What's the difference between digger and english?

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.

English


Definition:

  • (a.) Of or pertaining to England, or to its inhabitants, or to the present so-called Anglo-Saxon race.
  • (a.) See 1st Bond, n., 8.
  • (n.) Collectively, the people of England; English people or persons.
  • (n.) The language of England or of the English nation, and of their descendants in America, India, and other countries.
  • (n.) A kind of printing type, in size between Pica and Great Primer. See Type.
  • (n.) A twist or spinning motion given to a ball in striking it that influences the direction it will take after touching a cushion or another ball.
  • (v. t.) To translate into the English language; to Anglicize; hence, to interpret; to explain.
  • (v. t.) To strike (the cue ball) in such a manner as to give it in addition to its forward motion a spinning motion, that influences its direction after impact on another ball or the cushion.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The night before, he was addressing the students at the Oxford Union , in the English he learned during four years as a student in America.
  • (2) Chris Jefferies, who has been arrested in connection with the murder of landscape architect Joanna Yeates , was known as a flamboyant English teacher at Clifton College, a co-ed public school.
  • (3) In the experiments to be reported here, computer-averaged EMG data were obtained from PCA of native speakers of American English, Japanese, and Danish who uttered test words embedded in frame sentences.
  • (4) Her novels have an enduring and universal appeal and she is recognised as one of the greatest writers in English literature.
  • (5) Three short reviews by Freud (1904c, 1904d, 1905f) are presented in English translation.
  • (6) In his notorious 1835 Minute on Education , Lord Macaulay articulated the classic reason for teaching English, but only to a small minority of Indians: “We must do our best to form a class who may be interpreters between us and the millions whom we govern; a class of persons, Indians in blood and colour, but English in taste, in opinions, in morals and in intellect.” The language was taught to a few to serve as intermediaries between the rulers and the ruled.
  • (7) Roger Madelin, the chief executive of the developers Argent, which consulted the prince's aides on the £2bn plan to regenerate 27 hectares (67 acres) of disused rail land at Kings Cross in London, said the prince now has a similar stature as a consultee as statutory bodies including English Heritage, the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment and professional bodies including Riba and the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors.
  • (8) When we gave her a gift of a few books in English, she burst out crying.
  • (9) He was really an English public schoolboy, but I welcome the idea of people who are in some ways not Scottish, yet are committed to Scotland.
  • (10) Stations such as al-Jazeera English have been welcomed as a counterbalance to Western media parochialism.
  • (11) "If you are not prepared to learn English, your benefits will be cut," he said.
  • (12) To our knowledge, this is the first case to be reported in the English literature.
  • (13) Earlier this week the supreme court in London ruled against a mother and daughter from Northern Ireland who had wanted to establish the right to have a free abortion in an English NHS hospital.
  • (14) An ultrasonic system for measuring psychomotor behaviour is described, and then applied to compare the extent to which English and French students gesticulate.
  • (15) This paper reviews the epidemiologic studies of petroleum workers published in the English language, focusing on research pertaining to the petroleum industry, rather than the broader petrochemical industry.
  • (16) In the UK the twin threat of Ukip and the BNP tap into similar veins of discontent as their counterparts across the English channel.
  • (17) Now, a small Scottish charity, Edinburgh Direct Aid – moved by their plight and aware that the language of Lebanese education is French and English and that Syria is Arabic – is delivering textbooks in Arabic to the school and have offered to fund timeshare projects across the country.
  • (18) This is the second report in the English literature on the familial occurrence of chronic active hepatitis type B.
  • (19) We have reported the first case in the English literature in which there is a strong association between long-term immunosuppressive therapy and squamous cell carcinoma of the esophagus.
  • (20) "It looks as if the noxious mix of rightwing Australian populism, as represented by Crosby and his lobbying firm, and English saloon bar reactionaries, as embodied by [Nigel] Farage and Ukip, may succeed in preventing this government from proceeding with standardised cigarette packs, despite their popularity with the public," said Deborah Arnott, chief executive of the health charity Action on Smoking and Health.