What's the difference between ferrier and furrier?

Ferrier


Definition:

  • (n.) A ferryman.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The only black, female reporter on Florida’s Daytona Beach News-Journal, from 2007 Ferrier was targeted with a stream of abusive letters threatening lynchings and a “race war”, all in the same handwriting and from the same potentially dangerous person.
  • (2) Evacuated to Bournemouth at the outbreak of war, Drummond went to hear the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra and a recital by Kathleen Ferrier, whose biography he was to film 20 years later in what was probably his most successful television production.
  • (3) It offers what Ferrier calls a “hedge of protection”.
  • (4) The SNP’s Margaret Ferrier, the chair of the all-party parliamentary group on democracy and human rights in the Gulf, who coordinated the letter, said: “This is a matter of freedom of speech and expression.
  • (5) Synthons 4 and 9 were coupled with tri-O-acetyl-D-glucal in a boron trifluoride-catalysed "carbon-Ferrier rearrangement" reaction to give C-linked disaccharides i.e., so-called "C-disaccharides" 16 and 17, respectively, in fair yields.
  • (6) Ferrier prototyped the site with four other women using a $3,000 grant for women in news entrepreneurship, and later received $35,000 from the Knight Foundation , which supports quality journalism and media innovation.
  • (7) Ischemic condition was produced by superfusing myocytes with hypoxic substrate-free solutions containing elevated concentrations of K+, H+, and lactate as described by Ferrier et al.
  • (8) Ferrier in 1875 drew non-overlapping circles for face, limbs and tail.
  • (9) His theories were based on detailed clinical observation and were later confirmed by the experimental studies of Fritsch and Hitzig, and by his colleague David Ferrier.
  • (10) Organized by Sir James Crichton-Browne at a little-known mental asylum in northern England, the WRLAMR contains many historically important works in neurology by such landmark figures as Sir David Ferrier and John Hughlings Jackson.
  • (11) Although he was substantially correct, Ferrier's location of auditory cortex was not accepted by his contemporaries, and his observations of cortical deafness were, until recently, discounted by modern researchers.
  • (12) Stories of or by people of colour tend to be targeted the most,” Ferrier says.
  • (13) Ailsa Ferrier works for Artificial Eye Film releasing, one of Britain's leading distributors of arthouse and independent films
  • (14) [2,2-2H2]-2-Deoxy-scyllo-inosose was also synthesized through a modified Ferrier reaction.
  • (15) Afraid for her family, Ferrier left the paper and moved away.
  • (16) Ferrier is also fighting back with TrollBusters , a “rescue service for women journalists, bloggers and publishers”.
  • (17) For two years, Michelle Ferrier was the target of a campaign of intimidation and harassment.
  • (18) David Ferrier was a British physician who studied the localization of function in the cerebral hemispheres during the latter half of the 19th century.
  • (19) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Michelle Ferrier, who is fighting back with TrollBusters , a ‘rescue service for women journalists, bloggers and publishers’.
  • (20) Who reads Susan Ferrier, Maria Edgeworth, Jane Porter and Lady Morgan today, or even Walter Scott?

Furrier


Definition:

  • (n.) A dealer in furs; one who makes or sells fur goods.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Our study suggests that furriers can develop acute and chronic respiratory difficulties frequently associated with specific indicators of atopy.
  • (2) The furriers demonstrated significantly lower mean measured pre-shift values for FVC and FEV25 (P less than 0.05) when compared with the predicted.
  • (3) Increased total IgE was found in 9.5% of the furriers.
  • (4) A high prevalence of acute symptoms during the work shift was found among furriers.
  • (5) Occupational groups, such as reindeer-breeders, domestic servants in the tent of skins, hunters, fur-farmers, furriers) have been identified to be mostly at high risk for Echinococcus infection.
  • (6) A higher prevalence of all chronic respiratory symptoms was found among furriers when compared with controls; these differences were statistically significant for nasal catarrh (p less than 0.05) and sinusitis (p less than 0.01).
  • (7) It is recommended to accept a basalioma as occupational cancer in case of contact with carcinogens in furriers.
  • (8) A group of 31 females who did not work in the furrier industry also was included in the study as the control group.
  • (9) A higher prevalence of chronic respiratory symptoms was found among the furriers than among the controls.
  • (10) Before the wall went up, he made regular trips to the West with his mother, a furrier, when she needed to pick up Persian furs that were unavailable in the GDR.
  • (11) Statistically significant mean reductions in lung function over the work shift were recorded in furriers for forced vital capacity (FVC), -4.1%; one-second forced expiratory volume (FEV1), -5.2%; and flow rate at 50% vital capacity (FEF50%), -6.3%.
  • (12) Born in Shoreditch in the East End of London, to Edward, a furrier, and Maud (nee Gibbs), a machinist, Henry was one of six children.
  • (13) A group of 54 women employed in the fur processing industry and a control group of 31 non-furriers were examined.
  • (14) Our data suggest that furriers are at risk of developing both acute and chronic respiratory symptoms as well as ventilatory capacity impairment as a result of occupational exposure.
  • (15) Most of the symptomatic furriers complained of acute symptoms during their work shifts.
  • (16) The highest prevalence in furriers was found for chronic cough (50%), sinusitis (30%), followed by dyspnea (25%), nasal catarrh (20%) and occupational asthma (5%).
  • (17) Among the furriers, two (5.0%) had symptoms characteristic of occupational asthma.
  • (18) The risk of getting a basalioma was significantly higher in the group of furriers than in the control population.
  • (19) Among the furriers, the highest prevalence of respiratory symptoms was recorded for chronic cough in 20 workers (50.0%), followed by sinusitis in 12 (30.0%), dyspnea in 10 (25.0%), and nasal catarrh in 8 workers (20.0%).
  • (20) Furriers demonstrated significantly lower mean Monday preshift measurements for FVC and flow rate at 25% (FEF25%) (p less than 0.05) when compared with those predicted.

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