What's the difference between finer and firer?

Finer


Definition:

  • (n.) One who fines or purifies.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) But in the rush to design it, Girardet wonders if the finer details of waste disposal and green power were lost.
  • (2) A new, two-tier system for biotyping Salmonella typhimurium gives a finer and more reliable differentiation of strains than the Kristensen scheme and is capable of future extension by the addition of new types and new tests.
  • (3) Even finer localization was obtained in vibratome sections, where the antibody against carbonic anhydrase permitted visualization of the processes connecting oligodendrocytes to myelinated fibers in the normal adult spinal cord.
  • (4) The course G-banding seen in metaphase chromosomes is presumably caused by groups of much finer bands seen in decondensed chromosomes.
  • (5) Of course, a finer measurement of movements, such as lick rate, may reveal a significant difference that would correlate with the metabolic change.
  • (6) Previous light microscopic studies have revealed the erythroclastic potential of the rat bone marrow reticulum cells, and call for ultrastructural study of the finer details of this process.
  • (7) Finer points of the surgical technique, and indications for the procedure are discussed.
  • (8) It permits finer diagnosis and shows the indications and type of by pass operation that may be neccssary.
  • (9) The smallest angular shift in vertical location that was reliably detected systematically decreased with increasing age between 6 months (15 degrees) and 18 months (4 degrees), suggesting a finer partitioning of auditory space along the vertical axis over this age range.
  • (10) The finer details are yet to be announced, but from March 2012 anyone wanting to buy a new-build home in England – not just first-time buyers – will be able to apply for a mortgage of up to 95% of the property's value.
  • (11) Philip Rubens, financial services partner at law firm Finer Stephens Innocent, said the conviction was "a good result for the FSA".
  • (12) How lucky, then, that the poster boy for Sarah's Law, Tim, was happy to spend his supposed last night on the street listening to the finer details of her shit internet date.
  • (13) The purpose of such a complicated arrangement is to achieve finer and finer control over body temperature.
  • (14) One of the AS neurons, the caudal alternating SCP (CAS) cell, was injected with Lucifer yellow in adult nerve cords and was shown to have a large primary axon that extends into more anterior ganglia, as well as other, finer axons that are variable in number and arrangement.
  • (15) Finer analysis of physiologic role of endogenous opioid systems and their possible pathologic effects requires availability of selective agonists and notably antagonists.
  • (16) Finer maps for identification of CpG islands and associated genes should involve several rare cutters including Eag I, Sac II and Bss HII.
  • (17) Voters – even the liberal ones who helped Obama build a grassroots army – are clamoring for the finer points of a progressive candidacy.
  • (18) An increase in modifier, dispersant concentration, emulsification stirring speed, or temperature shifted the size distribution toward finer particles.
  • (19) Average rates in different portions of the intervals predicted the magnitude of the drug's effect, but a finer analysis showed that average rates did not adequately characterize the behavior in some parts of the intervals.
  • (20) Fourth, finer power resolution becomes more important as the tumor size decreases, but, little improvement in the temperature field is achieved beyond a 3 x 3 array configuration.

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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