What's the difference between encroacher and interloper?
Encroacher
Definition:
(n.) One who by gradual steps enters on, and takes possession of, what is not his own.
Example Sentences:
(1) Histiocytes, lymphocytes, immunoblasts, and plasma cells were present in expanded paracortical regions which encroached on, and occasionally effaced, lymphoid follicles.
(2) It put on the agenda the need to upgrade the existing urban fabric, and to use the derelict and brownfield sites in our cities before encroaching on the countryside.
(3) Many Hong Kong residents fear that Beijing – which governs the region under the principle of "one country, two systems" – has been encroaching on their civil liberties, free press and independent judiciary.
(4) The increased tongue width will cause encroachment of the oropharyngeal airway below the level of the soft palate.
(5) But while the £1bn deal was the first of its kind, the private sector has long encroached on the NHS.
(6) It seems to be associated with structural abnormalities encroaching upon the trigeminal nerve, gasserian ganglion, or root entry zone.
(7) Cryosurgical iridocyclectomy is recommended for excision of small discrete iris tumors that encroach on the anterior ciliary body.
(8) The Palestinians see this as Jewish encroachment on the site, the holiest in Judaism and the third holiest in Islam, while Jewish activists like Glick say they are being discriminated against by limiting their chances to pray atop the mount.
(9) Leaf growth will slow with encroaching cold and decreasing light, but chard will generally manage to keep producing some harvest when fresh greens are sparse.
(10) The decrease in synaptic contact length along the proximal parts of terminal branches, in which this occurs, is mostly due to a decrease in the length of close opposition (less than 0.2 micron) between the nerve terminal membrane and the postsynaptic membrane: the decrease in more distal parts of branches is due to the progressive encroachment of Schwann cell processes between the presynaptic and postsynaptic membranes as well as a decrease in synaptic contact length.
(11) These narrow the posterior portion of the spinal canal and encroach on the lateral recesses.
(12) All three types eventually fail due to thrombosis, either because of their inherent thrombogenicity or because of encroachment of tissue (intimal hyperplasia) (IH) into the lumen of the graft at the point where the natural and prosthetic vessel join.
(13) Angiography also aided in differentiating hard central osteophytic from soft tissue encroachment on the spinal cord caused by herniation of a disc or thickening of the posterior longitudinal ligament.
(14) In the past, he explains, 'encroachers' failed to respect the park's boundaries, sneaking into the forest to gather firewood and fell trees for timber.
(15) Similarly anastomotic methods which encroach on the ileal circumference by creating an inverted edge can be expected to reduce resultant capacity by 10 per cent or more.
(16) Magnetic resonance imaging revealed a mediastinal tumor mass that almost totally compressed the right main pulmonary artery and also encroached upon the left pulmonary artery.
(17) This procedure decreases the likelihood of dorsal necrosis over the middle phalanx, since the dorsal neurovascular bundle is not encroached upon.
(18) Seminiferous tubules had decreased tubule diameters, hyalinized tubule walls, and occluded lumina owing either to epithelial encroachment or cellular debris and exfoliated round germ cells.
(19) This most often occurs at the site of atherosclerotic plaques encroaching on the lumen to a variable extent.
(20) Third, a hemoglobin or hematocrit within the normal range constitutes a natural buffer against encroachments upon the oxygen supply from non-Hb causes.
Interloper
Definition:
(n.) One who interlopes; one who interlopes; one who unlawfully intrudes upon a property, a station, or an office; one who interferes wrongfully or officiously.
Example Sentences:
(1) In Experiment 1, the definitions that Jones used with phonological interlopers created more TOTs even when no interlopers were presented.
(2) Though the starlings looked like a dark swarm of bees, they had two inky blobs in their midst, for they had acquired a pair of crow interlopers.
(3) They reported that interlopers that were phonologically related to the target word increased the incidence of TOTs and concluded that this supported Woodworth's position.
(4) Like Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, al-Qaida in Iraq's previous violent emir, they are opportunistic interlopers whose vision is shared by the smallest of minorities.
(5) At one point the governor was interrupted by an interloper who began shouting a half-audible protest about the need to protect American workers.
(6) Hundreds of yellow shirts, and perhaps 10 or 20 curious interlopers from Islington.
(7) Woodworth (1929) argued that these interloper words both cause and sustain TOT states, whereas Brown and McNeill (1966) suggested that they are part of the process that leads to TOT resolution.
(8) Second, more TOT states occurred when the interloper was presented at the actual time of retrieval than when it was presented earlier.
(9) That particular prayer, it seems to me, an interloper that morning, sitting at the back, might be best addressed to the offices of the Equal Justice Initiative just down the road.
(10) When you dehumanise migrants, using vile imagery and language, scapegoating them for a nation’s ills and targeting them as job-stealing interlopers, you stoke prejudice and foment hatred.
(11) The subjects, 300 male and female junior college students, read vignettes which placed them at a party where their mates passionately kissed interlopers of varying status, and whose transgressions were, or were not, observed by others.
(12) Hundreds of furry little bodies ambled among us, looking curiously at the human interlopers.
(13) Harry Truman’s daughter Margaret, who wrote about the incident in her book The President’s House, a history of the White House, said: “Instead of brandishing a weapon, however, the interloper asked for the president’s autograph.” FDR gave the young man his autograph and the embarrassed secret service agents – whom the young man had to pass to enter the private area of the mansion – escorted him out of the building.
(14) Sorrell has become one of the best known businessmen in Britain but has never been able to shake off his own industry's view that he is something of an interloper: the Harvard-trained financier who ran roughshod over advertising.
(15) ‘I’m still for him’: Trump fans undaunted by string of campaign blunders Read more Attending a Serbian cultural festival over the weekend, he told the Washington Post: “Wisconsin Republicans are good at sniffing out interlopers.
(16) It could have been much worse than that, both for the interloper and for one of the drivers.
(17) It is clear that Mike Kane, a former teacher running for Labour, does not think political interlopers have much of a chance.
(18) Two opposite roles have been suggested for these interlopers.
(19) A study is reported in which participants were explicitly presented with interloper words.
(20) Reports don't sit on report-laden desks and outside professionals or agencies aren't treated as interlopers, but welcomed as partners.