What's the difference between counterpuncher and retriever?
Counterpuncher
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) For long periods Argentina had been stifled by a fine counterpunching opposition, but it would be a little hasty to fret too much about them after this performance.
(2) I can’t see him compromising on this … I think in the final months of the Obama administration we could see some very assertive, destabilising actions by China.” Nick Bisley, an international relations professor from La Trobe University in Melbourne, said that for all China’s frustration at the ruling he believed a military “counterpunch” was unlikely.
(3) Trump said that he was “a counterpuncher” and insisted “I was getting along with him and then he attacks me about nothing”.
(4) Labour offers counterpunch to Daily Telegraph business letter Read more After drawing lots, the leader of the Green party, Natalie Bennett , will be the first to speak.
(5) Mayweather's fast hands though are still landing counterpunch jabs.
(6) 2002 Counterpunch article On his writing room's bookshelves: "Most of them, however, are filled with the foreign editions of my books.
(7) 3.38am BST Heat 57-58 Spurs, 9:34 remaining, third quarter Miami counterpunches with a Wade basket, a Lewis three and a Wade three-pointer and it's a one-point game again.
(8) 3.38am BST Spurs 71-56 Heat, 11:14 left, 3rd quarter Okay, that the Heat counterpunching.
(9) Voters allow politicians who are counterpunching far more leeway than they do those who throw the first punch.
(10) As Roach said while Khan was undergoing routine checks in hospital: "The plan was to counterpunch, use the jab, but Mr Garcia got under his skin, and his heart got in the way.
(11) Guardian unofficial scorecard: Matthysse 9-10 Garcia 4.26am BST Matthysse vs Garcia: Round three Matthysse throwing some early left hook but none connect effectively and it leaves him open to Garcia counterpunches.
(12) All eyes on Trump as Republican debate nears, but Fox will be the real winner Read more In remarks that underscored the risks of attacking the maverick real-estate mogul too aggressively, Trump also warned that he would “counterpunch” just as hard if his opponents chose to make the debate in Cleveland personal.
(13) Further political or military pressure from the US – which Beijing has accused of masterminding the case against its claims in the South China Sea – would lead the Chinese people to “firmly support our government to launch a tit-for-tat counterpunch”, it warned .
Retriever
Definition:
(n.) One who retrieves.
(n.) A dor, or a breed of dogs, chiefly employed to retrieve, or to find and recover game birds that have been killed or wounded.
Example Sentences:
(1) We attribute this in part to early diagnosis by computed tomography (CT), but a contributory factor may be earlier referrals from country centres to a paediatric trauma centre and rapid transfer, by air or road, by medical retrieval teams.
(2) At the heart of the payday loan profit bonanza is the "continuous payment authority" (CPA) agreement, which allows lenders to access customer bank accounts to retrieve funds.
(3) As evidence, they show no mediated semantic-phonological priming during picture naming: Retrieval of sheep primes goat, but the activation of goat is not transmitted to its phonological relative, goal.
(4) New developments in data storage and retrieval forecast applications that could not have been imagined even a year or two ago.
(5) All the patients underwent oocyte retrieval and 94.3% of the harvested oocytes were preovulatory.
(6) Amniotic fluid was retrieved by amniocentesis from 148 women: patients at term with and without labor, patients with preterm labor with and without intraamniotic infection, and women in the second trimester of pregnancy.
(7) It is postulated that in case vasopressin affects retrieval processes the site of action is located in the amygdala and the dentate gyrus of the hippocampal complex with dopamine and serotonin as the respective neurotransmitter systems involved.
(8) The clinical data thus entered is highly organized, easily legible and retrievable in many ways.
(9) Levels of both free and total androstenedione increased significantly from the second day of the menstrual cycle until oocyte retrieval in non-conceptional IVF cycles, whereas levels in conceptional IVF cycles and unstimulated cycles showed no increase.
(10) This was interpreted as a drug-induced impairment of memory retrieval.
(11) Retrieval was manipulated by representing a proportion of the old picture and word items in their opposite form during the recognition test (i.e., some old pictures were tested with their corresponding words and vice versa).
(12) An interactive image-processing workstation enables rapid image retrieval, reduces the examination repeat rate, provides for image enhancement, and rapidly sets the desired display parameters for laser-printed images.
(13) Specific kinds of maternal behaviour such as nesting, retrieving, grooming and exploring, are seen in non-human mammalian mothers immediately before, during and after delivery.
(14) There appears to be a perceptual limitation in olfaction relative to vision that influences stimulus encoding and stimulus retrieval processes but that does not affect retrieval of associated responses.
(15) Work with colleagues to retrieve, centrally store, check permissions and give new life to these assets.
(16) The specific problems addressed pertain to the storage and retrieval of historical information, physical signs and diagnosis.
(17) In laparoscopic oocyte retrievals, a negative correlation was observed between duration of CO2 exposure and follicular fluid pH, whereas in ultrasound-guided retrievals, the pH remained unchanged.
(18) Printed-word comprehension appeared to involve prior retrieval of a phonological code for less frequent words.
(19) From the patients' performance we make the following theoretical claims: that some arithmetic facts are stored in the form of individual fact representations (e.g., 9 x 4 = 36), whereas other facts are stored in the form of a general rule (e.g., 0 x N = 0); that arithmetic fact retrieval is mediated by abstract internal representations that are independent of the form in which problems are presented or responses are given; that arithmetic facts and calculation procedures are functionally independent; and that calculation algorithms may include special-case procedures that function to increase the speed or efficiency of problem solving.
(20) This case illustrates: (1) acid medium, chymotrypsin, or sucrose are not needed for the procedure of zona cutting; (2) the zygotes resulting from zona cutting survive through freezing and thawing; and (3) oocyte retrieval can be done concomitant with conservative surgery for endometriosis.