What's the difference between chopper and whopper?

Chopper


Definition:

  • (n.) One who, or that which, chops.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) They are characterized by primary-like and chopper discharge patterns.
  • (2) Inbred strain ACI rats of both sexes were divided into 4 groups; Group 1 received a diet containing the unprocessed bracken dried at a room temperature of below 30 degrees, Group 2 received a diet containing bracken dried at 70 approximately 90 degrees with a hot, forced draft, and Group 3 received the diet containing processed bracken that had been minced to a paste-like consistency using a mechanical chopper.
  • (3) Outside, there’s no sign of life except one bearded oaf on a chopper and a kid at the back door, holding a picture of Hot Fuss-era Brandon Flowers , praying for a brief encounter.
  • (4) In INLL and VNLLm, response patterns are about equally distributed between tonic, chopping, and phasic; there are no single-spike constant-latency responses of the type seen in VNLLc, although some choppers and pausers do respond with constant first-spike latency.
  • (5) Compared to available filter wheel and chopper devices, the rapid scan monochromator has advantages of rapid and software-selectable wavelength control, excellent optical alignment, small size, and low cost.
  • (6) For 'chopper' units, however, it was possible to record sustained depolarizations accompaneid by spikes that lasted as long as the tone burst.
  • (7) Outside of the body are the main battery, the chopper and the primary of the energy transmission.
  • (8) Five major PST response type classes are used: chopper, primary-like, onset, onset-C, and unusual.
  • (9) Most lateral superior olivary (LSO) units were inhibited by contralateral stimulation, were narrowly tuned, produced low to high levels of maximum output, had short latencies, and produced regular discharge patterns characterized by chopper PST histograms with narrow initial peaks.
  • (10) Earlier reports said opposition fighters shot dead two pilots after they ejected themselves after their chopper was hit.
  • (11) The technique employs two phase-locked mechanical choppers and a slow-scan scientific CCD camera attached to a normal fluorescence microscope.
  • (12) The observations suggest that PVCN choppers can encode pure-tone frequency in a spatial profile more accurately than HSR or LMSR AN fibers.
  • (13) The effects of OFF-BF input (either alone or presented simultaneously with a BF tone in a two-tone stimulus) on the response patterns of choppers may include not only rate inhibition but changes in the discharge regularity and the temporal adaptation properties of the spike trains.
  • (14) Unit discharges were classified as laryngeal motoneuron activity according to their correlation with the time course (onset and end) of echolocation calls and their discharge rate as: Pre-off-tonic, pre-off-phasic, off-pauser, off-tonic, on-chopper, on-tonic, prior-tonic and inhibitory (Fig.
  • (15) Either way, seconds later the chopper is gone, skimming over the water towards the next village-island.
  • (16) I remember building a Chopper-style bike out of a smaller racer with a tiny wheel on the front.
  • (17) "Transiently adapting" choppers undergo a very rapid (less than 10 ms) decrease in instantaneous rate accompanied by a sharp increase in discharge irregularity.
  • (18) The most ancient evidence of toolmaking by early humans and their relatives dates to 2.6m years ago and includes simple pebble-choppers for hacking and crushing.
  • (19) To minimize electronic noise and drift for detection of very small SPR signals, a mechanical light chopper was used for gated-signal detection, and a pulse height analyzer for noise rejection.
  • (20) We present a specific point process model that describes the scaling process and successfully replicates the observed responses to monaural and binaural stimulation of the three types of LSO units: slow choppers, fast choppers, and bimodal units.

Whopper


Definition:

  • (n.) Something uncommonly large of the kind; something astonishing; -- applied especially to a bold lie.
  • (n.) One who, or that which, whops.
  • (n.) Same as Whapper.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) She beats Sanders and Kasich and crushes Cruz and Trump, who has the biggest “ pants on fire ” rating and has told whoppers about basic economics that are embarrassing for anyone aiming to be president.
  • (2) For more debunkings of Rose's article you can look at Hot Whopper , Carbon Brief and Media Matters among others.
  • (3) Nobody’s going to pick him over the Whopper or the Big Mac, but still a perfectly legitimate choice nevertheless.
  • (4) Few of these misleading liberal memes come close however to the avalanche of inaccurate claims made by Trump over the course of the election: from trivial boasts about the size of his crowds through to whoppers like claiming Mexico will pay to build his wall.
  • (5) The September issue of US Vogue is the most important magazine of the fashion calendar, a whopper that often comes in a over 900 pages long, and had its own documentary in 2009.
  • (6) The scientists who went in search of whoppers netted only a host of minnows.
  • (7) When Lynch denied the claims Ellison published the slides from a presentation it claimed Lynch had given at Oracle's head office and issued a press release titled: "Another whopper from Autonomy CEO Mike Lynch."
  • (8) I've seen some whoppers in my time, but Dion's is something else" - his verdict on Dion Dublin's lunchbox, according to the then Coventry chairman Bryan Richardson, in 1994.
  • (9) magazine and adult television programmes such as Wobbling Whoppers 2 is looking at ending current news provider Sky News's £9m a year contract early and creating a populist, new-look bulletin.
  • (10) The whoppers that this guy has told – it’s been so outrageous, that the straight-talk thing, honestly – he has his own version of the facts.
  • (11) There’s a whopper that, in order to get our certificates, we must catch with an upturned pot and a piece of card, lift off the table, and place down again.
  • (12) "Now me pa was a Kilfenora man tru and tru," he says, launching into a series of unsolicited anecdotes about his forebear, each more incredible than the last, culminating in a real whopper: "In world war two pa's brother got captured by the feckin' Germans and locked up in Colditz.
  • (13) EU referendum: Sturgeon accuses Johnson of telling £350m 'whopper' Read more In France, the Front National of Marine Le Pen, who is poised to reach the second round of the 2017 presidential poll, has long said it would seek to renegotiate France’s EU membership if it took power, and hold an EU referendum.
  • (14) Conversely, whoppers as large as the one Tesco has been caught telling won’t suddenly have popped out of the mouths of a mere handful of managers.
  • (15) Obama responded by describing the "apology tour" as "probably the biggest whopper that's been told during the course of this campaign".
  • (16) When arch-rival Burger King finally entered the market last year it was greeted with similar excitable scenes – almost 5,000 people descended on its launch branch in Cape Town , some even sleeping on the street to ensure they got their hands on a Whopper.
  • (17) Fisher is the more physical and aggressive player out of the two, but really they were choosing between a Big Mac and a Whopper.
  • (18) The shed is no longer off limits, and the other day I happily coexisted in the house with a whopper (we’re talking a 12cm leg span).
  • (19) Nicola Sturgeon has led a concerted onslaught from senior remain campaigners aimed at discrediting Boris Johnson, in a heated television debate that saw him attacked for telling “whoppers”.
  • (20) Sturgeon accused Johnson – who repeatedly defended the number during the debate – as “driving around the country in a bus with a giant whopper painted on the side”.