What's the difference between duster and ouster?

Duster


Definition:

  • (n.) One who, or that which, dusts; a utensil that frees from dust.
  • (n.) A revolving wire-cloth cylinder which removes the dust from rags, etc.
  • (n.) A blowing machine for separating the flour from the bran.
  • (n.) A light over-garment, worn in traveling to protect the clothing from dust.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Grace Coddington, Dame Helen Mirren, Laura Mvula, and Karen Elson, in the pink duster coat that proved so popular for M&S.
  • (2) As a visual stimulus, a feather duster moving for 2 min in front of the cat’s eyes was used.
  • (3) Facebook Twitter Pinterest A duster coat from Monki.
  • (4) Well, it appears that acting like a cock has finally rendered Morgan the feather duster.
  • (5) The patient was a crop duster with numerous episodes of acute organophosphate intoxication and chronic organophosphate exposure.
  • (6) Last year, DKNY launched a Ramadan collection – a full range, featuring duster coats, leather jackets and silk jogging bottoms – while, next month, Armani will release a box of Ramadan chocolates.
  • (7) Look at him, dumbly stuffing six on to each hand like a useless Swiss knuckle-duster.
  • (8) The visual stimulus was a feather duster which was moved for 4-5 min in front of the cats eyes.
  • (9) Was there ever any danger that it would quit a cosy jurisdiction with feather-duster regulation and prosecutions as rare as hen’s teeth?
  • (10) It reminded me of the field in North by Northwest, where Cary Grant is strafed by a crop duster.
  • (11) You will need: Wax filler stick Coloured wood stain White spirit Beeswax Duster or soft cloth Fine brush 1) If you have a fairly deep scratch on a flat surface such as a table top, wax works best.
  • (12) Apply beeswax lightly to the scratch and the surrounding area and buff with a duster.
  • (13) A man walks down the street wearing a dark fedora at a jaunty angle and chatting into a mobile phone; young men lounge by a wall, like young men everywhere, all high-fives and exaggerated gestures, except that one carries an AK-47; children stand ranged like bottles on a crumbling wall as a kite soars above; donkeys with pretty pink flowers fastened to the ropes around their noses pull carts; minibuses sporting feather dusters in their bonnets groan under the weight of too many passengers and too many bags; a boy in a blue T-shirt raises two fingers to his head in salute and smiles.
  • (14) Colombia says rise in coca cultivation shows why it was right to stop spraying Read more The defense minister, Luis Carlos Villegas, said instead of dumping glyphosate from American-piloted crop dusters , as Colombia did for two decades, the herbicide will now be applied manually by eradication crews on the ground.
  • (15) "O ne day you're the cock of the walk, the next a feather duster" reads Piers Morgan's bio on Twitter .
  • (16) But others insist the EPBC Act, introduced by John Howard’s government, is robust legislation that can either be a heavy stick or a feather duster, depending on its application.
  • (17) But we don't get the chance because he's off again, brushing aside the camera crew and actioning change with a stately swipe of his feather duster ("Eurk … don't like this table … nyarrph").
  • (18) Permethrin, a pyrethroid insecticide, applied on two plots with a pressurized hand-held duster at mean rates of 2.3 and 4.0 g per burrow, was used to determine control levels for Oropsylla hirsuta fleas, a vector of bubonic plague, in black-tail prairie dog, Cynomys ludovicianus, burrows in northern Colorado during the summer of 1988.
  • (19) He remembers as a child when crop dusters repeatedly used herbicide to destroy his father’s crops near the town of Tibú – and how his father would replant them.
  • (20) Long tunics, thin long duster coats and dresses over trousers are all the rage in bargain high-street shops such as New Look and Monki.

Ouster


Definition:

  • (n.) A putting out of possession; dispossession; ejection; disseizin.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Malcolm Turnbull heckled by Liberals as anger lingers over Tony Abbott's ouster Read more Villatora, who had earlier warned the NSW state council about the party increasingly resembling “a closed shop”, said the limited trials between now and 2019 were an “important step towards a fully democratic party”.
  • (2) He accused the regime of holding double standards, arguing that it had not yet disarmed nationalist militias who supported the ouster of former president Viktor Yanukovich.
  • (3) The Brotherhood, after all, believes that something has been stolen from it, and thus intends to fight rather than join any political process that would legitimize Mohamed Morsi's ouster.
  • (4) It pains some of us because, to be honest, we never ever organised his ouster.
  • (5) Since his ouster, he has largely been kept out of the public eye, appearing only in carefully managed court sessions in which he has frequently shouted defiantly, insisting he is still Egypt's president.
  • (6) Authorities have killed hundreds of Islamists and jailed thousands since the military ouster in July 2013 of the Islamist president, Mohammed Morsi.
  • (7) Staff at the newspaper wrote an open letter supporting Kovalsky, calling his ouster an “act of intimidation”.
  • (8) This was shortly after his final episode of the Tonight Show, and served as a highly professional first public statement after his ouster by NBC execs.
  • (9) Caught up in this febrile discourse was also the alleged ungovernability of the electorate , a panic that peaked around the time of Campbell Newman’s ouster as Queensland premier in January.
  • (10) Lavrov made no mention of western charges that Russia has sent troops and heavy weapons into eastern Ukraine in support of pro-Russian rebels there , who have taken over a number of key industrial cities after the ouster of former pro-Russian president Viktor Yanukovich.
  • (11) The recall effort is continuing – critics say Persky is still a danger in civil court – and on Friday, the campaign is organizing, including Willingham, a rally in San Jose to decry Turner’s release and push for the judge’s ouster.
  • (12) Edison Lobao, of the PMDB, who voted for Rousseff’s ouster, said: “I couldn’t have voted differently regardless of who was the president.
  • (13) In a televised briefing with President Vladimir Putin, the Russian foreign minister, Sergey Lavrov, said proposals made by John Kerry, the US secretary of state, were “not suitable” because they took the situation created by the coup as a starting point, referring to the ouster of Ukraine’s pro-Kremlin president, Viktor Yanukovych.
  • (14) Last season ended badly for Cincinnati, a first round playoff ouster.
  • (15) Only days before Yanukovich's ouster, Russia announced surprise military maneuvers, which it then set in motion along the border and in the Black Sea.
  • (16) According to surveys by the Institute of Development Studies (IDS), 80% of those who endorsed Morsi's ouster would also rise again if their aspirations aren't met.
  • (17) It appears however a step closer to banning the group, whose legality was disputed even before Morsi's ouster.
  • (18) Tea Party leaders Todd Courser, who resigned in September while facing expulsion, and Cindy Gamrat, who was expelled, are seeking the Republican nominations in special primary elections, which come less than two months after their 11 September ouster.
  • (19) This hope was bolstered by a clip posted earlier Monday morning by TMZ, the entertainment news website that began the process that led to Sterling’s ouster when they released audio tapes of him making racist comments to a female companion .
  • (20) I do think he’s aware of that and he has a way to fix it.” Al-Jazeera journalists sentenced to three years in prison by Egyptian court Read more The long-running trial is entangled in the wider political conflict between Egypt and Qatar, where al-Jazeera is based, following the Egyptian army’s 2013 military ouster of the Islamist president, Mohamed Morsi , a Brotherhood member.