What's the difference between changer and clanger?
Changer
Definition:
(n.) One who changes or alters the form of anything.
(n.) One who deals in or changes money.
(n.) One apt to change; an inconstant person.
Example Sentences:
(1) While this one will not go down as a comparable game-changer, it will at least change the growing perception of Romney as a loser, even if only temporarily.
(2) My sense is that a stronger mandate and more time would allow a more patient approach and a softer Brexit, probably more in line with May’s instincts.” The FTSE 100 index Deutsche Bank declared that the general election was a “game changer” for the pound, forcing it to tear up its sterling forecasts.
(3) The following changers were found: decreased density of pancreas (29.4 H) and liver (49.1 H) and increased density of spleen (56.3 H) and blood in abdominal aorta (43.7 H).
(4) A reciprocating Bucky design for serial film changers is described.
(5) Moyes did not offer a clear solution to United's problems – there was no obvious game-changer to help bypass Olympiakos' press.
(6) • Amanda Girling-Budd is founder of The School of Stuff in east London: it runs year-long, one-day-a-week craft courses for career changers, five-day intensive courses, 12-week evening classes and one-off days and weekends.
(7) With the help of the method of the kinetocardiography (KKG) inaugurated by Eddleman and the displacement cardiography (DKG) using a high fidelity changer, apart from a control group of 12 test persons with healthy heart 8 different groups of cardiac abnormalities consisting of altogether 88 patients were examined.
(8) Before negotiations have even started, the proposed trade deal between the EU and United States has been heralded as a game-changer: an unprecedented stimulus package for the European economy, a shot across the bow for British Eurosceptics and a chance for Europe and the US to set the standard for global trade before China beats us to it.
(9) "This report represents the most high-level discussion about drug policy reform ever undertaken, and shows tremendous leadership from Latin America on the global debate," said Kasia Malinowska-Sempruch, director of the Open Society Foundation's Global Drug Policy Program, which has described its publication as a "game-changer".
(10) After a short description of the contents of the system, the programme for the assessment of CPBA - methods is shown, by help of which the sample changer - calculator-system determines the absolute concentration of the substance to be measured.
(11) Film changer angiograms using conventional calcium-tungstate screen combinations.
(12) "We are going to come out of this debate OK," he said, adding that the Romney team had needed a game-changer and this was not one.
(13) Italy 1-1 England | Friendly international match report Read more The Tottenham Hotspur forward, who was described as a “game-changer” by Roy Hodgson after his cameo here, was summoned from the bench in the second half and thumped in his side’s equaliser from distance 11 minutes from time.
(14) The meeting was a sign of the important business ties between the two countries, particularly following the discovery of a major natural gas field in Egypt by Eni, the Italian state-backed energy group, which was described by the company’s chief executive last year as a “game changer” for Egypt.
(15) The relation between the left atrial cross-sectional area (cm2) obtained from the left ventricular long-axis view by two-dimensional echocardiography (x axis) and the left atrial volume (ml) by angiocardiography using a film changer (y axis) showed the regression equation; y = 1.2x1.5+17 (r = 0.82, p less than 0.01, n = 14).
(16) "We call on the government to build on this start by setting aside serious funding to kickstart the sector and turn it into a game changer for UK economic growth – for instance, by setting aside the proceeds from the forthcoming 4G mobile spectrum auction to be reinvested in science, engineering, and innovation."
(17) Digital is a game changer and like it or not, is here to stay,” she says.
(18) I think of Al Gore's policy-heavy acceptance speech at the 2000 Dems convention as a masterpiece of substance and attack (and another game-changer in that it dramatically closed the gap with Bush after months of lagging), so I hope Brown's had his people working for weeks on some genuinely fresh, new ideas.
(19) Intraoperative arteriography was carried out using a specially constructed operating table and long x-ray film changer that permitted rapid serial exposure of the arterial reconstruction and the distal arteries.
