What's the difference between doer and goer?

Doer


Definition:

  • (v. t. & i.) One who does; one performs or executes; one who is wont and ready to act; an actor; an agent.
  • (v. t. & i.) An agent or attorney; a factor.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The accompanying articles (Saffen, D.W., Presper, K.A., Doering, T.L., and Roseman, S. (1987) J. Biol.
  • (2) He added: "South Africa has to stop feeling sorry for itself and be doers instead of talkers.
  • (3) The documents contained an undated “personal message” from Trump to new enrollees at the school: “Only doers get rich.
  • (4) Results indicate that when the harm-doers apologized, as opposed to when they did not, the victim-subjects refrained from severe aggression against them.
  • (5) This weekend the very accomplished Rona Fairhead, former FT chief executive and now the government’s choice to be the new chair of the BBC Trust, was described namelessly in a Telegraph headline as “mother of three.” It was decidedly reminiscent of that Sunday Times front page headline in April, “Grandmother, 71, tackles slave traffickers for the Pope” , sparking condescending mental images of a sweet little ol’ granny pummelling evil-doers with her cane.
  • (6) The chancellor made his pitch for Britain's greying vote in a package for "makers, doers and savers" designed to complete the repair job after the deepest recession of the modern era, warning that cuts would continue long into the next parliament.
  • (7) Once, Whitehall might have looked to local government for a "doer".
  • (8) The nucleotide sequence of Escherichia coli ptsI indicates four -SH residues per subunit (Saffen, D. W., Presper, K. A., Doering, T. L., and Roseman, S. (1987) J. Biol.
  • (9) I’m a doer, not a talker,” Bush said at an event in Wolfeboro, reviving digs he has taken at senators for spending more time delivering floor speeches than passing meaningful legislation.
  • (10) Situation attributions were preferred when the harm-doer was white, and person (dispositional) attributions were preferred in the black-protagonist conditions.
  • (11) Barnett said it was “yet to be determined” whether online advocates of these acts were “the doers … or they’re just the keyboard activists who light a fuse under somebody else”.
  • (12) This will be a meeting of "doers", men and women willing to fight the Obama administration and its perceived attack on US free enterprise and unfettered wealth.
  • (13) (“He says he is the thinker, and I am the doer,” Regina told me later.
  • (14) To help with this some personal budget users, frustrated by the talk of people who don't know enough about what it is really like, have formed the Doers Club.
  • (15) Finally, three of the last 25 prizes have gone to what could be termed doers of good works, like the micro-finance pioneer Muhammad Yunus in 2006 .
  • (16) Parking is near the elegiac ruins of Tintern Abbey, and from there one embarks upon a digestible but heart thumping climb up to the Devil's Pulpit, a rocky outcrop, affording fantastic views, where the evil doer himself supposedly used to preach temptation to the industrious monks scurrying below.
  • (17) The delightful triumph of the "doers" in Rehn's suture of a stab wound and Souttar's intracardiac mitral valve manipulations is saluted.
  • (18) I'm an energetic doer, and should be a sales rep just like Donald Trump, Eddie Murphy, Bruce Willis, Madonna or Jack Nicholson.
  • (19) Hezza is a (mildly dyslexic) doer, not a thinker, but he understands the restless dynamic of capitalism and is not naive about its weaknesses.
  • (20) We have a prime minister who first, believes in climate change and, secondly, is a doer.

Goer


Definition:

  • (n.) One who, or that which, goes; a runner or walker
  • (n.) A foot.
  • (n.) A horse, considered in reference to his gait; as, a good goer; a safe goer.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The dog was discovered in a tent during a clean-up after thousands of festival-goers left the site.
  • (2) The ad, which has been viewed 25m times, shows “unsuspecting movie-goers” in Hong Kong watching a clip of a car travelling down the road as if they are in the driver’s seat.
  • (3) In a statement, Josh Levitt, the press secretary for the Iowa Democratic party told the Guardian: “Whether or not a caucus has a pre-recruited temporary chair, a permanent chair will be elected by all attending caucus-goers at the beginning of the caucus on 1 February.
  • (4) Almost one in four (24%) of bar-goers admitted they had considered abandoning a drinks purchase because of long bar queues, while 20% have gone elsewhere when facing a lengthy wait.
  • (5) Coney, Blast Theory and Fish And Game are just a few of those engaging with the possibilities of film and persuasive media, while the city has offered festival-goers a series of downloadable virtual adventures at locations around Edinburgh.
  • (6) Restaurant and café-goers will only be given glasses of tap water upon request, not automatically upon sitting down.
  • (7) "Yes, it really worries us because he is a great person," one church-goer, Shainet Mnkomo, said as she left an early-morning service.
  • (8) In contrast with the large percentage of white, elderly Republican convention-goers, the Democratic one was more representative of America, they said – a mixture of white, black, Latino, Asian, Christian, Jewish and Muslim Americans, as well as an even split between men and women.
  • (9) The statement said the funeral-goers were attacked by masked men firing large caliber rifles favored by drug cartels as they mourned the victim of shooting several days earlier.
  • (10) His party colleague Rino Formica dismissed the conference-goers as a court of "dwarves and dancing girls".
  • (11) Two years ago, when Chechen terrorists seized 800 theatre-goers in the Dubrovka theatre in Moscow, mobile phone calls had played a seminal role in helping the authorities to map out the layout of the crisis.
  • (12) Sometimes I miss being uncomfortable around other movie-goers.
  • (13) For those who don't have an intimate knowledge of Arsenal's recent history, Marc Overmars of Holland and Emmanuel Petit of France were transferred to Barcelona over the summer; one suspects that it may well be these two who were not race-goers.
  • (14) Police and the security service are focusing upon the Libyan connections of the Manchester suicide bomber as they attempt to locate others involved in the attack that killed 22 concert-goers and injured more than 60 others.
  • (15) It’s just something you’d rather not do.” The conference-goers seem to find comfort in telling and retelling the story of sushi – a strange, foreign dish that showcased raw fish and yet became not just acceptable but trendy in the west.
  • (16) Please note these are primarily arena, theatre and club tours for bigger events.”) And then you notice that, even within the parameters of this study, nearly half of comedy-goers “would be happy to watch a comedian they haven’t previously seen on TV”, only 22% find out about comedians they like through telly, and respondents prefer watching comedy in theatres to arenas by a margin of 40% to 30%.
  • (17) There are interior deserts, rain forests and 300-year-old ferns growing here, and the glass edifice – itself around since the 1840s –stands in Garfield Park , which has everything your 19th-21st century park goer could dream of: winding paths, sport fields, a pool and a pond.
  • (18) Cluster sampling at 3 popular Cape Peninsula beaches was used to select a sample of 231 white adult beach-goers.
  • (19) Her letter became public as the jury of which she is a part deliberated over this year's awards, which are distributed on Saturday evening (a day earlier than usual on account of French strikes on Monday, when many festival-goers would traditionally depart).
  • (20) Echoing a controversial statement he has made before , the New Jersey governor told caucus-goers in the early voting state many such activists “advocate for the murder of police officers”.

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