What's the difference between drainer and grainer?
Drainer
Definition:
(n.) One who, or that which, drains.
Example Sentences:
(1) This arterio-venous malformation consisted with feeders, nidus and drainers.
(2) 1); the feeding arteries of which were middle meningeal arteries, occipital artery, and tentorial artery, etc; the drainers were transverse and sigmoid sinuses.
(3) The main feeder was a MCA distal branch and the drainer joined Labbe's vein.
(4) The voluminous petrosal vein and the dilated cortical veins were identified as drainers and, the portion of the latter appeared as "varix" embedded in the pons, which was clearly delineated by MRI.
(5) The cortical vein which ran on the surface of the frontal base was its drainer via a small nidus.
(6) In the majority of these cases, symptoms progressed slowly from the lower sacral level up to a level close to the end of the drainer.
(7) Apart from factors precluding the study in several patients (life support systems, pacemakers, claustrophobia, neurovascular clips), disadvantages of MR imaging include motion artifacts (prevalent in thoracolumbar area), poor capability of typing and grading of tumors, potential of false-positive results, poor detection of calcification, and poor delineation of feeders and drainers of AVM.
(8) The final drainer was the superior ophthalmic vein on the left.
(9) Feeder was clipped and the drainers were partially removed.
(10) After dura was incised, both the nidus and drainer were coagulated intradurally.
(11) This arteriovenous malformation consisted of feeders, the nidus, and drainers.
(12) It can not pass into drainer because of its viscosity.
(13) The drainers poured into the superior sagittal sinus.
(14) The arachnoid hemorrhage was thought to be caused by rupture of this drainer.
Grainer
Definition:
(n.) An infusion of pigeon's dung used by tanners to neutralize the effects of lime and give flexibility to skins; -- called also grains and bate.
(n.) A knife for taking the hair off skins.
(n.) One who paints in imitation of the grain of wood, marble, etc.; also, the brush or tool used in graining.
Example Sentences:
(1) The theme was composed by Ron Grainer, a child prodigy.
(2) Webber died in 1969, Coburn in 1977 and Grainer died of spinal cancer on 21 February 1981, aged just 58.
(3) Grainer’s eerie melody has always been wonderful – even when the Derbyshire mix was replaced, even when played by an orchestra at the BBC’s popular Doctor Who at the Proms concert.
(4) It was done literally by choosing frequencies, recording them the right length, and sticking all the separate notes together.” The Doctor Who Experience in Cardiff pays tribute to Derbyshire, while practically ignoring Grainer, except to credit them both.
(5) Born in the Queensland mining town of Atherton, Grainer studies in Sydney under Sir Eugene Goossens.
(6) Mark Ayres, composer on the current Doctor Who series, describes it as “a piece of sixties wonder … just one of those tunes that lives on.” And it gives Grainer an impressive claim to fame: the only person whose contribution is obvious in all 786 episodes of Doctor Who.
(7) Neither Grainer nor the writers were around to celebrate the show’s 50th anniversary in 2013 – or even its 20th.
(8) In case that’s not enough reason to move production to Australia, Grainer wasn’t the only Australian who helped to develop Doctor Who.
(9) Derbyshire was never officially credited on the show, despite Grainer’s best attempts.