What's the difference between crusher and rusher?

Crusher


Definition:

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

Example Sentences:

  • (1) There were 119 quarry drilling and crusher workers (outdoor, physically active), 77 quarry truck and loader drivers (outdoor, physically inactive), 92 postal deliverymen (outdoor, physically active), 75 postal clerks (indoor, physically inactive), and 43 hospital maintenance workers (indoor, physically active).
  • (2) Hager draws on thousands of hacked emails and Facebook private messages, which reveal Slater’s links to Jason Ede, then a senior press adviser and so-called “black ops” co-ordinator in the prime minister’s office, as well as to senior cabinet minister Judith “Crusher” Collins and others.
  • (3) Restraint trainers called themselves Mauler, Breaker and Crusher.
  • (4) Tuning of nuclear magnetic resonance pulse sequences with pulsed "crusher" gradients or phase cycling serves to remove unwanted spin populations from the data acquisition window.
  • (5) Cytogenetic investigations were carried out on 50 workers exposed to stone dust in a stone crusher industry and on 25 control subjects never exposed to such dust.
  • (6) The side experiencing the greater activity becomes the crusher side while the contralateral side becomes the cutter and is also inhibited from ever becoming a crusher.
  • (7) This is not, however, the case, for when both claws were reflexly exercised neither formed a crusher, signifying rather that bilateral differences in predominantly mechanoreceptive input to the paired claws somehow lateralized the claw ganglion [central nervous system (CNS)] into a crusher and cutter side.
  • (8) Our initial hypothesis was that the more active claw became the crusher and its less active counterpart the cutter.
  • (9) Homarus americanus, was examined during their differentiation from a bilaterally symmetric state to an asymmetric state of a slender cutter and a stout crusher claw.
  • (10) To supply the rocks for the barrage, Brazil’s largest pebble crusher has been built nearby.
  • (11) Crusher A slightly more recent development in which the head of the tackled player is forced forward onto the chest.
  • (12) If that doesn’t work I’ve got other things up my sleeves such as the grapple tackle, the chicken wing and even the crusher tackle.
  • (13) It is only in adults that asymmetry in sensory innervation is seen with more axons in the crusher root than in its cutter counterpart.
  • (14) They have been succeeded by a generation of car-crushers and cable-burners.
  • (15) A balanced pair of flow-compensated dephasing (crusher) gradients further ensures that the stimulated echo is due only to the effect of all three rf pulses while minimizing flow dephasing.
  • (16) Crusher claws were composed of a uniform population of long sarcomere (6-13 mum) slow and intermediate (4-6 mum) fibers.
  • (17) The intraburst impulse frequency was greater for the cutter FCE and its neuromuscular synapses showed greater facilitation at these high impulse frequencies compared to that of the crusher claw.
  • (18) In early juvenile (4th and 5th) stages when claw type is determined, as well as in subsequent (6th, 7th, 8th, 16th) juvenile stages when the claws gradually differentiate into cutter and crusher types, the paired homologous roots are also similar.
  • (19) Thus, while the critical period for crusher determination is genetically determined the actual trigger is influenced by experience.
  • (20) On Monday, the Sri Lankan government destroyed 359 elephant tusks in a huge stone crusher.

Rusher


Definition:

  • (n.) One who rushes.
  • (n.) One who strewed rushes on the floor at dances.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) New York need pass rushers and while LSU's Barkevious Mingo has greater experience, Ansah's raw skillset may appeal.
  • (2) Brown, who played nine seasons with Cleveland between 1957 and 1965 and retired as the NFL’s all-time leading rusher, revealed he hadn’t voted for Trump, but said: ‘We couldn’t have had a better meeting.” He continued: “The graciousness, the intelligence, the reception we got was fantastic.
  • (3) The name Death Valley was bestowed in 1849 by a band of lost California-bound gold rushers, one of whom did actually die while trying to cross it.
  • (4) I’m a little surprised by this pick – the Browns have greater need in the secondary than they do on the defensive line, in my opinion, but it just goes to show the premium placed on pass rushers in a pass-happy league.
  • (5) Drew Brees somehow escapes from a collapsing pocket, emerging unscathed from a mob of at least three pass rushers who had converged upon him to pitch a short pass over the middle that Marques Colston takes for 15 yards.
  • (6) But it is what it is, and I just wish you guys would see me as ‘Michael Sam the football player’, instead of ‘Michael Sam the gay football player’.” Sam’s wish was granted on a few occasions over the course of his 12-minute press conference, reporters asking whether he would be comfortable converting to play as a linebacker in the pros – “I’m a pass rusher, so if you put me in a situation to get the quarterback, I’m going to get the quarterback” – and what areas he had been focusing on in training – “everything from my 40[-yard dash] to the vertical jump” – but inevitably conversation returned most often to his announcement.
  • (7) Right now they have issues on defense, including the lack of a Von Miller , a fierce pass rusher whose absence will mean the Broncos have to blitz more, leaving them more vulnerable in the backfield.
  • (8) • ‘Dropping dead is my retirement’: the gold rushers of Williston – in pictures
  • (9) The Jags are prime candidates to trade down, but if they don't receive a good enough offer they will likely go with a pass rusher here instead – and postpone their quarterback search to rounds two or three (where, after all, Wilson was found last year).
  • (10) But he was my top pass rusher on the board, and I think he’ll do just fine – as long as the Dolphins draw up the right schemes to take advantage of his remarkable speed off the edge.
  • (11) I had the Jags taking a pass rusher – which they also desperately need – and there will be a lot of fans pulling their hair out about the quarterback situation, but there simply isn’t a QB out there worthy of this pick.
  • (12) Coming off a 10-sack season and career year, Mark Anderson was added to be the other pass rusher on the outside.

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