What's the difference between crabber and grabber?

Crabber


Definition:

  • (n.) One who catches crabs.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) At Humacao, the average catch was 7 fish per fishermen (mostly tilapia, Tilapia mossambica, and tarpon, Megalops atlantica) and 13 crabs per crabber (all blue crabs, Callinectes sapidus).
  • (2) We report on a survey of fishermen and crabbers engaged in recreational and substance fishing in a Puerto Rican estuary (near Humacao), which has been declared a "Superfund site" because of suspected contamination by mercury, and at ecologically similar control sites.

Grabber


Definition:

  • (n.) One who seizes or grabs.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A video camera, an NTSC compatible frame grabber board, and an AT personal computer are used to read photographic exposures of the assay plate.
  • (2) It wasn’t about money, though Jeremy Hunt portrayed us as money-grabbers by constantly stressing that we’d be getting a pay rise.
  • (3) It should be up there with the headline-grabbers: jobs, immigration, education and the NHS.
  • (4) These systems might include additional lap-shoulder belt technologies, such as pretensioners, webbing locks or grabbers, load limiters, and adjustable anchors, as well as belt supplements, such as air bags and energy-absorbing interiors.
  • (5) It's also very entertaining, maybe funnier than before, and I don't believe the fact that thrusting money-grabbers aren't exactly flavour of the month will do anything to lessen its popularity.
  • (6) Let's start with Walker's headline-grabber – the demand that banks reveal how many of their high flyers earn more than the average boardroom director.
  • (7) Those of us in the UK are thankful that we don’t live in the land of the pussy grabber-in-chief, but in the land of his handmaiden.
  • (8) The militia are the land grabbers, because they want to privatize it and cut off universal appreciation Sue Kovar, a 64-year-old Burns resident Most residents have expressed outrage over the Hammonds’ prison sentence and gratitude that the world finally seemed to be paying attention to the plight of local ranchers.
  • (9) Bill Gross of bond manager Pimco, in yesterday's headline-grabber about UK gilts "resting on a bed of nitroglycerine," cited the widely held idea that once a country's public debt exceeds 90% of GDP its economic growth slows by 1%.
  • (10) Device embolization to a pulmonary artery occurred in six patients; two of these devices were retrieved by grabber catheter and four at operation, all without adverse sequelae; there were two other technical failures.
  • (11) We have developed an image storage and retrieval system that makes use of a Super-VHS video tape recorder, and a personal computer fitted with an interface board and a video frame grabber.
  • (12) It is the result of a perverse system that financially rewards those who clearfell, from land grabbers and illegal loggers to agribusiness.
  • (13) In its most recent attention-grabber, Peta organisers dressed up in white robes and caps , in a reference to the KKK, as they handed out flyers to protest the start of the Westminster Kennel Club Show .
  • (14) The joint's data are captured by a frame grabber-board installed in a personal computer after takeover from the X-rays by a video camera.
  • (15) A PC-mounted frame grabber captures images at the TV frame rate to form a three-dimensional (3-D) array of pixels.
  • (16) This commercially available system is comprised of a microcomputer, frame grabber, CCD camera with zoom lens, and a high-resolution thermal printer.
  • (17) Mervyn King's vision of the "sober" decade in prospect for Britain was designed to be the headline-grabber.
  • (18) A commercially available video "frame grabber" is used in conjunction with a standard microcomputer for image acquisition.
  • (19) On the other side of the divide, the newspaper La Razón, which is close to Pérez, demanded that he “respect the badge!” Ramos, has been accused of being a money-grabber by the pro-Pérez press, which has only deepened the sense of mutual distrust.
  • (20) Video frame grabbers are powerful devices which perform rapid conversion of video images into digital format for subsequent computer processing.

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