What's the difference between feller and teller?

Feller


Definition:

  • (n.) One who, or that which, fells, knocks or cuts down; a machine for felling trees.
  • (n.) An appliance to a sewing machine for felling a seam.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) An explanation of Feller's result enabling the contours of mean viability at a triallelic locus to be rendered circular is offered, and a proof given which does not involve the direct use of homogeneous coordinates.
  • (2) 'The Fairy Feller's Master-Stroke,' symbolically re-enacts the murder and makes talion restitution.
  • (3) We suggest that the long process of painting 'The Fairy Feller's Master-Stroke' recapitulated and made restitution for the murder, encapsulating it so that compulsive expression of violent ideation was largely reduced, allowing other memories and activities to be engaged and expressed.
  • (4) The word "feller" has a bland meaning of "good fellow" and a more dangerous one of "striker-down".
  • (5) A similar analysis of expression of the gene CPA1, for which a translational regulation by arginine has been clearly demonstrated (M. Werner, A. Feller, F. Messenguy, and A. Piérard, Cell 49:805-813, 1987), indicates that this gene is also partly regulated at the transcriptional level by the ARGR repressor system.
  • (6) 11.23am GMT "The gentleman in the car with 'Arry looks suspiciously like this feller ," says Matt Reed.
  • (7) Its title is "Elimination of a Picture and its subject – called The Feller's Master Stroke ."
  • (8) Risk was greatest for tree fellers and choker-setters.
  • (9) Then there is Contradiction: Oberon and Titania (1854-58), depicting the quarrel over the Indian Boy, which was painted for William Charles Hood at Bethlem; and The Fairy Feller , painted for George Henry Haydon, also at Bethlem.
  • (10) Indirect calorimetry and time studies showed the diurnal energy expenditure in wood fellers to be 5186.2, in their helpers--4476.9 and in branch choppers--5246.9 kcalories.
  • (11) In Bethlem he painted some amazing paintings, including The Fairy Feller , on which he worked from 1855 and which was left behind unfinished when he was moved to the new asylum of Broadmoor in 1863.
  • (12) Dadd left a 24-page description of The Fairy Feller's Master-Stroke .
  • (13) There are, as in The Fairy Feller , variegated grasses wreathing randomly over the surface of the work, and delicately depicted lilies of the valley, about as tall as the fairy queen herself.
  • (14) Our statistical data are similar to those reported by Feller et al.
  • (15) Richard Dadd' s great painting The Fairy Feller's Master- Stroke shows a leather-clad person, axe raised to cleave a hazelnut, perhaps to make a coach for Queen Mab, as Mercutio describes her in Romeo and Juliet .
  • (16) There are particularly energetic ones winding across The Fairy Feller , which Dadd describes in "Elimination": Turn to the Patriarch & behold Long pendents from his crown are rolled, In winding figures circling round.
  • (17) I wanted to be the best in the class but there was always some other feller who was better; so I thought, 'It can't be about being the best, it has to be about the drawing itself, what you do with it.'
  • (18) Last November Erika Feller, assistant commissioner for refugees at the UNHCR, told the Guardian that the UN accepted Turkey's insistence that its borders were open after travelling to Ankara to discuss the issue.
  • (19) The method for two-dimensional gel electrophoresis of J. Klose and M. Feller [(1981) Electrophoresis 2, 12-24] has been simplified by reducing the thickness of the gels from 3.5 to 1.1 mm for isoelectric focusing gels and from 3.5 to 0.84 mm for sodium dodecyl sulfate slab gels.

Teller


Definition:

  • (n.) One who tells, relates, or communicates; an informer, narrator, or describer.
  • (n.) One of four officers of the English Exchequer, formerly appointed to receive moneys due to the king and to pay moneys payable by the king.
  • (n.) An officer of a bank who receives and counts over money paid in, and pays money out on checks.
  • (n.) One who is appointed to count the votes given in a legislative body, public meeting, assembly, etc.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The bank tellers who saw their positions filled by male superiors took special pleasure in going to the bank and keeping them busy.
  • (2) Solzhenitsyn was acknowledged as a "truth-teller" and a witness to the cruelties of Stalinism of unusual power and eloquence.
  • (3) Pointing out that “the army has its own fortune teller”, he sounds less than happy at the state of affairs: “The country is run by superstition.” Weerasethakul is in a relatively fortunate position, in that his arcane films are not exactly populist and don’t depend on the mainstream Thai film industry for funding, but he has become cast as a significant voice of dissent in a difficult time .
  • (4) The development of visual acuity was studied longitudinally in young kittens, using a modification of the forced-choice preferential looking method (FPL) devised by Teller et al.
  • (5) The Teller Acuity Card test was used to examine 49 normal children, 77 with strabismus, 9 with anisometropia and 19 with various organic ocular diseases.
  • (6) The lunchtime rush at a huge TSB on Colmore Circus consists of a solitary customer talking to a solitary teller; three separate seating areas, two reception desks and four semi-private meeting rooms are deserted.
  • (7) And yet none of these other truth tellers have received the kind of public and media support that this set of editorials represents, perhaps because there is a fundamental difference between Manning's disclosures and Assange's publication of Wikileaks, when compared to Snowden's revelations on NSA intelligence gathering.
  • (8) Assessment of visual resolution with Teller Acuity Cards is now routine procedure in infant visual check-up.
  • (9) In order to test the reliability of this method, using Teller acuity cards as the standard, we compared estimates of objective and subjective vision in 25 consecutive patients with congenital esotropia and cross-fixation.
  • (10) He said I was the best polling teller he’d ever had.” By 1992, when Neil Kinnock had raised his party’s expectations to the point that victory seemed to be within its grasp , she was at sixth-form college, where she stood in the obligatory mock election.
  • (11) It is concluded that, in children and infants, visual function over the entire spectrum of low vision can be characterized by using a combination of the Teller acuity cards and the visual function battery.
  • (12) remarkable.." Teller (is he related to the atomic physicist or the magician?
  • (13) Fan ire over casting – the movie features Miles Teller as Mr Fantastic, Kate Mara as Invisible Woman, Michael B Jordan as The Human Torch and Jamie Bell as The Thing – would appear to be a storm in a superhero tea cup.
  • (14) However, the focus on Snowden's singular case seriously deflects from the fact that the Obama administration has been a nightmare for whistleblowers and truth tellers, and that several others currently in prison or in exile deserve the same clemency or clear assurances they will not be prosecuted.
  • (15) In the post-modern sensibility, the story is set free to perform as simply a story that allows for re-invention as the story-teller finds a voice rooted in the person's own experience and in the connection of her story to those of others, and to larger stories of culture and humanity.
  • (16) The gangs even designed cash boxes to fit the dimensions of the tellers’ windows.
  • (17) Downing Street moved to reach out to the rebels by dispatching William Hague to declare that the government would "take note" after 51 rebel Tories – plus two tellers – joined forces with Labour to defeat the government by 307 votes to 294, a majority of 13.
  • (18) You can tell the bank is owned by Putin because both the pens and the tellers are chained to the desks,” he said.
  • (19) There aren't too many 26-year-olds out there who can talk about the complexities of supply distribution networks, who have been shot by both Juergen Teller and Playboy and who believe they change the face of global capitalism by creating a platform to encourage small acts of kindness.
  • (20) The anniversary yesterday of the Newcastle-based lender's demise prompted union officials to calculate that 100,000 jobs have since been lost in the financial services sector – and warn that little has changed in the City, where investment bankers are secure while tellers lose their jobs.