What's the difference between embroider and embroiler?
Embroider
Definition:
(v. t.) To ornament with needlework; as, to embroider a scarf.
Example Sentences:
(1) Since the G20, the Met has issued more than 8,000 public order trained officers with embroidered epaulettes, which replace the traditional metal letters and numbers.
(2) Distinctive for its embroidered yellow plumage, the honeyeater is considered a “flagship” species: the most marketable of a group of endangered animals that share a habitat.
(3) [Officers had] the idea that if they embroidered the truth – and I put that mildly – then they could get the scalp of a Conservative cabinet minister of an administration with whom they were in conflict at the time.
(4) Sew the eyes using buttons, or alternatively you could just embroider them.
(5) Sunday clothes and paperwork, bridal chests, wedding dresses and embroidered tablecloths, documents, maps and harvest records, china, grains, seeds, cured meats, cheeses and preserves … these were the treasures those who lived in Alpine villages such as Chamonix in the early 1800s would do anything to protect.
(6) Emma Elwick-Bates, Style editor at British Vogue and Glastonbury attendee – herself seeing out this year's festival in a navy Bedale Barbour, black Isabel Marant shorts embroidered with stars, vintage leather shorts and black Hunter wellingtons – has noticed the shift.
(7) Worn with smart culottes embroidered in vivid shades of pink and orange mixed with black, it looked more ready for a post-beach dinner on the Med than a gym session.
(8) Biographer Scott Anderson suggests sympathetically that Lawrence may have submitted to the rape to avoid further torture, and afterwards embroidered his tale with "the kind of violence that offers an absolution of guilt by making all questions of will or resistance moot".
(9) For others, it's a symbiotic process; a campaigning idea might be expressed through craft – let's say you're making a patchwork quilt out of embroidered vulvas, to protest against female genital mutilation – and then in the act of crafting, the idea finds new expression.
(10) Chelsea will have a star embroidered on their shirts from now on, with this group of players and their interim first-team coach, Roberto Di Matteo, acknowledged as history makers.
(11) At the time, I thought this show was creepy as hell, with its weirdly obsessive celebration of “la famiglia” and “la mamma”, which, in fashion terms, meant having models carrying babies down the runway while wearing dresses embroidered with Clinton Cards-like slogans, such as “I love you, mamma!” and “Per la mamma piu bella del mondo!” (“For the most beautiful mother in the world!”) Now it turns out that the most offensive thing about this collection wasn’t that it looked like it heavily ripped off Angelina Jolie’s wedding dress, which featured expressions of love from her children, but rather that it was an expression of Dolce and Gabbana’s hilariously anachronistic opinions about parenting.
(12) Brimming with the embroidered thrones and lacquered vases of despots and dictators, these are objects over which wars were fought, trade routes opened up and empires built, next to exquisite trinkets that sent their makers blind.
(13) They included an elaborate military jacket, embroidered kimonos and a "petticoat cage" (a hooped underskirt normally worn under crinolines).
(14) His economic logic was not embroidered with political poetry.
(15) Cooper had no middle name (nor did his twin brother, George) and, as he moved through a sporting life in post-war Britain that took him from south London to Buckingham Palace and many interesting places along the way, he embroidered the fight game with a dignity it did not always deserve.
(16) Everything in its interior – from the cabinets of shells and minerals to the paintings on the walls and the tapestries embroidered with his motto: “There is no wealth but life” – is an expression of this ultimate collector, a man who sought to catalogue our experience of the world and the way art attempts to portray it.
(17) Beach towels at the swanky Fontainebleau Hotel have been embroidered with the words ‘kiss me’ from one of her pieces in her honour.
(18) 'Flowers are the new slogans' The Christopher Kane sweatshirt embroidered with the word "flower" brings new meaning to the phrase: "Say it with flowers."
(19) The main melody was just three notes – C, D, E – with brass embroidered around it.
