What's the difference between chicane and chicaner?
Chicane
Definition:
(n.) The use of artful subterfuge, designed to draw away attention from the merits of a case or question; -- specifically applied to legal proceedings; trickery; chicanery; caviling; sophistry.
(n.) To use shifts, cavils, or artifices.
Example Sentences:
(1) #FeelTheForce #TheHulk May 25, 2014 1.54pm BST Lap 34: Raikkonen is desperate to make up ground and come back through the field but in doing so makes a mistake at the Nouvelle Chicane and cuts the corner.
(2) Show me someone who likes their meat overcooked and I will show you a picky eater, someone who regards meal times as a set of challenges and insults to be negotiated, like oil-slicked chicanes on a race track.
(3) 2.02pm BST Lap 40 : Grosjean this time does take Kobayashi, at the Nouvelle Chicane.
(4) The umbilical connection between the US marines at Camp Leatherneck and the new model Afghan army in Camp Shorabak is a sandy chicane known as Friendship Gate, where Helmand's Afghan garrison draws sustenance from its departing foreign advisers.
(5) I was approaching a chicane, within 20m, travelling at 12-15mph; with the signage indicating that I had priority.
(6) Lewis Hamilton’s third Formula One world championship did not have the plot twists, the nuances of narrative and head-rattling chicanes that marked his previous two successes in 2008 and last year.
(7) 2.36pm BST Lap 65: Fastest lap of the race from Ricciardo who is throwing his Red Bull through corners, the back swinging in and out as he navigates a chicane, and he's closing on Hamilton who is now 4 secs back from Rosberg.
(8) Always doubtful about the conventional armoury of signs, speed bumps and chicanes, he began to explore the potential for influencing driver behaviour through stripping out highway paraphernalia, using instead simple design measures that emphasised the distinctiveness of each and every place.
(9) The unmetalled roads quickly become genuine offroad challenges, and while the views from the Delfi and other high points are stunning, the road chicanes along the edge of cliffs and there are no barriers except for the pine trees, and no road signs.
(10) It is urgent that all sides show restraint and take all possible steps to avoid further escalation. Updated at 9.08pm GMT 9.02pm GMT Ukraine continues to strengthen defenses along its eastern border , Reuters reports, but “there is no sign of a major troop buildup.” Border defences have been strengthened by an anti-tank chicane of house-high concrete blocks, placed across the highway that links the Russian city of Rostov-on-Don and runs round the coast toward Crimea, 200 miles west.
(11) Valtteri Bottas gains three places via cutting the chicane.
Chicaner
Definition:
(n.) One who uses chicanery.
Example Sentences:
(1) #FeelTheForce #TheHulk May 25, 2014 1.54pm BST Lap 34: Raikkonen is desperate to make up ground and come back through the field but in doing so makes a mistake at the Nouvelle Chicane and cuts the corner.
(2) Show me someone who likes their meat overcooked and I will show you a picky eater, someone who regards meal times as a set of challenges and insults to be negotiated, like oil-slicked chicanes on a race track.
(3) 2.02pm BST Lap 40 : Grosjean this time does take Kobayashi, at the Nouvelle Chicane.
(4) The umbilical connection between the US marines at Camp Leatherneck and the new model Afghan army in Camp Shorabak is a sandy chicane known as Friendship Gate, where Helmand's Afghan garrison draws sustenance from its departing foreign advisers.
(5) I was approaching a chicane, within 20m, travelling at 12-15mph; with the signage indicating that I had priority.
(6) Lewis Hamilton’s third Formula One world championship did not have the plot twists, the nuances of narrative and head-rattling chicanes that marked his previous two successes in 2008 and last year.
(7) 2.36pm BST Lap 65: Fastest lap of the race from Ricciardo who is throwing his Red Bull through corners, the back swinging in and out as he navigates a chicane, and he's closing on Hamilton who is now 4 secs back from Rosberg.
(8) Always doubtful about the conventional armoury of signs, speed bumps and chicanes, he began to explore the potential for influencing driver behaviour through stripping out highway paraphernalia, using instead simple design measures that emphasised the distinctiveness of each and every place.
(9) The unmetalled roads quickly become genuine offroad challenges, and while the views from the Delfi and other high points are stunning, the road chicanes along the edge of cliffs and there are no barriers except for the pine trees, and no road signs.
(10) It is urgent that all sides show restraint and take all possible steps to avoid further escalation. Updated at 9.08pm GMT 9.02pm GMT Ukraine continues to strengthen defenses along its eastern border , Reuters reports, but “there is no sign of a major troop buildup.” Border defences have been strengthened by an anti-tank chicane of house-high concrete blocks, placed across the highway that links the Russian city of Rostov-on-Don and runs round the coast toward Crimea, 200 miles west.
(11) Valtteri Bottas gains three places via cutting the chicane.