What's the difference between faulter and vaulter?

Faulter


Definition:

  • (n.) One who commits a fault.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Whenever the sense of commitment faultered there was a tendency to maintain higher glycaemic values to avoid distressing hypoglycaemia.

Vaulter


Definition:

  • (n.) One who vaults; a leaper; a tumbler.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The story begins when Cassandra (Linda Molin), the pretty star vaulter with a strange look in her eye, takes Emma under her wing.
  • (2) Distance runners presented with 68 fractures, skiers 12, sprinters 10, orienteering runners 9, vaulters 3, and football-players 3 fractures.
  • (3) Bach saw off a late effort by his five rivals – the Puerto Rican Richard Carrion, the Swiss lawyer Denis Oswald, the international boxing chief Dr Ck Wu, the Singaporean businessman Ng Ser Miang and the former pole vaulter Sergey Bubka – to work together to stop him.
  • (4) The Russian pole vaulter Yelena Isinbayeva has accused anti-doping and Olympic chiefs of discrimination against Russia and violating her human rights.

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