What's the difference between choker and choler?

Choker


Definition:

  • (n.) One who, or that which, chokes.
  • (n.) A stiff wide cravat; a stock.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It always seems strange that a team so relentlessly consistent in the regular season should have started to build a reputation as chokers in home elimination games, but thankfully for RSL, that reputation is gone, along with the two-time defending champions the Galaxy.
  • (2) RSL meanwhile have (thus far at least) dealt another blow to their reputation as home field chokers.
  • (3) High point Claiming the title in Melbourne in January 2006, after being dismissed for many years as a “choker”.
  • (4) membership callout Trump also did a better job at controlling his emotions when Hillary tried to bait him by calling him a choker and a “puppet”.
  • (5) Romney was dismissed by Donald Trump, the television personality and real estate magnate, as a “choker” who had had his turn while Bush’s support for the controversial Common Core educational standards was attacked by others.
  • (6) Jerome Kaino, Kieran Read, Brad Thorn and Richie McCaw do not have the air of chokers about them; behind the scrum Cory Jane gave one of the great aerial catching exhibitions and Israel Dagg again showed himself to be a monumental talent.
  • (7) Their Plan A isn't working and their Plan B is sitting on the bench ruing another wasted opportunity to show everybody that he's not a complete over-rated choker.
  • (8) I became his next target, and the incoming attacks have been constant and brutal.” Asked by the Journal about Romney, Trump stayed true to form, saying: “Once a choker, always a choker.
  • (9) Risk was greatest for tree fellers and choker-setters.
  • (10) Spanish optimism here is tempered only by the knowledge that their record in the World Cup has been so poor, so ignominious at times, they have grown wearily accustomed over the decades to the allegation that sportsmen dislike the most – that of being chokers.
  • (11) The LeBron-as-choker narrative has two fatal flaws: the pair of NBA titles the 29-year-old has already won.
  • (12) Hopefully, this will soon happen to the narrative of LeBron as a big-game choker.
  • (13) Lose it, on the other hand, and they will be damned as chronic chokers and many fans will call for Wenger to be ushered into retirement.
  • (14) Her mass of black curls swept across her head in a style adopted by Lorde, she's dressed up in a ribbon choker, silver slip dress, goth flatforms and a tatty leather jacket.
  • (15) I’ve got a store worth more than he is.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Trump calls Romney a ‘choker’ during a rally with supporters in Anaheim, California.
  • (16) Manning is not the choker that some make him out to be Peyton Manning still has one more hurdle to clear.
  • (17) We don’t come to Washington as shooters and chokers,” he shouted.

Choler


Definition:

  • (n.) The bile; -- formerly supposed to be the seat and cause of irascibility.
  • (n.) Irritation of the passions; anger; wrath.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Norfloxacin and ofloxacin have the same activities on S. typhi, Salmonella and choleric Vibrio.
  • (2) The immunizing capability of a new anticholera vaccine (choleric anatoxin + vibrios Ogawa and Inaba) was tested on a group of 113 subjects.
  • (3) But even as Turkey is increasingly drawn into the firing line of Syria’s civil war and the region-wide struggle against Sunni Muslim extremism, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Turkey’s combative and choleric president, remains stubbornly fixated on a wholly different foe – the Kurds .
  • (4) In conditions of conflict between probability and value of reinforcement the dogs manifested two opposite strategies of behaviour: orientation to highly probable events (choleric and phlegmatic) and to low-probable events (sanguinic and melancholic) what is connected with individual properties of functioning and the character of interaction of four brain structures (frontal cortex, hippocampus, hypothalamus, amygdala).
  • (5) The process of L-transformation and L-transformed state duration have been studied for their effect on variability of main characters of revertant cultures of choleric vibrions L-forms at the population level with the use of cloned cultures of the choleric vibrions.
  • (6) The water mutters in the pipes; the boiler grumbling cholerically in the basement.
  • (7) Close friends say this is not artifice, but reflects his personality; in any case positioning himself as the polar opposite of the frequently choleric Sarkozy has paid off in the polls.
  • (8) Choleric and melancholic peculiarities were typical of patients with postinfarction cardiosclerosis and hypertension.
  • (9) During 1971-1973 anterior to choleric epidemy of 1973, alot of 2680 mussel's specimens were examined with the ACIS 1949 method, of which 60% (1611) favorable and 39.9% (1069) contrary; a single semple presented a S. paratyphi B germ.
  • (10) Greece Approves Sweeping Austerity Measures: 6 May 2010 Choleric scenes in parliament and outrage on the streets as Greece approves sweeping austerity measures aimed at unlocking the multibillion-euro aid package.
  • (11) As a result a strain, the strongest antagonist relative to choleric vibrios and other enteropathogenic microorganisms, is selected.
  • (12) The study was conducted on two strains of the choleric vibrion of the eltor biovar in different periods of storage in the L-transformed state (1, 3, 6 months).
  • (13) Some physico-chemical properties of commercially available neuraminidase preparations from non-choleric vibrio were studied.
  • (14) The strains capable of choleric enterotoxin secretion did not produce cytolysin.
  • (15) The choleric temperament prevailed in angina pectoris.
  • (16) A set of hybrids is obtained synthesizing monoclonal antibodies to the surface antigenic determinants of the choleric vibrio of the Ogava serovar.
  • (17) These patients may also develop a cholereic diarrhea, depending on the size of the ileal resection.
  • (18) The Vibrio cholerae non 01 closely related to the classic choleric vibrio epidemic has acquired worldwide importance during the last decade, with outbreaks of diarrheas, septicemia and other disorders in humans and animals.
  • (19) Medical discoveries, even mistaken ones, have inspired poets and playwrights since the beginning of the written word, from the influential notion that four "humours" (choleric, melancholic, sanguine, and phlegmatic) determined character, to the more metaphorical use made of medicine by poets such as John Donne.
  • (20) With the crowd frothed into a frenzy of righteous choler against the erosion of religious freedom and American exceptionalism by craven liberal politicians and their media lackeys, Ted Cruz summoned a star name to round off the rally: his father.

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