What's the difference between cozener and shifter?

Cozener


Definition:

  • (n.) One who cheats or defrauds.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Darrall Cozens (Member of Labour party for 50 years), Coventry • Labour leadership contender Yvette Cooper joins other senior party figures in equating “wealth creation” with big business ( Jarvis backs Burnham in Labour race as rival runners feel squeeze , 19 May).
  • (2) Cozens, the attorney who was attacked by a friend of Ashker in 1990, is more cautious.
  • (3) "Todd is a very dangerous man in terms of his ability to do things," says Cozens, who is still a criminal defence lawyer.
  • (4) The knowledge and guile of their managers enabled them to corrupt and cozen all too many of the region’s elected public officials and to thwart the legitimate aspirations of the people.” Even during the War on Poverty, as billions of dollars were poured into the region, programmes were hijacked to serve politicians and money was diverted by members of Congress to prop up support in constituencies far from those for which it was intended.
  • (5) During the trial another inmate stabbed and wounded Ashker's attorney, Philip Cozens, in what Cozens believes was an attempt to provoke a mistrial.
  • (6) In contrast, the sequence showed substantial differences from that corresponding to a putative ferredoxin gene from Synechococcus 6301 reported by Cozens & Walker [(1988) Biochem.

Shifter


Definition:

  • (n.) One who, or that which, shifts; one who plays tricks or practices artifice; a cozener.
  • (n.) An assistant to the ship's cook in washing, steeping, and shifting the salt provisions.
  • (n.) An arrangement for shifting a belt sidewise from one pulley to another.
  • (n.) A wire for changing a loop from one needle to another, as in narrowing, etc.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) iPhone Shifter: Interactive Graphic Novel (Free) What was that about interesting things in the world of digital comics?
  • (2) The DEAE-dextran-subtilisin displayed pH optima and Km values for ester hydrolysis similar to subtilisin, whereas the pH versus activity profiles obtained with DEAE-Sephadex-subtilisin were shifter towards the alkaline pH region and the Km values were increased.
  • (3) The Olympic Games are a great inspiration to get things done.” The mayor – a political shape-shifter who has been in five different parties including the Greens, Labour and, currently, the centre-right Brazilian Democratic Movement Party of the interim president Michel Temer – also refuted allegations that his focus for Olympic investment has been only on the wealthier parts of the city.
  • (4) In his mid-80s, in his conservatory at home in Essex, he summarised the order of his interests as "travelling, writing and growing lilies"; he travelled before he turned writer, beginning in the relatively incorruptible Spain of the early 1930s, and going on for more than 60 years to observe the ebb and flow of governments, the dissolution of indigenous tribal cultures and the activities of missionaries, bandits, profiteers and political scene-shifters.
  • (5) A pulsed Doppler cardiotocograph module was extended to obtain low frequency Doppler signals, by the addition of a 90 degree phase shifter, analog multipliers, quadrature detector, sample and hold circuits and low pass filters, to produce five simultaneous outputs representing movement at depths separated by 1.5cm intervals.
  • (6) The establishment is a shape-shifter, evolving and adapting as needs must.
  • (7) The Bragg peak modulation by axial beam stacking employing a variable range shifter is explained and the control system including beam monitoring and dosimetry is presented.
  • (8) The shifter hypothesis is consistent with available anatomical and physiological evidence on the organization of the primate visual pathway, and it offers a sensible explanation for a variety of otherwise puzzling facts, such as the plethora of cells in the geniculorecipient layers of V1.
  • (9) Individuals classified as successful shifters, whether in the right or left direction, displayed a more ambihanded behavioural pattern than either unsuccessful shifters or the no shift control group.
  • (10) A threefold increase caused by a chromosomal mutation, hsh1 (high shifter), had the same effect.
  • (11) Lawyers will become unit-shifters, with no more investment in justice than the server at Costa Coffee has in your flat white.
  • (12) This argues against a general deblurring mechanism, such as a neural network 'shifter circuit', and we point out that the high level of vernier acuity for moving stimuli is susceptible to an alternative explanation.
  • (13) This technique can get rid of the shortcoming of the method usually used, in which wavelength shifter is directly incorporated to Cherenkov medium.
  • (14) The proposed solution involves what we term "shifter circuits," which allow for dynamic shifts in the relative alignment of input and output arrays without loss of local spatial relationships.
  • (15) Propranolol shifted the dose-response curves downward and to the right for all agonists; phentolamine, shifter the curves upward and to the left.
  • (16) Lateral eye-shift in preschool children was related to the use of more nouns in description by 14 right-shifters, more adjectives by 19 left-shifters.
  • (17) The Farc need constant reassuring because they are very, very mistrustful,” Shifter says.
  • (18) By this point, as it turned out the Ventolin inhaler girl was also a shape-shifter, I was looking at Twitter for reassurance.
  • (19) Various liquids (water, glycerol, sodium iodide solution; and glycerol plus a wavelength shifter) were investigated as possible Cerenkov media.
  • (20) But Shifter said Iran's president should not hope for big advances during his tour.

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