What's the difference between dresser and presser?
Dresser
Definition:
(n.) One who dresses; one who put in order or makes ready for use; one who on clothes or ornaments.
(n.) A kind of pick for shaping large coal.
(n.) An assistant in a hospital, whose office it is to dress wounds, sores, etc.
(v. t.) A table or bench on which meat and other things are dressed, or prepared for use.
(v. t.) A cupboard or set of shelves to receive dishes and cooking utensils.
Example Sentences:
(1) But once installed the couple must decide how to live their daily lives: surrounded by butlers, dressers, cooks and cleaners, or more akin to the simpler life they have so far enjoyed.
(2) No butlers, dressers and footmen (if the Queen wants them she can pay for them herself).
(3) I then worked for a brief while as a shop assistant, a dresser at the BBC and the Royal Opera House, and a receptionist at a family planning clinic.
(4) A retrospective cohort mortality study was conducted on 807 fur dyers, fur dressers (tanners), and fur service workers who were pensioned between 1952 and 1977 by the Fur, Leather and Machine Workers Union of New York City.
(5) And when you see Portman naked and leaning in profile on a dresser, she's posed deliberately, artfully, bony elbows protecting her modesty.
(6) SMRs for the dressers and dyers were also low, but not as low as for the manufacturers.
(7) In 1996, a young Samantha Sheffield started working at Smythson as a window dresser.
(8) And back to work.” The BBC also confirmed The Dresser, a one-off drama directed by Sir Richard Eyre for BBC2 starring Anthony Hopkins and Ian McKellen, and the return of Top of the Lake for a second series; casting details were not announced but the BBC said the story will be set in Sydney, Australia.
(9) In fact, Hall was a very eccentric dresser, who would go nowhere without a wide-brimmed fedora (who knew?
(10) However, because of the relatively small number of expected and observed deaths in the cohort and especially among the heavily exposed dressers and dyers, the confidence intervals around SMR estimates were wide and excess risks cannot be ruled out.
(11) It feels amazing that I'm actually going to show my work this time and not just be the dresser.
(12) When my boyfriend and I Chuckle-Brothered a heavy dresser over the threshold just under a year ago, I was filled with a sense of hope.
(13) When attention was restricted to the French Canadians in the cohort, the observed deaths were close to the expected; there was a noteworthy excess of colorectal cancer (four observed, 0.8 expected) for dressers and dyers.
(14) A delegate would have to possess the courage of a cross-dresser in Texas to oppose anything in this atmosphere.
(15) He was a genuine cross-dresser, an 18th-century transvestite.
(16) Denise Dresser (@DeniseDresserG) Peña Nieto invita.a Trump para: August 31, 2016 Translation: Peña Nieto invited Trump because: For Higa [a Mexican construction company] to build the wall To speak about hairstyles To tell him the good things To present his thesis At press time, getting Higa to build the wall had 49% of the more than 8,000 Twitter votes.
(17) Callahan's paper on paternalism and involuntary psychiatric commitment of adults, with comments by Rebecca Dresser, appeared in the August 1984 issue of the Journal of Medicine and Philosophy (Vol.
(18) Fortunately, at least for the Downton set-dresser, there is of course an app for that.
(19) Support was not found for the prediction that the sex change group would have the worst present and past adjustment followed by the homosexual cross-dressers with the poorest past adjustment.
(20) There was a big difference between those classes which we didn’t know before.” 2014 : Flamboyant dressers in modern-day Kinshasa.
Presser
Definition:
(n.) One who, or that which, presses.
Example Sentences:
(1) They are on the last paragraph, one hears #EUCO October 18, 2012 Mathieu von Rohr (@mathieuvonrohr) Everybody in French briefing room is getting ready for #Hollande presser #euco October 18, 2012 My colleague David Batty suggests the EU needs to introduce chess match style time control to make decisions.
(2) Used has been a blood presser manometer additionally supplied with a photoelement, a tiny electric bulb, and a metal lamelle.
(3) 1.30pm: Here's a brief summing up of the Germany presser's quotes: Hansi Flick , assistant coach: "There were 20 million people watching us last night for a German victory so thanks every much for your loyalty.
(4) Here's what Big Phil had to say in his post-match presser: "[My future] has to be decided by the president of the Brazilian Football Confederation.
(5) It is early on Tuesday morning and the four players have just arrived straight from Camp Argentina for this one last presser before football takes over in earnest.
(6) Updated at 7.54pm BST 7.19pm BST Treading lightly so as not to anger the gun lobby: Katie Hinman (@khinman) Sources tell @ danabashcnn that Toomey asked Schumer not to attend today's presser on background checks for fear of antagonizing the NRA.
(7) Olexander Turchynov, speaker of the parliament (L) and Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk hold a presser after special session of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine on March 2, 2014 in Kiev, Ukraine.
(8) Heck even Poyet said in his pre-match presser: “I don’t want to be playing mind games but everyone is expecting them to win.” And yet, the beauty of the beautiful game means that this game is by no means a foregone conclusion, a closed case, a door slammed shut.
(9) 10.49am BST ID9349644 asks: 'You've obviously been closer to Moyes than us, attending pressers etc.
(10) Mind tricks, funerals, emotions, and an admission that the player known as “Captain Clutch” actually feared having the ball hit to him – the press got more out of Jeter in the post-game presser than they learned in 20 years covering the baseball icon.
(11) steven morris (@stevenmorris20) Made it to Lord Smith's presser.
(12) No effect of either drug on a modified cold presser test was observed.
(13) Ed Conway (@EdConwaySky) Hilarity at WEO presser as Olivier Blanchard mistakenly plugs his headphones into a reporter’s dictaphone instead of the translation device April 8, 2014 Easily done, Olivier.....
(14) Peter Spiegel of the FT, and Matthew Dalton of the WSJ, have tweeted the key points: Peter Spiegel (@SpiegelPeter) Rehn starts presser on @EU_Commission forecasts.
(15) Unless the new Germany blow them away first ..." 2.45pm: Jermain Defoe was the player put up at England's presser today, and he claimed that "the lads are buzzing": "It was a great performance yesterday, not just winning the game but a great performance from front to back.
(16) A harried-looking press officer promised journalists the presser would still take place – but even she didn’t sound like she believed it.
(17) Studies of Presser reveal that as the intelligence quotient and understanding of the couple increases, male contraceptive methods become more popular.
(18) Cut to Turnbull grimacing his way through pressers ever since, as he tries to convince the Australian public that the Liberal plan would cost marginally less (or the same to householders) while dissembling around that old adage that you get what you pay for – or in this case, less than what we’ll pay for, with significantly less coverage, bandwidth and access for Australian internet users.
(19) Draghi must be thinking all his prayers have been answered May 2, 2013 Matina Stevis (@MatinaStevis) Seems only option left is to start a pool to get tix & hotel paid for a Cypriot hack to get to next #ECB presser May 2, 2013 2.44pm BST Draghi: we're frustrated about unemployment too The final question harks back to Pope Francis's tweet about how unemployment is caused by a "self-centred mindset bent on profit at any cost" ( see 12.16pm ).
(20) During a pre-game presser he said that he would be wearing his Pippen’s socks during the game.