What's the difference between cooter and coster?

Cooter


Definition:

  • (n.) A fresh-water tortoise (Pseudemus concinna) of Florida.
  • (n.) The box tortoise.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) When you ask me what it symbolizes, it symbolizes, in a personal way, the courage and the valor of my ancestors, who in their time did what they believed was the right thing to do.” Jones, 73, who runs a chain of “Cooter’s Place” outlets in the south that sell Dukes memorabilia including Confederate flag license plates , said the flag had a place in southern culture that had become detached from its history as a battle flag – and from the question of race and racism.
  • (2) But he is better known as the actor who played the mechanic Cooter in the 1980s hit television show The Dukes of Hazzard .

Coster


Definition:

  • (n.) One who hawks about fruit, green vegetables, fish, etc.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Click here to view In The Other Woman, Cameron Diaz , Leslie Mann and Kate Upton team up to declare an all-out, scorched-earth War Of The Scorned Blondes against philandering husband Nikolaj Coster-Waldau.
  • (2) It is shown that the time dependence of this structural relaxation--which was first published by Sargent (1975)--is at variance with a three capacitor equivalent circuit of the membrane, which was suggested by Coster and Smith (1974) on the basis of a.c. measurements.
  • (3) The energy imparted to biological tissue after the decay of incorporated Auger emitters stems from two sources: (a) energy deposition by the Auger and Coster-Kronig electrons and (b) the charge potential which remains on the multiple ionized atom after the end of the cascade.
  • (4) Rabbit corneal KS and DS PGs each contain two kinds of PG (Gregory JD, Coster L & Damle SP (1982) J. Biol.
  • (5) Radionuclides for therapeutic applications fall into three general categories: beta-particle emitters, alpha-particle emitters, and Auger and Coster-Kronig-electron emitters following electron capture.
  • (6) Comparison with the predictions of an earlier analysis of this system (Coster, 1965) shows that the latter is valid to a good approximation for membranes > 70 A in thickness.
  • (7) Evil-but-gorgeous Cersei has long been in a secret incestuous relationship with her no-less-evil-and-similarly-gorgeous brother Jaime, played by Nikolaj Coster-Waldau with an eye to being as hunky and wisecracking as Errol Flynn in tights or Flynn Rider in Tangled.
  • (8) Estimates of Auger electron yields and yields of very-low-energy electrons from Coster-Kronig transitions are presented.