What's the difference between choker and downer?

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.

Downer


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The Midwest was energized by Elizabeth Upham Davis, who was instrumental in establishing the occupational therapy education program at Milwaukee-Downer College in 1918.
  • (2) Cytochrome c oxidase was dispersed in nondenaturing detergent solution (B. Ludwig, N. W. Downer, and R. A. Capaldi (1979) Biochemistry 18, 1401) and treated with trypsin.
  • (3) There was a tendency that the downer cows which recovered later did not show enhanced adrenocortical function on day 4 to 5 and day 7 to 9 postpartum, while the downer cows with poor prognosis had significantly enhanced adrenocortical activity on the same days postpartum.
  • (4) Despite incessant media speculation that this person is going federal or that person is being parachuted into lead a state party (this time it was Smith in WA, previously it’s been Alexander Downer in SA and Malcolm Turnbull in NSW ), such moves rarely happen.
  • (5) Both the downer cows and cows with milk fever had significantly higher basal and ACTH-stimulated plasma glucocorticoid concentrations than cows without any postpartum complications on day 1 to 2 postpartum (P less than 0.05).
  • (6) The generally supposed mechanism of secondary, Ca-mediated cell damage and cell death was initiated and sometimes resulted in "Downers" with persisting paralysis.
  • (7) And in the same way that Bill Hayden allowed Bob Hawke clear air and to be a successful prime minister in his early years, and in the same way that Alexander Downer allowed John Howard clear air and supported him through four very successful terms, Tony Abbott is also going to allow Malcolm Turnbull a clear run,” Hunt told the ABC.
  • (8) Once on Medicaid, spend downers exhibited similar nursing-home utilization patterns as other groups, but incurred lower Medicaid claims because they contributed more to the cost of their nursing-home care.
  • (9) "We thought about ending with the cops," Idle said, "but it's a downer.
  • (10) The findings from users we have already studied strongly suggest that phencyclidine is not an "upper" or a "downer," but perhaps an "insideouter", with longer term implications.
  • (11) That can be done with what are called tier 2 visas, but maybe that could be made a little bit easier.” Downer confirmed that easier visa arrangements were negotiated alongside the last Australian-US trade deal.
  • (12) Haematocrit values and plasma glucose, calcium and magnesium concentrations were determined in blood samples collected at slaughter from 105 sheep that were prostrate, comatose, and unable to stand (downer sheep) on arrival at a Queensland meatworks.
  • (13) PUTTING A DOWNER ON THE PUDDING "Has any club ever been cruel enough to give their manager the boot on Christmas Day?"
  • (14) In a wide-ranging interview looking back on his career, McDonald described himself as a "card-carrying coward" when he was a reporter working in warzones, and how he had taken "downers" before interviewing Saddam Hussein.
  • (15) Sorrel Downer BEST FOR DESIGN: HELSINKI Facebook Twitter Pinterest The Kamppi Chapel (Chapel of Silence) in Helsinki.
  • (16) • Doubles from €72 B&B, calachica.com Follow Sorrel Downer at @somewheresville • Various airlines operate direct flights to Almería from London airports and Manchester This article was amended on 1 September 2015; the lead photograph was not in fact Fort Bravo and has been changed.
  • (17) To find out if cows with the downer cow syndrome have enhanced or exhausted adrenocortical function, fifteen downer cows were examined for adrenocortical response to 25 IU of adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH) between 1 and 9 days postpartum.
  • (18) Management, led by chief executive Philip Downer and finance director Mark Little, then bought the group back with financing from Valco Capital earlier this year.
  • (19) Violet Downer Violet Downer's father, Samuel Baker, killed on the Somme in 1916.
  • (20) Many of the cattle were also affected by ruminal acidosis-inducing factors (ruminal atony 81.6 per cent, mastitis 63.2 per cent, "downer cow syndrome" 57.9 per cent and parturition 50.0 per cent), which may have predisposed to alimentary mycosis.