What's the difference between drabber and grabber?
Drabber
Definition:
(n.) One who associates with drabs; a wencher.
Example Sentences:
(1) The world would be uninhabitable if all of us dreamt on the epic scale of Ali but it would be a considerably drabber place if one among us had not done so.
(2) Driving north along the pot-holed road to Sofia the villages get poorer and drabber.
Grabber
Definition:
(n.) One who seizes or grabs.
Example Sentences:
(1) A video camera, an NTSC compatible frame grabber board, and an AT personal computer are used to read photographic exposures of the assay plate.
(2) It wasn’t about money, though Jeremy Hunt portrayed us as money-grabbers by constantly stressing that we’d be getting a pay rise.
(3) It should be up there with the headline-grabbers: jobs, immigration, education and the NHS.
(4) These systems might include additional lap-shoulder belt technologies, such as pretensioners, webbing locks or grabbers, load limiters, and adjustable anchors, as well as belt supplements, such as air bags and energy-absorbing interiors.
(5) It's also very entertaining, maybe funnier than before, and I don't believe the fact that thrusting money-grabbers aren't exactly flavour of the month will do anything to lessen its popularity.
(6) Let's start with Walker's headline-grabber – the demand that banks reveal how many of their high flyers earn more than the average boardroom director.
(7) Those of us in the UK are thankful that we don’t live in the land of the pussy grabber-in-chief, but in the land of his handmaiden.
(8) The militia are the land grabbers, because they want to privatize it and cut off universal appreciation Sue Kovar, a 64-year-old Burns resident Most residents have expressed outrage over the Hammonds’ prison sentence and gratitude that the world finally seemed to be paying attention to the plight of local ranchers.
(9) Bill Gross of bond manager Pimco, in yesterday's headline-grabber about UK gilts "resting on a bed of nitroglycerine," cited the widely held idea that once a country's public debt exceeds 90% of GDP its economic growth slows by 1%.
(10) Device embolization to a pulmonary artery occurred in six patients; two of these devices were retrieved by grabber catheter and four at operation, all without adverse sequelae; there were two other technical failures.
(11) We have developed an image storage and retrieval system that makes use of a Super-VHS video tape recorder, and a personal computer fitted with an interface board and a video frame grabber.
(12) It is the result of a perverse system that financially rewards those who clearfell, from land grabbers and illegal loggers to agribusiness.
(13) In its most recent attention-grabber, Peta organisers dressed up in white robes and caps , in a reference to the KKK, as they handed out flyers to protest the start of the Westminster Kennel Club Show .
(14) The joint's data are captured by a frame grabber-board installed in a personal computer after takeover from the X-rays by a video camera.
(15) A PC-mounted frame grabber captures images at the TV frame rate to form a three-dimensional (3-D) array of pixels.
(16) This commercially available system is comprised of a microcomputer, frame grabber, CCD camera with zoom lens, and a high-resolution thermal printer.
(17) Mervyn King's vision of the "sober" decade in prospect for Britain was designed to be the headline-grabber.
(18) A commercially available video "frame grabber" is used in conjunction with a standard microcomputer for image acquisition.
(19) On the other side of the divide, the newspaper La Razón, which is close to Pérez, demanded that he “respect the badge!” Ramos, has been accused of being a money-grabber by the pro-Pérez press, which has only deepened the sense of mutual distrust.
(20) Video frame grabbers are powerful devices which perform rapid conversion of video images into digital format for subsequent computer processing.