What's the difference between cheater and ratchet?

Cheater


Definition:

  • (n.) One who cheats.
  • (n.) An escheator.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It is possible to begin to fix the problem by identifying people who are extreme cheaters and are likely to lie on every occasion possible.
  • (2) One question came from an eight-year-old named Will, from Los Angeles, who asked: "How old will I be when … you can say that there are no more cheaters in baseball, not one?"
  • (3) (well, I know it isn't *you*, but you might know ... ) October 28, 2013 That would be MEGA-CHEATER SPITBALLER BAN HIM FOR LIFE Jon Lester.
  • (4) Empirical studies of deception have focused on the benefits of cheating but have provided no data on the costs associated with being detected as a cheater.
  • (5) There was no difference among the cheaters and non-cheaters in terms of competitiveness.
  • (6) Of course, some cheaters insert misspelled entities to create "false" original entities and fool the system (Google took care of it).
  • (7) Cheaters are cheaters,” she told the Irish Times.
  • (8) In the first part, we disentangle the theoretical concept of a "social contract" from that of a "cheater-detection algorithm".
  • (9) This provides a mechanism for removing cheaters and preserving the honesty of the Mendelian gene-shuffle.
  • (10) "I know what I did was wrong but he's the one with a wife and children – he's the cheater.
  • (11) A survey instrument, developed in 1968 and administered to 1,629 high school students in 1969, 1,100 students in 1979, and 1,291 students in 1989, asked them to respond to items regarding the following: (1) the amount of cheating believed going on, (2) who was most guilty, (3) reasons given for cheating, (4) the courses in which most cheating occurred, (5) how to punish cheaters and by whom, (6) beliefs regarding dishonesty in society, and (7) confessions of their own dishonest behaviors in school.
  • (12) Several clinical vignettes illustrate types of resistive children and adolescents: the shrugger, the silent child, the rose-colored-glass child, the mistrustful adolescent, the cheater and rule changer, the thrower.
  • (13) Another, which defends his record on trade with China, asks: "How can Mitt Romney take on the cheaters, when he's taking their side?"
  • (14) I want this agreement to remind every American that the EPA is on the job and we have your back when companies break rules designed to protect your health and when cheaters stack the deck against businesses that follow the law,” said EPA administrator Gina McCarthy.
  • (15) In the aftermath of the massive theft of nude celebrity photos last year, victim-blaming rhetoric centered not on, “Why didn’t they enact better security measures?” but, “Why did they have nude photos online in the first place?” For the Ashley Madison hack, the rhetoric is similar: they’re cheaters, so they got what was coming to them.
  • (16) The cheater moves a maximum of three cars ahead, till a smarter fellow cuts in front of him, hazard lights on, trying the same formula.
  • (17) It then follows that withholding information should be more prevalent as a form of deception than active falsification of information because of the relative difficulties associated with detecting cheaters.
  • (18) In July, the Security and Exchange Commission called Cohen's SAC Capital Advisors "a veritable magnet of market cheaters", with federal prosecutors announcing criminal charges against Cohen's hedge fund.

Ratchet


Definition:

  • (n.) A pawl, click, or detent, for holding or propelling a ratchet wheel, or ratch, etc.
  • (n.) A mechanism composed of a ratchet wheel, or ratch, and pawl. See Ratchet wheel, below, and 2d Ratch.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) But similar accusations have been levelled by Anders Fogh Rasmussen , the secretary general of Nato, and by pro-shale officials in Romania and Lithuania , as cold war-style tensions have ratcheted.
  • (2) President Obama is to meet today with members of the National Governors Association – a prime opportunity for the president to ratchet up the pressure on Republicans to make a deal.
  • (3) Muller's ratchet is an important concept in population genetics.
  • (4) The prolonged estrogen requirement during the lag period is not truly discontinuous as previously suggested but rather can be satisfied by discontinuous pulses of estrogen in a ratchet-like fashion because of the stability of their effects.
  • (5) "There has been a ratcheting down of deterrence gestures by the US, and that has helped cool the situation a little," said John Delury, a North Korea analyst at Yonsei University in Seoul.
  • (6) Muller's ratchet could have significant implications for variability of disease severity during virus outbreaks, since genetic bottlenecks must often occur during respiratory droplet transmissions and during spread of low-yield RNA viruses from one body site to another (as with human immunodeficiency virus).
  • (7) North Korea again ratcheted up the tension in its nuclear standoff with the world by declaring yesterday that it would "weaponise" all of its plutonium and threatening its opponents with military action.
  • (8) The effect of this ratcheting motion is to subtract from the DNA molecule's forward movement, at each step, an amount which is proportional to its length.
  • (9) This sets up a ratchet effect each year and means that pay almost never goes down.
  • (10) Croatia has bused hundreds of migrants to its border with Hungary, ratcheting up tensions in Europe’s refugee crisis as police fired tear gas to drive back several hundred people trying to enter Slovenia .
  • (11) Especially because Trump suggested that he never settled cases and derided others who did settle them.” The looming move to the White House ratcheted up pressure, Tobias said.
  • (12) Once these kick in in earnest, they will sweep many species out of their habitability zones, and ratchet up the extinction rate still further.
  • (13) Speaking soon afterwards, Tony Blair said it was time to "ratchet up the international and diplomatic pressure" on Iran and demonstrate Tehran's "total isolation" on the issue.
  • (14) It would drive precious talent abroad and would be used by those in other banks to ratchet up their own salaries.
  • (15) Their voices will act like a ratchet, driving up ambition on climate.
  • (16) The report warned that the five-year program of cuts imposed by the Abbott government started gently but would “ratchet sharply upwards” in coming years.
  • (17) Ratcheting up the pressure ahead of tomorrow's Summit in Brussels, Hollande also said he would fight German attempts to create a federalised eurozone.
  • (18) The tension ratcheted up when the team decamped to Paris before the show, especially when American Vogue editor Anna Wintour swung by to cast her eye over the work.
  • (19) The Israeli government is reportedly fearful that any guidelines agreed in Paris would be turned into another UN resolution before Trump’s inauguration, and it has ratcheted up its rhetoric, presenting itself as the victim of an international conspiracy.
  • (20) On Tuesday, president Bashar al-Assad ratcheted up his own language by describing the crisis as "a real war" and pledged to do everything necessary to prevail.