What's the difference between diviner and seer?

Diviner


Definition:

  • (n.) One who professes divination; one who pretends to predict events, or to reveal occult things, by supernatural means.
  • (n.) A conjecture; a guesser; one who makes out occult things.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Here the miracle of the Lohans' baby was divinely ordained and fulfilled the entitlement of every woman to have a child.
  • (2) We’re all very upset right now,” said Daniel Ray, 24, in his third year of the divinity master’s degree program.
  • (3) Back then they claimed a divine right to rule over Afghanistan.
  • (4) As over-the-top as Ray Lewis often seems in his sermonizing give him this: when football is at its most dramatic it really does at least feel like there's something akin to a divine plan at work.
  • (5) As Labour has no real polices that I can divine, the idea of making it less testosterone-driven somehow interested me.
  • (6) It may be hard to tell in the latest show from the outrageously talented Meow Meow, a woman whose divinely sung and cleverly structured shows often give the impression of organised chaos.
  • (7) Baum (a surgeon), Bass (a psychiatrist), Whitehorn (a journalist), and Campbell (a professor of divinity) comment on the case as presented and on three hypothetical complicating situations involving the girl's request for plastic surgery to please her abusive father, the possibility of pregnancy, and physical injury from sexual assault.
  • (8) It's almost like a divinely inspired Hemingway writing in those parts.
  • (9) Because he is mad for them and I was like, you do not think they have gone the tiniest bit school run, as in Elle McPherson klaxon, but Mr Karzai was like, when something is a serious classic like a divine Turkman robe or the perfect ankle boot, it can survive any brand damage?
  • (10) The song is that musical embodiment of bittersweet chemical comedown when you still feel divine but your heart skips a beat and you don't always quite catch your breath."
  • (11) "But North Korea is not moving towards a collective system: it's all about the one leader … It's the divine right of Kims."
  • (12) A poor citizen can’t even find one kilogramme of rice on the street,” he said, arguing that the country’s rulers would face divine judgment for what they were doing to the poor.
  • (13) Everyone knew that if he'd wanted to he could have become professor of divinity at St Andrews, but academia was too dry for him.
  • (14) On 15 September, business leaders from Bridgeport, Connecticut – a down-at-heel port town on Long Island Sound - gathered just outside town in the Friendship Baptist Church to pray for divine intervention in a matter of business.
  • (15) So soon afterwards, here was their new leader telling them they had made a cataclysmic error: far from divine, Stalin was satanic.
  • (16) After World War II, he renounced his divinity and became the symbol of both the state and the unity of the people.
  • (17) Fuelled by latent ambition (and maybe a bit of that coke), Joan – with the help of some divine Cosgrovian intervention – decided she could turn her hand to producing ads.
  • (18) I'd get it from a shop called Hanna in Beirut – just divine.
  • (19) There might be tales of divine intervention (Newton believed doomsday would be in the 21st century, calculated from clues in the Bible), or the idea that a bloody war would end up causing so many casualties that nations would suffer and wither away.
  • (20) Its method permits access to the subjective, individual aspects of the development of belief and of the relationship to the divinity, as well as to the critical moments of their developmental reorganization.

Seer


Definition:

  • (a.) Sore; painful.
  • (n.) One who sees.
  • (n.) A person who foresees events; a prophet.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) With respect to the relative case fatality rates, the complements of the relative survival rates, the eight-year rate of 19 percent for the BCDDP versus that of 35 percent for SEER connotes 46 percent fewer women dying in the BCDDP group.
  • (2) Standardized morbidity and mortality ratios were determined by using an expected number calculated by applying age-specific incidence rates from Rochester studies and Cancer Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End-Results Reporting (SEER) data to the person-years of follow-up.
  • (3) The availability of two independent sets of abstracted diagnoses on 289 cases of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (NHL), one from the Iowa Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) Program and the other from an epidemiologic study in Iowa of factors affecting rural males (FARM), allowed us to determine the disagreement between abstracted diagnoses.
  • (4) Data were analyzed from 1110 thyroid cancer cases between 1960 and 1984 identified by the Hawaii Tumor Registry, a population-based Statistics, Epidemiology and End Results (SEER) participant covering the entire state of Hawaii.
  • (5) The annual age-adjusted incidence rate per 100,000 person-years in Navy men was significantly lower than in the U.S. Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) population, probably due to screening and other selection factors associated with Navy service that result in a healthy worker effect.
  • (6) This study evaluated the characteristics of symptoms associated with stage and other extent of disease factors at diagnosis among incident cases of the endometrium (N = 98) identified in the Iowa NCI-SEER population-based cancer registry.
  • (7) Comparisons with the surveillance, epidemiology, and end results tumor registries (SEER) data indicate an increased relative risk of acute myelogenous leukemia following postoperative regional radiation (P less than .01) and adjuvant chemotherapy (P less than .001).
  • (8) From the SEER files of the NCI, 8,587 cases of breast cancer diagnosed in 1975 were analyzed.
  • (9) Titled Exodus, Scott's film will feature Christian Bale as the Jewish seer who leads the children of Israel out of Egypt to freedom in the promised land of Canaan.
  • (10) Rates for pediatric cancer in the Greater New Orleans area were compared with rates from the National Cancer Institute's SEER (Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results) Program.
  • (11) Incidence rates for breast cancer in South Louisiana women are 20% lower than the SEER combined rates, and rates for cancer of the uterine corpus and the ovary among white women are 43% and 32% lower respectively than the SEER averages.
  • (12) To determine the role of screening in this increase, trends in the incidence of in situ and invasive carcinoma of the breast were evaluated using records of the metropolitan Atlanta SEER program between 1979 and 1986.
  • (13) Descriptive epidemiological findings for 7,696 patients with newly diagnosed thyroid cancer reported to the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) program for the years 1973 through 1981 are summarized.
  • (14) There are very small differences in rates for black women between South Louisiana and SEER areas.
  • (15) Methods were applied to data from the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) Program for breast and colon cancer.
  • (16) These findings contrasted sharply with the Iowa SEER Program classification that coded 289 (79.4%) of these cases as invasive bladder cancers.
  • (17) FHS and Connecticut SEER rates matched closely, with the same primary tumor sites appearing commonly in both groups.
  • (18) Information on histopathologic groupings, incidence of various tumor types according to age, general treatment trends and survival statistics are available from the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) registries of the National Cancer Institute.
  • (19) The mortality rate among SEER patients was approximately 1.5 times that among CCPDS patients.
  • (20) Survival was shorter in the 4 SEER registries which had shipbuilding as a major industry than in the others with less potential asbestos exposure, offering weak support for the hypothesis that asbestos-exposed cases of mesothelioma have worse survival experience than other cases.