(20) Updated at 9.38pm GMT 9.32pm GMT Gold silverware doesn’t make any sense, but how wonderful are these plates: WASHINGTON, DC - FEBRUARY 10: Gold cutlery and cloth napkins embroidered with an eagle are part of the place settings for Tuesday night's State Dinner for French President Francois Hollande at the White House February 10, 2014 in Washington, DC.
Embroiler
Definition:
(n.) One who embroils.
Example Sentences:
(1) After five days watching birds illegally shot down and becoming embroiled in tense stand-offs with the police and hunters, Packham was summoned to a police station and interviewed for five hours.
(2) Japan is already embroiled in a long-running row with China over ownership of the Senkaku islands in the East China Sea, and has backed the Philippines and other South East Asian nations alarmed by the Chinese military build-up near disputed territory in the South China Sea.
(3) They all abstain from social media for fear of getting embroiled in some brouhaha.
(4) For us it is about safeguarding the interests of children who, unlike in criminal proceedings, invariably become embroiled in family proceedings through no fault of their own.
(5) At the time Cardiff were a point clear of the drop zone, although the owner and manager had been embroiled in a public row during the weeks which preceded Mackay's exit.
(6) Among the finance directors on it were: Ken Hanna of Cadbury Schweppes, which was locked in a battle at the European court over its use of a Dublin subsidiary; Richard Lapthorne of Cable & Wireless; and AstraZeneca's Jon Symonds, embroiled in a multibillion pound "transfer pricing" dispute.
(7) News UK’s decision saves the taxpayer millions of pounds and was made because the company did not wish to become embroiled in a protracted argument about its case.
(8) The BBC has become embroiled in a row with one of its longest-serving radio presenters on the day in which the broadcaster was heavily criticised by an independent inquiry for the way it had allowed stars like Jimmy Savile to abuse women and children for nearly 50 years.
(9) A UN panel that on Tuesday ruled that glyphosate was probably not carcinogenic to humans has now become embroiled in a bitter row about potential conflicts of interests.
(10) At that point, because she wasn’t taking my calls, I had no idea where Charlie was.” Johnson is still embroiled in proceedings months later, when I go to meet him at home with his wife, Sara.
(11) Jack Wilshere has sought to highlight his professionalism by posting a video of himself working hard in training, after becoming embroiled in his latest smoking controversy – an indiscretion that has infuriated the Arsenal manager, Arsène Wenger .
(12) GSK is also embroiled in a similar scandal in Poland after a whistleblower, Jarek Wisniewiski, told the BBC's Panorama programme that company representatives paid doctors to boost prescriptions.
(13) The country’s biggest oil companies – Sinopec, PetroChina and the China National Offshore Oil Company (CNOOC) – are among the world’s largest businesses, but executives in the industry are embroiled in multiple corruption probes, many tied to networks of shell companies around the world.
(14) For weeks EU governments have been embroiled in a battle over commission demands to ease Italy’s burden by creating a new quotas system sharing asylum-seekers across the union.
(15) Instead, he found himself embroiled in an embarrassing debacle when a fight broke out during an event with tribal elders between Naseem Sharifi, his head of protocol, and Haji Sayed Jan Khakrezwal, the respected head of the Kandahar provincial council.
(16) Further, it only takes a cursory look at Hizb ut-Tahrir’s website to see that they are embroiled in a bitter and ongoing feud with Isis.
(17) On a modest street in a rundown area, Aziz Kara, a 64-year-old Turk, became embroiled in a ferocious argument with his neighbours.
(18) Ruling parties, political elites and former ministers in a string of EU countries are embroiled in cash-for-influence scandals that are exposing widespread allegations of corruption, triggering public revulsion and a voters' backlash.
(19) With increasing numbers leaving the land to look for work in the towns, many young people belong to families embroiled in feuds.
(20) The FBU has been embroiled in a long-running row with the government over controversial plans to change pensions and the retirement age of firefighters.