What's the difference between dynamite and dynamiter?
Dynamite
Definition:
(n.) An explosive substance consisting of nitroglycerin absorbed by some inert, porous solid, as infusorial earth, sawdust, etc. It is safer than nitroglycerin, being less liable to explosion from moderate shocks, or from spontaneous decomposition.
Example Sentences:
(1) I salute you.” So clear-fall logging and burning of the tallest flowering forests on the planet, with provision for the dynamiting of trees over 80 metres tall, is an ultimate good in Abbott’s book of ecological wisdom.
(2) Other commentators have been harsher yet: writing in the New Republic , Harvard Law School professor Lawrence Lessig has argued that Fincher and Sorkin have missed the significance of Zuckerberg's achievement entirely: "This is like a film about the atomic bomb which never even introduces the idea that an explosion produced through atomic fission is importantly different from an explosion produced by dynamite."
(3) This study examines the mortality experience of a cohort of male workers from a small Swedish dynamite industry.
(4) In April 2001, he secured the con- viction of Klan member Thomas Blanton for driving the men to the church in the middle of the night to lay a dozen sticks of dynamite on the window ledge.
(5) Cause-, sex-, age-, and calendar-year-specific national incidence rates were used to calculate the expected number of deaths in a group of individuals with exposure to the dynamite manufacturing process and in an unexposed group from the same industry.
(6) During the period 1965-77, nine deaths from cardiocerebrovascular diseases were observed, versus 4.5 expected (p less than 0.05), among men with at least one year of exposure to dynamite and 20 years of induction-latency time.
(7) Today, Ms Dynamite seems to have left all that anger behind.
(8) A 60-year-old man had under gone a left below-knee amputation 30 years ago owing to trauma and burn suffered in a dynamite explosion.
(9) Fishing for chinook and coho salmon, steelhead and rainbow trout is legendary on the Rogue and a number of dams have been dynamited in recent years to restore fish migration pathways.
(10) But Lanzhou’s poor air quality is caused less by burning coal and car fumes than by the local penchant for blowing up mountains with dynamite.
(11) It would appear that what we've heard of Ms Dynamite's second coming thus far does not fully represent what's yet to come.
(12) Yet in the peace-giving west, the award remains significantly venerated – a testament, surely, to being a dynamite idea in principle (if you'll forgive the cliched reference to Alfred Nobel's other gift to the world ) but a mostly damp squib in practice.
(13) Other high-profile figures at the rally were musicians Damon Albarn and Ms Dynamite, model Kate Moss, peace campaigner Bianca Jagger, politician Mo Mowlam and playwright Harold Pinter.
(14) Rescuers dynamited boulders that had fallen across roads to reach Longmen and other areas further up the mountain valleys, state media reported.
(15) These include the Conjay Firearms CBX bullet "with explosive cavitation effects"; the blow-out-nosed Dynamit Nobel Action 1 bullet which has been adopted by several European special forces and the PMC Ultramag.
(16) Lansley did not set out to dynamite the NHS structure; at around the time of the 2010 election his reform programme seemed more of an “evolutionary process” .
(17) Now, at long last, Ms Dynamite is back to doing what she does best.
(18) The Ballarat-trained gelding started as a rank outsider yet made light of the 100-1 odds with a late move down the home straight, holding off the fast-finishing Max Dynamite, ridden by Frankie Dettori, by three-quarters of a length to secure victory.
(19) Human Cannonball's wife, on the other hand, is all for the death plan, appealing to the Dragons for money for more dynamite and a more powerful cannon.
(20) This electoral dynamite shows not just the poor, but middling children doing worse than their parents: few good jobs, no homes and heavy debt.
Dynamiter
Definition:
(n.) One who uses dynamite; esp., one who uses it for the destruction of life and property.
Example Sentences:
(1) I salute you.” So clear-fall logging and burning of the tallest flowering forests on the planet, with provision for the dynamiting of trees over 80 metres tall, is an ultimate good in Abbott’s book of ecological wisdom.
(2) Other commentators have been harsher yet: writing in the New Republic , Harvard Law School professor Lawrence Lessig has argued that Fincher and Sorkin have missed the significance of Zuckerberg's achievement entirely: "This is like a film about the atomic bomb which never even introduces the idea that an explosion produced through atomic fission is importantly different from an explosion produced by dynamite."
(3) This study examines the mortality experience of a cohort of male workers from a small Swedish dynamite industry.
(4) In April 2001, he secured the con- viction of Klan member Thomas Blanton for driving the men to the church in the middle of the night to lay a dozen sticks of dynamite on the window ledge.
(5) Cause-, sex-, age-, and calendar-year-specific national incidence rates were used to calculate the expected number of deaths in a group of individuals with exposure to the dynamite manufacturing process and in an unexposed group from the same industry.
(6) During the period 1965-77, nine deaths from cardiocerebrovascular diseases were observed, versus 4.5 expected (p less than 0.05), among men with at least one year of exposure to dynamite and 20 years of induction-latency time.
(7) Today, Ms Dynamite seems to have left all that anger behind.
(8) A 60-year-old man had under gone a left below-knee amputation 30 years ago owing to trauma and burn suffered in a dynamite explosion.
(9) Fishing for chinook and coho salmon, steelhead and rainbow trout is legendary on the Rogue and a number of dams have been dynamited in recent years to restore fish migration pathways.
(10) But Lanzhou’s poor air quality is caused less by burning coal and car fumes than by the local penchant for blowing up mountains with dynamite.
(11) It would appear that what we've heard of Ms Dynamite's second coming thus far does not fully represent what's yet to come.
(12) Yet in the peace-giving west, the award remains significantly venerated – a testament, surely, to being a dynamite idea in principle (if you'll forgive the cliched reference to Alfred Nobel's other gift to the world ) but a mostly damp squib in practice.
(13) Other high-profile figures at the rally were musicians Damon Albarn and Ms Dynamite, model Kate Moss, peace campaigner Bianca Jagger, politician Mo Mowlam and playwright Harold Pinter.
(14) Rescuers dynamited boulders that had fallen across roads to reach Longmen and other areas further up the mountain valleys, state media reported.
(15) These include the Conjay Firearms CBX bullet "with explosive cavitation effects"; the blow-out-nosed Dynamit Nobel Action 1 bullet which has been adopted by several European special forces and the PMC Ultramag.
(16) Lansley did not set out to dynamite the NHS structure; at around the time of the 2010 election his reform programme seemed more of an “evolutionary process” .
(17) Now, at long last, Ms Dynamite is back to doing what she does best.
(18) The Ballarat-trained gelding started as a rank outsider yet made light of the 100-1 odds with a late move down the home straight, holding off the fast-finishing Max Dynamite, ridden by Frankie Dettori, by three-quarters of a length to secure victory.
(19) Human Cannonball's wife, on the other hand, is all for the death plan, appealing to the Dragons for money for more dynamite and a more powerful cannon.
(20) This electoral dynamite shows not just the poor, but middling children doing worse than their parents: few good jobs, no homes and heavy debt.