(20) The derivatized bile acids were separated stepwise on a Shim-pack CLC-ODS column using acetonitrilemethanol-water (100:50:30) (A), (100:50:20) (B), and (100:50:0) (C) as mobile phases with changing automatically from A to C using a solvent changer.
Clanger
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Children will also be catered for with an adaptation of Julia Donaldson’s book Stick Man and festive editions of revived TV classics The Clangers and Danger Mouse.
(2) The comments stunned green Tories, with energy and climate change ministers shifting from talk of "world leadership" in the morning to "realism" in the afternoon, and party activists saying Osborne had dropped a clanger.
(3) Facebook Twitter Pinterest The Clangers come on at the end of the CBeebies day, narrated by the steady, lulling voice of Michael Palin.
(4) It’s better to get out before you reach your sell-by date.” Wince Philip: Prince's most famous comments and clangers Read more When was the right time?
(5) Here was the dullest of games with the liveliest of endings, thanks to clangers from each goalkeeper in the last 10 minutes of the match.
(6) When asked last month for her thoughts on another Clinton clanger – claiming that she and her husband, former president Bill, were “dead broke” when they left the White House in 2000 – Warren reportedly “paused for a full 19 seconds” before saying: “Um, I was surprised.” Asked whether Clinton could plausibly speak on behalf of America’s poorest in a political fight against inequality, Sagrans said: “Obviously Hillary has been out and promoting her book, and promoting her, and doing a lot of these speeches.
(7) The 70s are sometimes referred to as the decade that style forgot, and some of the cliched clangers are present and correct in the final season on Sky Atlantic .
(8) Decision to "go early" may have been on legal advice but more and more looks like a clanger.
(9) The Duke of Edinburgh has shocked and sometimes delighted the public with his outspoken comments and clangers.
(10) Louis van Gaal dropped a clanger after Manchester United’s win over CSKA Moscow by getting Chris Smalling’s name wrong … again.
(11) ITV yesterday apologised for a clanger almost as big as England goalkeeper Robert Green's after 1.5 million fans watching the World Cup clash with the USA on the broadcaster's HD channel missed Steven Gerrard's fourth minute goal because of a "transmission error".
(12) Of course, MacMath couldn’t have timed Sunday’s clanger any worse, coming just hours after the official announcement of Howard’s signing.
(13) The pace slows, there are fewer multicoloured dinosaurs, and instead, you have the steady, lulling voice of Michael Palin narrating Clangers – about a family of pink, mouse-like creatures who live underground on another planet – followed by the unchanged, vital staple of In the Night Garden.
(14) a) Let sleeping Dallas lie b) I can’t wait for the new Clangers c) I pine for Bagpuss d) I miss gathering round the wireless Results Mostly a) Chill out, Flash Gordon.
(15) It was Ospina, though, who dropped the most nightmarish of clangers and it shone a harsh light on Wenger’s decision to persist with him in this competition at the expense of Cech.
(16) Whatever, he says, he made one of the great clangers in history.
(17) US writer Helen Boyd , author of My Husband Betty, lists 35 classic clangers, including: trans woman putting on makeup (two shots for reverse camera shot into mirror); showing "before" photos; any reference to genital surgery that includes "finally becoming a woman"; and anything with a trans woman sitting in an above-the-knee skirt, "posed so you can see what great gams she has".
(18) Despite Brown dropping a clanger in 2007 by abolishing the 10p tax rate, followed by the 2008 financial tsunami that hit our shores due to the earthquake of US sub-prime debt, it was Brown and Obama who engineered the fiscal stimulus.
(19) Being at the junction of the Eurasian, North American and African tectonic plates, the Azores are a geological hotspot: when seen from its highest point, each island is a Clanger-land of chimneys and craters where you could believe entire civilisations of sprites and elves live among the fat, dappled cows.
(20) And there’s the huge spanner that the euro crisis has thrown into the Scottish works – an even bigger clanger come 2017 if you think of Scotland pushing hard to join the EU just as England votes to leave.