What's the difference between dunker and junker?

Dunker


Definition:

  • (n.) One of a religious denomination whose tenets and practices are mainly those of the Baptists, but partly those of the Quakers; -- called also Tunkers, Dunkards, Dippers, and, by themselves, Brethren, and German Baptists.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Presence of 17 beta-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase (17 beta-HSD) in testes and ovaries of the common mussels--Patinopecten yessoensis (Jay) and Crenomytilus grayanus (Dunker) has been demonstrated histochemically.
  • (2) It's "a little dunker" says legendary Dodgers broadcaster Vin Scully, one that lands just a touch beyond the stretched out glove hand of Pete Kozma who wandered into the outfield - that's a base hit for the crippled Ramirez, and that's enough to raise glasses around Dodger Stadium right now.
  • (3) The variables were: restricted versus free manipulation, and easy versus difficult arrangements of a Dunker-type candle problem.
  • (4) The following week (20-27 August), there'll be 1950s-style keep fit classes on the beach (8am, Mon-Fri) as part of the Dippers and Dunkers Festival of New Variety .

Junker


Definition:

  • (n.) A young German noble or squire; esp., a member of the aristocratic party in Prussia.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) "[Jean-Claude] Junker said it himself," he said referring to statements made by the euro group chairman this week.
  • (2) The signal involved in the packaging of the hepatitis B virus (HBV) RNA pregenome was recently defined as a short sequence located near the 5' end of that molecule (Junker-Niepmann et al., EMBO J., in press), but it remained an open question which viral proteins are required.
  • (3) We are currently watching a holy war develop in Iraq, then there's Junkers and the EU, the housing bubble and the strengthening pound.
  • (4) For instance there's no love lost with Mr Junkers and you can be sure he'll rub Tory noses in it.
  • (5) "I may be unfamiliar with all of Roger Hargreaves' work [author of the Mr Men series], but I am not sure he ever got round to producing Mr Antisemitic Dictator, Mr Junker General or Mr Dutch Communist Scapegoat.
  • (6) Austin Mitchell, the Eurosceptic Labour MP, tweeted : "Yes folk!It'Junker day.Ein volk ein reich ein junk load.Love it or leave it.Gesundjunk."
  • (7) If they vote yes it will mean that Greece wants to stay with other members of the eurozone,” Junker said.
  • (8) The contralight test of Junker is demonstrated as a means of determining the effect of cataracts on visual acuity and could be used as an indicator of the need for surgery.
  • (9) Stephen O'Brien, a former Tory international development minister, likened Juncker to a Luftwaffe Junkers Ju 88 aircraft.
  • (10) His 1968 novel, The Junkers , won the Geoffrey Faber Memorial prize and dealt with post-war Germany.
  • (11) Dogfight...live from Kent: BBC war correspondent Charles Gardner on first Luftwaffe attacks There's one coming down in flames ... there, somebody's hit a German ... and he's coming down ... there's a long streak of ... he's coming down completely out of control ... a long streak of smoke ... ah, the man's bailed out by parachute ... the pilot's bailed out by parachute ... he's a Junkers 87 and he's going to slap into the sea and there he goes ...
  • (12) The town's peace museum displays a telegram from Telesforo Monzón, a Basque politician, sent the day after Hitler's Junkers 52s and Heinkel 111s joined with Savoia 79s sent by Mussolini to drop almost 40 tons of explosives and incendiary bombs.
  • (13) O'Brien said: "In a previous Battle of Britain we saw off Junkers."

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