong's expense.
  • (10) I want to play Champions League football – with Newcastle if possible.” If that delighted Alan Pardew’s successor, the bad news is that Santon’s departure with a view to completing a £3m transfer in May further reduces Carver’s defensive options.
  • (11) A moot point, with speculation swirling that he may replace John Carver at Newcastle United during the summer.
  • (12) I love me some peanuts and George Washington Carver !” Trump didn’t even meet the low bar for the latter, though.
  • (13) She was inspired on her course by a fellow student who asked her if she had ever read any Raymond Carver because Malton's work had echoes of him.
  • (14) This poses a problem for Carver; there are no surviving burial records for the cemetery, and instead names are scattered through thousands of records in the parishes where they lived or died.
  • (15) This article (a) reexamines the evidence relevant to Ingram's proposal that self-awareness is a nonspecific factor involved in virtually all forms of psychopathology and argues that this conclusion is not warranted by the existing evidence; (b) takes issue with his premise that the fact that self-awareness is associated with a variety of psychological dysfunctions poses a conceptual dilemma; (c) corrects several important inaccuracies and mischaracterizations in his presentation of Carver and Scheier's (1981) cybernetic control theory and Pyszczynski and Greenberg's (1987) self-regulatory perseveration theory; and (d) critiques the "self-absorption" model that he proposed as an alternative to extant theories and concludes that this conceptualization does not add to the understanding of either self-awareness processes or psychopathology.
  • (16) In this issue, Peterson and Seligman and Carver and Scheier review an impressive series of studies which together suggest that there may be health risks associated with attributing bad outcomes to internal, stable, and global causes and with failing to maintain a generalized expectancy for good outcomes.
  • (17) Carver believes he will find up to 4,000 more when the main excavation starts next year.
  • (18) It was with her red-and-white Maryland Medicaid card that Carver-Taylor found the dental care she needed, relief from pain, and her future career.
  • (19) We conceded a real poor goal,” acknowledged Carver, although he refused to criticise Krul’s part in it.
  • (20) They are blaming it on the dentists.” One of Harper’s former students, Belinda Carver-Taylor, was at the meeting too.

Craver


Definition:

  • (n.) One who craves or begs.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) There were few differences in eating behaviour, although the cravers tended to consume slightly more daily energy than the non-cravers.
  • (2) Other authors have disputed hypothetical regulation of carbohydrate intake by serotonin and doubt the existence of true carbohydrate cravers.
  • (3) Responses to the meal differed significantly: noncarbohydrate cravers reported feeling considerably less alert, more fatigued and sleepy, while carbohydrate cravers described little or no change in these aspects of mood.
  • (4) The cravers had higher ratings of boredom and anxiety during the day, and dysphoric mood was prominent prior to the cravings themselves.
  • (5) Carbohydrate cravers consume most or all snacks as carbohydrate-rich foods despite the equal accessibility of protein-rich snacks.
  • (6) About half of the female cravers show a very well defined craving peak for chocolate in the perimenstrual period, beginning from a few days before the onset of menses and extending into the first few days of menses.
  • (7) Moreover, noncarbohydrate cravers experienced an increase in depression, while carbohydrate cravers reported feeling less depressed.
  • (8) While self-reported cravers of carbohydrates were significantly more likely to drop out during the first month of treatment than noncravers, this result does not appear to be related to differences in depression, disinhibition, or cognitive restraint.
  • (9) Noncarbohydrate cravers consume about equal amounts of protein- and carbohydrate-rich snack foods.
  • (10) In "carbohydrate cravers", dexfenfluramine reduces total food intake by selectively reducing carbohydrate snacks without reducing protein intake significantly.
  • (11) Thus, a reduction in the motivation to eat and fewer snacking episodes were seen in volunteers treated with the drug, while total caloric and carbohydrate (but not protein) intakes were reduced in obese carbohydrate cravers.
  • (12) Additionally, evidence that dF improves eating symptoms and dysphoric impairments in obese cravers, premenstrual syndrome, seasonal affective disorder, and smoking withdrawal syndrome has been presented.

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