What's the difference between devourer and preyer?

Devourer


Definition:

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

Example Sentences:

  • (1) She devoured political science texts, took evening classes at Goldsmiths college, and performed at protests and fundraisers, but became disillusioned.
  • (2) On land, sand miners have devoured whole swaths of beach, from Jamaica to Russia.
  • (3) I gaze at it across the street and, as if by magic, I ache with longing, just as I used to in the days when a trip here was the most enjoyable thing I could possibly imagine: when books were all I wanted, when I thought of them as pieces of ripe fruit, waiting to be peeled and devoured.
  • (4) Within half an hour, George Galloway – the native of Dundee, MP for Bradford West, a former Labour MP for inner Glasgow, and figurehead of the Respect party – is sitting in Wetherspoon's, devouring fish and chips and granting about a dozen requests for photographs.
  • (5) The contents of the posterior cranial fossa are actively "sucked up", "devoured" by the latter.
  • (6) Kentucky secretary of state Alison Lundergan Grimes began the night recalling that the soon-to-be nominee loves lifestyle TV “and can devour buffalo wings”.
  • (7) She reels off esoteric book recommendations ("I just devoured this great book about the mistaken theories of pre-historic sexuality.
  • (8) Tissue samples from partly devoured carcasses contained T. spiralis larvae, implicating cannibalism as a major vehicle for the spread of T. spiralis in the herd.
  • (9) This is the real deal, what people want, what they can’t wait to devour.
  • (10) Partners of depressives experience themselves often as being totally in their hands respectively "devoured" by them.
  • (11) But now players devour it.” Jürgen Klinsmann was the conduit in 2004 when he became Germany’s head coach.
  • (12) Desperate and with nowhere else to go, eventually I found a cheap hotel, which devoured my dwindling resources.
  • (13) Growing up in 1940s French Algeria, the young Yves Henri Donat Mathieu-Saint-Laurent dreamed of Paris: a bullied outcast at school, he escaped into fantasy at home – devouring his mother's fashion magazines, sketching endlessly, and predicting (in the safety of his adoring family circle, at least) a future of spectacular fame.
  • (14) The monster the US has unleashed on the rest of the world is steadily devouring its own.
  • (15) I say to them: ‘Five minutes with this guy, and he’ll win you over.’” In a quiet restaurant in the City on Friday afternoon, over a selection of steak cuts that he devours efficiently, Joshua talks without edge about Fury, about his opponent in London on Saturday night, Dillian Whyte, and about himself.
  • (16) We tend to take our harmless fun where we find it – even if, like KidZania, it’s on the top floor of the next scourge devouring Bangkok, a giant shopping mall.
  • (17) Like other contemporary artists, Allen Jones being an obvious example, he devoured and then recycled the imagery of popular American magazines.
  • (18) I’m not being ironic: the bogs of western Britain and Ireland don’t freeze as they do in Scandinavia, so the geese can devour the roots of marshy plants on which they depend.
  • (19) The reef will also be aided by an $89m boost to programs such as the Reef Trust, a Coalition plan to improve water quality and tackle threats such as a plague of starfish which has devoured much of the reef’s coral.
  • (20) Applying pragmatism to her desire to learn English under communism, she devoured technical manuals and copies of the Morning Star .

Preyer


Definition:

  • (n.) One who, or that which, preys; a plunderer; a waster; a devourer.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The animals' Preyer reflex thresholds were determined at intervals during the study.
  • (2) On hundred forty six male Harley guinea pigs, weighing about 350 grs, all susceptible to preyer's reflex, were used in this study.
  • (3) Our purpose is to find the minimum auditory level for the Preyer reflex in normally-hearing guinea pigs, examining a range of frequencies between 125 and 8,000 Hz.
  • (4) Preyer's reflex threshold at 8 kHz began to increase after the 5th day of kanamycin treatment and disappeared on the 11th day.
  • (5) The Preyer reflex turns up in a reliable and constant way in those frequencies between 500 and 6,000 Hz.
  • (6) The effects of single and repeated combinations of gentamicin and sound on Preyer reflex and cochlear hair cells in pigmented guinea pigs have been examined.
  • (7) Fourteen guinea pigs with normal Preyer reflex were anesthetized and tracheotomy was performed.
  • (8) Cyclophosphamide treatment resulted in disturbed Preyer and corneal reflexes and enhanced the incidence of antigen appearance and histopathological changes.
  • (9) Auditory dysfunction that showed the difference between the right and left ears was confirmed by auditory brain stem response and Preyer's reflex in the animals with spontaneous nystagmus.
  • (10) Normal control rats (N:45) and 27 genetically hyperbilirubinemic rats from an NIH colony were tested for the Preyer reflex (Pr) threshold using pure tones.
  • (11) It is very interesting to note that moderate endolymphatic hydrops was found in animals one year after Preyer's reflex had disappeared.
  • (12) Acoustic function was also evaluated by measuring Preyer's pinna reflex.
  • (13) Normal Preyer reflex thresholds do not necessarily mean normal hearing, but increased thresholds do indicate hearing impairment.
  • (14) Twenty-four Preyer's reflex normal guinea pigs were exposed to the octave bands of noise at 63 Hz and 4 kHz, 110 dB A (SPL).
  • (15) Loss of Preyer reflex and suppression of the N1 amplitude occurred in cisplatin-treated animals and was described as dose-related.
  • (16) While the Preyer reflex is thus not necessarily a good predictor of the conditioned-response audiogram, it may come to be a useful index of loudness sensitivity.
  • (17) Before and after each implantation, special tests (Preyer-reflex, otoscopy, impedance audiometry) were performed for preliminary selection of the animals and to discover postoperative induced disturbances of sound conduction in the middle ear.
  • (18) Amikacin causes the most pronounced physiological damage observed by the early loss of Preyer reflex and general toxic signs--these observations correspond with the morphological findings.
  • (19) An unconditioned stop reaction on tones was used in 9- to 11-day-old mice, then an unconditioned pinna reflex that can be elicited at low intensities and is not equal to the Preyer reflex.
  • (20) Animals treated in such a way showed marked signs of impaired inner ear function, including loss of postural control and loss of Preyer's reflex.

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