What's the difference between fifer and firer?

Fifer


Definition:

  • (n.) One who plays on a fife.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In part one, "Risk Management and Medical Malpractice: An Overview of the Issues," published in the April 1979 QRB, Dr. Fifer reviewed the problem of medical malpractice--the primary motivation for the present interest in risk management--and discussed the characteristics of current efforts in risk management, particularly their limitations in light of the facts about malpractice.
  • (2) In part two, Dr. Fifer first reviews the major quality assurance functions of the medical staff.
  • (3) Another prominent local figure was John Park, the MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, is a Fifer who first entered Holyrood last year and is touted as a possible party leader in Scotland.

Firer


Definition:

  • (n.) One who fires or sets fire to anything; an incendiary.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) I can't say exactly what these are or when (they might be rolled out), but we are in a kind of race [with the Palestinian rocket firers] and we always need to update (the system) to increase the probability of a kill."
  • (2) Among the public posts she held was a governorship of London's Royal National Throat, Nose and Ear Hospital, and chairman of the Electricity Consumers' Committee for the South East: in recent years her long interest in consumer rights - she was a great firer-off of letters - and her commitment to poorer families were meshing.
  • (3) At the firer's locations, peak pressures ranged from 178 to 189 dB and B-durations ranged from 28 to 376 msec.
  • (4) He had reinstated an episode which more prudish historians preferred to omit, describing the final desperate resistance of some French soldiers: "They could hear in the crepuscular gloom that cannons were being loaded, wicks were being lit and gleamed like the eyes of tigers in the night, making a circle around their heads, all the shot-firers of the English batteries approached the cannons, and then, deeply moved, holding the moment of reckoning hanging over these men, an English general - Colville according to some, Maitland according to others - cried out to them: 'Brave Frenchmen, give yourselves up!'

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