What's the difference between digger and dinger?

Digger


Definition:

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

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Sasaki, like other machinery operators, spends his shift inside crane and digger cabins, the only way they can clear dangerously radioactive debris.
  • (2) The field was taped off while a mechanical digger clawed at the ground, making parallel trenches in the sandy earth.
  • (3) When builders moved in a few weeks ago, it was marked in flamboyant Polish style with a commissioned "dance" for the diggers by director Robert Florczak, whose audacious multimedia Macbeth debuted at last year's Shakespeare festival.
  • (4) The effect of electrophoretic ejection of philanthotoxin (the polyamine toxin, from the Egyptian digger wasp) was tested on responses of brainstem and spinal neurones in the pentobarbitone-anaesthetized rat to excitatory amino acids.
  • (5) None of which stopped the gold-digger stories, which went through a highly hostile chapter when she and Bridge had a court hearing about child maintenance.
  • (6) Diggers have also been working to widen the mouth of the river to ensure that the mud drifts out to sea as quickly as possible, in the hope that the salinity and the volume of water will aid its rapid dispersal.
  • (7) The mining company official was reported to have said that "well-connected elites are generating millions of dollars in personal income by hiring teams of diggers to hand-extract diamonds" from Chiadzwa, before reselling the stones to shady foreign buyers.
  • (8) After a morning of tearing at the same ground two decades on, the digger overheated and had to be rested.
  • (9) A few dozen workers from the Frontier Works Organisation (FWO), an arm of the Pakistani military, have been making slow progress picking at the massive dam with mechanical diggers and explosives.
  • (10) He knows where the Chernobyl bodies are buried, he says, because he was the grave digger.
  • (11) Digger will not argue with the analysis that people should not try to rehabilitate their own reputations at the expense of English international relations in football.
  • (12) Still, Dughan took them roundabout ways, through Blythborough, on the A145 towards Uggeshall, past still diggers where roads were being widened.
  • (13) But any digger hoping for the kind of gold bars you see in heist movies would have been disappointed.
  • (14) Semi-fossorial species among rodents and insectivores are scratch-diggers.
  • (15) Pigment granule migration in pigment cells and retinula cells of the digger wasp Sphex cognatus Smith was analysed morphologically after light adaptation to natural light, dark adaptation and after four selective chromatic adaptations in the range between 358 nm and 580 nm and used as the index of receptor cell sensitivity.
  • (16) Despite the daily pulling of toddlers through the roll call of highlights – Digger!
  • (17) A digger was then used to extract the car which had been flattened by the landslide and crushed by the root system of a large tree.
  • (18) Black diggers fought and died for a nation that denied them the right to vote.
  • (19) The pigs are prodigious diggers and tropical island's torrential rainstorms then wash the soil out to the waters that are home to renowned sharks and corals.
  • (20) Crisis PR is a booming business , helping to divert attention from the antics of offspring and gold-diggers.

Dinger


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) He blasts 156 dingers in three seasons in Dallas, although the Rangers suck and are financially hamstrung because of the deal.
  • (2) The absence of polysorbate 80, thiamine, or vitamin B12 prevented the appearance of Dinger's zones of growth from small inocula.
  • (3) Chromosomal DNA from dinger zones (visible subsurface zones of leptospiral growth) of first semisolid subcultures of field isolates was also isolated and characterized, thus greatly speeding up the diagnostic process.
  • (4) All of that is pretty much what he told assembled Wing Dingers, informally referring back to notes on a card and going through his CV.